Chapter 782: Disgust in the bones
"The general doesn't need to be angry, the official said before, the dragon army is extremely difficult to deal with, you don't believe it, now it's okay, all the people sent are dead." I don't think it's better to go out of the city, it's better to hurry up and urge to send reinforcements, otherwise the next time the dragon army comes to the city, I'm afraid that Mingzhou City will not be able to defend it, and then we will all be worried about our lives. Yuan Ding is very calm.
Anyway, it was the Japanese soldiers who died this time, not their Goryeo army. Besides, after this battle, the Japanese soldiers suffered huge losses, and they must be very angry.
In this way, fighting with the Dragon Army is not only Fusang helping Goryeo fight, but also a way to seek revenge against the Dragon Army, wouldn't they be a lot more attentive?
Yuan Ding has his own little Jiujiu, and now it seems that he is right to bet. In the face of his calmness, although Tatsuo Terada was angry in his heart, he still had to seek reinforcements from home as he said.
He was a little greedy for life and afraid of death for the Goryeo army, and he didn't save him when he saw death. But what he hated even more was the Dragon Army, and he dared to kill them three thousand warriors of Fusang, so he had to pay compensation for this.
Tatsuo Terada, who was snorting, turned around and left, and then went to write a letter asking for help, truthfully reporting what happened here, and asking the country to speed up the dispatch of reinforcements.
At the same time, twenty miles outside the city, Hu Yanqing ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, and after collecting the corpses of his comrades, he dug a pit at random to bury more than 2,000 Japanese robbers, and he returned with the army.
Su Shi had already come to the First Brigade of the People's Army at this time, and listened to the report of Hu Yanqing, who had just returned from the temporary brigade headquarters, on the battle situation.
In the military tent, Hu Yanqing made a self-examination. In the eyes of many people, this expedition did not achieve the expected goal, did not complete the task of inflicting heavy damage on the enemy, and only killed 2,200 enemies and captured 800 enemies.
But there were also a lot of casualties. More than 400 peasant soldiers were killed and 600 wounded; Even if there were 100 regular soldiers, three people were killed and more than ten were wounded.
With five thousand against three thousand, the losses were still so great, this seemed to be the most defeated battle fought by the Dragon Army since its establishment.
In this way, not only Hu Yanqing, but also the brigade commander Mu Huan also stood with him throughout the meeting, doing a review.
"What are you doing? Sit down. After listening to Hu Yanqing's report on the course of the war, Su Shi's eyes swept over the chief and deputy brigade commander, and waved his hand very casually.
Su Shi's generosity, but let Mu Huan and Hu Yanqing stand there and didn't know what to do, or Ji Zhu, the deputy minister of the military department who came with him, opened his mouth and said: "The king of heaven said to let you sit, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”
"Don't dare, don't dare." The two of them hurriedly searched for their place and sat down. After everyone was seated, Su Shi said unhurriedly: "This king said before, the fierceness of the Japanese is not afraid of death. But some people obviously just didn't listen. Now that I've suffered a loss, I'm starting to face up to this problem? As soon as Su Shi said this, all the people in the military tent, including Ji Zhu, hurriedly lowered their heads in shame.
Su Shi did say before that it was not easy to deal with the Japanese robbers. But few people really heard it in their hearts. Without it, it's really impossible to pay attention to the appearance of the widows.
They are short in stature, and they are all foot soldiers, and even many of them don't even have cloth armor, how can such an army compare with the soldiers of Liao, Mongolia, and Western Xia.
Valuing them, impossible things. Even if Su Shi said this, everyone didn't care.
But now, when the facts are happening right in front of their eyes, everyone knows that they are wrong. In this regard, Su Shi did not mean to blame too much, he knew that the reason why everyone did not pay attention to it was nothing more than that the recent wars were too smooth, which made some people get carried away.
There is also the fact that the dragon army is well-equipped and relatively well-trained, and after a long time, it will naturally give birth to contempt.
To say that the army is not going well in the war is naturally not a good thing, but in a certain way it cannot be said that it is all bad.
For example, this time when things didn't go well, Su Shi could just take the opportunity to do the ideological work of the whole army, unify everyone's thinking, and beat some proud people.
In the past, it was obviously not feasible to hold such a meeting, and no one would pay attention to it, but now, with enough examples, Su Shi is doing such a thing, and others can only cooperate, and they will accept it humbly.
"Vice Minister Ji should remember that Mu Huan and Hu Yanqing were careless, so that the war did not go well, and they were each fined for half a year."
"The whole army should take this as a warning, and all brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies should be notified of this incident by platoons, and at the same time, every squad leader and above, and every soldier should write down their experience, so that everyone should face up to this problem."
"In addition, the whole army was notified to start military training, and there was only one subject for training, the kite flying tactics of the cavalry. We must learn how to use our speed and bow and arrow advantage to inflict heavy damage on the enemy with minimal casualties. Su Shi said a lot of questions in a row, and Ji Zhu's book was full of several pages.
It was precisely after this meeting that when the dragon army faced the Japanese in the future, its tactics were more flexible and maneuverable, avoiding another loss, and at the same time, it could also achieve a better effect of inflicting heavy damage on the enemy.
At the end of the meeting, Su Shi also affirmed the significance of this battle. Although it only destroyed 3,000 enemies, it successfully accelerated the speed of the Japanese Kou to send reinforcements and achieved the pre-war goal.
In the end, Su Shi decided in a word,
"The 800 Japanese prisoners who were captured have all become second-class criminals, and they will be sent to the criminal camp to dig mountains and open the way." Second-degree crimes, which have not been seen before.
It is generally a first-class sin, and as long as such a person is willing to work hard and perform well, he can become a good person through performance in three to five years.
But if you enter the second-class crime, unless you have great merit, it is generally difficult to turn over one day. From this point, it can also be seen that Su Shi is disgusted from the bottom of his bones for the Japanese and the people of Fusang, and he will treat them as ruthlessly as he does.
...... When the whole army of the dragon army was in motion, and the meeting and training were not delayed, Tatsuo Terada's letter of request for help also crossed the sea to the palace of the king of Fuso country.
Emperor Sanjo frowned after reading this report for help. At this time, the country of Fuso had just experienced a civil strife not long ago, and in order to calm the civil strife, domestic wars were fought for more than ten years, the population withered, and the national strength weakened.
It is said that at this time, it is not necessary to provoke a foreign war. It's just that after these years of war, Fuso is really poor, and in order to be able to restore its national strength as soon as possible, it has to think about foreign wars and use war methods to strengthen itself.
That is, not long after Emperor Sanjo had this idea, Li Tang came over and proposed to marry his princess Xiu and Caikako, and then the two sides joined forces to march into Zhao and Song.
Zhao Song is located in the Central Plains and occupies the richest place in the world, which once made Dongying very envious, and at the same time, it also gave them a sense of inferiority.
This is like an ugly child who sees Bai Fumei, and he will be born with a heart of shame. Suddenly, let them attack the Great Song Dynasty, and Emperor Sanjo really didn't have much confidence.
However, Li Bo, the lord of Li Tang, has a three-inch tongue, and insists that he has moved the three emperors, saying that he has been preparing for a long time, as long as Fusang nods and supports, he can go out of the southern land of the Great Song Dynasty and occupy a place there to slow down the great cause.
Considering that he was just marrying a daughter, and on the surface, he would be able to obtain more benefits in the future, and Emperor Sanjo, who had always had the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women, agreed.
Facts have also proved that this step is the right one. Li Bo did not lie, after marrying the princess of Fusang, he went out of the southern Song Dynasty under the banner of Fusang's support for him, and really let them occupy the extremely wealthy Suzhou.
And during this period of time, his three emperors have also continuously received dozens of ships of benefits from Li Bo transported by sea.
There were silk, grain, and some ironware that Fuso urgently needed. After receiving these benefits, Emperor Sanjo also made up his mind to continue to support Li Bo, and began to send troops to the southern land of the Great Song Dynasty to strive for more benefits.
As soon as the resolution was completed, before it could be implemented, an envoy from the Goryeo Kingdom came, asking Fusang to send reinforcements to save the country, and also sent a lot of gold, silver, and high-grade ginseng.
At this moment, Emperor Sanjo was not in a hurry to send troops to support Li Bo, what he needed to do was to make a choice before Goryeo and Li Tang.
After all, with the current strength of Fusang Country, it is still far from being able to fight on two fronts. After thinking about it, because of receiving so many benefits from Goryeo, Emperor Sanjo sent 5,000 ronins to Goryeo, wanting to explore the situation over there first.
Well, now that the results are out, the ronin has been defeated, which is a bit of a surprise to Emperor Sanjo.
Although Fusang is poor, the people are strong, perhaps because of the limited resources and the fear of poverty, the people here are not afraid of death, and there are not too many people who take death seriously.
And often the more such people, the combat effectiveness is violent, because they have nothing to lose, they will have a lot less fetters, and on the battlefield, they will perform with all their might.
Because of his understanding of this character of the countrymen, Emperor Sanjo always believed that the soldiers of Fuso Province should have the strongest fighting power and fighting will.
But even so, he was defeated, which made him angry with the Dragon Heavenly King. was able to defeat his own ronin army, this Dragon King should still have some strength.
But it's just some strength, after all, this battle is 3,000 infantry against 5,000 cavalry, and it's normal to lose.
But defeat is defeat, Emperor Sanjo felt that he had lost face, and looking at the urgent report in front of him, what he was thinking about was how to win this face back.
Send reinforcements and teach the dragon army in the hands of this dragon king a lesson. Emperor Sanjo was not willing to fail, so he made this decision.
Or it can also be said that he had already made a decision, and the king of Goryeo had given him a lot of silver money before, and he had promised the other party to send reinforcements, but this time the incident only accelerated the speed of reinforcements.