newbobooks Chapter 370 Sinicizing the Southern Xiongnu? Su Yu: Your Great Chanyu has already surrendered!
Chapter 370 Sinicizing the Southern Xiongnu? Su Yu: Your Great Chanyu has already surrendered!
Liu Bao, this fake enthusiast of Han culture, ultimately only learned the superficial aspects and failed to grasp the essence.
Guo Jia, the sixth son, is best known for his sixth-place status, but his greatest skills are digging and tomb raiding!
After the grain transport team was intercepted by Zhang Liao and Guo Jia yesterday afternoon, Guo Jia concluded that Liu Bao could not possibly be deceived by a mere grain transport official into opening the city gate.
So he spent a day directing Cao Cao's gold-digging team to urgently dig a tunnel that led directly to the grain storage area inside Yanmen Pass.
The tunnel was very narrow, only wide enough for Zhang Liao and a few of his personal guards to pass through.
If there are too many people, there is a risk of exposure.
To be honest, when Zhang Liao saw the grain supplies inside Yanmen Pass, he really wanted to burn them down.
But then I thought, if we recapture Yanmen Pass, all this grain and fodder will be ours.
Burning it would undoubtedly be a wasteful act.
While the grain transport officer and Liu Bao were speaking in the Xiongnu language, Zhang Liao, disguised as a Southern Xiongnu soldier, quietly approached Liu Bao and waited for an opportunity to behead him!
Honestly, there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding this plan.
Therefore, Guo Jia asked Zhang Liao whether he dared to take the risky route.
But Zhang Liao was always a bold man.
For example, eight hundred people chasing and killing one hundred thousand people.
Let alone the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, throughout history, there are very few bold people who would dare to do such a thing!
Liu Bao's death came as a complete surprise to all the Southern Xiongnu soldiers inside Yanmen Pass.
The next moment, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves rang out!
Five thousand Bingzhou wolf riders, brandishing their weapons, swept towards Yanmen Pass!
Zhang Liao did not stop either.
Killing Liu Bao was only the first step.
Only by opening the city gates and letting our soldiers into the city can we secure victory!
"Quick! Stop him!"
Liu Bao's personal guards reacted and began to surround and attack Zhang Liao.
Unfortunately, these personal guards underestimated Zhang Liao's determination.
Zhang Liao drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and shot it toward the mechanism at the city gate!
"boom!"
The city gates slowly closed, while Zhang Liao fought and retreated, using the darkness and the chaos of the crowd to protect himself.
Amidst the cacophony of shouts and battle cries, the Southern Xiongnu soldiers were thrown into chaos.
Ultimately, only a minority can retain their rationality.
The moment the first Bingzhou wolf rider charged into the city was the moment the death knell tolled for the 30,000 Southern Xiongnu soldiers at Yanmen Pass!
"kill!!!"
Behind Zhang Liao, more and more Bingzhou wolf cavalry soldiers climbed onto the city gate.
Even Guo Jia brandished his sword and slashed forward.
Of course, Guo Jia's martial prowess was mainly for show, serving to guide Zhang Liao in the right direction.
"With the death of the Left Wise King, we are finished too!"
These are the true thoughts of the 30,000 Southern Xiongnu soldiers guarding Yanmen Pass at this moment!
They fled, attempting to escape towards the Southern Xiongnu royal court.
Unfortunately, the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry were the elite of the elite.
Without Liu Bao's command and without Yanmen Pass as their support, the Southern Xiongnu army suffered a crushing defeat!
Zhang Liao went berserk!
The jet-black armor was stained blood red.
He didn't know exactly how many enemies he had killed.
Everywhere you look, there are enemy corpses and the cheers of our own side in victory!
After clearing out the Southern Xiongnu soldiers inside Yanmen Pass, Zhang Liao continued his advance into the distance.
The Bingzhou wolf cavalry soldiers followed closely behind.
Guo Jia, along with Cao Cao's gold-digging team, temporarily took over Yanmen Pass.
"This grain, I suppose, is what those beasts stole from the people?"
Looking at the grain and fodder in the granary, Guo Jia's eyes blazed with fury!
Bingzhou was not wealthy, but those Southern Xiongnu bastards didn't know what it meant to exhaust the resources when they were plundering.
They pluck feathers from passing geese; wherever they go, devastation ensues, leaving no one alive, villages destroyed, and people dead!
Its destructive power far surpasses that of civil wars among feudal lords.
"The time is not yet ripe; we cannot rashly conquer the grasslands."
"But the ancestral tombs of these Southern Xiongnu Chanyu and the Left and Right Wise Kings cannot be preserved!"
Guo Jia was a pragmatist, and he immediately set about investigating the location of the Southern Xiongnu royal court.
Meanwhile, Zhang Liao pursued the fleeing enemy and captured many more defeated Southern Xiongnu soldiers.
a few days later
Zhang Liao, Guo Jia, Cao Cao, and Su Yu joined forces.
Cao Cao used his position as the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu of Huchuquan to summon the defeated Southern Xiongnu soldiers who were still in Bingzhou to assemble.
Although some Southern Xiongnu soldiers realized that Huchuquan had become a prisoner, they knew that going to join him would not end well.
But Yanmen Pass was already in Cao Cao's hands.
By closing the door to trap the enemy, they were not afraid that the defeated Southern Xiongnu troops who remained inside Bingzhou would be able to return to the grasslands smoothly!
In the end, of the 150,000 Southern Xiongnu troops brought by Huchuquan and Liu Bao, about 100,000 were beheaded and nearly 50,000 were taken prisoner.
The Southern Xiongnu suffered a significant loss of strength after this battle.
Although the Right Wise King was still stationed at the Southern Xiongnu royal court, Su Yu planned to use Huchuquan as a sting operation to cause trouble!
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Yanmen Pass
Cao Cao, along with his officers and soldiers, gave a grand funeral to all the soldiers who had died at Yanmen Pass.
Furthermore, stone tablets were carved near Yanmen Pass, inscribing the names of the fallen soldiers.
Hu Chuquan followed cautiously behind Cao Cao's officers and soldiers.
After these days of brutal beatings, Hu Chuquan has become a qualified lackey.
Their fear of Cao Cao's army was ingrained in their very bones!
after all.
The officers and soldiers in Cao Cao's camp wanted to beat him up, and they didn't need a reason at all.
Su Yu quickly figured out what to do with the 50,000 Southern Xiongnu prisoners.
Many roads in Bingzhou are damaged and need to be repaired.
Fifty thousand Southern Xiongnu prisoners were forced into corvée labor.
Of course, Su Yu was still very kind, giving these prisoners a meal every day to ensure they wouldn't starve.
As for Huchuquan, he originally wanted to become the most powerful Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu.
Now, however, he has been forced to become the first Great Chanyu to surrender to the Han people!
Su Yu even specially commissioned Xi Zhicai and members of the Central Plains Daily to give Hu Chuquan a front-page headline, so that Hu Chuquan would lose face throughout the Han Dynasty!
"Hu Chuquan, you understand, being a dog means you can live a long time."
"If you don't act like a dog, my soldiers will beat you to death, one punch each!"
These are Su Yu's original words.
Hu Chuquan was very eager to learn. He was only partially fluent in Chinese at first, but he quickly became more Sinicized than Liu Bao.
If you didn't see his appearance, you might think that Huchuquan was a Han Chinese.
……
"What!?"
"Our Great Chanyu has betrayed us? He's even calling on his people to go to Bingzhou, saying they can live a life of luxury there?"
Southern Xiongnu Royal Court
The Right Wise King was furious.
Left Wise King Liu Bao is dead, and Great Chanyu Huchuquan has surrendered. What kind of magical plot is this?
Eating and drinking the finest food?
What the hell!
If the Right Wise King is not mistaken, as long as any of his clansmen go to Bingzhou, their fate will surely be the same as that of Huchuquan—serving as dogs for the Han people!
The Xiongnu people refused to submit!
The Right Wise King screamed wildly in his heart.
However, on the very night the news arrived, a tribe of several thousand people defected from the royal court overnight.
Following this, more and more tribes fled.
When they fled, they also took the cattle and sheep with them.
The Right Wise King was utterly enraged!
But even if he had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare launch another southern expedition at this critical juncture.
What the Right Wise King was unaware of was...
Using Chuquan as a dog was just Su Yu's second step in his plan.
Next, Su Yu will gradually incorporate the grasslands into his territory.
Develop animal husbandry, confiscate weapons, and make this land a place where people love singing and dancing instead of wielding swords and spears all day long.
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