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Lin Fu rode directly to the top of the Wangdeng Terrace and looked at the vast land under the moon. There were black shadows in the southwest, people howling and horses neighing, gold and armor clashing, and the howling wind sounded like arrows flying in the air.
Lin Xuwen, Yang Zhishan, and Liu Zhi rode their horses back a little. When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, the mountain road was rugged. They had no choice but to dismount and fall behind Lin Fu. Although the three of them had higher official ranks than Lin Fu, none of them could do anything.
It is denied that Lin Fu is the master of the battlefield within a radius of dozens of miles. The soldiers on the left and right, including the hundreds of remaining Jinzhong soldiers commanded by Wu Tian in the Uokou Village, all obey the orders of Lin Fu alone.
Lin Xuwen was not good at riding a horse, so he stumbled to the mountainside surrounded by guards on both sides, climbed off the horse, and climbed up the rugged road to the top of the mountain.
Wangdengtai Mountain is an earth mountain, not very high, only 11 to 20 feet. In the eyes of people who are used to seeing majestic mountains, Wangdengtai Mountain can only be regarded as a small earth bag. The mountain is entirely made of earth, but there is a huge piece of earth on the top of the mountain.
It was as if the stone platform of the big house flew out of thin air, forming a huge stone platform standing on the top of the mountain.
Local chronicles record that Emperor Qin came here during his eastward tour to climb a stone to view the sea. The stone became known as Wang Dengtai, and the mountain also got its name, making this place a scenic spot in Jinhai. When they came over, they also saw a small temple on the mountainside that had been burned down in the war.
Lin Xuwen was still some way away from the top of the mountain. When he looked up, he saw Lin Fu standing on the boulder on the top of the mountain watching the battle, as if he was in the middle of the moon. The scarlet cloak he was wearing was blown open by the strong wind, and the exposed blue armor was refracted in the moonlight.
It gave off an icy luster, and at this moment showed the spirit of swallowing up mountains and rivers.
Lin Xuwen was slightly startled, thinking about the name of this mountain in his mind: Wang Dengtai, Wang Dengtai, could it be a prophecy? He shook his head and smiled bitterly, driving this rebellious thought out of his mind. Although he has not left the capital in the past two years and returned to the
He went to the forest, but he knew everything about Lin Lisheng. Before his father died, it was not without arrangements. He also dictated a secret letter to him. The letter said that if Lin Fu was greedy and reached out to seize the family property, he must not be a man with great ambitions.
No matter what, he must rush back to Jiangning in the name of keeping filial piety; if Lin Fu can hold back and not reach out, he may become a tyrant. If he can live in harmony, he will live in harmony. If he cannot live in harmony, he must avoid internal fighting that damages the Lin family's vitality.
No matter what the world is like, clan is the foundation.
Lin Xuwen thought about the fact that when his father passed away, Lin Fu had not yet emerged, and his father had said that his father's eyes were much higher than his own, but when he died, his father really didn't care about Qi Yiniang and Lin Fu's unexplained relationship.
relation?
"What is the eldest son thinking about?"
Lin Xuwen turned around and saw that Lin Mengde was following him. He smiled and said, "I think this battle has completely opened up the situation in Hejian Mansion..." Although Lin Mengde said that he was a generation older,
They are peers, and their relationship has been as close as that between Lin Fu and Lin Jingzhong since they were young. However, after adulthood, many external factors such as identity, status, fame, etc. are used to mark the relationship. In addition, Lin Xuwen has been an official in the capital for a long time, so the relationship has become estranged.
It's coming. At this time, Lin Xuwen is also a high-ranking fourth-rank censor of Youdu, and Lin Mengde has just been awarded the title of ninth-rank scholar. Their identities are also very different.
Lin Mengde smiled and said: "The next step should be to the west of Baoding Mansion. I can't stay and serve the eldest son..."
"Repulse the Donglu, and we will have the opportunity to gather together and have a drink." Lin Xuwen also said with great pride.
In this battle, the Nahe Xiongqi tribe was defeated and crippled. The Jiangdong left army combined with the Jinhai village troops, with a scale of more than 5,000. With the power of the three victories in Cangnan and Jinhai, they were able to contain Changhong even if they did not march westward to the Taihang Mountains.
Donglu did not dare to use four to five thousand cavalry to suppress this side.
If the central government decides to use Lin Fu as the commander-in-chief and continue to strengthen Hejian Prefecture's troops through sea routes, it will be able to contain more captives.
Although Lin Xuwen didn't know the specific way to run an army, he still had his own opinions on strategy.
This time the Donglu invaded and fought on two fronts, the north and the south. Their troops were already stretched thin. They posed a sufficient threat to their flanks in Hejian Mansion. What other choice did the Donglu have besides shrinking and retreating? This battle can be said to have completely revived the entire situation.
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For Lin Xuwen, participating in the great contribution of repelling the enemy can be said to be easy to obtain, and the timing is just right. If he came a day later, Lin Fu would share some of the credit with him, and he would be embarrassed.
Liu Zhi and Yang Zhishan stopped and waited for Lin Xuwen. Lin Mengde rushed over and climbed to the top of the mountain together.
The escort troops that came first had already cleared the top of the mountain. Except for dozens of elite soldiers still sitting on horseback, there were two elite soldiers from each capital group forming formations on the left and right of Wang Deng's stage. They had not completely cleared out the horsemen nearby.
Go out and let your guard down.
"Lindu's supervision of the army is really strict." Liu Zhi climbed to the top of the mountain and panted a little. He looked down the mountain with his arms akimbo and said, "A certain family followed Mr. Hao and lived in Jibei Army for a period of time. The military appearance of the Jiangdong Left Army is much more magnificent.
Passing Jibei soldiers..."
"Lord Liu, you are exaggerating. The Jibei soldiers are the strongest soldiers in the world. How can the Jiangdong left army defeat the Jibei soldiers?" Lin Fu said with a smile, his eyes narrowed and his expression could not be seen in the moonlight. He
He gave Liu Zhi a perfunctory sentence.
At this time, the scout came over and reported: "A big fish has been bitten in the southwest. It is a deputy commander of Donglu. Commander Cao hopes that all the troops that can be mobilized will be sent here..."
"I know, you go and report to Cao Zi'ang: We want to eat this big fish!" Lin Fu said, "In the past ten years of border battles, our army has not captured any generals above the level of deputy capital commander of the Donglu. We want Cao Zi'ang to do so."
Encourage all the soldiers in the army to cooperate well with the friendly forces and fight this beautiful battle." Seeing Wuzhong leading the horse, he said to him, "Colonel Wu, you come with me to see. Before the battle, I, Ma, Zhou,
Yang's captains all agreed that there would be special auxiliary troops to clean up the battlefield, but many Jinzhong soldiers still left the team privately and scattered to grab soldiers and search for enemy corpses... Now the battlefield ahead needs full support from soldiers.
I hope Lieutenant Wu will lead a team of law enforcement soldiers to secretly harvest the heads and search the enemy's corpses to mess up our army. After the war, not only will the merits be counted, but the military law will be questioned immediately. Donglu reinforcements will come at any time, and we should gather all our strength.
, press them all to the southwest, and annihilate all the enemies in the southwest as much as possible is the fundamental... It should be your military exploits, it should be your captures, I will never hide a penny from you, please believe me.
one time."
Wu Tian was ashamed. The fifth battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army fought from morning to night, always maintaining a complete and orderly pursuit formation. Almost no soldiers stopped to grab the cutting ranks to compete for merit or to inspect the enemy corpses. There were some who had unclean hands and feet and were reported to the supervisor.
The French team will now also impose severe punishment on the spot.
In contrast, although the remnants of the Jinzhong army were all veteran soldiers with rich combat experience, their military discipline was much worse. After killing the cavalry, they repeatedly warned them before the war. During the war, they were still used to cutting off their soldiers and taking them with them.
They were scrambling to search enemy corpses in search of property, and it became increasingly difficult to control them after nightfall. Before the cavalry could rush to kill them, their own formations dispersed, which also caused the subsequent pursuit ability to weaken rapidly...
Wu Tian gathered more than two hundred people as a law enforcement team and shouted: "Horse whip, pull out the knife, those guys have shamed the Jinzhong soldiers. If whipping with the whip is useless, just use the knife to chop..."
More than two hundred people rode down Wangdentai Mountain.
Liu Zhi, Yang Zhishan, and Lin Xuwen all knew at this time that the remnants of the Jinzhong Army fighting together with the Jiangdong Zuo Army had different expressions. However, it was wartime and they could not say anything.
Lin Fu didn't care what Liu Zhi, Yang Zhishan, and Lin Xuwen were thinking. He watched Wu Tian lead his people down the mountain to supervise the battle, and didn't say much.
In later generations, military merit assessment was mainly based on the comprehensive calculation of military merit based on the degree of completion of tactics or strategic intentions. It was much more scientific and reasonable, and had fewer drawbacks. However, the military merit assessment of the current generation was simple and crude. In everything, only grades were valued, and in everything, ordinary soldiers were only recognized.
Specifically speaking, level skills are even more important. One level level reward can be worth almost an acre of land, and three levels can at least promote you to one level.
After an old soldier kills an enemy, he does not think about continuing to kill the enemy. The first thing he thinks of is to cut off the enemy's body to prevent others from taking it away. The property gained from searching the enemy's corpse is his own private gain.
This crude and simple method of calculating military merit weakens and damages one's own combat capabilities, which is sometimes fatal. Many old soldiers are so focused on grabbing levels that they do not bother to continue chasing and killing enemy soldiers, and even kill enemy soldiers who fight back.
die.
Melee units are easy to level up, but crossbow units are difficult to level up, which dampens combat enthusiasm. When upgrading, the formation is completely broken up, making it even more difficult to coordinate operations seamlessly. There are still some soldiers,
He doesn't contribute much in combat, but he is very good at leveling up, which directly destroys the cohesion of the army.
The Jiangdong Zuo Army has three thousand newly recruited soldiers. Compared with the old soldiers, they have many shortcomings, but they are also new soldiers. They have not been infected with any bad habits, but they are more flexible. Lin Fu has no problem in fully implementing his army management methods.
Without resistance, marching from Jiangning to Jinan, the military discipline will be far better than that of the Zhenfu army.
It cannot be said that the remnants of the Jinzhong Army are not elite. Perhaps the soldiers are singled out for single combat. The new soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army will probably not be able to defeat the old soldiers of the remaining Jinzhong Army. However, marching operations are definitely not a simple matter of one-on-one. Fighting.
Up to now, the Jiangdong Left Army can still maintain a complete pursuit array, holding on to a group of captive cavalry in the southwest of Wangdengtai Mountain. The remaining infantry array of the Jinzhong Army is almost completely dragged behind, with only a small part of the cavalry behind.
Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, Wei Zhonglong and other brave generals personally led the troops to the front line and worked hard together, playing a huge role in delaying the retreat of the cavalry.
Wu Tian was also filled with shame. Since joining forces, they had deeply believed that Lin Fu was good at using strategies and had some luck to achieve two great victories. Looking at the new soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army, their rifles and bows were not as good as those of the old soldiers in Jinzhong.
He was not as good as the old soldiers from Jinzhong on horseback, and he was not as good as the old soldiers from Jinzhong with swords, but when he was actually pulled out to fight against the captive cavalry, he realized that the gap with Jiangdong's left army was so huge. For a moment, he couldn't figure out where the problem was, so he
It was as if Lin Fu had a magical hand blessing Jiangdong Zuojun.
Wu Tian felt ashamed and led the execution team down, driving away those Jin sergeants who were rushing for rank and merit. They gathered under the moon and quickly moved to the southwest, thinking that in this battle, they could capture or kill a deputy commander of Donglu. Such a military achievement
Only by dividing it equally among the remnants of Jinzhong's army can we gain the initiative not to hold those responsible for Gaoyang's fiasco.