Chapter 177: Heartache
Baduli gathered the Houjin cavalry that had returned, counted them, and found that more than 150 horsemen had not returned. At this time, Mutha beside Batuli asked, "Uncle, what should we do now?" ”
Ba Duli shook his head and said, "Although these Ming troops are very jerky in the battle array, their courage is no less than that of our nation's sons. If we attack and defeat them, my uncle and I are still sure, but most of our people here will be lost here. Muta, do you see it, where did these Ming troops come from? ”
Muta thought carefully for a while, and said to Baduli: "Look at this Ming army, it must be the elite of the Ming Kingdom, but it doesn't seem to have fought any battles. I think it's the army that defended the capital of the Ming Kingdom. ”
Ba Duli nodded in agreement and said, "Uncle took you out this time, and your knowledge has indeed improved very quickly. This Ming army, I guess it is the Imperial Forest Army next to the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom. They are well equipped, well trained, and courageous. There just hasn't been a fight. ”
"So now you know what we're going to do. When we entered the customs this time, it seemed that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom was in a hurry, and sent out all the royal forest troops around us. But think about it, will there be only so few people in the Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Kingdom? Therefore, the Ming army on the opposite side must be the vanguard of the Royal Forest Army. ”
"Therefore, the main force of the Ming army dragged by Lord Belle may not be the main force of the Ming army at all, and there must be a large number of royal forest troops behind them. Therefore, we are only temporarily dragging down the Ming army on the opposite side, and send someone to report this situation to Lord Belle, so that he will not suffer. As for Luanzhou City, Namutai is also a veteran, and he will definitely understand what to do. ”
Wu Shigong didn't think about it at all, and the Houjin commander on the opposite side raised his own militia team in Henan to the status of the Imperial Forest Army. The current Wu Shigong was also very nervous, carefully watching the Houjin army's every move.
Wu Shigong is now in pain. Not to mention the casualties of Yu Ji's phalanx, the cavalry of the squadron led by Xue Qiang alone lost more than fifty people, and these people were all the elites carefully cultivated by Wu Shigong, who were trained as officers of his own army in the future!
But this is not the most important thing, Wu Shigong had been hearing and seeing something in the past, with a thousand or eight hundred casualties, and he had no other feelings about these numbers. But now, Wu Shigong found that it was not a number, it was a living person! And it's a brother who gets along with him day and night!
Whose sons are these people? Whose husband? Whose father? Among the more than 50 people, there were more than a dozen guards who he brought out of the capital at that time. A month ago, they were still laughing with their families under the southern walls of the capital, but just a month's work has become a permanent secret.
At this moment, the sound of vomiting came from Wu Shigong's side, it was Deng Qifan who saw the scene of death crashing into the bloody scene, and finally couldn't help but vomit.
The soldiers around Deng Qifan immediately took out the kettle and gave it to Deng Qifan. After Deng Qifan drank a few sips of water, he laughed at Wu Shigong with some apologies: "The student thought that he had great ambitions when he was young, so he got off his horse and wrote a cursive military book, and got on the horse to attack the crazy Hu. But I didn't expect to be in the battle formation, but I did such a ridiculous thing, I really can't stand the adult. ”
Wu Shigong realized that Deng Qifan and Zhizhi followed him and ran to the front line. Wu Shigong immediately said to the guards beside him: "You guys quickly send Mr. Deng and the intelligent master to the back, protect them, and don't let them do any damage." ”
Deng Qifan hurriedly shook his hand and refused: "It's okay!" Anyway! can fight crazy nonsense, and have no regrets in life. ”
As soon as Wu Shigong wanted to persuade again, he heard a huge sound of artillery fire coming from the direction of Luanzhou City, and Qin Liangyu officially launched a general attack.
At the same time, a team of white pole soldiers ran in the distance, which was the five hundred reinforcements sent by Qin Liangyu who was afraid that Wu Shigong would not be able to stop the Houjin army.
I heard the sound of artillery, and saw the white pole soldiers coming to help. Baduli knew that he no longer had any hope of supporting Luanzhou City. He was very decisive, and immediately ordered to take the remaining 600 Houjin troops to the direction of Yongping City.
It wasn't until Ba Duli's Houjin army disappeared in the distance that Wu Shigong and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Wu Shigong immediately jumped off his horse and ran towards the place where the death collision occurred.
By this time, the soldiers searching for the wounded had already rescued three wounded. Two of them were seriously injured, and the other was Wu Shigong's mascot - Yang Rusong. Miraculously, he only scratched a few places on the ground, and nothing else.
Wu Shigong didn't take two steps, and suddenly heard the soldiers searching for the wounded shouting: "Squadron Xue is still alive." Come and help him, he was held down by the horse. ”
Wu Shigong was overjoyed when he heard it. He immediately ran in the direction of the shout. Wu Shigong saw that Xue Qiang's lower body was pressed by his dead horse, but Xue Qiang's middle breath was full, and he kept urging: "Quickly move this horse away." "Looking at Xue Qiang's appearance, there is definitely no danger to his life. Wu Shigong breathed a sigh of relief.
The surrounding soldiers moved the dead horse aside, and lifted Xue Qiang, who was wearing forty or fifty pounds of ring-arm iron armor, from the ground.
Wu Shigong asked with concern, "How is it?" ”
Xue Qiang replied with a smile, "It's okay." It's just a twist of the foot, just take two steps. ”
Xue Qiang pushed away the soldiers who were supporting him and walked towards Wu Shigong. But as soon as he walked three or four steps, Xue Qiang immediately bent down and grabbed his right knee, let out a miserable scream, and then raised his head and fell. The soldiers beside him immediately stepped forward to support him, and Wu Shigong also hurriedly rushed over.
Wu Shigong grabbed Xue Qiang's hand tightly, Xue Qiang faced Wu Shigong, although his voice was still a little calm, but his eyes were full of tears and said, "Uncle, the little one should have a broken leg." ”
Wu Shigong immediately looked at Xue Qiang's right leg and found that his entire right leg had actually been deformed. Wu Shigong hurriedly comforted Xue Qiang and said, "It's okay, just find a bone-setting doctor to take a look." It's going to be fine, don't you see that Li Lu is still bouncing and jumping up and down? ”
After Xue Qiang heard the comfort, he could only nod, but he still grabbed Wu Shigong's hand tightly with his hand. Wu Shigong hurriedly signaled to the soldiers around him to cut some branches and make a stretcher to carry Xue Qiang away.
At that moment, another soldier shouted, "Come! Team Wei is still alive. ”
All the people flocked there again. Wu Shigong squeezed into the crowd and saw that Wei Changlin, who had been stabbed by the Houjin soldiers, was still alive. But he was dying.
As soon as Wei Changlin saw Wu Shigong, his eyes immediately lit up and his spirit lit up. Wu Shigong knew that Wei Changlin had returned to the light. He hurriedly knelt down on one leg, leaned over to Wei Changlin, and said, "Changlin, do you have anything to say?" ”
Wei Changlin tried his best to lean up, and said to Wu Shigong: "Lord......, son!" Son! ”
Wei Changlin bought a woman after the rebellion of the Holy Spirit Society. Before the departure of King Qin's army this time, the woman had just given birth to a son for him. Wu Shigong hurriedly replied: "Your family is my family." Your son is my son. ”
Wei Changlin listened to Wu Shigong's words and put his mind at ease. He lay down relaxedly, muttering in his mouth: "Mother, mother......" The voice was getting softer and softer, and Zuihou's eyes widened and he didn't breathe.
The soldiers around him were sobbing, and Wu Shigong also felt that the corners of his eyes were particularly sour.
At this moment, Wu Shigong's voice of intelligent chanting scriptures came from behind him: "Nan Wu, Amitaba Night, Dortagada Night, Dori Night, Amili Dubhabi, Amiriddo, Sidan Bhavi...... Under the illumination of the setting sun, a halo flashed on the side of the intelligent figure, which looked particularly solemn and solemn.
All the soldiers bowed their heads in silence amid the chanting of the scriptures. Until the wisdom has finished reciting the scriptures, all the people continue to move around.
Wu Shigong saw a horse next to him break a leg and neighed in pain. Wu Shigong pulled out the ribs around him, wanting to give the horse a good time. The horse saw Wu Shigong's actions, as if it knew what Wu Shigong wanted to do, and it barked pitifully at Wu Shigong, leaving two big tears in its eyes.
At this moment, an officer asked Wu Shigong for instructions: "My lord, how do you arrange these corpses?" ”
Wu Shigong thought about it for a while, inserted the ribs back into the scabbard, and ordered: "The Tartars have all cut off their heads." All of our people were brought back, those whose homes were in Guide Mansion were brought to Guide Mansion, and those whose homes were in the capital were sent to the capital. All the dead horses were also cremated and brought back to Defu to be buried. Wounded horses, moved to carts. Even if they can't be used in the future, we will keep these horses for the rest of our lives. ”
According to Zuihou's statistics, in this battle, Wu Shigong's cavalry and musketeers suffered a total of more than 70 casualties, of which 62 were killed. And Yu Ji's military households here suffered more than 150 casualties and 97 casualties.
Yu Ji came to Wu Shigong's side and said to Wu Shigong with some shame: "My lord, I almost missed a big incident just now. ”
Although those military households suffered heavy losses, they were still quite grateful to Wu Shigong. Because Wu Shigong's cavalry used his life to protect the safety of most of the military households.
Wu Shigong smiled at Yu Ji and said, "You did a good job. To zuihou your formation has not collapsed. And you personally pressed the formation at that time, and you did it quite bravely. This soldier can be trained, but bravery can never be trained. ”