Chapter 182: Counterattack (4)
When the attack was frustrated, there was a sound of murder on the city gate, and the rock-solid gate suddenly loosened, and Sikong Nan threw the man to kill the earthen ramparts, removed the wooden falcon from the winch, and made people insert wooden poles, and lifted the two log gates.
"Young master, the gate is open!" Hu Mo said anxiously.
"God help me, pass on my military order, and order someone to use logs to resist the wooden fence, and the army will immediately follow me in."
"No!"
After the city gate that opens and closes from the bottom up is breached, the corner of the wall must be covered with logs to prevent the city gate from suddenly closing and being beaten by the dog.
The moment the gate of Saidongzhai opened, Jiang Qian took the lead, took the lead and attacked the Seinai with a shield and a sword, and rushed out less than twenty steps, then saw the Xian army killing each other, Hu Mo said urgently:
"Young master, it's the Black Turban Army who wears our skin."
"Bastard!"
As soon as the words fell, several people rushed out head-on, covered in blood and unable to distinguish friend from foe, Jiang Gan's own soldiers held shields in front of him to block the way.
"Who's in front, who's under them!"
Hu Mo shouted, only to see that the person who came was very familiar, wearing an iron cloth shirt.
Bailiyan (Wei Xian) was overjoyed when he heard that it was Hu Mo:
"General Hu, it's me Wei Xian."
"Wei Xianfeng, why are you!" Hu Mo was taken aback.
"The last general climbed over the wall from outside the city and attacked all the way to the walled gate, never thought that the young master and General Hu came to respond."
At this time, Jiang Qian asked loudly:
"The black turban traitors are all wearing the armor of the Xian Army, how can Wei Xianfeng distinguish between the enemy and me."
Jiang Qian also noticed that Wei Xian's troops were fighting with the Black Turban Army, but it was obviously impossible to kill each other.
"The young master only needs to look at the shoes of the two armies, and those who do not wear the shoes of the Xianjun army are traitors."
"Shhh...... What if it's a rebel army! ”
Jiang Qian's mind turned very fast, the origin of the Black Turban Army was complicated, there were tens of thousands of people who were mutinous new troops under Lu Ji, and these people were also wearing Xianjun shoes. At this time, Bailiyan said again:
"The young master can rest assured, the Xianjun rebels cannot be self-contained, and they are bound to be separated among the black turban traitors, so there are not many Xianjun rebels in Ruitian Village. Moreover, leaving one more Xianguo person is to retain one more bit of the vitality of the Xianguo. As long as they are willing to surrender, it is not necessarily a good thing to leave a life. ”
The main force of the Black Turban Army comes from Sun State, accounting for more than sixty percent of the total, the mutiny and defection of the Xian army is mixed with it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, but the number does not account for the majority, once the Xian army occupies the initiative, surrender is inevitable, as long as it can survive, it is better than cannibalism.
Capture the east gate, the Guangxin army poured into Ruitian like a tide, successively captured and controlled the eight tunbao in the east of the Saidong, opened the south gate and put it into the department of He Meng, occupied more than half of the territory of the whole village after dark, Guan Pu and Xiao Chen intercepted the black scarf army outside the city, and broke through the north gate after dark and led the army to enter.
The fierce battle lasted until the end of the day, and the Black Turban Army trapped in Ximen was hopeless and its morale collapsed, so they all surrendered to the Xian Army and captured 8,000 Black Turban Army. A total of more than 28,000 enemies were captured during the day, and nearly 30,000 people were killed, wounded, and defeated in the first battle of Ruitian, most of whom were trampled to death by cavalry in the chaos.
Gao Pei and Ye Xin pursued the enemy along the river from the north to the south, Ye Xin chased out seven miles to the south, and the remnants of the southern wing of the Black Turban Army were all scattered, Ye Xin left 2,000 men and horses to defend the defensive line, and led 3,000 heavy armored infantry soldiers to the north to reinforce Gao Pei.
Gao Pei fought ten miles to the north and encountered a fierce counterattack by the Black Turban Army, due to heavy rain, the morale of the Black Turban Army going south was low, and the combat strength was weak, and the Black Turban Army was defeated under the battle between the two armies and was forced to retreat. By dark, Gao Pei and Ye Xiner captured more than 6,000 enemies and killed more than 3,000 enemies.
In this battle, the Xian army lost 4,700 casualties and more than 6,000 wounded, and defeated 80,000 Black Turban Army on the west bank of Wuping at only one-eighth of the cost, breaking the invincible deification of the Black Turban Army in the world.
In the second half of the night, the heavy rain turned to torrential rain, the blood flowed on the ground, the temperature still showed no signs of rising, and after a fight, he was soaked and shivered. Baili Yan stayed in the shack to roast the fire, while bandaging the wounds on his hands, and asked Sikong Nan:
"How many brothers have we hurt today?"
Sikong Nan said with some excitement:
"Twenty-one dead, one hundred and six. Such a big victory, my subordinates have never seen it in eight lifetimes, this is a small victory. ”
"Yes, there are only more than 50,000 people who crossed the river, and the Black Turban Army has 80,000, counting the Black Turban Army that has been reinforced one after another, there should always be 100,000 people, and the annihilation and defeat of the enemy army twice as large as ourselves is indeed an unprecedented victory, and the twenty-one brothers who died are also worth it."
If it weren't for today's blizzard turning to heavy rain, Bai Liyan estimated that today's battle would be wiped out by the entire army of the Xian army, and at this moment, I don't know what the commander of the Black Turban Army had thought, and what the soldiers of the Black Turban Army had felt.
Baking the bonfire, Bailiyan fell asleep in a daze, and when she woke up, it was the next morning, and the rain still showed no signs of stopping, but fortunately, the temperature had risen.
He first went to the wounded camp to visit the wounded soldiers of the pioneer camp yesterday, and when he saw that one hundred and six of them were still alive, Bai Liyan breathed a sigh of relief.
The two hundred teams equipped with chain mail were like entering a no-man's land, killing extremely fiercely, and most of the injuries were in the lower body, and none of the chain mail was cut by the destruction of the blade, which shows that the steel chain mail has excellent defense against bronze weapons and iron swords with ordinary texture.
Turning back to the Guangxin Pioneer Camp, Sikong Nan was organizing a meal.
Battlefield meals by the battalion organization of people to go to the camp to eat, yesterday a big victory, today's breakfast is quite rich, each person got two light cakes, a piece of two taels of jerky, there are generals who lead the army and have additional food bonuses, such as the post of Baili Yan pioneer, which is equivalent to the capital, and the extra three taels of dried meat more than ordinary soldiers.
But Bai Liyan knew that the Xianjun army was in a hurry to prepare this time, the logistics were chaotic, and even the food and grass were prepared enough, so where did they get the meat. At least he has been stationed in Wuping for more than a month, and he has only eaten two meals of meat, and more often he still needs to find a way to fish.
"Sikong Nan, where did you get so much dried meat?"
Sikong Nan chewed the jerky triumphantly and said:
"Governor He Dadu raided the Black Turban Army's military warehouse in Ruitian last night and found a lot, and the dried meat was enough for 80,000 Black Turban Army to eat meat at once, enough to eat for a month."
"So much!"
Bai Liyan was taken aback and said half-jokingly:
"It looks like he's so rich!"
Hiding in the shack and chewing bare biscuit meat, Bailiyan thought about the incredible logistics of the Black Turban Army behind the jerky.
Only 80,000 people have enough to eat a month's worth of dried meat, and if they are all monthly, these dried meats are enough for these 80,000 people to spend for three months, even if the treatment of the Jin army's heavy armor army, which is known as the elite of the Central Plains, is nothing more than that.
If measured by this, this is the only treatment of the Ruitian Black Turban Army, or is it a common phenomenon in the whole army of 500,000 Black Turban Army.
If it is the general treatment of the 500,000 army, then why did the Black Turban Army have so many material reserves, it can't be the reserves of Muyang Cang, and where can Muyang Cang supply so much meat, it is obviously the materials that the Black Turban Army has prepared before the incident.
While thinking about it, Hu Mo's voice came, and he was walking towards him with a bandage on his neck with his left hand.
Luo Songting took four pieces of chain mail that day, and Hu Mo should have one, but he and Jiang Qian didn't wear it yesterday, so it is reasonable that he was injured.
"Wei Xianfeng, the young master asked Wei Xianfeng to go to the big tent for questioning."
"Okay, let's go."
Hu Mo is 1.9 meters tall, burly and abnormal, standing in front of him like a door panel, he is the same as Xu Han, Jiang Qian followed left and right when he was a teenager, so Jiang Gan's deep trust, just like Jiang Rong's trust in Xu Han, is regarded as a profitable family general around him.
Jiang Gan is not approachable, and he can be said to be a little proud, but compared to his gentlemen, Jiang Qian does have his own ideals and ambitions.
He has been familiar with military affairs since he was a child, and at the age of fifteen he served in the public palace guard, and at the age of eighteen he was able to take charge of the bandits. If it was a mediocre person, Jiang Min would not rest assured that Jiang Qian would go to the Song Kingdom to do business.
However, Jiang Qian didn't seem to have a natural impression of Bailiyan, Bailiyan didn't have much contact with him on weekdays, and he didn't have more contact until he went south to King Qin.
Jiang Gan's pride mostly comes from his youthful ambition, and he can take charge of himself at the age of eighteen. Bai Liyan guessed that the reason why Jiang Qian didn't want to see him may be because in the first battle of Jiangdong that year, he defeated Han He four times, which severely frustrated the spirit of the Jin army, which made Jiang Gan, who was a young man, feel pressure.
It must be known that the Baili Yan Nian of that year was only sixteen, but he was able to take charge of blocking the 100,000 troops of the Jin army on the riverside, and if it was Jiang Qian, could he do it.
When Hu Mo came to the house where Jiang Qian temporarily stayed, half of the house had been burned down, and the remaining half was barely inhabitable.
Since the fierce battle last night, Zhao Xun is still sitting in Wuping to prevent the Black Turban Army from crossing the river, but four military orders have come successively, requiring all troops in Ruitian to strengthen Ruitian Village and prepare for a long-term station.
Last night, He Meng copied the black turban army's military warehouse in Ruitian, which can be said to have gained a lot, Bai Liyan pondered, it can't be that Jiang Qian's eyes are red and he wants to negotiate the spoils of war by himself.
Of course, the Guangxin Army was the first to attack the army in Ruitian, if He Meng's department did not open the south gate of the Guangxin Army, He Meng's department would not be able to occupy the military warehouse, and it is said that it should be divided into some spoils.
Walking into the house, Baili Yan saluted:
"I've seen the young master."
Jiang Qian was sitting at this time, looking up at Bailiyan with a complicated expression.
"Wei Xianfeng took the lead in attacking the city yesterday and won great success for the Guangxin army, and my son was very pleased. I have reported to my father and asked Zhao Shuai for credit for Wei Xianfeng."
"The young master has won the prize."
"Wei Xianfeng is a pioneer of Guangxin, and he deserves this credit."
Jiang Qian's words were full of sycophants, and Bai Liyan couldn't help but suspect that he didn't have any good intentions, and he must have asked for himself.
Sure enough, Jiang Qian took out two large packages from behind him, one of which was very heavy and threw it on the table, making a crisp metallic sound, and the other package showed no signs.
Opening the first package, Huang Chengcheng's "inch gold" was dizzy, of course Bai Liyan would not think that Jiang Qian could be so kind to reward him with so much gold, let alone believe that Jiang Qian would carry gold with him, it must be the fake gold found by He Meng who copied Ruitian's military warehouse.
He Meng didn't know about fake gold, and it is estimated that he couldn't recognize the real and fake gold, but the people in Guangxin Mansion knew that such a large bag of gold must have been He Meng's own initiative to reward Guangxin Army for opening the south gate yesterday and putting it into He Meng's department. As a result, a bag of fake gold was sent, which inevitably fell a little.