"Zhou Tai, who asked you to kill the prisoners?" In front of the military formation, Zhou Tai and Wei Yan knelt on one knee in front of Liu Cang's chariot. Liu Cang asked with a frown.

".

"Zhou Tai was silent.

"I am willing to be punished by my lord." Wei Yan, who was as tall as a mountain, spoke respectfully.

"How many were killed?" Liu Cang asked, glancing at Wei Yan.

"All the young and strong have been slaughtered, leaving only six thousand old and weak." Wei Yan replied.

Liu Cang led his army to Zhoutai, where Wei Yan was. Because a "sheepfold" was discovered in Xianbei, half of the more than 30 pregnant women committed suicide after learning that they had been rescued. All they wanted was not to be eaten after death.

Zhou Tai was so angry that he couldn't calm down. After confirming that these women were pregnant with Xianbei offspring, he killed all the remaining women and massacred the Xianbei prisoners in his custody.

Liu Cang asked, but Zhou Tai didn't mean to defend himself at all. On the contrary, Wei Yan was smarter than Zhou Tai and had a correct attitude. But when he talked about slaughtering prisoners, his tone also showed a sense of relief.

"Let's not do this next time. The development of Yangzhou requires manpower, and these prisoners are of great use, so don't use them out of loyalty." Liu Cang shook his head, not intending to punish the two of them.

"My lord, this clan is inferior to beasts, how can we use them lightly!" Zhou Tai finally spoke up, but when he opened his mouth, he clashed with Liu Cang, and anxiety flashed across Wei Yan's face.

"Yangzhou has a vast territory and is sparsely populated. It requires a lot of manpower to clear wasteland, open canals, and open mountains and ravines. If we don't need them, why don't you come?" Liu Cang scolded.

"Can.

"Zhou Tai wanted to argue, but he didn't know where to start. He suppressed the redness in his cheeks for a moment.

"Tsk, if you don't kill them all, what are you doing with the old and the weak? All the prisoners will be beaten as stateless slaves, leaving their thumbs and ring fingers, and all the other fingers should be cut off." Liu Cang said again, Zhou Tai was stunned, and Wei Yan was briefly stunned.

, then the corners of his eyes twitched.

"Why, what else is there?" The two were silent, and Liu Cang asked impatiently.

"No, my lord is wise." Even Zhou Tai frowned this time.

If you are helpless, you don't need to ensure the safety of the other party, or even the needs of the other party's survival. With only two fingers left, you can pick and lift, and hold some work tools, but you can't fire a bow or wield a knife, so you can basically do whatever you want.

People slaughter.

Obviously Liu Cang really wanted to make great use of these Xianbei prisoners. At the same time, Zhou Tai was also secretly upset. Sure enough, he was still too naive. It was a pity that those young men died.

"The battle losses of the Yangzhou army were recorded in detail, and the matter of amputating the fingers was dealt with immediately, and the Tianshu camp was ordered to send experienced soldiers to escort the slaves back to the Han territory as soon as possible. If they refused, they could be slaughtered. In the future, the old and the weak would be left alone, and military law

Engage." Liu Cang waved his hand.

"Here!" Zhou Tai and Wei Yan stood up and left quickly.

"Wen He, how are the various ministries?" The two left, and Liu Cang marched with his army. Liu Cang was just passing by. The place where they finally gathered their troops was where the Baibu King's City was.

"Everything goes well. The scouts from a thousand miles away are in place. The three battalions of Tianquan, Yuheng, and Tianji have arrived at the Baibu Mountain Stream Fortress. Zhou Yu has requested a fire attack. However, there is something unusual in Xianbei in the east. There has been no sign of sending troops so far." Jia Xu replied.

Liu Cang said.

"Send a message to Zhou Yu about the fire attack. If Wuluan Mountain can be burned down before our army arrives, it will be considered a great achievement. However, Xianbei in the east is indeed a little too peaceful." Liu Cang nodded and thought.

The Eastern Xianbei mentioned by the two mainly refers to Liaodong Xianbei, Western Liaoning Xianbei, and the Xianbei Yuwenbu, which was integrated with a large number of Huns.

This season is the time when nomads have the strongest mobility. Although the Xianbei tribes usually fight to the death, Liu Cang invaded the grassland in a large scale.

Xianbei has been divided for many years. Following the Hu and Qiang traditions, they basically don’t eat fish much. They are nomadic and don’t like farming, but it’s strange. In fact, Xianbei doesn’t like hunting either.

Herding, robbing, and enslaving others are their main way of life. Whether it is farming or hunting, they like to enslave others to do it. Liu Cang's invasion undoubtedly disrupted the overall "ecological balance" of Xianbei to a great extent.

Liu Cang invaded the grassland for half a month, and all the slaves were sent back to the Han Dynasty in several batches. Still, there was no encirclement and suppression by the big clans. It seemed meaningless to personally lead the strong troops to hold the battle in the center.

He was confused for a while, and kept in touch with Pan Feng through letters to confirm that there had been no changes in the Han Dynasty. Liu Cang had already ordered his troops to gather together, planning to attack Baibu King City with all his strength, and then return to the Han Dynasty to conduct a detailed investigation of the grassland situation.

The army was marching, and along the way there were many regiments returning to the central army with captive cattle and horses. The injured cattle and horses were sufficiently guarded by auxiliary troops.

Different from the usual situation, this time Liu Cang did not accept prisoners under the age of ten or over forty, and all prisoners had their fingers cut off and became slaves.

After walking for half a day, the fire was soaring into the sky in the distance. The soldiers of the third battalion returned. Zhou Yu, full of evil spirits, reported to Liu Cang the situation of the burning mountain.

The army detoured around Wuluan Mountain, which is an important Xianbei pass in Baibe. This is somewhat similar to the situation Liu Cang encountered in the Qiang region in his early years. Troops were stationed in the Baibe Mountains, and the mountain walls in the rough area were densely covered with steps and stairs. The terrain was steep and difficult to attack by force.

Down.

In order to avoid being harassed by the enemy in the rear and guard the steep mountain road, Zhou Yu simply took advantage of the good weather and set the entire Wuluan Mountain on fire, causing countless people to fall off the cliffs and jump off the cliffs.

After another half day's journey, we finally arrived at Baibu King's City, where a city wall nearly a kilometer long formed a large-scale city system.

The city is large in scale, but the height of the city wall is still five meters, which is mainly made of soil. At best, it looks a little quaint with a unique flavor.

There are trenches beside the city, but obviously the other side does not think that this kind of wall can withstand the Han army's siege. There are a large number of unarmored archers standing on the wall, and there are already dense cavalry outside the city, and war horses in various colors are pulling under the city.

Create a front that is much longer than the city wall.

He frowned and looked at the cavalry on the other side.

Liu Cang's eyesight can now roughly distinguish the number of enemy troops. There are more than 20,000 enemy cavalry, half of which are armored, followed by about 30,000 infantry, and thousands of bows on the city.

"My lord, there are too few cavalry troops. There are still many troops stationed in the enemy city, and they may want to abandon the city." Liu Cang looked at it, and Jia Xu frowned and said.

"Yeah." Liu Cang raised the corners of his mouth, seeming to smile.

"Listen, General of the Han Dynasty. I have respected the Han people for a long time and have never invaded the Han territory. Killing for no reason is unkind. My army is willing to pay a tribute of 300,000 cattle and sheep. I also hope that the general will stop the army and stop the war, so as not to cause any loss of life." Liu Cang

When he was laughing, a cavalry team ran out from the opposite side, and the first one shouted in Chinese.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Lian Nu is out, generals, stand by to attack!" Ignoring the shouts from the other side, Liu Cang gave the order in a deep voice.

"Woo~~" The war preparation horn sounded, and the anticipatory war drums beat.

The military formation gave way, but there were thousands of auxiliary troops wandering all the way.

There are groups of five people, each carrying eight crossbows and one crossbow. Two thousand crossbows are interspersed in front of the army, forming a line.

As the army marched, shouts and curses were heard from Xianbei on the opposite side. It was said that the auxiliary troops led by Liu Cang were not without attack capabilities.

"Advance!" The general issued the order, the military formations moved in unison, and the entire Han army pressed on the North Korea Bei City.

Facing the enemy from the north to the south, one thousand meters away from the Xianbei cavalry, half of the troops from the Tianshu and Kaiyang battalions ran east and west. The drum beats changed to the rhythm of arrow attacks. Amidst the intensive drum beats, the Han army's advance seemed to be speeding up. On the opposite side, Xianbei shouted and shouted,

Thousands of horses galloping.

"Tong!" The intensive and rapid drum beats suddenly stopped.

"Drink!" the troops shouted, and their feet shook the ground.

"Strike~! Shoot~!"

"Buzz~~"

Countless large crossbows were shot out, a strong wind suddenly rose, and the Xianbei cavalry that had started charging hundreds of meters fell over like a line of grass.

"Wind~, strong wind!" echoed the order.

The iron crest stretched the string, and the tens of thousands of people in Liu Cang's army who could open the iron crest drew the string and shot.

At the same time, Dahuang stepped on his crossbow and his bows were ready to go. After the attack of tens of thousands of powerful bows and arrows, the roaring Xianbei cavalry with red eyes had reached a distance of 500 meters.

The sky became dark, and arrows rained all over the sky. Different from the crossbows in the early days, the Xianbei cavalry in the front row was unharmed by the arrows thrown by the crossbows, but the Xianbei cavalry in the rear were knocked down, and the Xianbei cavalry were knocked down in droves.

Before joining the battle, the Xianbei cavalrymen were outnumbered by ten or six or seven.

"Shoot~!" The iron crest opened again, ready to shoot out.

The remaining Xianbei cavalry tried their best to block the arrow attack, shouted strangely to gallop their horses, and fled in all directions, with no intention of charging anymore.

Everything happened too fast. This was not the war that the Xianbei cavalry thought. The Han army had strong bows, but there were too many strong bows for riding horses, right?

This battle is impossible to fight!

The remaining cavalry no longer care about anything else. They should run first. There is no harm in escaping from this battlefield and joining other troops.

The cavalry fled, and the infantry accompanying them who were shouting to kill were left hanging in front of the Han army. The infantry's original crazy screams were choked in their throats again.

The corpses of men and horses everywhere in front of them could even stop their running pace. Two waves of arrows struck. Didn't they never see arrows strike before? It was just two waves of arrows. Shouldn't the cavalry rush through, and they hold shields to bear it?

What just happened?

Xianbei fought bravely, and if he couldn't escape, Xianbei's battles would really have some characteristics of desperate madness.

Maybe it's because they know how they treat prisoners, or maybe they don't want to become someone else's food, so if they can't usually escape, Xianbei has a strong will to fight.

"Tong! Tong! Tong! Tong!" The heavy war drum beat again.

"Invasion~!" The Han general's roar of filial piety brought the Xianbei infantry back to their senses.

"Ah~~"

"Ah~~" The arrow rain struck, the wooden shield shattered, the leather shield deflected, and groups of infantry fell to the ground.

A Xianbei infantryman clenched the weapon in his hand in shock. Wasn't it said that he was attacking? Why were there still arrow attacks?

But the rain of arrows had stopped, and the answer to his doubts was a fierce horse that dented his chest.

Iron hoofs shook the ground, and thousands of armies destroyed the city.

Liu Cang was restlessly tapping his fingers on the chariot, as the battle in front of him seemed to have no end for him.

"Send the order, tigers and bears enter the city. The whole army roams around to kill all the enemies outside the city."
Chapter completed!