All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 304: Defeat the Khitan, Abaoji's Night Escape

"How to fight? Of course, kill them!"

Chen Ran looked calm and said calmly, "It doesn't matter how you rob people of your own things, but you must eliminate the foreign robbers!"

He was too lazy to worry about what would happen two hundred years later. After all, by that time, he would be nothing more than a symbolic symbol.

So just focus on the present and do what you should do and what you want to do.

Eradicate the Brahmins everywhere, wipe out the powerful soldiers in various vassal states, overthrow the court that allows the bandits to plunder its own people, and then destroy all the bandits!

"Don't worry about those harassing people." Chen Ran, who has extremely rich experience in fighting nomadic tribes, knows too well how to deal with these nomadic tribes that have not yet evolved into a country. "Forward, forward, and forward again, straight to their old camp!"

The core tactic of the nomadic tribes is harassment, relying on their large numbers of horses to constantly wear down their opponents.

How to respond to an army composed mainly of infantry?
Naturally, this would force the nomadic tribes to give up their harassment and take the initiative to engage in a decisive battle.

The lifeline of the tribe is their old camp.

All the property, including the elderly, women, children, cattle, sheep, horses, food, supplies, money, tents, etc., were in the old camp.

The herdsmen on horseback could indeed move as fast as the wind, but the elderly, the weak, women, children and all kinds of supplies moved as slowly as cattle.

In order to protect property and people, we have no choice but to fight a decisive battle.

The soldiers of Yinqiang Xiejiedu rushed towards the Khitan’s old camp like a mountain.

The cavalrymen of Zhuangshandu rode their horses around and drove away those cavalrymen who wanted to get close and harass them.

And this is the standard way of fighting for agricultural civilization against nomadic tribes.

Attack them and they will surely come to the rescue, and force them into a decisive battle!
Of course, the kind of blitzkrieg that Champion Hou used, where he rushed thousands of miles and didn't give anyone a chance to react, is also possible, but the requirements are too high and ordinary people can't do it.

Bala Khan's eyes turned red with anxiety. "Why hasn't the old camp moved yet?! Let them leave quickly!"

Due to the constraints of production capacity, the old camps of nomadic tribes are usually within fifty miles of the army's activity range.

The specific distance depends on ability. Those with strong abilities can put it farther away, while those with weaker abilities can put it closer.

This situation will not change until the land and cities of the agricultural civilization are seized, enough slaves are plundered, and settled on the Han land.

Right now, they are all busy trying to escape as far as possible.

"Khan, there are too many things and too many people. We can't leave in a short time!"

Seeing tens of thousands of Han warriors heading straight for their old camp, the surrounding Khitans became anxious.

"People go first!"

Bala Khan was able to become Khan, so he had some ability. "Let people ride horses and sit in carts, and drive the cattle and sheep away first!"

"With so many people, it will take at least half a day."

Even if one were to make drastic measures and abandon most of the baggage, taking only the most important people and supplies, it would still take a lot of time, which was a manifestation of poor organizational ability.

"And the Tang people have a lot of cavalry."

The Han infantry in combat mode actually marched very quickly, not to mention that they also had a large number of cavalry. Once they were caught up, it would be a massacre.

"There is no other way." Bara Khan took a deep breath, "Let the Xi people and Shiwei people come over. We have to stop the Tang army!"

In the end, we still have to fight.

This is also the goal pursued by Chen Ran. To destroy their vitality in one battle will take at least several decades to recover.

The young Yelu Chuoliji (Yelu Abaoji) was held in his mother's arms, sitting on a cart, and running towards the north, staggering.

All around him were the elderly, the weak, women, children, and countless cattle, sheep, and horses, but his eyes were always looking towards the south.

Dozens of miles away, the men of the Khitan tribal alliance were fighting fiercely with the Tang army.

"My queen." A Baoji looked up at his mother. "We were heading south yesterday. Why are we heading back north now?"

"Because there are Tang people in the south, they don't want us to go south."

"Why don't you want so many things?" A Baoji asked, "Why won't Ye Ye come?"

"Because the Tang army is coming, you Yeye and the others have to stop the Tang army from chasing us."

"Then why didn't the Tang army let us go south?"

"Because the south is the territory of the Tang people."

The young Abaoji kept asking questions until he was tired and sleepy, and finally fell asleep.

His mother, on the other hand, looked towards the distant south with a worried look on her face.

Even though I couldn't see it because it was too far away, I knew there must be a fierce battle going on over there.

It was indeed a brutal fight.

If the Khitan alliance wanted to stop the advancing infantry and soldiers, they could only charge forward.

Using light cavalry to attack a phalanx of armored soldiers usually has only one result.

Died in battle~~~
As for harassment, do you really think that the thousands or tens of thousands of cavalrymen sent to attack the mountain are just decorations?

If they attacked Shandu first, apart from anything else, the thousands of armored cavalrymen and horses would be enough to crush the Khitan alliance when they came in formation.

The Khitans, at least the current Khitans, have no way to deal with Chen Ran's mixed infantry and cavalry.

After an afternoon of fierce fighting, the Shiwei people were the first to flee. Bala Khan led the army of warriors from various tribes and launched a desperate counterattack, but failed. After he died in the battle, the coalition army collapsed. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was no one on the grassland who could really fight before Yelu Abaoji became Khan and unified the grassland.

The Shatuo people who were truly capable were eager to move south to the prosperous and wealthy Han area, and they looked down on the barren grasslands at all.

"Don't chase those fleeing soldiers."

Chen Ran ordered the cavalry to give up chasing the fleeing barbarians from the grassland, and instead follow the tracks to chase the fleeing elderly, weak, women, children and livestock.

Do you think he is cruel and ruthless?

The barbarians went southward and penetrated deep into Han territory, and the atrocities they committed were a hundred times more cruel and ruthless than his!
Yelu Abaoji was awakened by the shouting and screaming.

After waking up, he saw the tragic scene of the end of the world. Countless Tang cavalrymen wearing armor and riding tall horses were shouting loudly, galloping back and forth, waving their weapons and killing and dispersing at will.

"Empress~" The frightened Abaoji hugged his mother tightly.

"Don't make any noise, don't make any noise!" His mother held him and did not rush outside, but went into the herd of cattle and sheep.

The pungent smell of livestock made him feel nauseous, but he forced himself to hold it back.

Screams, shouts, cries, and the sounds of all kinds of livestock gathered together and flowed deeply into Abaoji's mind.

It wasn't until it got dark that things gradually got quiet.

Abaoji's mother held him in her arms and walked to the outskirts of the livestock herd, found a horse, and galloped towards the north.

An arrow flew from a distance and almost grazed Abaoji's back.

The nearby Zhuangshandu cavalry shouted and cursed, but did not chase after them.

In the middle of the night, no one would chase after a horse alone in the dark. It is too dangerous. The one who ran away is not the Khan of the Khitan people.
This experience left a very deep impression on the young Yelu Abaoji!
The south is too dangerous!

Haner, this is so scary!
"General." Pang Shigu, who served as the chief secretary, reported to Chen Ran that the spoils of this battle were "more than 17,400 killed in battle, more than 63,000 captured alive, more than 30,000 horses, 39,000 cattle, 219,000 sheep, and camels..."

These are the statistics used in the register; private losses are not even qualified to be included in the register.

In the first battle, the alliance of Khitan tribes suffered a crushing defeat, and their vassal states, the Xi and Shiwei, also suffered heavy losses.

The massive loss of population and livestock made it difficult for them to recover their strength in the next few decades, and they also had to face invasions and annexation from other grassland tribes. It can be said that this war broke the backbone of the Khitans, who were in their rising period.

Chen Ran was not too surprised by this.

The warriors at the end of the Tang Dynasty were extremely powerful when facing external forces.

Even with so many captured cattle, sheep, horses and camels, it is difficult to deal with them.

After a little thought, Chen Ran quickly made a decision, "This time, the reward for military merit will be paid out in the form of livestock."

With so much gain, the money and grain to be distributed was naturally a huge sum.

Chen Ran simply used livestock to offset the loss and kept the money and grain for other uses.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm back."

Wang Yanzhang returned to the military village outside Longhuo City, yelling at his father and grandfather to open the door.

Grandfather Wang Xiu and father Wang Qingzong hurried out to greet them.

When he opened the door, he saw Wang Yanzhang standing outside the door, leading a cow and eight sheep.

The two were confused and said, "Didn't we say we were going to attack Yingzhou? What is this?"

"We won." Wang Yanzhang dragged the livestock into the yard and responded casually, "The general conquered Yingzhou and all the local nobles below the governor. He also conquered the Khitans who came to rescue the nobles."

"The general is mighty~~~" Wang Xiu stroked his beard with a smile on his face, "He is invincible and unrivalled."

Wang Qingzong was busy asking about the origins of the livestock.

"Too many livestock were captured, and the general was unwilling to keep them, so he simply distributed all except the horses and camels as rewards for military merit."

Wang Yanzhang had a regretful expression. "Most of the Khitans were cavalrymen, and they were not foolish enough to charge directly into the Modao formation. As a Modao general, I didn't get much military merit. I only got some military merit when I attacked Liucheng County."

"Father." Wang Yanzhang called to his father, "Keep the cow. The general said that in the future, military households can be granted land. This cow can be trained to work as a ploughing ox."

The cattle on the grassland are basically beef cattle, which are used for eating meat, skin, tendons, etc.

Cows that can truly plow the land need to be specially trained.

In the past, it was very difficult to train cattle, and if you encountered a bad-tempered one, you might even get hurt.

However, since the invention of the bull nose ring, things have become much simpler and more convenient.

The cow, which once had a bad temper, gradually became docile.

"As for these sheep." Although Wang Yanzhang was young, he was very organized in his work. Perhaps it was because he had been following Chen Ran for a long time and was influenced by him. "Take out half and give it to Aye for marriage. The rest, keep it for eating."

His father has been busy arranging marriages.

At the beginning, those who are divorced and have children will do.

However, as Wang Yanzhang's abilities grew, he received more and more rewards, and his demands also increased accordingly. As a result, he has not been able to remarry until now.

"well."

Grandfather Wang Xiucai saw it clearly, and said with deep emotion, "Our family can live better and better, all thanks to the kindness of the general~~~"

(End of this chapter)