Chapter 351: Dusty Face
The night is quiet, but in the vast fields, the sound of horses' hooves is clanging.
This is Su Jian's horse team returning to the camp.
Soon after his army set off, he was chased by a messenger sent by Guo Lun, and told Su Jian about Feng Tang going to the camp to find Guo Lun, Su Jian's face turned pale after listening to the messenger's words, because as soon as he heard the messenger's words, he guessed that he was fooled, and it was estimated that the military camp was now in crisis.
"Quick, back to camp!" Su Jian shouted loudly, and immediately hurried back on horseback.
He had already left the barracks for sixty miles, and because he was worried about Ji Qingchen's safety, he was in a hurry all the way, and now he was in a hurry to return to the camp, so he hurried up his horse.
But when Su Jian quickly arrived at the barracks, which was only ten miles away, he faintly saw a raging fire from the sky in front of him. Could it be that the camp was forced, and Guo Lun wanted to burn the jade with the enemy? Thinking of this, Su Jian's heart fluttered. The camp has enough military supplies for his 100,000 troops to last for a year, if Sanchez gets it, won't this solve Sanchez's problem of food and grass, and how will he deal with Sanchez in the future?
Thinking about it like this, Su Jian's heart to return to the camp became even more urgent.
The distance of ten miles is not far, and the fast horse has galloped for a while, and half of the distance has passed.
But at this time, Su Jian suddenly reined in the war horse, because he instinctively felt that there was some danger ahead. He ordered the scouts to go and have a look, for he was in a hurry to return to the camp, and he did not send them on the way. However, the scout reconnoitred for two miles and did not find anything wrong, and when he saw the nearby camp blazing into the sky, Su Jian was no longer suspicious, and continued to lead the army to gallop and march.
It's just that the 80,000-strong army marched forward for three miles, and the big camp in front of him was three miles ahead, with flames soaring into the sky, and there were shouts of killing.
Suddenly, at this moment, I only heard the sound of "plop-plop-plop!" Then I heard someone shouting, "Oh no, there's a trap—" and then I heard someone screaming, "Ah——! "And the neighing of warhorses.
Someone shouted in the darkness, "Stop, there's a trap ahead—"
"Trap—"
Half of the cavalrymen who rushed to the front could not hold the reins, and rode into the trap and were stabbed to death by the sharpened stakes in the pit.
In the dark night, Su Jian heard that there was a problem in front of him, and just as he was about to ask, he instinctively felt a murderous aura attacking him. On one side, he dodged a feathered arrow, but his companions around him were not so lucky, and many of them were unfortunately hit by arrows and shot off their horses alive.
"It's an enemy attack, everyone calm down!" Su Jian suddenly understood that the enemy had ambushed the soldiers here, so he shouted loudly, "Quick! Prepare for battle—"
It's just that the night was already dark, and because the enemy was sneaking in, various means were used, so that Su Jian's orders were not conveyed smoothly, resulting in the army not organizing a counterattack in time.
The chaotic scenes, the trampling on each other, caused the 80,000-strong army to lose its discipline and formation, and suddenly fell into a panic.
"Kill-" At this moment, a group of foot soldiers came out from all directions and rushed towards the iron cavalry, which had been out of formation and was in a panic.
When Su Jian saw this scene, he was so angry that he rushed to the crown.
He roared and gave a military order to his guards, "Quick, blow the horn, prepare for battle—"
In the middle of the night, the enemy is in the dark and he is in the light, as long as he blows the horn, he will reveal his position and make himself a target for the enemy. But in the current situation, he does not care about this aspect.
The guards were stunned for a moment, and then they didn't hesitate and blew the horn of battle.
Woo woo woo - woo woo ...... As soon as he was halfway through the blow, the sound of the horn stopped, because at this moment the guard's throat was pierced by an arrow of feathers, and his body slammed to the ground.
But that's it, the sound of the horn still played a role, and the knights in the panic heard the horn and knew that Su Jian was gathering a large army to fight. All of a sudden, the panicked nerves calmed down a lot, and then they began to counterattack under the organization of their respective squad leaders, captains, and captains.
"Sonorous-" Su Jian's war knife was already unsheathed, he just glanced at the guards who fell off his horse, and didn't care about him anymore, but killed into the distance. He must gather a large army and launch a counterattack against the enemy. He knew that this was Sanchez's ambush, Sanchez didn't have many soldiers and horses in his hands, except for dealing with Guo Lun, he had only a limited number of soldiers and horses ambushed here, just now his own army was ambushed by him and was killed by surprise. If you calm down and fight the enemy who is ambushed here, the enemy may not be as fierce as the one just now.
"Kill-" Su Jian stepped forward with his personal guards, rushing towards the iron cavalry that was in chaos.
"Kill-" The guards beside him desperately opened the way in front of him, breaking a bloody path for him. He rode into the chaotic warband, slashed three enemies in front of him, and shouted, "Soldiers, don't panic, the enemy doesn't have many ambushes, just bluffing-"
When the knights in the chaos heard Su Jian's voice, and then saw Su Jian himself, they suddenly had a backbone in their hearts and flocked to Su Jian collectively.
In this way, more and more troops gathered around Su Jian.
Gradually, the panicked army in the distance also flocked to Su Jian's place.
Seeing that there were 20,000 troops gathered around him, Su Jian made a deployment and divided the 20,000 troops into four parts, and rushed to the southeast, northwest, and northwest respectively, striving to disperse the surrounding enemies and stabilize the battlefield situation.
The captains of the four armies received the order, and each led the cavalry to kill in all directions.
Sure enough, just after Su Jian made this arrangement, not long after the four cavalry teams killed in the four directions of the southeast, south, and northwest, the chaotic situation on the battlefield was improved.
The enemy was beheaded, some took the initiative to rout, and the situation on the battlefield stabilized.
After another moment, the shouting stopped, and calm returned to the battlefield.
"Ignition!" Su Jian shouted, he wanted to see the situation on the battlefield and count the casualties.
The torches were lit, illuminating the battlefield in front of them, and the sight was shocking, and a large number of Dayan cavalry fell on the ground, they were either shot by feather arrows, or fell off their horses in a panic, and were trampled to death by their own horses, the scene was very bloody.
"General, our soldiers have lost 28,000 killed!" Said an adjutant general.
Su Jian, who suddenly heard this number, shook his body and almost fell off the horse. What is the concept that the enemy dispatched less than 10,000 troops and killed 280,000 on his own side?
But the bloody facts were in front of him, and he couldn't believe it.
"It's all my fault!" Su Jian said bitterly, leaving a line of tears in the tiger's eyes.
Who said that men don't flick when they have tears, this is just a special place that doesn't hurt it.
"General, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and please mourn on the General's Day!" A lieutenant general spoke out to persuade him.
To be honest, this encounter hit him with a lot of money in his heart, but what can he do? It was his own side that was careless, let himself take advantage of it, and was ambushed, so that he suffered such a big loss.
"Back to camp!" As soon as he was persuaded by the adjutant general, Su Jian stopped his tears, stabilized his emotions, and gave an order.
The 80,000 cavalry now had only more than 50,000 horses left, and the morale of the army was very low, so they followed Su Jian and galloped to the camp in the distance.
When Su Jian led the army to the camp, the battle here was over, and only the supply depot was still burning with fire. Seeing the corpse of the Yulin cavalry in one place, the angry Su Jian's eyes were about to erupt with fire.
"General, look, this is Captain Guo—" someone shouted.
Su Jian rode over, and suddenly saw this scene, his body trembled, he couldn't support it anymore, and rolled off the horse.
"General—General—"
"General—"
The guards next to him were frightened, since the general had fallen off his horse, this- they hurriedly jumped off the horse and helped Su Jian up.
"Ahem-" After coughing a few times, Su Jian stood up slightly with the support of his guards. Step by step, he walked forward.
At the door of the big tent in front of the camp, there was a corpse fluttering, without a head, only the body was hanging at the door of the big tent like a leaf.
He is Guo Lun's corpse, and Guo Lun's head has been cut off.
Su Jian trembled and walked to Guo Lun's corpse with the support of his guards, his tone was choked, he wanted to say something, but he was silent for a moment, and he didn't know what Lu Dao said, and he didn't say anything.
After a long time, he whispered, "Collect the corpse!" ”
"No!" The guards received the order, untied the rope, and took down Guo Lun's body.
"General, we can't afford not to avenge this big revenge!" An adjutant general shouted that they had never encountered today's humiliation in their lives, especially Sanchez's treatment of Guo Lun, which insulted Dayan's soldiers, and was a kind of trampling on the dignity of Dayan's soldiers, and they couldn't bear it.
"Yes! Checkmate! Let's kill back at once, kill Sanchez for Captain Guo, and avenge the dead! Someone shouted.
"Kill—kill back, we will take revenge—" Tens of thousands of horsemen shouted.
The sound of killing shook the sky, and the murderous aura was monstrous.
But Su Jian didn't talk, and after a long time, when he saw that everyone stopped shouting, he whispered, "We can't help but avenge today's revenge, but not now!" ”
"The army will rest immediately, and tomorrow we will return to Jinju City!" Su Jian ordered in a cold tone, and just when the soldiers were puzzled and wanted to ask him for war, they heard Su Jian say loudly, "Guo Lun, you and the soldiers can rest assured, today's enemy, I, Su Jian, will definitely get it back tenfold one day, otherwise I will be hit by five thunders and I will not be able to die!" ”
After that, Su Jian fainted all of a sudden!
Tens of thousands of soldiers heard that the general had made such a poisonous oath, which meant that the general would fight with the Lingnan Yi clan and Sanchez, so they would no longer ask Su Jian for battle, and silently began the task of cleaning up the battlefield under the leadership of their respective captains.
Su Jian did not have a personal guard to accompany him, and walked alone to the high slope in the distance, looking at the southern sky and being silent. This time he faced off with Sanchez, he really lost, and he lost a mess. In tonight's battle, not to mention the loss of military supplies needed by the army for a year, nearly 50,000 soldiers and 50,000 generals were killed, all of which were cavalry, but they died like this.
In this battle, his losses can be described as heavy.
In the future, it is estimated that he will not have the strength to fight again, because his army has suffered heavy losses and is no longer enough to support a big battle.
In the future, I can only rely on the tall walls of Jinju City to defend passively!
Thinking of this, Su Jian's tiger eyes once again left two lines of tears!