Chapter 680 The Crazy Ke Bineng
The weird behavior of the Xianbei army can be regarded as a big problem for the Pingzhou army. Even Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai and other think tanks couldn't figure out what Ke Bineng was planning for a while.
But that being the case, the battle should still be fought.
In other words, Kebi can force him to fight now!
Since that suicidal battle, Ke Bineng has gone further and further on the road of madness, leading troops into battle every day. Although the scale is not as large as the first day, the fighting style is exactly the same as before.
For more than ten days in a row, as if clocking in at work, Ke Bineng led the troops out of the city on time every day to provoke, while the Pingzhou Army took turns to fight. The troops that Kebi can dispatch are strong and weak, but the strongest troops that actually engage in battle are limited to the first level of wolf cavalry, and they basically retreat after a battle.
Although the Xianbei army was suspected of committing a suicide attack, and although the fighting force was low, the Pingzhou army suffered a lot of casualties during the half-month battle. Since the siege, the cumulative casualties of the Pingzhou army are about 260,000.
Of course, compared with the Pingzhou Army, the casualties of the Xianbei Army can no longer be described as heavy.
Including the more than 200,000 casualties on the first day, including the soldiers who died during the defense of the city, the total casualties of the Xianbei Army exceeded two million! More than half of the twenty-four newly-built Wanqi were directly eliminated, and even three of the regular Wanqi were cancelled.
More Xianbei Wanqi suffered heavy casualties, dissatisfaction with the formation has almost become a normal state of the Xianbei army. At present, there are only six Xiongnu Wanqi and five wolf cavalry Wanqi left in the full number of Wanqi who still maintain a full strength of 100,000 troops.
Such a tragic ratio of casualties, especially Ke Bineng's refusal to send real elites to fight, directly caused turmoil in the Xianbei army. A big reason why Kebi was able to succeed in the position was that he was fair and able to properly handle the conflicts between the various tribes.
But now his action is to personally overthrow his own personality, and many Xianbei nobles who have expected Kebi to repay him gradually began to despair. And Kebi Neng's consecutive defeats in this half month caused his prestige in the Xianbei army to plummet. Many Xianbei nobles from the real power faction who had damaged their own interests secretly united in an attempt to launch a coup.
But at this time, the "faint and incompetent" Ke Bineng suddenly became shrewd again, showing his due level. He saw through the conspiracy of the nobles at a glance, and ruined their plans in twos and threes. Not only that, but he will also plan and use the power of the loyal six Xiongnu Wanqi and five wolf cavalry Wanqi to capture all the five Wanqi who participated in the rebellion and hundreds of half-hearted Xianbei nobles in one fell swoop.
And then...then there was a massacre!
A full five thousand riders,
The 420,000 Xianbei troops who participated in the rebellion were all killed by Ke Bineng in one go!
This horrific decision caused turmoil within Xianbei even more than the rebellion itself. Conspiracy and betrayal are purely daily activities in Xianbei. But since the time of Tan Shikui, the punishment for rebels has generally been to kill leaders and a small number of loyal troops.
Most of the ordinary troops that participated in the rebellion were mainly surrendered, and they were disbanded. It is almost a sensational anecdote that massacres of rebel troops that have surrendered like Kebineng.
Such an exaggerated order naturally aroused strong opposition in the Xianbei army. Many Xianbei nobles who were originally in the neutral camp began to criticize Ke Bineng's brutal approach, and the entire Touman City was in turmoil for a while.
If it weren't for the three million Pingzhou troops outside the city, the second Xianbei civil war would have already begun.
However, in just two days, the precarious Touman City immediately settled down. There was silence in the whole Touman City, and all the voices against Ke Bineng disappeared!
This is of course not that the Xianbei nobles suddenly changed their minds, but that Ke Bineng was really "crazy"!
Facing the surging internal opposition, instead of compromising, Ke Bineng began to arrest the opposing Xianbei nobles on charges of "collaboration with the enemy" and "rebellion".
Although more than two million troops were killed in battle, the Xiongnu Wanqi and Wolf Cavalry, which were the pillars of Xianbei, were completely preserved, and the combat power of Ke Bineng's direct army did not decline significantly.
Under the butcher knife of the Xiongnu Wanqi and the Wolf Cavalry, the opposition mainly composed of the new Wanqi and the regular Wanqi is obviously not an opponent. Moreover, although Ke Bineng's previous massacre has aroused strong criticism, he still has power, and not everyone will oppose him. The regular army that sincerely supports Ke Bineng still accounts for a large proportion.
Under Ke Bineng's iron and blood purge, accompanied by the rolling heads of the opposition, the head of Manchester City quickly calmed down, at least on the surface. As for how many turbulent waves are behind the calm performance, only God knows!
Anyway, there are traces of Qianhuan activities in the Xianbei opposition.
If the matter ends here, it can also be said that it is a relatively radical measure taken by Kebi Neng to stabilize the rule under high pressure, and it is still some distance away from the evaluation of "crazy".
But Ke Bineng's actions afterwards were puzzling, and at the same time confirmed his reputation as a lunatic!
Kebi Neng used the excuse of the turmoil in the city and the rampant behavior of the Han people to arrest the spies while the whole city was under martial law. The targets of this spy arrest directly covered all classes such as the Xianbei army, nobles, civilians, slaves, etc. Except for the six Xiongnu Wanqi and wolf cavalry, the rest were all activities of arresting spies.
And this move was so crazy that someone who was a member of the army who arrested the spy in the morning became a spy who was caught in the afternoon.
Any complaints and complaints against Ke Bineng are evidence of elaboration, and the captured spies are brought back without any trial, and they are all killed under the personal supervision of Ke Bineng. This kind of crazy order immediately made the whole head of Manchester City shudder, saying that the road is light to the eye, and no one dares to go on the road at all! Even if you hide at home, you are afraid of the special operations army that catches the Han army's secret work and breaks in!
In this extreme situation, Ke Bineng even insisted on sending troops out of the city to fight against the Pingzhou army. The main force of the army to fight is still dominated by the non-directed regular Wanqi and the new Wanqi, and by the way, a Xiongnu Wanqi or wolf cavalry Wanqi is sent to "assist".
It is said to be an assistant, but it is actually a supervising team. Any cowardice, unauthorized retreat, etc. will be treated as traitors. The Xianbei army who left the city has only two options, either to fight to the death with the Pingzhou army, and perhaps Ke Bineng will allow the rest to retreat after most of the battle is killed; or be supervised. Ruthless kill!
This situation lasted for three days, and ended when a Xianbei army who was forced to go out of the city to fight rebelled on the battlefield, and directly raised the white flag to surrender to the Pingzhou army.
So far, Ke Bineng no longer sent troops to take the initiative to fight out of the city. At the same time, the Pingzhou army's siege battle has not stopped, and the section of the city wall that is the focus of the attack has already been riddled with holes and may collapse at any time. The defenders on the city wall were fluctuating in their minds. If it wasn't for the threat of swords from the supervising team, they would probably have dispersed long ago.
With the current grim situation in Touman City and the city wall falling, apart from the Huns Wanqi and Wolf Cavalry of Ke Bineng's direct lineage, almost no army can persist in resisting.
If Shang Ji can make some appropriate promises, they can even let them fight anyway.
It seems that the final victory is within easy reach, and today is the fifty-fifth day of the opening of the National Fortune War!
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