Chapter 238: Peace is Made
Liang Fangping never thought that this time he led the troops to recruit Liangshan, and in the end it would be such a result!
When he heard that Guan Sheng's soldiers and horses were completely wiped out by the Liangshan army in a battle, he also scolded Guan Sheng for how he was, and the 25,000 army was completely annihilated in less than half a day by the much smaller Liangshan bandits.
Is there a more wasteful commander in the world?
At that time, Liang Fangping thought in his heart that if he led the troops, he would definitely be able to push and beat this group of Liangshan thieves to kneel and beg for mercy.
But isn't it the same now? It's not even as good as Guan Sheng's house!
At least Guan Sheng's gang can surrender to the Liangshan army if he is defeated, and he will be reused; And after the annihilation of the whole army, he must also accept the task of delivering a message.
Liang Fangping, who knew the temper of the official family, could completely imagine how angry the official family would be when he heard that his entire army was annihilated and he brought back such an impudent request from the Liang Shan army!
But he didn't dare not do it, Liang Fangping couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and scolded with great sadness and indignation.
Lin Chong, you are unreasonable, a scoundrel, and a bully!
But if Lin Chong heard this sentence, he would definitely laugh and say, Lao Tzu is an overlord, what's wrong? But I'm very reasonable.
It turned out that when the two finished talking about things and returned to the main army with Wang Feiyu, Qiu Yue and others, Cao Song and Gao Zhongwu's 4,000 cavalry finally arrived, and they were in a tense confrontation with the Liangshan cavalry of Li Tianyan, Teng Huan and others.
But on the side of the Liangshan army, after the Liangshan infantry collected more than 20,000 Song army foot soldiers, they immediately divided 5,000 troops to run to chase Liang Fangping's deserters, and then continued to surround the Song army camp.
At the same time, more than 2,000 Runing heavy cavalry (with the iron rope removed) who had surrendered to the Liangshan army also rushed over to join in the fun, and the strength of the Liangshan army suddenly formed an absolute advantage over the Song army's less than 5,000 cavalry.
Liang Fangping originally thought that Lin Chong was going to coexist peacefully with the imperial court, and he should let his side leave safely.
But who knew that Lin Chong's guy suddenly turned his face, and all the people who asked him must disarm and surrender, put down their weapons, take off their armor, hand over their horses, and squat to the side with their heads in their hands, otherwise the Liangshan army would immediately kill themselves and launch an attack on the Song army that did not surrender.
Liang Fangping was simply stunned, and he said hesitantly: "Lin ...... Lord Lin, don't you want to live in peace with the imperial court? ”
Lin Chong smiled indifferently and said, "That's right, but this battle hasn't been fought yet, and now the two sides are still in a state of war, so we have to talk about it after the fight."
I, Liang Shanjun, have always been true to my word, if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, and if people offend me, I'm better than a prisoner. The imperial court sent troops to recruit us, and we naturally want to leave him without returning! Otherwise, wouldn't it make the court look down on us, thinking that we were begging for peace?
It is necessary to know that real peace is made, not negotiated, let alone begged, if the court does not hurt, how can the court be willing to coexist peacefully with us? ”
So Liang Fangping, who was "hijacked" and his army was surrounded by the Liangshan army, had no choice but to order all the Song troops to do what the Liangshan army said.
After that, the Liangshan army killed a thousand knives, and after collecting their weapons, armor, and war horses, they escorted Liang Fangping and others to the Song army camp in the rear, so the Song army left behind in the camp was ordered by Liang Fangping to lay down their arms and surrender again.
At this point, the battle of 65,000 imperial army to conquer Liangshan finally came to an end, and the Liangshan army won a complete victory, and the Song army was completely defeated.
Unlike Liang Fangping's sad face, like a mourning concubine, he had to curse Lin Chong and Lin Chong's ancestors 10,000 times in his heart, but at this time, Lin Chong had a very happy conversation with hundreds of Jeju people who were invited (arrested) by Liang Fangping.
"Let all the fellows be frightened, Lin Chong is sending someone to send you home, and each person will be given two more bills, which will be counted as panic money...... There were also many mounts that had damaged their horses' hooves, and everyone brought some back with them. ”
Different from the original Water Margin story, Lin Chong broke the chain of horses this time in the passage composed of shield carts, hooked down the mounts in the front three rows, and the war horses behind were forced to stop, and the hedgehog formed a big bump, and then was dragged off the horse by the hook scratchers on both sides.
Therefore, the number of horses injured in this battle is actually very small, not even 5%; Unlike Song Jun Wu, who used to break the chain of horses, he lost more than 30% of the war horses and 40% of the war horses.
In the original book, it is written: "You were knocked down by a hook and sickle, wounded the horse's hooves, and stripped of its leather armor...... Two stops are more good horses to lead up the mountain to feed", the meaning of stopping is to count, the total number is divided into several parts, one of which is called a stop, that is, a total of four parts of the war horse has a half damage to the horse's hooves.
For this result, Lin Chong was naturally very happy, and at once he harvested more than 2,800 war horses that could carry vehicles and armored horses and more than 2,900 cavalry knights, and the strength of the Liangshan army instantly improved to a big step.
Not to mention, after the great destruction of the chain of horses and horses, the Liangshan army completely annihilated the remaining more than 30,000 Song troops, harvested more than 20,000 prisoners, more than 6,000 light cavalry horses, weapons and armor, and countless materials.
And in order to conquer the Liangshan Army this time, Zhao Ji and the traitorous ministers in the court also made a bloody investment.
Originally, the average infantry of the Song army was equipped with a maximum of 100 divine arm bows per battalion, which was still the treatment only available to the elite troops of the central and western armies, like when Dong Ping led the Yunzhou Forbidden Army to rescue Zhujiazhuang before, his army did not have a divine arm bow.
But this time, the proportion of almost 30,000 Song army foot soldiers equipped with divine arm bows has reached more than 40%, that is, the Liangshan army has captured more than 13,000 intact divine arm bows at once!
You must know that it can be completed in more than ten days to create a batch of good knives, but it takes at least three years to make a god arm bow.
This is a good thing that money can't buy, and Liangshan Ordnance Prison can't make in a short time!
With these equipment and prisoners, coupled with the Liangshan Army's own captive breaking knife, three-edged armor-breaking gun, three-edged armor-breaking cone, and the new cold-forged armor with performance exceeding the Qingtang Poor Armor, after two or three months of training, Lin Chong felt that the Liangshan Army at that time was already enough to dominate the world.
Seeing that the Liangshan army was so strong, not only harassing the 40,000 elites of the Song army at the front and fighting the night attack on the front line, but also today's decisive battle was less than half a day to win more with less, and completely annihilated the Song army, these people looked at Lin Chong and the eyes of the soldiers of the Liangshan army were full of awe, and even surrendered.
Especially as early as a few days ago, the Liangshan cavalry sent the cavalry to shout outside the Song military camp many times, publicizing the Liangshan army's proposition of doing the right thing for the sky, protecting the territory and the people, resisting Hulu, and saving the world.
After saying a word of thanks, some people said that they were worried in their hearts, mainly because they were afraid that the imperial court would not give up, and would continue to send troops to recruit and suppress, and the soldiers would be like a grate, and they would not be so lucky next time.