The battle, which broke out on the grassland on the east bank of the Yellow River more than 100 miles south of Yinchuan City, ended for only one day.

The time was not long, but the blood was extremely cruel. The Xianbei, pseudo-Huns and Hexi Qiang coalition forces died in total more than 30,000 people - about 10,000 people were killed directly in frontal battles, and more than 20,000 people were killed in the cover-up stage after the collapse, or were seriously injured and eventually died, and were killed by the Han army while cleaning the battlefield.

It is normal for 110,000 people to survive 80,000, which is normal in a battle dominated by cavalry. After all, the advantage of cavalry is that they can't beat them at least they can run.

Among the 80,000 people who survived, more than 20,000 were captured and captured, and 50,000 or 60,000 ran away. Among the people who ran away, the Xianbei army of Budugen accounted for more than half, 30,000. Who made it easier for him to escape from the battlefield at the northernmost end of the battlefield? Therefore, the heroes who were able to cut off their armies and withdraw their entire army.

In the Han army, Ma Chao and Ma Dai's troops suffered an astonishing casualties of more than 6,000 people. Fortunately, the proportion of armor and equipment of the Han army's cavalry was relatively high, with only 1,700 people directly killed in battle, and 4,600 seriously injured.

Moreover, because serious injuries are mainly caused by collisions and falls, rather than being cut off by sharp objects, they are mostly free from permanent disability. Eighty percent of the injured have broken bones such as hands, feet and ribs. According to the medical knowledge of 100 days of injury, many severe fractures and internal injuries caused by internal organs and internal injuries caused by internal organs. They have to lie down and recuperate for more than half a year before they can recover their mobility.

On Huchuquan, he was supposed to be in half before he came to assist the battle. He did not participate in the most difficult stalemate at the beginning, but Huchuquan's troops did not have iron armor, so there were still three to four thousand casualties, and the proportion of deaths in battle was higher than that of the Han army. But considering his huge capture and inclusion of prisoners, these losses were acceptable.

Hu Chuquan and Ma Chao had a short rest and continued to go north to clear the siege back to Yinchuan City. The result of the siege went smoothly, and there was no accident at all.

Pang De brought nearly 10,000 militias and temporary recruitment as spearmen. The crossbow soldiers' military farming was built in a green and strong man to defend the city. It was more than enough to defend the Hexi Qiang troops to attack the city for a few days.

When Ma Chao and Huchuquan's cavalry appeared, the infantry troops of Hexi Qiang had already scattered like birds and beasts, and many others tried to cross the Yellow River and return to the Helan Mountains to escape. They were killed by Ma Chao for a while and captured 20,000 to 30,000 people. When they finally identified the prisoners, they found that these Hexi Qiang were not warriors. They were just hungry Qiang people who came out to fight for wilderness in late autumn to spend the winter, and they were worthless.

Ma Chao first imposed these people into the hard labor camp as usual, and then slowly transformed them into the local military farm. Ma Chao led the cavalry troops to continue crossing the Yellow River. He spent a few days searching along the Helan Mountain, arresting the families, women and children of the Qiang people, and finally gaining a population of 50,000 to 60,000 people.

At this point, the Hexi Qiang was completely defeated by the attacks of Liu Bei's camp for more than two consecutive years. All the large Hexi grasslands with fertile rivers, lakes, oasis were basically under the control and incorporation of Liu Bei's army. Only some poor valleys such as Helan Mountain may have small tribes of thousands of households to survive.

The battle for Yinchuan County defense is basically completed at this point, and the subsequent highlight will be pursuit.

In this battle of Yinchuan defense, in addition to casualties and captures, Liu Bei's camp was still in a relatively poor position in other aspects. It was mainly to support the cavalry army to station in Yinchuan County for a long time, stalemate, and even subsequent pursuits. The food and horse materials consumed a lot, and the civilian power consumption was also consumed by the transportation and call of the material in the rear.

Therefore, according to the idea of ​​"fighting to fight", this account will definitely not be able to be calculated. If Li Su and Liu Ba did not make timely reforms and slightly improved the efficiency of material mobilization and dispatch, Liu Bei's camp would only lose more.

As for the seized Hu coalition weapons, clothes, and leather armor, they are not worth anything at all. Those bad guys are not as expensive as the total price of weapons and armor that the Han army lost in battle. The only harvest worth mentioning is that the horses were seized-

In this battle, more than 25,000 intact horses of the Hu people's coalition were seized, including about half of the war horses, and the remaining were ordinary low-quality horses and pack horses.

When the spoils were distributed after the war, Ma Chao left behind 20,000 horses and distributed them to Huchuquan. Most of the garbage weapons and clothes were given to Huchuquan, which was considered to make up for the few horses.

Hu Chuquan did not dare to argue more, mainly because he captured the Southern Xiongnu prisoners, and the Southern Xiongnu people who surrendered in an established manner all brought their own horses, so in fact, Hu Chuquan earned nearly 20,000 horses.

Ma Chao lost 5,000 horses in this battle and seized 20,000 horses. After the balance, Liu Bei's camp could at least expand the cavalry of nearly 10,000 people.

This is the case with horse-raising lands such as Xiliang and Hetao. Two years after the success of the Northern Expedition, Guo Si and the Qiang people were destroyed, and the total scale of cavalry in Liu Bei's camp climbed through the trough. Next year, it is estimated that they will have elite cavalry with a total number of nearly 50,000 people.

In addition to infantry, Liu Bei could have mobilized 110,000 infantry before the Northern Expedition, and some troops were stationed in Yizhou and Jingnan. Those defensive troops were not considered cannon fodder militias, but at least 30,000 to 40,000 elite troops.

Eliminate the losses of previous battles after the Northern Expedition, and then recruit Li Jue, Guo Si, Han Sui and Qiang prisoners of war to rectify and train the new army. To sum up, Liu Bei's camp has prepared 200,000 regular infantry troops. If it falls into a melee of princes as scheduled next year, Liu Bei's camp will be able to pull out 50,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry to advance eastward to compete for the world.

This is because Liu Bei has many steep and remote areas, and it is difficult to concentrate materials, so he can only take the elite troops route to reduce the pressure of transporting military supplies to the front line. If he occupies the fertile land of the North China Plain like Yuan Shao, there is no need to consider expedition logistics, and Liu Bei is also likely to have more than 400,000 troops like Yuan Shao.

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The defense battle of Yinchuan County was completed in mid-September, but the real good show is still behind, because according to Liu Bei's camp's pre-war plan, the subsequent defensive counterattack was the focus.

However, in the original plan, considering that Ma Chao would suffer a lot in the first stage, the subsequent counterattack area was mainly Hu Chuquan and Zhang Fei. Now it seems that Ma Chao still has enough energy, so he also urgently submitted a letter to Liu Bei to ask for a fight.

After discussing with the Chang'an staff, Liu Bei considered that his current logistics transportation optimization had improved a bit compared to when he made plans in the first half of the year, and the logistics was expected to be able to hold on, so he decided to adjust the plan and allow Ma Chao to go out of the battle and change the two-way pursuit to three-way pursuit.

After Ma Chao took a short rest in Yinchuan County for a few days, he turned to the pursuit in late September.

He left the troops in Yinchuan for defensive tasks that were in poor condition.

All the wounded soldiers were transported to Guanzhong hinterland by water through the Yellow River and Qingshui River to be maintained, reducing the material consumption on the front line. Anyway, there were still many fleets to transport grain and grass to the front line in the future, so they used the empty-load capacity of these vehicles and ships to transport people without any extra expenses.

After both parts were settled, Ma Chao brought only more than 10,000 cavalrymen, all wearing thick cotton jackets, heading north along the Yellow River bank north of Yinchuan, and entered the boundary of Shuofang County in the early tenth month of the lunar calendar. Shuofang County has no large Xianbei troops at all, and there are only some Hetao South Hun natives who live in the local grazing, so it is very easy to deal with.

According to the plan to divide the spoils in the first half of the year, these tribes wanted to call Chuquan to conquer and conquer, and now they have been dealt with by Ma Chao.

There was only the remnants of the Southern Xiongnu in Wuyuan County left in Huchuquan to sweep the storm, so he held his energy and concentrated his firepower to kill the rebels in Wuyuan.

In late September of the lunar calendar, Zhang Fei crossed the Yellow River from the Fen River in the north of Hedong County, and collected Shangjun from Hexi, which was equivalent to the later Shaanxi.

None of the three routes encountered any decisive resistance, because the Xianbei people found that the enemy was too strong and hid back to their nests. The Xianbei king Tingshengle was near, and no longer helped the Southern Xiongnu wading into muddy waters because of "death of lips and cold teeth". The Southern Xiongnu itself, without the Xianbei people, was not afraid at all.

However, it was precisely because of the strategic contraction of the Xianbei people, the Xianbei troops near Shengle were unprecedentedly concentrated. Not only Bu Dugen, but his brother Fu Luohan and others who escaped from Hetao, as well as the direct troops of the Xianbei Khan King Tuoba Liwei who was originally around Shengle, as well as other Xianbei tribes north of Bingzhou, Daihulang Anni and Yuyan.

Bu Dugen took more than 30,000 people back and helped Lohan more than 10,000. The King of Shengle Khan Tuoba Liwei had 50,000 strong soldiers with horses, and other ones, there were 130,000 Xianbei cavalry around Shengle to defend the royal court. It can be regarded as a concentration of nearly two-thirds of the total combat power of Xianbei (and one-third is in the area north of Youzhou, which is led by Ke Bineng, Que Ji and Mijia respectively, and does not obey Tuoba Liwei or Bu Dugen).

After Zhang Fei recovered Shangjun and Huchuquan recovered Wuyuan, he really did not have the strength to continue his expedition to Shengle to eliminate the Xianbei royal court.

Because Shengle is equivalent to Datong, Shanxi in later generations, and is now nominally Yunzhong County of the five Hetao counties. But in fact, everyone knows that Datong is further northwest of the Yellow River inflection point, and there is no direct access to the Yellow River waterway.

This place has been the core area of ​​Xianbei civilization for hundreds of years. Later generations went to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the Xianbei people's Northern Wei regime reformed the capital southward, they moved from Pingcheng to Luoyang. Pingcheng during the Northern Wei Tuoba Tao was Datong, Shanxi, which was Shengle/Yunzhong in the late Han Dynasty, and was a place.

To attack Sheng Le, Huchuquan and Zhang Fei had to continue to turn deep into the grassland from the northeast corner of the Yellow River. It was too unprofitable. We also had to worry about friction with other warlords.

It is better to go from Taiyuan County to Yanmen Pass to the north. The Jiuyuan area of ​​Taiyuan County, which is later Xinzhou, is from Pingxingling, and it is only 300 miles from Yanmen Pass to Shengle.

Therefore, Liu Bei did not have higher requirements for Hu Chuquan and Zhang Fei. He only heard that Shangjun had been basically revived, but he had already rewarded the merits in Chang'an City, summarizing the experience and lessons for the Northern Expedition to revival Hetao.

A layman watches the fight, while an expert watches the logistics. Liu Bei is a man who knows the military. He knows that based on the combat effectiveness of the Han Dynasty's enemy of the Five Barbarians, it is difficult to find the Hu people to force him to fight with you, and the battle itself is just the icing on the cake.

Ma Chao did make great contributions this time, but at most he would add a rank of title from General Pingxi to General Zhenxi, so he would not be promoted to General Zhenxi. After all, it was just a defeat battle with a relatively large victory, and so many people would cooperate with him.

The other princes in Kanto and even the court in Luoyang also began to completely face up to the "renting, transfer and exporting" reform proposed by Liu Bei for the first time. Even the princes who did not implement it could not completely ignore it. They had to find an excuse to refute it so that the people within themselves would not be interested in Liu Bei.

It is also very important to summarize the lessons within Liu Bei's camp - don't think that if you win a war, you will only have successful experience and no mistakes will be taught. In the process of providing logistics to Ma Chao and Zhang Fei, in the process of piloting the renting and mediocre methods, there will be more lessons, and there will be more greed and fraud.
Chapter completed!