Chapter 227: Attacking Cavalry (3)

It was the first time Xu Jin had participated in such a large-scale attack, and twenty or thirty thousand people were killed like this under one blow, and he had only seen it in his life:

"It is said that General Wei's soldiers are endless, and when I saw it today, I admire it!"

"General Xu's words are serious, the method of the battle formation is flexible and mobile, you can deal with 20,000 or 30,000 people today, and deal with other traitors in the future, you should use other appropriate means to control it, and you can't act rigidly."

"Xu has been taught!"

Xu Jin immediately saluted, and then Baili Yan (Wei Xian) ordered Su Hongdao:

"Su Hong, pass on the general's order. Ordered Sikong Nan and Lu Gao to move south to the west side and stand by, ready to attack the next formation! ”

"General, what about so many prisoners?"

"Stupid! I see you smart on weekdays, why are you so confused today" Bai Liyan shouted: "Leave the five hundred cavalry battalion to continue to drive, and catch all the generals first, but all those who resist will be killed, without a leader, what use can those guards and people under his command be, go and give orders!" ”

"No!"

Su Hong usually has bad ideas, but today he saw that the captives all over the land actually proposed to arrest people first, if so, he would not miss the fighter.

The legs are long on people, and they can run wherever they want, and 10,000 people all over the world go to capture prisoners, and all the establishments are disrupted, and they can't be collected back when the time comes.

Leaving a few hundred people to continue to fight the remnants of the resistance, giving priority to arresting and eliminating the generals, the soldiers and the people have lost their unified command, they are lambs to be slaughtered, where do they still need to be caught, there will be no food to eat, and they will not surrender by themselves, how can there be a reason to capture prisoners in battle, it is simply ridiculous.

Quickly adjusting the battle position, Sikong Nan and Lu Gao received Bai Liyan's order, and continued to the south with their men and horses, and Bai Li Yan and Xu Jin's troops regrouped their formation, slowed down their speed and marched step by step, and advanced parallel to the south along the official road.

Ye Xin's department of 13,000 people, the attack on the middle of the black turban baggage battalion was quite smooth, but it was indeed entangled with the guards and people after the whole line attacked, even if it did not suffer losses, it would cost more, far less cost-effective than the cavalry sweeping back and forth in turns.

Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu 2 generals, who were responsible for attacking the southern section, also adopted the tactics of engaging the enemy, and entangled with the infantry after rushing into the enemy formation intensively, with the result that 8,000 people were surrounded by more than 30,000 people in the formation, and tens of thousands of people took hoes, straw forks and even bronze spears to divide Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu 2 into several pieces, and then shot them with bows and arrows, and the fight was very embarrassing.

Bai Liyan led the army to attack the middle road, tore open the defense line of the north wing of the middle road of the Black Turban Army, and then repeatedly rushed to the west side of the middle road with Sikong Nan and Lu Gao's subordinates, completely cutting the north wing of the middle road of the Black Turban Army, opening a gap for Ye Xin to tear open the middle defense line.

The battle was until dusk, Ye Xin's troops were like a broken bamboo under the attack of Baili Yan and Xu Jin, and the defense line of the Black Turban Army that had been formed was broken from the east, and the Baili Yan Army set fire to the enemy with pine oil alcoholic ceramic jars, dragged with rope hooks, released arrows with bows and crossbows, and threw quicklime and other despicable and vicious means to open the northwest gap.

From the northwest into the battle, the Black Turban Army archers were all wiped out, and the battle was until dark, and the Black Turban Army was scattered in the middle and fled one after another.

The rout fled to the south, which made it worse for Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu, who were originally in prison, and the northern section and the middle road were all broken, Ye Xin and Bailiyan led the army to attack from the east and west, and under the infection of the rout, the remnants of the Black Turban Army that had originally stood in position continued to collapse, further shaking the determination of the Black Turban Army in the southern section.

Originally, it was to besiege Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu, but after the main force of the Xian army arrived, it became a flowering counter-encirclement in the middle, and the black turban army in the southern section let the Xian army kill people and turn over their souls without possessing their bodies.

Seeing that it was already dark, and tens of thousands of black turban troops were still resisting, Baili Yan ordered:

"Su Hong, order all battalions to shout to General Ben, 'Surrender or kill, put down your weapons!'."

"No!"

Bai Liyan originally planned to add the words "preferential treatment of prisoners", but after thinking about it, Xianguo's treasury is empty and poor at the moment, where can they still be treated preferentially, and being able to survive is the greatest preferential treatment.

After nightfall, the Xian army on the periphery lit torches, and the black turban army surrounded by it was pitch black, and they were shrinking step by step under great pressure.

"Surrender or kill, put down your weapons!"

The sound was higher and higher, the large-scale fighting on the whole line had stopped, and wails could be heard from time to time in local exchanges.

"Quickly, surrender, otherwise you're welcome!"

The soldiers of the pioneer battalion have already killed the red eyes, and the soldiers of the leopard tao battalion are invulnerable to chain mail, rushing to the front and repeatedly provoking incidents.

After a while, someone in the Black Turban Army shouted in a Zhiguo accent:

"You Xianguo people can count when you speak!"

After a while, Sikong Nan replied through the air:

"The Xianjun Pioneer Battalion speaks with all his words, as long as you put down your blades, you will not die, and you have a field to plant, and you can please women. Who doesn't want to live, General Ben made him not see the sun tomorrow! ”

Sikong Nan's voice fell for a moment, first he heard a noisy metal sound, and then the sound of metal noise came and went, and the black turban rebels put down their weapons one after another, and some even collapsed to the ground and collapsed all over their bodies.

Seeing this scene, the Xian army pressed on all fronts to prevent someone from the Black Turban Army from surrendering and causing another incident.

In the second half of the night, the fighting mostly ceased, and there were still sporadic fighting scattered here and there, and some screams could be emitted from time to time.

The second generals Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu suffered considerable losses, with 8,000 people killed and wounded and nearly 4,000, and Ye Xin was furious and wanted to exempt them from demotion in military ranks:

"You two are guilty!"

"The last general Gu Zhong is guilty, please punish the crime!" Xiao channel, kneeling on one knee and pleading guilty.

"The last general is also guilty!" Gu Zhongdao.

Ye Xin's eyes widened and glared at the two of them, if it weren't for the dim lights in the dark, Ye Xin's leopard eyes could scare people to death.

At this time, Baili Yan persuaded and said:

"Governor Ye Dadu, Gu and Xiao Er's subordinates were originally restructured as infantry troops, and they were not good at cavalry warfare, and all the big losses in this battle were not the crime of war, but they were caused by insufficient training and unfamiliar riding battles.

Ye Xin restrained his anger, and said in a soothing tone:

"Although what General Wei said is reasonable, it cannot be exonerated because of the incident." Ye Xin said, looking at Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu: "For the sake of the two of you fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and General Wei begging for mercy for you, the governor of Pontus is bypassing you two." The next time you commit another offense, you will definitely be held accountable, and you can understand. ”

"Gu Zhong Xie Dadu Governor is not guilty."

"Xiao Qu Xie Dadu."

In all fairness, nearly half of the 8,000 casualties were killed in today's battle, and the casualties were indeed larger. The 13,000 casualties of Ye Xin's department were only 3,000 people, and the 1,500 casualties of Bailiyan and Xu Jin's department were only more than 1,500 people, and the vast majority of them were lightly injured.

Nearly half of the casualties of Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu are indeed too unreasonable, and they were surrounded by infantry troops under the charge of cavalry, which is outrageous. If it weren't for today's unprecedented victory with fewer victories, Ye Xin would never have bypassed the two of them so easily.

After disposing of the second general, the preliminary statistical results were handed over to Ye Xin, and the Black Turban Army surrendered in the southern section totaled more than 25,000 people.

According to the confession of the captured commander, there were 110,000 people, 15,000 guards, 105,000 people, and less than 50,000 people who had been captured, and the casualties were unknown.

This means that there are at least tens of thousands of people scattered outside, and the whereabouts of the commander of the Black Turban Army led by him are unknown, at least the body has not been found.

In addition to grain, grass, and cured meat, the supplies escorted this time also included oil, calcium carbide, finished ordnance, leather, grease, and the blankets of the Black Turban Army.

After being transported by land and water to Xianguo Chunan County, and then transported to Xianxi County by land, the Black Turban Army connected Xianxi County with the two counties of Sangbei and Sangnan of Changsun Kingdom, and set up a military warehouse. The people who were responsible for escorting the baggage were the people of Zhiguo and Xu who were evacuated from Zhiguo to the territory of Sun State last year. In addition to the men, there are also the female dependents of the people involved in the transportation.

So there were more than 10,000 women and thousands of children among the 105,000 people. Under the siege of the Xian army, the reason for the resistance to the present is that the Black Turban Army implemented a wartime mechanism of integrating the military and the government in the rear.

Since all the men and peasants are busy with production and farming, the farmers are training and fighting, otherwise it is impossible for 100,000 people to drag their families and mouths to resist the whole system of 30,000 cavalry for a whole day before they break up, as long as the women shout and cry for the children, the men will be disturbed, and they will not immediately panic, where can they still fight with the regular army.

Its militarized organizational structure has maintained to a large extent the minimum organization in times of chaos, and this kind of military and political system is no different from that of the whole people in modern times, and all production activities revolve around war, and all resources are invested in war.

Compared with the countries that are currently at the end of slavery and the early feudal monarchy, the superiority of this military and political system in which all the people are soldiers in war is self-evident, and it is no wonder that the Black Turban Army can maintain such a large army.

But if you think about it, this kind of war system is completely incompatible with the productive forces of today.

The emergence and continuation of any system must have its corresponding realistic foundation and supporting productive forces, perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Black Turban Army will continue to plunder the population, capture the grain production areas, and then shrink up to seek a fist strategy of clenching its fist and striking a backhand.

In one day's battle, the Xian army was already sleepy and tired, and they couldn't take care of the matter of capturing prisoners at all, and many soldiers hurriedly ate a few bites and fell asleep.

On the third day of the next day, under the urging of Ye Xin, the troops sent out their men and horses to arrest people, and sent people to contact Chen Feishi's navy and asked him to quickly dock to meet them.

The large warships of the Xian army are far more than the existing staff, and Chen Feishi carried nearly half of the warships of the Xian army on this trip, and nearly 50,000 people have been loaded, of which 40,000 are people who have been captured or taken refuge along the way, all of them are Xianguo people, and the vast majority of the captives captured this time are Zhiguo, Xu Guo, and a small number of Sun Guoren.

The capture lasted for one day, with a total of more than 60,000 people captured, more than 25,000 corpses counted, and most of them died in the chaos and under the horse's hooves, of which Bailiyan killed or trampled more than 5,000 people in a single assault. If last night's rescue had been immediate, at least thousands of people would not have died the next day

Most of the rest of the vacant people have been far away or hidden, and the Black Turban Army has not seen anyone dead or dead, so they should have fled.