Chapter 9: Terrifying Achievements
Jingyang City is brightly lit, as if it were daytime. The mottled blood stains and axe slashes everywhere, as well as the thick smell of blood in the air, all indicate that a terrible battle has been fought here.
Princess Pingyang was so excited that she couldn't speak. In fact, not only Princess Pingyang, but even Ma Sanbao and Xue Wanche were dumbfounded.
The scene in Jingyang City was completely beyond the expectations of Li Xiuning, Ma Sanbao, Xue Wanche and others, there was no Western Qin army here, there was no tragic massacre, only quiet and peaceful.
Chen Ying suddenly looked at Princess Pingyang and the cavalry under her command, they were all flat saddles, not the Takahashi saddles of later generations. If it is a Gaoqiao saddle, in the Mongolian steppe tourist area in the later generations, a Han person who can't ride a horse can learn to ride a horse in a few minutes, and Ping'an, without three or five years of practice, can't be regarded as a cavalry at all?
"Hasn't the Tang Dynasty invented the Takahashi saddle?" Just when Chen Yingfu was thinking about it, he was suddenly interrupted by Li Xiuning!
"What's going on? What about the Western Qin Army? Li Xiuning looked at this inexplicably superfluous Jingyang governor and asked, "Has the Western Qin army retreated?" ”
Chen Ying did not answer Li Xiuning's words, but reached out and patted in the air.
"Bang Bang ......"
As Chen Ying's applause roared, after a while, there was a slight vibration on the ground, and the wheels of the deer carts (i.e., wheelbarrows) rolled forward. Under the light of the fire, the deer carts were filled with the hideous heads of the Western Qin army, and as far as the eye could see, there were twenty or thirty deer carts.
Li Xiuning, the princess of Pingyang, is a knowledgeable person, although she did not count these heads pickled in quicklime in detail, but these heads are at least two thousand miles away, and if they are piled up in the capital, it will be extremely terrifying.
"You ...... You guys" Xue Wan asked dumbfoundedly: "What about the Western Qin Army, what is going on with these heads?" ”
The Tang Army's garrison in Jingyang County had only 50 people, and it was impossible for 50 people to solve the crisis in Jingyang, and even 500 people could not do it easily.
"Who are you? Let the Jingyang steward come out and talk to the palace! Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Chen Ying, who is not talented, was loved by the fathers and elders of Jingyang, and was elected as the governor of Jingyang, leading the people of Jingyang to resist the attack of the Western Qin army!" Chen Ying bowed his hand to Li Xiuning without humbity and said: "Back to Her Royal Highness Princess Pingyang, the Western Qin army has committed my Jingyang, and I have been completely annihilated by my Jingyang fathers and elders, with a total of 2,452 heads, 373 war horses, 2,000 armor pairs, and a number of long and short blades!" ”
"It can't be!" Xue Wanche pointed at Chen Ying and said, "Do you know what the crime is to lie about the military situation?" ”
Chen Ying's eyes flashed, and he looked directly at Xue Wanche without fear, his eyes were cold: "I don't know, Your Excellency?" ”
"A certain is the right leader of the East Palace, Xue Wanche!"
Chen Ying's eyes were fixed, and he didn't expect to meet a cowman. At the same time, he was also a ruthless man, Xue Wanche invested in the shogunate of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and was appreciated by Li Jiancheng. At the time of the Xuanwumen Change, after learning that he led the East Palace soldiers to fight, and even counterattacked the Qin Palace, until Li Shimin sent someone to show the head of the prince, he put down his arms and led dozens of horsemen to flee into Nanshan. Later, Tang Taizong appreciated his martial courage and repeatedly sent envoys to pay homage to the generals. He made great contributions in the Ping Turks, Xue Yantuo Department, and the expedition to Goguryeo.
"General Xue, I am the commander of this battle of Jingyang, I have no official position, and now I am still white." Chen Yingdao: "I took our seven surviving Tang soldiers and the people of the whole city, and annihilated a total of 2,452 people from the king of Yixing in Western Qin to the ......."
Quiet –
Li Xiuning was stunned for a while, he didn't expect that the person who commanded the battle of Jingyang this time was just a nobody, not only Chen Ying's attitude made them feel a strong shock, but at the same time, a few key words in his mouth made them at a loss for a while.
Seven Tang soldiers and a rabble actually annihilated 2,500 people below Zong Luohu.
Xue Wanche's eyes protruded.
Seven people annihilated 2,500 people and horses, this cowhide is too big, right?
Even if Sun Wu is resurrected and the overlord is alive, I'm afraid he won't be able to do it, right?
Although the reinforcements led by Li Xiuning were not elite troops, they were the highest status of the people. For example, this right-led guard is in charge of three to five regiments, Xue Wanche, and his official position is equivalent to that of the local commander. And the local Zhichong Lieutenant is only a military attache of the sixth rank or from the sixth rank, while Xue Wanche is a military attache from the fifth rank. Even the commander of the Zhao Wangfu personal guard brigade is from the sixth grade. Don't look at Li Xiuning, there are only 500 people, but he led Ma Sanbao, the general of Ningyuan, who is the fifth grade, Xue Wanche, the ranger general who is from the fifth grade, and even the ordinary brigade commander (100 people) is also from the sixth rank, and the team is still the seventh rank.
These people don't look at the ability to fight well, but the score is not small.
If it weren't for Princess Pingyang personally leading the army, I'm afraid that Ma Sanbao, the general of Ningyuan, who is a five-grade general, would not be able to shock them.
"This cowhide is blowing too big, isn't it?"
"Who can't take the head? Won't Lao Tzu kill good and take credit? ”
"It must be that the Western Qin Army has retreated, and they themselves put gold on their faces!"
"Otherwise, it would be reinforcements from other places, could it be that His Royal Highness the King of Qin led the army to kill Zong Luohu?"
"Just with the seven of them, let alone 2,500 people, Lao Tzu can kill them ten times with 200 people!"
"Against the two thousand five hundred Western Qin troops, none of our five hundred elites are ten percent sure of repelling them and annihilating them, it's really fucking shameless!"
"How could a mere fifty-man defender be able to stop the two thousand five hundred tigers and wolves of Western Qin, I thought they were all dead!"
Unbridled conversations rang out among the reinforcements led by Li Xiuning, even if the war was over, they only saw a place head, and did not see the enemy's corpse at all. Moreover, in their opinion, Chen Ying and the seven of them, even if they were strong in martial arts, were only ten enemies.
100 enemies, 10,000 enemies, that's definitely bragging.
And most importantly, they can't accept that they have made a trip for nothing. Although the Tang Dynasty established the country by force, the military salary in peacetime was not high, and if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, you must rely on war. Therefore, there is the Tang Dynasty, which is the dynasty with the most frequent wars in Chinese history.
These people did not deliberately lower their voices when they talked, and the soldiers of the Xiangyong Battalion heard it clearly, and the monstrous anger appeared on everyone's faces.
"Bragging?"
"Killing good and risking merit?
"Can't stop it? Should they be dead?
Li Xiuning was not disturbed by gossip, as a strange woman in Chinese history, she has her own observations and judgments.
Chen Ying's principle of dealing with the world is that people respect me for a foot, I let people be a foot, he definitely has no face to hang down.
Chen Ying suddenly came out of the ranks, glared at a pair of angry eyes and scolded fiercely: "Ignorance, who told you that if you have few people, you can't defeat many people, if you fight with only the number of people, will Yang Guang still use the three expeditions to Goguryeo?" The Western Qin army that invaded Jingyang has died, and the enemy army has been annihilated by us, this is a victory for our Jingyang Township Yong Battalion, no one helps! ”
As soon as these words came out, the scene was suddenly quiet, and it was quiet for more than ten breaths, and then an exaggerated laughter sounded among the reinforcements.
"Hahaha! Got kicked in the head by a donkey, right? ”
"Bragging, that's not how to brag!"
"Let's not talk about how fierce the Western Qin soldiers are, just those 2,500 people, don't, it's 2,500 pigs, can you kill all seven of you?"
No one would believe Chen Ying's words, after all, in the eyes of normal people, this is simply the end of defeat, not to mention that there are only seven Tang Army soldiers in Jingyang.
Chen Ying frowned, and after a slight groan, he looked at Li Xiuning, who also looked incredulous: "Your Royal Highness Princess, if you are here to make trouble, then please go back, the war is over, and we have no place in Jingyang City that needs your help." ”