Chapter 574: Retreat (1)
Liu Hengchang’s battle finally broke Rouran Barbarian’s military morale.
A few days later, Rouran Barbarians began to withdraw their troops.
Rouran is known as one hundred thousand elite cavalry. This time they invaded the border, they suffered unprecedented losses. After fighting for several months, some were killed in head-to-head confrontations, some died of illness, some died of serious injuries, and even more died in two night attacks on the military camp.
In the first night attack, a large amount of food and grass was burned, and the stables were burned and thousands of horses were taken away. In the second night attack, Avro was beheaded, and thousands more were hacked to death and trampled to death in their sleep. The most hateful thing is that the Rouran Cavalry's unparalleled self-confidence was destroyed.
Yu Chong! Liu Hengchang! Nanyang Army! Princess Nanyang!
Rouran Khan Fu Mingdun rode his horse towards the northern grassland, repeating these words in his heart. There was ruthlessness and cruelty in his eyes.
He wrote down this blood feud one by one.
Countless war horses galloped forward, and behind the huge team were countless people from Liang.
There are no children or old people, they are all young adults, evenly divided between men and women. They were dressed in rags, their wrists tied with a series of ropes, and they staggered toward a strange place crying in despair.
They were people from the county town outside Sizhou City. Their homes were burned down by Rouran barbarians. They watched their parents and children being killed. Those who had the courage to resist were killed on the spot. Those who were frightened became the slaves of Rouran Barbarian.
The Rouran Barbarians retreated, and they became the spoils of the Rouran Barbarians.
"Go!"
"Don't cry!"
Hundreds of Rouran barbarians shuttle back and forth, and whenever they hear the sound of crying, their long whips will be like the wind and rain. Generally, fall without mercy.
A man in his thirties was knocked to the ground by a whip. The burning sting on his face gave him the last bit of courage. He struggled to get up from the ground and pounced on the Rouran barbarian holding the long whip.
“I will fight with you!”
That Rouran barbarian is extremely tall, with big shoulders and round waist, and amazing strength. Seeing the man struggling and resisting, he laughed ferociously, swung his long whip, wrapped it tightly around the man's neck, and pulled hard.
The man looked in pain and soon suffocated to death.
The nearby people were trembling with fear, with despair in their eyes.
They are all ordinary people who only know how to farm, and the only knives they have ever touched are kitchen knives. Seeing those who resisted being slaughtered like chickens and ducks, they dared not move.
That Rouran barbarian killed a slave without feeling any pity and burst into laughter. Continue to wave the whip, urging the slaves to move faster.
After walking for half a day, I only had time to rest. The Rouran barbarians had dried horse meat to eat. The people of Daliang, who were taken as slaves, only had some dark and smelly wild vegetable dumplings. One a day, no one cares whether they will starve to death or whether they can survive to the grassland.
The Rouran barbarians, who had eaten enough, got into the mood and took away the pretty girls from the slaves to enjoy themselves as much as they wanted. In broad daylight, several women were ravaged, and the screams of misery could not be heard.
“Don’t touch my sister!”
A thin young man of fifteen or sixteen years old tried hard to stop Rouran Manzi, but was chopped off by Rouran Manzi in the head. The boy's head hit the ground and rolled around in a circle, his eyes still wide open, and his face still maintained the anger and hatred at the moment he was beheaded.
The fourteen-year-old girl let out a heartbreaking cry: "Brother!"
Rouran Manzi found it harsh, slapped the girl hard, knocked her unconscious, and stretched out her hand to tear her apart Open girl's clothes.
......"Congratulations, General, Rouran has retreated!"
"The frontier army has a great victory! The frontier army has a great victory!"
The frontier army was rejoicing, and the generals were full of joy and rushed to open their mouths to announce the good news.
General Fan showed relief on his face and sighed: "Rouran finally retreated. Our border troops have finally lived up to the trust of the emperor and the court."
"Come, Go and invite General Song and Commander Liu to come over and discuss the next countermeasures together."
After a while, General Song and Liu Hengchang came to the Chinese army's headquarters.
General Song, who came with 40,000 reinforcements, was really unlucky, being suppressed and beaten by Rouran Barbarians almost all the time. I struggled from beginning to end and never won a decent battle.
General Song, who was in his fifties, turned gray in just over a month and became much more haggard.
General Fan said to General Song: "Rouran has retreated! Thank you General Song for leading the troops to support the border army, which enabled the border army to achieve such a great victory!"
This is to general The merits of repelling Rouran will be divided into some. In fact, the 40,000 reinforcements brought by General Song greatly restrained Rouran's troops, which was indeed effective.
General Song was very grateful to General Fan for his generosity. He cupped his hands and said, "It is up to General Fan to decide how to write the memorial!"
General Fan was not polite and nodded. Then he said to Liu Hengchang: "General Liu led the Nanyang army to attack the enemy camp at night and killed Rouran's first general Avuluo, which caused the Rouran barbarian army to collapse. This time Rouran's troops retreated, General Liu should be the main contributor." ! ”
“This general will ask for credit for Commander Liu and the Nanyang Army in the memorial.”
This is the brilliance of General Fan. Liu Hengchang came under the banner of Nanyang Army, but in fact everyone knew that these two thousand elites were the personal guards of the Nanyang Princess.
This is not stated clearly in the memorial to ask for merit. The vassal prince has a certain number of personal guards. Suddenly two thousand personal guards appear. This is a ready-made handle.
If you want to ask for credit, you can only ask for credit in the name of Nanyang Army. All the credit for Liu Hengchang's achievements should be attributed to him personally.
Liu Hengchang thanked General Fan.
General Fan added: "This time the border army is fighting, thanks to the large amount of military rations sent by the princess. The soldiers can fight with enough food. I, Fan, will remember the friendship of the princess. In my heart. Please thank Commander Liu for me when he returns to Nanyang County."
Liu Hengchang agreed with a smile.
General Song felt slightly uncomfortable when he mentioned Princess Nanyang.
Three years ago, Emperor Taikang passed away, and Princess Nanyang went to Beijing to attend the funeral. He couldn't stand it because of his tough stance and powerful methods. When his nephew Song Yuan came to express his goodwill, he refused unceremoniously.
In the past three years, Princess Nanyang's reputation has spread far and wide, and everything she does shows the city government's tactics. Nowadays, anyone who mentions Princess Nanyang must be respectful. Even political opponents would like to express some praise in private.
The Song family and the Nanyang Prince's Palace are related by marriage, and they have always been in contact because of the affection of the Nanyang Princess who has been deceased for many years. Song Yuan, the commander of the princess' personal guard, is also his nephew. Unfortunately, in recent years, due to his short-sightedness, contact has almost ceased.
Perhaps, after this battle, he should also write to Song Yuan to repair their relationship...
Liu Hengchang suddenly said: "It is indeed a happy event for the Rouran barbarians to retreat. However, , when the Rouran barbarians retreated, they took away tens of thousands of Liang people. I dare to ask General Fan, how do you plan to save them?"
General Fan smiled.