At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

On the other side, Su Li was also frightened by being chased and killed by Wei Yan and Cao Chun.

Originally, Wei Yan and Cao Chun had achieved unprecedented victories. When Guo Dong sent troops to support, the Xianbei people had already retreated across the board. The addition of Guo Dong's army only increased the bloodshed when Wei Jun chased and killed the Xianbei army.

It's all here, wouldn't it be shameful to go back without any gains?

From morning to afternoon, the battle lasted for more than three hours, and finally the Wei army completely destroyed the resistance of the Xianbei army and broke their will.

At sunset, Wei Jun turned to pursue across the board, and this news was also learned by Guo Peng at that time.

Xi Zhong rode his horse and ran back blushing, bringing back the news of the victory.

Then Xun You also blushed and came galloping on horseback, bringing back the news of the victory of the army.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Our army has won a big victory! A big victory! General Cao and General Wei have completely defeated the Xianbei bandit army!"

"Your Majesty! Our army has won a complete victory! Generals Li and Cao have completely defeated the enemy army, and are chasing the defeated army and the bandit chief!!"

The two brought great news to Guo Peng one after another, and Cheng Yu who was beside Guo Peng immediately looked at Guo Peng in great surprise.

His Majesty the Emperor took a deep breath, clenched his fists tightly, shouted [OK], and immediately regained his composure.

"Now is not the time to celebrate victory. The bandit army is still fleeing and has not yet been wiped out. If you don't step up the pursuit, the bandit army will definitely have the strength to fight. Our army must not let go, and we must wipe them out in one go! Send an order to the front line All armies, pursue with all your strength, and Gu follows closely behind!"

"According to the order!"

The messengers scattered in all directions to deliver the emperor's latest orders.

chapter 1104 one thousand one hundred and four new peaks

After the order to march was issued, Guo Peng, who was full of heart, looked at the courtiers who followed him all the way.

"Everyone, now is not the time to celebrate, immediately follow the solitary attack! Attack! The army is chasing, and we can't fall behind! Order the Chinese army to move forward immediately!"

"According to the order!"

The ministers were overjoyed, their faces flushed and they were ready to follow the emperor to chase down the enemy.

It may not be necessary to personally go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but the pursuit of the emperor is more meaningful.

This war has been won, and no one doubts that the Wei army will not win this war.

After some small-scale encounters and contact battles, the Wei army and the main force of the Xianbei army engaged in a group-style large-scale battle.

The two armies met on the endless prairie, and tens of thousands of people fought and killed fiercely in the vast space. On this endless prairie, the contest of losing and dying decided the prosperity and decline of the two nations.

The fight lasted for more than three hours. The Xianbei people put out all their strength and went all out without any reservations. The Wei army also sent out most of the fighting power, leaving only a reserve team to stay with the emperor.

The powerful generals attacked in an all-round way without any reservations. They led the same powerful soldiers to fight the Xianbei cavalry on the battlefield for life and death.

Finally, after more than three hours, Wei Jun won a decisive victory.

The two main forces of Xianbei retreated one after another, trying to withdraw from the battlefield, and the Wei army turned from offensive to full-scale pursuit.

Even if Guo Peng said that now is not the time to celebrate, who wouldn't be ecstatic at this moment?

The glorious victory is in sight, the unprecedented grand military achievements of the Wei Empire are in sight, and the career surpassing the predecessors is in sight, who can't be excited?

Seal the wolf and live in Xu?

Le Shi Yanran?

Or is it the pinnacle of another kind of military achievement that is completely surpassed?

Anyway, they knew that this time, if they won a complete victory, the emperor's prestige would climb to the top, an unshakable brand new peak, a peak that no one could question.

This peak, no one has reached it before, and in the future, no one may be able to surpass it.

Because Guo is the emperor, the only emperor.

And they are all witnesses to this history.

Guo Peng himself put on his helmet and wore the best armor, got on his horse, and took the lead in the direction of the battlefield without riding in a carriage. All the officials also put on their armor and followed the emperor's pace.

The imperial guards who accompanied the guards raised the emperor's flag and the battle flag of the Wei army. Dian Wei personally raised a flag for the emperor and followed behind the emperor.

The whole army is majestic and majestic, moving forward in an all-round way, the sound of military exploits is rumbling, and the sound of horns is deep and distant.

No one is not proud of it.

Up to now, they all felt that there was nothing wrong with coming here to fight with the emperor.

It may not be so good to stay in the capital.

It is an honor to fight with the emperor. Even if you can't say it out and brag to your family behind closed doors, it's still good to say that the emperor and I were comrades-in-arms and have such a bond.

This is something that can be boasted to one's own children and grandchildren for a lifetime.

Still something that can be recorded in history.

After Wei Jun fully turned to the pursuit, it caused huge damage to the fleeing Xianbei people. If the Xianbei people resisted, they could at least bring some damage to Wei Jun, but if they didn't resist and just fled, then it was just a simple massacre.

There is no doubt that the Xianbei people do not have as good military discipline and combat discipline as the Wei army.

There are rules for when the Wei army advances and when it retreats. Without an order, it is not allowed to fight without authorization, nor to retreat without authorization. Those who disobey the order will be executed.

Offensive has an offensive mode, and retreat has a retreat mode. It will not lose its formation because of pursuit, and it will not be chaotic because of failure. This is a disciplined army, and it has begun to move closer to the modern army. .

The Xianbei army is undoubtedly a typical classical army, and even has a bit of slavery.

Serve the people in peacetime, and serve as soldiers in wartime. Fighting depends on bloody courage and traditional warfare. The power of technology and the power of change have never been valued.

Facing the completely changed Wei army, the Xianbei army can rely on temporary bloody courage to resist, but when the bloody courage fails, what awaits them is perdition.

Their bloody courage has now exhausted, and they instantly degenerated from a mighty army to fleeing refugees. Facing the chasing enemy, they did not dare to resist and only dared to run away.

Such is the case with an army held together by the courage of the flesh.

Wei Jun easily caught up with them by relying on the three magic weapons of the cavalry, stabbing them hard with a spear, or chopping them hard with a long knife, or sweeping them hard with a mace on heavy cavalry.

Every swing of a weapon can kill some Xianbei people, and the Xianbei people have no warriors who can fly sumo and die with the Wei army.

Perhaps the warrior had already died in the desperate fight just now.

The heavy cavalry under Wei Yan were exhausted after destroying the formation of the Xianbei Central Army and could not move at all, but Wei Yan still never gave up charging.

With the help of his subordinates, he removed the heavy armor, replaced it with lighter armor, rode on the spare horse without armor, and set foot on the battlefield again.

There was also a group of heavy cavalry who charged with him. They rested for a while and then mounted their horses to charge. They were physically strong, and they were all physical monsters in the heavy cavalry battalion.

Most people are not physically strong enough to carry it, so they can only retreat and rest.

They were red and swollen, sweating like rain, panting like cows, their eyes were red, and the veins on their arms and legs were bulging, like bugs wrapped around their legs, and they looked very disgusting.

The auxiliary soldiers washed their bodies with warm water and changed them into dry clothes, and then carried them to the rear camp to rest.

The extremely exhausted heavy cavalry would fall asleep once they relaxed, snoring like thunder, even if the sky was falling and the earth was breaking, they would sleep until they woke up.

When they are sleeping, the auxiliary soldiers are also responsible for massaging their bodies, relaxing their hands and feet, and preventing them from damaging their muscles due to excessive tension.

After waking up, there is a rich meat meal waiting for them, which will fill their stomachs and refresh their spirits.

A fierce fight is enough to drain their last trace of physical strength, and even their spirits will collapse. After the victory, they deserve the best treatment.

The rest of the pursuit has nothing to do with them, they have done their duty and will be best rewarded.

The rest of the Wei army who still has spare strength has already turned into the hunt.

They chased the Xianbei people and bit them, beheading those who beheaded them, and those who shot horses, and then rushed to kill them, as if they must kill them all, with an extremely vicious attitude.

Cao Chun took his personal guards to kill on the front line, and he had no tolerance for all the Xianbei people he encountered. There was only one word, kill.

Kill until you can no longer see the Xianbei people in front of you.

What prisoners do you want?

What captives do you want?

Didn't you see that this group of people was trying to escape on horseback?

They haven't thought about surrendering yet, they're running away, they haven't lost their weapons yet, and they still have the idea of ​​making a comeback, so if they want to kill, they want to kill completely!

Cao Chun raised the hand crossbow while chasing, and led his subordinates to raise the hand crossbow together, shooting at the fleeing Xianbei cavalry in front of them.

Kill one with one arrow, kill one with one arrow, and the Xianbei cavalry who was shot fell off the horse miserably. If you are lucky, you can leave a whole body, and if you are unlucky, you will be trampled into meat and turned into nutrients to nourish the life. He feeds his prairie.

The Xianbei people couldn't resist, and they couldn't do anything except speed up and escape.

So when Guo Peng led the Chinese army forward, he saw the scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood on the previous battlefield.

Such a scene is already common to him, and he has long been used to it during his many years in the military.

It's just that at this moment, his heart is quite restless.

Chapter 1105 If I die in the future, how about being buried in Langjuxu Mountain?

The scene Guo Peng saw after he arrived at the battlefield was no stranger to him.

There are dead people everywhere, wounded soldiers everywhere, there are people of their own, and more Xianbei people.

A large number of Xianbei people died in battle, and the casualties of the Wei army must not be considered small at present.

The Xianbei cavalry is at least the top cavalry unit of this era, and its combat effectiveness is far beyond what anyone can match.

If someone Guo hadn't used the cavalry that was an era ahead of them to carry out a downgrade strike, it would have taken a greater price to completely defeat them. The loss of this Northern Expedition would have increased and the results of the battle would have decreased.

Guo will never underestimate any enemy, no matter whether the enemy is strong or weak.

And the Xianbei people must not be considered weak.

At the juncture of life and death, the Xianbei people also erupted with a strong desire to survive and combat effectiveness, and the dying counterattack brought a lot of trouble to the Wei army.

Of course, in the end, the dying counterattack failed to turn the tide of the battle. After the complete collapse, their casualties began to increase exponentially.

From the collapse of Suli to the defeat of Fuluohan, the casualties of the Wei army were greatly reduced, and the situation on the battlefield was completely controlled, and the victory of this war was completely won.

"Do your best to treat the wounded soldiers. As long as you still have a breath, don't be stingy with medicines. Then, burn the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle, put the ashes in the altar, and take them all away. The corpses of the Xianbei people were dug into the pit and burned centrally. Bury it, and no corpse is allowed to be left on the grassland."

Guo Peng gave his order, and immediately someone would follow his request.

Guo Peng looked up into the distance, and all he saw were corpses.

In midsummer, the green grass was stained with the color of blood, and when I looked at it again, there was an unexplainable weird feeling, which made people feel uncomfortable.

So Guo Peng sighed deeply.

Cheng Yu didn't understand why the emperor sighed.

"Your Majesty, the army is victorious, and Xianbei is doomed to perish. Why is Your Majesty sighing at this time of great joy?"

Cheng Yu approached Guo Peng.

Then he saw the emperor shook his head slowly.

I am not sighing because of victory, I am sighing because of the difficulty of living a lifetime. I want my Wei Zimin to live a better and safer life, and to eat meat. So many Xianbei people have to be killed, and so are the Xianbei people In order to make my life better, I went south to knock on the pass.

People live for a lifetime, in order to eat, to live, how many things they do not want to do, under this bright and bright world, it is too difficult to live, our army has won a complete victory in this battle, but, could it be Is there no loss? "

Cheng Yu bowed his head and remained silent.

Of course there are losses.

Leaving aside the loss of the army, more than 100 people died in logistics personnel alone due to some accidents.

Some died of exhaustion, some died of illness and failed to receive timely treatment, some choked to death after eating too much food, and some fell to death during transportation.

Although Guo Peng also provided good security protection for the logistics staff, it still cannot guarantee that everyone will live well. Some people died, and many people were injured and sick, which delayed the production at home.

Once the important labor force in these families loses their labor force for any reason, it will deal a great blow to these families.

In the farming era, the labor force of young and middle-aged men was indispensable for the livelihood of a peasant household. If they lost their labor force, it would be a devastating blow to a family.

And this will also become a heavy burden for the local government of the Wei Empire——

After losing the labor force, other alternatives must be used to help the family continue to live, such as reducing or exempting taxes, or providing cattle and so on, so that the hostess of the family can take on this responsibility.

If the number of such households is small, it can still be handled. If there are too many, the concentration of such families in a village, a township, or a county will seriously affect the overall economic level of the county.