Chapter 1071: Battle (2)(1/2)
He galloped away.
Li Guangli personally led his most elite army of Ershi and walked in the front.
The Ershi Army is a standard Han field cavalry, with two commanders and six commanders under its jurisdiction, a total of four thousand cavalry, which is a Xuanjia Army.
All the members were wearing armor, all with heavy armor and heavy halberds, and their combat power was extremely strong.
Although now, in order to raid the Xiongnu's baggage, the Ershi Army left armor in the Han army camp.
But they still put on well-made leather armor and picked up the ring-headed knife that was more suitable for chopping.
One feature of the ring-headed knife in the Han Dynasty is that its handle has a copper ring for holding. In addition, the biggest feature of the ring-headed knife in the Han Dynasty is that its standard length is more than three feet long. With the handle and knife ring, the length is often more than one meter, reaching one meter and one meter three.
When using the horse, cutting off the Huns with the help of horse speed is like mowing grass.
Nowadays, with stirrups and saddles, it is even more powerful.
The Ershi Army stabbed its target from the front like a hurricane, in the north of Weili.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves shocked the earth.
Horseshoes create louder sounds and vibrations than before, and bring stronger momentum.
This made the cavalry of the Han army extremely terrifying and powerful in the eyes of the Huns who warned this place.
So hundreds of Xiongnu people who were ordered to guard the passage here, cried and shouted to their parents to drop their weapons, rode on war horses, and fled to the distance in a mess.
The Han army did not care about them, but just drove straight in, broke into Wei Li's territory on a cross section of forty or fifty miles wide on the front, and then passed through lightning.
Along the way, all those who dared to resist and block were crushed into pieces by this powerful cavalry unit.
Following Ershijun were the two commanders from Juyan.
They are all light horsemen, and they are as fast as lightning.
In just one hour, the eight thousand Han cavalry quickly passed through the narrow territory in the north of Weili and penetrated directly into the northwest of the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains on its flank.
The Huns had no way to react and could not react.
There is no way, the Han cavalry, although they have been marching for more than a month.
However, because of the fixed marching speed every day, all war horses and personnel retain their physical strength and energy.
On the other hand, the Xiongnu side has been in intense combat and movement since August.
Whether it is war horses or the army, they are already exhausted.
What's more, the Han family's raid came suddenly. The Huns never thought that the Han cavalry would attack from this direction the battlefield they had always thought was at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains in Weili or Kucha.
How could it be that the Han cavalry suddenly broke out and pointed the arrow straight at its weakness?
So, they didn't even have time to call the police, and they didn't even have time to ignite the wolf smoke, but they were crushed by the Han army.
Through this place, Li Guangli commanded his cavalry, and just took a break and fed the war horses with eggs, bone meal, sushi, corn, and some cream and wheat bran.
Then continue to march.
Within one day, more than two hundred miles (about 80 to 90 kilometers).
In the evening of that day, the vanguard approached the outer periphery of the canyon where the Xiongnu baggage was located. At night, all the Ershi Army arrived.
Immediately, he took advantage of the night to launch a raid!
The Huns had not had many troops to defend, and they were caught off guard and were attacked without any preparation, so they could not organize effective resistance at all.
The Han cavalry drew out their ring-headed swords, used the high speed of the war horses, and formed dozens of attack clusters with teams, knocked open the ridiculously weak Shanluo outside the canyon, and killed them.
This entry means that the wolf enters the flock of sheep.
The galloping war horses trampled the entire canyon into powder.
Anyone who resisted or even blocked the way would become ghosts under the sword.
By dawn, the battle was completely over.
Li Guangli walked in the Huns camp inside and outside the canyon.
There were fallen Huns everywhere, and a large number of captured Hun women and children knelt in a messy camp.
However, the hundreds of thousands of livestock that the Huns, the biggest target of this battle, had all fallen into the control of the Han army.
Seeing this scene, Li Guangli couldn't help but feel boundless heroic in his heart, and raised his whip to his left and right, "After winning this battle, Wei Li will do it for me!"
This is a fact!
There is no longer the continuous supply of cheese and other dairy products for hundreds of thousands of livestock stocks stocked here.
The Huns' army in Weili has run out of food!
If they want to adjust food from the rear, it will take ten days at the earliest!
and……
The Huns went there to find hundreds of thousands of livestock to replenish them?
Conservatively estimated, the number of livestock here accounts for at least one-third of the total number of livestock in the sages!
The loss of this place is like the loss of the Three Rivers of the Han Dynasty, which is equivalent to the loss of the most important grain base.
After the Han army obtained this batch of livestock, the logistics pressure was greatly reduced!
With this batch of livestock, Li Guangli's army of 100,000 would not need to worry about not having food for at least three months.
The baggage troops in Hexi and the young and strong people can be liberated.
This is what the art of war calls "one bell for food for the enemy, ten bells for me!".
How come Li Guangli is unhappy?
At this time, the military judge who counted the results of the battle also came to report: "General, our army beheaded more than 1,000 levels, captured more than 7,000 animals, cattle and sheep, seized more than 350,000 animals, cattle and sheep, war horses, horses, and pack horses, and drove him into a total of more than 40,000 horses. Our army was killed by more than 100 times, which was a great victory!"
Li Guangli listened and became even more proud. He said confidently: "I will order you to kill cattle and sheep, reward the entire army to congratulate you!"
With this battle successful, in Li Guangli's view, the Wei Li war has ended.
Whether it is the Huns or Li Ling, they all have only one choice, clamp their tails and withdraw their nests from the Tianshan Pass.
Now, not only Wei Li, but also Kucha, and even the Wei Xu, Yan She is already his Li Guangli's meal on the plate.
He wants to eat there, eat there!
but……
This is far from enough for his appetite.
More than a thousand beheads?
And most of them were just servants of the Huns, such as Gaoche and Juyang clan.
I registered to Chang'an, but there was no splash at all.
As for the capture of Weili, Kucha, and the achievements of expanding territory?
Let’s ask the generals who attacked Korea, pacified Nanyue, and destroyed Fujian and Yue!
It is just a fishy place in the southern barbarians, and it is not a great achievement.
It is far less powerful than that of General Yang, who seized the Dragon City, Chan Guyan, and sealed the wolf and the Xu Mountain!
There is no need to compare with the brilliant achievements of beheading and capturing tens of thousands of people who captured his right wise king and forced his brother to surrender!
Therefore, Li Guangli knew very well that in this battle, he would at most lose his merits and make up for Luntai's losses.
But the debt he owes more than the crime of Luntai’s fall!
Forgetting edicts, resisting orders, putting house arrest and falsely passing on the sage's will.
Anyone who takes it out will be a family of death once it is confirmed!
The only way to offset these culprits is to achieve a great victory that is no less than Zhang Zizhong’s Battle of Mobei.
The best thing is to capture and kill Li Ling, and the ancestors are afraid of him and take all the lands in the Western Regions!
Only such victory can cover up all his own crimes and make it impossible for the court and the emperor to see or even take the initiative to cleanse him.
Thinking of this, Li Guangli turned his attention to the west and to a more distant place.
He waved his hand, called his confidant Li Duo to his side, and asked, "Does the messenger sent to contact Wusun and Dayuan? Have you ever replied?"
Li Duo replied: "General, I haven't received a reply yet!"
When Li Guangli heard this, his brows frowned slightly, but he still said, "Talk again and report again!"
"promise!"
Looking at Li Duo's back as he was gone, Li Guangli murmured softly: "If we can contact Wusun, Dayuan, and the Three Kingdoms will attack the Huns together..."
The corners of his mouth slightly raised.
That's what he dreamed of!
If the attack on three sides and the main force of the Xiongnu royal court is not present, the Western Regions will become a piece of fat meat and be eaten by the Han Dynasty!
I believe that Dayuan and Wusun people will definitely not miss this opportunity!
Such a big piece of fat!
Who doesn't want to chew?
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Thousands of miles away, on the banks of Kunlun Mountain.
Wusun Kunmowengguimi struggled to move his fat body, walked to a stone stairs and sat down.
To be continued...