activa-t Chapter 313 Winning over
Chapter 313 Winning over
Emperor Wu also felt that Lao Liu's tens of thousands of captives could not have much combat effectiveness.
As expected, relying on the cavalry in the northwest is the key.
Just looking at a few letters, they all highlight the strength of the 30,000 cavalrymen in the northwest.
So when Emperor Wu was happy, he directly conferred the title of Earl on Yu Shengfei.
This means that he is a count in this life, and he will be gone if he dies.
As for Lao Liu, according to what he said in the letter, he was making up for his mistake and had no credit at all. All the credit went to Shengfei.
Emperor Wu was naturally happy. The Sixth Prince should not have any credit, and it was good enough if he had no faults.
It can be considered as him making amends for his mistakes, so there is no reward.
The governor of Yuanzhou must be promoted.
Not only was he rewarded well, he was also promoted from a fifth-rank official to a third-rank official in one go.
After the New Year meeting, he was directly promoted to prefect.
This made the prefect of Yuanzhou very happy, because the prefect was much more powerful than the prefect of Yuanzhou.
By then, I will be the leader of the big government, which is much stronger than Yuanzhou in the north.
However, the emperor also wanted to win over Yu Shengfei, and rewarded several important generals in the army and promoted them.
He also asked Yu Shengfei to perform well and make more military achievements.
Of course, I also told him that it would be enough to drive away the remaining barbarian soldiers and there was no need to fight any more.
As for the casualties of the cavalry, they must be replenished quickly and trained well.
Even Emperor Wu decided on the spot that from now on, the cavalry army's military supplies must be supplied by the sixth brother first.
Emperor Wu was very smart. He knew that at Hushan Pass, all other troops were defective.
Those Beijing troops have only been trained for a few months and they only need to defend the city walls. For this kind of army, you can train as many as you want, and there are plenty of people to train them.
As long as there is money and food, it will be enough.
However, cavalry is not easy to train, especially when it comes to head-on combat. They even defeated the same number of barbarian cavalry. The Northwest Cavalry is indeed worthy of its reputation.
Of course, you have to hold it in your own hands.
In particular, he was prepared that if Hushan Pass could no longer resist, this cavalry army would immediately move south and follow him to the south, which would be enough to threaten a group of vassal kings.
As for the tens of thousands of captured soldiers led by Lao Liu, they didn't even have cotton clothes. According to the investigation report, they were barely keeping warm by relying on the rags captured on the battlefield.
This kind of rubbish team is useless except that it has a lot of people and cannon fodder.
In other words, Lao Liu really had no soldiers left at Hushan Pass, so he kept organizing these captured soldiers to go to the battlefield.
But Emperor Wu didn't bother to care. In his opinion, it didn't matter what kind of troops you organized, as long as they could stop the barbarian army's attack.
No matter how many casualties there were among these captured soldiers, he would not even look at them. They were just a bunch of ragtag troops.
Moreover, they all surrendered to the barbarians and were captured captives. How could they be loyal? They just didn't want to die and wanted to have something to eat.
Emperor Wu would never believe in such a team.
Therefore, Emperor Wu would not even mention the rewards.
As for the captured soldiers that Lao Liu mentioned, there were tens of thousands of casualties, and many were frostbitten and froze to death. Emperor Wu didn't bother to care about them. It was none of his business if they were all dead.
Since they have surrendered to the barbarians anyway, not killing them is already a mercy.
Without the 30,000 Northwest Cavalry, what’s the use of Lao Liu bringing more prisoners? They are still a bunch of cannon fodder and a mob.
After the Battle of Yuanzhou, Emperor Wu praised Yu Shengfei and the prefect of Yuanzhou in the court.
He also sent someone to tell Lao Liu to hold on to Hushan Pass. This time, his merits and demerits will be offset, but if it happens again, he will not be forgiven.
Emperor Wu also made the decision on the spot, announcing with great momentum: "I hereby declare clearly that I will never flee south, and I swear to live and die with the capital."
He spoke with such majestic power.
All the civil and military officials in the court knelt and kowtowed: "Long live Your Majesty! We swear to follow Your Majesty until death."
They all shouted slogans loudly.
But there are only a few people who can truly live and die together.
During this period, many ministers sent their families and property to flee south.
There were all kinds of chaos in the capital, and some wealthy people even fought against each other to seize the city gates.
Now the barbarian detachment was defeated and fled with heavy casualties.
Although they breathed a sigh of relief, they knew they would not be besieged by the barbarians in such a short time.
But they also didn't dare to let their families come back.
After all, Hushan Pass is full of dangers, and the barbarian army is still attacking fiercely. Who knows how long the Sixth Prince can hold out.
Don’t be fooled by the emperor’s loud calls to live and die with the capital.
If the barbarians really broke through Hushan Pass, he would be the first to flee.
Haven’t you seen that thousands of Royal Guards have already headed south with a large amount of supplies?
Moreover, the barbarian army was defeated, and Emperor Wu did not let the thousands of royal guards come back.
Court officials were still pessimistic about the decisive battle at Hushan Pass.
But at least now everyone is well behaved and no longer moves around randomly.
In the direction of Hongfeng County, there was another decisive battle, which many people don’t know about.
Twenty thousand barbarian cavalrymen were suddenly besieged by tens of thousands of new troops in the mountains.
There really is no way to escape in the mountains.
Twenty thousand cavalrymen were wiped out in one fell swoop.
Not a single prisoner was taken. Apart from winter clothes, horses and weapons, everything else was thrown into a large pit that had been dug.
Similarly, Yu Shengfei pursued Dalto outside Hongfeng County.
Dalto sent people to contact the 20,000 cavalrymen who came to support him several times, and finally confirmed that they were about to arrive.
In cooperation with the thousands of rebels in Hongfeng County, they prepared to teach the Wu cavalry who had been pursuing them all the way a lesson.
He had never suffered such a loss on the northern battlefield or on the border.
He was the one who chased the Wu army and attacked them at will.
When did he get chased by the Wu army and fled?
Yu Shengfei was even more excited because the emperor had just conveyed an imperial edict promoting him to earl.
He was very happy and excited.
Naturally, he wanted to achieve more military merits and repay the emperor.
Immediately outside Hongfeng County, they cooperated with the two Jingying guards who were defeated by the barbarians nearby and could not take down Hongfeng County, and fought against the barbarian army together.
The two sides fought another battle, and this time, Dalto was ready to fight to the death.
In the cavalry-to-cavalry battle, Dalto suffered thousands of casualties, but was unable to drive away the Wu cavalry.
Had to retreat back to Hongfeng County.
As a result, after several days, no reinforcements arrived, and the army was attacked every day by the two guards of the Wu Kingdom's capital camp and other nearby troops.
Hongfeng County was taken back again.
Dalto was annoyed and had no choice but to return with a few thousand remaining cavalrymen.
He was ready to complain to the barbarian Khan about why the 20,000 reinforcements had never arrived.
When Yu Shengfei chased here, even if he wanted to make a contribution, he knew that he could not go beyond Hongfeng County. Outside the mountain road, it was the world of barbarians.
His cavalry was not enough to fill the gaps between the hundreds of thousands of barbarian cavalry.
But this also killed several thousand barbarian cavalry, which was enough to get the job done.
Yu Shengfei happily handed over Hongfeng County to the generals here, and went back with the prisoners, a bunch of captured war horses, and wounded cavalrymen.
Moreover, it was the Sixth Prince who personally sent people to collect the spoils.
Of course, the best ones were given to Yu Shengfei.