Chapter Fifty-Eight: Bleeding Strains
When the enemy troops around me saw that I was so mighty, they were not afraid, and with a shout, more than 20 people rushed towards me
Guns, swords, kicks, and in a short time, more than 20 people died at my hands one by one.
Although I was unharmed, my mount was cut off by a hoof, and I fell to the ground with a scream, and I could no longer ride on it.
Seeing this, Luo Rou was afraid that I would lose, so she drove her horse to her side to cover me.
I felt sorry and gave the screaming mount a shot to end its pain. Fortunately, it's not Siyun. Although Siyun is a BMW in ten thousand, it is not a war horse, it has not undergone special training, and no one knows what will happen after being frightened on the battlefield, I left it in Nanning early in the morning and asked someone to take care of it.
When a soldier in the battalion saw that I had no horse, he patted his horse and said, "General, please ride my horse!" ”
"No need, I'll just grab one!" I refused, he was just an ordinary cavalryman, he had little chance of surviving on the battlefield if he lost his horse, and I could not deprive my men of their lives.
"I can ...... without a horse," the soldier was still holding on, but I had already run into the enemy's group.
Sure enough, he stabbed to death a commander in a short time and killed people and took the horse.
The bloody battle lasted for more than an hour, and the two sides still did not decide the winner, and my mount had changed to a fourth horse, and the result was that at least nearly 100 enemy troops were cut down by me.
The artillery of both sides had long been unable to exert their power, and when the battlefield fell into a stalemate, they immediately turned their guns and engaged in an artillery battle with the opponent's artillery.
I couldn't see the victory or defeat in the battle formation, but Kang Yan could see it clearly from the heights, and as soon as he gave the order, the cavalry of the battalion of guerrilla flanks immediately bypassed the main battlefield and rushed to the place where the enemy's main general was.
Seeing this, the enemy commander was in a hurry, and sent an order to transfer 5,000 soldiers who had not been used to the front of him, and his own regiment guarded him.
The cavalry was extremely fast, and when they were young, they rushed to the enemy, and a round of bows and arrows was fired, killing hundreds of cavalrymen, and before they could wait for the bows and arrows to return fire, they turned their horses' heads and killed the enemy's backs on the main battlefield. The enemy general was furious, and he had thought that this elite cavalry, which seemed to want to take the head of a million troops, actually turned around and attacked his own soldiers. If the rear is attacked, its position will be in disarray. The enemy general is powerless to return to the sky, his reserve is thousands of infantry, in terms of speed it is impossible to be the opponent of our cavalry, and the pursuit is impossible. Still, he gave the order to attack, hoping to wipe out the cavalry before they broke the camp. The enemy general ordered his troops to pursue and warned the enemy in the battle with a clarion call.
But it was too late, and in the face of the tremendous onslaught of the cavalry of this new force, the enemy formation quickly became chaotic, and in a short time it turned into a rout.
Although the enemy commander also ordered the troops guarding him to attack, it was no longer helpful. In order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, he had to order a retreat.
There was no way to bring the heavy artillery anymore, the artillerymen threw down the cannon and ran to the front, and the rest of the soldiers saw this and fled in a hurry like a lost dog.
Kang Yan passed the order, and the tail chased after the enemy.
More than 10,000 horsemen followed behind the followers with bows and arrows, constantly shooting and killing the enemies who fell behind. The rest of the soldiers followed us closely, not to be left behind.
Seeing this, the enemy army was already cold, knowing that backwardness was death, and one by one they spread their feet and ran towards Zhennanguan, wishing that they would give birth to a few more feet.
Although the enemy general wanted to occupy the terrain several times to resist, but in the face of the tide of defeat, it was difficult for him to return to the sky even if he was the reincarnation of Sun Wu.
After chasing all the way for more than 30 miles, the enemy suddenly turned to the west. We were still waiting to pursue the enemy, but Kang Yan passed down the order to collect the troops and return to the camp.
On the way back, I found that for more than 30 miles, blood stains and corpses were endless, and there were already jackdaw wild dogs devouring the corpses.
"They are also soldiers, although they are hateful and should be killed, but they are not to the point of being in the belly of a beast!" With that, I ordered the wild dogs to be shot Jackdaw.
After shooting a few wild dogs, the rest of them were frightened and scurried into the woods and grass, and the jackdaws flapped their wings and flew off into the distance, and I don't know if they will come back to eat the corpses after we leave. It was only ordered to carry all the corpses of our army to the saddle and return to Chongzuo.
When they returned to the battlefield, the sun was already hanging overhead, and a battle lasted for three hours, from early morning to noon.
On the main battlefield, the corpses have almost been moved, the original green field has been soaked in blood, the red has turned black, the broken weapons, the damaged military flags, the clouds of unburned green smoke, and the qiē and qiē are all telling everyone about the bloody and cruel war.
I suddenly remembered a word in my heart, shook my head, and sighed, "This is really bloody!" ”
Luo Rou said softly beside him: "Fight for land and kill; Fight for the city, kill the city......"
My body trembled, and I didn't know what to say, could I really kill corpses piled up in cities and fields? Is this the cruel nature of war?
Kang Yan passed down the order, and all the wounded soldiers were sent to Chongzuo City for treatment, and the remaining soldiers all returned to the camp.
Kang Yan took Zheng Haoliang, Wu Ruilin, me and others into the city with the wounded soldiers. The doctors in the city had already gathered together, and all kinds of medicinal materials and medical equipment were also very well prepared, and Kang Yan immediately ordered every soldier to be treated with all his might.
After comforting the wounded soldiers, Kang Yan led the people back to the barracks.
Just returned to the barracks, Kang Yan received another success.
The first thing that came was that, as Kang Yan said, the Annamites sent 30,000 enemy troops to attack Debao, but in the face of the army that had been waiting for us for a long time, these 30,000 people had to return with more than 3,000 corpses.
Then, Jiang Song came with good news, you may already be wondering, why is our army fighting with the enemy, but this general Zuo is not there? And there are also 5,000 Shenji battalions, 5,000 Ningyuan iron cavalry, 1 battalion of infantry, and 1 battalion of archers missing? Is there anything more important than a decisive battle?
Yes! Zhen'an Pass was occupied by the Annam people at the beginning of the rebellion, and after Zhennan Pass to Nanning, there was almost no danger to defend the vast land, and the enemy army could enter and exit at will as if visiting their own back flower courtyard. Although our army has a heavy army, it has to spread its troops on a wide front like sprinkling peppercorns, so as to face possible sneak attacks from the enemy everywhere. Such a battle is extremely unfavorable to our army, and in any case, Zhennan Pass is bound to be recaptured. Otherwise, you will have to be tired to death by the enemy.
This battle is giving Kang Yan a chance to regain lost ground. Therefore, on the one hand, he mobilized troops to defend against the enemy, on the other hand, he strengthened the defense of Debao, and raised surprise troops, mobilizing more than 20,000 people, led by Jiang Song, assisted by Duan Yonggang, commanded by Ningyuan Iron Cavalry, and led the troops to attack Zhennanguan.
Jiang Song's troops, quietly set off at night, lurking in a dense forest outside Zhennan Pass, seeing the Zhennan Pass army out, until we started here, he ordered more than 1,000 people wearing Annan military uniforms to panic that our army would come to sneak attack, they were transferred back to guard the pass, after the city gate was opened, the more than 1,000 people suddenly attacked, and took the city gate. Five thousand Ningyuan iron horsemen immediately rushed into the pass, and the army then entered the pass. At this time, there were less than 10,000 defenders in the pass, and many of them were wounded in the previous battles, and the combat effectiveness was extremely poor.
The reason why the enemy troops who were killed and pursued by us turned to the north was most likely because they received news that Zhennan Pass had been lost, so they had to find another way to flee for their lives.
Not long after, Longzhou City sent someone to report that the defeated army of Annan passed around Longzhou, and Longzhou was not strong enough to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and the enemy retreated to Annan.
In this bloody battle, 8,500 of our 50,000 elite soldiers were killed, 7,000 were lightly wounded, and 2,300 were seriously wounded, and only about 32,000 of the 50,000 troops remained.
Our army attacking Zhennan Pass is only 20,000, and the enemy army still has tens of thousands of enemy troops in the Duobang area outside Zhennan Pass. As soon as he thought of this, Kang Yan immediately ordered to go to Zhennanguan after lunch to assist in defense. There was no time to celebrate, leaving 2,000 to defend Chongzuo and take care of the wounded soldiers left in the city, and the 30,000 troops did not have to eat lunch, and immediately went to Zhennan Pass before the clothes were unraveled.
All the way through Tianxi, Ningming, Pingxiang, when the red sun fell in the west and the tired birds returned to the forest, the army finally arrived at Zhennan Pass.
Zhennanguan is located in the southernmost part of China's southern border, and China's Nanning and Annam Hanoi are both 400 miles. Zhennanguan was founded more than 1,000 years ago in the Western Han Empire, originally named Yongji Pass, also called Jieshou Pass, Da Nan Pass. It is called Nantian Sanguan in the Shuikou Pass in the northwest of Longzhou and Pingerguan in the northwest of Pingxiang, and Zhennan Pass has the reputation of the first pass in Tiannan, and its name Zhennanguan originally also has the meaning of deterring Annan and stabilizing southern Xinjiang.
Zhennan Guanhu is located in Daqingshan and Jinji Mountain Pass, which is the only place for China to travel with Annan. When the relationship between the two sides is tense, Zhennan Pass is used as a border pass to ensure the safety of the southern part of our country; When the relationship between the two sides eased, it served as an important market for good communication between the two sides, and merchants and travelers gathered.
Daqing Mountain, Jinji Mountain is like a wall, and Zhennan Pass is a door, open the north and south, closed is difficult to pass. The terrain where the pass is located is extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, occupy the city, there is a lot of husband as the pass, ten thousand people do not open. As an important pass to resist the border of Annam, there is no need to go into detail about the high city of Guannei, and there are more than 20 Zhenguan forts in the Guan, equipped with nearly 100 artillery pieces. Imagine that if the Annan people dared to attack, in the face of high walls and heavy artillery, they would have ten times the number of troops, and they would have to end up with a feather in the end. If the defenders had not been negligent in their vigilance, it would have been impossible for the Annamites to capture Zhennan Pass lightly. And if Jiang Song didn't open the city gate by trickery, even in the face of more than 10,000 old, weak and disabled, he would be powerless.