Chapter 104: An eye-opener
"You'd better stay with me for the time being. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Li Jing didn't know what to say, he just patted Tan Wu's back helplessly, quite a bit bleak, if he could choose, he didn't want to come to this point.
But at the moment, Li Jing couldn't afford to delay, and the spies came to report that there was still a group of about one or two thousand officers and troops in Shenchi, but most of them were guards who did not wear armor.
For the officers and troops with very low combat effectiveness, Li Jing gritted his teeth, and could only lead the team in person and start a new journey.
Fortunately, Feng Xingman's head shocked almost everyone, and when he heard Li Jing's order to march to Shenchi, even if he complained in his heart, he didn't dare to show it.
During this period, with Li Mao as the guard, he led his third battalion to prepare the capital and the first battalion of the Tuntian battalion to collect battlefield materials, collect the remains of soldiers and take care of prisoners, this time, Li Jing's main losses were on the pro-guard team and the people who fell on the way to retreat from the Shenchi, and the horse team of the pro-guard battalion alone killed 42 people and wounded more than 20 people, and the loss of the people was even greater.
In the follow-up pursuit battle, due to the desperate blow of Hu Dawei's family, the second and third battalions suffered a lot of losses, but the total number of casualties was only about 300 (excluding the people), but compared with the record of killing 420 officers and soldiers and capturing more than 600 people, this battle can be regarded as a complete victory.
In addition to more than 100 people on horseback, there were dozens of lucky people who escaped into the mountains, and the others were captured by Li Jing, and 1560 pairs of armor and more than 60 war horses were captured, and the rest of the military resources were not counted......
Just as Li Jing led more than 2,100 people from the four battalions under his command to march towards Shenchi, he received a scout report, "Lord, the spies of the official army were found in front of them, and they have been dispersed by the scout team, and at the same time, a large force of follow-up men and horses behind the scouts of the official army was found. ”
"This official army, still dare to go out of the city to fight? How many centaurs do they have? Li Jing pondered for a moment, only to feel that they might not know the news that Hu Dawei had failed, and besides, they were not elite troops, and they were not unable to fight.
When the scout heard this question, he hesitated for a while, "My lord, the officers and soldiers marched in a mess, and many of them still carried baggage, so we really couldn't recognize how many men and horses there were, but we were divided into two teams in front and back, and pulled out two or three miles." ”
"Revisit." Li Jing was made to cry and laugh by this answer, but this group of officers and soldiers is too strange, there is no discipline in the march, if it is suddenly attacked, how can it be done? I also think that such a unit is just a showmanship, responsible for logistics on weekdays, and it is okay to suppress the civil unrest, and once the regular engagement is engaged, it will be good if it does not collapse on the spot.
In this way, as long as this group of officers and troops is defeated, there will be no strength of the officers and troops in the neighboring prefectures and counties, and it will not be a problem to take the opportunity to occupy a few counties at that time.
In this way, Li Jing directly beckoned Zheng Renbao and Li Fugui around him to come up, "You two, each lead a number of men and horses, I will give forty cavalry, go straight to the left and right, I will lead most of the troops to be stationed according to this, to wait for work, just wait for the officers and soldiers to come up, and rush to kill the left and right together, only one round, and then the officers and troops will be completely dispersed, you must remember, only forward, not retreat!" ”
"Yes!" Just waiting for the two to agree, Li Jing called Tan Wu, who was still depressed next to him, "Now I am in the army, no matter what, I will go up from the army and prepare a lot of men and horses for you to chase and kill the rout of the official army, if you are angry, just sprinkle it on the official army, but when it is over, I have other important tasks to hand over to you." ”
When Tan Wu heard this, he finally came back to his senses, but nodded silently, answered, and went down to order troops without mentioning it.
Looking at his back, Li Jing turned around, counted the remaining five more than 1,000 people, and ordered someone to turn back to take care of the artillery team, Zheng Renbao and Li Fugui led the main force, all of which were about 400 people, and the remaining five crippled main forces were all in reserve and Tuntian, which was almost the same as the combat effectiveness of the troops led by the two of them.
There is a way that soldiers are noble and fast, and they should move forward when they use soldiers, but the ranks of the officers and soldiers are really grinding, and the official road of seven or eight miles has not arrived for an hour, Li Jing can't, so he has to order people to monitor on the one hand, and on the other hand, he orders his own team to rest and recuperate, and seize the time to build an artillery position.
At that time, the tiger squat general cannon contributed a lot, but the charge time of this cannon was too long, and when the second cannon was fired, according to experienced military households, it was easy to blow up, mainly because of rough manufacturing, and the craftsmanship of craftsmen was not good, but it was better than nothing, only this cannon went down, and it was okay to attack the city and seize the land, not to mention these old-fashioned cannons, Li Jing didn't take it to heart, anyway, when it stabilized, his own skills in his previous life were brought into play, not to mention making new cannons, and it was no problem to improve the soil explosives of later generations.
In this way, 80 pieces of artillery, which were barely qualified, were selected to set out with the army as support for attacking the city and the decisive battle in the field, and it happened to be used here, and the whole 80 guns were divided into three teams, each of which was placed 200 paces away in front of the main army, and the second and third battalions of the Tuntian battalion were guarded, and they could only wait for the cannon to sound and defeat the officers and soldiers, and then they could pursue.
After waiting for another half a moment, he got the scout report, saying that the official army brigade was finally about to arrive, Li Jing directly beckoned more than 100 people who had been arranged around him to go up to challenge, only to see the front team of the official army from a distance, pretending to be panicked, and shot a few bows and crossbows for a while, even so, the reaction of the officers and soldiers made Li Jing dumbfounded.
The official army was a loose march, thinking that the front was the elite of the Jin army of Hu Dawei, and the back was the recovered city, and felt that it was extremely safe along the way, so there was no reliable scout guard, and there was no order of order, plus the ransacking of the entire Shenchi County, one by one the robbers were so rich that they reluctantly followed, and they walked on the official road in such a mess.
Suddenly encountering such a sudden attack, there was a mess all of them, some of them ran to the side of the official road in a panic, some of them fell on the spot, and some even turned their heads and ran away, no matter how the official would roar, they were not moved. But after half a ring, I didn't see anyone fall to the ground with an arrow, and I didn't see the other side chasing after me, so I came back to my senses, and then looked at Li Jing's department who was fleeing, and I was immediately furious.
The head of a hundred households was even more blue and white, just now he almost didn't want to kneel and beg for mercy, but seeing that his ugly state was seen by his subordinates, he was immediately annoyed and angry, and drew his knife and waved, "Give it to me, chase it!" ”
The military households under his command saw each other, and felt that the sneak attack in front of their head must be the rout of the rogue soldiers, and suddenly felt that the courage came back, and they waved their hands one by one with rusty stains, and all kinds of weapons howled and chased after them, and they had no courage to fight a large group of rogues, but the pursuit of the lone rogue was more ruthless than one another, and you must know that this often escaped rogue was on the body, and he might not be able to carry much money.
In this way, the entire army of officers and soldiers directly plunged into the ambush circle that Li Jing prepared for them, but this time, Li Jing still regretted it, he knew that the officers and soldiers were almost collapsed after being shot by a few arrows from their own homes just now.
But the matter has come to this, anyway, idle is idle, hurriedly beckoned all the soldiers and horses in ambush to dispatch, all the artillery has long been aimed at the position where the officers and soldiers appeared, but a cannon smashed down, so that the officers and soldiers could not find the north, one by one crying dad and calling mother, along the original road to spread the girl and run, only hating dad and mom for missing two legs.
But it's easy to get in, it's hard to get out, Li Fugui and Zheng Renbao are not Feng Xingman who can't be saved, at this moment, the two of them heard the sound of cannons, killed left and right, and directly cut off the retreat of the official army, a full one or two thousand officers and soldiers, running all over the mountains, and called Li Jing's department, who blocked the official road, dumbfounded......