Li Chengzhong couldn't think of a good way for a while. There were 80 people under the high platform beside him, including Zhong Silanghe, the most elite combat unit under his command. He was hesitating whether to send them all up. If so, he would send them all up to participate in the "
"Top the ox", his men will no longer have the power to use. If he encounters any situation again, he will be in an embarrassing situation with no troops to mobilize.
At this moment, Li Chengzhong saw Zhao Da leading the brothers from the logistics team to rush forward. However, why were they still carrying several iron pots? Only when he saw Zhao Da and the others put down the iron pots did he see clearly what was inside the iron pots.
They were all firewood that was burned just now when cooking for the brothers in the army. Most of the firewood was more than half burned, but it was not completely burned. The blackened section was still burning with red flames.
I saw Zhao Da directing these people to tie cloth strips on their hands, then grab the burning wooden sticks and throw them directly into the array of Khitan soldiers.
Li Chengzhong looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, and murmured with his mouth wide open: "This is really... a Tang version of a hand grenade..."
As the wooden sticks were thrown in one by one, screams immediately came from the Khitan soldiers' array, followed by a burning smell, which made Li Chengzhong's scalp numb and couldn't help but tremble all over.
Shivered.
The firewood attack achieved decisive results. Under such a blow, the Khitan people finally turned and ran away!
The task of the spearmen commanded by Zhang Xingzhong was to defend, so when the Khitan soldiers retreated, they did not pursue them. It was the sword and shield team led by Zhou Machidao who launched the pursuit. This guy who had been "bull" behind for a long time was already depressed and panicked.
, there’s no reason not to take advantage of the opportunity and rush out.
Li Chengzhong was still concerned about Zhou Shaidao's pursuit without orders at first. It was not until he saw that the Khitan people really began to collapse across the board that he relaxed. In order to increase the effect of the pursuit, he ordered Zhong Silang to lead the preparations.
A team of eighty soldiers joined the pursuit.
The most significant result in this battle occurred during the pursuit. Due to the mistake of wandering around the White Wolf Mountain for several hours earlier, coupled with a fierce battle in front of the military camp, the Khitan soldiers' physical strength was finally exhausted.
It was impossible to outrun the pursuers led by Zhou Qidao and Zhong Shilang, and most of them were eliminated one by one on the mountain road of Bailang Mountain.
Zhou Qidao and Zhong Silang led their troops to pursue the mountain pass, and drove the remaining Khitan soldiers into the array of Khitan auxiliary troops remaining at the mountain pass before stopping. The two sides faced off at the mountain pass for half an hour, and then the Khitan soldiers mounted their horses.
Left here.
When the sun was about to set, the defense battle at the Bailang Mountain military camp finally ended. According to Li Chengzhong’s order to take no prisoners, Zhou Daodao and Zhong Silang really did not leave a single person alive. All the Khitan soldiers who squatted down and surrendered along the road were chopped down.
On the ground, all injured Khitan soldiers were also stabbed. A total of 276 people were beheaded in this battle, and 89 sets of bows, more than 60 bags of arrows, and about 2,000 arrows were seized, as well as sabers and carbines.
Several. The Lulong Army itself suffered 25 casualties, 17 serious injuries, and 32 minor injuries.
"You're not really going to kill them all, are you? No one is left alive?" Li Chengzhong looked at Zhou Maidao and said with some surprise.
"Didn't Dutou say that we don't want to take prisoners?" Zhou Qidao was a little surprised.
Li Chengzhong is not a bloodthirsty person. When he said this, he actually had a harsh tone, just like when two people are fighting, the weaker one will always say a few harsh words before the fight starts, such as "Wait a minute."
I'll beat you up until your mother can't recognize you later" etc. have no real meaning. The purpose is just to embolden myself.
Li Chengzhong was rendered speechless by the rebuttal, and he muttered awkwardly: "Zhou Da, you are very resolute in executing orders. I didn't see you coming to ask for orders when I pursued without permission..."
Zhou Da stared and said, "Didn't I tell you before the Dutou battle that a certain sword and shield team will be responsible for the pursuit..."
Being responsible for the pursuit and taking action after receiving orders are two different concepts. Li Chengzhong was unable to explain the difference between the two in detail to Zhou Qidao for a while, so he had to give up. However, he had already made plans in his mind to "act according to orders".
"This sentence has become the focus of officer training.
In any case, such a disparity in battle loss ratio made Li Chengzhong very happy, but what he was most satisfied with was not this. When fighting the Khitans head-on, although his soldiers were not Khitan in terms of experience or skills
opponent, but at least in terms of courage, he performed no worse than his opponent, and this is what Li Chengzhong is most satisfied with.
The people who fled into Bailang Mountain came from three villages at the foot of the mountain. There were some hunters in the village mainly named Cheng. These hunters were often injured when they went into the mountain to hunt, so they also knew a little bit about herbal medicine and healing methods.
At this moment, they were all busy treating the injured soldiers. Their methods were very crude, and in Li Chengzhong's opinion, they could even be described as "barbaric". The tools were very simple, just putting the knife on the fire for a while, and then a few people pressed it
Live with the wounded soldier, cut off the bad flesh directly from the wound. Then chew up some unknown grass roots and leaves and apply it directly to the wound. For those whose joints were dislocated or twisted during the battle, pull them over and give them a hard blow.
Pulling, and then pushing hard, the friction sound coming from the bones made Li Chengzhong feel a chill in his heart.
But Li Chengzhong had to admit that these hunters were very effective in treating wounds, especially the herbal mud they spat out from their mouths. It was really effective and could scar the wounds in less than a few days. So Li Chengzhong came up with his idea.
When he arrived at these hunters, he planned to catch them all in one fell swoop and collect them all under his tent for use. Of course, only the slightly injured ones could be cured, and all the seriously injured ones would not be cured as expected. Li Chengzhong had experienced this.
There have been many wars. In these wars, almost none of the seriously injured people he encountered survived. This is the current situation of medical treatment in this era, which is really disappointing.
Li Chengzhong asked Zhang Laojiang to make a wooden sign that was 10 feet high, and then erected the wooden sign in front of a mountain col that was sheltered from the wind in the back mountain. He buried all the soldiers who died in the battle in the col.
The names were engraved on the wooden plaque, and the person who wrote it was Feng Dao. Li Chengzhong gathered all the soldiers and people and held a brief memorial ceremony in front of the wooden plaque. During the ceremony, he read out the names of each fallen soldier loudly.
, and then announced on the spot that these names will be recorded to find their families, and each family of the fallen soldiers will be allocated fifty acres of fertile land. After the announcement, Li Chengzhong stood at the forefront of the team, leading all the soldiers
Bow in silence to the wooden sign.
The Military Merit Review Meeting was held on the third day after the war ended. According to Li Chengzhong's intention, all officers of the rank of deputy lieutenant and above participated in the review, and Feng Dao attended the meeting as a non-voting delegate. Before the review, there was a routine summary of the war.
Li Chengzhong does not consider himself a military genius with a keen sense of battlefield. He probably cannot even be called a "good general". He is just a big-headed soldier who served in the army for two years before time travel, and he was not even a non-commissioned officer.
, His greatest achievement in the army was to sneak into the training class for party activists. In addition, he watched countless costume dramas during his years as an extra. In terms of commanding on the spot, he did not think that he could do better than the ancients.
Okay. In those time-travel novels, Pig's Feet kills everyone when he appears. He shows his extraordinary military talent when he first enters the battlefield. He dares to command thousands of troops for the first time. His bastard spirit is fully revealed... In this regard, Li Chengzhong except Li Chengzhong
In addition to deep admiration, he could only kneel down and worship. This was really something he couldn't do and didn't dare to do. All he could do was to recreate the experiences that he had witnessed and heard in the army before the time-travel as much as possible and combine them with the habits of this era.
After coming out, his ultimate goal is to cultivate a group of qualified officers who can compete with the outstanding generals of this era with the strength of a team!
Li Chengzhong regarded war summary as training for officers. By reviewing the entire process of the war, he analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of himself and the enemy, found the advantages that should be inherited and carried forward in the battle, and corrected the shortcomings and flaws that were exposed.
In summary, it can gradually leave some basic combat concepts and thoughts in every officer's mind, allowing these grassroots officers to have a deeper understanding of the characteristics of their own soldiers, what they need to pay attention to and what they should avoid in battle. When this accumulation reaches a certain level,
At that time, Li Chengzhong believed that these officers under him would become generals who knew how to fight in war in the future!
The biggest problem exposed in this battle is the lack of training. One is the lack of combat skills, and the other is the lack of array discipline. Because of the above two reasons, when the Khitan people rushed in front of them to fight head-on, they immediately looked very strict.
The gun formation was a mess, resulting in a funny scene where the two sides huddled together and "butted each other's bulls". If this situation were put into a field battle, it would probably cause a major setback for the entire battlefield.
The biggest gain in the battle was the change in the courage and will of all the soldiers. From the time when they heard the arrival of the Khitans under Yueqian Yu Pass, they were trembling with fear. Now, after being broken through by the Khitans, they still fight to the death to maintain the battle line. This kind of
The short process of the transformation surprised Li Chengzhong and all the old brothers in the original Youdu. In any case, this transformation is very exciting and expected, and many officers couldn't help but feel happy when they talked about it.
.Zhou Chedao even directly suggested that it was time to try to have a head-on confrontation with the Khitans in the field.
After the summary of the battle comes the evaluation of military merit. According to the method proposed by Li Chengzhong, each of the officers present has the right to make three nominations. Then the soldiers who receive the top 20 votes will be promoted to one level. The military merit of officers above the captain level is
The evaluation will be reviewed by a higher-level military officer meeting, that is to say, it will be discussed by Li Chengzhong, Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong and Zhou Qidao. The basis for the discussion will be the number of times that their subordinates have been evaluated as meritorious collectives.
In addition to the evaluation of meritorious soldiers, a total of four groups were rated as meritorious groups in this war.
The first was Zhong Silang and his team. They successfully delayed the Khitans and captured more than twenty war horses. Although part of the reason for this was due to Fatty Wang Quan, but with ten people going to meet the enemy, this alone
The will to fight is enough to set an example for the entire army.
To everyone's surprise, the performance of the logistics team, or supply team, led by Zhao Da this time was very outstanding, and it can even be described as a decisive move. When this team was established, it was to combine the poor performance of those teams.
It was formed by selected soldiers. At that time, no officer would have thought that this group could play such an important role in this war. In fact, in the final analysis, this group did not really go forward to fight. What they did was very simple, which was to burn the
The sticks of firewood were thrown into the Khitan crowd like stones... When Li Chengzhong talked about this issue, he deliberately emphasized that judging from the performance of Zhao Da's group, fighting really requires using your brain. Sometimes a person
A small, inconspicuous idea is enough to turn the entire battle around.
The other two men who made meritorious services were the spearmen who faced the enemy head-on at the gap. The losses of these two groups were also the heaviest in this battle. They suffered seven casualties respectively. Taken together, only one of the two groups survived.
There were six left, and everyone was injured. In the face of such heavy losses, the two gangs still stood on the front line and did not turn around and escape. This performance is really commendable. Therefore, all the officers discussed the two gangs.
There was no objection at all.
After the military merit assessment was completed, Li Chengzhong secretly calculated an account. He couldn't help but be shocked. He found that his debts were quite staggering. In terms of large expenditures, the two rewards that needed to be cashed in front of him were beyond his reach. Everything
We have to find a way. First, there is resettlement land for the families of the fallen soldiers. Forty-two people died in the battle, each family has 50 acres, which adds up to 2,100 acres. Then there is the reward for the four meritorious collectives, each of whom needs a reward of 10,000 acres.
, this is 400,000 yuan, or 400 guan. In addition, there is also a sum of money that Li Chengzhong is seriously considering whether to pay, that is, the reward for soldiers who participated in the war after the war.
According to the practice of this era, every time the army is dispatched to fight, the military leaders have to routinely distribute various rewards, including departure fees, beheading rewards, post-war comfort fees, etc. But Li Chengzhong did not want to do this because he was afraid of his subordinates.
After soldiers form a habit, they will have the habit of not going to war if they have no money in the future. This habit is very bad and can be fatal to a truly mature army.
After much thought, Li Chengzhong chose to ignore the issue and simply did not mention it. Maybe it was because of the special and difficult conditions in Bailang Mountain that his officers did not ask about this matter, or maybe it was because of the soldiers under him.
They were all refugees recruited from outside the customs. They did not understand these military "customs" at all, so no one thought about this problem. Therefore, Li Chengzhong's bad behavior of "cheating and sneaking" achieved unprecedented success. In the days to come,
His behavior that went against the customs of the army of this era instead became the practice of his army. While saving him a large amount of military expenses, it also allowed this army to embark on a path different from other armies of the same era.