Chapter 175: The Battlefield (Part I)

The former battlefield of Gaizhou.

Crows are everywhere, pecking at corpses on the ground. The blood of the battlefield had soaked into the soft earth. The earth takes on a carmine hue.

After the battle, the bodies of the victorious Zhao soldiers were all properly buried. And the corpses of the Liao army and the private soldiers of the Yu nationality were not so lucky.

Zhao Jun has long held back his hatred for the Liao army, and he is worried that there is no place to vent, where will the corpse of the Liao army be buried? The Zhao army unceremoniously cut off the corpses of the Liao soldiers on the battlefield and threw them in place, leaving them to become food for crows and beasts.

On Yingzhou Beach, didn't the Liao army treat Zhao Jun like this? More than 60,000 Zhao soldiers were slaughtered by the Liao army and left their bodies directly on the beach, and the bodies of Zhao soldiers either became a delicacy in the mouths of seabirds or buried in the belly of a fish. Since the Liao army treated Zhao Jun like this, why did Zhao Jun bury the Liao army's body?

A few wolf-green-eyed wolves were biting at a headless corpse, and the sound of horses' hooves not far away clearly affected their appetite.

Several wild wolves bared their fangs and stared viciously at the dozens of uninvited guests. They were greeted by a crisp rain of arrows, and several wild wolves fell with arrows, and the two lucky ones escaped with their tails between their legs.

These dozens of uninvited guests were from the Liao Kingdom in the north. The leader is Wanyan Haiya, the third prince of Liao.

The defeat of the Liao State was really miserable, and Wanyan Haiya brought dozens of his own soldiers to the battlefield in the territory of the Zhao State. Take a look at the end of the day, trying to find some clues from the old battlefield.

The headless corpses of the Liao army were scattered all over the field, densely packed with no end in sight. Here, in addition to the headless corpses of the Liao army, the most common species are crows and some birds and beasts, which are enjoying the delicious meal that is the remains of the Manshu warriors.

This kind of scene has seen a lot of Yan Haiya, and there will be no discomfort. When the war was urgent, Wan Yan Haiya even sat on a pile of corpses on the battlefield and ate with relish. The word death has long been familiar to him, and it has long been commonplace.

Wanyan Haiya clenched his fists, jumped off his horse, and dispersed the evil birds around him who were pecking at the corpses: "Inform the garrison of Haizhou City, they are limited to clean up the bodies of our Da Liao warriors within three days, and the Da Liao warriors should be buried in the ground, instead of the violent corpse wilderness becoming food for birds and beasts!" ”

Wanyan Haiya was very angry, although the battlefield was in the territory of Zhao State, but the battlefield was not far from Haizhou in the territory of Liao State, and the Haizhou garrison did not even dare to clean up the remains of the Liao army. Although the Zhao army won, the military strength of the Zhao army was far inferior to that of the Liao army. A defeat made the Liao army lose its former blood and bravery?

"After all, this is the territory of Zhao State, and the Zhao army is impermanent, and it is too risky to rush into Zhao Realm." Guar Erzhen, the leader of Wanyan Haiya's personal army, tried to defend the garrison in Haizhou, and had to admit that this defeat had a great impact on the morale of the Liao army. For the first time, the Liao army was afraid of the Zhao army. This has never happened before.

"In the past, I went deep into the suburbs of Gaizhou, and it was not an adventure to rob the suburbs of Yingzhou?!" Wanyan Haiya said coldly, "That is the hinterland of the Zhao army, and this is just the border of Zhao Liao at best!" ”

After that, Wan Yan Haiya left straight away, carefully examining the clues left on the old battlefield, looking for some clues that would be useful to the Liao army.

Most of the corpses on the ground had been eaten by birds and beasts, and they were badly damaged. It is unlikely that any clues will be found from these corpses.

"Third Prince, there is an intact corpse here." Achille managed to find a relatively intact corpse from the pile of overlapping corpses, this corpse was crushed by other corpses, it had not been pecked by birds and beasts, and its body was still intact except for the cut off of its head. Only now a few days have passed, and the corpse has decomposed.

Wanyan Haiya ignored the burial, stepped on a pile of rotting viscera and stomach, and stepped forward to carefully observe the corpse, which was found under a gentle slope. A large area of corpses had been piled up under the gentle slope, much more densely than elsewhere.

The Zhao army cleaned up the battlefield and only cut off the Liao army's head, but the body was still left in its place. The location of the corpse is roughly the same as the original place where it was killed.

"We were ambushed by the Zhao army after entering Yongdao." After Yan Haiya looked at the surrounding terrain for a while, he made a judgment, "The gentle slopes on both sides are the positions of the Zhao army's ambush, which was ambushed here, and the fourth uncle was ambushed here, it was too careless to let the Zhao army succeed." ”

"This is indeed a rare place to set up an ambush, and this is also the only way for our southern expedition. Zhao Jun has a good calculation. Achiller sighed.

"This soldier was killed by a bullet." Wan Yan Haiya noticed the wound on this soldier's body, regardless of the stench, he approached and carefully examined the wound, "After passing through the chain mail, it can still not enter the skin, the heart is broken, the power of the fire gun is very great, it is better than our common Zhao Jun gun, the excellent fire gun is really a big killer, I always thought that Zhao Jun's fire gun was a burning stick, it was useless, it seems that we are wrong." ”

"These arrows are fired by divine spears, and the Zhao army is equipped with a large number of divine spears." Achille pulled out a few arrows that were stuck on the ground and handed them to Wan Yan Haiya, the arrows had no feathers at the ends, and they were definitely fired by a sharpshooter.

Wanyan Haiya dropped the corpse, pointed to the top of the gentle slope and said, "Go up and take a look." ”

Achiller nodded and followed Wan Yan Haiya up the gentle slope. At the top of the gentle slope, there were almost no corpses, which shows that from beginning to end, the Liao army failed to break through the encirclement of the Zhao army on the gentle slope, and in the end, except for the 4,000 remnants of the army who tore through the road to the north, almost all the Liao army was annihilated in this narrow strip.

Of course, most of the 4,000 remnants of the breakout were intercepted by He Tengxiao's cavalry battalion at the border of Haizhou, and few were able to go back in the end.

There are still some gunpowder residues left on the Zhao army's position above the gentle slope, it has not rained in the past few days, it is all sunny weather, and the black gunpowder residues on the grass can still be clearly seen. The gunpowder residue was laid out almost in a rough straight line. It is certain that this is the position of the Zhao army's firearms soldiers, and the gentle slope on the opposite side is the same.

"Achille, how far is this from where we just stayed?" Wanyan Haiya stood on the position of the firearms of the former Zhao army and asked Achille.

Achiller gave the answer after a visual inspection: "About seventy steps." ”

Wan Yan Haiya nodded, and then said, "Zhao Jun's firearms can pierce armor and kill my Great Liao warriors at a distance of about seventy paces. If you stand in this place with a bow and arrow, at the same distance, you will not be able to shoot the soldier who has just shot through the armor. ”

Achille pondered for a moment: "Yes, but with a tailwind." But the minion's arm strength is relatively large, and the headwind may be able to barely achieve armor-piercing and killing. But for ordinary Manshu warriors, it is more difficult to kill people by breaking armor from seventy steps away, and there is no complete certainty. (To be continued.) )