Chapter 53: Deserted and Fleeing
"The thief will give the head, the thief army has been defeated, and those who surrender will not be killed!"
I saw that Ding Feng's bleeding side couldn't open his eyes at this time, but he was still holding a spear more than four meters long, waving it like a big flag, and the head of Li Feng was hanging on the edge of the spear......
And the Huainan cavalry that came up with reinforcements, as soon as they came up, they lost their main general, and the other captains under their command were also panicked, although they did not surrender on the spot for a while, but they could no longer form a unified momentum, and under the constraints of Qu'a pikemen, the cavalry that was out of order was no different from other infantry!
On the other hand, the 6,000 elites led by Liang Gang had just approached the battlefield, and they were first defeated by their own side, and the formation was chaotic.
Although he shouted "go around the formation" and "death to those who charge the formation", whether it is to order to pacify the fleeing friendly troops, or to command his own soldiers to kill the defeated friendly troops, the generals need to have sufficient command ability, and Liang Gang is obviously not good.
After shouting for a long time, he really killed some of the rout troops who rushed into battle, but it instead triggered a backlash from the rout......
This is also the way of fighting for wolf riding and learning from Qiang.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the opponent's formation, hundreds of wolves rode into the enemy formation, like wolves entering a flock of sheep - the infantry of the sparse array was given for nothing in front of the cavalry!
When Liang Gang finally relied on "human life" to ease down the momentum of the Bingzhou ride, he only heard an exclamation......
From a distance, I only saw that Zhang Xun's handsome flag had fallen, and there was a big chaos around the platform!
It was Lu Bu and the 300 cavalry who had already broken into Jiangtai before the soldiers and horses in the camp arrived......
"Zhang Xun is dead, those who surrender on their knees will not die!" Qu Ajun began to shout.
Liang Gang did not believe in "Zhang Xun is dead", but he also realized that the army's morale was in turmoil and could not be recovered.
On the other hand, Zhang Xun is indeed not dead - before Lu Bu rushed up, Zhang Xun had already fled in panic like Liang Gang, and at this time, together with his own soldiers, he barely gathered three thousand soldiers and horses in the camp, but he had already been taken away, and he just wanted to retreat!
And Lu Bu and the three hundred state horsemen, like wolves hunting sheep, pursued an army ten times their size......
The only role of the 3,000 battalion was to jam the roads and slow down the cavalry.
Bai Tu was in Qu'a City, some expectation, more nervous waiting, and in the afternoon of the same day, Chen Gong finally returned to the army, with a large number of prisoners.
At this time, the real generals in Zhang Xun's army were specially searched and detained, and the other soldiers were confiscated of weapons and equipment and driven in groups......
"Good!" Bai Tu secretly cheered on the city tower.
Although Chen Gong was also very confident before, after all, it was "four thousand vs ten thousand", or even actually "four thousand vs ten thousand + ten thousand", so Bai Tu was still mostly apprehensive, but he tried not to show it.
Looking at this large number of captives now, it is a great victory for your own side!
After arranging the handling of the prisoners, Chen Gong also immediately came to see Bai Tu and personally reported the results of the battle.
In a battle outside the city, Zhang Xun's army of 20,000 was completely defeated, and at the cost of less than 500 casualties, nearly 3,000 enemies were killed and 8,000 prisoners were captured.
Because it was a short period of time that broke the enemy's morale, and it was not the kind of bloody battle that lasted for several days, the proportion of battle losses was very considerable for the victorious side.
Looking at the casualties of the other side, it can also be seen that in cold weapon battles, the proportion of direct kills is often not very large, such as in this big war, the battle losses of both sides are not more than 20% - the others are "rout", not "death".
In fact, in a battle, unless it lasts for several days, and each array takes turns to fight in a fierce battle, or uses strategies such as water attack and fire attack, and achieves great success, the direct casualties will basically not exceed 20%!
Or rather...... Before the casualties were two, it was basically defeated!
It is difficult for a normally trained "qualified" soldier to withstand 30 percent of casualties without breaking down, and even the elite of a hundred battles under the command of a famous general will not exceed 50 percent.
On the one hand, there is a separate array, which will collapse when there are two or three percent casualties - at this time, the defeated army still knows how to "go around the formation", and it is already qualified.
At the same time, the more arrays that are destroyed, the faster the morale is low, and the overall military formation, when the casualties are more than two or three percent, it will also lead to the collapse of the entire army......
A fierce battle that takes several days at every turn is essentially a process of constantly gathering and routing the army and then taking turns to put it into the battlefield, which is equivalent to several battles for a certain array.
As for water attack, fire attack...... In fact, the morale has long collapsed, but the soldiers can't escape, so the casualty ratio will be huge, so there is a saying that "fire and water are ruthless".
For the victorious side, or when the war is drawn, they can collect the defeated army after the battle, so the battle loss ratio will be very low.
However, once defeated, even if the gathering place in the rear is not lost, the number of defeated troops that can be collected will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, often when the battle is tied, the fight does not stop for several months, but after a defeat, the number of troops is greatly reduced and the person flees in a hurry.
In addition, Bai Tu also noticed that although he was a soldier, he ...... Similarly, as long as the injuries are slightly serious, they are basically unable to recover, and the "casualties" reported by Chen Gong have already included these serious injuries.
A small half of them can still be converted into servants, and the rest can only gradually dissipate - which is also in line with the characteristics of trauma medical treatment in the era of cold weapons.
Bai Tu also made up his mind in his heart that he wanted to equip the trauma medical and military medical systems with the technology to be developed first, but it was not possible to do it by relying on the strength of the three counties, at least after Bai Tu occupied Jiangdong.
"The generals who died in the war, whether they are military commanders or school captains, whether they are locals, or athletes from the state, and the names must be counted, and the bereavement pension must also be in place, especially if the home is in Qu'a County, the family situation must also be registered, and people will be arranged to pay condolences during the New Year's holidays in the future." Bai Tu instructed.
"Bai Gong rest assured, Gong understands." Chen Gong commanded.
"Father-in-law chased him out for so long......" Bai Tu said with some concern.
"With the heroism of the lord, the enemy army fled in a hurry, and the white prince just waited for good news." Chen Gong trusted Lu Bu a little more.
After Lu Bu pursued Chen Gong out of the extreme distance that Chen Gong could see on the high platform, Chen Gong immediately lifted the "Ming Ce" effect on Lu Bu, otherwise the mental power consumption would be too exaggerated.
The pursuing Bingzhou wolf cavalry came back one after another, bringing back some follow-up news - Lu Bu led people to chase all the way, and there were not many captives surrendered along the way, only a few hundred.
It wasn't until evening that Lu Bu was not very happy to return to the city with the last hundred horsemen.
"Zhang Xun's fight is not good, but he is cunning when he escapes, and he uses the infantry behind the palace to block him, and he changes clothes with his own soldiers...... I just slaughtered a bunch of fakes! Lu Bu said depressedly.
"Don't worry, a group of remnants are just defeated, it is estimated that they are already going to cross the river, we have won a big victory this time!" Bai Tu didn't care, whether he caught Zhang Xun back.
And Zhang Xun at this time, as Bai Tu expected, when he crossed the river, Digang, Danyang County, which landed, barely gathered more than 4,000 defeated troops, preparing to continue to cross the river and retreat north - Qu A already had the strength to recover Danyang at this time, and these defeated troops could not be stopped.
At the same time, Gan Ning is taking more than a dozen water villages on the Yangtze River to join, totaling nearly 1,000 people, and is coming down the river to Qu'a......
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