Chapter 264: The Wolf Guard Changed Hands
Under the overall planning of Wu Song, the bureaucratic management system of the General's Office was set up, and six secretaries were recruited, and these secretaries would be sent to the army to serve as secretaries and secretaries after this training and inspection. Why do you say that scholars often have an advantage, because the starting point of scholars is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and the rank of clerk is a lieutenant, and these six clerks naturally precede others after joining the army.
"Our defenders lost 1,631 dead in nine days, 324 seriously wounded, and countless minor wounded. The injured have been treated as medical treatment, but there are still sacrifices to follow-up. Urzon continued, "After a night of statistics, our army killed more than 20,000 enemies in nine days, about 20,000 Uzi soldiers fled last night, the Uzi general Hailati was killed, the Uzi prince Ah and Rahan fled, and the Uzi national teacher Surmeda was captured. This Surmeda is fluent in Chinese, is the dean of the Uzzi National Theological Seminary, and seems to be the teacher of the Uzi prince, and is very popular in the country. ”
Zhang Xiaowu asked: "What is the main reason for the casualties of our army, and why did more than 400 soldiers die last night?" Zu Gongmao, you talk about it first. ”
Chen Qing, who was standing on the side, wondered in his heart, shouldn't he reward the generals after the big victory, this is criticizing everyone? This Xiao Wudang's approach is really unexpected, won't his subordinate generals be dissatisfied? He looked carefully and found that none of these generals were dissatisfied, and seemed to think that it was normal to summarize criticism after the war. Chen Qingxin said that he had been taught, no wonder the defenders of Mucheng were so capable of fighting, and this big victory would actually be criticized, could it be that Zhang Xiaowu still hoped that he would not be able to kill the enemy with zero casualties? But when he thought that Zhang Xiaowu had led the cavalry to challenge the 20,000 Wuhuan iron cavalry at the cost of zero casualties, he didn't think it was strange.
Zu Gongmao said: "The main reason is that we don't know much about the Uzi people, and we underestimated the enemy because of the accumulated victories in the previous period. ”
Shen Lindong added: "We always thought that the weapons of the Uzi were bayonets and wooden shields, but now we have discovered that each of them habitually has two palm-sized hand axes on their bodies, and they sleep with the hand axes. Although the attack on the camp was successful last night, many soldiers were injured in the Uz's counterattack before they died. Of the 428 killed last night, our garrison battalion suffered the most casualties, 316. ”
Zu Gongmao sighed: "The battle we expected to cause the collapse of the Uzi people at the beginning did not happen, and the real collapse of the Uzi people was after the adults killed Helati. ”
Zhang Xiaowu frowned and said: "The fault is not you, the fault lies with me, judging from the death of my six hundred soldiers in this battle, this Uzi people are actually better at defending the city." I thought they were not good at siege and misjudged their weakness, but in fact it was my lack of knowledge and my fault. ”
The battle was a complete victory, with 2,000 casualties and 50,000 troops defeated, more than 20,000 killed, and nearly 10,000 captured. It's just that Zhang Xiaowu blamed himself too much, and the Han army underestimated the enemy's defense ability, which led to a small accident in the original victory. But fortunately, this was just an accident, and it had no impact on the entire battlefield, and the first battle of the Mucheng defense ended with a complete victory for the Mucheng defenders.
Three days after the loud Uzi, the morale of the soldiers and civilians of Mucheng was greatly boosted, and the good news was quickly sent to the imperial court. The victory of Mucheng broke 50,000 Uzi enemies! ”
This is the rule of the post station, when there is news of the victory of the army, it is allowed to notify the people along the road, improve the morale of the people, and do not leak the military aircraft. The report of the post guards really made the people of the Central Plains very happy, and even some rich people bought some firecrackers, set off cannons at the street corner to celebrate, and had fun with others, many people hurriedly went to buy meat and wine, and they had to eat some good food at night.
At this time, the rebels organized by the beggar gang had just arrived at the Two Wolves Pass, and were stopped by the wolf guards of the Two Wolves Pass, it turned out that Cao Yan learned that these Jianghu rangers were ready to go out of the customs to help, and couldn't help but sneer, saying in his heart that this group of Jianghu reckless could help, and was jealous of Zhang Xiaowu's great victory in Mucheng, so he stopped the rebels outside the city.
Wang Xiaojian's righteous army initially only had more than 200 beggar gang disciples from all over the country, but the heroic order spread more and more, and the influence became more and more great.
The beggar gang was naturally the main force of the rebel army, and Wang Xiaojian, the helmsman of Daizhou, became the leader of the alliance, most of them did not have horses, and they all walked all the way to the Two Wolves Pass on two legs.
However, after arriving at the Two Wolves Pass, he was stopped by Cao Yan, and everyone was furious, and someone immediately found the deputy general Murong Yan and told him about today's injustice. That Murong Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Heroes, I have a very good personal relationship with Zhang Xianzhi, but the military order cannot be violated, as long as General Cao Yan does not give an order for a day, I can only be a wicked person to stop you." Please don't blame you, the contemptible people are really the military rules, if I have selfish intentions to let you go, my family will have hundreds of lives, I am afraid that I will be falsely accused of treason by the villain, alas......"
The heroes of the rivers and lakes understood that it was Cao Yan who was a ghost, so everyone discussed, and poisoned this Cao Yan with the cooperation of Murong Yan that night, and the next day, Cao Yan was unconscious, which frightened the generals. But Murong Yan said: "The country can't be without a king for a day, the army can't be without an owner for a day, General Cao is tired from official duties and can't wake up, and this wolf guard will be temporarily replaced by me." ”
Murong Yan had already made a move on Cao Yan, but he didn't have a chance, this time he borrowed the hands of the people in the rivers and lakes, and bought Cao Yan's most trusted favorite concubine, and finally won the wolf guard. Subsequently, Murong Yan wrote a letter to Zhang Xiaowu, and Wang Xiaojian, the leader of the Righteous Army, brought it to him, and the Righteous Army was able to get out of the customs smoothly.
The arrival of Wang Xiaojian and other rebels made Zhang Xiaowu quite interested, and he was especially curious about the rivers and lakes, he first arranged the rebels to rest in a military camp, and then was recommended by Wu Song to meet the rebels. In order to show respect, he also specially changed into clean clothes, hung up his beard, and brought his henchmen to come.
When Wang Xiaojian and other high-rollers learned that the ghost general personally thanked everyone, they immediately felt that they had been taken seriously, and they went out to greet them, only to see a tall young man in a strong suit with a bee waist and ape back leading a group of generals to come with a smile, and said with a smile: "Heroes come to support, Zhang is grateful." ”
Everyone said in their hearts, could this young man be Zhang Xiaowu's son or nephew? I couldn't help but feel a pang of disappointment in my heart.
That Wang Xiaojian stepped forward and said, "I've seen adults, I've seen Wuxian brothers." ”
Wu Song smiled and said: "Let me introduce you to the adults, this is the hero of the beggar gang, known as Wang Xiaojian, who is known as the nine-fingered beggar." This is our Mucheng garrison envoy, the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu Zhang, who is famous in the north. ”