Chapter 613 Aftermath
In Changshan City, there was silence.
The new conquerors only sent more than 3,000 people into the city to control various key points.
Most of the troops are still stationed outside the city, including the Youzhou soldiers who went south.
Ge Zhi, Liu Ying, Sun Bo, Kou Ji and others walked through the snowfield after the war and were shocked as they looked at the shocking battlefield.
"In this battle, the King's division may have lost more soldiers and horses than the Huns." Gaizhi looked at Shao Bing who was digging a hole to bury the corpse, and said with emotion: "Liu Yao and Shi Le actually fought well. , but his skills were inferior and he had no choice but to lose."
Compared with the majestic battle of Changshan Attack and Defense, the mutiny he carried out in Jicheng was nothing to mention.
Tens of thousands of people risked their lives, fighting from the scorching sun to the heavy snow, and finally decided the winner. In this process, although the attacking side was brave, the defending side also repeatedly went out of the city to fight, and did not just defend. It can be said that they met their opponents.
Shi Le was defeated in the end, and it was not a crime of war. In the final analysis, it was still the difference in strength. After the Battle of Yecheng last year, this outcome was actually destined. It's just that Liu Yao led his troops to come to help, which added a little more variables to this war.
Today, with the Youzhou soldiers moving south in large numbers, the war is over and Hebei has completely changed hands.
"After this defeat, the Xiongnu could only retreat and lick their wounds." Sun Bo also expressed some emotion.
In the past, they were a little panicked when they saw Shi Le's army coming to attack. But when the war in Hebei reached the critical stage of the competition of wills, it was they who became the winner, which is still a bit proud to say.
The only dissatisfaction is that the ministries were not cautious enough. When they went south to intercept the Huns, they had mixed success and losses. Liu Yao was beaten several times and lost a lot of troops.
Alas, no one can beat the once famous hometown of sudden cavalry. Who is to blame?
Bingzhou, Henan, Hebei, and Guanxi soldiers are stronger than them. Murong Xianbei, Yuwen Xianbei, and Tuoba Xianbei are also stronger than them. If they continue to lose, even Jiangdong soldiers will not be able to defeat them - don't mention it. If the infantry of both sides fight, the private soldiers of the Jiangdong clan may not lose. All they lack is cavalry.
Be ashamed!
"Sitting in Henan and Hebei, Chen Gong is ready for success." Liu Ying said while looking at the towering Taihang Mountains.
The pattern is almost clear.
The Xiongnu holds most of Bingzhou and all of Yongzhou, so they should be attacking Qinzhou now. The one sent before may have been Liu Can's partial troops. After the complete failure in the battle for Hebei, they may have to concentrate on solving the three states of Qin, Liang and Liang.
This will lead to a confrontation between Kanto and Kansai.
Oh, we have to add Jiangdong and Shu, so the world is divided into four parts.
Chen Gong occupies the most elite areas of Henan and Hebei, and is already the best in the world.
The four of them were walking and chatting.
On the northern horizon, there is an endless stream of cars and horses.
The grain truck loaded with corn came south from Youzhou to supply the King's Division, which had just won a great victory. By now, the army was almost out of food.
Are you willing to use the anointing of the people of Youzhou to support the Northern Expeditionary Army? From the bottom of my heart, I am definitely not happy about it, but who dares to object to this? Don't want to die?
Wang Pengzu searched for many years, and in the end, he got the advantage of Chen Gong. It must be said that it is a huge irony.
But as the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist. For the powerful scholars in Youzhou, Wang Jun is a thing of the past. Now they must seize the opportunity and strive to get a share of the military and political group created by Chen Gong. , there is a place for Youzhou people.
This time we went south, the army strived to make great achievements, and also supplied food to support the army. It was two great achievements, so good!
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On the way to Changshan, Jin received news that Shi Le and Liu Yao had fled and Changshan had taken over peacefully, so he immediately began to gather his troops.
He didn't even plan to visit Changshan. Instead, he spent three or four days gathering the soldiers and horses scattered everywhere, then adjusted his direction and headed for Zhangwu.
He wants to defeat Duan Bu Xianbei, kill Linghu Ni, and bring this year's war to a complete end.
However, Duan Bu Xianbei had already begun to retreat.
Their combat effectiveness is quite good, with spears and halberds, iron and leather armor, sophisticated riding bows, saddlery, etc., all available. The tactical style of play is also the traditional face-to-face attack in the Central Plains, which is very tough.
The Yi Congjun fought with the Xiongnu for a long time, and then they were transferred to attack Duanbu Xianbei, but they were unable to do it, and the losses were quite heavy.
At this time, the entire Yi Congjun realized how wise it was that Duke Chen had surrounded the gates of Chang'an ten years ago, blocked five thousand Xianbei cavalry in the city, and killed them with infantry combat. One thing.
If those five thousand men were allowed to mount their horses and fight head-on with all the equipment, it would probably be a different ending.
The death of those five thousand people had an almost subversive impact on the situation in the Northeast.
Duanbu Xianbei lost consecutive battles, leaving Liaoxi County to Murong, and he was trapped in Beiping and Yan Kingdom. After falling out with Wang Jun, they glared at each other, but in the end they pinched their noses and tolerated each other for the sake of the country.
By this time, they, who were the first to participate in the Eight Kings Rebellion, had greatly reduced their power and had become a small local force with no foundation.
Maybe Shao Xun's cavalry had a hard time beating them, but it was not too difficult to organize a mixed infantry and cavalry force of tens of thousands of people and directly raid their home base.
To attack the enemy, you must save it. This has always been the only way for infantry to deal with cavalry.
After the Xianbei people roared away, Linghu Ni, who was still guarding Dongpingshu, suddenly sat down.
On the fifth day of November, there was panic in Zhangwu County.
Linghu Ni climbed to the top of the city and burst into tears as he looked at the Jin cavalry galloping around in the wild and the Bohai soldiers slowly surrounding them.
My father advised Liu Kun not to favor the actor and focus on business, but he was killed by the furious Liu Kun.
You know, his father has worked for him for many years, through life and death, with great achievements, but in the end he is no better than a lowly male favorite.
For a person like Liu Kun who has high ambitions but low abilities and doesn’t listen to honest advice, what’s wrong with turning his back on him?
Now that things have happened, Linghu Ni does not hate that he is about to be defeated. He only hates that he did not see the death of his father-killing enemy Liu Kun before he died.
Haha, it doesn’t matter!
As long as Liu Kun still loves the Jin court, Shao Xun, who is eager to usurp the throne, will not let him go. It's just the difference between dying early and dying later. Maybe, before Shao Xun could kill Liu Kun, the Huns would have killed him.
Thinking of this, Linghu Ni laughed nervously.
When the entourage on the left and right saw it, they were all shocked.
Linghu Ni glanced at them and said: "You have been with my father for many years. You fought in Jinyang for many years, and then you were sent to live under someone else's fence. Now you are trapped in Zhangwu, and you have not been able to live a good life. I Father and son really owe you a lot."
After saying this, he sighed and went downstairs. Before leaving, he turned his head and took one last look at everyone and said, "I will see you all go in together today. "The level of the body."
Everyone looked at each other.
A moment later, a servant of the Linghu family came over holding a wooden box with red eyes and said: "The Lord has committed suicide. Before he died, your Lord and others took this head and surrendered to Kaicheng. , Don’t throw away your useful body lightly.”
The cold wind blew, and everyone was silent.
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The news of the recovery of all Hebei quickly spread to Anping.
Facing the messenger, Shao Xun was rewarded with ten pieces of silk and said lightly: "I have defeated the enemy."
After sending the messenger away, he stopped pretending and happily He hugged Liu Ye and turned around several times.
"Defeat Liu Yao and Shi Le, capture Changshan, and major events in Hebei are settled." Shao Xun said with a smile: "Are you happy?"
Liu Ye felt that he was rubbing hard on her buttocks She pinched her hand and rolled her eyes at him.
Shao Xun pretended to be unhappy: "Are you still thinking of Shi Le?"
Liu Ye was so angry that he wouldn't let him touch it, and said indiscriminately: "You don't want me!"
After saying that, his face immediately turned red and he didn't dare to look at him.
Shao Xun laughed loudly and whispered: "Give me a baby tonight."
Liu Yena spat, but did not stop the man's hand from touching him again.
The two laughed and separated after a while.
Liu Yena hummed a shepherd song on the grassland in Jie language and started making tea happily.
Shao Xun took out his old military newspapers and read them over and over again.
The Battle of Hanoi is over.
Shao Xun originally thought that Wang Queer would gather the light and heavy cavalry he had on hand, set up an ambush circle, and surround and annihilate the pursuing Liu Ya cavalry.
Unexpectedly, he sent out all these 10,000 cavalry, armed with five days of rations, and set out from Yewang to take the initiative to attack the Huns gathered in the Qinshui area.
After Liu Ya learned about it, he led his army to fight, and the two sides fought several battles. With the help of Luoyang Zhongjun's armored cavalry, they once gained the upper hand.
Wang Queer took the opportunity to relieve the wild king and withdrew his troops in batches.
Shi Hu had just marched to the Qinshui area, preparing to reinforce Liu Ya. When he learned that Wang Que'er had withdrawn his troops, he immediately sent thousands of horses to pursue him south. By the time he caught up, Wang Que'er's troops had already left the north city of Heyang. Less than seventy miles.
He personally led the silver spear to seize the rear of the left camp.
Shi Hu was greedy for merit and wanted to keep this elite force, but repeated harassment had no effect. When they ran only forty miles away from Heyang North City, they finally gave up and attacked other retreating troops, capturing and killing more than 3,000 people - mostly Luonan Dingzhuang.
On October 27th, the cavalry that attacked Liu Ya from the north retreated and forced Shihu back. The whole army fought and retreated, but the Silver Spear Zuoying remained at the end, using a car formation to resist the enemy.
The soldiers from time to time mount their horses to charge, and from time to time they dismount to form formations. Finally, they successfully withdrew to Heyang Beicheng at the end of October.
In total, more than 5,000 infantry and cavalry were lost, and the casualties were considerable. However, the main force successfully withdrew, although a lot of baggage, equipment, and draft animals were discarded.
Overall it was quite successful. The main reason for this success was Wang Queer's desperate decision to invest tens of thousands of light and heavy cavalry to catch them by surprise.
In the Battle of Qinshui, both sides suffered heavy losses. So when Wang Queer's main cavalry retreated, Liu Ya didn't dare to pursue them. Later, I made up my mind to pursue it again, but it was already a bit late.
Of course, the total distance between Yewang and Heyang Beicheng is only more than a hundred miles, which is too close.
If it were a large-scale retreat of hundreds of miles like Liu Yao's retreat from Zhangwu and Hejian to Lingshou, it would not be so easy.
The battle in Hanoi can be called a victory for the Huns, because Hanoi was saved and the loss of troops was far less than that of the Jin army. They won at the tactical level.
But from a strategic perspective, Zhao Gu, Liu Ya, and Shi Hu were constrained here. They once wanted to mobilize Wang Mi's troops for reinforcements, but Lao Wang refused. This was a clear defeat again.
But then again, even if Wang Queer does not attack Hanoi, it will be difficult for these soldiers to be used in the direction of Changshan and Zhongshan. The reason is that the supplies cannot support it. They can also exert force in the direction of Jijun and Weijun, but the Jin army cannot hold out, and they may not be able to capture Chaoge, Fangtou, Gongxian and other cities.
Up to now, the war has become a competition of comprehensive national strength.
The Huns just lost in terms of national strength, and they actually fought well on the frontal battlefield.
"Pack your luggage and head north to Youzhou in two days." Shao Xun patted Liu Yena lightly and said.
Full of elasticity, solid and straight, yes, I am blessed tonight.
I completely defeated Shi Le militarily, and also completely defeated Shi Le emotionally, which was great.
After letting go of the woman, he calmed down and wrote a report of victory and sent it to Luoyang.
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