Chapter 50: Veteran's Comment (Four Changes)
"Kill...... Kill ......"
Tuo Lei, who wanted to charge again, strangled the horse's reins hard, and as soon as he heard the sound of the horse's hooves, he knew that tens of thousands of enemy troops were killing on the opposite side.
"Warriors of the immortal world, the enemy is strong, let's go back to the camp."
The Mongol cavalry ordered them to go, without dragging their feet in the slightest.
When 3,000 against 7,000, they can charge fearlessly, and when they charge again at 3,000 against 30,000, they are not brave, they are fools.
Xiong Wei watched the enemy go away in a dashing manner, and the steel spear in his hand fell to the ground, like a dead wood, motionless.
Zhu Youjian didn't expect that with twice the advantage of the enemy, Xiong Wei would be defeated.
He was just worried about letting those 3,000 enemy troops escape.
Therefore, the army was divided into east and west, and slowly surrounded it.
When the army rushed to the battlefield, everyone was stunned.
The Mongols were gone, and less than 3,000 of Xiong Wei's 7,000 men were still alive.
The corpses of the Flying Dragon Army were all over the mountains, some with different heads, some with several arrows, some with missing limbs, and some with blurred flesh and blood trampled by horses' hooves.
"Is this an ambush by tens of thousands of enemy troops?"
Zhu Youjian was also shocked, and hurriedly rode his horse, jumped off the horse, and asked anxiously, "What happened?" ”
Xiong Wei was stunned and did not answer.
"How could so many people have died! Say! Zhu Youjian shouted.
Xiong Wei was startled, slowly turned his head, and saw Chongzhen in front of him, and he knelt down.
"Minister! Capital crime! ”
When the words fell, he pulled out the short blade on his waist and stabbed it towards his neck.
Zhu Youjian's eyes were fast, he kicked off the short blade, and raised his hand to give Xiong Wei a slap.
"Winning or losing is a common thing. How to look for death and life like a. Tell me, how many people have you been ambushed by? ”
Xiong Wei looked at the dagger on the ground, slowly knelt down, and kowtowed seriously.
"Back to the saint, I was not ambushed, but my skills were not as good as others, and my 7,000 people were killed by 3,000 people and were defeated. If it weren't for the Holy Lord leading the troops to come to the rescue, the whole army would have been wiped out! ”
"What!" Zhu Youjian was incredulous, "Sun Meng, roll over to me and tell me what's going on!" ”
"Back to ...... Returning to the saint, Commander Sun killed ......" a pawn whispered.
Zhu Youjian was dumbfounded, he knew that things were beyond his own cognition. Then he ordered to clean up the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle, and led Xiong Wei to the distance.
"Tell me more about what's going on?"
"Holy ...... The minister is incompetent. ”
"! Get down to business! ”
Xiong Wei saw that Chongzhen was really not ready to punish himself, he was full of shame and even more remorse, and in Zhu Youjian's serious eyes, he explained the battle in detail.
Zhu Youjian was afraid that there was an omission in what Xiong Wei said, so he found a number of generals and ordinary soldiers in a row, listened to them over and over again, and analyzed them carefully.
In the end, it was concluded that it was not a matter of tactics, or even of underestimating the enemy.
Fundamentally, it's not enough!
The combat power and experience of both sides are not of the same level at all.
It is impossible for the improvised cavalry to defeat these experienced and powerful Mongol soldiers, even if they have conducted so-called mutual disturbance training.
If Xiong Wei's personal martial arts weren't good, maybe he would have died on the battlefield like Sun Meng.
"Tian Shouxin, go to the Jinzhou military camp quickly, and let Wu Sangui transfer 10,000 elite cavalry. Our remaining 26,000 Wyvern troops, in the case of a frontal attack, will not be able to defeat the Mongols by the river! ”
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Jinzhou is only 40 miles away from the nearest place on the east bank of the Daling River, and the army can be reached in half a day by marching rapidly.
When Wu Sangui learned that a large army was passing by on the coastline, he vaguely guessed Chongzhen's intentions, but he didn't expect that he would let himself go to support today.
Could it be that Emperor Chongzhen is in trouble?
Regarding Xiong Wei's fiasco, Tian Shou kept his mouth shut, and in fact, on the way to follow Wu Sangui's army, he basically did not speak.
He understands the truth that if you say too much, you will lose.
Especially after knowing that the Jinyi Guard was placed in various armies, and there was even a Dragon Army who came from nowhere.
Tian Shouxin basically regarded himself as a mute.
When Wu Sangui arrived at Daling River, it was already noon.
At this time, although nearly 10 hours had passed, Zhu Youjian had not yet set up camp, and the soldiers took turns to rest, always maintaining a high degree of vigilance, and were always in a state of readiness for war.
Knowing that Wu Sangui had arrived, Zhu Youjian immediately ordered to summon him.
When Wu Sangui learned about it, he hurried to meet him.
"Does Wu Qing know the reality of the Mongolian camp?" Zhu Youjian got straight to the point.
"Inside the camp are the elite cavalry of the Karaqin Left Wing, the Horqin Division, and the Uliangha Division, and there should be 40,000 to 70,000 horses now." Wu Sangui replied.
"How many times have you fought them?"
Wu Sangui knew that Chongzhen wanted to understand the details, so he told the examples of the ambush on the left flank of Karaqin, the battle of 3,000 soldiers against Horqin, and the surprise attack of the Mongol cavalry at night.
Zhu Youjian listened silently and sighed in his heart, "Professional things still have to be done by professional people!" ”
"Good. Wu Qing is indeed the minister of the humerus. Now, I will hand over the 26,000 soldiers and horses here to Qing, who must make serious arrangements and strive to take the Mongolian camp by the river as soon as possible! ”
"Minister, obey!" Wu Sangui said loudly. Subsequently, the Ming army set up a large camp 2 miles away from the Mongolian military camp.
The two armies were thousands of kilometers apart, and they were within easy reach, and for a while, the swords were tense.
That night, Zhu Youjian inspected the barracks, checked carefully, and saw that the layout of the barracks and personnel arrangements were similar to what he imagined, and he somewhat regained some self-confidence.
After returning to the military tent, he pondered for a moment and ordered someone to summon Xiong Wei and Wu Sangui.
After the two entered the account, Zhu Youjian ordered Xiong Wei to tell the truth about today's defeat.
Wu Sangui couldn't believe it when he heard it. Chongzhen, who was like a god of war in his heart, actually made such a low-level mistake.
He pretended to be pensive, trying to form sentences in his head.
After a while, Wu Sangui said slowly: "The Holy Lord sent 7,000 men and horses to block the enemy, and then outflanked the extremely holy Ming in two ways.
However, the enemy is better at cavalry and shorter than fortification, strong in charge and weak in opposition.
And our army is longer than the military formation, shorter than the charge, strong in long-distance skills, weak in hand-to-hand combat.
Today, Ping Hubo is young and vigorous, and he did not analyze it seriously, but he used his own shortcomings to fight for the enemy's strengths, and it is not surprising that he suffered such a big defeat. ”
This remark picked up Chongzhen's mistakes cleanly, and blamed all the faults on Xiong Wei, which can be said to have said that there was a problem and praised the leader.
Xiong Wei suddenly realized that he was building a car behind closed doors, and he was a frog at the bottom of the well.
Thinking that if you win a few times in an ambush, you will be invincible in the world. I don't know the flexibility of the battlefield, and I don't know that there are people outside the sky.
Xiong Wei stood up and bowed deeply to Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui was worried that pointing out his mistakes so bluntly would cause Xiong Wei to be angry, but he didn't expect Xiong Wei to not only be annoyed, but also humbly accept it.
"The children can be taught!" Wu Sangui and Zhu Youjian both nodded secretly.
"According to what Wu Qing said, our army marched to 500 paces and shot at him with Chongzhen's crossbow, is it the best policy?"
"The Emperor Shengming!" Wu Sangui complimented.
Zhu Youjian's face twitched when he heard this.
It is said that it is difficult to stay away from sweet talkers! Wu Sangui is so obviously excused, such an obvious compliment, he is quite comfortable listening to it.
O sin, sin!
Fortunately, Zhu Youjian was thick-skinned, and he said loudly: "Okay! Immediately order the army to advance 500 steps to the enemy camp, take those rifles, and I will attack the enemy camp at night! ”
Wu Sangui was taken aback, Your Majesty, you are too anxious!
But there is no way, he is the emperor.
Wu Sangui had no choice but to hurry out of the camp with his guards to observe the terrain and explore the enemy's situation.