Chapter 1248 - Don't kill innocents indiscriminately
When attacked by cavalry, if you stay where you are, you can only sit and wait for death, and Duch knows this very well, so he ordered a forced breakthrough, although in the process of breaking out, it is inevitable to lose some men and horses, but it is much better than the total annihilation.
The Zhending army advanced according to the original plan, blocking all kinds of vehicles at the outermost level, and the pikemen and archers were deployed in the original formation to deal with the attack of the Nagashu cavalry.
It is inevitable that Du Qi still has a hand in leading the army, and it can still maintain the formation of the army in such a chaotic situation, especially the new army, which is not strong in combat, which is indeed a bit outstanding.
The ferocity of the Xiao cavalry battalion is also well deserved, their attack is like a whirlwind, although there are obstacles ahead, but the Xiao cavalry battalion can always find a weak link from the defense of the Jizhou army to break through, each wave of attack, can pick up a group of lives, little by little cannibalize the ranks of the Jizhou army.
In order to intercept the other fleeing Jizhou troops, the Xiaocai battalion has been divided into several ways of men and horses, and now the team led by Wen Qin is less than half of the people.
It shouldn't be easy to eat this big fish in one bite, after all, all fish are more or less spine, Wen Qin didn't want to eat fish, but was injured by thorns, so he avoided attacking as much as possible, but wandered away from the periphery, and when he saw the opportunity, he took a few bites, so that after the big fish was scarred, the formation naturally collapsed.
Du Qi can keep his composure, and his army may be able to maintain it, but those people are panicked, when have they ever seen such a battle, ignoring the Jizhou army's obstruction, frantically fleeing everywhere, trying to avoid the military disaster.
For the behavior of refugees scurrying around, Du Qi still wanted to stop it at first, after all, he didn't want these people to die in vain, but there were more and more refugees fleeing, and the Jizhou army had to focus on dealing with the Bingzhou army, so naturally there was no time to take care of it.
However, Du Qi later discovered that after these escaped refugees encountered the Bingzhou cavalry, they were not trampled by the cavalry as easily as he liked, and the Bingzhou cavalry deliberately avoided these refugees when attacking, giving them a chance to pick up a life.
Du Qi couldn't help but be a little surprised, he really didn't expect that the state army would actually show "mercy" to these refugees and not kill innocents indiscriminately.
These refugees are the people of Jizhou, and they are also the families of the Jizhou army, and now more than ninety percent of the soldiers of the Jizhou army are related to these people. Based on this reason, Lu Zhao ordered the troops everywhere to move the people in the city to Xindu to stabilize the mood of the Jizhou army, otherwise the city would be lost, and these ordinary civilians would fall into the hands of the Jizhou army, which would inevitably shake the military spirit of the Jizhou army.
There is obviously no such concern about the arrival of the state army, and they can kill with impunity.
Woman's kindness! A scornful sneer flashed across Du Qi's face, because he deliberately avoided these refugees, the offensive of the Jizhou army became less violent, which also invisibly relieved a lot of pressure on the Jizhou army.
Du Qi suddenly had an idea, since the Bingzhou cavalry deliberately did not harm these refugees, it undoubtedly provided an excellent opportunity for the Jizhou army in difficulty.
So Du Qi ordered the Jizhou soldiers to drive these refugees to the front of the team, let them open the way, to attack the interception formation of the Bingzhou army, if the Jizhou army continued to show mercy to them, the problem of the Jizhou army opening the way could be solved.
Even if the Bingzhou army no longer has mercy and kills the killer, there is no special loss for the Jizhou army, but it reduces a lot of burdens and burdens, and these civilians died at the hands of the Bingzhou army, which can only make the Jizhou army full of hatred, hatred and hatred, and only think about avenging their relatives, which is of great benefit to the improvement of military morale and morale.
With such a clever use of killing two birds with one stone, Du Qi couldn't help but secretly feel complacent, although he was surrounded by the state army at the moment, he didn't feel how difficult it was to break through.
In the past, the flight of refugees was only sporadic and unitary, and when the Bingzhou cavalry attacked, as long as you pay a little attention, you can avoid them, and it will not affect the attack of the Bingzhou army.
But now that tens of thousands of refugees suddenly poured out of the Jizhou army formation, they rushed up in the dark, and such a huge crowd naturally seriously affected the attack of the Xiaocai battalion. Since they had already received Wen Qin's orders in advance, they would open up to these refugees, but now that these refugees have seriously affected the operation of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, it seems that it is a question whether to continue to carry out Wen Qin's orders.
However, at this time, they did not dare to disobey the military order to attack the refugees, and these captains had to turn back to Wen Qin for instructions, asking Wen Qin to allow them to attack civilians as a last resort.
But Wen Qin did not hesitate to refuse their request, because the decision not to harm civilians was made by Cao Liang, and Wen Qin could only implement it unconditionally, and there was no room for bargaining.
"Father, this is the trick of that Changshan Taishou, he deliberately drove the people to the front, just to make us stop attacking, don't be fooled!" Wen Yang pointed to the direction of the large group of refugees, and said anxiously.
Wen Qin was indifferent, and said: "The lord has an order, the people are the foundation of the army, and if there are no people, how can they come to the rivers and mountains of the Great Wei, not to mention that these people are innocent, they are the good citizens of the Great Wei, and they have to do it because of the coercion of the Jizhou army, as long as it is not absolutely inevitable, otherwise it is absolutely forbidden to kill innocents indiscriminately." ”
Wen Yang said puzzledly: "But there are so many people, it is difficult for us to bypass them, if we ignore them, these people will soon flee to Xindu, and it is impossible to intercept and kill them all." ”
Wen Qinfu said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you can wipe them all out, even if you let them escape back to Xindu, what can you do?" Do you really think that even if these rabble return to Xindu, they can still increase the chances of the Jizhou army? It's just a little more food and grass. After the order was given, the cavalry of the whole battalion detoured back to the flank and rear of the enemy, killing as many enemies as possible, and not disobeying the military order. ”
Wen Yang and the lieutenants had no choice but to act according to the order, and each led the men and horses of their headquarters to return to the flank and rear flank of the Jizhou army, and launched a fierce attack, constantly tearing the defense line of the Jizhou army, and killing the enemy as much as they could.