"The thief will give the leader the thief army. The thief army has been defeated. Those who surrender will not be killed!"
Ding Feng could not open his eyes because of the bleeding, but he still held up a four-meter-long spear and waved it like a big flag, and what hung on the tip of the gun was Li Feng's head...
The Huainan cavalry who came up with reinforcements lost their commander as soon as they came up. The other captains also panicked. Although they did not surrender on the spot for a while, they could no longer form a unified momentum. Under the layers of Qu'a spearmen,
Under restraint, the disorganized cavalry is no different from other infantry!
On the other hand, the 6,000 elite troops led by Liang Gang, as soon as they approached the battlefield, were defeated by their own side and were thrown into chaos.
Although he shouted "move around the formation" and "those who rush into the formation die", whether he wanted to order to appease the fleeing friendly troops or to direct his own soldiers to kill the fleeing friendly troops, the generals needed to have sufficient command ability, and Liang Gang obviously
no.
After shouting for a long time, I actually killed some of the defeated troops who rushed to the formation, but in the end, it triggered a rebound from the defeated troops...
This is also the way Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry learns from the Qiang Cavalry.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the opponent's formation, hundreds of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry rushed into the enemy formation like wolves entering a flock of sheep - the sparsely arrayed infantry was in vain in front of the cavalry!
When Liang Gang finally relied on his "human life" to slow down the momentum of Bingzhou Cavalry, he heard a burst of exclamation...
From a distance, I could only see that Zhang Xun's flag had fallen on the general platform, and there was chaos around the general platform!
It was Lu Bu and the three hundred cavalry who had divided the troops, and they had already broken into the general platform before the soldiers and horses from the camp arrived...
"Zhang Xun is dead. Those who kneel down and surrender will avoid death!" Qu Ajun began to shout.
Liang Gang did not fully believe that "Zhang Xun was dead", but he also realized that the morale of the army was in chaos and could not be restored. At this time, facing the charging Bingzhou Cavalry, he quietly put away the general's flag and was escorted by dozens of soldiers.
Get off and escape all the way to the west.
On the other hand, Zhang Xun is indeed not dead yet - before Lu Bu rushed up, Zhang Xun had already fled in panic like Liang Gang. At this time, together with his own soldiers, they reluctantly reunited with three thousand soldiers and horses from the camp, but they had already
Being deprived of my ambition, I just want to escape intact!
And Lu Bu and the three hundred Bingzhou cavalry were like a pack of wolves hunting sheep, chasing an army ten times their own...
The only effect of the three thousand large battalions was to block the roads and slow down the cavalry.
Bai Tu was in Qu'a City, waiting with some anticipation but more nervousness. In the afternoon of that day, Chen Gong finally returned to the army, bringing with him a large number of prisoners.
At this time, the real generals in Zhang Xun's army were specially searched and detained, while other soldiers had their weapons and equipment confiscated and were driven away in groups...
"Okay!" Bai Tu secretly cheered from the tower.
Although Chen Gong seemed very confident before, after all, it was "four thousand vs ten thousand" or actually "four thousand vs ten thousand", so Bai Tu was still mostly uneasy, but he tried not to show it.
Looking at this large number of prisoners now, it means that our side has won a complete victory!
After arranging the treatment of the prisoners, Chen Gong immediately came to see Bai Tu and personally reported the results of the battle.
In a battle outside the city, Zhang Xun's army of 20,000 was completely defeated. At the cost of less than 500 casualties, he killed nearly 3,000 enemies and captured 8,000. The rest were defeated. Lu Bu continued to pursue, and the results will continue.
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Because the enemy's morale was destroyed in a short period of time, rather than a bloody battle that lasted for several days, the proportion of battle losses for the victor was very considerable.
It can also be seen from the casualties of the other side that in cold weapon battles, the number of direct kills of the enemy is often not very large. For example, in this battle, the losses of both sides did not exceed 20% - the others were all "defeated", and
It's not "death".
In fact, in a battle, unless it is a fierce battle that lasts for several days, with various arrays taking turns to fight, or a strategy such as water attack and fire attack is used, and it is fully successful, the direct casualties will basically not exceed
Twenty percent!
In other words... it was basically defeated before the casualties reached 20%!
It is difficult for "qualified" soldiers with normal training to withstand 30% casualties without losing their morale. Even elite soldiers commanded by famous generals with orders and prohibitions will not be able to withstand more than 50%.
On the one hand, a single formation will collapse when casualties are 20 to 30% - if the defeated army still knows how to "walk around the formation" at this time, it is considered qualified.
The more formations that are destroyed at the same time, the faster the low morale will be infected. As a whole, if the casualties of the military formation exceed 20 to 30%, it will also lead to the collapse of the entire army...
Fierce battles that lasted for several days were essentially a process of continuously gathering up the defeated troops and then taking turns throwing them into the battlefield. For a certain formation, it was equivalent to several battles.
As for the water attack and the fire attack... In fact, morale has already collapsed, but the soldiers cannot escape, so the casualty ratio will be huge, so there is a saying that "water and fire have no mercy".
However, when the victorious side withdraws its troops or when the battle is drawn, they can gather the defeated troops at leisure after the war, so the battle loss ratio will be very low.
However, once the battle is defeated, even if the gathering place in the rear is not lost, the number of defeated troops that can be gathered will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, when the battle ends in a draw, the fighting will not stop for several months, but after losing for a while, the number of troops will be greatly reduced and the troops will run away in a hurry.
In addition, Bai Tu also noticed that although he was a Ji Zao soldier,... as long as his injuries were slightly serious, it was basically impossible to recover. The "casualties" reported by Chen Gong already included these serious injuries.
A small number of them can be converted into laborers, while the rest can only gradually dissipate - this is also in line with the characteristics of trauma medical treatment in the cold weapon era.
Bai Tu has also made up his mind to equip the military medical system for trauma treatment and add it to the technologies to be developed as a priority. However, it cannot be done with the strength of three counties, at least after Bai Tu takes over Jiangdong.
"The names of generals who died in battle, whether they were corps commanders or captains, locals or athletes from Bingzhou, must be counted, and their pensions must be in place, especially those whose homes are in Qu Asan County, and their family circumstances must also be
Register, and arrange for someone to come to express condolences during new years and festivals," Bai Tu instructed.
"Don't worry, Mr. Bai, Gong understands." Chen Gong accepted the order.
"My foster father has been chasing me for so long..." Bai Tu said worriedly.
"Since my lord is so brave and the enemy troops are fleeing hastily, Lord Bai is just waiting for good news." Chen Gong trusted Lu Bu more.
After Lu Bu pursued him beyond the limit that Chen Gong could see from the high platform, Chen Gong immediately canceled the "Smart Strategy" effect on Lu Bu, otherwise the mental energy consumption would be too exaggerated.
The pursuing Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry came back one after another, bringing back some follow-up news - Lu Bu led his men to pursue them all the way, and there were not many prisoners surrendered along the way, only a few hundred.
It was not until night that Lu Bu returned to the city with the last few hundred riders unhappily.
"Zhang Xun is not good at fighting, but he was cunning when escaping. He used the infantry at the rear to stop him, and changed clothes with his own soldiers... I just killed a bunch of fake ones!" Lu Bu said depressedly.
"It doesn't matter, it's just a group of remnant soldiers who were defeated. They are probably in ruins and have to cross the river. We have won a great victory this time!" Bai Tu didn't care whether he captured Zhang Xun or not.
At this time, Zhang Xun was just as Bai Tu expected. When he crossed the river, he landed at Digang, Danyang County, and barely gathered more than 4,000 defeated troops, preparing to continue crossing the river and retreating north. By this time, Qu'a had already recovered Danyang.
Their strength cannot be stopped by these defeated armies.
At the same time, Gan Ning was taking a dozen water villages on the annexed Yangtze River, totaling nearly a thousand people, down the river to Qu'a...