Chapter 1197 Chase and Kill
King Toonan designed to kill King Gushi, looted Gushi's city, robbed the city of Gushi, and robbed tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of cows, horses and alpacas, and then retreated deep into the desert. He also knew that this time he must have stabbed the hornet's nest. Not only would the nearby Western Regions countries not give up, but the Qin army stationed in Dunhuang would inevitably send troops, so it quickly disappeared.
Soon ten days passed, and after Li Xin's summoning technique was carried out, Yuezhi, Wusun, Yiwu, Loulan, Yanqi, Gushi and other countries quickly summoned more than 40,000 soldiers. In addition to writing a letter to report this matter in detail to Meng Tian, who was far away in Longxi camp, Li Xin left only the deputy general to lead two thousand soldiers to guard Yumen and Yangguan respectively, and 8,000 troops and 20,000 war horses, carrying enough food and supplies for one month to formally send troops to strangle King Tunan.
The 50,000 army was divided into five routes, carrying the banners of the Qin Dynasty, Liang Kingdom and the vassal states, and rushed to the places occupied by the Yuezhi people along the alpine meadows and desert edges on the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. However, after arriving, he found that King Tunan had already migrated west with his tribe.
"Haha, run, let me see where you can go. The scout went fifty miles to investigate. No clues should be left behind. This time, you must kill King Tunan and Maodun completely!" Li Xin looked at the empty Yuezhi royal court and ordered the army to continue moving forward without any stop.
Li Xin had known about King Tunan's entrenchment in the desert on the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, but these people were nomadic people, and they were the same as the Huns. They disperse as soon as they fought and gathered as soon as they retreated. Now both sides have stirrup saddles, which are easy to ride for long distances, and the quality of war horses is comparable. Therefore, the only advantage of the Qin army is solid leather armor and sharp weapons. However, in this era of cold weapons, you can't catch up with the enemy's eggs. Therefore, after several small-scale conflicts before, King Tunan retreated and hid on the edge of the desert north of the Tianshan Mountains, and almost didn't bother the Western Regions countries, so Li Xin was too lazy to provoke this scabby dog.
Unexpectedly, while raising this dog, it was raised. Now it has become a super gang of tribes with a population of more than 100,000 and nearly 30,000 soldiers. Not only did it attack and kill Gushi Wang, but it also blatantly looted Gushi Wang's city and robbed countless livestock populations. The gold, jade and precious jewelry and leather goods stored in Gushi Wang's treasure house are of great value. Gushi Prime Minister said that gold alone has more than 3,000 kilograms.
More than 3,000 kilograms of gold are worth nearly 20 million yuan. Even if you sell Dayuan BMWs, you can sell a large group. Unfortunately, this money was actually snatched away by the bastard of King Tunan. This is really a waste of raising a tiger.
This time, Li Xin was well prepared and tempted him to the tens of thousands of servants. All the items they snatched, regardless of their wealth or population, must be handed over half, and the rest belong to each tribe.
As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. Driven by this heavy reward, tens of thousands of servants, from leaders to ordinary soldiers, were all anxious and red-eyed and held all their strength. Every day, they screamed and attacked from all directions to search for the traces of King Tunan. Moreover, although the situation in the wild is complicated, the desert climate is also changing. The population of more than 100,000 people is not moving fast, and the traces left are also very obvious. Along the way, there are animal feces and marks of trampling, as well as cattle, horses, alpacas and other livestock that have just given birth in the wilderness.
After the sky, after chasing wildly, the servants finally caught up with a tribe of King Tunan. When Li Xin received the news to command the army to catch up, the battle was over. This tribe of less than 3,000 people, was originally a native who had lived here before. In the face of the murderous Western Regions army, it was killed in less than half an hour. After hundreds of people were killed and injured, all surrendered. This also caused the victorious servants to seize tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses, and fur goods.
Although the victory was not big, it further aroused the fighting spirit of the 50,000 army. In the next few days, it was like a chicken blood chasing and searching in the desert. Finally, it caught up with the tribes that King Tunan migrated west near a river two thousand miles west of Gushiwang City.
The enemy was particularly jealous when they met. This time, with the power of the Great Qin elite cavalry, and with the assistance of the army of the Western Regions, Prime Minister Gu Shi personally directed the army of his kingdom to attack the King of Tunan first. Li Xin held down the elite of the Great Qin emperor and ordered tens of thousands of troops of Yuezhi, Wusun, Yiwu, Yanqi, and Loulan to launch a tide-like attack on the Yuezhi people at the same time.
King Toonan never expected that he seemed to be a little proud this time. Daqin's father was still a father after all. Not only was he better than him in military strategy, but he also had an absolute advantage in grasping the fighter's opportunity.
When he learned that Ye Xing killed Gushi King, King Tunan felt that the disaster was a big deal, so he followed Maodun and a group of tribal leaders and simply robbed Gushi King's city without stopping. After making a big profit, he soon took his tribe to migrate westward after returning.
Although he was not familiar with the West, he learned from the conquered tribes that he continued westward along the deserts and grasslands between the snow-capped mountains, and there was a large tribe with a population of about 70,000 to 80,000, named Hujie, who was also a nomadic tribe. If he could conquer it, the strength of the Great Yuezhi would almost double.
King Toonan originally wanted to take this opportunity to fall, so that he could completely control this vast desert and grassland. Even if the Qin army was used to pursue them, they could attack and retreat or defend. In such a vast environment, the Qin did not have much advantage in strength.
However, because it is just beginning of spring, a large number of livestock have begun to give birth, and men, women, young and old carry all their belongings, they have to drive millions of livestock to migrate. The migration speed is very slow, and they travel only dozens or hundreds of miles a day, stopping and stopping, and traveling for more than half a month to reach the junction with Hujie. However, they were blocked by a river that began to soar after spring.
At this time, when the Great Qin and the 50,000 troops of the Western Regions arrived, the tribe of King Tunan was choosing to cross the river in the shallows.
And Li Xin naturally would not miss this opportunity to attack halfway.
Except for the Qin soldiers, the more than 40,000 Western Regions servants rushed towards the chaotic Dayuezhi people on the river bank like a group of crazy red-eye diseases.
It was too late for King Tunan to regret it at this time. In addition to leading tribal soldiers to fight against the enemy, he tried his best to let his tribes carry their wealth and drive away livestock across the river as soon as possible.
Nearly 70,000 people on both sides fought on the turbulent river bank, and the range covered nearly ten miles of river beaches.
The sharp arrows tore the air in the sun like locusts. A large number of soldiers on both sides fell off their horses in screams, and then were trampled into meat paste by the galloping horse hooves. Tens of thousands of Yuezhi people helped the elderly and young to drive the cattle, horses and alpacas that were full of their belongings to wade through the biting cold river, hoping that their soldiers could still resist the river and escape.
Arrows, spears, sticks, tens of thousands of soldiers, more than 100,000 war horses, millions of livestock, and crowds of people crying and shouting on the river beach. Countless livestock and cargo and women and children were washed away in the turbulent river water. The fighting and screaming were noisy and clamoring, shaking and shaking, shaking a radius of hundreds of miles.
King Toonan has already regretted his past. He shouldn't have provoked Gushi for a horse, nor should he rob Gushi Wangshi's city.
If he had just fought with Gushi Wang Gang, even if Gushi Wang died, this incident would not arouse Li Xin's anger and the determination of the people of the Western Regions to share the same hatred of the enemy. At most, he would become a mortal enemy with Gushi. However, it was he who followed Maodun and others' advice to loot Gushi Wang's city, so that the Qin Dynasty would inevitably ask for an explanation for the vassal states. Moreover, the reward came very quickly in this life. Although he led his tribe members to migrate ten days in advance, he was still not as fast as the Qin army that came lightly and was caught up in twenty days.
If he can't stand this battle, the little property he had accumulated over the past few years would be gone again.
Faced with the attacks of the Qin Dynasty and tens of thousands of troops of the Western Regions, King Tunan knew that he had basically no chance of winning, so he could only stick to his entire tribe crossing the river. He also made up his mind that once the river crossing was successful, he would never come back. He heard that the Western world was wider and he did not need to live under the shadow of the Qin Dynasty's iron hoof.
The war instantly entered a white-hot stage. Neither side retreated or showed weakness at all. Killing these Yuezhi people could steal a large amount of livestock and slaves. Only by resisting the attacks of the Western Regions can the Yuezhi people protect the little money they had finally saved.
Dead horse, screaming, broken limbs and broken arms, blood splattering, pain wailing, tens of thousands of people rushed back and forth, the flowers-filled grass was trampled into mud, blood was mixed with mud, and the entire river beach was like a Shura field.
For these Western Regions, they had almost never experienced such a large-scale war.
But for Li Xin and the Qin army, this battle of less than 100,000 people was just a common scale.
The eight thousand Qin troops did not move from beginning to end.
Li Xin led several followers to stand on a small hill two miles away from the battlefield, holding a monocular lens and constantly looking around and across the river.
Tens of thousands of troops fought in a melee, more than 100,000 people crossed the river, and there were millions of livestock. The roars and horses were neighing for hundreds of miles. The wild horses and bisons and wolves that were wandering on weekdays all fled in a hurry. This situation could not not attract the attention of nearby tribes. In Li Xin's observation, he did see dozens or even hundreds of horse-riding hunters ten miles away from the other side of the river to observe from afar, but he did not dare to get close.
Chapter completed!