Han Khan

Chapter 75: Night Raid

In the Jinhan camp, in front of Zhang Sheng’s tent.

Zhang Sheng said to Zhang Xibao and others with a serious face:
"Give the order to the troops to pack up their supplies and tidy up their tents immediately.

Soldiers from each centurion, battalion, and regiment of the Guards, assemble immediately!

Each battalion guarded three hundred households of slaves, and distributed spears to the young slaves. We drove the livestock and headed towards the Great Lakes Basin. "

"As you command, Your Highness!"

Afterwards, the entire Jinhan tribe, with nearly 50,000 people, began to move calmly and orderly, heading towards the center of the great lake basin in the north.

Zhang Sheng was also generous and gave spears, bows and arrows, and shields to the able-bodied slaves.

They will serve as pioneers and bait in attacking the Guchuwuti tribe. Of course, if they can survive, they will no longer be ants.

However, horses would never be given, so the 39 slave centurions could only serve as light infantry.

On the grassland, it is difficult to move without a horse.

However, the main force of the Guchuwuti tribe had already gone to attack the Hela tribe, and the guards and these infantrymen had to face only more than a thousand armored cavalry and the people of the Guchuwuti tribe.

The armor and sophisticated weapons seized from Izhou were given priority to the subsequently reorganized guards, so these soldiers could only get the remaining spears, bows and arrows and some shields.

After everything was ready, Zhang Sheng led his troops forward.

Because the journey was nearly a hundred miles, it was already late at night when Jin Han's troops arrived at the outskirts of the center of the Great Lakes Basin.

Doing so would help conceal their whereabouts and minimize the risk of the Jinhan army being detected by the Guchuwuti patrols.

Beside Lake Uvs, the night wind carried the smell of rotting corpses and cow, sheep, horse and camel dung.

In the darkness of the night, the howling of wolves could be heard one after another.

Along the way, the surrounding hills were shadowy. The wolves did not dare to approach due to the large size of their group, but they would never let go of the livestock scattered around the large group.

Zhang Sheng had no time to take care of it, but the wolves were very interested in the livestock, so he hurriedly sent people to inform the guards in each camp and the hundred slaves.

There is no need to pay attention to the wild wolves' attacks on livestock. After defeating the Guchuwuti tribe, you can use their livestock to make up for the losses.

As for the wild wolves that approached the crowd and the war horses, they were shot to death with bows and arrows by the guards and slaves. No one dared to make any noise at night before the enemy discovered them.

However, the number of wolves increased. In order to deal with these wild wolves that appeared from all directions in the migrating team, Zhang Sheng sent troops to drive them away. The wolves fled into the mountains, and when the troops were withdrawn, the wolves followed them again, which was really annoying.

The wolves held a grudge and followed Zhang Sheng and his men because they did not teach them a more painful lesson.

Many slaves, seeing that the Wolf King was as strong as an ox, could not help but kneel down, especially the slaves of the Jiluo tribe and the people of the Xidan tribe.

Why is this so?

This is because wolves are at the top of the food chain on the grassland and are the absolute kings. They are strong, persevering, cunning and united.

Wolves bring so much fear to herders that they develop a fear and worship of them.

Therefore, herders have worked hard to learn the wolves' fighting and hunting methods from generation to generation, and regard wolves as their teachers.

Therefore, herders often worship wolves.

Zhang Sheng would not allow this and ordered his guards to execute any slave who did so on the spot.

But he was also driven to lose his temper.

The Jinhan tribe had been harassed by these beasts all the way, and his tolerance had only made them even more unscrupulous.

Finally, four or five hundred wolves appeared, and they fought like a guerrilla war. When the enemy advanced, we retreated; when the enemy was tired, we harassed them. They would bite us from time to time, and it was impossible to defend against them.

Moreover, wolves are very cunning and can detect traps and ambushes by smell alone.

However, beasts are beasts after all, and they cannot be as intelligent as humans.

So despite the loss of a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and slaves, they eventually succeeded in reaching the Great Lakes Basin.

Zhang Sheng rode on his horse, taking advantage of the night to gaze at the surrounding scene. The night was low, and the stars were reflected on the lake, as if all the dazzling treasures in the world were gathered here, making people intoxicated.

There is lush grass all around, swaying gently in the breeze, like a vast green ocean.

The air is filled with the fresh scent of grass, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

Zhang Sheng took a deep breath, feeling the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere, and an inexplicable sense of satisfaction surged in his heart.

He knew very well that this place would be a new starting point for the Jinhan tribe and also the place where he could realize his ambitions.

In this basin with lush grass and water, he can show his talents and create his own glory.

There is abundant water and grass around the lake, and not only Naiman people, but also many Tatars and Mongol Shiwei people live here.

However, now the able-bodied men of many tribes followed Altan of the Guchuwuti tribe to fight against the Hela tribe.

That's why Zhang Sheng was so aggressive at this moment, wanting to attack the lair of the Guchuwuti tribe directly and capture the Dahu basin in one fell swoop.

What a surprise!
At this time, looking at the white felt tent settlement on the hill in the distance, Zhang Sheng, who was riding on his horse, decided to shatter this beautiful scene.

He waved the lance in his hand forward, signaling the guards to spread out in a semicircle and advance forward.

In a moment, the rumbling sound of horse hooves gradually became faster and faster, as if the earth was shaking.

In the rear, many slaves armed with spears and bows were trying hard to catch up with the advancing cavalry.

When the Guchuwuti man hurriedly emerged from his felt tent and saw the dense cavalry rushing towards him from all directions, and their armor shining darkly in the moonlight!
They screamed and roared, and the original tranquility was instantly broken.

Flaming arrows fell into their camp.

After a while, thick smoke billowed, standing between heaven and earth like spears piercing the night sky.

The Jinhan guards were arranged in rows of one hundred men each, armed with lances, and they rushed into the huge camp in a circular formation and began to kill at will.

The enemy's defensive cavalry had no time to put on their armor when they saw the Jin Han people rushing in from all directions and were so frightened that they were scared out of their wits.

Three thousand six hundred fully armed guards and nearly four thousand infantrymen armed with spears entered the camp of the Kuchuud tribe, and corpses were everywhere where their swords pointed.

They did not cause widespread destruction, but only attacked the Guchuwuti people. It was a time of war, and the Jinhan people were like evil spirits, killing anyone they saw.

The brutal killing made every soldier more and more murderous, even the slave soldiers.

The guards' black armor was stained with bright red blood, and murderous aura rolled like dark clouds. As the team marched, it seemed as if a black gas was floating.

Since we live in this era and survive on the grassland, everything we see is perfectly normal.

Due to the lack of a common leader to establish basic order, the feud between tribes never stopped.

No one is innocent because they treated the tribes of Kuduluyar the same way.

I heard that Kutlug Yar Khan was eventually wrapped in a blanket and trampled to death by thousands of horses. This so-called noble death sounded so absurd and ridiculous. In the end, all the members of the tribe who retained their Khitan identity were killed.

Historically, more than 300 years later, the Tatars crossed the Great Wall and entered the Central Plains. When they encountered the divided Central Plains at that time, their actions became even more bloody and brutal.

Therefore, whether Zhang Sheng admits it or not, killing is the most effective means to solve problems in this era.

At this time, the Jin Han people fought with swords and killed people, causing the entire camp to flow with blood.

Although 7,000 troops were not a large number and most of them were slaves, it was more than enough to deal with the empty Guchuwuti tribe.

Zhang Sheng also saw that some slaves, under the organization of the centurions and decanters, actually joined forces to kill several armored cavalrymen.

Then, they hurriedly stripped off the enemy's armor, grabbed the enemy's horses, and in the blink of an eye they became elite cavalry. It seemed that they had a certain foundation before.

The survival of the fittest in the Jinhan army, especially for the slave soldiers, undoubtedly showed its unique cruelty at this time.

Most of the slave soldiers would be harvested like wheat on the battlefield.

Only the most tenacious and fiercest slaves could survive the battle. If they had no weapons, they would seize the enemy's weapons. If they had no war horses, they would seize the enemy's war horses and kill the enemies in front of them. Only then could they escape from slavery and become Jin Han people.

(End of this chapter)