Chapter 602: The Cruelty of War
"Wanyan Zongbi's Hezha army has already run away! I saw it with my own eyes! This can still be fake! This Benxi Iron Mountain is empty! There are no troops to defend at all! You don't have to be so cautious! Wen Ying looked at Chen Xing, who was moving forward cautiously, and said with a little puzzlement.
It's not trusting her ability to detect!
But Chen Xing still had a knife in his hand, walked forward cautiously, carefully inspected one pothole after another and private houses, and only walked up the mountain after confirming that there were no potential safety hazards.
During the whole night, Chen Xing's soldiers walked from the bottom of the mountain to the halfway point of the mountain.
"The Changbai Mountains are the ancestral land of the Jin people, although Benxi has not entered the depths of the Changbai Mountain, but there is also the possibility of danger, and any slightest relaxation may lose the soldiers." Chen Xing squatted and carefully checked the heat of the bonfire, and then entered the room and turned over the bed board to confirm that it was safe.
Excessive prudence is the biggest characteristic of Chen Xing, he has never been willing to make any mistakes, and he is willing to investigate for half a year before starting a small mountain with a thousand people.
Chen Xing painted the red '×' outside this house, clapped his hands and said: "These Yanjing soldiers are not the orphans of our Jiesheng Army, we are willing to do anything in order to take revenge, even if it is to eat snow and gnaw tree bark, we will not hesitate." ”
"But the Yanjing Army, they are all new soldiers, their parents are still alive, and some even have families, if I am not cautious enough, and they are inexperienced, who will be responsible for their lives? Who is responsible for their family? ”
"Every soldier who dies is the sorrow of a family."
Chen Xing received reports from the officers of each battalion and personally checked the markings on the door before leaving the village halfway up the mountain and heading towards the depths of the Iron Mountain.
Chen Xing patrolled around and sent several teams of scouts to search the mountains and move forward.
"Although it is said that in a war, there will inevitably be casualties, but it can be avoided or avoided, isn't the purpose of the official family arranging for us Jiesheng veterans to go to the Yanjing Army, the Hejian Army, and the Mountain Navy to be officers?"
Chen Xing unfolded the clairspace in his hand and carefully looked at the firelight in the distance, where was the depths of the mine, and when Yan Zongbi left, he burned everything that could be burned.
and ignited a mountain fire to stop Chen Xing's pursuit.
"But Ci is not in charge of the army, and he is not in charge. After you finished reading Yan Zongbi, in order to stop you, you burned all the mountains. Wen Ying looked at Chen Xing's face with a little obsession, although this man loves to laugh, but how deep is the scar in his heart?
Chen Xing suddenly said with a smile on his face: "Thick but can't be made, love can't be ordered, chaos can't be cured, for example, if you are arrogant, you can't use it." ”
"This is the content of not being benevolent to the soldiers, and it is not that the soldiers cannot have a heart of benevolence, but that they should not be excessively merciful."
"If we are not strict, soft-hearted, tolerant, and lenient, we will not be able to issue military orders, command soldiers, manage military discipline, and of course we will not be able to command troops."
"There is no conflict between being kind and not in charge of soldiers and loving soldiers like sons."
Wen Ying frowned and asked, "Where did you learn these words?" Didn't you say you don't like to read? ”
"I learned it in a literacy class." Chen Xing explained: "I don't like those bells and whistles, useless moral articles, military books and other truths, I still like to learn." ”
Wen Ying looked at Chen Xing's cautious appearance, and was very curious about what the official's literacy class had taught!
"You're very utilitarian in this way, and in any case, knowledge is right." Wen Ying gritted her silver teeth and said.
Chen Xing looked up at the sky, and a flock of birds chirped quickly from the moonlight.
"Enemy attack!"
Chen Xing roared loudly, and the decisive chariot quickly stopped at the periphery, and the sound of the winding of the machine was endless, like the sound of termites gnawing on trees, resounding through the forest.
Many generals watched with bated breath in the dark woods, and a soldier of the Great Song Dynasty was lying on horseback, full of arrows.
This is a scout, if it weren't for the bad horse to recognize the master, he was afraid that he would not be able to run back into the army of the Great Song Dynasty.
"More than 1,300 cavalry, about 300 heavy cavalry, southwest direction, less than a thousand paces." The rider rolled to the ground, gasping for breath.
"Medical team! Stretcher away! Chen Xing asked the medical team to take away the wounded.
He brought his own scarf and mask, and said angrily to Wen Ying: "You go to the medical team to help, if something is wrong, evacuate immediately." ”
It is very likely that the 1,300 cavalry soldiers are only the vanguard army, and there may be Jin soldiers arriving behind, and if the strength is not caught, the medical team will retreat first, which is the custom.
Chen Xing clenched the steel gun in his hand and chased after him, it was a rare battle plan in the Great Song Dynasty, and he was counterattacked by the Jin people, of course Chen Xing had expected it, so he would be so careful.
The chariot formation was extremely tight, and it was not until the enemy came with more than 10,000 horsemen, otherwise they would not be able to defeat them head-on.
Chen Xing's nervousness finally slowly relieved when the first golden man appeared.
This is a rout.
In a hurry, there was no scouting, no temptation, and just like that, he crashed into the decisive chariot.
This is a military feat that fell from the sky!
While Chen Xing commanded the soldiers to shoot a rain of arrows, he opened the rear army's car formation, and the cavalry slowly came out from the rear army, surrounding more than 1,300 people.
Mountains and forests are a place where it's easy to get lost, and this happens when you can't tell where you want to go.
He was running away, but he ran into the pursuing enemy army head-on.
"Send three scout teams around and continue patrolling." While Chen Xing ate more than 1,300 people, he did not forget to continue to send scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding situation.
The battle was not fierce, and the Jin army, which had fled for a day and a night, was completely in a frenzy when they saw the decisive chariot of the Great Song Dynasty.
Obviously, their madness does not have any effect, and good military discipline and military formation are the guarantee of combat effectiveness.
The golden soldiers, who had lost their sanity and formation, were not even as effective as 1,300 wild boars.
If there were 1,300 wild boars in the array, Chen Xing would have to kill them until dawn before he could finish them.
It's a pity that these golden people, who can't live in fear, have become dead souls under the rain of arrows.
"Clean up the battlefield."
Chen Xing ordered the soldiers to pile the corpses together, pile them up into a Jingguan more than four zhang high, and pat the sealed soil.
The purpose of this is to deter and prevent the plague.
Since then, Benxi Iron Mountain will become the Great Song Iron Mountain, naturally can not let the plague break out here, every place where the plague breaks out, the legend of the plague god, will become a forbidden place in the hearts of the people.
Illness means a lot of money for medicine, and no one wants to risk their lives.
After Chen Xing cleaned up the battlefield, he looked at the mountain fire in the distance, and couldn't help sighing, this is not the first time that the Jin people have cut off their hands and feet.
The mountains and forests are their best hiding places, and the Jin people who are ambushed in the mountains and forests have left a deep impression on Chen Xing.
Now it was burned clean by Wanyan Zongbi.
It's not the first time that I've ruined my biggest advantage.
Chen Xing walked to the medical team, where hundreds of people were lying there.
The combat effectiveness of the Jin people is still very strong, especially the battle of the trapped beasts, which also taught the Yanjing New Army of the Great Song Dynasty a lesson, why the Jin people are now the kings of the north.
Chen Xing carefully inspected the seriously wounded battalion, and the vast majority of the soldiers here were already dying.
When Chen Xing walked out of the wounded barracks, he tried not to turn back, because it would make him weak.
Wen Ying helped Chen Xing wipe the blood on his forehead, and after confirming that it was the blood of the enemy, she said comfortingly: "The Jin people have died more. People are inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than the feathers, and the use of them tends to be different. ”
"Died for the country, and his family lived because of him."
Chen Xing nodded, he naturally heard this, and said with a reluctant smile: "You are right to tell me about knowledge, but Mr. Xixi from the literacy class told us that it is useless to be a scholar." ”
"They have been taking the imperial examination for many years, but because their understanding of the classics is not the same as that of the courtiers who wrote the questions and judged the papers, people who failed the list abounded."
Therefore, they believe in the official saying: Theory is only a hypothetical summary of the outcome of an action, it is a tool, and its value depends on whether it can make the action successful. Action is better than dogma, experience is better than rigidity. ”
Wen Ying became more curious about the lessons in the literacy class, and what the official family had let those Mr. Xixi learn to write.
Chen Xing looked at Wen Ying's puzzled expression and explained: "The official family said that this is consequentialist pragmatism, which is more extreme, but it is very suitable for our army. ”
Wen Ying still didn't understand it, but the practical words were easy to understand.
"More than 1,100 people were slightly injured in the wounded battalion, more than 200 people were seriously injured in the battalion, and the minor injuries were handled properly, but less than 10 of the more than 200 people who were seriously injured could be saved." Wen Ying opened the notebook in her hand and said to Chen Xing with a frown.
Chen Xing rubbed his shoulders vigorously: "The Jin people died 1,378 people. It's a big win! ”
"And give me a list of fake wounded people who pretended to be slightly injured and came to hook up with the female nurses of the medical team, aren't they slightly injured? Then let them eat two whips and really turn into minor injuries and be admitted to the medical team! ”
Wen Ying smiled and shook her head, after Hu Yuan's suggestion, the medical team trained a lot of ingenious female nurses.
After three years in the army, the sows have become clear-eyed soldiers, and their favorite thing is to go to the medical team when they are fine.
Chen Xing spent three days sweeping away the remaining enemies of the Jin people in the entire Benxi Iron Mountain.
A heavy rain extinguished the mountain fire set by Yan Zongbi, and Chen Xing ran to Anshan after leaving a thousand people on guard under the slightly fresh air after the rain.
The situation in Anshan and Benxi Tieshan is not much different, there are traces of fire everywhere, and occasionally you can pick up a wild boar that has been burned by the mountain fire.
Wen Ying looked at the wild boar and said: "According to intelligence, there are many wild boars in Changbai Mountain, and the skin of wild boars is very thick, tight and tough, and the Jin people like to make wild boar skin into cold clothes, leather armor or armor lining. The pig was cooked, and the skin was unusable. ”
"That's why they call it boar skin? Is it? Chen Xing asked with curiosity.