Chapter 204: Field Battle
When Sukh Saha learned that a large army had appeared behind him, and that he had destroyed the 14,000 men and horses left behind him to be responsible for the supply of grain and grass, and captured his three cities where grain and grass were transferred, he was stunned. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
He originally had an army of 120,000, in order to ensure the safety of Beijing, he divided 35,000 men and horses to clear the Korean army that crossed the river, and in order to ensure the supply of grain and grass, he divided 14,000 people, and before the war with Chen Xin, 8,000 people were eliminated by a sneak attack, so there were 63,000 people left in total.
I thought that more than 60,000 troops could easily destroy Chen Xin, but who knows, in recent years, Chen Xin has secretly made so many artillery, and the power of muskets is far more powerful than the bird guns he sold to Amin's troops.
This is bad enough, I didn't expect that there were still people copying their own back roads, Suke Saha asked in a low voice, "Have you found out?" Who is it? How many people are there? ”
A daizi who was in charge of the sentry replied respectfully, "Master, the enemy army is about 30,000 or more, and it is under the banner of the Xuan army. ”
"Xuanjun?" Sukh Saha exclaimed, "Impossible, absolutely impossible, where did he Chen Xin get the 30,000 army?" There are at least 10,000 people in these three camps, and we have sent people to rush into the hinterland of his fiefdom several times, but they have all been surrounded and suppressed, indicating that there are at least 10,000 men and horses behind him, where can he still muster up an army of 30,000? ”
"Master, it is indeed an army of 30,000 under the banner of Xuanjun, and my subordinates have seen it with their own eyes, but many of them are still wearing armor and weapons from the Korean period."
Mr. Song, who was sitting on the side, said, "Oh, Korean armor and weapons? Could it be the 20,000 troops that Amin sent to support Chen Xin in the first place? ”
Sukh Saha also remembered at this time that before he killed Amin, Amin sent 10,000 Jurchens and 10,000 servants to support Chen Xin and help him defend against the Great Khan.
However, after thinking for a while, Suke Saha asked with some doubts, "Aren't the 20,000 horses rebelled by us?" We also deliberately leaked it to the people on Chen Xin's side, how could he dare to use those 20,000 people? ”
Mr. Song tightened the heavy cotton clothes on his body and said, "I'm afraid that those wastes didn't make Chen Xin disarm with much effort, there has been no movement of these 20,000 people for so long, Chen Xin should be recruiting these people." ”
Suke Saha nodded and agreed with Mr. Song's statement, but then he was puzzled, "No, it's only 20,000, our rear has been continuously captured since 10 days ago, and 4 days ago, we also lost 3,000 cavalry in the north, Chen Xin's rear definitely didn't move, where did he have these 10,000 people?" ”
After thinking for a long time, Mr. Song and Sukh Saha said together, "Could it be a suspicious plan? ”
With that, the two laughed together.
"In that case, then, let's also have a suspicious plan."
"What does the master mean?"
"The three turtle shells in front of me can't move, that's because Chen Xin has been prepared, and the time and place are in his hands, since we can't attack for a long time, why don't we change our goals, put out suspicious soldiers here, prevent Chen Xin from counterattacking, and the army quietly goes south to take Chen Xin's 20,000 soldiers and horses."
"Master Gao Jian, our army is not good at attacking cities, but the field battle is absolutely not afraid of anyone, the sentry reported that the enemy has collapsed the walls of several cities, and there is no barrier of the city wall.
"That's right, this time, I must do my best to give an order to let the 35,000 troops in Shangjing go north and attack the 20,000 horses exposed by Chen Xin with us."
"Master, we haven't received any news from Shangjing, I don't know if they have finished fighting there, will it be too hasty to transfer people at this time."
"Tens of thousands of Korean straw bales, how can it be that the fight has not been completed, I haven't received the news, it should be that the road was intercepted by Chen Xin's small group of raiding troops, this time send more people, send a Niu Lu, and send all the cavalry, I don't believe that he Chen Xin can still stop it."
"The minions obey."
In the afternoon of the same day, more than 200 Jurchen cavalry broke away from the camp and galloped towards the south, and no one on the Houjin side noticed that there was an eagle falcon hovering above the head of that group of cavalry.
The eagle's sharp eyes were firmly fixed on the targets on the ground, and after determining their direction and speed, one flapped its wings, swept past these people, and took the lead towards Suchuan in the south.
In the next few days, Houjin was honest again, and did not attack or capture slaves.
Of course, now if you want to catch slaves, you have to run hundreds of miles away, and the distance is too far is one of the reasons why Houjin no longer arrests people.
In the past two months, Houjin has captured all the Koreans within a radius of several hundred miles, and when Houjin attacked, the Koreans who died every day were able to cover the entire firing range of Fort No. 1.
If Chen Xin hadn't come out with the Tiger Ben camp every night to quietly wander around and dispose of all the dead bodies, I'm afraid this place would have become a hell long ago.
Fortunately, with so much energy, the mortality rate of Chen Xin's subordinates will be so low, in the offensive and defensive battle that lasted for more than two months, the Xuan army sacrificed more than 400 people, of course, this does not count those new formations.
Tens of thousands of people in the offensive and defensive war, only more than 400 people were sacrificed, and this can simply shock other people's jaws, you must know that in this era, there is no effective treatment, even if it is a small mouth, eighty percent can also kill people, but in the Xuan army, thousands of wounded soldiers, as long as they did not die on the spot, all survived, many veterans of the old war have begun to worship Chen Xin's statue at home, so it can be seen that Chen Xin's golden finger effect is huge, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an artifact.
Let's not talk about these for the time being, there is no movement on the Houjin side, the happiest thing is still Chen Xin and the whole Xuan army, the day drags on, the hope of their own victory will be one more point, as long as the detachment in the south can replenish the logistics supply as soon as possible, and then wave the army to the north, they will be able to flank the more than 60,000 troops of Houjin with the troops personally led by Chen Xin in the north.
No, now the number of troops personally led by Su Ke Saha on the Houjin side is not more than 60,000, and after more than two months of attack and defense, although most of the dead are slaves and coats, but the soldiers in charge of pressing the formation on the Houjin side must supervise the slaves and must also follow closely, so the losses are not small.
Especially on the first day of the official attack, and after the Ranger raid last month, the enemy's attack, both times the enemy army rushed to the fortress like crazy, and the casualties of those two times were no less than 10,000, according to the estimates of the Xuan army staff officers, about 18,000.
Combined with the scattered casualties in the past two months, the army led by Sukh Saha should really be about 40,000.
This number, compared to the initial 120,000, is no longer so frightening, and the difference between the number after the general mobilization of the Xuan Army is no longer so great, Chen Xin has dared to fight with the current Houjin army.