Chapter 472: Refusing to be a prisoner and guard
"The squadron leader has a personal soldier?" I can't even figure it out, the squadron leader with a personal soldier with such a strong force is the first time he has heard of it and seen it for the first time.
When the battle entered the final stage, Jiang City Lord arrived at the battlefield at the right time with 2,000 city defenders and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers, and took over the work of guarding the prisoners and cleaning up the battlefield reasonably.
The encounter in Wangguicheng can be said to be over, but the battle of Huashan County is not over, and all the guest troops have not been in Wangguicheng for a long time, and after a short rest, they will set off to support the main battlefield, so the prisoners and most of the battlefield captures must be handed over to the local army to deal with. The key is that the Meng Ninth Army robbed a lot of people's property, and the capture of the Meng army's prisoners was considerable. The method is actually very simple, just find some people to pretend to be the owner of the property.
A somewhat tense and fierce encounter came to an end, and the Shaodian army won a great victory, counting more than 40,000 troops in Wangguicheng, defeating the right flank of Meng's Ninth Army with 30,000 regular troops, capturing a division commander, several magicians, and a staff officer accompanying the army, capturing more than 6,000 soldiers and killing more than 10,000 enemy soldiers. Such a result was ranked first in the Nannuma Prefecture Theater, and it was a battle that was more exciting for the army in the recently opened war.
As the commander of the entire campaign, it is the supreme commander who single-handedly planned and arranged the battle, and it is the credit won by the supreme commander; the second is Miao He, as the commander of the war, no one will be responsible for him to pick up this merit for nothing, not to mention that many of his decisions are remarkable; and then there are the commanders of the divisions and regiments who participated in the battle, and the decisions made by each of them are related to this result, and no one questions the name in the front of the merit book.
Xue Chong's credit was second only to that of the division commanders, first he ambushed the enemy in the only way with great foresight, then discovered the enemy in time and arranged for his subordinate Ding Kui to play the military might of the 21st Army, and then attracted the enemy's right wing to return to the city, and then attracted the entire enemy's right flank to come, delayed the reconnaissance of the enemy reinforcements at the critical moment, and finally led his subordinates to capture the commander of the enemy division.
Following Xue Chong, there was a transgressor, Squadron Leader Ding Kui, who led the team to break five hundred with one hundred, and bravely entered the enemy camp alone, properly protecting the safety of the main general, and the most important thing was that he alone captured the commander of the Meng 85th Division, the commander of the right wing of the Meng army.
Because all the merits made by the pro-soldiers will be counted on the head of the main general, then the name Ding Yu does not appear in the merit book, and at the same time, he is not counted as a person in a unit. Ao Yu learned about it afterwards, but he didn't mind at all, if you treat him as a person, he will be unhappy.
Ding Kui's gorgeous achievements sealed the mouths of the captains of all the participating troops.
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You can do it, you go!
Except for "properly protecting the safety of the main general", there is no other record that those captains dare to pat their chests and say, "I can do this", courage is still secondary, and the main thing is strength, just a fearless knight really no one dares to face it head-on.
Meng's Ninth Army suffered heavy losses this time, with only 2,000 men from the 85th Division, more than 1,000 from the 86th Division, and scattered deserters who ran back to Xiahangguan, adding a total of more than 4,000 people fleeing the battlefield. The right flank of a 30,000-strong corps was almost completely wiped out, and less than one-sixth of the original number fled back to the base camp, which was a real rout.
This time out of Huashan County, the Ninth Army of Meng dispatched a total of more than 94,000 people, and the battle of Wangguicheng was reduced by more than a quarter, so if you go back like this, Hong Jin will be ordered to stop fighting and recuperate, and the main force of the Ninth Army is still staying in the boundary of Huashan County.
The 196th Division and the 12th Division on the ground had their horses and cavalry replenished food and water after the battle, and within half an hour, Tang Fu ordered to rush to pursue the main force of Meng's Ninth Army, when it was already dusk.
Miao He did not immediately set off with the cavalry because he and Xuanyuan Feng's subordinates had already consumed too much physical strength, but he promised Tang Fu that once the rest was over, even if he hurried overnight, he would lead his troops to assist in attacking the enemy's main force.
The state of the 19th and 20th divisions was indeed unsuitable for forced march, and after taking out the enemy's right flank, the Shaodian Army had an advantage in strength in the battle, but there was no shortage of 10,000 or 20,000 troops with a slow marching speed.
Xue Chong originally received a new military order to assist Wangguicheng to guard the prisoners, in addition to not wanting this foreign detachment to continue to be in the limelight, Miao He was also unwilling to let Ding Kui join the new war, and Ding Kui could not make much achievements in the legion-level war, so he still ensured Ding Kui's safety and properness.
However, this new military order has been opposed by his subordinates, they are cavalry, and they are to show their strength in the pursuit battle. The Shaodian army has nearly 50,000 cavalry in pursuit of the enemy, and the total enemy army is only about 60,000.
"Team Xue, we are running fast, who is more suitable than us to pursue the enemy? Think about it, we have just won a big victory in the pursuit battle, and the morale of the brothers below is high, even if we don't participate in the action of the main force, it is better to drink soup with the secondary attack troops. "The most positive one is, of course, Ding Kui.
Staying to guard the prisoners, Ding Kui is not willing to do this kind of work, he is followed by Ao Yu, he is not worried about what danger he has in a large-scale battle, his own troops account for the majority, and the enemy has no intention of fighting in Huashan County, such a battle is worth fighting.
Xue Chong thought over and over again, feeling that he couldn't be so cowardly, his former comrades were fighting at the front, and he stayed in the rear to guard the prisoners, and he would be laughed at when he met his old comrades-in-arms in the future. After that, he said to this Miao He with a dead face: "General Miao, people have helped us once, we can't watch other people's vicious battles and stand by and watch." Your department lacks cavalry, and the cavalry casualties of the 12th Division are too great, if you don't let us fight, you won't be able to play a role in the big battle in the future, so you will owe others a favor. ”
"Joke, you are sarcastic, there is no one under the command of the general, you go outside and ask the more than 10,000 men, can they work?" Miao He has seen the ruffian, and he doesn't eat Xue Chong's set.
"Hehe, don't dare, how dare you be humble! Actually, let us fight, plus the remaining cavalry of the 12th Division, and finally run to the edge of the main battlefield to shout and cheer, it's better than not seeing our figures. Xue Chong hurriedly changed his routine.
"Well, there's a bit of truth to that, let me think about it. Miao He was a little moved.