Section 375 Attack
In just one day, from the beginning of Yang Lin's attack to the active retreat, at least more than 5,000 Yue barbarians were beheaded, and at least 2,000 people were burned to death by fire, and nearly 1,000 were captured, and the number of escapees cannot be counted. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but the Yue generals who are not even good at arithmetic don't know that at all. He only knew that under the heroic counterattack led by his army, he finally defeated the invading Chu army. Of course, his own losses were nearly 10,000 and he didn't know how many people fled, and Yang Lin's side would not have suffered casualties, let alone very little.
Seeing that the Chu army, which was really unable to catch up with the defeated army, the Yue generals began to feel that they had won, so they proudly sent people back to Ruan Chen Heihu, who was leading the main force behind, and showed off in the battle report, then stopped a little to gather the troops, and then continued to approach in the direction of Yuan County.
After receiving the battle report sent by the generals in front, Ruan Chen Heihu, who had been worried about whether there was some conspiracy, was stunned for a while, not that he thought that there was something wrong with the Chu army that had been killed and wounded and scattered so many Yue people who had successfully repelled the Chu army who did not know how many, he himself was suspicious that the march of his own troops was so long, why did the enemy army not attack? Ruan Chen Heihu is not stupid, the main reason why he will be stunned is because the Chu army on the opposite side will not fight sooner or later, but wait for his side to send someone to bring troops over to reinforce, and then fight, what does this mean?
Since the matter was not understood, for the sake of insurance, Ruan Chen Heihu specially sent someone to count the battle losses of both sides on the spot. It took a full day to get a preliminary understanding of the matter -- the number of Chu troops attacking this time would definitely not exceed 10,000, and there was no way to find out what the name of the enemy's commander was. Moreover, under the attack of the enemy on his side, even the Yue people who fled were killed in battle disappeared, and almost 30,000 people disappeared in the battle sequence of attacking Yuan County in the north. On the other hand, on the Chu army's side, the number of people who invited merit with the enemy's head was only two heads.
There are many times in wars when there are unlucky guys. The quality of the iron armor produced in Anzhou is unparalleled in the world. If it weren't for the fact that he accidentally sprained his foot while running, and fell off the cliff very unexpectedly and fell to his death, Yang Lin's first battle would probably have zero casualties at all. In this way, the Yue people were given two pieces of high-quality armor and happily cut off two heads from the corpses. In short, this is a real result, and the spoils of war are also very enviable. It's just that Ruan Chen Heihu doesn't know the inside story, but he just thinks that this battle report with a huge disparity in number is really outrageous.
"Before and after, we lost tens of thousands of people. On the other hand, on the Chu side, they only cut off the two heads of the enemy?" In the face of such a disparity in proportion, even Ruan Chen Heihu, who had a reputation for being wise and decisive among the Yue barbarians, began to grow a little hairy. Especially as the commander of the army, if he can't see that the attacking enemy army is not fleeing, but actively retreating, then it will be a real hell.
But things have come to this point, even if Ruan Chen Heihu finds out that something is wrong, what use will it be? The Yue generals who had previously led reinforcements were obviously fighting with the Chu people for the first time. He did not have the slightest concept of the war dead, and in his opinion, repelling the attack of the Chu army at the first time was definitely a merit worth boasting about. The chief of this small Yue tribe didn't know what he was thinking in his head, and after he came back, he began to hype that he had defeated the elite of the invincible Chu army.
Yes, there is no doubt that the attacking enemy forces were repulsed. When the Vietnamese army, which had been dragging its pace, learned that the front had won and that it was the South Vietnamese tribal chieftain who had personally led the troops to win, how could there be any reason not to be demoralized in an instant? At such a time, no one paid attention to how many people had been lost on their side, and then how many enemy soldiers had been killed? Anyway, from top to bottom, everyone only knew that victory was victory.
Ruan Chen Heihu was still thinking about whether he should temporarily retreat the vanguard troops, but he had no choice now, and even the other Yue troops who had been hesitating behind him accelerated their march. In short, the news spread much faster than expected, and in the current situation of the crowd's passion, how could Nguyen Chen Heihu still ask them to temporarily stop marching, or station them in the same place?
"What the hell is going on, this matter is revealing weirdness everywhere!" Ruan Chen Heihu looked at the battle report, and then threw the battle report aside in disappointment. In fact, this dispatch was largely personal. Nguyen Tran Heihu has always wanted to unify the tribes of the country, and he also wants to get the old king out of that position. If there is no victory that is enough to get a hand, Ruan Chen Heihu will have no value worthy of support in the eyes of the domestic aristocracy. What's more, many small tribes are watching and may fall to the king's side at any time. In Ruan Chen's Heihu's opinion, these wavering guys, they have been a little too quiet recently. ”
Sending troops is not as simple as lip service. In order to test other Yue nobles, Ruan Chen Heihu did a lot of things when he gathered troops to go north, and also sent people to various tribes to collect military rations. Ruan Chen Heihu has a high prestige among the Yue people, but there are still people who don't buy it. In short, this time, except for a few tribes who still ignored Ruan Chen Heihu's orders, most of the Yue nobles and tribes took out some of them. However, on the issue of sending troops, many Yue nobles and tribes took an extremely tough attitude -- it was okay to provide food and money, but not a single soldier was available.
Yue Ren is not an idiot. There are also a few intelligent people among them who have come to understand the value of population. After the Yue army that invaded Chu was finished, there was some rumor within the Yue people, and it could even be said that they were all soldiers. They no longer thought that the Chu people were still as easy to bully as before, and they were also frightened by Yang Tianhong's chopping down of tens of thousands of human heads on the border. It is said that the Chu people have good etiquette, and it is a well-known state of etiquette in the world. However, Yang Tianhong's approach was not reasonable at all, and he directly inserted the Vietnamese prisoners on wooden poles and erected a corpse corridor dozens of miles long along the border. If that's all there is to it, that's it. The problem is that the newly crowned Duke Yiyong of the Chu State court did things cruelly, he never let go of any Yue people, and he also let go of the army, and constantly attacked and harassed the Yue villages. Counting up, before and after, Yang Tianhong has killed as many as one million Yue barbarians in Anzhou. In particular, the battle of burning the border city really scared the Yue people so much that they no longer dared to go north half a step.
Ruan Chen Heihu had also considered whether he should take his clan to move south, far away from Yang Tianhong, a terrifying and fierce killing god. Not only Nguyen Chen Heihu, but also many Yue tribes and nobles have also been wavering in their thorough cooperation and resistance with him. This state of confusion lasted until the Yue sent troops. Now, many tribes are still in contact in private, as if they have discussed it, and although the order to deal with Ruan Chen Heihu is not responsive, they have not made trouble everywhere. What did he shout the slogan of attacking the state of Chu with all his strength, killing the brutal lord Yang Tianhong, and everyone should cooperate with each other to resist and protect the land...... On the surface, it seems to be a good thing, but no matter how Ruan Chen Heihu looks at it, these things are not normal.
In fact, these things can be connected in a different way. Everyone wants to be superior to others, and no one wants to be driven by others in vain. Ruan Chen Heihu issued an order to lead the army to fight, on the surface, it seemed to be for the benefit of the Yue people, but in private, everyone understood that it was a way for Ruan Chen Heihu to weaken other tribes. Quite simply, as long as the other tribes suffered huge losses in the war and suffered many casualties, then the tribe directly under the jurisdiction of Nguyen Chen Heihu would also leap to the top and become the most powerful force in the entire Yue Kingdom.
"The army of the Chu people is too strong. They're not what they used to be. Speaking of which, these changes only started slowly after the guy named Yang Tianhong took charge of Anzhou. But that's fine, as long as the other tribes are defeated on the side of the Chu people and a large number of troops are lost, it will be easy for me to send them over and swallow them. In this way, things will also develop in my favor!"
Regarding the defeat, Ruan Chen Heihu actually looked at it very lightly, and he also felt that he had such a reaction as a matter of course. After all, the most fundamental purpose of this war is to weaken the other tribes. To some extent, Ruan Chen Heihu even hoped that the Chu army would become stronger. If it is still like before, then it will take a lot of effort to achieve the goal.
Having said that, this small-scale contact battle still made Ruan Chen Heihu feel abnormal. The combat effectiveness of the Chu army is too strong, tens of thousands of lives against two heads, this kind of battle exchange is unjustifiable. It's just that Ruan Chen Heihu couldn't understand what was revealing weirdness, couldn't sort out the clues, and didn't understand why the Chu people were so powerful and powerful to such a shocking extent in just a few years.
The vanguard in front was attacked once, with slight losses...... Oh, the Yue warriors who fled in all directions when they were attacked fled back, so the losses were only close to 10,000, which is really not too much for the Yue barbarians with an army of millions.
In short, when the Yue army, which is large and powerful on his side, meets on the plain due south of Yuan County, no matter what different opinions the chiefs of the various tribes have, there is nothing to worry about at this point, only to work together to capture the common goal of Yuan County.
The million-strong army is certainly not boasting. It's just that the ability of the Vietnamese to control the army is really limited. Especially on a battlefield with complex terrain, it is simply impossible to command millions of people at the same time. Even when the weather was best and the vision was the widest, Nguyen Tran Heihu and the other chieftains of the leading tribe could only control hundreds of thousands of people at most. Ruan Chen Heihu had read a lot of books from the Chu people and learned some of the art of war that he thought was useful. In this way, as many as hundreds of thousands of Yue barbarians surrounded Sanque and 1, encircling the entire Yuan County from three directions. In just a few days, the follow-up Yue army is still gathering in ancient times, and the Yue people surrounding Yuan County have unconsciously increased by hundreds of thousands, and there seems to be a trend of more and more.
Ruan Chen Heihu should have launched a tentative attack a long time ago, but he found that people from other tribes had been gathering, and in the spirit of testing the loss of troops, the Yue people who were organizing other tribes planned to use those people from small tribes as cannon fodder, so the matter has been dragging on.
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According to Yang Tianhong's order, they took the initiative to act as bait, and Yang Sui and others, who were besieged in Yuan County, also became stunned when they saw that the outside of the city was densely packed with grass nests unique to the Yue people.
The walls of Yuanxian are extremely tall. Standing on the five-zhang high city wall, at a glance at the camp that stretches for more than ten miles, and then there are people walking everywhere, those people are the enemy troops who are waiting to pounce on them at any time to fight, I am afraid that no matter who sees such a scene, they will be a little frightened, right? Moreover, the camp of the Yue people does not look like a camp at all, and the city wall is not like a walled city, and the general who has a little military common sense about the distribution of troops will laugh when he sees it. But the problem is, I can't stand the quantity!
There are really too many Yue people.
"Like, the Yue people here seem to be ...... There are hundreds of thousands?" A Yang family general looked at the overwhelming Yue people camp outside, and after being stunned, he said.
The south of the Chu State, especially south of Anzhou, has always been a traditional gathering place for the Yue people. I don't know how many Yue people there are. These barbarians had not yet evolved into a civilization, and traditional family entertainment consisted of men and women getting together and assembling their body parts with each other. As a result, Vietnamese women are pregnant almost at any time. Despite the fact that the infant mortality rate remained high without any medical coverage, it was filled by the unrivalled manufacturing capacity of the Yue people. In short, the accumulation of large and small Yue tribes has never had an accurate population figure.
Yang Lin, who had just won a battle, smiled contemptuously: "There are many Yue barbarian tribes, and it is normal to have so many people. ”
Strictly speaking, among the Yue tribes, the tribes that pose a threat to the Chu State are actually under the command of Ruan Chen Heihu. They fought against the Chu State all the year round and captured a large number of Chu weapons and armor, and the Yue barbarians moved freely in the mountains and forests, so their combat effectiveness naturally doubled. However, except for this part of the Yue people, the rest of the Yue tribe social system is also very backward, but they still have some soldiers with metal weapons, and the Yue people of the rest of the tribes don't even wear linen clothes, and a random wooden stick is considered a weapon.
The officers standing at the head of Yuan County saw so many people outside the city, and their hearts were more or less frightened. Yang Sui saw it but nodded with great satisfaction: "According to the grandfather's previous prediction, the Yue barbarians who entered the Kou this time are between 300,000 and 500,000. I really didn't expect that the Yue people would have such courage and gather as many as a million people. Really good!"
The reason why Yuanxian County was built into a fortress was to rely on solid defense facilities to kill and injure the Yue barbarians to the greatest extent. This time, it is considered to have overfulfilled the task, Yang Sui is the happiest about this, the more people gathered, the greater his credit, as for whether Yuanxian will fall or something, the five-zhang high city wall, the rolling stone and wood that have been approved in advance, plus the officers with rich experience in defending the city, he really didn't think that Yuanxian would fall.
Speaking of which, the previous attack on the mountaintop granary where Ruan Chen Eyu was stationed was also Yang Sui's carelessness. That kind of place is originally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Ruan Chen Eyu is also quite capable, and he is also a very rare commander among the Yue people. In a hurry, Yang Sui suffered a big loss. However, being fooled for a lifetime is once in a lifetime, and there is never a reason to fail all the time.
Seriously speaking, the Yue people in the stage of the wild society at most built some ladders to climb the city, after all, the desolate social structure is there, the Yue people themselves have no ability to build cities, the battle between the tribes is nothing more than to break the camp, or the forest, the mountains are all over the ground, who has ever seen the Yue people can build siege equipment in addition to ladders? The Yue people themselves are very aware of this, and always take away a large number of Chu craftsmen in previous wars. However, this kind of thing is all in the past. Since Yang Tianhong entered Anzhou, it has never happened.
The officers saw that Yang Sui's face was full of joy, and they all came back to their senses. After thinking about it, it was really the same thing, the more barbarians were not good at attacking the city, so it seemed that it was really not difficult for them to stick to Yuan County for a month with sufficient grain and grass and sufficient equipment storage, and it seemed that the more people who committed, the greater the credit they would have when they were evaluated in the future.
"We don't have to be afraid. The last time we fought, three Vietnamese soldiers tried to stab a soldier to death with sharpened wooden sticks, but they were stabbed to death for a long time, but they were stabbed to death by the soldier with a sword. I watched from the sidelines, and it was just laughable. Hahahaha!"
Yang Lin said in an exaggerated tone that the reason why he was like this was also to ease the tension of his colleagues.
For a while, the generals of the Xuanhuo Army, who had been relaxed, burst into a burst of "hahahaha" laughter. If you take a closer look at the enemy troops outside the city, you can see that there are a lot of Yue people wearing animal skins or straw skirts, and the guys in their hands are really wooden sticks or something, and the laughter is even louder.
"Grandpa said that strategically we should despise our opponents and tactically value our enemies. Now that I think about it, my grandfather's words are very reasonable. ”
It is true that he should relax his nervous mood, but Yang Sui didn't want these generals to underestimate the enemy too much, so he looked left and right: "Tomorrow, the Yue people should come out and take the initiative to invite the battle." Who wants to go out and meet?"
Suddenly, none of the generals present were willing to be left behind, and the call for war did not stop for a moment.
Dealing with these poor ghosts and barbarians who don't even have clothes to wear is not easy to capture. Speaking of which, it was also the previous erosion of the government affairs of the Chu State, and even the weapons sent to Anzhou were not usable. Otherwise, where could these barbarians break through the prefectures and counties and wantonly kill the people of Chu indiscriminately? )