Chapter 624: Battle for Hetao
Chapter 622: Battle for Hetao
Just as Qin Hao and Xiang Yu got married, the war that was taking place in Hetao was finally officially over.
In August of the third year of Zhongping, Qin and Wen joined forces with the four princes of Bingzhou to form a 90,000 Bingzhou coalition, while in addition, they were deceiving 150,000 troops, and divided the troops into three groups to attack the Hetao land where the Huns were empty.
Today, this battle has been fought for a full six months, and it finally ended with the victory of the Jin army.
Of course, the Jin army won not easily. After all, most of the battles were defensive counterattacks, but this time they took the initiative to attack. The two are not the same concept.
In the early days of the war, the Jin army showed all its strength, as if it was not allowed to stop until it was captured.
The Huns obviously did not expect that the Jin army would come to the door on their own initiative, and they naturally suffered repeated defeats after being prepared.
The three armies of the Jin army won consecutive battles, which was full of morale.
As the reinforcements led by Ogedei and Zhebe arrived, the situation in Hetao began to gradually tilt, and eventually returned to a stalemate.
After all, Hetao is a flat horse, and cavalry combat is the mainstream.
The Jin army was slightly inferior to the number and training of cavalry in terms of cavalry, so they gradually fell into a disadvantage in frontal confrontation, and the progress of the strategy was naturally no better than before.
The deadlock lasted for more than a month until the Jin army equipped new cavalry equipment, stirrups, saddles and horseshoes, the situation in Hetao once again tilted towards the Jin army.
Horse harness equipment is very easy to copy, and the power of grassland cavalry is already stronger than that of Han cavalry. If you get these two pieces of equipment, it will be a disaster for the entire northern border.
Qin Hao was not originally planning to take out the horse harness and equipment so early, but later he figured it out.
There have been so many grassland talents, and low-level equipment such as horse harnesses are definitely not difficult for them. Maybe when will the horse harness be imagined by Temujin and others.
So, it’s better to use horse harnesses to win a big victory to strengthen yourself while they still have it.
Qin Hao expected that when Bingzhou and the Huns would have a battle around Hetao, he had already passed the horse harness drawings back to Bingzhou before he became the prefect of Nanyang and secretly ordered craftsmen to create 50,000 new horse harnesses just in case.
Qin Wen led his army to Hetao. If everything went well, he would naturally not be able to use this batch of horse harnesses, but if it encountered obstacles, this batch of horse harnesses would make a great contribution.
As expected by Qin Hao, the Huns who were guarding Hetao were far more tenacious than expected, and the Huns sent reinforcements as expected.
Qin Wen in the bathroom also took out the harness sealed in the warehouse and began to fight with the Huns for the Hetao.
40,000 Jin army cavalry equipped with new horse harnesses are no less inferior to the Huns in terms of cavalry and cavalry warfare, and relying on their excellent equipment advantages, they even vaguely surpass them.
The disadvantages of the cavalry have been completely compensated. With the advantages of military strength, the Jin army finally regained the initiative in the battle situation and began to erode the Hetao Huns little by little.
After losing all the advantages, Ogedei was finally forced into a desperate situation and had to fight the Jin army in advance.
This is also a helpless move. If you don’t fight at this time, as time goes by, the strength of the Huns in Hetao will become weaker and weaker, and even Ogedei will not be able to fight at that time.
This decisive battle was finally launched at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, known in history as the Battle of Yinshan Mountain.
Qin Wen personally led 40,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, totaling 80,000 infantry and cavalry coalition forces to fight against the 50,000 cavalry coalition forces of the Huns and Hetao tribes.
In the decisive battle of the 130,000 troops, 90,000 were cavalry teams, and the Jin army even threw 90% of the cavalry into it.
If you win, the Jin army can take advantage of the situation and become a warlord who is no less than the Liang army;
But once they lose, the Jin army will have to cultivate for several years before they can have the spare time to compete with the Huns for Hetao again. Risk and opportunity coexist, while Qin Wen chose to face the difficulties.
The Jin army did not crush the strength of the Huns, so the decisive battle was difficult. After nearly 15,000 of huge casualties, the grassland coalition finally defeated the grassland coalition and achieved the brilliant results of killing 20,000 enemies and capturing 10,000.
After Ogedei led 15,000 remaining troops to retreat, he continued to use cavalry guerrilla methods, hoping to drag Temujin to completely resolve the Wuhuan, and then lead the army to fight against the Jin army.
Ogedei thought it was beautiful, but Qin Wen would not give him this opportunity. He directly used the thunder offensive to completely expel the Huns from Hetao without any trouble.
From August of the third year of Zhongping to February of the fourth year of Zhongping, the Hetao battle lasted for a full six months, and it took half a year.
In the first four months, the Bingzhou coalition forces had been confronting the Huns.
As for the next two months, the Jin army was clearing out the resistance forces of all ethnic groups in Hetao, and they also paid a considerable price.
After the resistance forces of all ethnic groups in Hetao were completely eliminated, the iconic Hetao battle was completely over.
Although the Hetao battle was finally won, it was only a miserable victory for the Jin army.
After the war, the Jin army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and 20,000 deaths were directly killed in battle. Most of them were cavalry during the period, which was second only to the casualties of the Yellow Turban War.
In addition, Yang Sanlang, the third son of general Yang Ye, who has a basic force of up to 94, was shot to death by Zhebe with a hidden arrow in the field, becoming the only top-class general who died in this battle.
Yang Qilang lost his mind because of the death of his third brother and rode alone to chase and kill Zhebe, but was shot into three arrows. Of course, none of them were crucial, so he was just seriously injured.
Zhebe was also shot by his old opponent Zhao Yun and his breastplate was broken with a shot, and he fled and fled with serious injuries.
Although the losses are great, the results are even greater.
First of all, territory.
The land of Hetao is thousands of miles of fertile land, much larger than the eight hundred miles of Guanzhong, which is the sum of the four counties in the north.
The Jin army originally owned the five northern counties of Bingzhou, but after taking over Hetao, the territory under its command almost doubled.
More land means that more people can be accepted, not to mention that the soil in the Hetao land is extremely fertile and is very suitable for planting.
If the Jin army could immigrate to one million, it would be able to support tens of millions of people after three to five years of development, and the potential for war is extremely huge.
The second is population.
In addition to the Huns, Hetao also has several medium-sized tribes and dozens of small nomadic tribes.
In addition to being killed in battle and those who were wiped out and killed, the total population of these dozens of tribes is nearly 150,000.
150,000 people may not be anything to the Central Plains, but for the sparse population of Bingzhou, it is the population of a large county.
If you are not of my race, your heart will be different.
It is not easy to completely regain these tens of thousands of alien races. The Jin army must migrate to Hetao, which is more than four times the population than the local alien races of Hetao. In addition, it takes more than ten years of governance to completely assimilate these fifty thousand alien races.
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