Chapter Thirty-Seven(1/2)
A new war was coming soon, so Gongsun Xun had to put aside his eagerness to see his mother and seek confirmation and expression, and then led his troops across the river again and formed an array.
Of course, although it was a so-called last-ditch battle, there seemed to be no military risk in this battle. It was more like a political performance to demonstrate the authority of the Han army.
After all, in late April after many days of heavy rain, right now... first of all, the Han army's strength was twice that of the opponent; secondly, after capturing Liucheng, the Han army regained a large number of war horses that the Wuhuan people had worked hard to take care of.
After Lou Gui led the rear army to arrive, the baggage supplies became sufficient, and they seemed to have overwhelmed the opponent from the equipment point of view; moreover, the Xianbei people had marched a long distance here, and the Han army was waiting for work.
However, the most important point is that the overall situation in western Liaoning is here. Now Wuhuan in western Liaoning and Wuhuan in eastern Liaoning have been effectively destroyed. Guanzicheng and Liucheng are both in the hands of the Han army. From the Korean city of Lelang County in the east of Youzhou
It was a smooth road to Gaoliusei in Shanggu County, and the whole situation was under control. However, the Xianbei people came alone without any fulcrum.
In fact, when they first heard that Ke Bi could lead the army, Gongsun Xun and Zhao Bao guessed that this young Xianbei leader was also fighting a 'political war'!
This person was obviously going to be captured in Qiu Liju, and Tadun died in battle. Yan Rou surrendered and faced the difficulties, and used an almost inevitable battle to tell the hundreds of tribes in the hills of western Liaoning and the grasslands to split into a group.
Among the chaotic Xianbei people, there are still some people who dare to become enemies of the Han army at this time!
There is still a great hero outside the Great Wall who is trustworthy and worthy of being entrusted by all tribes to the future!
And he, Ke Bineng, is this person!
Since both sides are performing, the beginning of the battle is quite interesting.
After the pontoon bridge was erected in Liucheng the day before, Lou Gui, Han Dang, Gao Shun and others organized the overall situation and led the main force of the Han army to cross the river and set up a stronghold. But early on the next morning, Gongsun Xuncai, Zhao Bao and Weng Xun were together.
The people put on full ceremonial guard, displayed various flags, led the 600 white horse followers who had just regained the horses, and led the 800 Liaodong elite cavalry, and crossed the river in a mighty manner.
At the same time, hundreds of Liaoxi tribe leaders and their cronies dressed in white also formed a small cavalry force, flying various flags, and followed the two generals with a sense of confusion and fear.
, crossed the river and set up a formation.
In the morning, the Xianbei army appeared in the west as promised. The two sides stood two to three hundred paces apart, each taking their positions. Then, as expected, the first person to appear was Louban, the son of Wuhuan Shanyu Qiu Liju. However,
, but this person did not cry and plead for revenge because of the destruction of the tribe. Instead, he ignored it, threw down his armor and weapons, and directly forced himself dozens of steps in front of the Han army's formation, kneeling down to Zhao Bao and Gongsun Xun to beg.
Affection.
"Mr. Zhao!" After Lou Ban recalled the story of his father and Zhao Bao fighting side by side in the past, Fang kowtowed hard on the ground and shouted emotionally in Chinese. "In the past, Mr. Zhao's mother and father were controlled by the enemy. Mr. Zhao was wise and powerful.
In addition, my father and my brother work for Mr. Zhao, so they can be loyal and filial. But I am just a helpless young man, and I don't have the ability of Mr. Zhao, so I can only exchange my life for my father's life and return the favor.
Please Zhao Gong, please have some mercy for the sake of being the son of a human being!"
In front of the battle, many Han army officers and Zahu leaders looked at each other, but they all looked at the two generals under the white horse banner.
"I don't think there are such sincere, loyal and filial people among the barbarians." Gongsun Xun sighed, and then turned back to look at his father-in-law. "How old are you? I'm afraid that when my father-in-law was in charge of Liaoxi, he was still riding sheep. Now,
He actually knows Mr. Zhao, and he can tell his father's past events so sincerely and touchingly... I, the person who was involved in the past, have forgotten those things, but he can still remember them. This shows that this kind of thing is still known from birth.
some."
Zhao Bao glanced at his son-in-law and shook his head: "I have already said that you will take the lead in this battle. At least you can do it yourself. You don't have to ask me about everything..."
Gongsun Xun laughed, but suddenly his face became solemn, and then he raised his hand without looking back.
In the military formation, Duan Riyuming, who looked a little pale, did not dare to neglect, and immediately led his soldiers to ride forward, ignoring them as they passed by. In the end, in the middle of the two formations, he yelled at Ke Bi Neng in Xianbei dialect.
In the past...but this time, Duan Riyuming, who had always been taciturn, actually led the rebellion between Wuhuan and Xianbei in western Liaoning, starting from setting up a siege at Bailang Mountain to besiege Duan and Mohu, and finally breaking through the Lulong fortress.
The matter of plundering the mainland and proclaiming Zhang Chun as emperor was detailed and stated in public, and the facts were clear and organized. Finally, when it came to the fact of Qiu Liju's rebellion, Ke Bi Neng betrayed the alliance first, and his words were even more fierce.
Quite angry.
Such outstanding performance certainly attracted public applause from Gongsun Xun behind him.
In fact, both Lou Ban's plea and Duan Ri Yuming's 'exposure' are meaningless in themselves, but without this level of communication, today's battle would inevitably seem blunt... nothing more than a trick.
"It is a grave sin to establish an emperor without permission. How can I be forgiven?" After seeing Gongsun Xun finish applauding, Duan Ri Yuming turned around and returned to the formation. When the battlefield was silent for a moment, Han Dang suddenly hit the horse himself.
Arriving in front of the leader of hundreds of Liaoxi miscellaneous horses, he asked proudly, "What do you think of Qiu Liju's treatment?"
The miscellaneous leaders were also silent for a moment... No matter how poor or ignorant they were, they had been living in Liaoxi for decades. How could they not know what a sin it was to establish an emperor without permission? Besides, Han Dang was obviously asking this question on behalf of Gongsun Xun.
I came here to ask, they just have some ideas, so what can they think about it?
Ever since, after a moment of silence, there was a swarm of expressions of support.
"Qiu Liju's ambitions should be punished according to law!" This is what the leader of the tribe with a high degree of Chineseization said. His resentment was difficult to suppress. Han Dang had some impressions of him and was among the first to respond to Gongsun Xun's call to recruit troops to help.
As a person, what he said is quite confident.
"Whether it is the rules of the Han Dynasty or the Xianbei Dynasty, as long as you rebel, you will die!" Someone said it with universal values in mind.
"Didn't Qiu Liju think about his own fate when he rebelled that day? No matter what the general does, we will have no complaints."
"You can follow the rules of the Wuhuan people and impose dog punishment!" Another leader with Wuhuan blood suddenly spoke, but he directly brought the topic into the execution method with national characteristics. "We Wuhuan people
The Huan people couldn't help but let their horses go, and they also kept dogs. They directly covered his body with horse blood, and then released dozens of dogs in front of the formation and bit him to death in public to show the majesty of the general."
"You can use the method of the Goguryeo people, quartering the body with fifteen oxen!" This is someone who followed Gongsun Xun to Goguryeo.
"What if the general learns the rules of the grasslands and strangles him with a bowstring because of his meritorious service in the past?" Some people were also thinking about Gongsun Xun's reputation.
Hearing such nonsense from these people, even Han Dang, who had been pretending to be stupid all these years and was about to become a real dementia, couldn't help but laugh. When the leaders of the bastards who were talking lively saw this, they immediately became silent.
Extremely well-behaved.
"Since everyone thinks that Qiu Liju deserves to die, I would like to ask you if you are willing to torture him?" After laughing, Han Dang asked again solemnly.
The leaders were excited, but they did not pause. Instead, they stepped forward one after another, pressed their belly to the ground and bowed, and some even scrambled... Are you kidding me? No one here has ever fought or killed anyone.
Isn't it just killing a dead dog? Why would you hesitate?!
Besides, they were here to wait for Gongsun Xun to deal with fear. If they could kill one person and be pardoned by the whole clan, they would be happy!
"That's good." Han Dang said more solemnly when he saw this. "Since everyone is willing to serve my lord, then please all the leaders to come out and go to the front army to form a horizontal formation and wait!"
"Daiqiu Liju!" Gongsun Xun, who was under the umbrella, finally turned his head and signaled.
The army was in commotion, and a passage was opened in the military formation that led directly to the camp behind them. Then, under the gaze and expectation of tens of thousands of troops, Qiu Liju, the Wuhuan Shanyu in western Liaoning, was dragged out in public. He was dressed in silk and satin clothes, as if
He had not been abused before, but now he was tied tightly and his mouth was gagged. Moreover, he probably knew that his life would eventually end here, so he couldn't help but feel downcast and closed his eyes.
In this regard, Zhao Bao, who was under the umbrella, did not express anything, and even acted as if he had not seen this person.
In other words, this right-wing general who held integrity led the Liaodong prefect to Liucheng in a hurry. Although he had the intention to intervene in the aftermath of Liaoxi, he was mostly angry that Gongsun Xun wanted to discuss the affairs of Liaoxi with his mother, Gongsun Auntie, without saying a word to him.
Say hello...it's just that he came here out of anger. After arriving in western Liaoning, not to mention that his son-in-law poured a bucket of cold water on the situation in Luozhong, which made him feel confused. In fact, he really wanted to interfere with Qiu Liju.
Zhao Bao also had nothing to say about his treatment.
After all, the issue of establishing the emperor without permission also touched Zhao Weihao's bottom line. He just said that everything would be left to Gongsun Xun to handle. In fact, he also meant to avoid the embarrassing matter of ordering the execution of Qiu Liju on the spot. Otherwise, if he really wanted to
If it was an old relationship back then, he would have interfered a few days ago, so why bother talking about it before the battle?
He even took a step back and said that he, Zhao Bao, really missed his old friendship and really wanted to protect Qiu and live there, but in this situation, as one of the two commanders of the Han army, how could he do it in front of the Xianbei people and all the miscellaneous people?
How about setting things off with his son-in-law in front of Leader Hu?
There is a difference between inside and outside.
I think a few months ago in Luozhong, even a man like the Emperor, facing General He Jin, only struggled and compromised. He never said who wanted to harm whom, who wanted to kill whom... In the final analysis, everyone fundamentally
Not an enemy.
At the same time, the Xianbei military formation on the opposite side also fell silent after a commotion. Only a few Xianbei warriors who threw away their weapons came out and dragged Lou Ban back, but they did not make any extra moves... Actually, think about it,
Why did Kebi come here? Is he really here to save Qiu Liju? He probably wanted Qiu Liju to die miserably, so that the Xianbei leaders around him would fear and hate the Han people from now on, and then turn to him!
In other words, at this time, the two armies were confronting each other, whether they were Han people, Xianbei people, or miscellaneous people... From top to bottom, from left to right, except for Lou Ban, Qiu Liju's biological son, everyone was looking forward to it.
Qiu Liju, the former tycoon of western Liaoning, died tragically quickly! This allowed the rebellion to be settled.
However, just in the next quarter of an hour, something suddenly went wrong.
Because, the matter did not end there. After Qiu Liju was dragged to the front of the formation, the previously split Han army formation showed no intention of closing. In fact, dozens more people were captured from the rear camp by the Han army.
After being dragged out, she was still tied tightly and gagged.
The leaders of the Zahu tribe who had just formed a formation in front of the formation could clearly see that these people were obviously the great nobles of the Wuhuan tribe in western Liaoning. They had many contacts with them in the past, but now they were dealt with together. Although they were shocked, they were also
There is nothing left to say.
But the matter was not over yet. Just when the tribal leaders were already a little shocked, there was a steady stream of Han troops in the formation, dragging people out, and they were all Wuhuan nobles... In the end, the formation was so densely packed that they were actually
A total of five to six hundred people were dragged out!
This number, for Wuhuan in Western Liaoning, who has more than 5,000 people, is probably the concept of all the heads above the family clan unit!
As a result, the tribal leaders' hands and feet were cold, but they no longer felt as happy as before... Some people figured out something in an instant, and some people couldn't figure it out for a while, but they were also sensitively aware of the possible reasons behind this execution.
He hides something that is particularly fatal to him.
But no matter what, under the influence of double fear, no one of these tribal leaders near western Liaoning dared to question it.
"Qiu Liju!" Gongsun Xun looked at the Wuhuan Chanyu who had had the foreign object removed from his mouth but was still like a puppet. He was so straightforward. "If you don't die, I will feel uneasy... But that's all for others. You
After all, it is Wuhuan Chanyu. In recognition of your contribution to Liaoxi in the past, I allow you to keep your body intact and you can decide how to die by yourself."
Qiu Liju, who was standing in front of Gongsun Xun and Zhao Baoma, was startled when he heard this, but his face became a little more angry, and then he stared at Zhao Baoma, which made him shocked by the scale of the execution.
Zhao Weihao became increasingly uncomfortable.
"Forget it!" The other party only looked at Zhao Bao, which made Gongsun Xun look helpless. He waved his arm and immediately urged him.
To be continued...