Kruhuai was beheaded, and his wolf-headed flag was cut off by Liu Cheng with one move.
When the flag fell, the remaining thousand Xianbei cavalry, like Kruhuai, not only exhausted all their strength, but also completely Losing the courage to continue fighting, they stopped attacking and resisting, and allowed the Han army's weapons to attack them.
With a "plop", each Xianbei soldier fell off his horse as if being slaughtered, and the remaining 1,780 Xianbei soldiers were all killed in less than a quarter of an hour.
At this time, less than an hour had passed in the battle.
Liu Cheng, holding a bloody broken army boring machine, looked at the battlefield full of corpses and breathed a sigh of relief.
A general next to him stepped forward to clasp his fists on his horse and said: "My lord, this is the only time we will use it in this battle."
In less than an hour, Tuoba Jiefen and the others must not have gone far yet.
Should we send some troops to catch up?"
Liu Cheng thought for a while and shook his head: "No need.
Although the battle only lasted an hour, this battle still consumed a lot of physical strength of the soldiers and horses.
If you catch up at this time, you may not be able to catch up.
Order the soldiers to rest."
Eat and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops.”
"promise" Not long after, Guo Jia came over with his follow-up troops to protect the military officials.
"Lord" Guo Jiace immediately went to Liu Cheng and cupped his fists.
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "Just now Tuoba Jiefen left three thousand people to block our pursuit.
He took most of them and fled to Zhao Xin City.
After this battle, although the soldiers completely wiped out the three thousand people left by Tuoba Jiefen, Thousands of people, but it also consumed a lot of energy from the soldiers and horses, allowing him to succeed.
I have ordered the soldiers to rest and eat where they are."
Guo Jia cupped his hands and said: "My lord's decision is correct.
We must pursue him closely, but we must not let the soldiers remain exhausted to pursue the enemy.
This will easily be exploited by Tuoba Jiefen."
The army rested for about three hours, and Liu Cheng ordered the army to continue chasing in the direction in which the Tuoba Xianbei people fled.
It wasn't until the sky darkened that Liu Cheng ordered the entire army to stop and camp for a rest.
At night, in the camp, Liu Cheng, Guo Jia and several generals gathered around the fire to eat.
Liu Cheng said while eating: "Fengxiao, do you believe that Tuoba Jiefen must be marching with his people at this time?
They can march at night without any scruples, but we can't.
We are pursuers and we have to worry that they may set up an ambush in front.
Marching at night is not advisable.
In order to get rid of our pursuit, they must reduce their rest time."
Guo Jia chewed the noodles and nodded: "Yes, but we already know their destination, which is beneficial to us.
After daybreak, as long as we send out detectives in front, we can safely head toward Zhao Xincheng at full speed. go ahead" The moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight shone on the earth.
Tuoba Jiefen, who was marching with more than 8,000 people, couldn't help but look at the moon in the sky.
He sincerely thanked the moonlight tonight, otherwise he would not have dared to march with him at night.
Although he was very familiar with this desert, it was easy to get lost if there was no moonlight when traveling at night.
"Commander, look quickly, there is a gap in the valley over there, and you can enter Yanran Mountain from there," a young commander reminded Tuoba Jiefen.
Tuoba Jiefen turned his head and looked at the valley, which was still a little dark under the moonlight.
He thought for a while and said to the young handsome man: "Take your people into the valley, and then come back to follow."
Xiaoshuai said in surprise: "What Marshal means is to make it look like we have entered Yanran Mountain.
Why don't we just enter Yanran Mountain so that we can get rid of them?"
Tuoba Jiefen shook his head and said: "Of course we can do this, but our warriors have been eating for two days.
We must find food as soon as possible.
The horses also need enough time to eat grass and rest.
Zhao Xincheng is the closest to us Supply point, we can get food there.
If we enter Yanran Mountain, although we can get rid of the Han army, we are afraid that we will starve to death if we cannot get out of Yanran Mountain."
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The young commander was silent for a moment and said: "Commander, let's kill the horses.
Stop and kill the horses and let the warriors eat meat and drink blood.
Only in this way can we regain our strength and spirit."
Tuoba Jiefen flatly refused and said: "Absolutely not.
I have said it many times.
Horses are the brothers and siblings of us Xianbei people.
Even if they starve to death, we cannot kill horses.
Otherwise, we will not be able to hold back once we open the door.
No If you hit the horse, we will die faster.
Go ahead and follow us as soon as possible."
"Yes, Marshal" In the morning of the next day, Liu Cheng led his army to catch up.
He came to report from the front: "Your Majesty, there is a valley ahead.
Our inspection found that the Xianbei people's march traces were divided into two parts here, and one part continued towards Zhao Xincheng." , the other part entered the valley and entered Yanran Mountain."
Liu Cheng turned his head and looked into the valley next to him.
His eyes wandered, and he pondered for a moment and said: "Don't worry about the Xianbei people who entered the valley, we will go straight to Zhao Xincheng."
"yes" The army continued to advance and attacked Zhao Xin City.
At this time, Tuoba Jiefen, who was not sleeping, finally arrived at Zhao Xin City with his army.
Zhao Xin was originally a little king of the Huns three hundred years ago.
He surrendered to the Han Dynasty due to defeat and changed his name to Zhao Xin.
Later, he rebelled.
After surrendering to the Huns, Zhao Xin returned north and built a city at the southeastern foot of Yanran Mountain, naming it Zhao Xin City.
After more than three hundred years of vicissitudes, although the city was repaired several times by the Huns, it eventually turned into ruins.
Later, the Xianbei people occupied this place after the Huns moved westward, and did not repair the city walls.
With people living nearby, it forms a place similar to a market.
When Tuoba Jiefen led his troops here, half of the people here had actually been moved.
Whether they moved north or those who stayed behind, they were old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children.
Anyone who could mount a horse and draw a bow The people had been transferred away by Tuoba Jiefen Zheng a long time ago and were lost in the battle.
After killing cattle and sheep for a feast, while the Xianbei men were resting, Tuoba Jiefen sent people to recruit warriors in Zhao Xin City, but the situation made him feel cold.
The entire Zhao Xin City, including the tribes living around it, could recruit them.
There were less than a thousand people on horseback and firing bows.
"It's better than nothing," Tuoba Jiefen said after coming back to his senses after a while.
This was a ranger who rushed from outside the city and ran all the way to Tuoba Jiefen's resting place to find him and report: "Commander, I just received news that a large number of tribesmen are migrating to the north from the south and east.
After asking, I found out that there were large groups of Han troops approaching from the east and south.
According to what the tribesmen said, the two Han armies were both large in number, with 20,000 to 30,000 people each."
Tuoba Jiefen's expression changed drastically, he stood up and asked, "Where are they?"
"One hundred and fifty miles away in the south and east, they are now pressing towards Zhao Xin City."
Tuoba Jiefen said with a serious face: "It seems that we don't have much time left.
With the current state of our Xianbei warriors, we cannot deal with the Han army no matter which side it comes from.
We can only withdraw to the north."
Walk" A young commander next to him asked: "Commander, we have withdrawn to the north, but where are our tribesmen who stayed in Monan?"
Tuoba Jiefen sighed: "We can't protect ourselves now.
We can only pray that they can move north on their own.
If we go back now, we will only be surrounded and killed by the Han army.
I ordered them to wait until the sun reaches the west."
Everyone wake up, we must leave here and head north before the Han army catches up."
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"Yes, Marshal" It was already in the evening when Zhao Cheng led his army to Zhao Xin City, but he missed it.
Tuoba Jiefen had already led his army to flee north, along with the Xianbei people who originally lived in and around Zhao Xin City.
They moved away one after another, but Liu Cheng knew that they could not run far, so he was not in a hurry and ordered the army to spend the night in Zhao Xincheng.
The next morning, Ma Chao, Wang Shuang, Chen Dao and others led their troops to Zhao Xincheng to complete the rendezvous.
The army then pursued northward.
He led the army northward along the traces left by the Tuoba Xianbei people and circled around.
Crossing Zhenyan Mountain and the eastern part of Yanran Mountain soon arrived at the upper reaches of the Anhou River.
They successively caught up with the many Xianbei tribes that were migrating towards them.
All the Xianbei tribes that were overtaken were slaughtered, and their supplies, cattle and sheep were destroyed by the Han army.
Used as supplies.
The grasslands east of Yanran Mountain were dyed red with blood, and the rivers turned red.
Countless Xianbei people fell on their way to the north.
They either died of exhaustion or were overtaken and killed by the Han army.
Some Xianbei people migrated to the northwest.
They crossed the Anhou River and headed toward Zhijushui.
Others moved toward Langjuxu Mountain in the northeast.
In the early morning, Tuoba Jiefen woke up from his sleep.
He actually only slept for an hour, and his Xianbei army only rested in this valley for two hours.
He ordered his guards to wake everyone up at dawn.
Yes, they must leave here quickly But after everyone was assembled, a young commander asked: "Commander, where are we going?"
"Go to the former Xiongnu Chanyu Tinglong City, where we can get supplies, and tell all the warriors that our current retreat is just to drag down the Han army.
Now we and the Han army are competing to see who can't support it first.
Once we If we slow down, the Han army will catch up.
We can only follow them in circles in Mobei until we drag them until they withdraw, and then it is time for us to fight back."
"Yes, Marshal" The Tuoba Xianbei people began to move north along the Anhou River towards Longcheng.
Along the way, they met many Xianbei old men, women and children who were migrating to the north.
Their men were all recruited by Tuoba Jiefen to fight and died outside.
Now they have no choice.
With no one to rely on, Tuoba Jiefen obviously could no longer protect them, and they could only rely on themselves.
These Xianbei old men, women and children who migrated north looked at Tuoba Jiefen and his army with indifference, which meant that his prestige in their hearts was no longer.
Tuoba Jiefen also knew his current situation.
He could no longer get the support and respect of his tribesmen because he had left their husbands and sons' lives outside.
"Commander, the Han army has caught up.
They will catch up with us in two hours at most."
A scout from behind rushed over and reported to Tuoba Jiefen.
After hearing this, the surrounding Xianbei people were all frightened to death.
Tuoba Jiefen was shocked and said: "Quick, send the order to speed up":