Chapter 61: Take the initiative
I think so, but Yun Yi knows that it is impossible to completely annihilate the enemy army, at most it will be a heavy loss.
Now Hasegawa is dead, and his own side is a surprise night attack on the enemy camp, and soon broke through the enemy's front camp, and the soldiers on both sides collided head-on, fighting each other.
Because the fire in the enemy camp spread into patches, the two sides could easily distinguish between the enemy and the enemy by the light of the fire, and they had no scruples about fighting back and forth.
Different from the war of the Han people in Middle-earth, the Japanese did not directly take the enemy's vital points in the war, not because they did not want to, but the vital parts were mostly covered by rattan armor, and the stone spears could not penetrate at all, so the stone spears were mostly stabbed in the legs, and the throat was stabbed when the enemy fell, so that it was not easy to be dodged by the enemy.
The battle couldn't end for a while, Yun Yi didn't look down again, but turned his head to look at the crane. Although the crane was unconscious, the holes in its wings still made its body tremble.
"How's it going?" Asuka asked.
"Fortunately, when the war is over, ask someone to carry it back, and I will heal it then. After Yun Yi finished speaking, he sat down cross-legged and went out to sea to run Zhou Tian.
Although he could hear the earth-shattering shouts of the enemy and me for several miles, this did not affect his concentration, and after the aura circulated many times, Yun Yi felt that the pain in his left foot had eased a lot, so he stopped his qi and got up to look at the enemy camp.
As he had thought before, he did not call the morale of the army high, and soon after rushing into the enemy camp, he killed the enemy position, but the enemy had the advantage of numbers, and immediately began to counterattack after coming to his senses, and the counterattack was very fierce, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
"You wait for me here, I'll help. Seeing that his soldiers could not attack for a long time, Yun Yi flashed and swept towards the enemy camp, and when he moved forward, Yun Yi could still feel a slight pain in his left foot, but the impact was not very great.
Entering the enemy camp, Yun Yi grabbed a stone spear from the hands of a dead corpse and rushed straight towards the enemy, but the soldiers on both sides were in a scuffle at this time, the scene was very chaotic, and the stone spear was a little unwieldy, Yun Yi simply abandoned the stone spear and fought the enemy with fists and feet.
Without the drag of the flying birds, chasing the stars and the moon exerted its due speed, and the five qi capture dragons also had a place to use, Yun Yi shifted from time to time in the crowd, and every time he passed by the body of an enemy, he would break the neck of the opponent, killing more than ten enemies in an instant.
Yun Yi became more and more courageous the more he fought, and soon attracted the attention of the soldiers on both sides, and the morale of the soldiers on both sides cheered and rose again. The Evil Horse Taiwan Army was frightened and retreated in panic.
The more the enemy retreated, the tighter the pursuit became, and the enemy was killed so that he retreated from the front camp to the rear camp, and finally fled.
Seeing that the enemy fled, Yun Yi pursued and killed those backward enemies, and did not call for the army to follow behind, and chased twenty or thirty miles to the north, Yun Yi killed more than 100 enemies, and saw that there was a dense forest further north, so he did not chase again.
Bu Hu Jun has not been killed, but seeing that Yun Yi has no intention of chasing it again, he does not dare to chase it anymore.
Yun Yi collected his troops and returned, picked up the bird on the way, and ordered someone to make a stretcher to carry the crane back to the city. Asuka Yuan ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up and the casualties of the enemy and the enemy to be counted.
The army returned to the city first, and Yun Yi went to the mountains and forests dozens of miles east of the city, picked some herbs to stop bleeding and build muscles, and it was already late to return to the city.
The soldiers were very tired after the battle, and everyone slept except for the sentry and the night watchman.
Yun Yi arrived outside the handsome tent, saw that there was still light in the tent, knew that Flying Bird Yuan was still waiting for him, opened the curtain and entered, and saw Flying Bird Yuan resting at the desk. The curtain was not tight, and the occasional breeze blew in, and the flame on the candle flickered from time to time.
The crane was also in the tent, it had woken up at this time, and when it saw Yun Yi returning, it looked up at him, and there was a lot of grievance in its eyes.
Seeing that the bird was sleeping soundly, Yun Yi didn't wake her up, walked to the crane and squatted down and touched its head, then broke the arrow on its right wing and pulled out the shaft of the arrow.
The crane screamed in pain, waking up the bird.
Seeing that Yun Yi was treating the wounds of the crane, Asuka Yuan hurriedly got up and said, "I'll ask someone to fetch the wine." ”
Yun Yi nodded in response, and Asuka Yuan immediately called the night patrol soldiers to fetch the wine, Yun Yi took the wine to wash the wound of the crane, during which the crane trembled in pain, and Yun Yi stroked its head from time to time to soothe its emotions.
Chewing the herbs picked from the mountains and dressing the wounds of the crane, Yun Yi sat down at the table and poured water with a pot: "Has the battlefield been cleaned?"
"We are cleaning up, and I already know the casualties of the enemy and us, and the enemy has killed more than 2,000 people, and more than 3,000 have been wounded and captured. Eight hundred of our troops were killed and two thousand wounded. "Asuka is not very emotional.
Yun Yi nodded when he heard this, although the enemy army was repelled in this battle, the enemy's casualties were not serious, and the casualties of his own five thousand soldiers were nearly three thousand, and only two thousand people remained.
"What about the 3,000 prisoners of war?" Asuka asked.
Yun Yi didn't know how to answer this question, because he didn't know much about military affairs, so he asked rhetorically: "How did you deal with it before?"
Hearing this, Asuka Yuan groaned slightly, and said after a while: "Kill them all." ”
"Kill them all?" Yun Yi asked in amazement.
"None of their relatives are here, and even if they are surrendered, they are not faithful, and we do not have much food to feed them. Asuka said.
Yun Yi frowned slightly: "It's too bloody to kill them, let them go back." ”
"Let the tiger return to the mountain, and there will be endless troubles. Asuka said with a frown.
Yun Yi shook his head resolutely, those are three thousand living people, men are the pillars of a family, if these three thousand people are killed, the three thousand families behind them will also be shattered.
If they were killed on the battlefield, it would be no wonder, but they were a bunch of unarmed captives.
"And what do you want to do?" Asuka looked up at him.
After pondering for a long time, Yun Yi made a decision: "Let them go." ”
"Released?" Asuka said with both surprise and dissatisfaction.
"Let it go. Yun Yi nodded heavily.
"Have you ever thought about the consequences of letting them go?" Asuka stood upright, staring at him with fixed eyes.
"I thought about it. Yun Yi said.
"Knowing that you are still doing this, I invited you to help us retreat from the enemy, not to let you gamble with your net worth and life. Asuka Yuan was extremely angry, and his tone was very serious.
"I take the consequences of the decisions I make. Yun Yi raised his glass to drink water, and turned his head to look at the crane.
The crane's condition improved slightly at this time, and it turned its head to look at the two of them, its mind was higher than that of ordinary aliens, and the sudden dispute between the two made it very puzzled.
"Whatever you want!" Asuka agreed angrily and flicked his sleeves out of the tent.
After Asuka Yuan left, Yun Yi poured another glass of water, he knew very well what the consequences would be if he let go of the three thousand prisoners of war, but he couldn't kill those unarmed people, and it was three thousand.
Although he knew that his decision was very willful, he did not dwell on it, calmed down and began to think about the future battle.
Hasegawa is dead, the enemy army has just suffered a defeat, and it will die down in a short time, but they will certainly not drag on for too long, Hasegawa has a lot of generals, and there will be someone to replace him, and when they regroup, they will inevitably make a comeback.
In addition to the 5,000 garrisons in this city, there are 5,000 sergeants scattered in the other two cities.
In the previous battle, there was little wound to the enemy, and the non-Hu army suffered heavy casualties, and now there are only about 2,000 people left who can continue to go to the battlefield, and the enemy will not be able to deal with it at all, unless the 5,000 people in the other two places are recalled to narrow the gap between the enemy and our forces, and there is still the possibility of fighting with one.
However, this move was not without loopholes, and if the enemy Tanma learned that he had concentrated his forces in one place, he would probably divide his troops into two routes south, so that the city would be saved, but the other two would have fallen.
Because he hadn't closed his eyes all night, Yun Yi felt a little tired, and he couldn't think of a follow-up strategy against the enemy, so he didn't think about it, and went to the back tent to rest.
In the afternoon, Yun Yi was woken up by the sound of ticking, Yun Yi got up and went out of the tent when he heard the sound, only to see dark clouds over the city and heavy rain.
Although the dark clouds are thick, there are no black clouds in the east of the city for dozens of miles, this is a shower, Yun Yi didn't think much about it, and went into the account to check the injury of the crane. The crane's injury was not serious, but it affected flight, and the arrow hole with the thickness of the little finger was difficult to heal in ten days and half a month.
At this moment, Asuka Yuan came in with a plate of brown rice cakes, and the Japanese did not have an umbrella, but she came in with a hide on her back.
After Asuka Yuan entered the tent, he saw that he was changing the medicine for the crane, put down the brown rice cakes, and poured him a glass of water with a pot: "Come and eat something." ”
Yun Yi nodded, Asuka Yuan had a disagreement with him in the morning about disposing of prisoners of war, and the two had a very unhappy quarrel, and at this time she took the initiative to send food just to ease the relationship, after all, the war is not over yet.
"What are you going to do next?" Asuka Yuan took the initiative to take a piece of rice cracker and give it to him.
"I'm thinking. Yun Yi hesitated for a moment and took the rice crackers.
Asuka Yuan nodded when he heard this, and instead moved the water on the table and turned over the table.
Yun Yi was a little puzzled, but when she turned over the table, she immediately understood her intentions, and there was a map carved under the table. The Japanese did not make pen, ink and paper, and the maps were drawn with charcoal, so they could only make do with them.
"This is where we are now," Asuka Rim pointed to an origin on the topographic map, and then to the six origins to the north, "These are the six cities we lost." ”
"Where are our other 5,000 sergeants?" Yun Yi asked.
Asuka didn't answer, and pointed to two locations on the topographic map. Seeing this, Yun Yi nodded slightly, these two places are in the closest cities on the east and west sides of the city where they are currently located, and they are not far away, and it is not time-consuming to transfer troops.
"I sent a scout horse to investigate, and the main force of the enemy army that retreated back last night is in Liuya City. "Asuka Yuan pointed to the southernmost of the six cities that had been lost in the country.
After looking at the map, Yun Yi flipped over the table: "Hasegawa has just died, the enemy army will not come again until a new commander is elected, but they will not give up, once the internal stability will come again, the enemy is outnumbered, it will be difficult for us to win again," said here with a slight pause: "I want to gather the armies of the other two roads and take the initiative to start a war." ”
"Isn't it too presumptuous?" Asuka was slightly stunned.
"If the enemy army comes again, we can't hold it with this little force alone, if we concentrate the three-way army, we will have the strength to fight with the enemy, but then we will lose the defense line of the east and west, and the enemy may bypass the middle army and go south in two ways, and then we will also divide our troops to rush to help, and the gains outweigh the losses. Yun Yi shook his head: "Instead of sitting and waiting, it's better to take the initiative." ”