Chapter 233: Bad Luck
Let's say that the vanguard of the ancestor fought against Ma Ya's Gongru Villa and the prisoner death squad, and suffered heavy casualties.
In this battle, 1,226 prisoner death squads were killed, and 321 were killed or wounded.
Of course, the imperial army under the main force of Gongru Villa also suffered more than 2,000 casualties, but compared with the more than 8,000 people of the ancestors, it was really a big profit.
Ma Ya saw it on the city tower, and the more the prisoner death squad died, the less they lost.
This is the same as the 100th general of Gongru Villa, they also fought desperately, but only eight people were killed and seventeen were wounded.
These data show that the imperial court army cannot be compared with them, that is, the more than 2,000 people who were killed and wounded were all troops transferred by the imperial court.
The main force of Gongru Villa has not yet been fully dispatched, and to deal with the vanguard of the ancestors, Zhongmen, together with the prisoner death squad, can kill them in all directions with only 5,000 men and horses.
As for the cavalry that came from the other two gates, they basically suffered little loss.
They are just chasing and killing, what can they lose?!
This war made Lord Yu's blood boil, and he hurriedly came over to visit all the soldiers in Zhongmen.
The leader of the death squad begged him to take the armor off the corpses of the soldiers of the ancestors and wear them.
Lord Yu objected, saying that the enemy's armor is easy to cause chaos when worn on his own people, and he will not argue between the enemy and us in the melee.
Sister Hua was there to count how many people the prisoner death squad had killed, intending to cash in their money.
She listened to Lord Yu's words, and told Ma Ya that although they were prisoners, they had made a great contribution this time, and if they had armor on them, they would have fewer casualties. If you just make a mark on the prisoner's death squad, such as tying a strip of cloth to everyone.
The idea was immediately supported by Ma Ya.
Ma Ya discussed with Lord Yu, and Lord Yu handed over the matter to the owner of Gongru Villa.
The owner of the village said to these prisoners: When the white cloth strip comes, he must tie a dead knot on his shoulder, and if the white cloth strip is taken off, he will be hacked to death by his own people, and don't blame others.
So Sister Hua asked her to take a few pieces of white cloth, cut it into strips, and distribute them to the soldiers.
Of the remaining nine hundred, there were ten leaders, and one was the chief leader.
Their emblem was this: the soldier tied a strip of white cloth on his left arm, and the ten leaders tied a strip of white cloth on their arms, and the chief leader, in addition to a strip of white cloth on his head, also put a strip of white cloth on his body, and he said that he was wearing linen and filial piety to his dead brothers.
Sister Hua planned to send them the silver, but they didn't want it, they begged Ma Ya to send the silver to their house if they died.
The remaining nine hundred and five people with combat effectiveness, under the leadership of the leader, knelt down in front of Ma Ya.
This is an army that has not been recorded in history, and in the many wars that followed, only one hundred and sixty-three of them survived, and some were wounded.
When Sister Hua counted the number of enemies they had killed, she was surprised to find that they had killed more than 15,000 people, which was twelve times their total number.
Not to mention Sister Feng Yi Qinghua and the owner of Gongru Villa, even Ma Ya cried.
After the war, Ma Ya asked Feng Yiqing not to give the rest of the people to the government, and to integrate them all into the door of Gongru Villa, because this was their own request, which was what they dreamed of.
Afterwards, Ma Ya ordered Sister Hua to take out 100,000 taels of silver and distribute it to them.
Many of their families were subordinates of Gongru Villa, who knelt down to thank them for giving them silver.
They memorized the name of a man, and that man's name was Ma Ya.
They offered the horses as if they were gods.
Of course, these prisoner death squads are still excited.
They discussed in private, saying that killing the enemy in this way is easy to confuse, and some of the enemies are fighting on their own, and some of the enemies are cut off their horses, and as a result, in order to compete for the five taels of silver, several people go up together, and this enemy is cut beyond recognition.
They felt that this was too cruel, that the enemy was already dead, and that it was ineffective for someone to go up and mend the sword, and that would not be able to get the silver, and that an enemy would only have five taels of silver, and that a general would have only twenty taels of silver.
They felt that they should join forces to slaughter more enemies, so that they could not only kill more enemies, but also take care of each other.
However, there are also people who oppose it, saying that it is problematic to kill the enemy in that way.
For example, in order to save you, I am working with a good enemy, but you go to kill the injured enemy, then I am not at a loss?! It is possible that his life has been given to the other party.
After some heated discussions, they felt that it was safer for everyone to share the money equally.
For example, this time they killed more than 2,000 enemies and more than 10,000 taels of silver, and they felt that one person could get ten taels of silver.
However, there are also those who say that the living can still earn money, but what about the dead? Shouldn't he be given a little more?!
This statement was quickly agreed by everyone, because in future wars, it is possible that they will die in battle. The war dead easily receive everyone's pity and sympathy.
They decided that twice as many would die than live. Depending on the severity of the injury, the amount of silver taken is also different.
The rules were laid down in words.
Ma Ya, Feng Yi, Sister Qinghua and the owner of Gongru Villa did not intervene from beginning to end.
It was up to them to decide on the matter.
So let's go back and talk about the first master, saying that he is the Great Khan, because his subordinates have always called him that in private.
In fact, he did not pay attention to the Great Khan at all, and the command of the Great Army was in his hands.
When the ancestor caught the emperor Zhen at this time, his heart swelled even more.
Two groups of people came to Gongru Villa, and they both asked him not to kill the emperor.
After the ancestor was angry for a while, he thought in his heart that it was better to attack the north first.
If it can be captured, it will be great, and when the time comes, the silver in the royal treasury of the northern capital will be everything.
If it can't be attacked, at least the emperor will take a look at a sum of silver.
So what is the deployment of the ancestors?
It was still Brother Zhen's side who provided a piece of information to the ancestor, saying that there must be a lot of people gathered in the northern capital now, and so many people they want to eat.
And the granaries of the northern capital are all outside the city.
It is better to occupy the granary first, burn their granary, and then go to besiege the northern capital, I believe that they will be hungry, they must find a way to get out of the city, and then fight them again, and they will definitely win a big victory.
The ancestor only adopted half of Xiye's idea.
It is right to burn grain and grass, but if the army of the ancestor is trapped outside the city, how can it be done?
After a few days, when the army of King Qin arrives from all over the country, there will be a flank attack inside and outside, and the ancestor will not be fooled like this.
The ancestor considered that Xi Ye also had that ability, and he was still very stunned militarily, not that he intended to harm the first master.
Therefore, the ancestor still relies on Xi Ye quite a lot.
After all, when you arrive in the northern capital, you still need familiar guidance from him in many places.
When the ancestor's army passed through the grain and grass warehouse of the imperial court, he was surprised to find that there were not a single soldier guarding here, and the warehouse was empty, only a pile of rotten more than 100 stones of grain in the corner.
The ancestor wondered, why did this northern capital move faster than himself?
You must know that the ancestor is a cavalryman.
In his opinion, the north has to send people to transport grain, so it will take a month.
Why is it not there in a few days?
After arresting a few ordinary people and asking, they learned that when each soldier was marching to the northern capital, they were ordered that there was no ration for them in the city, and they had to bring their own rations into the city, which was a death order given by Lord Yu.
Lord Yu is the secretary of the military department, and the first order he gave to this army is that it must enter the northern capital before the arrival of the ancestors' army.
In addition, they had to prepare their own food.
Prepare your own amount? How do you calculate that?
Lord Yu made it clear that he would be counted as he should!
Hiring migrant workers requires silver, so the soldiers have to pay the soldiers the same amount of silver when they transport grain to the northern capital.
It's a deal, and you can support yourself.
So the 30,000 troops outside decided to bring some grain by themselves, and then hire the local people, pay half of the grain transportation cost to the people, and let them transport the grain to the northern capital.
The common people are happy, there is such a big price on it, this is unprecedented!
Although it is said that it is a war now, do you have the life to spend this money, but if you live, won't you have to eat in the future?!
You must know that in the peaceful era, the common people transported grain, and the freight they got was very little.
Where did all the shipping costs go? was exploited by layers of officials.
Now, in order to encourage the common people to transport grain, they are willing to pay half of the freight, which makes the common people rejoice, and men and women come out to transport grain to the city to earn silver.
And where does the remaining half of the shipping cost go? Some of the embezzlements of the officers in the army were rewarded, and the other part was rewarded to the army.
This solves the problem of grain transportation in the granary.
When the ancestor's army arrived, it was no wonder that the granary was not empty.
The ancestor was very angry when he heard a few ordinary people describe this, but he didn't expect this Lord Yu to be quite tricky.
The main force of the ancestor is smart this time, and the ancestor asks the army not to touch the three city gates.
These three gates are the three gates controlled by Ma Ya and Guan Ya.
Now in the army of the first master, when it comes to Gongru Villa, there is a team of thousands of people in rags, and General Ha who fled back before, they panic.
So don't you just avoid these people who make the soldiers panic?!
The army of the ancestor went straight to several city gates to besiege, but the main force among them chose the wrong one, and they were facing the gate that happened to be General Hum.
The second general Hum Ha, who is famous for his bravery, coupled with the fact that General Hum was defeated in the front, lost face, and only because it was the time to employ people, the court did not hold him responsible.
So the hum general is holding back the fire in his belly.
Now it's enemies who see each other, and they are very red-eyed.
And then when General Ha outflanked the vanguard of the ancestors, General Ha made great achievements, and General Ha was willing to fall behind.
He learned from the experience of the prisoner death squad, and asked himself to close the city gate to death after leaving the city, the purpose was to cut off the back road between himself and the soldiers, and he wanted to fight to the death with the main force of the ancestors.
Hmph, the general has the meaning of fighting on his back.
He put his soldiers on the verge of life and death, and he must follow him to fight to the death to have a way out, otherwise he will become a ghost under the knife of others.
And the first master transferred the main force to this gate and attacked the gate where the hum general was, the first master was not stupid.
The ancestor attacked at this time just to find out, he had a heart, if before he came, if the city tower was to be replaced, if he met the people of Gongru Villa and the miscellaneous army of Guanya, what would it be?
But what he didn't expect was that the general who went out led 5,000 men and horses, and after leaving the city, he closed the city gate to death.
And these 5,000 men and horses didn't talk to each other, and they came up to kill.
In particular, the general who led him was brave and brave, and he had already planted five generals in his hands.
The morale of the hum general was greatly boosted, and there was no way out anyway, so they could only choose to fight hard.
Na Xiye saw it clearly in front of the battle, and he immediately told the ancestor that he should hurry up and withdraw his troops, that is the hum general.
Xi Ye told the ancestor that in the imperial army, there are two fierce generals in the first master's best to avoid it, otherwise it will affect the morale of the first master's soldiers.
These two people are the famous two generals of Humha.
General Ha knew that he was so brave that his men killed and wounded more than 100 soldiers, and then on the way to retreat, he used vicious tricks to injure more than 100 soldiers who pursued him.
Now that he came up, he met General Hum, and the ancestor felt that he was really unlucky.
The luck of the ancestor was so bad, except for the three gates, in the remaining six gates, he met General Hum.
The ancestor made Ming Jin withdraw his troops.
After killing one or two thousand of the ancestors, the general had to return victoriously when he saw that the other party was avoiding the battle.
The ancestor decided to avoid the gate guarded by General Hum and transferred the main force to another place.
According to the reports of his subordinates, the other gate was weak.
It is said that Sun Rong saw that the army of the ancestor had besieged him, and gave up the three gates where they were. Go and attack the other doors.
The ragtag army led by Sun Rong and Zhou Daqing, they didn't dare to move their forces around, for fear that the ancestor would attack them, so they let the eunuchs who were logistics go to support the other city gates.
Hundreds of eunuchs went.
Who knew that these hundreds of eunuchs saw the army commanded by General Hum and returned with meritorious service, and their hearts could be regarded as blooming.
At the same time that the main force of the ancestor attacked the gate of the general, the other armies of the ancestor were also attacking several other city gates.
These hundreds of eunuchs also wanted to make meritorious contributions, they felt that fighting a war was very simple, as long as they bravely took their weapons and rushed forward to kill, they could kill the enemy and abandon their armor.
But it is said that Lord Yu arranged an ambush outside the city at one gate, where there are many houses, they hid in the houses, mainly with firecrackers, first these teams, after the army of the ancestor attacked, was bombarded by artillery firecrackers, and then there were bows and crossbows team to follow, a fierce shot, killing the ancestor of the army is people on their backs and defeated into an army.
But these hundreds of eunuchs felt that this was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and as long as they rushed out to kill those fleeing cavalry, they would have a great credit.
They didn't expect that most of the arrangements here were firecrackers and crossbowmen, and as soon as these eunuchs rushed out, no one could stop them.
These are eunuchs, and they hold the power given to them by the imperial concubine.
They rushed out to fight with the army of the ancestors, and then the firearms and crossbows in their hands lost their power.
The ancestors' cavalry was not stupid, when they saw hundreds of eunuchs riding horses to kill, they pretended to be defeated and retreated, and when they were close to killing, they came back and followed these hundreds of eunuchs to kill the generals.
This door is in danger.
Lord Yu gritted his teeth when he found out, but these eunuchs were organized by Guanya, and he couldn't do anything with them.
Now is not the time to pursue whose responsibilities.
At the critical moment, he thought that Ma Ya's three gates had not yet been attacked by the ancestor's army.
Lord Yu sent someone to discuss with Ma Ya to see if she could transfer some troops over for reinforcements.
Although Lord Yu is the secretary of the military department, Gongru Villa is like a militia group, although he also listens to his transfer, but he has to be polite, because the commander behind them is Ma Ya.
Ma Ya's identity is not something that Lord Yu can control.
When the person sent by Lord Yu conveyed Lord Yu's request, before Ma Ya could speak, the prisoner death squad volunteered.
Their reason is very good, that is, it is not appropriate for this side to divide more armies to go over, and this side must also maintain the combat effectiveness of defense, what if the army of the ancestor turns around?!
Only sending them over would be more appropriate.
The reason for their past was mainly based on Sister Hua's reward, killing an enemy to get five taels of silver, and they wanted to get silver too much.
In addition, the leader and Ma Ya said unabashedly that they were originally criminals and should have been punished, but now when the court is in danger, they have to be released as a last resort to make meritorious service and atone for their crimes, so they have to behave!
Ma Ya also felt that it was more appropriate for them to go.
First, there are few of them, about 900 people, and they run quickly, and the other is that they don't look at their small number, and they can really fight with one as ten.
In addition to letting this death squad go over for reinforcements, Ma Ya also asked General Ha to lead 500 cavalry to join forces with them, so that they would be more combative.
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