Chapter 32: The Great Army Assembles
"General, the Malay newspaper shows that the five thousand vanguard troops of Weihai County are less than fifty miles away from here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Liu Chen was riding his horse and standing at the entrance of the village where the battle had just ended, Liu Qi approached and hugged his fists and said.
Hearing this, Liu Chen glanced at the soldiers who were still cleaning the battlefield in the village, and said loudly: "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, before the sun rises, we need to return!" ā
As these words fell, the warriors in the village also sped up the work at hand.
"General, seventy-one naked female corpses were found in the village, and there are more than thirty living women." One of Liu Chen's personal guards, with red eyes, came to Liu Chen's side and said to Liu Chen.
Liu Chen was also helpless in his heart, this is war, and at the same time, he also has a strong hatred for the Dongying people.
"Is the battle damage calculated?" Liu Chen asked.
"General, our army has lost thirty-one killed, twenty-nine seriously wounded, and one hundred and six lightly wounded." The soldier spoke.
"Let the lightly injured warriors take the seriously injured warriors and the women who are still alive to Yaxi County, and let Lord Xiao He Xiao arrange them when they arrive." Liu Chen groaned slightly, and then said.
The soldiers hugged their fists, and then immediately went to make arrangements.
Suddenly, there was a burst of indignant laughter and scolding in the distance, Liu Che looked for the sound, it turned out that Guan Ying, Zhang Fei and about 20 knights were coming from the front, Liu Chen knew that Guan Ying and Zhang Fei had to fight and chase the enemy's generals, but looking at this way, it seemed that they did not catch up.
"Guan Ying, Zhang Fei, what are you two doing?" Waiting for the two to approach, Liu Chen also said with a smile on his face, having won the battle and having a strong general in his hand, Liu Chen was naturally happy in his heart.
"General, don't you know, I accidentally let go of a big fish, this supreme commander of the Dongying people, what is Kuroda Mayu, ran away from under my nose, if I had known that guy was a big fish, I would have caught up with him for anything!" Guan Ying hugged Liu Chen on the horse, and said with some annoyance.
Hearing this, Liu Chen also secretly called pity in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "It's okay, the enemy has 4,000 soldiers, after this battle, the losses are exhausted, and there are no waves, and the total number of Dongying people who invaded the Donglong Empire is only 50,000, and in the past three years, the minimum calculation is about 40,000 people, and more than 7,000 people have died in our hands, and it is estimated that there are not many Dongying people in the land of Weihai County." ā
As soon as these words came out, Rao was a little angry in his heart, but he still laughed, only to hear Zhang Fei laugh and say: "In the past, I heard how powerful the Dongying people were, and what was a hundred with one block, but now we are not killed by us to turn people on their backs, happy, really happy!" Ha ha! ā
Several people laughed loudly again, at this time, Guan Yu and Luan Bu rode out of the village and came to Liu Chen's side, they went to clean the battlefield, and now that they are here, it seems that they should have basically dealt with it.
"General, it's an absolute victory!" Guan Yu smiled and said, "We have just counted and annihilated more than 3,400 enemies, in addition, we have harvested more than 500 war horses, thousands of armor and weapons, 30,000 taels of silver, and 3,000 stones of grain. ā
Hearing this, the smiles on the faces of Liu Chen and the others were even better, especially after hearing that there were more than 500 war horses, they were even happier, the cavalry was Liu Chen's heart disease, in the era of cold weapons warfare, cavalry was definitely a major military force, strong mobility, great lethality, but before the influence of war horses, Liu Chen only had hundreds of cavalry, or after the annexation of Yaxi County, there was a scale of more than 1,000 horses, and now there are more than 500 war horses, and the cavalry can be expanded again.
"Hehe, this time we have gained a lot, but don't be too proud, after all, this time we are a sneak attack, and the Dongying people are too arrogant, we must take this as a warning!" Liu Chen smiled, and then admonished.
Hearing this, everyone looked stunned, and clasped their fists at Liu Chen and said, "I'll keep it in mind!" ā
Nodding, Liu Chen said: "If everything is ready, then retreat, retreat to the designated place, the vanguard army of Weihai County is more than fifty miles away from here, we need to go back as soon as possible to deploy it, bring the remains of the brothers who died in the battle, and then concentrate on cremation and send them to the martyr's hall." ā
"Yes!" At that moment, several people went to arrange their own arrangements, and after another quarter of an hour, the cavalry of the Han army began to withdraw towards the foot of Qi Mountain.
After Liu Chen led the army to retreat for three hours, more than 400 cavalry came from the north, and a three-meter-high handsome flag in front of the army moved in the wind, embroidered with a big Pan character, which was the army of Pan Feng, one of the three generals under the command of Weihai County Cholera Guard.
The current person is holding a big knife, burly, nearly forty years old, with a pair of eyes the size of bull's eyes, full of tyranny, this person is Pan Feng.
"Don't Dongying people say to themselves that there is no other in the world? Of the 4,000 people, there are now less than 300 left, what a waste! Pan Feng looked at the corpses of the Dongying soldiers in the village who were deliberately discharged by the Han army, snorted coldly, and said with disdain.
"General, the Han army can defeat more than 4,000 Dongying people in one fell swoop, and it seems that it is extremely difficult to deal with." Beside Pan Feng, an adjutant general spoke.
Hearing this, Pan Feng said: "Just now, you also listened to the words of those Dongying people, the Han army was a sudden attack, and the combat effectiveness is not necessarily very strong, if it is me, with our four hundred cavalry, I can wipe out the defenseless Dongying people, those Han troops have only been in army for a few months, it is really not enough." ā
"General, the lord is asking us to sit on the tiger and watch the mountain fight, but the Dongying people were defeated so quickly, so what should we do? Is it waiting for the lord's army to arrive? The lieutenant continued.
"Not necessarily!" Pan Feng said with a smile, "The army formed by a group of people is less than 10,000 people, and our five thousand elites are enough to annihilate them, not to mention that there is an attack by the Dongying people on the sea, and the Han army will be defeated on two fronts. ā
Hearing Pan Feng say this, the deputy general wanted to say something, but after thinking about Pan Feng's temperament, he sighed secretly, and then said: "My subordinates will go and give orders!" With that, he hugged his fists and bowed and left.
Besides, Liu Chen, before noon, retreated to the foot of Qi Mountain, and then rested a little, that is, ordered the soldiers to start some simple deployments, and by the afternoon hour, the light infantry under Meng Tian and Meng Yi and the crossbowmen under the command of Ding Fu arrived one after another.
Li Xin's heavy infantry would move slowly, so he and the grain and grass team did not come here until evening, and by this time, because of the arrival of the light infantry, a large camp had been established here.
When the spies came to report that the vanguard army of Weihai County was only ten miles away from them, nearly 4,000 troops such as Zhou Xiong and Wang Yuan from Yaxi County had also arrived.