Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Three National Mourning
When carrying out penetration operations, brave generals need to take the lead, holding swords and acting as vanguards. However, as long as the left and right formations are organized, they will not be scattered or defeated by the enemy. The surrounding generals have also undergone rigorous training and have been trained in cruel and bloody battles. If you develop the habit of working closely together in combat, generally speaking, it will not be more dangerous than general soldiers.
The most dangerous thing is when the formations are scattered and engage in melee.
Generals wearing sophisticated armor are extremely eye-catching on the battlefield and are most likely to cause siege.
Once you are alone and surrounded by many enemy soldiers, no matter how strong you are, it is impossible to withstand the swords, halberds, spears and spears coming from all directions, and your physical strength will be exhausted in a very short time.
It’s not that Shen Zhene didn’t know the essence of the penetration tactic, and it’s not that he didn’t know the dangers of fighting a melee with a small number against a large number, but he still resolutely led more than a hundred elite troops to rush out from the side and the front immediately, with the purpose of delaying the cavalry. The speed of the southward thrust bought more precious time for the main troops of Qizi Mountain to assemble.
Shen Zhen'e's few troops were quickly swallowed up by the enemy. Not only did Shen Zhen'e die bravely in battle, but in the end only thirty of the hundreds of Chushan Jianrui survived the battlefield, and all of them suffered from multiple wounds. Chuangjianchuang.
Yuan Lei led his troops to enter the battlefield more slowly, and the casualties were much better, but more than 40% were killed and seriously disabled.
Yuan Lei himself also suffered many serious injuries.
The situation was urgent at that time, and the intercepting troops and horses were mainly captured by the rebels and Tianxiong Army. They lacked the experience of using loose walking formations to fight against the cavalry. Xu Wuqi and Chen Zixiao could only take the lead and engage in melee with the enemy. They were also injured in many places. .
Wang Hua led his elite bodyguards to follow Xu Wuqi and Chen Zixiao. However, he was killed by two arrows in the cheek during the fierce battle.
The captured soldiers of the Tianxiong Army showed a unique fighting spirit. They immediately rushed into the captive cavalry formation with their weak bodies. Almost the entire army of more than 600 soldiers was wiped out. Only then did Yang Qiye and several rebel armies form a formation. The tight formation gained valuable time and contained the enemy's advance.
In order for Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao, Yuan Lei and others to recover from their injuries, Wang Ju was left to sit in the Han army camp in Yunzhou in the afternoon, while Xu Huai personally came to Qizi Mountain to deploy subsequent defenses.
Of course, Xu Huai had no intention of gathering troops to attack Xinzhou.
Even if the city capitals such as Xindai are attacked, it will not be of much significance, but it will increase more unpredictable casualties.
Xu Huai was wrapped in a large cloak and sat on a cliff on the edge of Pinggang. He looked at the vast land covered with ice and snow and the valley to the east. He continued to drive more than a thousand hard laborers rescued from the Han army camp in Yunzhou to build temporary fortifications. In the south, firewood is being collected to prepare for the cremation of the generals who died bravely in battle, and then to bring their ashes back to Chu Mountain for burial.
Xiao Yanhan hugged her knees and sat next to Xu Huai. At this time, a low and melancholy singing came from deep in the sparse forest behind her. She couldn't hear it clearly and asked Xu Huai: "What are you singing?"
Xu Huaiqing listened for a while, then he took the bag-knife and its scabbard in time with the rhythm, gently tapped the round shield in front of his knees, and recited softly to Xiao Yanhan:
"... Wu Ge is trapped in rhinoceros armor, his chariot's hubs are misaligned, and he is caught in close combat; the sun is blocked, and the enemy is like a cloud, and his arrows are falling, and the soldiers are fighting for the lead; the formation is left behind, and there is no way to go, and the left side is wounded, and the right blade is wounded; There are two wheels of haze, and the four horses are supported, and the jade canopy is beating the drum; the weather is full of powerful spirits, and they are killing them all, so they abandon the original clothes; there is no way out, and there is no turning back, and the plain is suddenly too far, and the road is too far; with a long sword, Holding the bow of Qin, even if the head is separated, the heart will not punish; sincerity is both brave and martial, but ultimately strong and undefeatable; although the body is dead, the spirit is the spirit, and the son's soul is the ghost hero..."
After a while, Yan Xiaoyi dragged a cypress tree with branches out of the forest.
This cypress tree has long since died, and there are still burn marks on the tree from lightning strikes.
Niu Er looked over curiously and asked, "Why did you spend so much effort dragging this dead tree out of the forest by yourself?"
When Yan Xiaoyi saw Xu Huai, Xiao Yanhan also looked over, threw the dead tree on the ground, and said: "I have always had a close relationship with Zhen evil. I followed Wang Kong at the beginning. Wang Kong was exiled in Lanzhou. Zhen evil was grateful for his kindness, but also worried about him. A loyal person will be persecuted by traitors, so he invited me to come to Lanzhou with him. By chance, he would meet a military prince and follow him to serve in front of the tent. He often told me that life and death were ordinary things, and he was not married. If he could be buried in his parents' grave, Yingbian is a blessing. I have to fulfill this last wish for him! However, Zhenwei is from Qizhou, and I don’t know when we can wait until the mountains are peaceful and Zhenwei’s ashes can be sent back to Qizhou for burial!”
It is said that the bones of the sacrificed soldiers should be brought back to Chushan for burial as much as possible, but with so many soldiers sacrificed in the first battle, it is impossible to accumulate fuel and cremate them one by one. Dozens of corpses can only be cremated in the same batch, which will inevitably lead to confusion.
Yan Xiaoyi went to the forest to find a cypress tree that had died due to a lightning strike. He wanted to cremate Shen Zhen'e's body alone, and then take his remains back to Chushan...
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Mo Li suddenly endured the pain from the wound and stood motionless on the tower for a long time.
Xinzhou City is more than fifty miles away from Qizi Mountain, and he couldn't see a single hair in the distance.
Haishan climbed up the tower and said: "The southern bandits have no intention of sending troops north. It seems that Xinzhou doesn't need to worry too much!"
"Xu Huai's dog thief raided Taiyuan, and from beginning to end he coordinated the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians to evacuate to Guanshan. Of course he would not waste any effort to attack Xinzhou - if he attacked Xinzhou, could he hold on?" Mo Li suddenly said in anger, "Yin Chao That bitch is so timid and afraid of fighting that he is even worse than Cao Shixiong!"
In the early morning, they had a small group of troops arrive near the Han Army camp in Yunzhou. Although it was not large enough to interfere with the fierce fighting taking place in the Han Army camp in Yunzhou, it was enough to make Mo Lihu understand what happened yesterday. Most details of the night battle.
The fierce resistance from the Han army camp in Yunzhou under Li Chulin's command was beyond Mo Lihu's expectation, which made him particularly regretful and deplored.
If he had not taken any rest when he arrived at Liulin Gouzhai yesterday, but had led more than a thousand cavalry directly southward regardless of risk, the casualties might have been even more severe, but the Han army camp in Yunzhou might have been saved.
However, Yin Chao had a large number of troops and was close to the Han army's camp in Yunzhou, but he was timid and fearful of fighting. He was unable to reinforce the Han army's camp in Yunzhou, which made him resentful.
If Yin Chao could be more determined to send troops from both wings of Taiyuan City to rescue the Han army camp in Yunzhou, the situation of last night's battle would inevitably change, instead of asking Xu Huai to completely open up the channel for Taiyuan soldiers and civilians to evacuate into the Lingjingou Canyon.
Even if they gathered all the soldiers and horses from Xindai and other places now, they would only have more than 2,000 remaining soldiers, and it would be impossible to pose any threat to Xu Huai from the flanks.
Although he did not have to flee from Xinzhou in embarrassment now, he could only watch in Xinzhou City as one hundred thousand Taiyuan soldiers and civilians fled into the Luliang Mountains carrying a large amount of grain seized from the Han army camp in Yunzhou.
And he could also foresee that these 100,000 soldiers and civilians would cause them a lot of trouble in the future.
The Red Husbands rose up in the grasslands and conquered the east and west for more than forty years. It was not impossible that they had never encountered such cities and tribes that would never surrender even though they had run out of arrows and food and suffered heavy casualties.
Every time such a city or tribe is captured, the Red Army soldiers and horses will massacre and exterminate them.
On the one hand, it is to intimidate other forces who dare to resist the Chi Hu. On the other hand, the Chi Hu people also know that it is impossible for these people to surrender to the Chi Hu and give them a chance to breathe. The resistance they have gathered will be far away.
Much more shocking than ordinary hostile forces.
Therefore, it is even more important to cut off the roots and leave no grass behind.
Mo Lihu had not been leading the army for long, so he did not have a deep feeling about this point at first.
The interception they encountered at Qizi Mountain last night was not the main force of Chushan's troops.
From the array, armor, weapons, and combat effectiveness displayed by individual generals, Mo Lihu could determine that these soldiers should be soldiers and horses that Xu Huai recruited from local resistance forces after he entered Lanzhou or Taiyuan. Naturally, they were far away.
They were not elites by any means, but their fighting spirit to go on and on, risking their own lives, still frightened him at this moment.
One hundred thousand Taiyuan soldiers and civilians had been trapped in the city for a year and refused to surrender. Now Mo Lihu couldn't help but think about how many desperate men there would be among them, and how many red soldiers would be made to hate the battlefield in the future.
"If Marshal Muchi can listen to what you say, gather the troops and horses left behind, and go south through Yanmen Pass with all his strength, he will certainly make these southern thieves die without a burial place!"
At this time, Haishan had heard that the Du Yuanshuai Mansion had first learned that Chu Shanqi was planning to attack Taiyuan. Mo Lihu had advocated gathering Datong's remaining soldiers and horses to go south to reinforce Taiyuan, but in the end, Nayan Muchi, the deputy marshal who was in charge of the Du Yuanshuai Mansion, objected.
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Haishan was deeply regretful that he had failed to break through the interception of Qizi Shannan's army last night. He couldn't help but think that the situation of the battle might be different if Mo Lihu doubled the number of cavalry heading south.
"maybe,"
Mo Li suddenly said that he had no regrets in his heart, but he was deceiving himself, but he combed through his thoughts carefully, shook his head and said,
"Based on the situation at that time, the Marshal's decision was not wrong. We always need to make decisions based on confirmed information rather than speculation. Although this cannot completely avoid bad results or even completely avoid the traps deliberately set by the enemy, it can
At least we can avoid the worst outcome. Although the thief Xu Huai is cunning, he is definitely an enemy worthy of our attention. If we really want to mobilize the troops left behind in Datong to go south, how can we be sure that he will not gather the Chushan cavalry and go around to the north of Xinzhou at night?
Ambush us? He must have been preparing for the attack on Taiyuan for a long time. It is impossible not to pay close attention to the movements of the soldiers and horses left behind in Datong at all times..."
