Chapter 958: Changes on the Battlefield
With the defeat of the Xiliang scout team on the small mound, the danger was temporarily lifted, but it still caused a lot of chaos and casualties.
Soldiers with armor and without armor, when facing arrows, the difference is too great, more than 100 steps away, if there is armor, maybe you can directly carry the bow and arrow shooting, if the angle of the arrow is not good, it may not be able to shoot through the armor, but without armor, basically no matter what the angle of incidence of the arrow is, it will cause serious damage.
On the one hand, Fei Qian organized the soldiers to help the personnel on the south bank cross the river as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he asked the soldiers to treat those injured personnel, in just a short time, because the personnel stood densely at the beginning, and they were illuminated by the light of the torches, which caused the arrows fired by the Xiliang scouts to basically not miss much, and more than ten people died, and there were more than a dozen seriously injured, and a few lightly injured, directly injured more than 30 people......
Looking at the few veterans who were helping to treat the soldiers, Fei Qian felt that the problem that had been forgotten before came back to think again, for the matter of battlefield treatment, no matter what, it would have to be prepared after arriving in Pingyang, and it should be equipped to some extent, not only for the rescue of soldiers when they were fighting, even in ordinary times, it was also needed.
Some time ago, because of the establishment of a good image, so there are a lot of people, among whom I don't know if there are any who study medicine, but in the Han Dynasty, there is still no doctor, only a doctor or a doctor, or according to the specialty of its diagnosis, it is called a food doctor, a disease doctor, or a gold sore doctor, etc., and even Langzhong, doctors and the like, are also available to future generations.
Therefore, most of the people in the army are gold sore doctors. From this aspect, the Chinese people's attention to doctors was actually not much at the beginning, and doctors and craftsmen were juxtaposed......
When Fei Qian was thinking about it, Zhang Liao came back empty-handed with a somewhat ashamed face.
Although he was not able to capture the living mouth, Zhang Liao immediately sent a lot of soldiers, and even personally searched north for a distance, until he found no more lurking Xiliang troops, and only returned to Fei Qian's side to report after determining the safety of the perimeter.
If you say that you are guilty, you can't say that there is no at all, after all, it was Zhang Liao who arrived on the north bank in advance, and it is also a problem that you were not able to find that there were Xiliang scouts lurking in, but if you say that Zhang Liao must be guilty, this is not easy to say, after all, it is staying on the shore, and the sound of the water flow plus the sound of people and horses crossing the river is enough to give this small group of Xiliang scouts enough cover......
Therefore, Fei Qian did not dwell on this issue, but just said that he would postpone the discussion, and asked Zhang Liao to collect and organize the soldiers. Fei Qian's biggest concern now is whether Li Liao's position is on the south bank or the north bank, but now, after learning about Zhang Liao's return, his heart has somewhat settled down.
As time passed, the answer to the question was finally revealed, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves could be heard in the night......
At this time, there was no longer any need to speculate, because the galloping sound of so many war horses was enough to prove that Li Dao's large army was still following Fei Qian, and what appeared here was just a small group of scouts sent by Li Dao to patrol the frustrated water.
Fei Qian's correct decision at that time finally paid off, although Li Dao saw the rocket guidance sent by his scouts, and rushed here non-stop, but it was still a step too late, Zhao Yun and the others had just crossed the frustration water, and Li Dao's vanguard cavalry appeared in Fei Qian's field of vision.
The Western Liang cavalry held the torches that seemed to cover the entire area as far as the eye could see......
Fei Qian was suddenly a little lucky, if Fang was a little timid when he was attacked, whether it was to retreat to the south bank or delay the time to continue crossing the river, he might be blocked by Li Wei in the middle of the crossing.
"Damn! Damn it! ”
A moment later, Li Wei led a large army to the south bank of the Fuqi River, looking at the Fei Qian troops who gradually disappeared from view, he couldn't help waving his horsewhip angrily and cursing......
But what can be done?
This has always been the case on the battlefield, and if it takes a moment, it is a world of difference.
If Li Dao was an hour earlier, or Fei Qian was delayed for an hour, the situation might change dramatically, but now the problem is transferred from Fei Qian's here to Li Dao's head, since Li Dao's army is on the south bank of the Fuqi Water, then Fei Qian can naturally set foot on the journey to the north, and Li Dao has to face the problems that Fei Qian faced before, whether to follow Fei Qian's trail and swim across the same Fuqi Shui, or to take a little detour to the east to take the stone bridge in Wannian County?
If you want to cross the water, you must either take off your armor and swim through the armor as Fei Qian did, otherwise the armor soaked in water will simply drag all the soldiers to the bottom of the water like carrying heavy stones; Either rely on the large number of people, go to the surrounding area to cut down trees, drag them over to build a simple pontoon bridge, you can cross the river directly without unloading the armor, but no matter which way you take, it will take longer than the time taken by Fei Qian, after all, the number of Li Wei's people and horses is here, and the swimming time is naturally longer, even if you choose to build a pontoon bridge, it will also take a certain amount of time.
It may be relatively convenient to detour to Wannian County, but that would be equivalent to searching for the traces of Fei Qian again, so not to mention the delay time, if you lose it, it will be equivalent to losing the best opportunity to encircle and strangle Fei Qian, how can this make Li Dao acceptable?
What to do?
Li Wei weighed left and right, and there was a little difficult choice for a while.
It seemed to feel Li Wei's emotions, and the war horse under his crotch was also a little uneasy on the river beach on the south bank of the depressed water, snorting, and kicking the sand under his feet back and forth......
"Someone! Go to the perimeter to cut down trees, build pontoon bridges, and continue the pursuit! Li Wei gritted his teeth and said fiercely, in this situation, since the army has mobilized to encircle and suppress Fei Qian, can it be so easy to let it break through?
If this is the case, not to mention the impact on morale, just among the Xiliang faction, wouldn't it be a matter of falling into the mouth, and it would be difficult for his prestige to be affected, and how would he stand in front of Ma Teng and Han Sui at that time?
"Huh? Oh...... Well......"
As soon as Li Dao's order was given, many Xiliang soldiers couldn't help but mutter.
After all, people are not iron, set off in a hurry early in the morning, and then chased all the way, although it is a person and two horses, but it is still tired enough to choke, near the night and saw the scout emergency report, there is no rest at all to chase here, but at the last moment is a step short, these Xiliang soldiers all the way to the breath, the spirit of holding back after seeing the Fei Qian troops Shi Shiran left, they all relaxed, and immediately felt exhausted, and now they can't rest, and they have to continue to cut wood to build a pontoon bridge... …
This, it is inevitable that there will be some complaints.
“…… The second leather waist of the Japanese mud, the previous Maha's, followed by the East Taisi and the meat to eat, now Moha...... All four eat Tuni ......" an old Xiliang soldier complained while slowly looking for trees.
"Is it mud...... Tired balls ......" immediately resonated with many people, and some people immediately agreed.
When a small officer with the appearance of Xiliangqu heard this, he shouted: "Bring!" Two bastards! Black Dog! What are you talking about?! Pinch both ends of the mud gaga! Half-wilted! It's all over in one lump of mud! ”
Seeing that Qu Chang shouted, many people were silent, and the old Xiliang soldier was still a little angry, muttering in a low voice: "Each melon skin!" Back then, Lao Tzu used a knife to play with the ground, and the mud coerced Baba'er to fill the soil for a few miles......"
Qu Chang saw how much he was stunned, so he didn't pay attention to the few whispered whining words, so he pretended not to hear it, and directly assigned the task, in fact, he also knew that the soldiers were indeed tired now, but the military order had come down, even if he was tired, he still had to do it, it was inevitable to complain, just control it within a certain range.
So, under the action of the Xiliang soldiers, who did not have much power, the pontoon bridge began to be built slowly......
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In Baishuigou, Ma Teng is facing another big problem, not whether to attack the camp or not, but not to expect to meet people of the same clan here, can this battle be fought?
It turned out that Ma Teng didn't believe it either, but after seeing Ma Yan, he couldn't help but believe it.
Because the shape of the spear used by Ma Teng was exactly the same as the type of spear used by Ma Yan, and even the two of them compared their martial arts a little before the battle, and found that the moves were almost the same......
This makes people a little surprised at the same time, but also have to sigh at the coincidence of life.
The two generals fought in front of the battle, and then stopped, dismounted each other and sat together, laughing, talking about the changes in their families, and after talking about emotion, both of them were embarrassed.
It turns out that Ma Teng and Ma Yan are both separated from an old Ma family, if you talk about the generation, they are still quite close, and they are both descendants of Ma Yuan.
Ma Yuan, but a legendary figure, was quite famous when he was young, and he also had good skills.
Later, during the period of Wang Mang, when the world was in turmoil, he first served as the general of Suide who was in chaos, and then betrayed Kui Huan and defected to Liu Xiu, and then used his position and prestige in the forces of Kui Huan, which led to the thirteen generals and more than 100,000 people under Kui Huan to surrender without a fight, and Kui Huan fled to Xicheng and became an important hero of Liu Xiu's pacification of Xiliang.
Ma Yuan also made a strategic and tactical move to gather rice for the mountain, and promoted the Zhou Zhang of the five baht money to restore the economy, not only to pacify the Qiang people, but also to lead the troops south to pacify the Lingnan region, which can be said to be a great achievement, and was later named General Fubo, but such a feat still could not resist the emperor's suspicion, and later Ma Yuan died of illness on the front line, and there was not even a decent place to be buried.
Although there were still some talents in the Ma family later, they were not as dazzling as the ancestor Ma Yuan, so they dispersed and became the source of many Ma surnames in the northwest.
Obviously, Ma Teng and Ma Yan have both been inherited from Ma Yuan's martial arts, so even the blades used are somewhat similar, so when Xu Shu saw Ma Teng on the wall that day, he speculated, and later sent soldiers to inquire, and only then did he have the result of the meeting between Ma Teng and Ma Yan before the battle.
However, such a result also led to Ma Teng's subordinates looking at the situation in front of them, and the original tense atmosphere dissipated most of the time at once, and the commanders of the two armies sat down to chat, is this still a fight?
Why can't you fight?
Naturally, it was time to do something, so the huge momentum created by Ma Teng was taken back at once......
In fact, Ma Teng didn't bring many people at all, the huge scale originally created was just a suspicious tactic, and now it has been exposed, although it is a little embarrassing, but anyway, the original agreement with Li Wei was just to come and delay the cavalry foot soldiers on the side of Fei Qian's Baishuigou, and give Fei Qian's camp enough pressure to make it impossible to divide the troops.
So now Ma Teng is also very difficult to do, he can't fight, after all, he didn't plan to attack hard at the beginning, but whether to retreat or stay here, it is a little difficult......
Xu Shu in the Baishuigou camp also saw this, so he sent someone to send some cow wine, and after Ma Teng smiled, he led the troops back to Xinfeng.
As for the question of how Li Dao explained it, Ma Teng said, who is Li Dao?
Ma Teng is also a big man in Xiliang, and it is okay to cooperate with Li Dao to do some actions, he must completely obey Li Dao's orders, and only obey his orders, this, hehe......
On top of the Baishuigou camp, Xu Shu watched Ma Teng and his soldiers gradually go to the southwest, but there was not much relaxation on his face.
Ma Yan was a little puzzled, just paid some insignificant cattle wine, grain and grass, avoided the battle, and let Ma Teng withdraw his troops on his own, so what is there to be dissatisfied with, is it really necessary to kill a fight, and it is worth celebrating to see some blood deaths?
Xu Shu saw Ma Yan's doubts and said, "Although this place is safe, the other place is in danger. Although it is good to get acquainted with Ma Shoucheng, I am afraid that there are many dangerous places for the prince and marquis......"
When Ma Yan heard this, he also nodded silently.
For the Han Dynasty now, first, there is no battlefield wireless communication tool, and second, there is no positioning system, and it is really an impossible task to receive the current information of Feiqian in time......
However, Xu Shu suddenly turned his head, stared at Ma Yan up and down a few times, then pinched his beard and smiled, which made Ma Yan suddenly feel a little hairy in his heart, "Yuan Zhi, if you have something to say, it's ......."
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Ma Yan changed into a leather robe, looked back at the Qiang cavalry behind him, and then looked at the battle flag with a different color above his head, shook his head and smiled bitterly, then whistled, and then took the five hundred Qiang horses to the northwest......