Chapter Twenty-Four: The Enemy Wants to Run
The next day, Tian Chou brought two truckloads of wine collected, and the preliminary estimate was more than 1,000 catties. Tang Zheng circled around the car twice, whether he could distill high-grade liquor, Tang Zheng was not sure, so he could only give it a try. Ordered someone to drive the car to the place that Tang Zheng had specially vacated. "Brother Tang, what are you doing with so much wine, are you going to celebrate?" Tian Chou asked Tang Zheng. "Celebrations? The enemy is still eyeing the other side, and now that it is too early to celebrate, I plan to refine something called alcohol, and with this thing called alcohol, the survival rate of wounded soldiers will be greatly improved. Tang Zheng replied. Alcohol? What's that, the best of wine? Can it really improve the survival rate of wounded soldiers? By the way, what is the survival rate? "Tian Chou is like a curious baby, every time he hears a new term from Tang Zheng's mouth, he chases Tang Zheng and asks questions." The survival rate refers to the percentage of these two sets of numbers in terms of how many of the wounded soldiers survived and how many died. Okay, I'll talk about it later, I'll go see if I can get the alcohol out of it. Tang Zheng sent Tian Chou away, and turned around and came to the place where the alcohol was distilled.
Tang Zheng asked the blacksmith in the army to make the steaming utensils overnight, but the rest was good to say, but the copper pipe was not easy to get, and he couldn't get it out for a while. In the end, Tang Zheng used the watering method to make a few long pipes of different thicknesses, which may not be qualified for other things, but it is more than enough for running water and wine, everything is ready, Tang Zheng poured the wine into the steamer and then called the fire to start steaming the wine, Tang Zheng called Zhang Chao to guard, and called himself again after an hour and a half. After arranging it, Tang Zheng didn't care, whether he could get the alcohol out or not was left to fate.
"What, you said that a large army is being assembled on the other side and ready to attack?" Tang Zheng asked the scout beside him. "Childe, this is what our brother just observed, the enemy is currently gathering, and the number is preliminarily estimated to be more than 10,000 people." "It's all foot soldiers, no cavalry, are you sure you're right?" "There shouldn't be anything wrong with Hui Gongzi, the assembly of so many people is not a small movement, it makes no sense that one person is wrong, everyone is wrong." "Well, I know, you go down first and pay close attention to all the movements of the enemy, and report any new situation immediately." "No." The scout said yes and turned to go first. Tang Zheng couldn't figure out what was going on, it stands to reason that he only repelled their attack yesterday, it is impossible to send someone to die today, is there any other purpose in it, or has the enemy found a way to restrain the Modao Battalion, you must know that the Modao Battalion can be called an invincible existence in the era of this kind of cold weapon. Forget it, no matter, let's see first.
"The other party has gathered 10,000 troops to call for battle, whether we are fighting or avoiding everyone." Tang Zheng returned to the camp tent and convened everyone to discuss the war situation as soon as possible. "Brother Tang, I don't think the enemy is trying to attack, but trying to escape. You can see that they are now assembled all young and strong, but the vanguard battalion has not moved at all, and their cavalry has not moved, not to mention that they are loading carts and grass equipment. I think they're going to leave. Tian Chou said. It's impossible, the enemy has an army of 50,000, and although we destroyed some of the cavalry yesterday, their strength is still there, and it is impossible for us to destroy some of them and plan to withdraw the army. Wu Yifan said in disbelief. This is still a war or a house, and after only a few tentative attacks, it plans to withdraw. "According to the analysis of the current situation, the enemy is indeed going to withdraw, and just now I also think that it is impossible for the enemy to make the decision to retreat, but have you ever thought about how much water these 50,000 people have, how many are elites and how many are temporarily recruited outcasts. If you think about it, it's not so incredible for them to retreat. Tang Zheng said. Yes, most of them are just recruited outcasts, and yesterday we wiped out thousands of cavalry, and although they still look strong, they have already broken their bones. "After saying this, everyone immediately understood." But what will they do next? Wu Yifan asked. Judging from the enemy's offensive roadmap, the enemy's next target is likely to be Xu Wu. Tang Zheng pointed to the map and said to everyone, this map was drawn by Tang Zheng in half a year, there are many places that Tang Zheng has never been to, and he only knows a big block. This is just the terrain of the entire Youzhou, like the world map of the later generations Tang Zheng can't get it out now, even this topographic map of Youzhou Tang Zheng also took a lot of effort to get it, this is only roughly right, and Tang Zheng can't get it out in more detail, after all, he didn't learn the land in his previous life, and his understanding of this is because he often paid attention to the coal here in his previous life. "Xu Wu is far away from the endless and it is a border city, I guess the enemy must want to capture Xu Wu and cooperate with Wuhuan and the rebel Zhang Chun." (Zhang Chun and others were anti-Han in 187, that is, in the fourth year of Zhongping, and here they were advanced because of the needs of the plot) Tang Zheng said his conjecture. "If all this comes true, then wouldn't we be attacked on both sides, Wuhuan has always peeked into the land of my Central Plains, if it is really captured by Deng Mao, Xu will have no consequences, it will be unimaginable." Wu Yifan said. "Now everything is just our speculation, I hope the result will not develop in a bad direction, Zhang Chao, you immediately arrange for someone to go back to Tuyuan and tell Cheng Pu to let him give up Tuyuan, and immediately lead troops to Xu Wu, Guo Mingda, you immediately take 3,000 cavalry to Xu Wu. Everything depends on you, I hope you reach Xu Wu in front of Deng Mao, I'm afraid Deng Mao has already rushed to Xu Wu with the cavalry last night. Tang Zheng instructed everyone: "Brother Wu, you go down and prepare first, this time we will annihilate the army left behind on the opposite side in one fell swoop, and go to Xu Wu earlier." "No." Wu Yifan went down to gather the remaining soldiers and horses. Looking at the departing people, Tang Zheng couldn't help but feel that there were too few talents, if it weren't for Tian Chou's reminder this time, maybe the consequences would be unimaginable, and a person's plan would inevitably be ill-thought out sometimes.
"General Wang, the army on the opposite side has taken the initiative to attack." A small soldier walked into Wang Tong's camp and said like Wang Tong. "What, so soon they found out what we were trying to do? How much grain and grass were transported, and how far they have gone now General Deng. "The grain and grass have all been transferred, leaving only our grain and grass for three days, General Deng and they got up overnight last night, and now it is estimated that it is 120 miles away from us." "Well, that's good, since the other party has taken the initiative to fight, we can't sit still, you immediately go down and gather the soldiers and go out with me." Wang Tong commanded to the soldiers. "No, my subordinates will arrange it." After speaking, Xiao Bing turned around and went down to arrange Wang Tong's order.
"This time, I will personally lead the Modao Battalion to charge, Brother Wu, you will take two thousand cavalry to escort the left and right flanks and wait for the opportunity to move." Tang Zheng said to Wu Yifan beside him. "Brother Tang, be careful in everything, you can rest assured that you can leave it to me." Wu Yifan said. Tang Zheng put down his armor and shouted with a Mo knife in his hand. More than 2,000 Mo sword soldiers marched towards the enemy's army formation with neat steps, and with the experience of the last time against the cavalry, these soldiers looked less nervous this time. More than 2,000 soldiers followed Tang Zheng's horse, looking mighty, as if a steel was swept in.
Although Wang Tong had seen the power of this army, he still felt flustered and depressed when he saw it again, this army felt too depressing, not like an army, but like a mountain that overwhelmed people. Tang Zheng didn't give Wang Tong extra time to think, and this time Wang Tong was not commanding cavalry, so Tang Zheng didn't order to erect a shield wall with a big shield. Instead, they moved forward to kill, as soon as the two armies came into contact with the corpses and broken arms, they immediately flew away, and the sharpness of the Mo knife was far from being able to withstand the ordinary iron armor in this era, not to mention this iron armor, even the leather armor was rare, and most of them were homeless people wearing cloth clothes. Wang Tong gathered all the soldiers who could fight, just to be able to resist Tang Zheng a little and buy more time for Deng Mao. But everything was too unexpected for him, although he had seen the power of this infantry last time, but this time against his own same infantry soldiers, this army showed more terrifying combat power, as more and more people fell on the road of the Modao battalion, the enemy finally couldn't suppress the fear in his heart, and they gave up their weapons and began to flee, no matter how Wang Tong killed the retreating rout, it was useless. More and more people are starting to rout and flee, morale is like a plague, and when you fight well, morale is high and invincible. But as long as one of the soldiers can't bear the pressure and collapses when it comes, it will form a spread of ten, ten passes of hundred, and finally infect the whole army. Wang Tong is in this situation now, at first there were only a few, but later there were more and more, and now the whole army is in a rout, forming a scene of the Modao battalion chasing the enemy and slaughtering. Seeing that he was about to run out of the attack range of the Modao battalion, Wu Yifan led 2,000 cavalry to kill him from behind. Seeing that they could not escape, the enemy squatted on the ground with their heads folded. Wang Tong saw that the general trend was gone, and began to ride a horse to flee for his life. The war lasted less than a stick of incense before it ended. More than 6,000 enemies were captured, and Wang Tong finally escaped with less than 1,000 people, and only a few others escaped.
When Tang Zheng came back, he was covered in blood, only when he first suppressed the bandits, Tang Zheng vomited a few times, and later he was used to this. "Order, let the soldiers have a good meal and rest tonight, the wounded soldiers will stay in Wujian for the time being, and the prisoners will also stay in Wuwu for the time being, and I will let Tian Chou be in charge of this matter. We'll rush to Xu Wu early tomorrow morning. Tang Zheng took off his helmet and said to Zhang Chao beside him. Yes, Childe. I'll arrange it. By the way, Childe, the thing you said called alcohol has been distilled, and it is much more fragrant than ordinary wine, but I don't know if it meets Childe's requirements. Zhang Chao said to Tang Zheng. I was busy fighting a war today and forgot about it. "Well, I'll take a look later. You go down and arrange it first. Tang Zheng said to Zhang Chao, took off his armor and walked to the bathhouse.