564. A snow before shame
The Zhou army's attack on the camp seemed to be a big fanfare, but in fact, it was less than an hour from the time they left the customs to the time they were defeated.
The fire in the Baili Company camp has gradually been extinguished, just like Ao Lie said, there is no camp tent that is not afraid of fire attack, but as long as you take more precautions, the fire attack is not very terrible.
And although it was deliberately luring the enemy, the generals of the merchant army also knew that grain and grass were the lifeblood of an army and could not be damaged.
This battle is even more morale-boosting, what rumors, the king of Xuan is seriously ill and is punished by heaven, and he is self-defeating.
Especially under the deliberate fanning of several merchant generals, the soldiers understood that everything was just a ploy, and they were even more surprised.
While the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, they would chat with their mouths, and their emotions would be transmitted through words, especially when there were many people, and the joy after the victory rendered the morale of the whole army at an unusually exaggerated speed.
The corpses of the Zhou army are all over the ground, one after another big victories, the soldiers will be excited, they will be excited, and they will involuntarily think towards the best place, although Lu Xiong was defeated, but the king of Zhou has repeatedly calculated and won, how can the Western Expedition lose!
You Ji Fa Son of Destiny, why don't you win?
As a result, the morale of the soldiers was high, and everyone was waiting to fight back and make meritorious contributions.
Anyone who has a little experience in leading troops knows that the military spirit is available.
Lu Xiong silently commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and guard the left and right of the camp to prevent the Zhou army from attacking the camp again.
Enhance the cohesion of the army.
No matter how wise and martial the king is, those who go to the battlefield to fight and wield their blades to kill the enemy are still the pawns below, and some of these pawns are from Lintong Pass, led by Yu Da, part of them are Yin's ruined guards and Li Lie's Imperial Forest Army, and some of them are the remnants of Bishui Pass led by Han Sheng and Han Bian, and the composition is extremely complicated.
He heard Lu Renjie say earlier that the king of Xuan used a strategy to establish the dominant position of Li Lie and Yin Rui, but this is only a matter between the generals, after having absolute command, the main general can say the same, but the soldiers below still need to cooperate in the battle.
How to make ordinary soldiers from different places, with different accents and low education level, become tacit and cohesive?
Of course, it is a war, a big victory, a big victory in the face of the enemy, nothing is easier than practice.
Especially after the first few days of eating, drinking, singing, dancing, and enjoying themselves, it is guaranteed that there will not be much friction between the soldiers at least, and it is easier to cooperate after a little battle.
In this way, after several battles, this mixed and matched soldiers and horses have enough cohesion, and now the morale is even higher, and the soldiers will work together, just waiting for the final counterattack.
But in a moment, Lu Xiong's garrison played a role, he did not take the initiative to pursue when the Zhou army was defeated and fled, and ordered to send a part of the soldiers and horses to be stationed in the west of the camp, and Nangong Shi happened to be unwilling to lose the soldiers and horses in vain, and after receiving Ji Fa, Lei Zhenzi and others, he sent a group of soldiers and horses to attack the camp.
He felt that the merchant army would relax his vigilance after a big victory, and take advantage of the merchant army to clean up the camp and return to attack the camp, even if he couldn't kill many enemies, he could set fire to it again, and let the merchant army chaos for a while.
After all, the Baili Company Battalion is too greedy, and it can be said that as long as the soldiers in the battalion are unprepared and are caught off guard and are set on fire, they will definitely suffer heavy losses.
It's a pity that he was calculated by Lu Xiong, the two are actually a level of generals, Lu Xiong's defeat does not mean that he is worse than Nangong, aside from the immortal means, his judgment of the current situation and the dispatch of soldiers can be called first-class in the world.
So, this army of soldiers and horses who want to look back is completely tragic, and can only become the big fat meat of Lu Xiong's department to wash away the defeat, Lu Xiong is not polite, and when this soldier and horse rushed to the front camp less than 100 meters, he found that he was surrounded by a black and oppressive merchant army, and he was setting up a formation, waiting for them quietly.
They wanted to escape, but unfortunately Lu Xiong's soldiers and horses stationed in the west had already cut off their retreat, one in front and one in the back, and the two troops and horses did not need the soldiers and horses in Ao Lie's hands to dispatch, and the two armies quickly surrounded them, and in the end, it was a merciless unilateral massacre.
The main force of Lu Xiong's Western Expedition was all defeated by Bishui Pass with him, and while his morale was low, he was also holding a bad breath in his heart.
To be honest, over the years, the Great Shang has been fighting for many years, and they have planted the worst in Bishui Pass, and the king of Zhou has to drive the expedition in person, and these soldiers who were born slaves in the west have not put their gratitude to the king of Zhou in the first place through a series of operations such as rapid marching and different soldiers, and now the first thing in their hearts is to make meritorious contributions to protect their families and defend the country.
Such a change in mentality made them regard that defeat as a great shame in their lives, even more miserable than being a slave before, and when they thought of their sworn songs proudly, they were not happy and did not return to the court, but they were beaten to the ground by the Zhou army, and they felt that there was an evil fire in their hearts.
And now, everything is cathartic.
Lu Xiong stared coldly at the battlefield and commanded his soldiers to unilaterally slaughter the Zhou army that attacked again.
The fate of these Zhou troops who attacked the camp for the second time was already doomed, but this was only the beginning.
Lu Xiong shook his head slightly, as the shouting and killing became smaller and smaller, he no longer paid attention to the battlefield, and his gaze slowly fell on the west, the direction where the Bishui Pass was located.
The death of these Zhou soldiers was Nangong Shi's mistake.
These days, the wild words under the pass are not only arrogant and arrogant to ordinary Zhou soldiers, generals like Nangong Shi, even if they see it, they will be more or less arrogant, after all, the situation is very good, and the mood is the most difficult thing to control.
Earlier, it was good to say that Nangong Shi could still use reason to suppress it, but he was forced to attack the camp and leave behind the lives of countless soldiers, which made him slightly panicked, coupled with the number one general in the world touted by the previous Yuedan review, as well as the brilliant record he personally defeated, he was anxious to correct his name and what he had to do to wash away this defeat, so he made such a wrong decision.
The more you do it, the more wrong it is, Nangong Shi is also a human being, if he is a human being, he will not be perfect, there will be mistakes, this is his mistake, and Lu Xiong accurately grasped this mistake, so the next step is naturally to go further.
The Zhou army had completely stopped screaming, this one-sided massacre had stopped, but the countless soldiers of the merchant army who had marched west were still frosty and frowning, which was not enough.
Each of them held the blade fiercely, not enough, not enough!
"Kill! The evil spirit in the old man's heart is not over yet! Come on, go to the camp to report to Your Majesty, according to Your Majesty's plan, you have won a lot, the morale of the Zhou army is newly defeated, there is an opportunity, our army can be used, spread the words of the old man, just say that the old man wants to take advantage of this good opportunity, lead the army to directly capture the Bishui Pass, go quickly!"
"Soldiers, follow the old man, go into battle to kill the enemy, shame before the snow!"