Chapter 135: Thunder and rain dew, it is not the emperor's grace
Until the last moment, he still didn't understand why he was defeated!
Until all the soldiers under his command turned and fled, he still didn't understand why they were running!
Until Wang Danxu stood in front of him, Wu Baihu was still confused, and he didn't understand how all this happened in front of him.
Like a child lost in the deep forest, he stood there and looked around blankly, his eyes empty!
Standing in place, he carried a long knife that was still dripping with blood, and the armor on his body had several gaps, and it was stained with the blood of unknown whether it was his own or someone else's.
He raised his head and saw Wang Danxu riding on a horse not far away, Wang Danxu showed a look of contempt, as if he was laughing at his indiscretion.
After the confusion, Wu Baihu let out a strange scream, and then continued to charge towards the pseudo-Tang thief army in front!
He was like a fish struggling to swim upstream, ignoring the fleeing friendly troops behind him, and just rushed forward with his long knife in his hand!
Wang Danxu, who was riding on a horse, looked at the Ming army in front of him who was rushing towards him, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth!
A few seconds later, there were several more blood holes on Wu Baihu's body, and a row of spearmen in front of Wang Danxu decisively stabbed Wu Baihu out of several blood holes!
Wang Danxu didn't look at the hundred Ming soldiers who had fallen under a pool of blood, and he was already looking at the large number of Ming troops who were fleeing in front of him.
Immediately said loudly: "Catch up, try to catch alive!" ”
There are at least three or four hundred Ming troops fleeing in front, but they can't all be allowed to escape, it's not that these people will cause any trouble to the bandits in Huangzhushan after they escape, most of these people who flee are Minfu and county Yong, these people are not in any danger, as for the regular army of those guards who escaped, there are not many of them, and they are all scared, so they can still raise the courage to fight with the Tang Dynasty in the future?
The reason why Wang Danxu asked his subordinates to catch up and arrest people was more importantly, he wanted to capture prisoners to replenish the population of the Tang Dynasty, and also to take away a large amount of military rations and baggage here.
There is a lot of captured grain, the Ming army's grain transport team originally needed hundreds of people to pick up the transport, and now these grains have fallen into the hands of the bandits in Huangzhushan, and the bandits in Huangzhushan can't take away so much grain, after all, they themselves took a lot of grain to the expedition, not long ago they also attacked a Ming army's grain transport team, and captured a lot of grain.
With so much food and other baggage so suddenly, it was impossible for Huangzhushan's own baggage personnel to carry it.
As for putting the fighters on their backs with food and other burdens, this is not advisable.
In addition to carrying their own weapons, each soldier usually carried enough dry food and drinking water for several days.
If you help the baggage soldiers carry a large amount of baggage, it will consume too much physical strength.
The nearly 400 soldiers need to maintain sufficient physical strength at all times to be ready for battle at any time, otherwise they will be completely destroyed in the event of a sudden battle and lack of physical strength.
Wang Danxu and his generals want to capture a few more prisoners, especially those prisoners, after all, if they capture the regular army of the Ming army, they have to bother to recruit them, if they don't surrender, these soldiers will not be easy to deal with, and they have to worry about whether they will be eaten by them.
But if the captives are people, then it is much easier to deal with.
After all, the people are just ordinary people, they are only temporarily pulled to transport military rations, they are not trained, not to mention, and they do not even have weapons, and the will to resist is weaker than that of the regular army, and at the same time, they are more afraid of death.
It only takes a few people on Huangzhushan's side to be able to keep an eye on them and let them transport the captured grain away.
Even if you don't need to guard them against the soldiers of the Standing Army and the Guards, you can just use the old and weak bandits in the baggage team, although those old and weak bandits are old and can't fight like those young and strong, but in any case, they are all bandits, and they will not be soft when they cut people, and it is not a problem to guard those people who have no resistance.
It's a pity that those Ming troops ran too fast, and the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi chased for a long time and only caught less than 100 people, and the rest didn't know where to go.
In order to avoid being too far away from most of them, Wang Danxu came back with someone half a day later.
At this time, the bandits of Huangzhushan who stayed on the battlefield had already cleaned up the battlefield, and after Fang Dongquan and Liu Bagou and Wang Danxu converged, they would officially report the harvest of this battle to Li Xuan.
"Your Majesty, in this battle, our army killed a total of 36 puppet Ming soldiers, wounded countless people, captured 130 people, and captured more than 200 knives, spears, swords and other weapons, more than 30 strong bows, 12 armors, more than 200 loads of food, and the rest of the arrows and handcuffs!" After Qian Mengjiu, who was the secretary of the Ministry of War, finished counting, he said at the first time: "This battle is a great victory!" ”
Hearing this number, Li Xuan nodded slightly, but his face did not show any obvious ecstasy, just a faint smile.
It's not that he's unhappy, it's that this battle has been going on for a long time, and he already knew that he could probably predict today's results shortly after the battle began, and he had already laughed wildly, so he couldn't keep laughing like a fool.
So after being happy, he naturally won't continue to lose his temper in front of his subordinates!
After all, as an emperor, even if it is an emperor of a ravine, he must always maintain the emperor's prestige in front of his courtiers, and he smirks like a fool when he wins a battle casually, doesn't this make Fang Dongquan and his courtiers look down on themselves.
has been an emperor for so long, and Li Xuan has gradually figured out how to be a good ravine emperor!
"Today's battle, all Aiqing have worked hard!" Li Xuan said with a smile: "Especially the soldiers who are fighting on the front line! ”
Immediately, Fang Dongquan said: "The ministers are just acting according to orders, and this battle can have a great victory, thanks to Your Majesty's wisdom!" ”
Wang Danxu also took a step forward and said: "The Guards can have today's results because of His Majesty's wise and martial arts personal training and guidance, otherwise the soldiers of the Guards will definitely not have today's combat strength!" ”
Liu Bagou also raised his head and said: "Your Majesty is the only holy monarch in the past thousand years, the thunder and rain are all over the four fields, the king is subject to the rain and dew of Your Majesty, and the puppet thief army is subject to the thunder of Your Majesty, all of which are the emperor's grace!" ”
Liu Bagou, the head of a hundred officials, spoke, and Wang Wenhua, a dog-legged man, was naturally not to be left behind, so he hurriedly stepped forward and kept saying a lot of praise.
So in the following time, it became a time for the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers to praise each other.
Li Xuan said that Liu Bagou and Wang Danxu are both loyal and capable, and they are really the humerus of the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Bagou and the others looked moved, and said, Your Majesty, your wisdom and martial arts are the only factor in winning this battle, and those of us who are courtiers have just done a little inconspicuous thing.
It was only after the group had praised each other for a full quarter of an hour that they stopped, and by this time, the army had already packed up and was ready to leave.
Like the last time the Ming army attacked the grain transportation team, this time the Tang Wang Division still left quickly after attacking the Ming army's grain transportation team.
This was to avoid encountering the main force of the Ming army.
The grain transportation team of the Ming army and the main force of the Ming army are two different things.
The previous Ming army's grain transportation team seemed to have a lot of people, hundreds of people, but the real Ming army actually had more than 100 people, and the rest were all people who were temporarily brought in and didn't even have weapons.
If it is the main force of the Ming army with hundreds of people, it is really difficult to say whether these bandits in Huangzhushan can beat it.
Li Xuan estimated that it was very likely to fail miserably!
Because among the bandits in Huangzhushan, there are very few people who can fight, and the Guards are the main force that is worthy of it, but there are only more than 90 people in the Guards.
Among the remaining standing army of more than 300 people, only twenty or thirty bandits led by Butcher Chen could fight, and the rest were scum.
If these people in the standing army are in a tailwind battle such as an ambush, they will be able to fight a head-to-head duel, and their combat effectiveness will plummet, and they are not the opponents of the regular army of the Ming army at all, even if the Ming army itself is just a group of serf-like guards.
The combat effectiveness of the standing army can only deal with county warriors, people's husbands and the like at most, and a head-on duel with the regular army is basically impossible to count on, and if you insist on fighting, the end will be very tragic.
This can be seen from the more than 70 archers of the Standing Army and the more than 40 archers of the Ming Army shooting at each other, and the more than 70 archers of the Tang Standing Army were beaten by more than 40 Ming Army archers.
If it weren't for Wang Danxu at that time to let the musket team of the Guards fire a round of guns, and then ordered the charge to begin, it is estimated that the more than 70 archers of the standing army would have completely collapsed after receiving a round of arrow rain, which would then cause the entire standing army to flee.
Judging from the situation of this battle, the standing army really made Li Xuan have no confidence!
The standing army is not good, and the strength of the guards is too small, so Li Xuan naturally does not want to meet the main force of the Ming army, and after cleaning the battlefield, leaving with the capture is the king.
The Ming army's grain transport team was attacked again, and dozens of people were killed and wounded, more than 100 people were captured, and all the grain transported was lost.
"Diao Leixun, this waste, so many people guard the grain road, and even let the pseudo-Tang thief army go around the back to attack the grain transportation team!" Su Jiakang is very angry now!
If the last time the grain convoy was attacked was just an accident, then the attack on the grain convoy this time is a typical dereliction of responsibility.
This way is only more than a hundred miles of grain road, he sent Diao Leixun to a thousand households and hundreds of counties to guard it, even if it is a section guard, it can be regarded as a sufficient force, in this case, it can even let the puppet Tang thief army take advantage of the loophole.
"We can't let those damn pseudo-Tang thieves mess around behind, we must find them out and kill them!"
When Su Jiakang was angry and thinking about how to find out Li Xuan and them, Li Xuan and Liu Bagou were also discussing how to act next!