Raindrops were falling in the sky, making a sound against the metal armor, and the grass on the ground seemed to be moistened by the rain and became more vibrant.
Liu Yan was sitting on a high platform, with a canopy above his head to cover the rain, and he was watching the battlefield in a state of war.
The incident happened in the early hours of the morning, and the scouts on the periphery were alerted to the approach of an unknown army and reported to the guard center of the Son of Heaven.
At that time, Liu Yan was naturally asleep, but he didn't panic when he heard Zhang Shi's report, let alone give any instructions, just let Zhang Shi perform his duties.
Zhang Shi was one of the first people to follow Liu Yan, but if he wanted to say that he had made any outstanding contributions, he did not make any mistakes, and he has been silently paying within the scope of his duties.
In the early days, he was fighting on the intelligence front, and the enemies who should be destroyed were almost all wiped out, and Liu Yan's reward for him was to transfer to the position of lieutenant, one of the nine secretaries.
The enemy troops who came were from the north, and the number did not exceed 10,000, and they could not get close to the ten miles of the Son of Heaven, and they were intercepted head-on by the Han cavalry that moved.
The fighting began in the early hours of the morning, and the sky was already bright.
In a night engagement, even if they start out riding each other's horses, they will dismount and engage in foot combat after the actual engagement.
After all, the black really can't fight a riding battle, and the person who goes to the battlefield can only rely on his own legs to walk on land if he wants to destroy the other party, otherwise it is very likely that he will drive the war horse to hit someone or something that should not be hit.
Under Liu Yan's gaze, the enemy troops who came to invade were already in a situation of being surrounded.
About 20,000 Han troops surrounded the enemy layer after layer, and the Han army in the first line was infantry, and they formed a close formation to continuously compress the enemy's activity space.
On the periphery were the cavalry of the Han army, they were a slow cruising posture, and any enemy army that stood out from the encirclement of their infantry would be chased by them and killed on the spot.
"Halt the front" "Crossbowman Cover" "Lancers, keep an eye on the enemy forces that counterattack."
There were traces of blood on Zhang Shi's armor, but it wasn't his injuries and bleeding.
He personally engaged in the fight in the early hours of the morning, and his intention was, of course, to atone for his crimes, after all, it was a dereliction of duty for the enemy to touch him.
Look at those enemy soldiers, they don't have uniform uniforms, and their weapons are also varied, and there are obvious traces of ashes on their bodies, so they should have made a short trip through the arson zone that has been extinguished to attack.
The battle had entered the final stage, and the Han army had already captured some prisoners of war alive, and the information obtained was that this group of enemy troops originally numbered more than 16,000 people, and they had indeed passed through the arson zone from the direction north of Junji Mountain.
"Your Majesty."
Sang Yu was not interested in the ongoing battle at all, he held a battle report in his hand, and read it out when he got the signal: "General Zhengbei has arrived at the position of the enemy army, the enemy army has formed a camp and held it, and our army has launched an attack. ” Calculating the time, Li Tan's department should have arrived a day ago, and there was a delay in sending this battle report.
Liu Yan turned his head to look at Sang Yu, saw that Sang Yu still had a second piece of information in his hand, and turned his head to look at the direction of the battlefield again.
"It's about Rouran."
Sang Yu looked at it again before he read: "Wu Wuliga, who commanded the Rouran Army to fight against the East Gaoche, received an order from Yu Jiulu Bati.
Yu Jiu Lubati's order was for Ivoriga to withdraw his troops. ” Speaking of which, the Han side has been cut off from official communication with the Rouran royal court for nearly ten days, and after Yu Jiulu Bati returned to the royal court, he began to shrink his troops and troops, and even the troops on the front line were transferred back, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem simple.
"It seems that Dahan has lost the biggest thug on the grassland."
Liu Yan looked at Lu Tai, who was standing aside, and said, "Heng'an, you go back to your shogunate and continue to maintain a high-pressure attack on Donggaoche, Tuoba and Murong remnants. ” Lu Tai had already made relevant psychological preparations, and after officially receiving the order to salute, he walked away.
Sang Yu waited for Lu Tai to step down from the high platform before asking, "Your Majesty, do we need to prepare for a war with Rouran?"
"Zishen thinks that Rouran will start a war against the Han Dynasty" Liu Yan saw that Sang Yu hesitated to answer, and said with a smile: "Deterioration has become a foregone conclusion." ” Sang Yu understood, the big Han actually didn't want to start a war against Rouran now, he just needed to raise the necessary alert level, and the two sides would enter the confrontation stage, depending on whether Rouran had the courage to provoke a war.
The battlefield has been completely finished, and the enemy troops who have no possibility of breaking through are surrounded by layers, and when they have more than 5,000 people left, they choose to discard their weapons and kneel to surrender.
It didn't take long for Zhang Shi to come to report that there was nothing to say about the battle process, mainly to tell the enemy who was assigned, what the combat intention was, and how many people there were when they set off.
Of course, Sang Yu is no stranger to the Fu family of the Di clan, the former Fu Hong is a hegemon in Shijie Zhao State, and Li Nong and Yao Yizhong are one of the three giants outside the Qi clan.
He learned from Zhang Shi that Fu Hong had died of illness, and Zhang Shi's source was naturally those prisoners, so he asked with a hesitant expression: "Can you believe it?"
The Han Kingdom has always attached great importance to the news about Fu Hong, and some time ago I learned the news of Fu Hong's serious illness from the Western Regions, but Fu Hong in a state of serious illness still went to Qiuzi in person.
"Fu Hong was sick and traveled a long distance to the capital of Yancheng Qiuzi in order to organize the people of the Western Regions to prevent the Han Dynasty's attack on the Western Regions."
Although Zhang Shi is a lieutenant in one of the Jiuqing, he is also responsible for the management of the intelligence organization: "Our spies sent back from the Western Regions to report that the Chinese doctor of Qiuzi described Fu Hong's condition as terminally ill, and there were rumors that Fu Hong had died of illness halfway through the evacuation of Yancheng, but the information could not be verified. ” Liu Yan already knew this information, although Sang Yu was one of the imperial envoys of the Three Princes, there was no need to know everything.
Sang Yu looked at Liu Yan's expression, and roughly guessed that Liu Yan had already known the information about Fu Hong.
He wasn't stupid enough to ask why he wasn't told, but said, "Then the remnants of the Di tribe should be in charge of Fu Jian now."
Fu Hong has many brothers and sisters, one brother was killed in the battle with the Han army, and the other brother is simply missing.
He also has many sons and grandchildren, the eldest son and the second son died young, the third son Fu Jian is a very outstanding figure in the family, the fourth son Fu Xiong is much more reckless, and the most outstanding of the grandchildren is Fu Jian.
"Fu Jianren is the deputy general of Longdu in that coalition army."
Zhang Shi was talking about the information sent back by Li Tan, and then he finally remembered what he should ask: "Your Majesty, what should be done with the prisoners of war?"
Liu Yan has learned that as a ruler, he can say less and never speak, especially if he has a personal historian to record his words and deeds, even if he doesn't care, he must also consider what role his words and deeds will play for future generations.
No, the historian who knelt on the side, he faithfully put pen to paper: On July 21, 351 A.D. in the tenth year of Yuan Shuo, Lieutenant Zhang Shi and Xingyuan asked the Son of Heaven about the plan for the disposal of the defeated and captured soldiers.
In such a matter, Liu Yan did not have any scruples, and simply spit out the word "Xu" from his mouth.
The historian once again put pen to paper: The Son of Heaven was punished, and the enemy soldiers who attacked the Son of Heaven were all gone.
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As a historian, of course, you must be loyal to history, but historians must also have tendencies, such as recording what is happening at the moment, and a special item is pointed out at the end of that paragraph of "The Son of Heaven", those who were killed after the defeat were the enemy soldiers who came to attack the Son of Heaven.
The killing of prisoners was considered ominous by the Xia, but there were always some exceptions, among which there was no ominous distinction between anyone who attacked the Son of Heaven, and there was a list of those who must die.
Liu Yan naturally did not go to see the massacre of the prisoners of war, he got off the high platform and walked back to the military tent, where the prisoners of war were already escorted to the open field in groups.
The prisoners of war were first asked to dig a pit, and the statement given was of course not to bury them, but to bury those who had died in battle.
On the other side, the cleaning of the battlefield continues, and the remains of the dead on both sides are distinguished, the remains of the dead of the Han army will be cremated, and the remains of the enemy soldiers will really be buried on the spot.
The Han army has always had the habit of cremating their comrades who died in battle, and after transporting them back to China, let their families choose, whether to transport them to their hometown for burial, or send them to the Martyrs' Garden in Changguang County.
Generally, most family members choose the Martyrs' Garden, which is the largest military cemetery in the Han Kingdom, and there is an official public memorial ceremony every year.
In such an era, the official public sacrifice was very important, and then it was to be able to enjoy the incense provided by the family members, in general, it was regarded as the process of becoming a god, and the soldiers of the Han army had a common name for themselves who might die in battle, that is, to die in battle to become a god, to some extent, it was one of the foundations that supported the high morale of the Han army.
Among the prisoners of war, there are still smart people who know that they can't survive at all, but those who resist with their actions are very few, and even if they know that they can't live, they will work hard, hoping to survive that maybe not even one in 10,000 will exist, or they are working with the idea of digging a good grave for themselves.
Behind the Han army was to supervise the prisoners of war to carry the dead enemies to be buried, waiting for the bodies that could be found to be cleaned up, and the prisoners of war were tied up in strings, and the resistance of the prisoners of war in the process was slightly more intense, inevitably full of crying, begging for mercy, scolding, etc., but still did not change the fate they faced.
It has to be said that the Han army no longer works and buries, not that it is cruel, but that it is considered the subsequent impact.
Whatever they do will be recorded, and after they are killed, they will be a little more civilized and buried, anyway, it will have less impact than burying them alive in the history books.
An attack that can almost be described as a "farce" has passed, Liu Yan has no intention of leaving, they are located in the southeast direction of the border of Rouran, and the grassland border army has formed an angle to complete the monitoring of Rouran, and then they must wait for the results of Li Tan's attack.
During the waiting period, Liu Yan's daily life can only be summed up in monotony, but in such an era when there is almost no entertainment, even if he returns to Miyagi, in fact, there is no entertainment every day after dealing with state affairs, nothing more than listening to music or songs, and watching all kinds of dances, and the other entertainment is only hunting.
The battle encountered by the Son of Heaven patrol team was not kept secret, in fact, it should not be kept secret, the more it was covered, the more it was easy to produce bad rumors, it was better to announce it through official channels, and it could also have a positive effect on the public.
When the news reached China, the border troops in northern Xinjiang made their own moves, appropriately advanced within their jurisdiction, and dispatched mobile troops to rush to Tianzi's line to wait for assignments.
The Central Plains or the rest of the region will get the news many days later, and they will have their own reactions depending on the location of the region, but when they get the news, no matter what happens to the patrol team of the Son of Heaven, it is outdated news.
Liu Yan actually cares a lot about what public opinion and actions are happening on his side all over the country, and it is inevitable to lead out some dormant careerists, and all localities must also have advance preparations for cleaning up after discovery.
Moreover, he also knew that the center of Chang'an would be very nervous, and it was inevitable that new important ministers would rush over, with the eagerness to pray for Liu Yan to go back.
Li Tan didn't let Liu Yan wait long in the same place, and it took seven days from the departure to the conclusion of the battle, that is, they brought artillery and a considerable number of improvised grenades, which fully proved that no matter how strong the fortifications were, they would turn into scum under the power of gunpowder.
"The enemy fled less than 20,000 troops, and the rest were left behind."
Sang Yu could imagine what kind of panic the enemy had in the face of the firearms attack, a scene he had seen repeatedly and with his own eyes in Liaodong: "Fu Jian and most of the Di people fled. ” "The hussar general will intercept them."
Liu Yan can't only give orders to a certain army, as long as he can contact the troops that can be commanded, there are so many troops that he can't even count: "The garrison of Hun Evil Mountain will be temporarily under the command of the hussar general, plus the three thousand cavalry of the hussar general's headquarters, it is enough for the pursuit battle." ” If you want to intercept Fu Jian's defeated army, it is enough to block a few limited directions, there are many places where the grassland was burned to ashes by the fire, Fu Jian sent 16,000 people to attack Xingyuan, and more than 8,000 people successfully crossed out of the ash area, which is equivalent to half of it being lost in the space full of ashes.
If Fu Jian chooses to flee to the Ash District, Ash will not show mercy to his subordinates because of his noble status, such as the Ding Ling Ren commander who was supposed to lead the troops to attack the Son of Heaven died in the Ash District.
"The enemy army a little earlier, they would rather die in battle than run into the ash area again, which shows how dangerous it is inside."
Sang Yu was actually quite curious about what it was like inside, and he learned that even if he got out of the ash area alive, some military doctors of the army dissected the corpses of the enemy soldiers and found that the trachea and lungs were still full of ashes: "Even if we don't kill them all, most of them will die of illness later."
Therefore, Liu Yan had already ordered the production and wearing of masks, and he also knew that the wind carried a large amount of ashes to the territory of Rouran, and he was very suspicious that after the death of the last batch of Rouran people, they would think that it was a conspiracy of the Han Kingdom
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