Chapter 584: Defeat is like a mountain
No matter how well-trained an army is, when the army's battle loss ratio reaches more than 50 percent, it is not far from collapse.
The Song army attacked this time, except for a large number of people who accompanied the army, there were 200,000 troops, while the Zhennan army only had more than 40,000 people.
Therefore, even in the battle, the Song army killed 80,000 or 90,000 people one after another, but because its own strength was still several times that of the enemy, it held out until now.
When the thousands of fully armed terrifying war elephants, as well as the two never-before-seen dragons that could breathe flames, attacked head-on, not to mention Liu Yanqing and Tong Guan, even if Di Qing, the god of war of the Great Song Dynasty, was reborn, he couldn't stop the rout of the Song army.
The morale of the Song army, which had completely collapsed, scattered and fled to the north, and the soldiers, who were already completely unorganized, were now fleeing for their lives by luck.
Li Nan, who was standing at the head of the city, didn't have many soldiers around him, and he sent all the people in the city to counterattack the whole army just now.
Li Nan looked at the Song army camp that was burning in front of him, as bright as day, and he did not have the slightest joy of victory in his heart, because this was a senseless battle, and the dead were all his own compatriots.
If it was the early Tang Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, even if it was the period of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, Li Nan would choose to be a rich man, usually earn some silver, copy a few poems, linger in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, and live a happy and relaxed life.
But the fact is very helpless, Li Nan came to a bad era, after the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin State, the Southern Song Dynasty could not hold out for many years, in short, in the days to come, the Han people want to live a good life for a few days, it is basically impossible.
Li Nan's expression was a little sad, and after half a ring, he sighed heavily, and said to Tyrion: "Now that the most elite army of the Great Song Dynasty has been destroyed, it should be okay in a short time, let Lin Chong lead people to knock down the Guangnan East Road and connect the existing territory into a line." ”
Tyrion nodded again and again, he had no objection to Li Nan's plan, although he could now take advantage of the defeat of the Song army to take the state capital of Guangnan East Road and Jinghu South and North Road in one fell swoop, but the Zhennan army was already seriously understaffed, and it was not a good thing to be greedy and chew more.
As soldiers from the Zhennan Army escorted Song prisoners back, Tyrion had his fellow soldiers build a large temporary prison on the battlefield outside the city to hold the prisoners.
Seeing that there was no longer any repetition of this war, Li Nan walked down the city and came back to the palace to wash up.
This battle between the Song army and the Zhennan army was actually not easy, because if there was a problem in any link, it would be a catastrophe.
If it weren't for Tong Guan's eagerness to exterminate Li Nanbeishang, if it weren't for the fact that the Zhennan Army had enough firearms; If the morale of the soldiers is slightly lower; If it weren't for the unexpected thousand-headed war elephants and two dragons, the Song army, which had 200,000 people, would have won the final victory as long as they played a war of attrition with the Zhennan army, which had only more than 40,000 people.
For several days, because he was worried about this battle, even a person like Li Nan was physically and mentally exhausted, and he didn't even take off his clothes, shoes and socks while lying on the bed, and he took a nap.
I don't know how long it took, the door was gently pushed open, and Hu Bing, who was wearing a purple dress, quietly walked in, she came to the bed, lightly helped her husband take off her shoes and socks, looked at Li Nan's tired face, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
Li Nan, who had been living and dying for a long time, woke up immediately when he felt someone around him, and after hearing Hu Bing's soft sigh, he opened his eyes and looked at her and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Nothing." Hu Bing stroked the newly grown beard on Li Nan's chin, and said pityingly: "Official, you have worked too hard. ”
"Huh." Li Nan smiled, raised his head and looked out the window, and found that the sky was already bright, and hurriedly asked, "I slept all night?" How's the war going on outside? ”
"Hmm." Hu Bing nodded his head and said: "The soldiers have gone to capture the prisoners, and it is said that more than 20,000 people and more than 10,000 Song soldiers have been captured last night, because there are still people coming back one after another, so there is no way to count the specific numbers." ”
"Oh, that's good." Li Nan put his mind at ease, pillowed his head on the firm and plump thighs of Hu Bing, smelled the intoxicating body fragrance on the beauty, and closed his eyes again.
Hu Bing stretched out his jade hand and stroked Li Nan's face, and said with a smile: "Husband, this time you defeated the army of the Song Kingdom, and now the people and soldiers call you the God King." ”
"God-king?" Li Nan opened his eyes, looked at Hu Bing gently, and said, "I don't like to be a cold god king, in fact, I prefer to be your husband." ”
Feeling Li Nan's two big hands swimming on his body, Hu Bing's pretty face flew and said coquettishly: "Husband, you better rest well, the slave family will not leave......"
Li Nan smiled evilly and said, "It's okay, I'm in good spirits now after sleeping all night, I don't believe you touch it." ”
Feeling the vigor of his husband, Hu Bing said shyly: "Everyone is busy outside, it's not good for us to be like this, others will call you faint." ”
"Hahaha, faint gentleman!" Li Nan laughed and sat up, hugged Hu Bing in his arms, and recited while relieving Luo Shang for this beauty: "The clouds and temples are shaking in golden steps, and the hibiscus tent is warm for the Spring Festival." The spring night is bitter and short, and the day is high, and the king will not be early in the ......"
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On the day of the battle between the two armies, after seeing the war elephant army gushing out of Guizhou City, the highest official of the Song army, Tong Guan, the Xuanfu envoy of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huainan, knew that something was wrong.
After the most elite cavalry of the Western Army was defeated by the elephant herd, Tong Guan jumped on the horse prepared in advance without hesitation and fled with the most loyal army of a thousand righteous sons.
Tong Guanneng has been mixed in the most dangerous court and the Western Army for many years, and has been promoted from a eunuch to a lieutenant of the inspection school, and the status of Jing Guogong shows that no matter the strength of his face and the degree of blackness of his heart, he is definitely not a wasted person.
When preparing to escape from the Song army camp, Tong Guan also forcibly rescued Zhang Shuye, a disheartened and heartfelt five-way appeasement envoy who planned to apologize for his crimes.
Of course, Tong Guan did this, not because he was kind, but because there must be a scapegoat for this defeat.
In this attack on Guizhou City, Tong Guan led 150,000 Western troops, and Zhang Shuye brought another 50,000 Xiang troops, so in a sense, both of them were the leaders of the first army.
After returning from a great defeat and burying all the soldiers and horses, Tong Guan can think about what he will face when he returns to Tokyo City.
Tong Guan was really not too worried about Song Huizong's criticism, but he still had a lot of political enemies in the court, so he needed Zhang Shuye to deal with the accusations and attacks from other officials for him.
Tong Guan took Zhang Shuye to flee first, followed by other generals of the Western Army such as Tan Zhi and Liu Yanqing, Han Shizhong led the cavalry to charge, was thrown off the war horse and captured, and the Song soldiers who stayed in the camp ran away when they saw that the officials had run away, and they did not hesitate to run behind.
When everyone was running away, the remaining middle-level generals and soldiers who were still rational did not have the ability or desire to turn the tide, and the remaining 70,000 or 80,000 Song troops were chased by the Zhennan army of less than 20,000.