Chapter 722 Huge Results (Subscription Requested)

Maodun knew that he could not stop now. If he stopped, he would be surrounded by the superior forces of the Han tribe behind him. At that time, he would be dead. However, the thousands of Han tribe light cavalry around him were so annoying. They kept biting him, which was really disgusting.

After thinking for a while, Maodun immediately had an idea and decided to divide 3,000 troops to cover the rear again to block the pursuers for the remaining army. The others escaped first.

But he was not stupid. He would not let his own people die. Looking around, the Xin tribe camp did not follow at all, but many people from the Snow Wolf tribe followed. More importantly, their leader was still gone. Whether he died or escaped, it didn't matter. The important thing was that he could find a way to use them.

After coming up with an idea, Maodun immediately said something to the personal soldiers around him. The personal soldiers immediately left the team and moved towards the Snow Wolf tribe, and then shouted at them.

"Our leader is surrounded by the Han army. Everyone, come with me to rescue the leader. Warriors of the Snow Wolf Tribe, follow me."

The surrounding Snow Wolf warriors were stunned when they heard this. They immediately looked around for their leader, but after looking around, they found that the leader was really gone. So a group of the leader's loyalists immediately responded to the call, and followed Maodun's personal soldier to turn their horses and rush straight towards the Han tribe's pursuers.

The warriors of the Snow Wolf Tribe saw someone looking back and didn't understand what was going on. But seeing that many of their fellow tribesmen turned around and ran back, they followed them in a daze in order not to leave the main force.

In the fleeing large force in front, the Snow Wolf leader, who had an arrow stuck in his back, saw his team suddenly turn around to block the Han tribe's pursuers, and heard the warriors around him shouting to rescue the leader. He was so angry that he spit out a mouthful of old blood, and fainted on the horse's back.

Before closing his eyes, he was still cursing, "Modun bullied me, Maodun bullied me!"

The three thousand Snow Wolf warriors were fooled by Maodun's personal soldiers to block the pursuers. Although the number was less than half of the Han tribe's pursuers, it also caused them a lot of trouble. The two sides fought for a while. After the coalition lost a thousand people, the remaining two thousand warriors were forced to surrender.

In this way, the Han tribe's pursuers had to split a part to look after these prisoners of war. When they wanted to continue the pursuit, there was no trace of Maodun on the grassland.

Thousands of light cavalry chased for dozens of miles, and they were tired and lost the target. Qianyang Yili had no choice but to order the army to rest on the spot, treat the wounded, and collect the surrendered soldiers and horses.

After waiting for about half an hour, Xue Tu also chased with nearly 20,000 people, leaving behind a lot of corpses of people and horses along the way. They did not run off, but unfortunately, when they caught up, they didn't see Maodun's shadow at all.

Xue Tu learned about the situation and cursed angrily. He whipped his whip hard and finally had to lead his troops back to the camp. Without logistical supplies, the army could not chase Maodun for hundreds of miles. It was unrealistic.

So, the Huben Guards led tens of thousands of light cavalry from the Han tribe, as well as the surrendered soldiers and Su Ritu's 10,000 troops, nearly 30,000 people, and rushed back all the way. They collected weapons and corpses on the road. The living war horses were also chased back. These were all important spoils of war.

It was not until the afternoon that Xue Tu led the army back to the camp.

On the front battlefield of Kaiyuan County, it had also been cleaned up. After the weapons and war horses were collected, the remaining bodies of the people and horses were carried by prisoners of war.

Without horses and weapons, the prisoners could not escape. Some wanted to run, but on the vast grassland, they could not run more than a few steps before being caught up by the Han cavalry. They were either shot to death or dragged back alive with a lasso. Finally, they were brought in front of other prisoners and severely whipped to tell them the consequences of running away.

Kaiyuan County reopened the city gates, and the women and children in the city were all smiling. They had defeated the powerful enemy, their homes were saved, and the sacrifices were still within an acceptable range.

After the battle, the leaders of Kaiyuan County were once again shocked by the gains of this battle when they counted the casualties and spoils of war on both sides.

The Han tribe killed 13,621 enemy soldiers, collected 28,972 surrendered soldiers, seized 76,854 war horses, 837 two-axle carts, 18,561 cattle and sheep, and 18,349 bronze weapons (excluding arrows).

This did not include those who were trampled to pieces or whose bodies were blown up by artillery. After all, many pieces of meat could not be counted at all. The battle results were only the relatively intact bodies, even if there was a head.

Looking back at the Han tribe itself, after a war of tens of thousands of people, the casualties were less than 2,000, of which more than 60 were killed and 300 were injured in the Qianniu Guard, and no one was killed or injured in the Huben Guard. The rest were the casualties of the herdsmen who returned to the Han Dynasty, and there were few deaths, most of which were not serious arrow wounds, and there was a chance to treat them. The loss of war horses was about 3,000, but compared with the huge spoils, this loss was nothing.

The big guys looked at the final data and couldn't help but smile.

"Hahahaha, our losses are so small, thanks to the armor distributed by the leader." Chai Duoduo laughed immediately.

"The new weapons are not bad. Those recurve compound bows can completely crush the enemy's bows and arrows in terms of power and range, which brings us a huge advantage." Qianyang Yili also exclaimed happily.

"I think the biggest credit for this battle should be attributed to the artillery. When I was cleaning up the battlefield, I saw that at least eight or nine thousand people died under the artillery shells. If it weren't for the huge losses caused to the enemy by several rounds of artillery, and the enemy's momentum was taken away before the battle, it would be difficult for us to achieve such a result in this battle." The county governor of Kaiyuan County, Ying Rui, also came out of the city and discussed with several military leaders.

"What Ying County Governor said is that the artillery is indeed the first credit in this battle. No one can deny this. To put it bluntly, our leader is still powerful. He can help us win the battle thousands of miles away just by staying in the rear and using his brain. In my opinion, the biggest credit belongs to the leader."

Xue Tu didn't get to fight, but he was the one who commanded the first few rounds of artillery. Now that he was talking about artillery, he naturally wanted to brag a little more, otherwise it would seem as if he had done nothing, which would be very uncomfortable.

"Hahaha, Commander Tu is right. Our leader is a good leader. Otherwise, we wouldn't have achieved such a great result today.

But I want to remind you all now. Should we report the victory to the leader? I guess the leader is still worried about the war on our side.

There is one more thing. How to compensate the soldiers who died, how to reward the soldiers who made meritorious service, how to deal with the tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers, and the tens of thousands of war horses. This is not a small number. Let's ask the leader how to deal with these spoils.

Moreover, although the spoils of this battle are large, the most important Maodun ran away. How can we explain to the leader? What should we do next? Should we rest and recuperate or continue to hunt down Maodun?

I think we should jointly submit a petition to the leader for instructions." Ying Rui reminded everyone.

"Yes, jointly."

"I will also sign a petition. Hahaha, I hope the leader will not punish us for the sake of the spoils."

(End of this chapter)