Chapter 80: Brilliant results

Listening to the cheers of the Huns, Zhou Yang was very pleased. The reason why the Huns were so happy was because the Huns were afraid and completely afraid. The Han Dynasty would definitely achieve very good results when using the strategy of eunuch. The desert belongs to China. Is there any better result than this?

The purpose of expanding territory is to expand land. If you want to have land, you have to have people. If you really surrender and dare not have a second thought! The desert is too vast. If the Han Dynasty wants to own the desert, it still needs the Xiongnu to guard it. After all, the Xiongnu were tolerant of the bitter cold, while the Han people were not tolerant of the bitter cold. If they stationed a large-scale army, it would make the soldiers suffer and a heavy burden on the Han Dynasty. Not to mention anything else, the logistics alone would be enough.

It is inevitable to use barbarians to control barbarians and let the Huns guard the desert. The premise is that the Huns must not dare to have two intentions. Through this battle, the military power of the Han Dynasty has already scared the Huns, and this cheer is the best proof!

"Give them some food, and then find out the officials who missed the net." Zhou Yang rode on the Fengfeng Catching Joe and ordered loudly: "Don't let them eat enough, just starve to death!"

"Master, you are so sinister!" Li Guang and the others laughed in unison. The laughter was extremely comfortable. Is there anything more joyful than torture the Huns?

The soldiers brought roasted mutton and distributed it to the Huns, making the Huns even more happy, and their gratitude for the Han army rose sharply. Although the Han army strictly implemented Zhou Yang's order, they only distributed a very small amount of mutton to them, which was not enough to be at the bottom.

The Han army asked the Huns to identify the Xiongnu officials who missed the net and could get a pound of mutton. The Huns hadn't eaten mutton for more than a month and had been greedy for a long time. A pound of mutton was more precious than the jade in Kunshan. All of them were to prove that the Huns' officials, tribal kings, thousands of men, centurions, and ten men were arrested one after another, and even the fifth men were found.

Since then, the ruling institutions of the Huns were completely destroyed, and it has been easier for the Han Dynasty to control the Huns.

Zhou Yang sent another order to let the Huns live in the tabernacle. Of course, it was to ask them to squeeze in the tabernacle and it was impossible to make them live very comfortable. Even so, the Huns still cheered. They were frozen in the ice and snow for more than a month. Not to mention letting them live in the tabernacle, even if they were allowed to stand in the tabernacle for a while, it would be a great gift.

After settling these matters, Zhou Yang waved his hand and said, "Go, go to the coach's account and plan your next step."

"Master, can you still use a plan to discuss this? Let's go! Let's go to the triumphant!" Li Guang quickly spoke and rushed to express his opinions.

His words were exactly what the generals thought, and they all agreed in unison and echoed together.

Zhou Yang did not speak, but looked at Wei Qing. Wei Qing understood what Zhou Yang meant, and was examining him, whether he could guess Zhou Yang's intention. Wei Qing pondered slightly, with a smile on his face and said, "The general is far-sighted!"

"Of course, the general is far-sighted!" Cheng Buzhi was so angry at Zhou Yang that he hurriedly praised him.

"I mean, the general is already planning for what is happening later!" Wei Qing raised his thumb, and looked admiring.

"What's going on?" Li Guang and the others are good generals. They have a way of fighting, so they are not as good as other things. They don't know what Wei Qing means.

"I know that, so don't ask me." Wei Qing smiled and kept him in a silence.

The generals were happy, and although they were puzzled, they still did not ask questions. As Zhou Yang entered the handsome tent, the handsome tent was still the same, with only a few fires, and the generals found their own place to sit down.

Zhou Yang sat on the ground, sat around the fire with all the generals, picked up the firewood and said, "In this battle, we have washed away the shame of China for the eternal period and defeated the Huns!"

"Long live the great Han Dynasty!" Although the power of the great Han army was still unknown in the depths of the desert, the Huns had already defeated it at this point, which was a consensus. However, when these words were said from Zhou Yang, they still had a huge motivational effect. This was the official conclusion! The excitement of the generals could not be suppressed and cheered.

Zhou Yang was also excited, took a breath, calmed his mind slightly, and then said, "The shame of Emperor Gaozu Pingcheng and the humiliation of Queen Gao, we have washed away the snow! This is a great victory! When future generations talk about this battle, they will definitely praise us without hesitation! As participants in this battle, I am extremely proud! I also congratulate you on your reputation in history!"

It has never been seen in Chinese history that it has been a miracle that it has been crushed to pieces by 250,000 Han troops!

Even Sun Wu, Shang Yang, Bai Qi and others have never created miracles!

These great generals throughout the ages admire the military strategy principle of "surrounding them by multiple times". If they want to surround nearly two million Huns, under normal circumstances, the Han Dynasty would have to dispatch at least four million troops, which is impossible.

Not to mention, this is in Longcheng, the holy land of the Huns, and there is no dangerous terrain to use. Even in such an unfavorable situation, the Han army still completed this feat, and no matter how praise it was, it would not be an exaggeration.

It can be imagined that countless descendants will study this battle, study the strategy, tactics, and command style of this battle, and there will be a mountain of documents and works, because this is definitely a classic battle.

It has not happened in history to attack the masses with a small number of people and eat a big number of people with a small number of people. It is just that it is so perfect that the entire annihilation of the enemy has never happened!

Using 250,000 Han troops to deal with nearly two million Huns is at most a defeat war, not an annihilation war. But the Han army annihilated nearly two million Huns. This alone is enough to be famous in history and become a classic battle in war history.

"Think about the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi used the complex terrain to surround more than 500,000 Zhao troops! And we only had 250,000 troops, but the Huns had nearly 2 million. We did not let the Huns escape. Even if we were to Bai Qi underground, we would not be able to accomplish this feat!" Li Guangshuo's head kept shaking, and waved his hand, and he was extremely proud. His tone was very high and his voice was sharp and sharp, comparable to the eunuch's voice.

"Yes! Yes!" The generals agreed in unison, with tears of excitement in their eyes. Is there anything more proud to participate in creating such a classic battle? If life is like this, why would you regret death?

The excitement hit the hearts of the generals. Everyone breathed rapidly and their chests fluctuated rapidly. It took a long time to calm down.

"Huh!" Zhou Yang took a breath, calmed his excitement and said, "Before talking about what happened later, we will verify the casualties first. In this battle, we died in battle, freezing 12,483 people! More than 68,000 people were injured. Among them, more than 31,000 were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured."

It is said that it is to annihilate 10,000 enemies and die 8,000. Although Zhou Yang handled it properly, the Han army had strong combat power, after all, there were too many Huns, eight times that of the Han army. Not to mention head-on fighting, even if you shoot a cold arrow, it would be enough to cause a considerable price to the Han army, although the Han army had good protection capabilities.

The Han army exchanged nearly two million Huns for more than 12,000 war deaths, and the war deaths ratio was 1 to 15, which is an astonishing number, far exceeding the casualties ratio of 1 to 20 in the heyday of the Han Dynasty.

Even if the Huns herders were removed and the cost of killing 600,000 Xiongnu's army was almost 1 to 50,000, which was still an astonishing number.

The casualties of the Han army were mainly caused by the breakout of the Huns. At that time, the Hun army charged forward like a desperate battle under the command of the military minister Shanyu, and arrows were like rain. Although the Han army had excellent armor protection, most of the arrows were useless. However, there were still many Han army who were shot into the eyes. If they were shot into the eyes, they might not die. Most of them were seriously injured, but many Han army died in battle because of this.

Zhou Yang really wanted to protect his eyes, but if he really wanted to do that, the Han army would not be able to fight. Zhou Yang was very unwilling to accept this price, but he had to pay.

Although the Han army was strong, not everyone could withstand such coldness. Frostbite and freezing to death are inevitable.

Based on these factors, the Han army suffered these casualties.

"Why!"

Although the Han army achieved unprecedented victories, when they thought of these brothers who died in battle, the generals were still silent and in an extremely heavy mood.

Although the Han Dynasty in history defeated the Huns, it paid a high price of "halving the household registration". It was already a very small price to win the Huns with the price of tens of thousands of casualties.

After a while of silence, Zhou Yang continued: "Although the price makes people feel heavy, we must also see the brilliant achievements we have achieved in this battle..."

When the record was mentioned, the generals couldn't help but feel refreshed, and they temporarily suppressed their pain, and spoke praises in a lingering manner. It's not that they brag about themselves, but that's the greatest victory since the Three Kings and Five Emperors!

"The Huns gathered more than 1.8 million in Longcheng, surrounded us in one fell swoop, and killed them all!"

Li Guang stroked his forehead, his face full of red light, and his tiger's eyes were shining with a very high voice: "Although most of them died of killing each other and starvation, not us, but if we had not driven away and created such a situation, the Huns would not have killed them so fiercely. Therefore, I, Li Guang, thought that this would also be our credit! I, Li Guang, were born to not like to compete for merit, but this is the truth, I have to say!"

His words were too reasonable. Although the Huns were noble, strong and humble, and they would not be lenient in killing each other, they would not kill each other for no reason! If the Han army had not created such a situation under the leadership of Zhou Yang and forced the Huns to kill each other, the Huns would not have died like this. Of course, this credit would have to be remembered on the Han army.

"Yes! I will agree!" Cheng Buzhi took the lead in expressing his approval of Li Guang's words.

"Yes! The last one will agree!" Wei Qing, Zhang Tong, Gongsun He, Gongsun Jian and others agreed in unison.

"Don't worry, the emperor will take the credit on his brothers! He will not forget your credit!" Zhou Yang teased, which made everyone laugh.

"In addition to the Huns that we surrounded, nearly 100,000 Huns still fled, but they did not live out, and they were frozen to death and starved to death near Longcheng!" Cheng Buzhi stroked his forehead and smiled and expressed his opinion: "They thought that if they were not driven by us, they could survive? Don't think about it!"

Nearly 100,000 Huns escaped when the Han army first arrived in Longcheng and drove away. At that time, although the Huns rushed to Longcheng because the military minister Shanyu wanted to sacrifice to Maodun Shanyu, the area occupied was much smaller, which created extremely favorable conditions for the Han army to drive the Huns together like a sheep.

The Han army had only 250,000 people, so it was impossible not to let one Huns go. Not to mention the 200,000 Han army, even if it doubled, the 500,000 Han army would have the opportunity to escape.

However, all the cattle, sheep, food, horse and milk of the Huns fell into the hands of the Han army. Even if they escaped and had no food, they would not starve to death?

Within hundreds of miles of the neighboring city of Longcheng, the bodies of the Huns were everywhere, and the corpses of the Huns who escaped were the first to escape, which was cheaper for the hungry wolf.

"I don't know how many cattle and sheep we seized, no one counted them, only a lot of them. We built the city and ate them for so long, less than half of them!" Wei Qing's face was red, and he talked loudly about the cattle and sheep.

Nearly two million Huns came to Longcheng, and brought their families with their families to drive Longyang and sheep. It can be said that seven or eight out of ten of the Huns' belongings were in Longcheng, and all of them became the spoils of the Han army.

There are so many cattle and sheep, it will take a lot of time to count them. Not to mention, the war was in full swing at that time, who would count them? Killing the Huns was the most important thing, not counting the number of cattle and sheep. Therefore, now, how many cattle and sheep have been seized has become a confusing account, and no one knows how many.

Zhou Yang and the others only know a lot, and they can be used as units of tens of millions, perhaps as many as tens of millions, or as many as tens of twenty or tens of millions. Only the great Kunlun God knows the specific number.

"Master, how to deal with these cattle and sheep? We can't finish eating, so we have to think of a solution?" Gongsun He frowned and muttered: "There are too many seizures, which is also worrying!"

"Haha!" Everyone was amused by his teasing and burst into laughter.

"I'm happy to fuck this kind of heart!" Zhou Yang said dismissively, "Today we call you here to discuss this matter. The battle is over, which does not mean that the world will be peaceful and the desert will be safe and sound. On the contrary, there are still hidden dangers in the desert and must be dealt with well, otherwise, there will be trouble in the desert in decades!"

"It makes sense! It makes sense!" The generals agreed with Zhou Yang's words.

Wei Qing nodded vigorously and analyzed: "The desert is too wide after all, and it is difficult to guard the Han Dynasty by relying solely on the power of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, it takes some effort to make the desert safe and sound."

"General Wei is right!" Zhou Yang browed and his eyes were shining: "I thought about it before and after this battle, the Han Dynasty still needed to march into the depths of the desert to capture Langjuxu Mountain! The reason why the Han Dynasty needed this march was that it could not give any thoughts to the Huns. If the Long City was gone, the Langjuxu Mountain would definitely become the holy land of the Huns. If the Wolf Village Mountain is there, the Huns would have sustenance, hope, and thoughts. It is necessary to capture Langjuxu Mountain!"

Langjuxu Mountain is the place where the Xiongnu worshipped their ancestors. The spiritual throne of the Shanyu of all dynasties is here, and it is the holy place in the minds of the Xiongnu. It can be imagined that after Longcheng was captured by the Han army, Langjuxu Mountain's status in the minds of the Xiongnu was greatly improved, which was the last hope of the Xiongnu. Those Xiongnu who were unwilling to fail had a sustenance. If the Han Dynasty did not take it down, it would definitely become the source of rebellion.

It was 100% necessary for the Han Dynasty to capture Langjuxu Mountain.

"The general is far away, we believe it!" Li Guang and the others knew the importance of Wolf Juxu Mountain, so they dared not have any objection to Zhou Yang's statement.

Zhou Yang nodded slightly and then analyzed: "Secondly, the army of the Han Dynasty must cross the ultimate domain to declare its military power to the Huns! The ultimate domain has always been regarded as a natural danger for the Huns, thinking that the Han Dynasty cannot overcome it. The Han Dynasty wanted to cross the ultimate domain and dispel the Huns' idea, so that the Huns knew that the desert could not stop the Han army!"

"Only in this way, the Huns will give up completely! They will not have any intentions!" Zhou Yang clenched his right hand into a fist and made a loud end.

After the Battle of Longcheng, the Huns were defeated. From a military perspective, there was no need to march towards Mobei again. However, if you need it politically, you have to march.

The famous military theorist Clausewitz famously said that war is another way of continuation of politics. If it is necessary, the army must act. Otherwise, the Huns would definitely think that the territory is relied on and the north of the Moon is safe, and those remnants of the Huns who were unwilling to give up will gather in the north of the Moon, waiting for a favorable opportunity.

If the Han army arrived in Mobei, they would even shatter their last hope and dare not rebel again. Zhou Yang saw far and made great plans. After years of experience, Zhou Yang's vision became more and more sophisticated.

"The general's words are very reasonable, and I will deeply agree with them." Li Guang nodded without stopping, with a look of admiration: "But, what does this have to do with cattle and sheep?"

When talking about cattle and sheep, Zhou Yang talked about hidden dangers in the desert. What is the connection between the two? The generals are a little confused.

"What I mean is to leave a part of the cattle and sheep, and drive the rest back and share it with the people in the border. Over the years, the people in the border have suffered from the Huns, which is a compensation for them." Zhou Yang said in a deep tone: "Although compensation cannot recover the losses, we still have to work hard!"

"Yes!" All the generals would not object and nodded in agreement.

"The other part is slaughtered in Longcheng and made jerky meat." Zhou Yang's eyes were still strong: "When we march next year, the army will replenish jerky meat in Longcheng, which can reduce a lot of burden. This is also the reason why I decided not to kill all the Huns. These Huns let them do their duty as coolies, slaughter cattle and sheep, and make jerky meat, which is the first thing they do to the Han Dynasty!"

"It turns out that the general is so conscientious!" The generals suddenly realized: "The Huns have never regarded the Han people as human beings. In their eyes, the Han people are pigs and dogs. Now, they have become our coolies, and we treat them like pigs and dogs!"

The Huns have been in trouble for thousands of years, and many Chinese people have become the Huns' coolies, making cattle and horses for the Huns, and allowing them to be driven by the Huns. Today, Feng Shui has finally changed in turn. It was the Han Dynasty's turn to drive the Huns to be the coolies. Everyone was very happy, and they made a loud laugh and were very happy.

"We have also seized millions of horses. How should we deal with this?" Li Guang frowned slightly and asked, "Are you staying here? The army will ride here next year?"

"Leave some of them, and rush back." Zhou Yang glanced at the generals and said in a confident tone: "The next year, it will not be a large-scale army of 250,000, but will be a 400,000, 500,000, or even 600,000. Apart from us, there are not many brothers who can ride horses, so they must first practice riding skills!"

The Han army will launch a large-scale campaign next year, which is a political need, and there are many troops that need to be dispatched. If only one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand troops are dispatched, it will certainly have a deterrent effect on the Huns, but it is not too great. The more the Han army dispatched, the greater the deterrence on the Huns, which is necessary.

The war horses of the Han Dynasty were basically in the hands of Zhou Yang, and other troops had no horses to ride. It was necessary to drive these horses back and let other Han troops practice riding skills. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"I will tell you one thing in the end. The tomb of the old thief Maodun must be dug out!" Zhou Yang stood up suddenly, let go of his momentum, his expression was powerful, his eyes were like lightning, and he stared at the northwest direction of Longcheng.
Chapter completed!