Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Encirclement (2)

Thirty miles east of the northern slope of Fox Ridge

Temporary station of the regimental training battalion

This comfortable camp is supposed to be closer to Long'an Mansion, but there are scattered fights here, and no Lang Zhong is willing to risk his life for a few medical fees.

It was Jin Mingyin who rushed back to Chengdu overnight and invited Dr. Zheng, who had treated Gao Yingshu last time.

This time, Dr. Zheng has some personal relations with the old man Jin Deju, and the second is that he has been treating the Jin Mansion in the past few years, and the Jin family's large and small ingots and silver tickets have not been stuffed into his pockets, so he has to ask him to solve this urgent need.

Dr. Zheng's medical skills were not to say, and he took out the small arrow shaft in An Yi's arm in three strokes and two clicks, wrapped a few bandages around his left arm, and told him to leave the herbs that needed to be replaced every day before leaving.

"If Sister Yingshu sees this, I don't know what it will be like to feel distressed."

Jin Mingyin opened the curtain of the camp tent, looked at An Yi's bandaged left arm, which was a few circles thick, and quipped.

An Yi glanced at him angrily, and continued to ask Jiang Shang, who was sitting at the table, "Brother Jiang, how is the loss of the Chinese military camp this time?" ”

"The battle losses were large, and they brought a whole thousand men and horses, and after this battle, three hundred and sixty-two people went, close to one-third of the casualty rate. However, it is reasonable that we are mainly newly recruited soldiers this time, to put it bluntly, young peasants who have just laid down their hoes, and only those who have really experienced the baptism of war and stayed behind can become usable people. ”

Jiang Shang reported very indifferently, because in his cognition, the new army was pulled into the battlefield without training, and it was inevitable that the first battle would suffer heavy losses, but it was also a good thing, because only those who were filtered down by this war could become veterans, elite soldiers, and even soldiers of a hundred battles, without such a cruel elimination, even if there were 10,000 people in the regimental training battalion, they were all rabble.

"What about the firearms battalion?"

An Yi turned his head and asked Jin Mingyin, who had just entered the camp tent and was sitting on his left.

Jin Mingyin was not so calm, he sighed, and replied with some dejection: "Twenty-eight people died and seven were injured in the firearms battalion at once this time, all of which were carefully adjusted before. The guns that were taught, after a battle, are all explained here. ”

Listening to the words of the two, An Yi made a rough calculation, and after this battle, the regimental training camp was reduced by nearly 400 people. Although there are some illusory numbers in his ears, but if you think about it carefully, more than 400 young men who were still alive yesterday are all lying under the white cloth today, and some of them are unlucky, and they can't even find a corpse.

He rubbed his eyebrows with his hand and said to the two: "I am tired of sending the specific list of casualties back to Jiang Ruyue, and how to appease the families of the deceased, let him have an idea." ”

Paying compensation to the families of fallen soldiers is a delicate matter, and different regions, different positions, and different situations must be treated differently, and this kind of thing will cause bad comments from the people if it is not done well, and it is most reassuring to leave comfort to Jiang Ruyue.

"I'm not afraid of Brother Jiang's jokes, Ming Yin and I are both on the battlefield for the first time, but I still feel that this battle is not like fighting with a rabble composed of a group of homeless people and bandits, but with a well-trained army that has been fighting, I don't know if this feeling is right, Brother Jiang, your battlefield is relatively rich, what do you say?"

An Yi frowned and said the doubts in his heart, he felt that the Wugu Sect this time and the Wugu Sect under the hands of the Jingyun Dao Leader in Songling Village last time were not of the same grade at all, and he was not sure if it was because of the illusion caused by the difference in numbers.

Who knew that Jiang Shang also nodded heavily, and said in a deep voice: "Don't tell your lord, to put it bluntly, the combat effectiveness of this Wugu Sect will not be lost to any ordinary green battalion of the same number in the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty, and even a smaller part of the border army is not much." In other words, without a general with experience in warfare who has been beaten repeatedly for two or three years, he will never have this kind of combat effectiveness. ”

An Yi understood the meaning of Jiang Shang's words, that is to say, the Wugu Sect has not actually gradually expanded in the past two years, but has always hidden a standing army of tens of thousands of people, and has the logistical ability to supply an army of this size.

Therefore, this Wugu Sect is basically a private armed force that is cloaked in religion and separating the localities.

An Yi was exposed to his grandfather when he was a child, and he knew how difficult it was to "hide" this team of tens of thousands of people under the political system of the Great Xia Dynasty.

The whereabouts of these tens of thousands of people are a problem, they are all young men in the prime of life, obviously they were still at home yesterday, and today they can disappear mysteriously from the yellow book library of the county government without realizing it? The training of tens of thousands of people, such as venues, grain, grass, and weapons, is not a small skill, how can it be concealed from the ears and eyes of officials at all levels?

Unless, this Five Grain Sect was simply grown up under the protection of a high-ranking and powerful person, or it was simply the "private army" of a high-ranking official.

Thinking like this, An Yi naturally poured into his mind as several "adults" in Sichuan.

Although it is indeed a bit absurd to suspect that the officials of the imperial court are three grades of feudal territory based on the conjecture of clues, who can guarantee that what they do must be "reasonable"?

"My lord! Emergency military intelligence! ”

Suddenly, the sound of a sentry outside the door interrupted Anyi's thoughts.

Jin Mingyin stood up, opened the curtain of the tent, and led the sentry inside.

The sentry rider was covered with bamboo tubes used to hold information, walked in quickly, and knelt down on one knee in front of comfort.

"My lord, according to the latest report, last night the Wugu Sect on the Fox Ridge attacked the Chengdu garrison camp stationed on the western slope, and the battalion commander Deputy Liu killed the general commander, the camp was almost ransacked, and the men and horses in the camp were almost wiped out."

"All gone?"

Jiang Shang listened to the report of this sentry horseman, he couldn't believe his ears, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he couldn't help but ask.

"According to the report of the brothers who went to the vicinity to investigate later, there were only a hundred people left in the camp and fled in the direction of the Fox Ridge Fortress."

The words of the sentry rider once again proved to Jiang Shang that he had heard correctly.

An Yi frowned and looked at Jiang Shang, "This military camp is too vulnerable?" It's gone all at once? ”

An Yi's original calculation in his heart was to let the Wugu Sect's military disasters affect the Chinese army and the second guard battalion in addition to him, forcing the men and horses of these two battalions to join the battle and work together to suppress the bandits.

Although the strong combat effectiveness of the Wugu Sect was somewhat unexpected, according to his thoughts, even if the well-equipped Green Battalion was passively resisted at the instigation of Zeng Ziren, it was not so easy to deal with.

He waved his hand at the sentry kneeling in the camp, and the sentry understood and took the order.

"Something is wrong!"

Jiang Shang was also the same as An Yi, his brows furrowed together,

"My lord, I don't think it's that simple."

An Yi stared at him, did not make a sound, and motioned him with his eyes to continue,

"We have fought with the Wugu Sect, as I said just now, they are indeed stronger than the ordinary green battalions in Great Xia, but this does not mean that they can annihilate any green battalion at will, not to mention that the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan and Shu army is not high in the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

Moreover, since it was a night attack, the Wugu Sect would bring at most one or two thousand cavalry over, and the Chinese military camp only needed to rely on a solid camp, so I don't know what reason there was to resist the attack of the Wugu Sect.

Besides, even if it is a rotten and incompetent soldier in the real camp, he will always run, right? Even if the Five Grains Sect descended from the gods, it could not spread out in the night and hunt down everyone. ”

As he spoke, Jiang Shang's eyes suddenly looked at An Yi and Jin Mingyin, who were listening intently to his analysis, and then continued word by word:

"Unless, they don't have a defense at all!"

As soon as this sentence came out, the forehead lines on An Yi's head were about to be squeezed out at this young age, and he asked Jiang Shang: "No defense?" Isn't that the number one priority in camping? Why did Brother Jiang say that they were not fortified?

Do you mean to say... They received some kind of message or instruction telling them not to fortify? ”

Jiang Shang nodded noncommittally and added: "In other words, that Deputy General Liu has obtained some permission, and he only needs to make a show on the western slope, and he can evacuate soon, so that he mistakenly thinks that there is no war, so he has not fortified at all." ”

His words made An Yi fall into his thoughts for a while, and he had to clearly sort out this somewhat confusing information.

At present, there are only three people who can give direct orders to the Chinese military camp, all of whom are commanders, garrison generals, and Zeng Ziren, who holds a tiger talisman in his hand. The first thing that can be ruled out is the garrison general, after all, if the newcomer takes office, it will not be widely announced, since the news has not been received, it means that the position is still empty, so the only ones who can give orders to the Chinese military camp are Zeng Ziren and his father Zeng Hanru.

The relationship between Huling and the fortress under the leadership of the mouth is cold, I believe everyone can see that burying a Chinese military camp in vain and giving up Huling is probably not good news for the guard battalion in the Fox Ridge Fortress, this kind of shoddy defense is by no means from the hands of the old commander, then it can be concluded now that Zeng Ziren made it clear to the Chinese military camp that the deployment of the western slope is just a formality.

But what is Zeng Ziren's purpose? No matter who is in this position, I am afraid that they should not know that Huling is the key, even if Zeng Ziren is confused, are the commanders of the two battalions willing to bury them?

An Yi asked Jiang Shang what he thought in his heart,

Jiang Shang pondered for a while, turned around and looked at the map spread on several cases, rubbed his chin, and did not answer, looking a little hesitant.

"They're not coming at me, are they?"

An Yi's inadvertent words were like a key that suddenly opened the fog that lingered in Jiang Shang's mind.

I saw him keep gesturing on the map with his hand, and then suddenly bent his fists and fingers, and knocked heavily on the location of Huling on the map, and gestured on the map with a serious face towards An Yi, while explaining: "My lord, according to your statement, if I am the commander, there is a situation where I don't have to care about Huling. ”

"What's the situation?"

An Yi hurriedly raised his head and asked,

"Use the regimental training camp as bait!"

Looking at An Yi's puzzled expression, Jiang Shang then said: "Setting up the regimental training camp on the northern slope is to calculate that we will not be able to resist the Wugu Sect at all, in this case, we will definitely go up the ridge and move closer to the military camp on the western slope."

However, the guard battalion and the central military camp in the city can directly encircle us and the Wugu Sect together on the mountain, and after the Wugu Sect and we have become strong crossbows and can no longer break through to the bottom of the mountain, they will gradually encircle and annihilate the Wugu Sect.

It's just that when we really get to that point, I'm afraid we'll be wiped out long ago. ”

After An Yi heard this, he felt that his back was already wet with cold sweat, and his undulating chest took a sharp breath of cold air, "Two birds with one stone!" It's really a poisonous ploy, that is, he took the exploits of the Five Grain Sect, and took my head through the hands of the Five Grain Sect. ”

Jiang Shang said with some joy: "But they miscalculated, my lord let go of the Five Grains Sect and let the Wugu Sect go up the mountain, but they still saved us." I am afraid that the Chinese military camp did not expect that we would retreat to both sides, and their wishful thinking was opened by our floodgates, and they were unsuspectingly washed away by the flood. ”

An Yi sneered and shook his head, "None of this is important, the important thing is that with Zeng Ziren, it is impossible to come up with such a plan to kill two birds with one stone." Either he has a master behind him, or ...... It's the one who wants me to have a comfortable head, and someone else! ”