Lord Moyu was forced to open

Xingwu five years, the sixth day of April.

The hottest topic in the capital recently is how many Huns were annihilated by the 700,000 troops sent by the imperial court in the Hun grasslands.

It is said that the Xiongnu who killed them fled immediately after hearing about the Song Dynasty.

They have completely fled from the Xiongnu grassland to the desert further north.

In order to completely annihilate the Xiongnu, the Song Dynasty's 700,000-strong army blocked the border between the grassland and the desert for a full half month. They were afraid that they would return to the grassland as soon as the army left.

This is a rhythm that will trap them in the desert and starve to death of thirst.

It is worth mentioning that when the army arrived at the Xiongnu royal court, they discovered that the Xiongnu army was not at home at all. Instead, they were led by the Xiongnu chief Shanyu Tila to attack the Turks.

As a result, when the army finished clearing the Turkic royal court's tribe and followed the trail, they discovered that the Turkic side also had the Huns' idea in mind, and also sent people to sneak attack the Turkic army.

As a result, the two sides met halfway and then started fighting as expected.

After ascertaining the situation, the Song Army immediately mobilized the Tatar army stationed in the Western Regions to approach the place where the two sides fought, and the Song Army was also constantly approaching.

Finally, on March 17, the Song-Tatar coalition, totaling nearly 1.3 million troops, suddenly appeared and defeated the Xiongnu and Turkic armies who were fighting fiercely.

The two sides combined nearly two million troops, and thus launched the largest and most numerous battle in the Western Region in hundreds of years!
The war lasted for two days and three nights before it finally ended. Unsurprisingly, the Song-Tatar coalition won the final victory. The coalition lost nearly 100,000 lives in this war, most of them Tatars. Tatar damage.

There were relatively few casualties on the Song Army side, but many were injured. Nearly 300,000 people suffered varying degrees of injuries.

But there will only be more on the Tatar side.

Of course, such heavy casualties are inevitable.

There were originally nearly 400,000 people on the Xiongnu Turk side. After fighting with the Turks and then being besieged and killed by the Song army, less than 150,000 people survived in the end. Except for more than 40,000 people who escaped with Tila under the cover of the large army. The rest of the people in the desert became prisoners of the Song army.

The situation on the Turkic side was even worse, with 450,000 people. After the battle, less than 100,000 people were captured.

As for their Khan Moligen, he died in the rebellion early the next morning after the Song army appeared.

How to deal with nearly 200,000 prisoners is a big problem.

However, after thinking about it, Ding Hongguang, who was the head coach, directly ordered the 200,000 people to be buried alive.

He was ordered to annihilate the Huns, not to capture prisoners.

Before leaving the capital, His Majesty had promised that he would not take prisoners this time.

Wild fire, in spring.

Now the Song Dynasty has the upper hand and can suppress these Xiongnu.

But he can't guarantee that the Song Dynasty will continue to be strong and prosperous. If the Huns are left behind now and are not killed all, and when they rise again in the future, the Song Dynasty will be weak again, will the Song Dynasty be bullied by the Huns again?
If you want to kill, then kill them all! Kill them all!
If all the Jurchens were killed when Chenghua Liting was established, how could there be thirteen pairs of wild boar skin armors to raise troops later?
This is what happens when disasters are left behind!
Zhao Jun will never do this kind of business with the first and last words left on!
Two hundred thousand people were buried alive!

This was an extremely cruel act of killing prisoners, but none of the soldiers in the army objected, and they all carried out the order with cold expressions.

Most of them had experienced the Huns' invasion, and they had seen the evil they did during the Huns' invasion, so naturally they would not have any sympathy for the Huns.

But Tatar, who was watching this scene, only felt chilled all over, and looked at these Song people with fear in their eyes.

In the past, before Zhao Jun rose to power, in their impression, Song Jun was like a lamb on the grassland who was easy to bully and would not resist if bullied.

It is the weakest existence.

But looking at the current scene, they realized that they were wrong. In terms of ruthlessness, when the Song people were ruthless, it really didn't matter to them.

Naturally, 200,000 people were not willing to surrender.

When they were driven out of the pit, they discovered what Song Jun wanted to do, so they naturally resisted.

But how could Ding Hongguang be unprepared.

They had been hungry all day and had no strength. When he asked them to go into the pit, he also specially mobilized the entire army's repeated crossbows. If anyone resisted, a hail of arrows would rain down and they would be shot to death.

After killing the waves of thornheads who wanted to resist, the remaining Huns were desperate.

They no longer resisted, but sat in the pit wailing and waiting for death.

After a day, the grass where a big hole had been dug was covered back with soil.

However, this area has been much higher than before, forming a mound similar to a hill.

In order to prevent anyone alive below, Ding Hongguang also specially mobilized 50,000 cavalry to run back and forth on the entire soil bag for a full hour!
The red liquid oozed out from the ground and soaked the land before it finally stopped.

Looking at the ground in front of them that was much flatter than before, the Song soldiers all thought that the grass here would grow extremely lush on this day next year.

After dealing with the prisoners, Ding Hongguang wanted to lead his men into the desert and continue to hunt down Tila and others who had fled into the desert.

However, after going deep into the desert for half a day, I found that it was very easy to get lost, so I had to retreat.

However, warning points were set up along the entire border of the desert and grasslands, and millions of troops were stationed there.

He didn't believe how long Na Tila could stay in the desert without much food, grass and water?

As long as they are driven out, he can kill them. If they insist on not coming out, then they will starve to death inside!
Anyway, in order to annihilate them this time, sufficient preparations have been made early. Food, grass, water and other supplies from the rear are being sent continuously. He, Ding Hongguang, is not in a hurry!
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The sixth day of April.

It has been half a month since Tila led the people to escape into the desert. During this half month, they encountered various dangers. The 40,000 people they originally brought into the desert now have less than 30,000 left.

Had they not been lucky enough to find an oasis, they would have starved to death more than ten days ago.

But that oasis alone was not enough to support them for too long.

There are tens of thousands of them.

Even that oasis is now almost depleted by them. If they can't leave again, they will really starve to death here.

It's just that the spies Tila sent to investigate the situation on the grassland never came back. Tila knew that it must be the Song people who had guarded the border, and the spies he sent out were probably in danger.

But looking at the army behind them that has lost a lot of weight, they can no longer stay in the desert.

He didn't know how long the Song Army would stay on the grassland border, and he didn't know if they could hold out until the Song Army left.

But he knew he didn't have much time.

He can't afford to gamble!

For this reason, since the grassland cannot be returned, he can only find another way to survive.

If you can’t go south, then you can only go north!
Looking at the yellow sand in the sky in the north, Tila's eyes gradually became firm.

One day later, the remaining 30,000 Xiongnu completely wiped out the discovered oasis, and then resolutely headed towards the northern desert.

Now they can only live toward death.

Tila is betting!

He was betting that he could find a way out for the Huns before the army died!
Heading north, heading into the unknown.

Unbeknownst to the far north, a pack of hungry wolves was gradually approaching...

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(End of this chapter)