Chapter 57: Elbow and Armpit Trouble
Under the noon sun, the southern part of Luo County raised pieces of chilling knife light, rolling down the head and piling up the cars. Pan Ling opened his big bow, raised his eyes, and flew the arrows in his hand, and the Xiongnu captives who had not yet run away from the rope with their hands bound in the distance were only waiting for a shout to fall, and the arrows that came out of his chest brought out the blood and slowly soaked the red sand.
Pan Ling suffered the hardships of the Huns, the previous Liao was defeated, and the old department that he killed from Liaodong was lost, and there were only more than 100 old subordinates left in the old subordinates who he knew after several years of conquest, so he killed the Xiongnu without mercy.
At present, most of his generals are border residents of Bingzhou, probably because the people in the border counties of Bingzhou practice martial arts, although there are many new soldiers, their combat power has not weakened much. At first, he looked down on these angry people, where could they compare to the fierce and fierce of the rangers in the past, but these timid border people of the state after fighting the Huns a few times, because of their timidity and fear, they listened to military orders more, which made him more comfortable with the command of his subordinates.
From this point of view, the troubles caused to him by the first two bursts of dozens of collapses are almost negligible.
It can really be said that there are gains and losses, since Liaodong although Yanbei, Pan Ling has fought for many years, although there is still not much progress in the battle formation, but in the end there is a set of his own experience in selecting troops and selecting generals for the future to pass on to his son...... The fierce and daring rangers are very good, and they are brave in the battle array, and can be used as a military commander, a chief, or even a tun commander or a military marquis, while ordinary soldiers are best used to be honest and obedient people, the more honest the better. The army formed in this way is forbidden in war, and there are both brave men who can boost morale, and dull soldiers who can listen to orders, so that they can be invincible!
That's right, Pan Ling called these honest people stupid pawns.
But isn't his mother a dumb pawn, the Huns rushed in the direction of the south of Luo County more than 30 times, all of them fled from the defeat of most of the Huyan Guduhou, after this rebellion, there was no place for them in the Central Plains, and they all wanted to rush to the grassland from the north to nomadism, and when they saw Pan Ling in Luo County, they knew that they were blocked, and they all became outlaws, and they went crazy to rush out of a way out. The front wall broke through one layer and repaired one layer at a time, blocking the enemy again and again, the trenches were filled in with the heads of people and horses, the land was stained with red and white things, and even the rubble of a few houses in the suburbs was gone.
After more than ten years of war, to this day, Pan Ling followed Jiang Jin from Yanmen to more than 3,000 subordinates in front of the royal court, and now there are only about 700 left, and there are few escapees, all of whom died on a piece of land.
"When you go to the city, you can ride a horse and dance a knife, fifteen to fifty down, and all those who have to pay taxes will be pulled out by Lao Tzu!" He doesn't know how long this battle will have to last, and now he will recruit troops privately without informing Yanbei, and eighty percent will be punished at that time, but the punishment is more pleasant than not being able to hold it. He followed Jiang Jin and the Huns to lose, and with the intention of atonement, he pointed at Luo Cheng and scolded: "Don't let them watch the men fight life and death, come down and exert their strength!" Yes, the best arc sword and armored horses here, coupled with curved bows and arrows, kill the Huns! ”
Although Pan Ling's words are big, he himself knows that there are not many people forcibly recruited at all, a city is full of tens of thousands of people, but after the old and weak women and children are screened out, there are only 10,000 or 20,000 left, and 120,000 miles have to pick out those who can ride horses and dance knives, how many can there be? Anyway, for him, 12,000 is not too little, 35,000 is not too much, all the pulls, and one more is earned!
Although it is a forced conscription, Pan Ling did not lie, he has collected a lot of war profits in the past ten days, those fleeing Huns do not have much armor, it is estimated that the road is too heavy to lose, but the sabers, bows and arrows, horses and horses are all kept, they slaughtered more than 2,000 Huns here, and more than 4,000 sets of armor were empty.
The soldier was ordered to take a hundred people to ride a horse towards the city gate, and when he saw the city open the door, Pan Ling didn't think much about it, and shouted a few words to his subordinates to repair the camp and dig a trench, so he ran south with more than ten horse scouts, he had to go far away, for fear that the Huns who came over would take advantage of his unpreparedness.
This time he ran out of thirty miles, and although he relied on fast horses, he was always busy for half a day, and when he returned to the camp in the evening, Pan Ling would be happy, not to mention that the trench camp was repaired, and there were hundreds of bonfires in the camp, although it was not far under the night, but there were no less than two thousand people in a rough count.
This is really an unexpected joy, how can so many people be forcibly recruited, and they can sit around the campfire so peacefully, even dressed neatly in armor!
Pan Ling turned over and dismounted and threw a whip, grabbed the cronies who came to him and asked, "There must be more than 2,000 people, why are there so many?" ”
"General, more than 600 people have been recruited, and more than 30 large families in the city are not willing to join the army, and all of them have more soldiers than my personal guards......" Pan Ling couldn't see the appearance of the general's angered bag, and immediately gritted his teeth and buckled his hand to the handle of the knife: "The knife in your hand is an ornament?" Press the crown of collusion with the Huns to kill three or five families, see if his mother still dares, well, what the hell are you doing covering Lao Tzu! ”
scolded to the point that he was about to enter the city to draw a knife and kill people, but he was suddenly gagged by the frightened general, and finally broke free and heard the general whisper: "General Yan, Da Sima is here, in the Chinese military tent!" ”
"Great, great, lord?" Pan Ling heard the expression on his face from anger to surprise and from surprise to joy, choked the long ring knife into the sheath and quickly ran forward two steps, then saw the Chinese military tent open to reveal a long figure, before he could see the face under the light of the torch, he saw that the man showed a mouth full of white teeth, and the familiar voice had reached his ears, "I haven't seen you for a few years, your General Pan has learned to forcibly recruit the villagers, who are you going to kill?" ”
"Don't kill anyone, don't kill anyone, the county tycoon is too deceitful, scold two sentences and export evil anger!" Pan Ling smiled, approached and asked, "Where did the lord come from, and his subordinates walked south with the scouts for dozens of miles without seeing anyone...... But what general ordered, just send a soldier, why don't you come in person! ”
"I didn't come to you." Yan Bei chuckled in Pan Ling's cautious tone, pointed to the south and said a word, then turned over and led Pan Ling into the military tent, and then said: "Take back the scouts, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the south are rushing to the north, and there is no mistake." ”
Pan Ling glared slightly, and asked thoughtfully, "Is the fight over?" ”
"Almost, in the end, a few thousand horsemen bypassed Meiji and drilled into the desert, allowing the Huns' Liu Meng to surround them. I will come and see your results, and send five hundred horsemen to lead the way. Qingzhou Yuan originally started his army, and he had to continue to fight when he went back, so he wanted to take you back...... You have been a general for a few years, and you are still acting with the people. ”
"You go south along the river, if the time is slow, you will be able to meet General Duliao, and if you have the courage to make an envoy with my brothers, go and foreign envoys, and escort the Huns south to Gongxian, you go." Saying that, Yan Bei sighed a little tiredly, and then looked at Pan Ling and said with a smile: "After that, I simply stayed in Henan, and the garrison Xingyang recruited troops on the spot, and listened to the arrangements of the Duke of Fu...... I'm worried that the Cao clan will also take advantage of the chaos to raise troops to go north, you go to see Ah Hide's elbows! ”