Chapter 13: A Great Victory
War is not a paper count, a large number of people does not necessarily win, and a small number of people may not necessarily lose.
However, the one who was defeated more with less was none other than the thieves at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, thieves were often exterminated by officials and soldiers many times less than them, which was basically a theorem in the late Ming Dynasty. The main reason why the peasant army was able to revive was that its form of existence was no different from that of bandits, and as long as the backbone of the bandits was there, they could raise a frightening number of troops at any time.
The group of thieves in front of him is no different from the Northwest Peasant Army, the only difference is that they are weaker, and the more than 3,000 young men under Zhao Yan are also weak.
Zhao Yan first used the car formation to stabilize his own rabble, and used silver to stimulate their fighting spirit, and the opportunity to defend the opportunity to trumpet the opponent's vulnerable theory to give his own rabble courage, after the first wave of the thieves' attack failed, his own morale was greatly boosted, and he was even more contemptuous of the thieves.
Rushed out of the car formation and took the initiative to attack the thieves, but it was by coercion to make their own rabble advance, and the morale was still relatively high, so the offensive was successfully launched.
Then use the weakness that most of the opponent's military strength is composed of hungry people, and forge rumors of the arrival of the official army to intimidate those hungry people.
This rumor seems ridiculous, as long as a smart person thinks about it seriously, he will understand that the official army has not arrived, and has not deceived the main backbone of those thieves.
But the problem is that the hungry people don't understand, and in the ancient era when information was blocked, most of the hungry people were peasants, and they didn't know anything about marching and fighting other than farming.
Although some of the hungry people didn't believe it, some of the hungry people believed it, and when they were in close combat, they were torn open by Zhao Yan with the elite family, which accelerated the process of rout. But there is no problem for their own rabble to fight with the wind.
The banner was still fluttering over there, and I saw that the elite thieves among them were slashing and killing the hungry people in the rout, trying to stop the spread of the rout.
However, due to the lack of strict organization, they could not stabilize the morale of the army at the first time, and they were unable to control the huge number of hungry people.
Zhao Yan rode on a horse, looked around the battlefield, saw that the overall situation had been decided, and shouted: "Only punish the evil, and those who surrender on their knees will not be killed." ”
The surrounding family members shouted in unison: "Only punish the evil, and those who kneel and surrender will not be killed!" ”
The people around also began to shout that they would not kill on their knees, and those hungry people could not eat enough one by one, naturally they were not as good as the 1,000 coachmen in Zhao Yan's hands, as well as those homeless people who had eaten with the convoy for a few days, and they could only kneel and beg to surrender if they couldn't run away.
It's just that Zhao Yan saw a few guys with red cloth tied on their heads, slashing and killing the hungry people in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh, this is all precious manpower!
As soon as the captives return, they can immediately organize these hungry people to resume production, and by next year they will be able to produce food.
This thought flashed through him, and he looked up at the big banner in front of him, only to see that the big flag had moved, and he began to flee into the distance.
"Kill!" Zhao Yan slapped his horse and led more than a dozen of his men on horseback to rush towards the direction where the thief was located.
The location of the thief's head was very conspicuous, a big banner with the word 'Zhang' fluttered in the wind, and the hungry people who were defeated saw that group of people and horses were all panicked and avoided.
But there were too many hungry people in the rout, which obviously affected the movement of that group of people, and when they saw that they could not do anything, they fled and began to cut down the hungry people who stood in their way.
Zhao Yan's dozen horsemen were more agile, and they rushed towards the head of the thief like the wind.
The leader of the thieves had more than 100 people, and more than 30 people rode horses, and they were the backbone of it. Zhao Yan and his entourage were very conspicuous, and the hungry people on both sides did not dare to stop them, and they were soon discovered.
The group of thieves divided into more than a dozen horses and rushed towards Zhao Yan. Zhao Yan clamped the horse's belly, quickly took out the two-stone hard bow, and shot an arrow quickly.
With a 'snort', the feather arrow pierced directly into the head of a thief rider, which really made Zhao Yan blind, and shot an arrow again, hitting another thief rider in the chest, and was blindfolded again!
Zhao Yan's horse speed is very fast, shooting two arrows is the limit, directly put away the hard bow, pull out the waist knife to face the rushing thief horse, the opposite thief horse is already cold at this time, both sides are cavalry, the speed is fast, it is too late to escape, the thief in front of Zhao Yan is surnamed Suo out, and he slashed at Zhao Yan with a knife.
Zhao Yan, who was on the horse, was completely fearless in the face of this knife, pressed his head down between the lightning and flint, and dragged the long knife in his hand through.
The two horses parted in an instant, but the thief who rushed to Zhao Yan's side suddenly rushed to the horse and fell down, blood gushing out of his neck.
In a blink of an eye, he ran into a thief rider, but the thief rider was already frightened, and he was trying his best to control the war horse to turn and escape, but was dragged by Zhao Yan with a knife and fell off the horse directly.
Fight immediately, as long as the war horse reaches a certain speed, there is no need to swing the knife, just drag the long knife through, Zhao Yan has practiced the ability of horse war in the half month he has just crossed.
Although he was not proficient in Tsushima warfare, this body showed super coordination and reflexes, which allowed Zhao Yan to easily defeat in the duel just now.
Although Zhao Yan's subordinates were not very proficient in horse warfare, they were a little higher than the few cavalry thieves who ushered in, and coupled with the high morale, they wiped out those thieves with one person.
More than a dozen horses, but they charged at the backbone of more than 100 thieves.
"Dead open." Zhao Yan shouted angrily under the escort of all the family members, shaved off the head of a thief, and rode his horse towards the thief's head.
"Mom!" Seeing that Zhao Yan was unstoppable, the backbone of the thieves who were fleeing in front of them rushed towards them violently, and immediately scattered and fled.
Even these thieves and thieves are completely warlike at the moment, and suddenly a burst of people are on their backs.
Like a knife, he tore through the ranks of the backbone of the thieves, and Zhao Yan directly took the head of the Chinese army. Dozens of meters away, Zhao Yan had already seen the conspicuous thief leader.
Wearing a big red coat, wearing a helmet on his head, and riding a war horse under his crotch, when he saw Zhao Yan catching up, he hurriedly left his foot soldiers and fled.
Zhao Yan opened his bow and shot, and with a bang, the feather arrow directly didn't know where it went, and it didn't hit!
When the thief heard the sound of the bow, he immediately bent his waist down, and desperately beat the horse under his crotch, and ran faster for a while.
The horse on which the thief leader rode was the fastest among the thieves, and he threw his men off in a moment.
The other thieves rode differently, they were all inferior horses, and they were caught up by Zhao Yan and his subordinates twice, and they fell off their horses one by one with their backs to each other.
Zhao Yan chased after the thief, but he slowly slowed down his horse.
The horses under the crotch were purchased by the Zhao family with a lot of money, which was quite a miracle. It's just that he rushed down just now, and the horsepower was a little insufficient, so Zhao Yan asked the horse to run slower and hang far behind the thief who fled in a hurry.
After a while, the two broke away from the battlefield and chased across the plains.
Zhao Yan took out a hard bow, put a feather arrow on the back of the thief and shot it, immediately quite bumpy, his hand shook slightly, and the feather arrow snapped on the helmet of the thief, directly shooting the helmet through, but did not hurt the head of the thief.
missed again, Zhao Yan was quite annoyed.
The thief was frightened by the arrow, and desperately dared to run away on his horse, but Zhao Yan followed farther and farther away.
After being annoyed, Zhao Yan calmed down, looked at the thief who was desperately fleeing, and showed a sneer.
Running so fast, rushing to reincarnate?
Zhao Yan hung far behind, and he was not afraid of losing people in this plain.
In this way, he ran for two minutes with the thief's head, and as Zhao Yan expected, the speed of the thief's head slowly slowed down, and the horse under his crotch ran desperately for a while just now, and he couldn't run anymore.
Just like the speed of the 100-meter sprint for long-distance running, it is absolutely impossible to run the whole distance with the speed of the 100-meter sprint.
Zhao Yan was about to catch up with Cui Ma, but the thief suddenly stopped.
"Huh~! Why don't you run away? Zhao Yan was surprised and leaned over cautiously.
I saw that after the thief stopped, he glanced back at Zhao Yan, and then quickly turned over and dismounted, kneeling directly on the ground, Zhao Yan heard the thief shouting as soon as he got closer: "Grandpa spare your life, grandpa spare your life." And kept knocking his head, and the feather arrow was still stuck in his helmet.
Zhao Yan stepped forward rashly, but stopped more than ten meters away, quietly looked at the thief leader, and after a while, the family behind also caught up.
Several men surrounded the thief's leader.
"Put your head in your hands." Zhao Yan drank.
The thief saw several men surrounding him, his face was dead, and he resigned himself to his head, and a short knife fell, shining in the sun.
Zhao Yan laughed, this guy really wanted to cheat, but he didn't know that although Zhao Yan likes to use dangerous tactics, he has never been in a hurry for this kind of cooked duck, and would rather wait for a while to cook the duck to death, waving his hand and shouting: "Take it back." ”
"Yes, Childe." The two men dismounted, seized the thief's head, and tied his hands and feet with the reins of his horse, and one of them quickly took off his stinky socks, stuffed them directly into the thief's mouth, and threw him on his horse.
Maybe the socks were too smelly, the thief was very restless and chirping, and in the laughter of Zhao Yan and a few family members, the group walked in the direction of the convoy.
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