Chapter 83 The Xianbei People's Counterattack (Part 2)
The unscrupulous and endless deprivation of the tribal alliance, as well as the melee that covered the entire Xianbei tribe at the end of the year, finally angered the remaining Xianbei people.
The sixth year of Jian'an, early winter.
Ke Bi Neng met Kuitou at the Gukou of Tang. No one knew what he said, but in December, the Xianbei royal court and Ke Bi Neng joined forces to send troops, and a total of 110,000 Xianbei warriors went south. In just three days, they wiped out thirteen alliance tribes.
The lords of the tribe, such as Gigi Tulu, finally panicked. While gathering warriors from the clan, they sent people to contact Ye Zhao and asked Ye Zhao for help, hoping to get assistance from the Han army.
"Is it finally started?" After hearing the news, Ye Zhao's eyes lit up. After sending away the messenger for help, he looked at Xi Zhicai and others and smiled: "The Xianbei Wangting and Ke Bineng joined forces to gather 110,000 troops! Last year's battle, it seemed that the Xianbei was very hurt!"
The Hu people are different from the Han people. The Hu people are basically a race where the whole people are soldiers. Ye Zhao only dares to raise 100,000 soldiers if he has millions of people. However, on the grassland, a tribe of three thousand people can produce a thousand string control men. These so-called string control men are herders on weekdays, and they will quickly gather in wartime. They will get on horseback and weapons and be string control men.
This time, the Xianbei people went south together, obviously trying to completely destroy the traitor organization of the Tribal Alliance, a Xianbei traitor organization. Not to mention that they were in full swing, they definitely did not have much troops left.
In this way, the total population of the Xianbei people is now about 400,000. Ye Zhao remembered that when he was in Luoyang, he read some documents that had a special record of the population of ethnic groups outside the border. The Northern Huns were not reachable, but the Southern Huns and Xianbei were all neighbors, and the Han Dynasty had records of their population.
However, those records have been pushed forward for more than ten years. Since the beginning of Lingdi, he no longer paid attention to these data.
According to the records at that time, the population of the Southern Xiongnu was about 500,000. Although Ye Zhao had not counted it when he went to fight against the Southern Xiongnu, the data could still be inferred, and it was probably the same number, and the difference was not large.
The Xianbei people do not include the Wuhuan in the east and the large tribes in the west that have basically nothing to do with the Xianbei. The population is about three million, and the range of activity is 300 miles west of Yinshan. To the east, it is about to reach the Wuhuan Mountain area in Youzhou. Before Ye Zhao took office as the Macheng Order, although the Wuhuan Mountain area was the territory of the Wuhuan people, there were also a large number of Xianbei tribes.
Nowadays, the two largest forces in Xianbei, Wang Ting and Kebineng, combined with the population of the tribal alliance, is only 400,000, and after the explosion-like development of this year, the population of the entire Xianbei people has dropped by more than half in these thirty years.
"This battle came in time!" Xi Zhicai nodded and smiled, "Although the lord of the tribes intends to suppress it this year, it has developed quite rapidly. The blood of the Xianbei has been almost sucked by us. Otherwise, these tribes would never dare to extend their hands to the tribes directly managed by Kebien. This tribe alliance is like a double-edged sword. Before there were enough Xianbei people on the grassland, they were the powerful tools to destroy the Xianbei in the hands of the lord. However, once the flesh and blood on the grassland cannot satisfy them, and these Xianbei people are used to the previous huge profits, they may turn their attention to us Han people. Now Kebien and Kuitou are joining hands to go south, which just helps us consume the vitality of the tribe alliance. However, in order to avoid these people biting, I think it is better to send a general to take charge of the overall situation and make these Xianbei people feel more at ease."
Ye Zhao nodded and looked at the people under the tent.
Hua Xiong was sent by him to serve as the guardian of the Western Regions, but now there are many powerful generals under Ye Zhao, including Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiu, Guan Hai, Ding Li, Wei Yan, and a handsome talent Xu Rong. Each of these people has a huge reputation in the tribal alliance, and any of them can be saved in the past.
"Xu Rong." Ye Zhao finally set his eyes on Xu Rong and smiled: "In this battle, you still need to take charge of the overall situation. For you, you have to join the tribal alliance army with your five thousand elite soldiers and face the army of Xianbei Royal Court and Ke Bineng. How to fight, you decide on your own, but one thing is to do your best to consume the strength of both sides!"
Xu Rong bowed and bowed and said, "Don't worry, lord, I will know what to do."
The purpose of this battle is not only to destroy the enemy, but also to cheat teammates. Although Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao now have the ability to stand alone, they have always focused on breaking the enemy. It is probably difficult for three people to cheat teammates to death without their teammates knowing it. This is also the reason why Ye Zhao chose Xu Rong. Among the generals under Ye Zhao, only Xu Rong is the coach who can focus on the entire battle situation.
"Wei Yan, Zhang Xiu is under your tent." Ye Zhao said.
Commander Xu Rong is good, but in terms of martial arts, he is basically at the same level as Ding Li and Fang Yue, and it is not bad, but he is definitely not very powerful. Therefore, when Xu Rong goes to war, Ye Zhao will give Xu Rong two deputy generals with good martial arts.
In the past, it was Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao or Guan Hai, but now Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao are the main generals of the Air Force, and Guan Hai is also the main general of the Air Force, and they are no longer suitable to continue to be the deputy generals of Xu Rong. Therefore, the younger Zhang Xiu and Wei Yan were sent to Xu Rong to increase their military experience, and the second is that although these two people's martial arts are not as good as those of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, in terms of martial arts today, these two people can definitely be considered top-notch in terms of martial arts alone.
"Here!" Wei Yan, Zhang Xiu stepped forward and bowed.
At that moment, Xu Rong took the command arrow and led Wei Yan and Zhang Xiu to Yanze with five thousand elite troops. The tribal alliance had already gathered the troops and horses and was preparing to fight to the death with Wang Ting and Ke Bineng. However, Wang Ting and Ke Bineng had 110,000 troops, while the tribal alliance's totaled only more than 70,000 less than 80,000 troops, which was also the reason why he asked Ye Zhao for help.
They have no problem asking them to burn, kill, loot, but for such a large-scale war, no one in this tribal alliance can command so many soldiers, and no one has the reputation to subdue all tribes.
Xu Rong came forward to command the army of the tribal alliance, and the leader was naturally convinced. Not to mention that the other party was Ye Zhao's confidant general, but in the past year, Xu Rong's iron-blooded skills on the grassland were unwilling to accept them.
Three days later, two hundred miles east of Yanze, where the Yinshan Mountains and Yanshan Mountains converged, Xu Rong commanded more than 70,000 Xianbei warriors from the tribal alliance and his 5,000 Han troops, totaling 80,000 troops. He finally met the Xianbei army commanded by Kebineng and Budugen here.
The two armies confronted each other hundreds of steps in an empty place at the intersection of the two mountains. In front of the two armies, Kuitou was the commander of the coalition. When he saw the dazzling Han flying dragon cavalry in the middle of the various flags of the tribal alliance, his eyes showed a hideous murderous intent and said sequel: "These Xianbei shames actually support the Han people in commanding them! The glory of the Xianbei people was defeated by them!"
Ke Bi Neng sighed when he heard this. Compared to Kuitou, he was much calmer. He knew very well that the situation today seemed to be the people from these tribal alliances being in front of him, but in fact, the one who really controlled all this and made the huge Xianbei form the situation that never ended today was the Han man - Ye Zhao!
"Moba!" Ke Bi Neng turned around and looked at a man like an iron tower beside him and said, "Go and slap their spirit!"
"Okay!" The warrior named Moba rode out and came to the formation of both sides. He stopped at a distance of two hundred steps across the alliance army. He bent his bow and arrows and pointed to the sky. The five-stone strong bow was slowly pulled away by him until it was as round as a full moon. The sharp cluster of arrows aimed at the top of the Han flag. Then, the right hand that tightly pinched the bowstring loosened. There was only a muffled sound of "buzzing". The cold cluster of arrows tear apart the void and came out with a sharp roar.
"Swish~"
The sharp roar sounded from far to near, and the cluster of arrows instantly cut through the void and headed straight for the Han general flag behind Xu Rong.
"Bang~"
Everyone felt a cold light flashing in front of their eyes, and the handsome flag behind Xu Rong made a dull sound. Everyone around Xu Rong looked up and saw that a sharp arrow was inserted into the flagpole three feet above Xu Rong's head, a sharp arrow was inserted into the flagpole, and the tail was still buzzing and trembling.
"It can still be so powerful after two hundred steps. The opponent uses the Five Stone Bow!" Wei Yan raised his head and sighed.
The range of the three-stone crossbow of the Han army has reached 200 steps, but that is because of the help of organic sects, which can be pulled by ordinary soldiers. However, the Xianbei people are not so advanced, so they can shoot arrow clusters here. There is still such power that the Three-stone Bow can never do. The other party's bow is actually a five-stone strong bow. Even if the fierce generals under Ye Zhao gather, it is rare to see that they can pull the five-stone bow. Among the Xianbei people, there are such masters.
"Are you provoking?" Zhang Xiu snorted coldly, hung the gun on the back of the horse, took off his strong bow, twisted the bow and took the arrow, and shot an arrow in the direction of Moba.
Mo Ba Dan saw a flash of cold light in front of him, and he felt cold in his heart. He quickly turned to dodge. The cold arrow cluster flew past his ears. The roar of the arrow cluster tearing the air made his eardrums hurt. He frowned and looked at the place where the arrow cluster flew out, took a deep breath, hung his strong bow, raised the mace on the horse's back, and pointed at Zhang Xiu from afar.
Zhang Xiu sneered and was about to step forward, but Xu Rong stopped him with his eyes. He looked at Qi Jin Tulu and said, "Qi Jin Tou, these people are provoking you and others."
Ge Jin Tulu glanced at Zhang Xiu in confusion and smiled bitterly: "This person is the number one warrior of the Moba tribe under Kebineng's command. He is very brave. No one in our tribe can fight with him."
"It is unknown whether you can fight, but have you not even the courage to take action? Moreover, since one cannot defeat one, you can send a few more people. This is a battle between the two armies, not a fight between ordinary men, and there is no such thing as saying." Xu Rong shook his head.
"But according to the rules of our Xianbei people..." Qujin wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Xu Rong.
"Didn't the head man always want to be a Han person? If he wants to be a Han person, he can't talk about the rules of the Huns anymore."
"Yes!" Going to Jin Tulu thought about it, so he immediately discussed with several other tribes, and the four tribes each sent warriors to fight.
Chapter completed!