The beggar-like Shanyue thieves here, even if they all have the foundation of Danyang's strong pawns, they were also shot by a rain of arrows shot by Ling Cao's archers, and they collapsed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The two thousand soldiers that Ling Cao brought with him were naturally all neat Han army shirts and leather armor, which looked like regular Han troops.

For a while, on the battlefield on this side of the concave slope, it was like a red stream rushing towards a puddle of mud, and it was as easy as a hot knife cutting tofu into the forward formation of the Shanyue thief soldiers.

The vanguard army of the Shanyue bandits was completely chaotic, and many of the Shanyue bandits had completely lost the mind to fight and resist.

They had already run a lot of mountain roads, and their whole bodies were soft and resting here, but they were ambushed and raided by Ling Cao and others, and many people were stunned by several rounds of feather arrows.

Many people began to flee in all directions, some to the mountains from which they came, and some to find no direction at all.

The remaining fierce thieves who had the intention to fight back were also coerced by others and could only flee for their lives, not daring to stay alone to resist.

And the two thousand soldiers on Ling Cao's side, all the archers stopped, and only a thousand sword and shield men continued to follow Ling Cao, who had changed their swords and shields, to rush forward and kill, as long as they were not wearing Han army uniforms, they would swing their knives and slash when they saw them.

"Kill! Kill! ”

Ling Cao shouted loudly in his mouth, and rushed to the front of a Shanyue thief, kicked the other party over, and then stabbed the thief in the neck.

Then he turned around, drew a knife by the way, and slashed at the neck of another Shanyue thief soldier, cutting off the opponent's major artery with a knife, and bringing out the blood spray that rose to the sky, with Ling Cao's force value to deal with these ordinary thieves of Danyang Shanyue, naturally there is no problem.

"Kill, kill!"

The other 1,000 sword and shield soldiers had Ling Cao taking the lead, and they were also rushing to kill as if they were in a no-man's land.

They have the advantage in weapons, and they are suddenly sneak attacking, even if these Shanyue thieves are the vanguard of the thieves, they are considered thieves in the mountains, and they may not be weaker than the soldiers led by Ling Cao when they fight alone, but at this moment, they basically handed over their backs to the blades of the soldiers led by Ling Cao.

What's more, the two thousand vanguard soldiers led by Ling Cao are also Liyang soldiers who have had a certain amount of training, and they know how to form a formation and cooperate, and a few people fight one person, so they are naturally not afraid of the resistance of these Shanyue thieves.

Of course, the more than 500 archers who remained in the rear, under the protection of the other 500 or so sword and shield soldiers, continued to shoot bows and arrows at the Shanyue bandits, shooting and killing all the Shanyue bandits who dared to resist.

Therefore, the forward legion of three or four thousand Shanyue thieves on this side completely collapsed, and after about half an hour, the battle of this raid was over.

After the war, Ling Cao didn't ask for any prisoners, of course, this does not mean that all the prisoners were killed, but that all the surrendered, wounded and captured Shanyue thieves were mended, making people become wounded Shanyue soldiers.

This is also what Zhu Wei told him, sometimes it is better to kill an enemy soldier than to let the enemy suffer one more injury.

At that time, whether the enemy should treat the wounded or give up the wounded was a troublesome problem, and it was not easy to treat the wounds in these years, not to mention the need for a large number of medicinal materials.

Even in the modern period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this problem is a big problem for our army, so how should we face it in the Three Kingdoms period of loyalty.

If you don't treat your own wounded soldiers, it will greatly damage morale, and who will dare to fight with your heart when the time comes.

Anyway, these Shanyue thieves who surrendered and were captured were basically ordered by Ling Cao to cut off the thumb of their right hand, which seemed to be another method ordered by Zhu Wei.

Now Ling Cao can't march with the captives, even if someone surrenders, he doesn't dare to take it away, and these Shanyue thief prisoners don't have a right thumb, so they can't hold the blade and hurt people, even if they are all released, they can't continue to threaten Zhu Wei's side as Shanyue thief soldiers.

This point seems to have been raised by Pang Yan when he threatened Liyang's surrender, and Zhu Wei felt that Pang Yan's statement made some sense, so he implemented it in the army.

It just so happens that these fingers can be used as proof of the killing of his soldiers, and they can be rewarded for military merit with their fingers after the war.

This time, Zhu Wei's army, which was formally established after the reorganization of the army in Lingyang County, perfectly implemented this military order in the first battle under the leadership of Ling Cao, which is also the origin of Zhu Wei's army being called the "Finger Cutting Army" in the future.

Anyway, the enemy troops who fought with Zhu Wei's army, except for those who ran away and surrendered, all the others had their right thumbs cut off one by one, regardless of life or death.

In practical sense, using the thumb as the standard for remembering merit is also convenient to carry and easy to count, and it is certainly easier to carry than the way of killing the enemy and cutting off the head of the merit, and it is also easier to preserve than the way of cutting off the ears to remember the merit, even if the skin and flesh are rotten, the finger bones will not rot.

Well, anyway, as the war ended, the soldiers led by Ling Cao on this battlefield began to chop off their fingers.

Of course, in such a way of using the thumb to remember the merits, it is impossible to ask the soldiers to cut off the opponent's fingers during the battle, and generally only after the war, according to the combat mission of the army, divide the local battlefield to assign fingers to record the merits of the war.

As for how to use her fingers to remember her merits, Wang Yuyan also worked out a strategy, anyway, she didn't have to worry about the soldiers snatching their fingers after the war.

It's just a pity that the Shanyue thieves who surrendered and captured this time are all young and strong men, but now even if they want to surrender, they have no chance to keep their fingers.

Who let Ling Cao only be a vanguard corps, and he was under orders, so he really couldn't march with his prisoners.

After getting all this, Ling Cao didn't dare to stay for a long time, after all, the main force of the Shanyue thieves was not far away, and after a long time, he would be chased by the main force of the Shanyue thieves.

So Ling Cao took people to cut off their fingers, and then let these living Shanyue thieves stay, and led the soldiers to leave first, as for what was captured, there was no need to think about anything, and there was nothing valuable on these Shanyue thieves.

However, when the news of this battle reached the camp of the Zulang Shanyue thief soldiers, it made Zulang, the commander of the Shanyue Sect of Jingxian County, a little stunned, his forward army was actually attacked by the Han army, and the forward commander was shot and killed, nearly 500,000 soldiers were killed, more than 1,000 were wounded, and more than 1,000 people fled and fled, and finally less than four or five hundred people fled back to report the news, and this forward army was almost wiped out.

Where did this come from?

You must know that Zu Lang brought so many Shanyue thieves all the way from Jing County, although he also looted a lot of local villages, but he didn't do anything about the county seat, and he could be regarded as hiding his traces.

Zu Lang is worried that if he makes a big noise, it will attract the encirclement and suppression of Liu Xuan's army, so if he can't reach Lingyang County, he will need to face Liu Xuan's army......