Chapter 287: Letter from Home
Send Luo Yi away, Luo Chengsheng will gather generals.
The officers above the head of the team were all allowed to attend, Luo Cheng sat on it, and the officers stood below. Wang Ziming and Wei Zheng had already handed over to him the preliminary statistics of the results and casualties.
Although the battle was fruitful, the front compartment also suffered heavy losses.
Of the 6,000 soldiers, more than 1,500 were lost, and half of the casualties were lost. If the average army suffers more than 20% casualties on the battlefield, most of them have already collapsed.
In today's battle, Luo Cunxiao's Second Infantry Regiment suffered half of the casualties, but it was not defeated. Although it is said that there is a reason for the large army to march in the formation, it is also extremely rare.
For this reason, Luo Cheng directly shouted out the officers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment to praise.
The fourth child hangs on his shoulders and has several bandages on his body, but when he walks, he has to have his nostrils facing the sky, and the six relatives don't recognize the steps, how proud and proud he is, how arrogant and arrogant he is.
Behind him, there were four captains including Guo Xiaoke and Wang Junkuo with a group of team leaders.
Luo Cheng found that almost none of the officers of the Second Infantry Regiment were intact, and all of them were wounded with ribbons. The fourth child injured one arm and several wounds on his body, but fortunately, they were not too serious.
Wang Junkuo and Guo Xiaoke and other four lieutenants, none of them were complete, Wang Junkuo even had a big cut on his face, half of his face was swollen like a pig's head, and he was wrapped in gauze, and he couldn't even recognize people.
The second regiment originally had twenty leaders, but only eleven were left standing here at this time, five were killed and six were seriously wounded. One of Dou Jiande's hands was wrapped in gauze, and blood was still coming out, all stained with red gauze. His big sword was cut off, and his brother Liu Heimin was even worse, with a wound on his eye.
"Hurt your eyes?"
Liu Heimin said, "I was cut by a knife, my forehead and eyebrows and cheeks were broken, my eyes were fine, and the doctor didn't hurt it after seeing it, but it was estimated that I had to be blindfolded and raised for a month." ”
Luo Cheng patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay if you don't hurt your eyes, don't be afraid of leaving a scar, a man with a scar will only look more heroic and brave." ”
Liu Heimin was silent for a moment.
He bowed his head, and the other good eye was red, "The subordinates are incompetent, one hundred brothers in our team, fifty-seven were killed in the first battle, eight were seriously wounded, and the rest were all wounded, and only thirty-five were able to fight." ”
Wei Zheng said on the side, "Although the second infantry regiment and the fourth battalion B team have suffered serious attrition, their merits are not small, and Team Liu is even killing a Goguryeo lord, which is quite good. ”
The lord of the building is regarded as a middle and high-ranking officer of Goguryeo, which is equivalent to the level of the Ying Yanglang general of the Sui Dynasty, and has jurisdiction over a building of about 1,000 soldiers and horses.
This time, some of the 6,000 soldiers of Goguryeo came from Wuli Luocheng, and most of them came from the east bank of the Liao River. It was 5,000 reinforcements and was led by a city lord.
There are many city lords in Goguryeo, and the mayors of large cities and small cities are called city lords, but there are four ranks, the highest level of city lords is called Fusa, which is equivalent to the great governor of the early Sui Dynasty, and the second-level city lord is called Chulu, which is equivalent to the Taishou of the Sui Dynasty. The third-level city lord is Ke Luoda, which is equivalent to the county magistrate of the Sui Dynasty, and the fourth-level city lord is called Lou Xiao, which is equivalent to the county order of the Sui Dynasty.
The last time he led 2,000 troops from Wuli Luo City to meet him, he was a building master. And the one who led 5,000 people to help was a city lord who was in Lu, and there were five other lords under his command.
Therefore, in this battle, the Sui army killed a total of one city lord, six building owners, and a large number of 500 people, 200 chiefs, and 100 chiefs.
Liu Heimin was very lucky, and when he fought back, he actually killed a building owner and took his banner.
"Cutting the general to capture the flag, for the sake of jumping, Team Liu is brave." Luo Cheng patted him on the shoulder and said, "In order to reward this merit, I will promote you to the commander of the fourth battalion of two hundred people." ”
The length of 200 people is to manage two teams of 200 people.
Liu Heimin said happily, "Thank you." "Of course he was happy to be promoted after a fight.
Wei Zheng pointed at Dou Jiande again, "The Dou team is meeting the city lord who commands the army, this person is very capable, the Dou team is fighting with him, although they failed to capture the flag in the end, they also cut off one of the city lord's arms." ”
Those who can be the top of the country are all Goguryeo nobles, at least those with the title of eldest brother or above, and the eldest brother is in the Goguryeo official system, which belongs to the second level of high-level nobles. Such people are not civil officials of the Sui Dynasty, they are generally military generals who can fight and fight, and the aristocratic city lords of Goguryeo are basically equivalent to the governors or governors of the Central Plains.
Such a city lord is not very skilled in martial arts, but at least there will be no fewer guards around him, but Dou Jiande actually cut off one of his arms.
It's definitely a sight to behold.
"Isn't this how you cut off this great sword?"
"The subordinates were incompetent, and they failed to kill the city lord, so that he was beheaded by Yan Yunqi."
"It doesn't matter." Luo Cheng smiled, "But you can cut off his arm, it's also very good." I also give thee the post of commander of two hundred men in four battalions. ”
The commander of 200 men is equivalent to the position of deputy lieutenant of the battalion, and assists in commanding the 500 men of the battalion.
Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin were both promoted to 200 people, which attracted the envy of Sun Anzu and the others.
Luo Cheng asked Sun Anzu, Gao Shida, and Wang Fubao about their merits, and the three of them also performed eye-catching, although they failed to capture the flag, but the centurion still beheaded them, not to mention, they had a lot of beheadings.
So Luo Cheng promoted the three of them to 200 commanders each, but transferred them to other battalions of the second regiment.
Dou Jiande saw that the three brothers were transferred to other battalions, but now the five brothers stayed in the four battalions under the two regiments.
Liu Heimin spoke up very directly, "General, the five of us are all from Zhangnan County, Qinghe County, and we are all fellow villagers, can we continue to stay together?" ”
"Now you're still serving in the front of the First Army?" Luo Cheng said with a smile.
"I mean, can you keep us in the same camp?"
Luo Cheng laughed twice.
"I can understand your thoughts, but this is in the barracks, you know?"
Liu Heimin still wanted to speak, but Dou Jiande pulled him and didn't let him speak.
Such a request is nothing, but it is easy for Shangguan to think that you want to form a mountain and engage in a township party, although Luo Cheng himself is a township party, but he may not want to see other mountains appear in his mountain.
patted Liu Heimin on the shoulder, "Work hard, with your ability, how can you live for a long time with only 200 people." It won't be long before you all become captains of the first battalion, and at that time, it is impossible for me to have five battalion captains in the second regiment and four battalions, right? ”
Liu Heimin had no choice but to smile.
In this battle, the soldiers made many meritorious contributions and suffered a lot of losses, so many positions were vacated. Especially for low-level military ranks, the officers who stood in the front row like the first 200 lieutenants of the team lost nearly 30 percent.
This is higher than the casualty rate of ordinary soldiers.
Luo Cheng could only be promoted in the line of fire, and promoted a large number of fire commanders and standard-bearers who performed well in battles to be promoted to the deputy head of the team and the head of the 200 people.
After this battle.
Luo Yi led his troops to besiege Wuli Luocheng again.
But Luo Cheng didn't have to worry about this, Luo Yite let the front compartment rest, and pulled out his old pawns, recruits, and equipment to replenish him.
For several days, the city of Wuliluo was besieging the city.
It's just that Luo Yi's offense is always thunderous and rainy.
The Goguryeo army in the city was exhausted by the toss, but Luo Yi only took turns sending troops to harass him, and it didn't take much effort. While he was feinting and harassing like this, he was actively building siege equipment.
Luo Cheng's front camp was stationed in the south of Wuli Luo City, on the northern edge of Liaoze, and he only trained soldiers and horses every day, and his life was quite easy.
October.
A large number of supplementary supplies were transported from Huaiyuan Town, but winter clothes were sent to the First Army.
In addition, a lot of supplementary ordnance was also sent, and a group of recruits and civilians were sent to replenish it, and many letters from soldiers were also sent.
Everything is fine at Zhangqiu's house.
Luo Cheng's three sisters-in-law were all born, and the Luo family had three more grandchildren.
When the fourth child received the letter, he jumped up excitedly and kept shouting that he was finally a father.
Shan Binbin now lives in Zhangqiu Luo's house, accompanying Luo's mother to help take care of the children, and the girl in the red line also follows her every day. She wrote to say that she missed him, and for more than half a year, she sent him dozens of letters, but although the letters from the soldiers sent out, it was not easy to send them to the soldiers.
Many of Binbin's letters were delayed on the road, and then stayed in Zhuojun and Huaiyuan for a long time, so the letters that were originally a few letters a month were all delivered to him in October at one time.
Daddy also wrote to him.
said that Zhangqiu City is now Du Ruhui as the county order, and Zhang Yichen was promoted to the division of Si Litai, and the history of the assassination of Henan. And Fang Xuanling was promoted to the chief secretary of Qi County.
Dad is still Zhangqiu's record, he is often on errands in the county government now, and he also said that Du Ruhui also knows his identity, and he asked his son how he and Luo Yi are doing?
The eldest brother also came to the letter, and he said in the letter that Zhangqiu is not peaceful now, after Luo Cheng led the main force of the Changbai Mansion soldiers to leave, now Zhangqiu is also empty, and there are bandits in Changbai Mountain who have begun to gather again, and that Chai Xiao and Changshi did not lead the troops to suppress.
It is also said that Wang Bo and Wang Bodang are now active in Lu County next door, and it is said that they recruited troops everywhere, wandered around and plundered, and last month led 3,000 bandits to break through a county seat in Lu County, saying that they had killed the county commander and robbed the county treasury of money, grain, swords, and soldiers.
He was very worried that these two kings didn't know when they would return to Qi County, and asked Luo Cheng when he would be able to go back.
Cousin Qin Qiong also came with a letter.
It is said that recently there has been a swarm of bandits in Henan, because of the battle of the Eastern Crusade, many people began to cut off their hands enough to avoid service, and some people took risks and simply died in the rivers and lakes, falling into the grass and mountains and forests.
Because bandits are everywhere, and more government soldiers and county soldiers have been transferred to the front line of the Eastern Expedition, the place is empty, so now the local government is a little panicked.
Zhang Xutuo, the commander of Qi County, has already recruited him to take over the favor and let him serve as the captain of the Qi County Barracks. He said that Zhang Xutuo had already reorganized 2,000 county soldiers and was preparing to clear out the bandits in Changbai Mountain and Mount Tai again.
After reading these letters, Luo Cheng fell into deep thought.
It seems that although there are some changes, the general trend is still difficult to change. Wang Bo was not the first to revolt in Changbai Mountain, but they went to Lu County to kill officials and rebel and attack the county seat to recruit troops.
Qi County's hometown is already unstable.