Chapter 969 Khan Escapes
"Charge, keep charging! Take back the tent, and those who can kill the enemy general will be rewarded!"
At this time, outside the Khan's tent, although the war outside has not expanded here, the situation here is not calm either. Mugan Khan is urging his men to attack the Western Wei army guarding the Khan's tent with a look of exasperation.
At this time, the Khan's tent was already full of corpses, most of which were Turkic corpses. And inside these Turkic corpses was the Wei army led by Yang Zhong.
Although Mugan Khan repeatedly ordered to urge the attack, the surrounding Turkic soldiers were mostly lazy. It was not that they were so brave that they dared not even obey the Khan's orders, but because the enemy was really too fierce. It can be said that since the Turks became the overlord of the grassland, they have never seen such a tenacious and fierce enemy.
These people have well-protected armor and shields. Even if they repeatedly control the bow and shoot around the enemy formation, the lethality caused is very limited. When they entered the front to attack, the enemy's armor and swords were so strong that they taught them a hard lesson.
Every time those long swords swung down, it was like an indestructible lightning. Even their proud armor was as fragile as paper under the blade. All those who were slashed by this sword fell to the ground.
"Khan, why not use fire attack?"
A Turkic tribe chieftain came to attack with his troops. Because he was reluctant to let his elite warriors go to die, he came to Mugan Khan and carefully suggested.
"Stupid, stupid thing! Do you want me to burn my tent?"
Mugan Khan stamped his feet and roared after hearing this. This huge tent was a symbol of his status. Although it was made of good materials, the real reason why Mugan Khan would rather lose his soldiers and generals to attack than to set fire to destroy the enemy's formation was the gifts stored in the tent.
If it was not a last resort, Mugan Khan would not be willing to burn all the huge wealth. However, the tribesmen suffered heavy casualties and their fighting spirit was sharply reduced, which made Mugan Khan very irritable. After a little hesitation, he said again: "Recruit other slave tribes to attack here and consume the strength of these bandits!"
In the process of conquering the grassland, the Turks were also constantly incorporating those foreign Hu tribes. These Hu tribes were also divided into different levels according to their respective strength and the time of their submission to the Turks, and they needed to send their tribesmen to follow the Turks to go out to fight.
By recruiting these Hu tribes, the Turks could not only increase their own strength, but also consume the men of these tribes through war. Even if the war encountered setbacks, after consuming the men of these tribes through war, it would be easier for the Turks to control and annex the remaining population and livestock of these tribes and make them part of the Turks.
However, these Hu tribes also understood their own situation. Although they did not dare to resist the orders of the Turks, they often waited and watched during the battle, wanting to preserve their own strength and unwilling to fight bravely.
Therefore, in general battles, these unreliable Hu troops are often not arranged in the core area of the central army, but are distributed on all sides as vanguards and cannon fodder.
But now the enemy has been actively led to the interior by Mugan Khan, and even the Khan's tent has been occupied by the enemy. The battle started from the inside. In order to consume the enemy's strong combat power, Mugan Khan can only order the servants of the Hu troops stationed outside to be recruited here to maintain the offensive against the enemy here.
When the envoy went out to recruit servants, Mugan Khan did not forget to ask about the situation on the eastern battlefield. When he learned that the troops led by Kongditou Khan were surrounded by the enemy in the camp and could not be deployed, he could not help frowning and said: "Kutou is not good at using troops and made such a mistake. I really shouldn't let him lead the troops!"
While saying this, he still ordered another troop to reinforce, in order to control the battle in the east, at least before solving these enemies guarding the tent, the battle in the east cannot spread here.
Soon, several servants were recruited here. Their leaders came forward to receive the order of Mugan Khan. When they heard that they were only dealing with an enemy army surrounded by enemies, these Hu chiefs did not take it seriously. In addition, the Turkic soldiers had also come forward to clean up the battlefield and moved the bodies of those who died in the previous battle away from here, which made these Hu chiefs not realize the seriousness of the problem. After returning to the troops, they led their troops to charge towards the big tent.
"Prepare for battle!"
Yang Zhong, who had retreated to the inner circle of the battle formation to rest, saw the enemy attack again, so he grabbed the helmet and face armor to protect his head and face, and then returned to the front line with a long sword in his hand. Seeing the enemy cavalry jumping forward, he immediately swung his sword and chopped them angrily. With the rise and fall of the sword, the enemy cavalry was torn apart!
"Thieves, the thieves are so fierce!"
These newly arrived Hu chieftains had only heard the sound of fighting from the outside of the camp before, but they didn't know the specific situation of the battle. When they saw their own soldiers being slaughtered by the enemy, the bloody scene shocked them beyond words and they wanted to retreat.
However, the Turkic soldiers around them had finally found a scapegoat, so how could they let them retreat easily? They immediately dispatched a team of supervisors to patrol behind the teams with swords in hand, and waved their swords to intimidate those who dared to retreat timidly and not to withdraw.
The Western Wei soldiers in the battle naturally noticed this, and Li Yunxin walked to Yang Zhong and whispered: "Duke Anlu, don't rush to kill the enemy for the time being. All the Hu people here are forced to fight by the Turks, so there should be some tricks to use."
After hearing this, Yang Zhong stood with his sword in his hand, and asked Li Yunxin, "General, what's your plan?"
After a brief pause, Li Yunxin led a dozen soldiers into the Khan's tent at the back, came to the tent where the treasures were piled up, grabbed a basket full of gold, silver and jewelry, and pulled it out. The other soldiers came forward to help.
After the treasures were moved outside the tent, Li Yunxin immediately ordered the soldiers to pick up the treasures and throw them around.
The Hu soldiers outside the battle formation were originally standing stiffly in a dilemma, but they didn't expect that pearls and gems would fall on their heads. At first, they were still shocked, but when they reacted, they were overjoyed and bent down to pick up the treasures scattered on the ground. When the soldiers in other places saw this, they naturally didn't want to be left behind and started to rob, and the soldiers who were already weak in fighting spirit suddenly became a mess.
Seeing that the strategy worked, Li Yunxin and others were overjoyed and accelerated the speed of throwing out treasures. When Mugan Khan, who was outside the battle formation, saw this scene, he became even more angry. He did not order a fire attack in order to preserve the treasures stored in the big tent, but he did not expect that these Wei people would be so crazy!
"Attack quickly, continue to attack, kill, kill all these Wei people! Do not loot the treasures, those who disobey will be killed!"
Seeing that the Hu soldiers no longer had the heart to fight, they just surrounded the Wei army battle formation and waited for them to continue throwing treasures out, Mugan Khan became more and more angry, and immediately ordered his clan members to join the battle and force the Hu soldiers to continue to attack forward.
However, although the Khan's prestige is heavy, it is not as tempting as gold and white things. These Hu soldiers only need to stand in the distance and wealth will fall like rain and snow. Who is willing to risk their lives to fight the enemy?
Not only did they not want to continue the attack, but they also intercepted other soldiers who tried to attack, so as not to affect the rhythm of the Wei army's dispersal of wealth after the battle started again. So the vassal army that was originally used to consume the enemy's strength turned against them at this time and took the initiative to block the attack launched by the Turkic soldiers.
These Turkic soldiers were not good boys who returned money. Seeing that the Hu soldiers had picked up many valuable treasures, they were naturally envious and greedy. Once they joined the battle circle, they also joined the team to loot the wealth and goods, and no longer cared about killing the enemy.
So the situation around the Khan's tent suddenly became chaotic and out of control. No matter how Mugan Khan threatened and ordered, those soldiers of the same tribe and foreign tribes were just obsessed with looting wealth and goods, and completely ignored everything else.
If it was just like this, it would be fine. After all, the Wei army was still trapped in the encirclement, and Mugan Khan would only lose some wealth and goods, but as the situation gradually regained control, he could still wipe out this Wei army.
But the problem is that it is not just this enemy army that is invading this time, there is also a more powerful army!
Just as Mugan Khan tried repeatedly but failed to regain control of the situation, the battle in the east was also advancing to the west. The first to return here were the reinforcements sent for the second time. These people saw the defeat of the front line and withdrew without even seeing the enemy. At this time, they saw that there was chaos around the Khan's tent, and they were even more at a loss for a while.
But the enemy did not give them time to react calmly, and soon the Western Wei army followed them. At this time, the enemy's defeat on the battlefield was already very obvious. The Wei army did not need to have any sophisticated tactical execution. They only needed to keep riding horses in the defeated army, intimidating and driving them away, and these soldiers would flee in panic and attack their own battle formation.
"Khan, it's not good, it's not good! The enemy army killed them, so we should retreat to the north of Yinshan Mountain for the time being, gather our troops, and fight again..."
Mugan Khan was still trying to clean up the mess, but no matter how the guards around him played drums and horns and threw arrows, the number of people who could be ordered to gather was still very limited. Under the persuasion of his confidants, he could only give up these futile attempts and lead the troops that could still be restrained and controlled at this time to quickly evacuate the camp and evacuate along the foot of Yinshan Mountain towards Gaoque Fort.
As Mugan Khan led his troops to evacuate, Li Yunxin and others naturally stopped throwing away their wealth. At this time, the surroundings were already in chaos, and no one could care about continuing to besiege their battle formation.
While Li Yunxin shouted loudly about the news that Mugan Khan had fled the camp, he led a team of armored soldiers to leave the battle formation and gather the ownerless war horses nearby to prepare for continued pursuit.
At this time, He Ruo Dun, who had missed the great achievement before, also led his troops to the vicinity of the big tent. In order to win the great achievement, he led the way and charged forward. He didn't know where his helmet was left, and there was a bloody scratch on his face from a stray arrow.
When He Ruo Dun heard Li Yunxin's troops announce that Mugan Khan had fled the camp, he was naturally impatient. He didn't have time to stay here to capture and kill other Turkic dignitaries. After Li Yunxin and others collected enough war horses, they immediately gathered their troops together and chased Mugan Khan in the direction he fled.