Chapter 565: Nanren
"It's okay!" Cai You said loudly to more than 100 soldiers in his capital: "I dared to go into the mountains to hunt at the age of ten, and when I went down to the mine at the age of fifteen, I couldn't see my five fingers, and I didn't stop digging coal from morning to night, and I was never afraid. Today, when I saw Hu Cai, I was also afraid, the Donghu cavalry was fierce, brave, unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, brutal, and inhumane when killing, I heard a lot of these things! His Royal Highness the King of Qin has also been sending people to preach, but His Highness is telling us to be afraid of these humanoid beasts? Cai You raised his voice and said sharply: "Your Highness is telling us to remember, the land is not divided into north and south, and people are not divided into north and south, we are all Chinese, saying the same words, reading the same books, and facing the same enemies, that is, these beasts in front of you, if you are afraid of them, they will kill us, His Royal Highness is telling us to raise the knife in our hands, kill these bastards fiercely, kill them again, and even kill their lair, sooner or later, we will kill these bastards one by one, and leave no one behind!" ”
"None of them will be left!"
"Lao Tzu just shrunk the eggs, or the words of the head are relieved!"
"That's it, Lao Tzu's blood is boiling all over his body now, and he just wants to kill him!"
On the front line, also under the orders of the two generals, military attachés at all levels began to cheer up their subordinates, not only military attachés, but also those veterans who have been in the army for more than two years, they may not know how to read, and they don't want to spend energy to study, anyway, the old soldiers are transferred to sergeants, and the salary is not below the officers, but the welfare rewards are much weaker. These veterans have been in the army for many years, and they have been fighting with King Qin for many years, and they still maintain their composure on such a battlefield, and they are constantly improving their morale with the officers.
When the enemy cavalry approached, the government army did not retreat timidly, and those shouts directly showed the courage and perseverance of the government army officers and men.
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"All the warships, including the No. 1 Commander, including the warships of the Jieshuai's department, should stay as far as possible to the side ahead."
Hearing the shouts and begging for battle of the soldiers of the government army, although Xu Zixian's face was calm, those who knew him well also knew that the prince's heart was not calm, and it could even be said that he was extremely excited.
Wang Zhi has already given an order, and at this time, he is also urging again.
All warships, as long as they have bed crossbows, start to get as close to the sea as possible.
With more than 100 warships and crossbows, they will certainly pose a serious threat to the cavalry.
But Xu Zixian knew that this threat was mostly psychological, not practical.
The kind of single-bowed crossbow, or double-bowed crossbow, has an effective range of no more than 500 paces, and the government troops on the shore are arrayed outside the lixu, which means that the actual effectiveness of these two bed crossbows for cover is quite limited.
The eight-bull crossbow is effective, the range is more than two miles, and if the thick arm is like a long arrow, it is not difficult to penetrate the cavalry two or three miles away.
But the eight-bull crossbow is quite rare, Wang Zhi's department adds up to no more than three, Xu Zixian's warship is from the imperial court of the economic division, the original Nanyang sailor, the eight-ox crossbow is only more than ten.
This kind of crossbow requires dozens of people to operate, and it takes all the effort to fire it once in a quarter of an hour, and the machine is complex and difficult to control, which is already the limit.
At the time of the eight-ox crossbow firing, the movement is as great as a landslide and tsunami, which is indeed a powerful threat to the enemy cavalry, but the firing time is too long, the interval is too long, and the effective killing is quite limited.
But in any case, when more than 100 warships turned on their crossbow machines and approached the sea, it was also a strong support for the officers and men of the government army on the shore.
Xu Zi stared at the shore first, the Donghu cavalry formation was getting closer and closer, and the scattered Hu cavalry no longer chased the forbidden soldiers who had just run out, but consciously gathered towards the place where the cavalry was.
At this time, there were at least tens of thousands of soldiers of the forbidden army left in the forts and long trenches, and just to clear them would have to delay the Donghu brigade for half a day...... That's half a day at most.
The forbidden army has lost its combat power, whether it is physical strength,
The will, the equipment, have been almost discarded, more than 10,000 escaped forbidden troops, plus there are a large number of military attaches in it, only to gather more than 1,000 people to prepare for battle, among which there are quite a lot of weapons such as daggers and knives, even if there are tens of thousands of people between the forts, they are also without the ability to resist, nothing more than to use their own lives to drag the pace of the Donghu army, which can be regarded as the last strength of these soldiers for their comrades.
Everyone understands this, and many Donghu soldiers are looking at the sky, it is already nearly noon, and if it drags on for another two hours, this battle will not be able to be fought if they want to.
The one who led the troops was Wanyan Zongshu.
The situation in front of him is quite strange and complicated, Ling De entered the customs twice, traveled thousands of miles in the north, and conquered a prefecture, three states, and more than ten counties, Donghu Nayan also fell into a dilemma.
Wanyan Zongshu originally led the palace tent army to defend the forts, and when the main force of the Great Wei forbidden army broke through the siege and wanted to open up the Jinzhou road, the main force of the palace tent soldiers also went to the Jinzhou Governor's trench to fight with the main force of the Wei army. After the battle, part of the palace tent army was stationed in front of the long trench, and part returned to defend the forts.
The next breakthrough of the Wei army was also expected by the Great Khan, and the Donghu cavalry all took off their heavy iron armor and replaced them with light armor or even no armor, because the Wei army was already a poor beast in a hurry, as long as they prepared bows, horses, and knives.
The development of things was also as expected by the Great Khan, the Wei army was so poor that more than 100,000 people poured in from all directions, and the long trench was three or four miles long and completely filled with the Wei army's rocks, dead branches and human corpses.
Many Donghu soldiers shot arrows empty, their standard configuration is two bags of arrows, in fact, many people are carrying four bags of arrows, dozens of arrows per bag, the Wei army broke through the battle for a day and a night, more than ninety percent of the arrows were shot out, how many people were killed by each Donghu soldier, how many people were killed by the whole army, and now it should be a mess, no one can count it at all.
At this time, no one was beheaded waiting to be remembered, this was a complete victory, the Wei army was almost completely annihilated, and its generals, including Li Guorui, Zhang Bangwen, Mai Jitong, and Li Youde, were either killed or captured, or trapped in the city of Jinzhou, only Yue Zhi seemed to break out with the remnants of the escaped army, which made the Donghu high-level greatly dissatisfied.
In the eyes of the top leaders of Donghu, civil officials such as Li Guorui are stinky and hard, and they do not directly lead the troops, so it is enough to let them die and be full of moderation, and those civilian officials who cannot lead the troops, no matter how high their status, are of lower value. However, if a general who can lead the army can surrender alive, the harvest will be very huge.
Whether the generals of the Han army surrender alone or lead their troops to surrender, the significance is far greater than that of civilian officials.
In the future, when the Donghu people enter the customs, it is absolutely impossible to occupy the entire Great Wei with the main force of less than 200,000 soldiers and horses, even if they add another 200,000 northern captives.
The 23rd Road of the Great Wei, each road garrisoned 10,000 or 20,000 people, and each military state only stationed a few hundred people, in terms of troops, without the attachment of the Wei army and Han generals to complete such an occupation, and to obtain the financial, material and manpower of the Great Wei, it is also absolutely impossible.
Compared with Li Guorui, Yue Zhi worships the title of Taiwei like this, has a very high prestige in the army, and is a general from a high-ranking general, which is what the top level of Donghu wants to get the most.
Even if one or two thousand people are allowed to run away, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, but letting Yue Zhi run away will make the Great Khan extremely dissatisfied.
Capturing Yue Zhi and making him subordinate to Shun is of far greater significance than chasing and killing the defeated soldier in front of him, which is the reason why Wanyan Zongshu worked tirelessly and led the light cavalry to chase after him.
As for the appearance of the more than 3,000 infantry in front of him, it was completely unexpected by Yan Zongshu, and it also made the pursuers fall into a rather embarrassing situation for a while.
The array of Wei troops in front of him is like a phalanx, and the phalanx is obliquely pulled, with the left behind
The remnants of the forbidden army are horns of each other, separated by more than 300 steps, no matter which formation of light cavalry, the other formation will attack the flank or behind the Donghu cavalry within a few minutes, which will put the Donghu cavalry into a rather embarrassing situation.
If it wasn't Yue Zhi who led the remnants, Wanyan Zongshu would be able to break through the array of more than 1,000 remnants by directly sending 300 cavalry, and even 200 cavalry would be enough. The rest of the cavalry harassed and attacked on both flanks of the infantry of 3,000 men, looking for gaps and breaking the enemy with one blow.
But the infantry formation in front of you, the remnant formation led by Yue Zhi, at least from the appearance seems to be seamless, once you attack rashly, it is easy to fall into the front and rear flanks, and the soldiers will be defeated.
With the status of Wanyan Zongshu, the loss of more than 1,000 cavalry is only a small matter, Donghu for this battle at least 30,000 or 40,000 Hannujia people, at least 30,000 soldiers were killed in battle, 20,000 or 30,000 were injured, and many people could not return to the battlefield.
The loss of more than 1,000 people is only a small addition to the war, and small things are not worth mentioning at all.
But Wanyan Zongshu is thinking about his own face, so far, in addition to the Great Khan, the greatest meritorious service, the most won is Wanyan Zongshu, if he is defeated by the defeated army at this moment, he will lose face and his prestige will be greatly reduced, just for a Yue Zhi and the remnants in front of him, it is really worth the loss.
Besides, Wanyan Zongshu was also shocked by the situation at sea, and for a while, he didn't know what to say.
"Sure enough, it was the Southern Dynasty, and it was said that the Nanren among the Han people were good at boating." After standing for a long time and watching the spectacular scene on the sea, Wanyan Zongshu also admired it with heartfelt emotion.
For the Donghu people who live in dense forests, mountains, and plains, they have not seen the sea, whether it is western or southern Liaoning, there is a long coastline, and countless islands are connected to the coast. But now is not the next generation, the population of Liaodong and Liaoxi is not large, the Han people are still few, and it is the front of the battle line, there will be no Han people trading here at all, and there are no fishermen living here on a permanent basis.
In the eyes of the Donghu people, the sea is empty and uninhabited, especially in the long winter of Liaodong, the sea that people see is even black, is frozen, is a symbol of cruelty, even if it is a brave Donghu soldiers, they will not like to sail into the sea, their fear of the sea is seamed in their bones, not to mention the sea, even living by the sea is very difficult, the Donghu people in the southern Liaoning Plain have no development at all, only a few people are grazing and fishing and hunting in southern Liaoning, and a large area of offshore places is completely idle.
They only have fear and hatred for the sea, without the slightest curiosity and affection.
Even if it was such a scene in front of him, it just made Wan Yan Zongshu come to a conclusion, he looked at the small boat on the sea shuttle, the big ship was gradually approaching, a large number of bed crossbow machines were aimed at the cavalry here, some Donghu cavalry felt uneasy, and even the war horses had some feelings, snorting, four hooves kept stepping on the ground, Wan Yan Zongshu said coldly: "If you have the Southern Dynasty in the future, you should move to the sea for fifty miles, and no one will be allowed to live in the coastal areas, and no boats will be allowed!" ”
A noble man said with a smile: "I heard that the Southern Dynasty relies on overseas trade, at least more than 10 million yuan a year, and we don't want it?" ”
Wanyan Zongshu said: "This matter has long been considered by the Great Khan, and he has kept Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangning and other places for port trade, making raw silk, cloth, tea, porcelain, and selling them according to them, and buying them from outside the country to collect taxes, so that they are easy to manage and profitable, and these port cities can be made into big cities, which is convenient for us to collect taxes, wouldn't it be better, the Southern Dynasty is now like everyone can go to sea, do business one by one, and the taxes are not easy to collect, and they have become a mass of loose sand." There are even more people who gather on the sea, and in the future, they will become a threat! It is better to ban the sea and leave a few cities as port trade, which is trade, and it cannot be done on its own, and it needs to be managed by the government, otherwise it is still a mess of scattered sand and it is easy to have accidents. ”
It was quite strange to talk about the future at this moment, but the nobles present could also understand Yan Zongshu, and in fact, they themselves were quite excited.