Chapter 451 Dawn of Victory
The verdant grass between the two sides had been trampled into mud, with plasma contaminated with grass mud, hundreds of feet in a radius like a blood-red mud. The bodies of the Huns were lying all over the ground, either in different parts of their bodies and heads or in vague flesh and blood, and basically no one could see intact.
A Qin soldier holding a spear was pointing at a group of people in Kunjia, beating and scolding, but no one under his command dared to go out, and hundreds of people were all hiding their heads and dared not speak.
If you don’t go out, you may surrender and become a prisoner to survive, but you will undoubtedly die if you go out.
The Qin army I encountered this time was so fierce. Any warrior who went out to fight would almost die in one round. Apart from fear and timidity, the weapons were completely different. Even holding the sharp bronze weapon of the Central Plains that he had previously stolen, it would shatter like a rotten wood, and it would not have any advantage in front of the sharp and heavy weapons of the Qin army.
"Chock~" In anger, Kun Jia pulled out the sword from his waist and roared loudly and cut off one of his subordinates beside him to death.
Kun Jia's subordinates suddenly became panicked, and many people rode their horses out in horror, but before they could run two feet away, they heard a few bangs of crossbows, and instantly, seven or eight people fell off the horse's back screaming and lying on the grass, wailing and rolling.
"Puuu~" A middle-aged Hun man next to Kunjia jumped off his horse and knelt on the ground and yelled. Under his influence, dozens of Huns rolled off their horses and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Xin together, and the group of Huns became even more panicked.
"General, the barbarians are killed and they are going to surrender!" said the captain next to Li Xin.
Li Xin didn't need to understand this situation and knew the meaning, so he pointed the gun in his hand at the corpses all over the ground and said, "Kunjia, I will give you a chance. After surrender, I will lead us to kill the largest tribes in this grassland. I will spare you. If you continue to resist, these people will be your final outcome. You will all die today~"
"Chief, surrender!" A middle-aged man wearing a Central Plains cloth next to Kunjia shouted in horror.
Seeing Kun Jia still hesitating, several subordinates around him secretly looked at each other, and then seven or eight people suddenly rushed over and kicked Kun Jia off the back of the horse.
Kunjia surrendered and was pulled and kowtowed by his own group of subordinates. Thousands of Qin troops also raised their weapons and roared, and the entire grassland was filled with joy.
This was a great victory, and it was the first formal battle against the Hun barbarians after the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms. The seven thousand new-style pawns almost destroyed a large tribe of 20,000 people with a destructive force, and captured more than 300 Shanyu, his staff and subordinates alive.
An hour later, the sun set under the horizon, and the twilight was gathering, and wild wolf howls came from afar. The Qin army, which had gathered its formation, had begun to slaughter cattle and sheep, make fire and barbecue to prepare dinner.
The capture and prisoners of war have been counted, and the military commander and military officers have completed the registration of military merits.
In this battle, more than 5,000 adult men from the Huns were killed, more than 10,000 women, children, young and old were captured, countless cattle, sheep, horses, and sheepskin, cows and air-dried beef and mutton were piled up into mountains.
But the Qin generals were not happy at this time.
Because a total of more than 300 people from the Central Plains were found from this tribe, including Qin people, former Zhao people, and some merchants from the Central Plains, most of whom were women, the young ones were only in their teens and the older ones were in their forties, but they were almost tortured to form unbearable. Many of them were pregnant. When soldiers rescued these women from tents and cattle, sheep and horse pens everywhere, most of them were naked and scarred.
"The Hun barbarians dare to torture and insult me like this. Come and behead all the Huns who have proven themselves!" Looking at a group of trembling women gathered together, Li Xin roared.
"Here~~" Qin soldiers, who had already been in anger, roared in unison. With the constant shouts of scolding, they quickly captured dozens of neatly dressed Huns from the prisoners. Then, without interrogating, they directly raised their swords and chopped off their heads. The hot blood water poured all over the ground, and the rich smell of blood spread out in the twilight.
"Chop into meat sauce and throw it out to feed the wolf!" Li Xin was still unhappy.
So countless Qin soldiers rushed up to chop them up. After a few minutes, only dozens of piles of bloody minced meat were left on the ground. Then, they forced the Xiongnu prisoners to transport the minced meat several miles away and discarded it, which soon attracted a large number of wild wolves.
Kun Jia knelt in front of Li Xin naked and disheveled, his skin was whipped by a horse whip and he lay on the ground and screamed like a pig. He could not see the slightestness and arrogance of humiliating the women in the Central Plains in the big tent, but only endless fear.
Most of these humiliated Central Plains women were forbidden on weekdays, and these women were repeatedly plundered from the Central Plains border. Some had been banned here for more than ten years. The captured Central Plains women had to enjoy them first. Only those who were old and weak were rewarded to their subordinates. Many of them gave birth to children, who were usually satisfied with the animal desires of the Huns, and were tortured and almost inhumane. They lived a very miserable life. Some were humiliated to death, some committed suicide, and some were crazy. This is what they saw.
Before leaving Xianyang, Li Xin visited the Queen of Qinghe, hoping to get some guidance. After all, he had been fighting in the Central Plains and did not understand the Huns, so he was more cautious. Chen Xu told him that if he wanted to win quickly, he had to capture the leaders of the Huns and then drive away the Huns to kill each other. In this way, he could quickly find the gathering place for the Huns, and the other was to reduce unnecessary casualties of the Qin army.
Before the formal dispatch of troops, Meng Tian also gathered Li Xin and several generals who led the troops to the military camp to give a reminder, saying that the meaning was similar to Chen Xu, so Li Xin did not kill Kun Jia and a group of subordinates on the spot today.
On the vast grassland, there are hundreds of thousands of miles in a radius. It is extremely difficult to rely on thousands of troops to search for the enemy. Therefore, it is impossible to fight quickly without a guide to the Xiongnu gathering place on the grassland. If it takes too long, many Xiongnu tribes will get news to gather the army. At that time, it will inevitably be an extremely cruel hard battle. Li Xin is confident that the seven thousand Qin's most elite cavalry will definitely win in the end, but the casualties may also be relatively large. Therefore, he also remembers the tips of Chen Xu and Meng Tian.
In this war, Li Xin could not afford to lose, and even lose.
Only with an unprecedented victory with the least casualties can he wash away the shame.
Now Li Xin never had the impulse or underestimation of the enemy when he attacked Chu a few years ago. Therefore, even if he had ten thousand reasons to cut the Kunjia Shanyu in front of him into meat sauce, he could still suppress his anger in his heart.
Kunjia also knew that if he wanted to survive, he had to cooperate with the Qin army's actions. Therefore, he usually explained several large gathering places of the Huns in the entire Henan area, including how many people there were, who was the leader, how many adult Hun soldiers there, and wherever the Hun tribe was the most powerful.
The next morning, the seven thousand Qin troops gathered together had a meal, and then set out again in two groups, each driving away thousands of prisoners to the northwest, attacking two larger Huns gathering places in the northwest, leaving only more than a hundred people to take care of the women and women, children, and young and old who monitored the Huns. They waited for the Qin army who received the prisoners and supplies to arrive, and these people returned to the northwest military camp to report the battle situation in the past few days to Meng Tian.
Half a day later, another battle broke out two hundred miles northwest.
The five thousand Qin troops led by Li Xin once again wiped out a Hun tribe with a total of 6,000 people and killed thousands.
In the early morning of the day, the two thousand cavalry led by Su Jiao also wiped out a gathering place of more than 3,000 people in the Huns. Then the two troops bypassed an arc and rushed for more than 300 miles a long distance, surrounding the largest group of Hun tribes in this area. There were more than 30,000 people in this tribe, and nearly 8,000 adult men who controlled the strings, plus the young and old men who could ride horses and shoot archers, nearly 12,000 people could fight.
This battle lasted for a whole day, and the two sides chased and fought within a radius of hundreds of miles. When the battle ended, the Hun corpses scattered across the grassland could not be counted. Even if they were still in the battle, vultures and crows were already overwhelmed, and flocks of wild wolves also walked through it and bit the corpses. The flowing blood splattered on the grassland where flowers bloomed, and the gurgling blood had not stopped for several days.
This is an unprecedented war in Henan and an unprecedented massacre. After the battle, all the Qin soldiers were lying down and unable to get up. The war horses were exhausted and exhausted and almost became useless horses.
The inventory ended in two days later. The war killed more than 7,000 Xiongnu men and captured more than 20,000 people. The Qin army also suffered more than 600 casualties. The hundreds of elite elites in charge of the rushing formation died and many of them were shot several arrows. Fortunately, although the Huns were stronger than cavalry, the arrows were all stones and bones. The damage caused by penetration of two layers of leather armor was relatively small. They could continue to fight after two days of rest.
This tribe is basically the largest tribe of the Huns in Henan. The task of pulling out this nail and sweeping Henan has almost seen the dawn of victory. The remaining two armies are advancing from north to south, and they are more than 200 miles apart to each other and advance in parallel.
As news of victory after victory continued to spread to the Northwest Military Camp, Meng Tian's heart was finally relaxed and began to organize the military newspaper and arrange for people to send them to Xianyang.
Chapter completed!