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On the first day of December, early in the morning, Huxia River...

"Quick, retreat quickly, hurry~~"

The Yuan Mastiff had disheveled hair, like a stray dog, and galloped towards the Tujin Castle like a madman.

On the narrow gorge, there were all frightened Qiang soldiers, huddled together and pushed each other, following the Yuan Mastiff, trampling on each other, and countless people died.

Seven days ago, Yuan Mastiff gathered all the main forces of Tu Jinze to attack Tu Jinze. Halfway through the road, Duan Jing had captured Yangshan County, and Nunubatel was burned into a skeleton and hung it on the city gate. He immediately turned around and set off for Yangshan County.

As a result, when Yuan Mavericks arrived in Yangshan County, they found that Duan Yu's troops had already evacuated. There were only robbed aliens and animals and animals dried and coated with poison in the city. There was no supply to Yuan Mavericks troops at all.

One day later, Yuan Mastiff received the news and heard that Duan Feng was approaching like the Tiger Gorge River, and more than ten scattered tribes were wiped out along the way.

Since Huxia River is only sixty miles away from his old nest Tujin Fort, Yuan Ya was worried that Duan Jing would take advantage of the emptiness behind him and immediately led his troops to hurry towards Huxia Road.

During this period, the deputy general of Yuan Yashi once suggested that Yuan Yashi divide his troops and go all the way to Huxiachuan, and take advantage of the vacant defense of the Han army to enter Suizhou or Shazhou. In this way, if one of the troops is in trouble, the other can respond and rescue in a timely manner. Even if Duan Zhuang cannot be defeated, at least half of the troops will be saved.

But Yuan Maid is afraid of Duan Jing for a day or two, so it is absolutely impossible to let him divide his troops. In addition, Yuan Maid is suspicious by nature and is afraid that the deputy general will respect his own orders and refuses to accept his orders. So he rejected the deputy general's proposal on the grounds that he is afraid that Duan Jing will defeat him one by one.

As a result, the two sides met at Huxia River and started a bloody battle without saying a word. The battle lasted for four days. Due to the restrictions of the terrain, the Qiang cavalry could not play a role at all. Instead, they became a burden in the battle and could only abandon their horses and fight.

However, Duan Yang had already completed military defense one day in advance. Relying on the defense of the local city, he used bows, arrows, crossbows, and rocks and rolled wood to cause huge casualties to the Qiang people who were not good at fighting in the field.

The two armies fought until the morning of the fourth day, and the dry food carried by the 30,000 Qiang people had already bottomed out. In addition, the long-term battle was not conducive to the morale of the army gradually disintegrated, and Yuan Mastiff also developed the intention to retreat, intending to withdraw the Tujin Fort first and then make plans.

However, this retreat hit Duan Bing's thoughts. When he found the Yuan Maid to withdraw his troops, he decisively ordered the entire army to attack.

Four thousand Wei Wushu rushed out of the fortifications and howled at the Qiang people who had just turned around and launched a general attack...

When Yuan Ya saw Duan Yi's army attacking, he was so scared that he left tens of thousands of Qiang people and turned around and ran away. The Qiang people who lost their command immediately became even more chaotic. In order to avoid the pursuit of Wei Wuzhang, they did not hesitate to chop off their former companions to the ground just to escape from the heavens.

After a day and night of escape, Yuan Mastiff finally escaped from the Han army's pursuit. He was sure that Duan Zhuang was not chasing him behind him, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and began to count the remaining quantity.

Soon, the deputy future reports of the Qiang people were counted. Only less than 20,000 people followed the Yuan Mastiff out of the Huxia River, and only 4,000 horses left when they set out on the battle.

Half of the population was lost in the first battle, and the horses suffered tens of thousands of losses. Yuan Mavericks's face became very ugly. After a little rest, he continued to lead his army to Tujin Fort.

However, when they arrived at Jinlong Lake, they were stunned again. The frozen lake was connected by heavy horse-rejecting guns, which were ten miles long, blocking their way home.

The Han cavalry led by Xia Yu had been waiting for a long time. When they found traces of the remnants of Yuan Mastiff, they immediately launched an attack.

The Qiang people had not finished their water and rice for a day and night, and they were too busy to say that they were too scarce and their morale was extremely low. When Xia Yu's cavalry surrounded them from both sides of Jinlong Lake, they had not waited for the Yuan Mastiff to give up their orders, and many people threw away their armor and gave up their resistance, and fled to the battlefield with their lives.

Yuan Mastiff naturally joined the escape team, galloped with his confidants, and used a whip to beat all the Qiang people who were blocking him.

The battle was without any suspense, and the process was astonishing as it was smooth. Xia Yu led three thousand cavalry to pursue it all the way, forcing Yuan Mastiff to cut his beard and abandon his robe, and even threw his mount away.

The pursuit lasted all night until it was dark (7-9 pm, it was dark in winter outside the northwest border), and the Yuan Mastiff led the remaining troops into the Wuchuan Mountains and barely escaped from the summer chasing.

At this time, less than 10,000 people remained by Yuan Mastiff. Except for a small number of remaining people hid in the mountains and forests, most of them were wiped out by Xia Yu's troops, and the blood solidified on the thick ice surface of Jinlong Lake.

However, the bad luck of Yuan Mastiff did not end. After staying in the Wuchuan Mountains for a night, he continued to lead his troops to evacuate towards Tujin Castle.

But halfway through the journey, he met Tian Yan's troops who had just annihilated three nearby remnants of Qiang.

Tian Yan's troops led the same cavalry. Although they were both physically and mentally exhausted after a fight, their morale was still quite high. After seeing Yuan Ya's troops, they didn't care about their well-being, and they rode over directly.

Yuan Yu was defeated again, and this time he only brought less than 2,000 people to turn around the Wuchuan Mountains. After all, the road ahead was blocked, and he was short of war horses and knew that he could not escape the pursuit of the cavalry.

In this way, the Yuan Mastiff's troops were trembling in the deep mountains and forests. When they were hungry, they could only fill their belly with the roots of pine nuts. When they were thirsty, they sucked dry branches and cleared their throats, hoping to hold on until the Han army withdrew.

During this period, Duan Yi's troops were not idle. Taking advantage of the time when Yuan Mastiff was huddled in the mountains and forests, they took advantage of the situation to wipe out the other Qiang tribes that came to help...

Until the eighth day of the 12th month, four more remnants of Qiang people were driven into Wuchuan Mountain after being devastatingly attacked by Duan Jing...

In response, Tian Yan was worried that this move would allow Yuan Mastiff to annex these four remnant Qiang branches, which would pose a threat to the battle.

Duan Bing said confidently: "It is impossible. The Qiang tribes are all in charge of their own affairs. Put them together, and they may be united with food and clothing.

But today, if the cold land is frozen, this is another dry mountain. They will definitely kill each other in a shortage of consciousness. After they make trouble, they will be able to completely defeat them more easily."

Sure enough, after these four remaining Qiangs entered the Wuchuan Mountain and merged with the Yuan Mastiff, they immediately had a conflict over the few remaining grains and water.

That night, four remaining Qiangs killed each other. Until late at night, Yuan Mastiffs still won and recruited four remaining Qiangs. At this moment, he once again had more than 5,000 troops around him.

But there are too many people and few foods, and there is nothing to eat in the mountains. Even though Yuan Mastiff has recovered some of its strength, he still is worried. He ordered people to send surrender letters to Duan Jing, hoping to escape this disaster.

However, Duan Bing did not give Yuan Ya a chance to breathe. While rejecting the surrender, he immediately ordered people to set fire to the mountain.

As a last resort, Yuan Mastiff could only fight to the trapped beasts and fought to the death, intending to take advantage of Duan Bing's deployment of troops in the west and north to lead troops to break east, intending to detour through the Tianshan Mountains a thousand miles away and go to the Western Regions to take refuge.

Unfortunately, at the east exit, Zhang Kai's troops had been waiting for a long time. When they saw Yuan Mastiff appear, they immediately lined up the crossbows and gave a heavy blow.

Half-day situation, under Zhang Kai's attack, Yuan Mastiff dropped a thousand corpses of his companions and retreated back to Wuchuan Mountain, destined to continue to be his "Ape Mount Tai".

Hunger and cold always stimulate the extremely fragile nerves of these Qiang people. In order to survive, some Qiang people who were so hungry that they were even crazy began to eat their companions' corpses. The dark side of human nature was fully supported in the face of desperate situations...

Until December 23, the Yuan Mastiff's subordinates could not bear the hunger and cold environment and surrendered to Duan Jing together.

During this period, Duan Jin's troops annihilated six Qiang tribes. Since then, Tu Jinze's Qiang troubles were basically destroyed in one battle, except for the whereabouts of Yuan Mastiff.

The battle took only more than a month, and the Qiang people were killed and injured by 83,000 people. One million cattle and sheep were seized, 20,000 war horses, more than three million taels of gold and silver, and countless animal and fur tents were seized.

The Han army suffered only 220 casualties, of which 82 were killed in battle, four were frozen to death, and twelve disabled people, and the rest were slightly injured.

In addition to the bravery of the Han soldiers in combat and the proper command of military generals, such a huge gap is mainly due to the developed industry and the popularity of iron armor in the border army is as high as 90%.

The large-scale equipment of iron armor caused the nomadic bows and arrows to lose the deterrence they should have. The size of the Qiang people could not penetrate the iron armor of the Han army. No Han army lost in this battle because of the enemy's crossbows.

Once nomadic civilization loses the bow and horse that it relies on for its own business, it will basically be no longer a threat to the farming nation. In terms of economic strength and population size, nomadic civilization cannot be compared with agricultural civilization in any case.

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In the Tujin Fort, the Jingwei Flame Flag Flag symbolizing the Han army was inserted high on the Tujinze city wall and fluttered in the wind.

In the city, there was a carnival of Han soldiers. They plundered the finances of these foreign people. Some even became tempted by those beautiful orchestras.

Although Liu Ce explicitly prohibits soldiers from looting property from the people's homes, he even prohibits traitors. Once found out, no matter what military achievements you make, they will be sent to the Military Law Department for interrogation.

However, this military law is internal but ambiguity to the outside, especially the sentence "The generals are outside, and the commander can adapt at the discretion of the situation" was immediately regarded as a treasure by the generals in the army.

What is this? In layman's terms, it is officially recognized plunder, just point the finger at outsiders.

On the other side of the schoolyard, some captured slaves were registering the military record officers, and as long as these were people from Central Plains, they would be given special care.

"Get the booklet and wait in the empty valley. Someone will deliver food to you later. Remember not to lose this booklet. You will need to check it when you enter the pass."

Listening to the voice of the clerk, the rescued people in the Central Plains looked at the list with the words "Chinese Book" printed on their hands and burst into tears.

After so many years, I can finally go home...

And beside these rescued slaves, a group of numb women and children were squatting. Most of them were Qiang people and had become trophy at this moment.

These alien women have no feeling about their own experiences. Since childhood, they have been thinking that women are very despicable, they are just men's playthings, and goods that can be delivered at will.

Everything in front of them is just a different man for them. Some women are even complacent and think that it is much better to work in the pass than to live without death now.
Chapter completed!