Chapter 102: Trenches Hinder Cavalry, Shoes Powerful (Grand Chapter)
Let the horseback grow up Dong Hu soldiers to give up the battle and avoid retreating to dig trenches, Ji Chong's voice just fell, and several hot-tempered Hu generals have already gone berserk. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This is an insult to the people of the gods, and the brave and fearless steppe people will not accept what a cowardly Xia can do."
"You want to disobey the commander's orders?" The first order was rejected, Ji Chong was very unhappy, and the consequence would be that someone would have their head cut off.
"What if you disobey, it's already an insult to me to follow you under the Xia people's account, just kill me, and you can fight with the Xia people on the other side."
"Yes, you can do it yourself"
"The Xia people will not have the same heart as the grassland people"
……
Everyone was noisy and did not carry out the military order, forcing Ji Chong to clench his fists, and his nails were dripping blood because they were embedded in the flesh.
"You ......" Ji Chong was about to run away.
"It's better to let a few generals try, it's naturally good to defeat the enemy army, even if you don't have it, you can show the courage of the steppe people, the big marshal said yes?"
Zhao Zheng dressed as a scholar from the Central Plains, held a hand behind his back, and said with a smile.
"You, Xia Ren, are right, but General Ben won't lose, so you can prepare food and drink and wait to celebrate my achievements." After finishing speaking, he drifted away, and several Hu generals also left one after another.
Ji Chong was like a deflated ball, slumped on the seat and said: "Just make a stupid move and annihilate these people, so that I don't have to suffer from their bird anger every day." ”
Zhao Zheng said with a smile: "The effect of the whole army a few days ago was not very good, these people are all donkeys, you have to pretend to be the same as them."
They are going to simply let them go, and when they are defeated, they will send people to take their place, and better control these 120,000 Hu people. ”
"What do you want, when Linzi gathered the soldiers of the six countries for the Northern Expedition, but now you are controlling 100,000 Hu people to design a coalition army, I can't see your intentions clearly, are you for Huaxia or for yourself?"
As early as when Zhao Zheng arrived in Xingdu, Ji Chong wanted to ask, and he finally couldn't help but say it until now, saying every word of heart, and he didn't regard Zhao Zheng as the lord.
His Majesty questioned him by the courtesy, and the monarch should have already attacked.
Zhao Zheng still smiled and said: "For Huaxia or for yourself, you ask more directly than Wei Lian, and you think farther than him."
Wei Lian asked me to adjust his plan to see if I could help him realize his life's ambition, which was selfish.
You asked me for the sergeants on both sides of the battlefield, to see if I wanted to kill the soldiers of the two tribes for my own selfishness, and to die tragically, for the public good.
But why didn't any of you ask me if Huaxia and Huyi can stop fighting, and the common people in the world have no distinction between high and low and live equally. ”
Zhao Zheng's mood skyrocketed instantly, and he roared with a red face: "When I first arrived in Yixian County, Lao Tzu was powerless and powerless by you and Zheng Gao, I resisted and got a knighthood;
In the Wuyang War, Lao Tzu shed the last drop of blood for the Yan Kingdom, and the nobles of Wuyang actually wanted to force me to death, I resisted, and I had a solid mountain foundation.
Later, Ji Zhan took away Chunniang strongly, and let the love of my life sink to the bottom of the river, but he brazenly said that he spared my life. ”
"Why, why is Lao Tzu bullied by you bastards, why can't Lao Tzu be an ordinary person quietly.
Power, if you have power, you can do whatever you want, and if you have power, you can separate other people's wives and seize other people's property. ”
"I want to fight, fight for the highest power, crush all the original power, so that all those who are from poor backgrounds like me but have ambition can live in the world with their heads held high.
I'm going to change the sky.
I want to overthrow the Zhou royal family.
I'm going to break the weekly ritual system.
I want there to be only one king in this world, and that is justice. ”
"Huhuhu~~"
Zhao Zhengda gasped and sat in front of Ji Chong with a smile.
After a while, Ji Chong raised his head and said lightly: "I know, I am your brother, help you be the king." ”
Although Donghu has been defeated many times since the beginning of the war, the three counties of Dongping are mountainous and hilly, and the grassland cavalry has not participated in the war on a large scale. Therefore, psychologically, only the cavalry was full of fighting spirit and was not afraid of the Zhou army.
The antlers sounded, the killing sound shook, Ji Chong'an sat in the handsome tent, and the command was also fast, knowing that he would be defeated, Ji Chong did not want to lose his reputation.
"Kill~"
Less than 200 zhang away from the Zhou army, the cavalry of the Yin Eighth Division had not yet appeared, and the Donghu war horses were galloping towards the infantry phalanx in front.
"Dashuai, the Hu people are here."
Sima Zhi glanced at Zhang Zilin and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm very panicked, wait a while." ”
Seeing that the war horse was about to touch the phalanx, the soldiers of Zhou could clearly see the messy stubble on Hu Ren's face, and they all raised their spears before they could give the order.
"Throw thunder."
Sima Zhi gave an order, and more than 1,000 earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown out from behind the phalanx, which were specially kept by Sima Zhi, in order to be the cavalry of the Hu people.
The roar of the earth-shattering thunder shocked many Donghu knights, and the war horses under their crotches also became restless, and some of them had already run towards the rear.
Growing up on horseback since childhood, the Donghu cavalry has never seen such a scene, and the war horses that are closer than their daughters-in-law keep calling themselves. Suddenly, one side of the battlefield was in chaos.
"Mingjin collects troops, Mingjin collects troops." He should have shouted loudly.
Helplessly, it was too late, and the cavalry of the Zhou army suddenly rushed out from behind the phalanx, like a sharp sword inserted into the heart of the Donghu cavalry, slashing and killing indiscriminately, and the other party who killed was defeated.
Sima Zhi looked at the enemy's embarrassed appearance, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Mingjin collects the troops, call them back, and the poor Kou Mo chases." ”
Having said that, he knew in his heart that it was life and death to cross people by sea for thousands of miles, let alone horses that were inhumane.
Now the cavalry horses under his command are all mongrels captured from all over the country, not to mention that they are not trained, they can't bear to run long distances, and if they rush to chase down until the horsepower is exhausted, they will only become the target of the enemy.
"It's a pity for those war horses," Sima Zhi sighed.
"It's a pity that these soldiers were killed by your insistence, saying, which of you still wants to disobey the orders of the commander?"
Ji Chong slapped the table and roared, and the generals who looked past him bowed their heads and were silent.
"Dashuai, we are sorry for the crime, and I ask Dashuai to punish him." should also take the lead and be the first to kneel down and ask for guilt, and all the generals knelt down one after another to ask for guilt, especially the head of the most noisy general Hu was almost buried in the ground.
"Get up, even if you bury your head in the stone, the warrior who dies in battle will not survive." Ji Chong pulled him up and said, "Ben Shuai doesn't seem to know your name yet." ”
"The reckless man Hu Erhan has no face to live in the world anymore, please behead me and accuse me of the warriors who died in battle, Hu Erhan is willing to turn into cattle and sheep in the next life to redeem the sins of this life."
"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, you don't have to blame yourself, if you really want to let the brothers who died in battle rest in peace, then help me win this battle."
Ji Chong said a plan to the generals, it was night, and the blue wolf army retreated thirty miles, and the retreat road was full of ravines and pits.
Sima Zhi led his troops to pursue the victory, seeing that the situation was unknown, Ji Daliu knew that although these potholes were small, they could break the horse's legs; Although the ravine is shallow, it is not easy to walk, let alone march in a uniform manner.
"Insect carving skills"
Sima Zhi said disdainfully: "Order the servants to step forward and fill the road for the army to pass." ”
With a hula, nearly 10,000 servants held wooden shovels, or simply held soil in their hands, opening the way for the army in front, and the soldiers of the Eighth Division followed behind and walked slowly, obviously with spears and iron swords in their hands, and they didn't care about their own identity.
Zhou Li's class concept was so deep that even if he was as humble as a soldier, he would discriminate against servants who were more humble than him.
After walking and stopping for more than ten miles, the sky gradually darkened, and it took a whole day. Some generals suggested camping on the spot and waiting for the servants to open the way, and Sima Zhi should go down.
But the army just started to camp, and arrows were shot all over the sky, of course, they couldn't hurt the Zhou soldiers, but those servants who opened the way in front of them suffered heavy casualties, and most of those who survived were also injured, lying on the ground and wailing.
"The archers marched forward to defend each other, the servants continued to open the way, and the rear army and the county soldiers were transferred to open the way."
The life and death of thousands of people can't get into Sima Zhi's eyes, and all he cares about is to open the passage as soon as possible, solve the blue wolf army, and occupy the Hindu in one fell swoop.
Expanding the land for thousands of miles, breaking through the capital of Huyi, he was as calm as Sima Zhi and had to be moved. This will be a grand event that will be recorded in the annals of history, and this matter will become Sima Zhi's will surpass Bai Qi in one fell swoop and become the first general in the world.
The arrows are still sparsely flying, the Hu people's arm strength is larger, and the arrows are shot far away, although the end of the strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu Min, but the arrows flying around are really not small to the soldiers who open the way.
"Kill~"
Suddenly, there was a sound of killing from the rear, and at some point, a group of Hu soldiers surrounded the Zhou army and surrounded them.
"Dashuai, what should I do, retreat."
Sima Zhi looked at the slow clearing of the front army, and hesitated to order: "Withdraw, the rear team will become the front team, and slowly withdraw." ”
The Yin Eighth Division deserved to be the strongest army in the world, and there was no chaos in the panic, and even led to the order of the whole army, and the Zhou army retreated in an orderly manner.
"Whoa~~"
The blue wolf sergeant who intercepted the back road suddenly threw stones, and in an instant, they were all over the ground.
"Chong, kill the thief and make a meritorious service."
The soldiers of Zhou rushed forward, and immediately stopped one by one, rubbing the soles of their feet and scolding shamelessly, the stones they threw were edged and cornered, and their feet hurt.
The front team stopped and the rear team didn't know that the Zhou soldiers were huddled together, and some of the soldiers were sitting on the ground wailing with blood on the bottom of their feet.
"Bell"
"The whole army stopped"
The servants who had opened the road found that there was an empty passage on the east side of the army without interceptors, and took the lead in rushing over to flee for their lives, and those wounded soldiers followed, and finally there were more and more people, and the entire Zhou army fled from the east side of the path.
The scene was chaotic, and there was no order in front of it.
"Are you sure that road can only lead to Osawa?"
On the mountain, Wei Huo glared at Ji Daliu dissatisfied, and said, "I don't believe you can try it with you, why stay." ”
In the chaos, Ji Daliu, who was responsible for escorting the baggage, deliberately lagged behind, and finally escaped with a few hundred Gushan troops. For the future, there are still soldiers left in the army, and there are even a few hundred captains of the shadow guard, and they have only one task, to chat with the soldiers of Zhou.
"Sima Zhi's generation of famous generals is not here now." After hearing the battle report, Zhao Zheng said to Ji Chong.
"The pioneers have always been served by elite soldiers, and in case of ambushes, they must transfer their servants to the Chinese army to prevent them from leading the pace of the whole army.
However, in order to save the physical strength of the elite soldiers, Sima Zhi used servants to open the way, and when he encountered an ambush, he still used miscellaneous soldiers to fight the enemy, completely ignoring the art of war, and finally the pace of the whole army was disrupted. ”
Ji Chong nodded thoughtfully, and asked again: "How do you know that Sima Zhi doesn't use cavalry, but uses miscellaneous soldiers to open the way?" ”
Zhao Zheng picked up a stone and put it on the table and said with a smile: "There are sharp stones everywhere, and the car can't pass, not to mention the war horses, those horses are all treasures that Sima Zhi snatched one by one, of course he can't bear to hurt them."
The soldiers are different, and the dead and wounded are one or two thousand to make up for it, but they forget that the soles of people's feet are not as good as war horses nailed to horseshoes. I also pity those soldiers, forgetting life and death to fight for the general, and in the end they don't even have a pair of army boots, it's a pity. ”
Ji Chong lowered his head and dusted off the dust on his shoes, the soles made of eucommia glue, for which Zhao Zheng invited dozens of old farmers in the mountains to find a large area of eucommia forests in the Qinling Mountains.
After running for dozens of miles, the sleepy Zhou army restored order again, temporarily camped and rested, and sent scouts to explore the surroundings and find the road.
The soldiers lay together in twos and threes, looking for their friends, only to escape and leave many people behind, and then returned to the predicament in front of them after being sad.
"Mother, my feet hurt to death, shameless Hu Yi actually used treacherous tricks, and he didn't win the martial arts, hiss~"
"By the way, my feet have also been marked out three or four times, and I won't be able to go to the battlefield for a day or two."
"Go to war!" A soldier said angrily: "If you don't need to put the cavalry with iron horseshoe, let us these big-headed soldiers with broken shoes rush into battle, you see that the soles of those Yin Eighth Divisions are injured." ”
Most of the shoes of this era were made of linen, some were leather, and the worst were even made of straw rope or even barefoot.
"Don't complain, just apply some medicine, a foot injury is a big deal. When we encounter an enemy, we can't run fast. A soldier who was dusty but did not look embarrassed took out a large bag of white medicine and distributed it to everyone.
"Brother Meng Yu, don't you also step on stones, why are you okay?"
All the soldiers looked at Meng Yu walking normally, and the soles of his feet were not injured at all, and then it turned out that his shoes were not cloth bottoms.
"What is this?"
Meng Yu raised his foot with a smile and said: "Eucommia ulmoides rubber-soled shoes, our Gushan sergeant has a pair of them, and you can buy a pair at half price to wear after saving military merits, and the soles are wear-resistant." ”
Meng Yu patted the soles of his shoes ostentatiously, then shook his head and said: "What's the use of the soles no matter how good they are, our Gushan Army has always been treated as a servant, and this time we escaped for our General Ji and were captured, in order to protect the food of the war horses of the Eighth Division of Yin." ”
"Alas, it was unfortunate that my brother did not follow, and eighty percent was also captured. Damn Hu Man, I, Zhao Gou, will definitely kill you all. ”
The action was too big, and it involved the wound, and Zhao Gou grinned and held his foot.
Seeing Meng Yu walking over unhindered, he said enviously: "It would be nice if I joined your Gushan Army, there are thick military uniforms to wear, there are injuries and medicines, and there are a pair of good rubber-soled shoes."
Brother Meng Yu, you can buy a pair of shoes for a few dollars, and I will buy a pair when I go back. ”
Zhao Gou is a ten-captain who is a non-commissioned officer, and he also has some savings on weekdays.
Meng Yu saw that he was moved, and said: "Brother Zhao Gou doesn't dislike me and I have a double spare, so I should make a friend and give it to you." ”
"How embarrassing is this" Zhao Gou grinned and took out a dozen pieces of money from his pocket.
Meng Yu looked at the seventeen yuan in Zhao Gou's hand, pushed it back and said with a smile: "I don't need money if I say it's for you, and I can't buy rubber shoes for seventeen yuan."
I'm not afraid that Brother Zhao Gou and the brothers won't believe it, just the pair of worn-out ones on the brothers' feet can be sold for twenty wen if they are put in Gushan.
And the pair I gave to Brother Zhao Gou is fifty percent new, which is worth more than seventy yuan, and it can be sold for one hundred yuan in the Jin Kingdom. ”
Soldiers fight in order to have food to survive, and military pay has always been dispensable, and only the corporal can share some of it when the war starts. One hundred Wen is a pure copper coin, even in Luoyi, it is enough for a family of five to live for a month, but now it is not as expensive as Meng Yu's half-new pair of shoes.
"I'm a mother"
Not only Zhao Gou, but all the soldiers present had an idea in their hearts to go to Gushan to become a soldier.