Chapter 435 Surrender without killing, treat prisoners preferentially
Xu Xun fainted from excitement. But the leading military officer of Dongjiang County was still standing on the city wall, dumbfounded alone while the whole city cheered.
He was not one of those new recruits who had never seen a battle formation or an ordinary citizen who knew nothing. He could see clearly that Zhu Biao's men only had five or six thousand riders at most, while the Zhongshan Army outside the city had five or six thousand people.
It’s really not easy to win so easily and comfortably! It’s not easy!
At this time, outside the city, the battlefield was full of piles of corpses, with broken limbs and broken arms scattered all over the ground. In some places, corpses were piled on top of each other, and the ground was covered with blood and meat. There was also a smell of blood.
There were groans and cries.
At this time, outside the city, Luo Longguang led 5,000 soldiers and rearguards to retreat. The remaining 30,000 people fled in embarrassment or surrendered on their knees. The 5,000 Han cavalry were shouting from time to time: "Surrender without killing, treat prisoners well."
A man's two legs could not outrun a horse's four legs, and the Zhongshan soldiers who could not escape had to surrender one after another.
The leading captain looked at the great victory of the Han army in the city and admired the leading general to the extreme. "Congratulations..., he should be the champion general, right?" The tone was questioning, but the tone was indeed affirmative. "You are truly worthy of me.
The champion general of the Han Dynasty is the bravest and wisest of the entire army!"
The soldiers below, who were defending the city and were young and strong, narrowly escaped death, and their gratitude to Zhu Biao in the cheers was beyond words.
Half an hour later, the entire battlefield gradually fell silent. There was no longer fierce resistance and fighting. Looking from the top of the city, most of the Zhongshan troops had either fled or surrendered.
There seemed to be 15,000 to 15,000 surrendered troops. Zhu Biao only sent Zhu Tong and more than a thousand cavalry to guard them. He always led the main force to guard the Zhongshan Army camp.
There were five or six thousand remaining troops there, as well as the more than one thousand wounded soldiers who attacked the city yesterday and this morning, plus the less than 10,000 Luo Longguang withdrew, and the five or six thousand and twenty thousand who finally rushed back in embarrassment, the strength was absolutely incredible.
Not to be underestimated!
The gates of Dongjiang City were opened, and a few three hundred soldiers and government servants from the county and government came to arrest the head. Behind them were a large group of young men from the city, as many as three to four thousand people.
After the leading captain met Zhu Tong, he was pressed down by more than a thousand elite cavalry. The fifteen to six thousand Zhongshan Army soldiers who had lost their weapons were stripped of their armor and tied up with ropes one by one.
A group of ten, one hundred and one hundred people were escorted back to the city.
Iron armor, weapons, and some of the young men pushing carts and even carrying poles with big smiles. Like ants moving, everyone who did not pull them moved back to the city. There were also those who cleaned the battlefield. Every one of the more than 10,000 Zhongshan Army soldiers who died
Those who were stripped of their armor and helmets, and those who were not dead, were taken out and put aside. Thousands of young men were led by the arresters and county soldiers, and they worked very seriously.
We continued to work until the sun turned west in the afternoon. The twenty Thunderbolt vehicles and the matching kerosene and stone bullets were all brought back to the city. Only then did people gradually disappear on this battlefield that stretched for ten miles.
One hundred seriously injured Zhongshan soldiers were carried by Zhu Biao to the front of Luo Longguang's camp, which was close to the Dongjiang River. The men and horses retreated to the direction of Dongjiang County. Luo Longguang, who did not dare to make any more mistakes, opened the camp gate and kept these screams coming.
The seriously wounded were carried into the camp.
Luo Longguang looked at the retreating Han cavalry. He cursed fiercely in his heart, because Zhu Biao brought No. 100 men to the camp, not out of true kindness, but purely to suppress the morale of his own army.
It is difficult to treat seriously wounded soldiers, but if they do not save them, how can the soldiers dare to fight to the death?
The real rule on the battlefield is - when you encounter someone who is seriously injured, kill them immediately and kill them one by one to save them from suffering more.
Even if you feel pity, the medical conditions are simply not good enough. This time-space medical technique that follows the theoretical line of traditional Chinese medicine. Although China has made great progress by leaps and bounds compared to ancient China on earth, measures such as disembowelment and other surgical development trends,
Many famous doctors and military doctors will do it. But there is no immediate effect of direct blood transfusion. Special medicine, especially blood transfusion, will not come out even after bandaging the wound. These seriously injured soldiers can only be dealt with in this way.
However, Zhu Biao carried people to the front of the camp. The wounded shouted hysterically, causing the already low morale of the Zhongshan Army to drop again at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After nearly a year apart, Mu Xuehua and Yin Qiuyue returned to this familiar sect again.
"Eh? Isn't this Mu Xuehua and Yin Qiuyue?"
The two of them were the new generation stars of the Jiuqu Sword Sect. The disciples guarding the mountain gate recognized them immediately.
Mu Xuehua and Yin Qiuyue turned a blind eye to the outsiders' pointing fingers, and immediately went to Mu Xuehua's house when they returned to the mountain. What the two of them carried in their arms was an imperial edict from the new king Ji Yun. Before they took out the imperial edict,
The two of them wanted to explore the signs on the mountain first.
"Haha, I knew it was time for you two to come back. Did you bring a message from the imperial court?" Mu Ming was happy to see his grandson and granddaughter-in-law. But at this time, what he was more concerned about was-a message from the imperial court!
Jiang Qingyan risked the disapproval of the world and joined Ji Kun's small court. The impact on the Jiuqujian Sect will be fatal. The only thing they can do now is to get a specific commitment from Peiping to establish the Jiuqujian Sect for two hundred years.
It is very likely that the faction will suffer a setback that is ten times more serious than the missing leader!
"Grandpa is really understanding!" Mu Xuehua was stunned for a moment, then gave Mu Ming a thumbs up.
Now everyone in the world knows that Zhu Biao is a trump card in Peiping, and everyone in the Jiuqu Sword Sect knows that Mu Xuehua, Yin Qiuyue and Zhu Biao have a close relationship. Now Peking's First Army is surrounded by numerous Zhongshan thieves.
After arriving at Wei County, the Peiping Second Army will obviously be formed immediately, and of course Zhu Biao will be the leader. In this way, the matter of the Jiuqu Sword Sect should come to a conclusion. As long as the Peiping side has reached a conclusion, no matter what
Good or bad, Mu Xuehua and Yin Qiuyue will rush back to Qingyu Mountain with the news as soon as possible.
Every discerning person in the Jiuqu Sword Sect could clearly see that just when Mu Xuehua took Yin Qiuyue home, the news that they had returned to the mountain had spread rapidly throughout Qingyu Mountain starting from the disciples of the sect.
"Your Majesty decrees that as long as the Jiuqu Sword Sect is willing to sever ties with the traitor Jiang Qingyan, then bygones will be forgotten and everything will be as before!"
"Your Majesty is generous. There is a discerning person in the court! Come, follow me to see the Supreme Elder!"
The sky was gloomy, and it began to rain lightly in the early morning. Thin mist spread in the air, and the breeze blew by, bringing a cool breeze to my body.
After a night's rest, all the soldiers were back to their best condition, and the number of men was reduced to 4,700 riders.
Not far away, on the water surface of the Dongjiang River, a layer of light mist floats on it, and as the breeze blows, water smoke is rolled up repeatedly.
By the waterside, the camp that was bustling with people yesterday was now half empty. The camp with more than 50,000 people now only had 20,000 people, so it was so empty.
Last night, Luo Longguang did not dare to be careless. He kept his soldiers in his hands and never took off his armor all night long. Together with more than a hundred flying cavalry scouts scattered outside, more than a hundred people spread a net over a ten-mile radius, in order to
Be prepared for night attacks by the Han army.
However, what he didn't expect was that Zhu Biao actually rested in the city for half a day without any trouble.
Luo Longguang, who had been on guard all night, returned to his tent to rest at dawn when the sky was dim.
"Dong dong dong -" the faint sound of drum beating came from far away from outside the village.
However, just this slight sound of the drum made Luo Longguang sit up from the couch, and his heavy sleepiness was instantly thrown away. "Who is beating the drum?" It seems that it is not the drum in the camp, if it is the ribs in the camp.
The sound is also too small.
"Lieutenant, it's not our army beating the drum, but the Han army outside the stronghold." The tooth general outside the tent reported respectfully.
"Report——, report Taiwei." A scout rushed from outside the tent just in time, "The Han army has arrived five miles outside our camp."
With Xing Tian, his old partner in Tingwei Mansion, smiling, Zhu Biao naturally would not leave it alone. They continued to do the same thing as before, and together with Tong Difeng, they wiped out the Zhongshan Army scout Tan Ma along the way. The Zhongshan Army scouts on the march alone were
More than forty people were shot and killed. So they were almost halfway through before the Zhongshan Army scouts sent back the news.
Luo Longguang stood up in his robes, the gathering drums were beating, and soon the remaining generals of the Zhongshan Army gathered under Luo Longguang's tent.
A quarter of an hour later, the loud sound of war drums came from outside the camp. Luo Longguang did not open the camp door wide and shout to kill, but decided to stick to the camp. The morale of the army was problematic for one reason, and the overnight guard was the other.
When the time comes, Luo Longguang really has no chance of winning.
Anyway, he had reported the news to Wei County. The siege had been going on for several days. The Zhou Army and the Zhongshan Army dug trenches around the city, intending not only to trap the Han infantry in the city, but also to tie up the horses of the Han cavalry. In this way
The more than 10,000 cavalry on the outside of the city are not of much use and can be sent to support themselves. And with more than 10,000 cavalry as a backing, why should I be afraid of the 5,000 Han cavalry!
Therefore, Luo Longguang made up his mind to hold on, and the terrain of the camp he set up was extremely good. It was a highland near the Dongjiang River. There was a water source and he was not afraid of flooding.
In the early morning, the mist caused by the drizzle has not yet dissipated. The Han cavalry led by Zhu Biao stood a hundred feet away from the camp gate, followed by several drum carts captured yesterday. All of them were muscular and muscular.
The drummer, wearing red half-pants, black boots, and a red scarf on his head, beats the war drum rhythmically.
This is "entering the chariot and pressing the horse". The area of one hundred feet is much narrower for the cavalry to maneuver, but the 20,000 Zhongshan troops in the camp have no intention of going out now.
The main force of three thousand cavalry stared at the camp gate facing east, because the Dongjiang River flows from the northwest to the southeast and exits the south gate of Dongjiang County. The camp established by Luo Longguang was located in the south of the city, but the camp gate opened to the east.
One or two hundred cavalry were spread out in the south, and the remaining fifteen hundred cavalry, led by Zhu Tong, sealed off the main camp to the north and northeast, leaving a gap in the southeast.
The scattered cavalrymen stood in scattered lines, blocking all sight lines to the north and east of the entire camp.
Luo Longguang didn't know at this time that the twenty thunderbolt carts that were dragged back to the city by the young and strong men of Dongjiang City yesterday were already being pulled by the pack horses, and were arranged one by one in the northeast of the camp...
