Looking at the Liao army fleeing on horseback, Wu Ji regretted it. If there is cavalry, the cavalry will be sent to intercept and kill at this time, and the results will be extremely rich, but unfortunately, the Song Dynasty lacked horses and could not form cavalry.

"Cavalry, cavalry, I must have cavalry!" Wu Ji shouted in his heart.

"Long live the Great Song!"

"Long live the Great Song!"

Just when Wu Ji was feeling sorry, he only heard an earth-shattering cheer erupting, and it was the people, Ding Zhuang, soldiers, and the heroes of Qiyun Club cheering.

They hugged each other, patted their shoulders, thumped their backs, laughed, made noise, jumped, jumped, and gave vent to their joy in any way they could think of.

Using 500 men against 2,000 people and causing 2,000 Liao troops to flee was a remarkable victory, which was extremely rare in the Song-Liao War.

Not to mention, the Song army still fought a battle with the Liao army in a hard battle, pressing the Liao army, which had never been done in the Song-Liao War for hundreds of years.

"Commander Wu!" A crowd of people rushed up, all with joyful expressions on their faces, and shouted with their mouths split.

"Commander Wu!" Li Mingchu was close to Wu Ji, hugged Wu Ji, and threw it up. The nearby converts hurriedly joined the ranks, and Wu Ji, like a ball, tossed it to the joyful and fanatical converts and the people, and after it fell, they caught it and threw it again.

Thousands of people surrounded Wu Ji, shouting "Commander Wu", cheering, and expressing their love for Wu Ji in their way.

Looking at the happy faces, Wu Ji sighed with emotion, "The Song Dynasty needs victory too much."

In the hundreds of years of the Song-Liao War, the Song Dynasty lost more and won less, and the Liao State was pressed and beaten, and it was difficult for the people of the Song Dynasty to taste the taste of victory. And now, who can not rejoice that they have finally got their wish?

Zheng Tai, Huangfu Song, and Qi Dabao were thrown away. The three of them were in the air, waving their arms, shaking their fists, and roaring to their heart's content, they were full of blood, and the taste of victory was so wonderful!

The enthusiasm of the people is boundless, and they have to stop and don't know how long it will take. Wu Ji had to stop yelling and asked them to let him down, but how could the people let him down. After several efforts, the people reluctantly let go of Wu Ji.

"Commander Wu, you can't be so unhappy!" Li Mingchu's big mouth complained again.

"It's not that I'm ruining the fun, hurry up and clean up the battlefield." Wu Ji looked around, there were corpses all over the ground, ownerless war horses, broken scimitars, bows and arrows, and stumps and broken arms, broken internal organs, and broken bones everywhere...... The whole city was red.

The strong fishy smell makes people almost sick.

After he mentioned this, the people finally reacted, shouted "pack up the spoils", scattered at once, and went to clean up the battlefield.

Mrs. Zheng put it down, her face was full of red light, she smiled, walked over quickly, gave Wu Ji a bear hug, and slapped Wu Ji on the shoulder: "Commander Wu, good fight!" Well played! ”

"yes!" Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao came over, and they were also a bear hug.

"How are we losing?" Wu Ji wiped the blood on his face, and started with a handful of hot red, although the weather was very cold, it was too late to cool the blood.

"Commanding Wu, the specific casualties are still being counted. However, the approximate number is still known. We were killed, seriously wounded, and lost 10 of our combat strength. The rest, everyone is injured, even if Wu commands you, you are also wounded. However, we have not lost our combat strength yet, we have recovered from our injuries, and we are a good man again! Huangfu Song pondered for a moment and came to the conclusion: "In our battle, we killed no less than seven or eight hundred Liao dogs, and almost everyone was injured in Liao dogs, even that Yelu Bodhisattva was also injured." ”

"This is an unprecedented victory! We used the death price of ** ten to kill and injure seven or eight hundred Liao dogs, which is a casualty ratio of one to ten, which has never been in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, never! Mrs. Zheng is a scholar and knows the history of the Song Dynasty very well, so she screamed excitedly: "Even famous generals such as Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, and Di Qing have not won such a casualty ratio." Commander Wu, you have created another first in the Great Song Dynasty! ”

With a look of admiration, his thumb was about to pierce the sky.

"Da Song No. 1!" Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao believed in Mrs. Zheng's judgment and were also shocked.

In the past, when the Song Dynasty fought with the Liao State, it was often the case that one Liao army had to exchange two or three Song troops, and it was not uncommon for the Song army to win a great victory at the cost of very few casualties, but it was very rare. There have never been casualties like 1 to 10.

"Commander Wu, Zeng Danian slashed me! This traitor, he dared to take refuge in Liaogou, and he was innocent! Huangfu Song hated: "If you are a robber, you must be a robber, and you can't do without your ancestors." ”

"It's good to be dead!" Mrs. Zheng also hated Zeng Danian. Zeng Danian wanted to slaughter the city of faith, but he almost succeeded, and his hatred for Zeng Danian had reached the point of no return.

After a slight pause, Zheng Tai said: "Commander Wu, you lead the army into the city to rest and treat your wounds, and leave the matter of cleaning up the battlefield to me." Mrs. Zheng looked at the soldiers and saw that everyone was injured, but they were all very excited and happy.

"It's good!" To clean up the battlefield, it is enough to have the people, and there is no need for the army to participate. The converts really need to recuperate and need treatment. Wu Ji gave an order, and the converted army withdrew into the city and returned to the barracks, where the doctors in the city came to treat the wounds of the soldiers.

In the past, these doctors were afraid that they would not hide far enough, but now they spontaneously rushed to treat the soldiers' injuries, using the best medicine, carefully treating, and boasting that the soldiers were brave and invincible, and they were very affectionate, as if they were facing their relatives, and they completely lost the disgust of facing "thieves with soldiers" in the past.

Wu Ji was slightly injured, just bandaged it, and came to inspect with Huangfu Song. Everywhere he went, the soldiers were naturally very surprised, and in their words, "Commander Wu made us heroes."

If it weren't for Wu Ji, they would just be a group of homeless people, and it would be a question whether they could survive or not, how could they dare to hope to defeat the Liao army, it would still be such a big victory.

Life is precious, but dignity is even more rare. They have finally regained their dignity!

After the inspection, Mrs. Zheng came and reported the results of the battle to Wu Ji, which killed and wounded 859 people, captured 241 horses, bows, arrows, and scimitars. Also, more than 3,000 taels of silver were found from the dead Liao army.

The Song army suffered 68 killed and 34 seriously wounded, with a total loss of 102 men, slightly more than Huangfu Song's estimate.

Despite this, it was also a big victory, which was enough to refresh the history of the Song-Liao War.

More importantly, after this battle, the Converts Army became elite, and their temperament changed dramatically, being fierce, sharp, fierce, and like a wolf and a tiger.

The surviving converts, if they return to the battlefield, they will inevitably be the elite of the elite, which will cause great trouble to the Liao army.

"More than two hundred war horses! Ha ha! Among these trophies, Wu Ji is most concerned about the war horse.

The horses of the Song Dynasty were short and unsuitable for use on the battlefield, which was an important reason for the shortage of cavalry in the Song Dynasty. In order to build cavalry, the Song Dynasty still made some efforts, and they bought war horses from the Liao State and Western Xia. However, the Liao State and the Western Xia knew that the war horse was an important surname for the Song Dynasty, and they often demanded a high price, and slaughtered the Song Dynasty, which overwhelmed the Song Dynasty.

The cost of building one cavalry in the Song Dynasty was enough for five infantrymen. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Shen Kuo proposed "cavalry by foot", not to build cavalry, but to develop a large number of infantry, in order to curb the cavalry of Liao and Western Xia.

Because of the heavy financial and tax burden, more and more ministers supported "riding on foot", that is, Huang Yanjing thought so, which became the national policy of the Song Dynasty for decades, and the status of cavalry became lower and lower.

As long as it is well equipped and used well, the infantry can deal with the cavalry. However, the cost is even more unbearable. First, without cavalry, it is impossible to carry out a strong counterattack, and the enemy can attack calmly, and it is not easy to hold on. If there is cavalry, you can seize the fighter and launch a strong counterattack to defeat the enemy.

Second, without cavalry, it is impossible to pursue the enemy and expand the results of the battle. The battle just now is the best proof of this. Wu Ji defeated the Liao army, but because there was no cavalry, he could only watch the Liao army withdraw and could not pursue.

Therefore, what Wu Ji wants most at the moment is to build cavalry, and the more than 200 war horses captured are where his hope lies. The war horses of the Liao Kingdom were tall, fat and strong, and they were much better than the war horses of the Song Dynasty.

With these horses, you can create cavalry, and in this case, you can send cavalry to intercept and kill, and the results will be much greater, and the gains will be more.

"Commander Wu, you're not going to build cavalry?" Mrs. Zheng was a little surprised.

"That's for sure!" Wu Ji didn't think about it, and nodded heavily: "Without cavalry, if you want to defeat the Liao State and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, don't even think about it!" ”

"This ...... Commander Wu, you must know that the cost of cavalry is very large, and the cost of one cavalry is enough for five infantrymen. If you raise 200 cavalry, it's equivalent to 1,000 infantry. "Mrs. Zheng was a literati, and he also supported the strategy of riding on foot, and did not approve of Wu Ji's formation of cavalry.

"Lord Zheng, there is a way, the soldiers are noble, not too many, no matter how many soldiers you have, it will not be useful, it is better not to have any. A weak hundred thousand is not as good as an elite five thousand. Can a thousand infantry catch up with a four-legged cavalry? In this battle, we suffered without cavalry. If there were cavalry and we were intercepting and killing, our result would not be to kill and wound 859 Liao dogs, but more than 1,000. It doesn't take much, I only need 200 cavalry, and I can multiply the battle by half. Wu Ji was full of confidence and excited.

"There are not many soldiers!" Mrs. Zheng tasted it, and her eyes lit up.

"Cavalry, if only there were cavalry, it would be great!" Huangfu Song also supported this proposal, but he changed his words: "Wu Zhijun, you said that after Liaogou was defeated and retreated, will he come again?" ”

"That's coming!" Wu Ji nodded heavily, very sure: "Liaogou has never suffered such a big loss, and he will definitely send troops again." Next, it is the most difficult juncture, and it is the real tough battle! ”

(To be continued)