Chapter 819: Picking peaches
Qin Jin soon received a military report that Xue Huan was about to lose, and Yang Xingben had always been dissatisfied with these children from Hedong families, and he was even more angry at this time:
"Xue Huan, this idiot, I have already reminded him, and he is still so ignorant, does he have to use human life as a price to grow this wisdom?"
However, Yang Xingben scolded reasonably, Xue Huan's arrogance and arrogance, almost everyone can see that it is expected that he will suffer sooner or later.
"Well, now is not the time to hold accountable, the most important thing is how to break the siege!"
After all, Fang Xuan is the prime minister, and he always looks at the overall situation, and his proposal was immediately supported by the majority of people. Qin Jin is not as angry as Yang Xingben, since it is expected, it is resolved calmly, not to mention that this is not a critical moment of life and death, so there is no need to be so angry.
"Let Xue Huan withdraw, Qin Yan's soldiers and horses will move closer to the southwest, covering Xue Huan's soldiers and horses to retreat to the back!"
This is indeed a good proposal, as long as Xue Huan is allowed to withdraw, the rebels will not be able to bite the target of the attack, and they will not dare to chase after it, so there is only one way to collect the troops.
You must know that the entire Shenwu Army is well arranged outside Luoyang City, and Xue Huan's department is just one of the soldiers and horses.
Yang Xingben snorted coldly again:
"I'm afraid that Xue Huan will refuse to obey the order!"
Qin Jin pondered for a while and said:
"The most taboo for generals is to move troops out of anger, if you pull the whole army to die because of your own will, even if this kind of person has the ability, he must be punished heavily!"
Fang Xuan glanced at Qin Jin in surprise, and said to himself: I heard that he severely punished Yang Xingben, who acted without authorization in disobeying military orders, and thought that he had chosen to support the powerful Hedong faction among the various factions of the Shenwu Army, but now that he listens to the rumors, he seems to be intending to take this Xue Huan......
There is such a thing as factions, which can never be eradicated, and will always exist, from the imperial court to the official offices of a county, all of which are divided into gangs, or clearly distinguished, or entangled. Even the Shenwu Army, which has always been known for its strict military discipline, will inevitably have factions.
Now it seems that the children from the Hedong family are all over the Shenwu army, so they naturally take this as the greatest. And what a qualified commander really needs to do is not to eliminate the factions, but to maintain the factions in a relative balance, and by no means to pull one faction to fight another.
Fang Xuan secretly commented on Qin Jin's methods, doing so was equivalent to whipping fifty lashes each of the two factions in Guanzhong and Hedong, and no one could be regarded as barely qualified. When it comes to marching and fighting, Fang Xuan is a little immature in his opinion.
It's just that these things can only be understood and difficult to speak, with Fang Xuan's experience and experience, even if he sees through the key points, he can only guide them step by step, and he must not speak out. In this way, it is not only for its own safety considerations, but also as a means not to embarrass the other party.
Unconsciously, Fang Xuan actually had a complicated emotion towards Qin Jin to promote his juniors, knowing that this person was his political enemy before, but now he just can't give birth to a trace of hatred.
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When the night came, the battlefield did not stop because of this, but shouted and killed the fierce battle intensified, the fire soared into the sky, the arrows rained, Xue Huan's full armor had long been soaked with sweat, he led the Shenwu army on the flank to nail the spot like nails, not to let the rebels take a step forward. The sound of killing was loud again, he licked his chapped lips, he couldn't remember that this was the first round of impact of the rebels, the strength in his body was losing bit by bit, and his arms were sinking like lead.
Because of the underestimation of the enemy, Xue Huan had already paid enough price, and he also regretted it, if Dan Fan could take Doctor Qin's words to heart a little, he would not have fallen into such a situation. But there is no regret medicine to take in this world, even if you regret it, you have to forcibly swallow this evil fruit.
"General, ask for reinforcements, the brothers can't support it anymore!"
Xue Huan also couldn't say what he was suffering from, because his recklessness and carelessness had ruined the situation of the battle, so where did he still have the face to ask for reinforcements? Moreover, now is not the moment when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the Shenwu army has suffered heavy losses, and the rebels who are the side of the forcible attack are no better, and now the fight is who has patience and perseverance.
Therefore, Xue Huan thought that he could retreat from the enemy without reinforcements. Of course, he has to fill the trouble himself, if he lets Dr. Qin wipe his ass for him, what face will he have in the army in the future?
"Hugh wants to grow the enemy's prestige and destroy his own morale, no matter how strong the rebel army is, it is not the opponent of our Shenwu army!"
The subordinates persuaded Xue Huan to ask for help, because they were worried that the soldiers would suffer too many casualties, and Xue Huan's first consideration was the face of Hedong's disciples, and the deviation between the two was also here. The general wanted to persuade again, but Xue Huan glared fiercely.
"Dare to disrespect the general's order?"
Suddenly, the general was silent, and disobeying orders in the Shenwu Army was a crime, and naturally no one dared to defy the law.
In fact, the current situation is roughly the same as Xue Huan's judgment, and the strength of the rebel army has also been drastically depleted in the half-day fierce battle, and the reason why it is still insisting on fighting after dark is to completely defeat the Shenwu army led by Xue Huan in one battle. As long as Xue Huan is defeated, the morale of the rebels, which had been depressed by repeated defeats, will be restored.
Moyan Siluo arrived with his guards first, but he did not rush forward rashly, but stood on a slope and observed the situation on the battlefield in the dark. He is also a person who has been fighting on the battlefield all year round, and he can see at a glance that the two sides are in a stalemate after exhaustion, and once an external force intervenes, the balance of this stalemate will also collapse.
After having the bottom in his heart, Mo Yan Siluo's mood is very good, today's opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which can not only let Xue Huan's shaft learn a lesson, but also invite merit and reward from Doctor Qin, according to the words of the Han people, this is called killing two birds with one stone.
The more Mo Yan Siluo thought about it, the more proud he became, to a person like Xue Huan, his former defeated general saved him in danger, and it was even more embarrassing for him to defeat him on the battlefield.
On the one hand, he sent people to contact Xue Huan, and on the other hand, he concentrated his cavalry and quickly detoured back to the rebels' flank, intending to deal a fatal blow to the rebels.
This tactic was very familiar to the Moyan Siluo, and the steppe cavalry rarely attacked from the front, and had always won by flanking tactics, which seemed to be greedy for life and fear of death, but in fact it was tried and tested, and it could reduce many casualties because of it.
As for the tactics of frontal assault and strong charge of cavalry, only the Tang Dynasty, which had excellent armor and could afford to raise good horses in the Western Regions, could do it. It's just that this kind of cavalry is too expensive, because of the high load, so that the mobility ability is not even much different from that of the infantry, except for the unrivaled impact ability, it is almost useless.
Therefore, in the past hundred years, the Tang Dynasty has also used the tactics of light cavalry. It was precisely by relying on this light cavalry attack tactic that the Hui tribe where Moyan Siluo was located was able to dominate the grassland. Now that it is used to deal with the pseudo-Yan rebels who have become the end of the crossbow, they will naturally be nine out of ten, and there will never be accidents.
Instead of personally participating in the cavalry battle, Moyan Siluo chose a better terrain and watched the battle from a distance. Although it is a field battle that the Uighur warriors are not good at, the rebels are also at the end of the crossbow, and it is still more than enough to win. At the same time, he didn't forget to cut the explanation, asking everyone to bring back at least two levels, as long as they can complete the task in full, everyone can get a bounty of one level.
No matter how this account is calculated, as long as this battle is won, Mo Yan Siluo feels that he will make a lot of money, he is only afraid that the number of beheadings is too much, and Qin Jin does not have so much gold and silver to fulfill his promise.
However, this kind of worry is obviously unfounded in the eyes of Mo Yan Siluo, even if Qin Jin does not have enough gold and silver to cash, let him owe this account, sooner or later he will have to repay it with interest, as for how to pay it back, how much, with Qin Jin's status and prestige today, he will not suffer.
Soon, the light of the torches on the flanks of the rebels suddenly appeared in patches of confusion, and Moyan Siro smiled smugly, his men had already achieved their initial success. Looking at the countless lights of fire in the distance, it was like a cow and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
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Xue Huan suddenly got a report, the reinforcements arrived, and they suddenly killed the rebels' flank, which made it difficult for the rebels' offensive to be maintained, and it seemed that there was a tendency to collapse.
Everyone couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, tonight finally passed without danger, but Xue Huan's face was extremely pale, he himself and 20,000 Shenwu soldiers had persevered in the hard battle for half a day, and they were wiped out by an inexplicable reinforcement.
Even if there are no reinforcements, these rebels will not last long, they will also withdraw their troops, now it's good, from now on, when people mention this battle, they will only talk about his Xue Huan's mistakes, and all the credit will be pinned on the heads of this reinforcements of unknown origin.
"Which one secretly went to ask for reinforcements?"
Xue Huan's first reaction was that a general asked for help from Doctor Qin without concealing himself, but he quickly dispelled this idea again, most of his subordinates were from their hometowns, and it would be a lie to say that they didn't care about reputation.
"General, the messenger from the Hui Department has arrived!"
Hearing the words "Hui Ministry", Xue Huan's temples couldn't help but jump a few times, and a bad premonition came up.
In fact, as he expected, this unidentified reinforcement was really the Hui Department of Moyan Siluo.
"Leader Moyan asks the villain to pay a mountain-like tribute to the honorable General Xue!"
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