Chapter 7: Attack and Defense (8)
The timing of Shen Chen's field order was just right, and when the trembling soldiers of the D team drove out of the city in a line, they saw a scene of the entire line retreating.
Shen Chen, who was on the battlefield for the first time, realized that the time had come for a counterattack the moment he saw the enemy turn around and fly in the sound of gold, but he couldn't determine whether the enemy army was really retreating or deliberately showing weakness to lure the enemy.
Although there are no detailed statistics, Shen Chen estimates that no less than fifty corpses were thrown down by the Yeli family just before the wall was closed.
Although this loss is nothing, for Yeli Ronglai, who has a total of less than three hundred regular soldiers, this is already six or seven percent of the total strength in his hands.
Coupled with the cavalry that died under the crossbow machines of the fine seal Minda and Kang Shi, the losses of this battle field Li family were definitely more than twenty percent.
What finally made Shen Chen decide to open the city to pursue was that he found that a considerable part of the infantry who were rushing back had actually discarded the weapons in their hands, and the chaotic retreat did not leave a central retreat channel for the cavalry. Some of the soldiers who fell during the run had no one to help them, and were quickly trampled to death by countless feet.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a lure to the enemy, but a real rout.
Despite this, Yang Li, the leader of the D team who left the city, did not do anything to do it, nor did he command the whole line to march, and the order he issued to pursue was to open the straggler line with the army as a unit and pursue the enemy army.
The soldiers of the D team trotted in groups of five and began to pursue the enemy troops.
This kind of chase looked a little scattered and disorderly from the city tower, and Shen Chen, who was so angry that he was in charge of command, fell straight to his feet. However, Li *, who was standing beside him, appreciated Yang Li's impromptu response very much, and he told Shen Chen that the enemy's camp was more than 100 steps away, and the enemy's retreat was disorderly, and at this time, it was a waste of time to march in a row of drums, and it would drag down the speed of the next attack, and the more north along the battlefield, the more open the terrain became, and the enemy's retreat would be greatly accelerated at that time, and the pursuit of the formation could not catch up with the enemy at all.
Of course, if there is still a command sequence in the enemy's army, such a pursuit mode is undoubtedly dangerous.
Even so, the D-team was a little late in leaving the city, and by the time the D-team caught up and began to stab the lagging enemy troops from behind, the routers who were running in front had already begun to flee to the large camp entrenched on the side of the road.
In the process, the crossbow machines in the hands of Minda and Kang Shi never stopped, and their targets were very clear, and the soldiers on horseback were as obvious as beacons attracting crossbow arrows in the enemy's fleeing array. Under the continuous blows of crossbow fire from two places, the losses of the cavalry even exceeded the rate of infantry losses during the retreat.
The out-of-control horses screamed and neighed in all directions in the already chaotic procession, further slowing the enemy's retreat.
Having returned to the camp and ordered the remaining twenty regular soldiers to assemble, Yeli Ronglai, who was on standby, personally stood in front of the camp to collect the scattered soldiers.
However, under the threat of the crossbow machine of Fineseal Minda and the D team chasing after him, these routers poured into the camp from all directions in search of their horse mounts.
Yeli Ronglai only has a dozen or so personal soldiers around him, and the camp of Yeli's family is relatively simple, unlike the Han army, which uses a fence made of trees to enclose the camp on all sides, and there is no defensive horse in front of the camp.
Therefore, the rout rushed into the camp almost without any hindrance.
The dozen or so soldiers who were assembling in the battalion were suddenly dispersed by these broken and discouraged soldiers, and the rebels shouted and converged in the direction of the horse camp from all directions, they wanted to snatch the horses, so that they would not be chased and killed by the enemy.
The gates of Luzi Pass were opened again, and the fifty soldiers of Team B ran forward in a marching column, and quickly charged in the direction of the enemy camp.
The skirmish pursuit of the D team is still quite principled, Yang Li strictly forbids any of the troops to go forward, all the basic combat units must be kept in a line, if there is no enemy in front of a certain army, then this team will assist the friendly army to attack the flank of the enemy in front of the friendly army. Therefore, when the D team finally killed in front of the battalion, a dozen or so personal soldiers led by Yeli Ronglai and the seven or eight remnants of the soldiers who had barely stopped to form an array and did not throw away their weapons were forced by the D team in a semi-circle at the southeast end of the camp.
Yeli Ronglai didn't realize that he was facing the end of the road, in his opinion, the field battle could still buy a little time for the nobles and officers at all levels in the battalion to reorganize the ranks, as long as it could drag on for a while, he still had an advantage in terms of troops.
But Yang Li also realized this, if he couldn't fight quickly, his infantry team of fifty people would be too dangerous, and the enemy army had absolute superiority in numbers and mobility, and Team D would not even have a chance to escape back into the city.
"Attention Everyone—Freedom to Assassinate ——!"
Yang Li gave a simple order almost at the same time as the formation of the semi-ring front.
The recruits of Team D stared at the enemy in front of them, their legs were no longer as shaky as when they first came out of the city, but the battle of a short moment of kung fu had calmed these rookies who had just experienced the battle, and looking at the seven or eight wild remnants who were staring at them with fearful eyes, the soldiers seemed to have some kind of understanding - the soldiers of the Dangxiang clan were not as brave and invincible as the legend......
They are also human beings, they will be wounded and bleeding, they will die, they will be afraid, they will tremble......
As the veterans of Team C waved their flat knives and pointed the tips of their knives at the enemy in front of them, the soldiers of Team D still stabbed their wooden guns at the enemy in pairs.
Field combat training is also the focus of the front battalion assassination training, and unlike the city defense mode, this kind of assassination is not divided into group A and B, but the four officers and soldiers of the whole army form a small combat group, the two soldiers standing in the middle are responsible for assassinating the enemy attacking the front on one side, and the two soldiers standing on the two flanks are responsible for defending their flanks. The role of the corps commander is to act as a commander and a reserve.
With a dense clash of gold and iron and screams, nearly ten party soldiers standing at the forefront fell, with a few muffled snorts in between......
It was a few wounded soldiers of the D Squad who made a muffled snort, and military law was strict and it was not allowed to shout loudly, so these wounded soldiers bit their lips tightly even at the moment when the enemy's knife slashed their bodies.
The whole team of the D team was wearing infantry armor, so most of the soldiers who were attacked were not seriously injured, and only one recruit who was wounded to the throat by the enemy's scimitar fell, but until he died, this recruit still bit his lip and refused to speak, and finally the soldier in charge of collecting his body found that this great soldier had bitten his lower lip alive.
There was still no sound, and the recruit's captain spewed anger in his eyes, silently stepped forward and filled the original position of the fallen recruit.
In this suffocating silence, there is a desperate murder and might.
Team B drove down the avenue with a neat but swift pace.
Ling Pu came up—
"Attention to each team, form a battle formation - unfold ——!"
Listening to the sound of the command coming from the east side of the camp, Yang Li's hanging heart relaxed, and his flank was safe.
Hearing this unclear Chinese command, a trace of despair appeared on Yeli Ronglai's face, which was slightly pale due to blood loss, and the flanks of the battalion were in danger......
He had been cut in the waist by a wooden gun, and his psoas tendons had been severed.
The scimitar in his hand hung weakly on his right side, and Yeli Ronglai took a deep breath, ready to launch a desperate hand-to-hand fight, no matter what, before he fell, let the enemy lay down a few more people.
"Boom-" The knife in the hand of a Yeli soldier who had just escaped from the city fell to the ground, and the soldier immediately threw down the round shield in his left hand, and he knelt down, babbling and shouting in the Dangxiang language.
He shouted, "Spare me—"
Furious, he turned around and prepared to execute the cowardly soldier who was standing behind him.
Just as he turned his head, a sharp wind sounded on his left neck, and there was a chill on his neck, and the heat in his body quickly lost away, and then the sky swirled-
Plop –
Yeli family Zuru, the former supreme commander of the enemy Yeli Ronglai, was slashed on the left neck by a commander of the former battalion of the Zhangwu Army in a white-knuckle battle and was killed.
At this moment, this god-like officer was carrying a bloody flat knife in his hand, and was looking at the remaining party soldiers in front of him with a bloodthirsty look.
Another party soldier threw away his weapon and knelt down.
A domino effect was formed, and the remaining party soldiers abandoned their weapons and knelt down.
No one could understand their cries, but everyone understood that they were begging to be spared death.
The eyes of the Wu Commanders turned to Yang Li one after another.
"Can you understand what they're saying?" Yang Li looked at his subordinates coldly.
No one answered.
"I don't understand ...... either," Yang Li smiled sarcastically.
"Kill—" Yang Li said sharply.
These people were not yet captives, and they were not qualified to be captives until they learned to speak Chinese.
Moreover, I have no right to surrender.
This is Yang Li's logic.
The screams rang out again, and when they stopped again, there were no more party soldiers alive in front of the camp.
Inside the camp, the sound of blade clashes and screams had already sounded, and it seemed that Ling Pu had already succeeded.
Yang Li glanced back at the direction of the city gate, and more than twenty soldiers belonging to the labor group were trotting towards this side.
Yang Li turned his head, looked at his soldiers, and said loudly: "If you are seriously injured and can't move, stand up!" ”
After a long time, two soldiers with wounded legs and a soldier who had lost too much blood from a knife in the chest were forced out by their captain.
"You - wait for the soldiers to come to the rescue - this is the order!" Yang Li said with a straight face.
Immediately, he raised his face and shouted: "The others—all of them—march in the direction of the enemy camp!" ”
The battle is coming to an end......
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Wei Xun took the supervisors of the three teams of A, B, and D, who had just been promoted, to direct the soldiers of the box soldier labor service group to clean the battlefield, cut and count the enemy's heads, and carry and clean up important military materials such as baggage, grain and grass, weapons, horses, tents and other important military materials in the enemy camp. And Li* and Shen Chen took some officers to hold a battle summary meeting on the city tower.
The captured sheep could not be moved until Wei Xun reported to Li*, and the cooking team was ordered to kill two pigs that had just been brought from Fenglin Mountain, and prepared to cook meat for the officers and soldiers in the evening.
He led the scout team out of the city fifteen miles to the north to guard, and he had not yet returned.
The meeting was stinky and long, and it was not until the evening dinner began that the summary meeting ended, and Wei Xun stepped forward and grabbed Li*, ignoring the eagerness of the inspector to rush to a full meal of braised pork, and nagged to report the results of his count.
“…… Two hundred and seven beheadings, one hundred and eighty-four prisoners, one hundred and twelve horses, three hundred and ninety-six scimitars, four hundred and thirty-one shields, two hundred and twelve sheep, and seventy-four tents—great victory, my lord! ”
"Hmm......" Li* listened absentmindedly, but his heart was thinking about the fragrant braised pork.
"The calculation of military merits is based on each team, the corpses that fell in front of the city tower, except for the six bodies killed by the scout team, the rest are under the name of Team A, and the corpses that collapsed between the city pass and the enemy camp are counted according to the wound, all those who are shot and killed are killed and injured by Team D, and all those who are killed by arrows are killed and injured by the scout team, and the corpses in the enemy camp are distributed proportionally, and Team B kills the enemy camp first, so the corpses in the enemy camp are counted as six percent of Team B and four percent of Team D, and Ling Pu Yang Li has no opinion. In addition, Team Ding killed the enemy chief Ye Ronglai, this is a great achievement, how to reward the reward, can the adults have a success in their chests? ”
Wei Xun's words made Li*'s mind take away from the braised pork, he thought for a moment, and beckoned: "You come with me!" ”
Walking into the small room where Li* was the headquarters, Li* pulled out a large box from a bookshelf, reached out and took out a key from his bosom, and opened the lock on the box, which was neatly stacked with wooden signs painted with different colors of green, blue, red and purple. The wooden plaques are the size of a palm, and each wooden plaque is engraved with some small characters in italics.
Li * took out a cyan wooden plaque casually, handed it to Wei Xun and said, "Look at this-"
Wei Xun turned it over and looked at it for a long time, there were not many words on it, only three, and he could recognize it after all this period of painful literacy practice.
Captain Wu Cai
The wooden plaque is engraved with three simple words.
While he was looking through the wooden cards, Li * took out another box from the top of the bookshelf, which contained some thick and hard hemp paper, Li * took out one of them, unfolded it, and handed it to Wei Xundao, you look at this again.
Wei Xun frowned and looked at it, this is an official certificate written in traditional Chinese characters, except for the bright red seal seal of "Luguan Inspection" on it and the hard pen simplified signature written by Li * in goose feathers dipped in ink in the lower left corner, he recognizes, the rest of the characters look more difficult.
He scratched his head: "My lord, I can't recognize the ...... of humble duties."
Li * took it with a smile and read softly: "A soldier of a certain clan and a certain gentleman, who was bravely wounded in the battle of Luziguan on a certain day in a certain year, month, and day, was specially awarded the rank of military cavalry lieutenant, and the rank was the same as that of the ninth grade, and he was given a green card, and five acres of fertile land in Fushi County were awarded with a medal, and he was exempted from paying all taxes with a license within 20 years. ”
Seeing that Wei Xun was dumbfounded when he heard this, Li * smiled, took out another one and unfolded it and read: "A soldier of a certain clan and a certain gentleman, fought bravely in the battle of Luzi Pass, beheaded one level, and was specially awarded the rank of Yun Cavalry Captain, with the rank of nine grades, and gave a green card, and each card was awarded ten acres of fertile land in Fushi County, and the license was exempted from paying all taxes within 20 years. ”
"I understand...... Wei Xun swallowed hard.
"The first level of decapitation is ten acres of land, grandma's, won't someone make a fortune this time?" Wei Xun muttered to himself.
Li * smiled: "It is to reward heavily, since the establishment of the Zhangwu Army, in the past five or six years, the real pre-battle beheading has not exceeded the tenth level, the reason is not that the soldiers really can't fight, but that there is not enough incentive and reward mechanism." We want to let the soldiers know that if they are willing to work hard to kill the enemy, they will not only receive land and money, but also respectable merit and status. In fact, these medals should be cast into iron or bronze medals in the future, so that they can be hung on their clothes and can be seen anytime and anywhere, these things not only symbolize the land and land, but also symbolize the great military exploits of a soldier......"
Wei Xun said: "The injured are also awarded, is this too much of a prize?" ”
Li * shook his head: "Killing the enemy on the battlefield, sometimes it depends on luck, sometimes it depends on cooperation, some soldiers may not directly kill the enemy, but they attract the enemy's attention for the comrades who killed and injured the enemy, for a simple example, this knife falls on your shoulder, it means that it will not fall on Shen Chen, who is standing next to you, Shen Chen slashed the enemy who injured you with a knife, in fact, this enemy was killed by the two of you, so if you only reward Shen Chen and not you, it will not be fair to you......"
Wei Xun said thoughtfully: "The dead are also going to be rewarded?" ”
"Award-" Li * said categorically, "according to the military merit theory of the fifth degree of beheading, the deceased will be awarded the rank of Xiao Cavalry Captain, with the rank of the same as the ninth rank, and their families can be rewarded with 50 acres of land by virtue of the deceased's rank, and all taxes will be exempted from all taxes for 20 years." ”
"W-too heavy, isn't it?" Wei Xun was taken aback, now that the war is frequent, there are countless people killed in the battle before the battle, if it is according to this reward method, how much land will be enough to reward......
The corners of Li*'s mouth were raised, and he said firmly with a smile: "Only when the soldiers dare to fight to the death together can the army win the battle, and only when the army wins the battle, will there be fewer and fewer people killed in battle......"
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