Chapter 1661 Babu Na - people die like lights go out
"Failed, defeated!" Countless soldiers under Harlan's command shouted and ran away, not caring that they exposed their backs to the enemy. They just wanted to escape from the defense line and no longer be as different from what they saw at this time.
The Ming Dynasty soldiers, who emerged from the hell like evil spirits, were fighting. Not only them, but also Harun was escaping backwards with his guards.
"The performance of the soldiers of the Ming army just now." Even though a while had passed, Harun was still frightened when he recalled it. Facing the soldiers led by Basel, a weak general of the Ming army led the cavalry and rushed forward, fighting with Basel.
The soldiers charged and fought. Under the deliberate guidance of the thin general, the two cavalry charged and fought in a melee. At this time, the Ming soldiers showed their crazy side, and they used all possible means to kill the enemy.
And they didn't care about their own life or death. Some people even had their right arms cut off and jumped on the enemy's horse when the horse's speed slowed down. They knocked the enemy soldiers off the horse and were trampled to death by other horses. Cavalry is different from infantry.
, Cavalry is a noble branch of arms, and those who can be cavalry at least come from middle-class families. The cavalry soldiers in Basel have never fought such a battle, and they soon became frightened. Some people turned their horses and wanted to escape. Since someone took the lead, they quickly
Many people followed suit, and in the end everyone turned their heads and tried to escape. Of course, the Ming army would not withdraw their troops and pursue them on horseback, quickly killing all the enemy soldiers.
This scene completely shocked the soldiers under Harlan. They never dared to fight such an enemy again, not to mention the double psychological pressure caused by the defeat of the reinforcements. After the Ming cavalry turned their horses and seemed to be about to attack the defense line, all the soldiers
They scrambled to turn around and run away, even if the officers kept shouting to stop, it was in vain. Harlan could only escape with the guards.
"Hurry, get on your horse and go to the military camp to tell General Salha that the defense line cannot be defended! Don't be stingy with your horse power. Even if the horse is killed, you must tell General Salha as soon as possible!" While escaping, Harun has not forgotten it.
He fulfilled his duty and ordered a guard to rush to inform Salha.
"Yes, General." The guard who was ordered by him agreed and rode towards the camp.
"Let's go this way!" Seeing the man leave, Harlan pointed in another direction and said to the other guards beside him.
"General, that's to the west. Shouldn't we flee to the camp in the north?" One of the guards asked doubtfully, but most people suddenly realized what Harlan meant when they saw this direction.
'The defense line has been lost, and the camp will definitely be lost as well. Do you want to escape at this time and wait for death together with Salha? Now I can only survive by escaping westward and back to the Delhi Sultanate. Although I have lost so much
The men and horses will definitely be criticized, and the position of the family heir will not be saved, but my father is not a cruel person, and I can at least survive.' Harun thought. But he could not say the words, so he explained in a high-sounding voice: "
The Ming army is chasing us. If we also retreat to the camp, the Ming army can follow us into the camp and the camp will not be able to hold it. But if we don't retreat to the camp, the Ming army will still attack the camp.
, the soldiers guarding the camp don’t have to worry about accidental injuries. So we can’t retreat to the camp.”
Although his words were sophistry, they could not be said to be unreasonable. The guard immediately stopped asking questions and followed him to the west. Some soldiers also followed him when they saw him escaping to the west.
Harlan ran with his guards for half an hour until he was sure that there was no pursuer behind him. Then he stopped to take a breath and counted the guards and soldiers following him. There were more than 600 people.
When he fled back to the country at this time, it would be good to have one more soldier by his side. He comforted these soldiers with some words, and it was already time to spend the night. Harlan found a place to settle them down, and ordered his trusted aides to stay behind, quietly
He took more than 20 people and returned to the original camp of the army. He wanted to see with his own eyes the outcome of this battle. Even if the army of more than 100,000 was defeated by the Ming army, it would not be completely wiped out. He wanted to know about this battle.
The final result was determined so that he could decide what he was going to do next. It was the last resort to lead more than 600 defeated soldiers and return to the Delhi Sultanate. He would not do this if there was any other way.
On the way back to the camp, he encountered scattered broken soldiers. He gathered these broken soldiers one by one and returned to the camp together. After a while, he came to the original camp.
Lying on the dirt slope near the forest, Harlan only glanced down and saw that the camp had changed its owner. The Ming army's camp was completely different from theirs, and the lights at night were also completely different. You could tell at a glance
come out.
Even though he had already guessed that the camp would probably be captured in this battle, but seeing it with his own eyes, Harlan remained silent for a moment before continuing to look down.
'The lighting area of the Ming army is not wide, and it seems that there should be 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers. The army led by Zhu still has at most 20,000 people left, and the two Shangzhiwei reinforcements during the day only have more than 20,000 people.
, and there were losses in the war. There were at most 15,000 or 6,000 soldiers left, adding up to just over 30,000 people. There shouldn’t be so many soldiers. Yes, the Ming army will definitely have reinforcements arriving in the afternoon. It’s just that they are not as good as the direct guards.
The horse is good, but the speed is a bit slow, so it falls behind.' Harlan thought to himself as he watched.
He looked at it like this for a while, then he lowered his head and leaned on the slope, saying to himself: "Although we can see the victory or defeat of this battle, we still don't know how much our army has lost. With an army of 120,000, even if it was lost a few days ago,
The army that attacked Zhu lost between 10,000 and 20,000 people, but it was unlikely that the entire army would be annihilated after being attacked by the Ming army. But we can’t guess how many people are left. And where did they run to?"
While Harun was thinking, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He stood up and drew out his sword, and looked around cautiously. Suddenly, he heard something coming from the right front, and slashed at it!
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"Listen, is there any sound?" A soldier on duty sitting on a high tower said to the person next to him.
"What's the sound?" the man listened for a while and said.
"But there was clearly a noise just now."
"Maybe it's some small animal. Forget it, let's beat the drum lightly to let the people patrolling below pay more attention. Let's not talk about it. Just now when we rushed to the tower and passed by Her Royal Highness the Princess's tent, I heard something coming from
There was a roaring sound coming from inside, and it seemed that Her Royal Highness was scolding General Lin."
"Even if Her Royal Highness reprimands General Lin, will her voice be loud enough for you to hear?"
"That's not possible. Think about it, Lin Shen will lead the troops to fight with the Indian cavalry today. The battle was so miserable! Even the battle of crossing the Red River in Annan that my father talked about couldn't compare to today's battle. Let's go.
The Zhiwei is the most elite guard in the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty's pet peeve, so many people died at the hands of the princess, and your highness is very angry."
"You are right to say that. But I still don't believe that His Highness's reprimand to General Lin Shen would be loud enough for you to hear."
"Why don't you believe it!" The man was about to say something more when he suddenly heard a cough. He immediately did not dare to speak anymore and sat down on the tower seriously to watch. However, although this man neglected his duty and chatted while on duty, according to military law,
It should be dealt with, but what he said is true.
"Lin Yurong, what do you have to say?" In the tent in the middle of the entire camp, Yunzhi sat on a chair, picked up the tea cup and drank all the tea, then stood straight in the middle of the tent.
Lin Yurong said.
"Little niece, calm down, calm down." Zhu stood beside her and kept advising: "Although General Lin Shen's method of facing the enemy was not very good, he won the battle after all. Officials also said that in a war,
This matter is based on victory or defeat. If you win, it is good. If you don't win, it is bad. Since he won, there is no need to reprimand him like this."
After the Yinlu were defeated, some of the soldiers were killed, some surrendered and were captured, and some escaped, Zhu came to Yunzhi with his guards. First, he thanked her for leading the rescue and praised her for her good command. At the same time, he wanted to
Discussing what to do next, he settled down the remaining defeated generals under his command and came to find Yunzhi. He saw her reprimanding a somewhat thin general. Yunzhi was Yun's favorite sister, and Zhu did not dare to interrupt rashly.
I asked the guards why, and gave Yun Zhi some advice while she was drinking water.
Others also tried to persuade her. After hearing the persuasion from these people and the scolding for a while, Yun Zhi's anger was mostly gone, and she just waited for Lin Yurong to admit her mistake and the matter would be over. She would still do the same.
He asked for credit.
But Lin Yurong didn't want to say: "Your Highness, I still believe that what I did was not inappropriate."
Yun Zhi's face turned gloomy again. Although he won the battle, in less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of people were killed by the Shangzhi Guards cavalry. Many of them died in such miserable conditions that even the corpses could not be distinguished.
Come out. This is the Shangzhiwei, the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty. It hurts to kill even one Yunzhi, let alone so many people. He actually said that what he did was not wrong!
But before Yun Zhi spoke, Lin Yurong said again: "Your Highness the Princess, Your Highness King Min, I led the soldiers to fight a bloody battle with the enemy. Although thousands of soldiers were lost in just a quarter of an hour, the enemy had more than 6,000 soldiers."
, if we follow other methods, is it possible to lose fewer troops?"
"This..." Zhu fell silent. Although he did not witness this battle with his own eyes, he had heard of Basel's name and knew that the cavalry led by this man was not weak in combat effectiveness. Although the Shangzhiwei was stronger, they were completely wiped out.
There were more than 6,000 enemy troops, and it was almost impossible to lose less than 1,000 troops. It could be said that Lin Yurong had achieved the goal of annihilating the enemy troops with minimal losses. He didn't know what to say for the moment. He didn't know what to say, and the others even more
I don’t know. There were not many generals in the tent, and almost all of them had witnessed the battle with their own eyes. Looking back at this moment, if I put myself in Lin Yurong’s position, I really couldn’t think of a way to lose fewer troops.
"Since your two highnesses and the generals do not think there is a way to reduce the loss of troops, then what is wrong with what Xiaguan did? He just compressed the loss of troops that usually takes half an hour or even an hour into just one moment.
It's just within the clock." Lin Yurong looked around again, and when no one spoke, he said to himself.
"However, the death conditions of the soldiers were too tragic. Some of them could not even distinguish their corpses." Guo Lan, the commander of the Yulin Left Guard, argued again.
Hearing this, Yunzhi frowned. Although she was very dissatisfied with Lin Yurong, she also didn't like Guo Lan's argument. Although the death was so miserable that it made people cry, how could she care so much on the battlefield? No way.
as a reason for rebuttal.
But what she didn't expect was that Lin Yurong actually said: "This is the official's intention."
"Why are you like this?" In order to prevent Lin Yurong from being speechless, Zhu asked before Yunzhi.
"Your Highness Princess Qi, Your Highness King Min, because only in this way can the enemy be frightened as soon as possible. Although fighting hard alone will scare the enemy, it will not cause them to collapse so quickly. Only the tragic scene of the corpses can frighten them all.
.Only when they are frightened will they turn around and run away desperately, so that they can completely wipe out the enemy as soon as possible." Lin Yurong said.
"Lin Yurong, do you know that if your words spread, you may die for unknown reasons if you lead the Habayashi Zuowei and Jinwu avant-garde next time?" After a while, Yunzhi said.
"Xiaoguan knows." Lin Yurong replied. He is also a Han. He was born and raised in the Central Plains. How can he not know the traditional customs of the Han people? But he himself does not care. "Xiaoguan has never believed in ghosts and gods. Death is like a lamp extinguished.
They are all dead, so what does it matter about the shape of the body? Moreover, the lower official only cares about performing his own errands. As long as he can complete the errands assigned by the superior official, he never considers anything else."
'That's a good thing to say.' Zhu thought to himself. In a short period of time, he had already admired Lin Yurong very much, so he excused him in front of Yunzhi. Hearing that Lin Yurong finally said something decent, he couldn't help but be happy for him.
It also showed on the face.
Yunzhi, however, remained expressionless, and just asked: "If your body was divided into hundreds of parts, and there was not even a slightly larger piece, wouldn't you care?"
"I don't care, the official." Lin Yurong replied very calmly.
"That's all, you're right, you're all right. You're just nitpicking. I'll ask General Lan to take credit for you." After a while, Yunzhi said. She then scanned the tent again and said in a deep voice.
Said: "None of you can reveal what Lin Yurong just said to the outside world. If it is revealed to the outside world, I will definitely deal with it severely, even if it violates General Lan's military order!"
"I will definitely not reveal it to others," everyone said quickly.
"Okay, okay, this matter is over. Let's not talk about it anymore." Zhu hurriedly said, and then turned to Yunzhi. "Niece, our army is now attacking from the north and south, defeating more than 100,000 Indian soldiers, and annihilating them.
, captured more than 70,000 people, and this battle was a great victory. But what should we do next? Should we pursue the retreating enemy army with the largest number led by Salha himself, or should we stay in place and wait for the following troops? "
"Uncle King Min, don't call me niece in the military camp. If you call me, you will be given the title Huainan." Yun Zhi said something first, and then said: "Of course we have to pursue the enemy! Although they were annihilated and took over 70,000 prisoners, they still
More than 40,000 people fled or retreated. Among them, Salha led the largest force, with nearly 30,000 people. If he were allowed to retreat, another elite force would come to fight our army in a few days. Troops must be sent to pursue them.
Let them not rest for a moment, not stop for a moment to recuperate, until this army is defeated."
"Huainan, this job is not easy to do. When Salha led the troops to withdraw, he took away a group of more than 10,000 people who were still very intact. With this group of troops as the main force, more than 20,000 people were reorganized.
It is also easy; and because we have to gather prisoners today, our army has few troops and horses, so we have not sent troops to pursue them tonight. I am afraid it will be useless to send troops to pursue them tomorrow. It is better to let them go, and the whole army will stay here to wait for the following troops.
"Zhu said.
"No!" Yunzhi said firmly: "Tomorrow morning, we must send troops to pursue!"