Chapter 196: Flee without a fight
Of course, it's not much different, but after all, there is still a gap. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Therefore, even if these 500 armored soldiers go up, they are still 800 soldiers under the command of Zhang Shihui, and they are beaten back and forth. The only difference between them and those soldiers just now was that they retreated a little slower.
"Die!" Zhang Shihui let out another loud roar, and the six-foot-long steel knife with a handle and a steel knife weighing dozens of catties was cut off on his head and face. Under such a terrible attack, even if you are wearing plate armor, it can still cut you in half.
Therefore, the hundreds of officers and soldiers who were under Zhang Shihui's knife couldn't get out of the screams, and they were cut off by Zhang Shihui with a knife.
Seeing the head with an iron helmet on his head rising into the sky, the dozens of officers and soldiers in armor on the opposite side couldn't help but be frightened. Therefore, when they saw Zhang Shihui, a fierce god like a bear, roaring and killing again, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side couldn't help but be frightened by him and retreated.
And courage is a thing, that's what comes and goes. Therefore, after seeing the timidity of the officers and soldiers on the opposite side, the courage of the soldiers beside Zhang Shihui naturally skyrocketed. Therefore, these people followed Zhang Shihui's side as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and roared here to kill the Tartar army on the opposite side.
When the Tartar soldiers on the opposite side saw this, they naturally became even more timid. Therefore, under such a chain reaction, these 500 armored officers and soldiers were once again killed by Zhang Shihui and the others like those other soldiers, and they were almost defeated.
"Poof! ~~" In the carotid artery, the sound of blood splattering is so loud on this battlefield. Under the attack method of the Red Turban sergeants who were not afraid of death and specialized in the key points, the heads of one officer and soldier were cut off by the Red Turban sergeants, and one after another headless corpses also fell in a pool of blood.
Seeing this scene, the 500 armored officers and soldiers fighting in front finally couldn't stand it. Therefore, after the next charge of the next Red Turban Army, these people began to ignore the shouting of the main general Hu Taga, and began to lose their armor and rout.
Seeing that these most brave and skilled soldiers began to flee, the morale of the remaining soldiers can be imagined. Therefore, after a short period of time, the remaining officers and soldiers on the battlefield also began to flee under Zhang Shihui's crazy attack.
"Bastard, give me all back, whoever dares to run away will be killed on the spot!" Looking at the crowds of fugitives on the battlefield, Hu Taga, who was sitting in the Chinese army, couldn't help but shout in annoyance. However, his roar was obviously useless at this time.
Because compared to his roar, the group of red turban soldiers behind him were obviously more terrifying.
Therefore, no matter how much he yelled, on the front line, the fugitives were still repeatedly banned.
"No, it can't go on like this. If this kind of fight continues, labor and management are estimated to be captured by this group of red turban thieves. Looking at the officers and soldiers who were retreating in front of them and on the verge of a major rout, Hu Taga, who was sitting in the Chinese army, thought so in his heart, and couldn't help but wonder whether to leave these soldiers and run away to save his life.
However, while he was pondering in his heart, the herald he had sent out not long ago to ask for help was also terrified and rode back.
"My lord, it's not good, the privy councillors have already led the troops to retreat, and we are being treated as the outcasts of the queen of the palace this time." After seeing Hu Taga, who was sitting in the Chinese army and was planning to flee for his life, the herald couldn't help but say so loudly the first time he saw Hu Taga.
"What!" Hearing the herald's words, Hu Taga couldn't help but cry out in horror. "Gong Buban, you plagued bastard, a brute who is not a son of man, a dog who eats shit, you dare to play tricks with labor and management, and labor and management will definitely not spare you in the future."
After knowing that he was calculated, Hu Taga no longer talked about the demeanor of the court officials, and the whole person was like a shrew scolding the street, scolding like this.
However, this state of emotional loss of control did not last long. Just after Hu Taga scolded this, Hu Taga immediately turned around and shouted at the guards beside him: "Brothers, you all know that Gong Bu Ban is a bastard, let's be an outcast." ”
"So now we don't need to work for that waste paper banknote, our obligations have been fulfilled, and then it's time for us to save our lives." After saying this, Hu Taga turned his horse's head and roared, and he was about to flee for his life with his personal guards.
However, just as he turned his horse's head and was about to flee for his life, he found that on the other side of Kunshui, a red-scarf general in armor and armor was also leading his 800 horsemen, roaring towards them with billowing smoke and dust.
Seeing this, Hu Taga couldn't help but feel completely hopeless. After all, he is not a Han but a Yuanmeng with strong roots, with such an identity, even if he wants to surrender, the Red Turban Army will not let him go.
So after knowing that he couldn't escape today, Hu Taga couldn't help but grit his teeth and pull out the gorgeous sword at his waist. I wanted to draw my sword directly to kill myself, but after finally pulling the sword out of my waist, I also found that I didn't have the courage to commit suicide at all.
Therefore, after that, he could only roar, summon up the last bit of courage in his heart, and led a dozen loyal guards beside him, and rode his horse towards the other side of the river. Of course, he didn't do this to fight with Guo Yu and the others who killed him, but to gamble his life to see if he could escape.
But the result after that, as you can imagine, Hutaga obviously failed, so he died. And after Hu Taga, a major general, was killed in battle, the remaining officers and soldiers who were flanked by Zhang Shihui and Guo Yu naturally surrendered one after another.
"Brother Yu, how did you kill it, isn't that guy Gong Buban still leading an army of more than 10,000 people, how could he let you kill it?" Looking at Guo Yu, who was covered in blood and riding a horse, Zhang Shihui, who was covered in blood, looked at him and couldn't help asking.
However, hearing Zhang Shihui's words, Guo Yu sighed and said: "Hey, don't mention it, I didn't dare to lead the army out, but I didn't expect that after the dog thief in Gong Buban knew that our general led reinforcements to come, he actually used these 3,000 people as bait to attract our attention, but he still ran away with more than 10,000 troops under his command." ”
When I reacted to this, Gong Buban and the others still ran away. They had a lot of troops, and I was afraid that I would be ambushed if I pursued them rashly, so I turned to this place and killed them. ”
Hearing Guo Yu's words, Zhang Shihui couldn't help but shake his head with a stunned face. Because he really didn't expect that the guy from Gong Buban, who led an army of more than 10,000 people, would run for his life so shamelessly. So after shaking his head again, Zhang Shihui couldn't help but sigh and said: "This tartar is really treacherous to the limit." ”
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An hour later, the sun had set. Outside the south gate of Ye Xian, when Zhang Shihua led his soldiers to this place, in addition to the blood stains and corpses that had not yet been cleaned up, there were only those empty barracks left by more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, as well as those grain and grass materials that were too late to take away.
Looking at such a scene, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but sigh in his heart. To tell the truth, he thought that he could completely defeat more than 10,000 officers and soldiers after this battle, but he didn't expect that the guy in Gong Buban would be so treacherous, and before he could lead his troops to come, this guy ran away with his soldiers.
And this bastard is very good at picking the time, just in the evening. Although it was extremely difficult to march near evening, it was equally difficult for Zhang Shihua and them to pursue. And in the late night pursuit with no fingers in sight, if this guy Gong Buban is ambushed behind leaving a cavalry palace.
It is estimated that even if Zhang Shihua led the large army under his command to pursue, it is estimated that he may still be fully explained. After all, in such an era, the night is too terrible for anyone. Why was Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty able to defeat Wang Mang's 420,000 army with 20,000 cavalry in one fell swoop?
It was not because of the darkness that Wang Mang's huge army could not be commanded at all, which made Emperor Guangwu of Han take advantage of a big loophole.
And this, in fact, is the reason why Guo Yu, a bold guy, did not dare to lead the army to pursue.
However, it can be regarded as a complete victory, so after looking at the generals who greeted him in front of Ye Xian City Gate, Zhang Shihua immediately put this regret behind him, and led the army to meet him with a smile on his face.
And many generals at the city gate saw Zhang Shihua, who was surrounded by his guards and came on horseback, and they couldn't help kneeling on the ground and bowed: "The last general (lower official) visited the general." ”
"Gentlemen, please excuse me." Seeing this, the smile on Zhang Shihua's face couldn't help but get stronger.
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At noon the next day, when Zhang Shihua learned about the details of Ye Xian's affairs in the past two days, and dealt with the rewards for meritorious soldiers after the war and the pension for the fallen soldiers as soon as possible, Zhang Shihua looked at the huge expenses on the accounts reported by Zhao Ziyu, and couldn't help sighing.
"I really can't afford to fight such a battle!" Looking at the pitiful loot on the account sheet, Zhang Shihua couldn't help frowning and sighing.
That's right, Zhang Shihua and they did win a big victory in this battle, but so what? Without enough loot, Zhang Shihua could not afford to fight such a war. After all, he is now just a leader of the rebel army who sits on the land of five cities and governs half of the land, and he is not sitting on a territory of thousands of miles and ruling the people of Li and the people of hundreds of millions of yuan, and he can't last a few days in a war that he can't get in.
After all, "when the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold." "In these days, isn't it the financial resources of the soldiers who fight the war? Why did the soldiers under Zhang Shihua's command fight so bravely, isn't it that Zhang Shihua has clear rewards and punishments, and is willing to reward those soldiers who have made meritorious achievements, and give generous care to those soldiers who unfortunately died in battle.
But this money did not fall from the sky. Now, all the money and food in Zhang Shihua's hands are actually almost squeezed out of the hands of those wealthy families. After all, in this year, the soldiers' food and drink, armor expenses, and rewards and pensions do not cost money.
Zhang Shihua now has almost 7,000 soldiers under his command, and it is impossible for such a large number of soldiers to be supported only by relying on the grain tax of 100,000 people in the five cities under his rule. After all, in this year, a good war knife alone costs thousands of dollars, and the pitiful grain tax of 100,000 people is tantamount to a fool's dream to support the 7,000 soldiers under his command.
Later that year, Zhou Taizu Guo Wei once said, "One hundred people raise one pawn". This means that a good soldier in armor often needs to pay taxes from a hundred people to support him in this era, so it is also possible to understand the difficulty of raising soldiers.
Therefore, when the soldiers under his command gradually expanded to 7,000 people, Zhang Shihua's heart was actually happy and worried. I am glad that my strength is getting stronger and stronger, and I have more and more capital to survive in this terrible and troubled world, and I am worried about how to feed so many soldiers and soldiers.
Because Zhang Shihua is a descendant, Zhang Shihua knows that to raise soldiers, he must take the route of elite soldiers. After all, the army is used to fight and fight, and it is not used to fill the number of people to sound good. Gong Buban brought enough people this time, but as a result, he didn't even have the courage to fight Zhang Shihua, so he left his people and fled.
If this incident is just a novelist's words and cannot be used as an example, then please take a look at the later Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, the border army of the nine towns alone added up to more than one million. But as a result, the more than one million troops were not beaten by hundreds of thousands of Manchu Eight Banner Army, and even after that, they allowed the family to dominate the world for 300 years.
Therefore, to raise soldiers, it is necessary to raise those elite soldiers who can go into battle and dare to go into battle, rather than raising those soldiers who only know how to mix military rations and know how to escape.
How the elite soldiers are raised is very simple. In the final analysis, the method of raising and training troops is nothing more than two words, that is, "money and food." After all, there is a saying that "the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit." ”
As long as enough benefits are given to a person, even if this person is an honest melon, he can still have the courage to kill people with a knife. On the contrary, if you don't give enough money and food benefits to the soldiers under your command, then even a character like Zhang Fei will still flee for his life on the battlefield.
Because, no one will risk their lives to fight for you. Of course, if you have the ability to fool like the old Jin family, you can brainwash the people of the whole world, let them live the poorest life in the whole of Asia, and also be a cow and a horse for your family, then it is indeed your cow B.
However, Zhang Shihua didn't think he had that ability, so he wanted to support the seven thousand soldiers under his command, and the only way was to open source.