Chapter 219: Into the Wasteland
"General, general him, he's dead!" Suddenly, at the moment when Xiao Ding's body was nailed to the ground, a soldier shouted loudly. The sound was not very loud, but it was like magic, and the spirit horsemen who heard this sentence were shocked at once, because they couldn't believe that their general would die so easily, because they believed that with their five thousand people, they would definitely be able to annihilate the enemy in front of them, who numbered no more than a thousand, but the fact was that they were wrong, their general died, and he died very poorly, and he was pierced by the horse lance when he fled.
All of a sudden, the elite cavalry who were still fighting with the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry all stopped! Some of them were stunned, a little incredulous, and some were afraid.
At this moment, the expressions on their faces were complicated!
"Lay down your arms, you don't have to kill!" Seeing this, Li Changzheng immediately shouted.
"Lay down your arms, you don't have to kill!" The cavalry battalion and tiger and leopard cavalry on the battlefield also shouted with Li Changzheng.
The Lord will be killed, this is a very demoralizing and shocking scene, coupled with the strong combat effectiveness shown by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, so that the soldiers on the battlefield are very afraid, they heard the low roar of Li Changzheng and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, so they took the initiative to put down the war knife in their hands and silently chose to surrender.
At this time, there was a group of elite cavalry who refused to surrender, relying on the small cavalry battalion and the tiger and leopard cavalry, and struggled to escape from the circle, but before they could rush out a hundred steps, they were shot into hedgehogs by a rain of arrows. Because at this moment, Li Ke, who was in charge of the aftermath, saw his hundred tigers and leopards appear in front of everyone. With the threat of this rain of arrows, the elite cavalry on the battlefield no longer had any other thoughts, and obediently surrendered to Li Changzheng.
This is the end of this big battle with less to win more!
As soon as the war ended, Ji Qingchen left the battlefield, and handed over the task of cleaning up the battlefield to Li Changzheng, and Li Ke's task was to protect Shu'er, Shu'er and Ji Qingchen left, and he naturally would not stay on the battlefield anymore, so he could only leave with Ji Qingchen. Before leaving, Li Changzheng asked Ji Qingchen for instructions on what to do with the prisoners, and received a reprimand from Ji Qingchen, "Have you been kicked in the head by a donkey?" Don't you know what we did with the captives before? β
"This ,ββ ninth brother, is it possible that if the ninth sister-in-law knows about it-" Li Changzheng said, he was worried that Shu'er would not be able to accept Ji Qingchen's way of dealing with prisoners, and he was afraid that Li Ke would have a bad feeling about Ji Qingchen in his heart.
"Leave them alone, you can do whatever we do with the captives." Ji Qingchen said to Li Changzheng, he was not merciful in the face of the enemy, and he was also a brutal person, "Also, collect their dry food and water bags, kill the wounded war horses and distribute them to the soldiers as food, and we will set off at night!" β
He did so with a purpose, an order to survive in the days to come.
Li Changzheng didn't understand what Ji Qingchen was doing this for, but as long as it was Ji Qingchen's order, he would obey it, so when Ji Qingchen gave the order, he agreed without hesitation!
"No!" Li Changzheng replied and strode away.
After nearly two hours, it was already dark, and at this time, Li Changzheng walked into Ji Qingchen's big tent and reported back to him, "Brother Huijiu, you are ready!" β
"Tell me about the situation!" Ji Qingchen said to Li Changzheng.
In addition to him, there are Shu'er, Huang Taiji, Zuo Zongquan and Li Ke in the big tent.
Shu'er asked Ji Qingchen several times how to deal with the prisoners, but it can be seen that Ji Qingchen frowned and didn't ask, and Li Ke seemed to have known what Ji Qingchen would do with the prisoners, so he never asked, but his face was not very good-looking, and it seemed that he was not in a good mood because of this.
"Nearly 3,000 water bags have been collected, all filled with water, and 2,000 wounded horses have been slaughtered and distributed to the soldiers, and now each of them has 100 catties of meat to eat, plus the original dry food, which can last for a month." Li Changzheng replied briefly to Ji Qingchen.
"Well, you're doing a good job!" Ji Qingchen nodded slightly, motioned for Li Changzheng to sit down, then moved his gaze to everyone and asked, "The enemy in front of us has been solved, but the enemy behind us and on the left and right is still there, now let's talk about it, what should we do next?" β
Seeing that everyone was silent, Ji Qingchen continued, "We have lost more than 100 people in this battle, and now there are more than 400 people left, we can't fight with them anymore, we can't afford to fight, so we can only find another way." β
"Your Highness, now that we have been driven into a dead end, we can only take risks!" After being silent for a moment, Li Ke said suddenly.
"What do you mean?" Huang Taiji asked murderously, he was very impressed by the words Li Ke took risks, and stared at Li Ke with unkind eyes.
"Captain Li, you are the commander of our army when you go south this time, don't let Brother Jiu fall into danger!" Zuo Zongquan also said in an unkind tone, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, as if as long as Li Ke refutes, he will kill Li Ke. Only Li Changzheng was silent without saying a word, but he looked at Li Ke's face a little unkindly.
"What are you doing here? What is fierce? The anger is so great, let's go out with our enemies, don't go wild here. Ji Qingchen immediately shouted and reprimanded, and then said to Li Ke, "Captain Li, say it!" β
"It's Your Highness!" Li Ke agreed, pondered a little, and then said, "Your Highness, now we have enemies in the rear and on the left and right, and the number is not less than five thousand, with our current men and horses, it is very difficult to break through any way, so in order not to be captured, we only have one way to go, and that is to enter the wasteland." β
"What?" Huang Taiji was shocked, and immediately said angrily, "Li Ke, do you want to die?" β
"Li Ke, it's okay if you want to die, but don't drag Brother Jiu!" Zuo Zongquan also roared angrily. Obviously, Li Ke's sentence of entering the wasteland had already made the two of them angry.
"Presumptuous!" Ji Qingchen roared, and he said angrily to Zuo Zongquan and Huang Taiji, "Whoever asked you to speak, get out of the way for this king now!" β
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Huang Taiji and Zuo Zongquan still wanted to refute, but seeing the anger on Ji Qingchen's face, the two didn't dare to speak anymore, so they could only snort coldly, retreat in a low voice, and withdraw from the big tent.
Captain Li continued. Ji Qingchen said with an expression.
In fact, he also meant to enter the wasteland, otherwise he would not have asked Li Changzheng to prepare water bags, and slaughtered such a war horse to make a grain reserve, just to deal with the food problem after entering the wasteland.
"Your Highness, judging from the current situation, if we want to break out of the encirclement now, I'm afraid it will be very difficult! Therefore, there was Li Honglie in the team of the spear last time, Li Honglie is the king of the North Courtyard of the country, and the prime minister of the North Courtyard, his identity is extraordinary but he appeared in the army of the spear, it can be seen that this pursuit operation is no longer controlled by the Empress Dowager Xiao behind the scenes, but someone personally went to the front line, ready to kill His Royal Highness and the princess, and from this deployment, this person's resourcefulness is not bad, he will think of the countermeasures of the four-way attack without leaving a way to live. Li Ke talked eloquently, and he was not affected at all by Zuo Zongquan and Huang Taiji's rebuttal and questioning just now, "Therefore, we can only enter the wasteland first, and only by accumulating strength in the wasteland and waiting for the opportunity, and then killing in one fell swoop, killing the enemy by surprise, can we kill under the Yin Mountain, and then return to Dayan through the Yin Mountain." β
"Long March, what is your opinion?" Ji Qingchen asked Li Changzheng, Li Changzheng was much calmer than Zuo Zongquan and Huang Taiji, which made Ji Qingchen very satisfied with his guard captain.
"The Long March agrees with Captain Li!" Li Changzheng said that he did not express his opinion again.
"Well, this is also what this king meant, so he will let the Long March prepare water bags and horse meat, etc., in case of emergency, so it is decided, we will enter the wasteland and set off at midnight!" Ji Qingchen said decisively.
"No!" Li Changzheng and Li Ke received the order and withdrew from the big tent.
Li Changzheng and Li Ke came out of the big tent, and Li Ke said to Li Changzheng, "General Li, Ke only saw the combat effectiveness of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion today, and it is really very strong, not weaker than our tiger and leopard cavalry, let Ke admire it!" β
This is Li Ke's heartfelt words, only one hundred more tigers and leopards to ride, only five hundred people were wiped out of five thousand, this is definitely a classic battle that subverts cavalry warfare, except for Li Qingyi, there is no one else who can do this, and now Ji Qingchen is another.
"Captain Li has won the award, this time to the south, the road is difficult and dangerous, and I want Captain Li to work together with our cavalry battalion to get through the difficulties together!" Li Changzheng said politely, but he was very happy in his heart, he was praised by the captain of the Haw Par Cavalry, which was indeed an affirmation of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and he was naturally very happy as the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion.
"It's nature!" Li Ke said with a smile.
The two of them parted and left!
After Li Changzheng and Li Ke left the big tent, Ji Qingchen, who had been silent for a long time, said to Shu'er, "Shu'er, you won't blame me for doing this, right?" β
Shu'er knew what Daoist Ji Qingchen was talking about, that is, the issue of killing prisoners, because a total of 4,300 people surrendered this time, but all of them were killed by Li Changzheng, how could this not make Shu'er sad? This is a spirit rider who has left the country, and she is the people who have left the country! But after being silent for a long time, Shu'er still spoke, "How can Shu'er blame Brother Qingchen? In fact, Shu'er Zhidao Qingchen's brother also had a hard time doing this. β
"Well, Shu'er, I'm very happy that you say that!" Ji Qingchen said in a low voice, "Don't worry, no matter what I do, I will definitely bring you back to Dayan, and I will let you live a good life." β
"Yes!" Shu'er nodded.
Because she knew that the reason why Brother Qingchen did this was actually all for her and her safety. Therefore, in Shu'er's eyes, no matter what Ji Qingchen does, she will not be angry, and she will not say anything to her brother Qingchen, because her brother Qingchen must be doing it for her.