Chapter 45: After the War
Huang Hansheng shot a few arrows and shot a few fleeing native soldiers, and as the distance increased, he gave up the attack and looked at Xia Nan: "Master, do you want to pursue?" ”
Xia Nan looked at the team members around him, most of them were injured, although he held the spear tightly and maintained a fighting posture, many of his hands were shaking, obviously after a hard battle, the physical exertion was very great. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the other party is more damaged, but his own side is also the end of the strong crossbow.
He shook his head: "Give up the pursuit and keep the formation".
Huang Mengjia withdrew from his position among the native soldiers, and did not stop until he was sure that he was not within the range of the bow and arrow.
He turned around and looked hatefully at the still neat formation on the other side, and at the murderous archer behind him. In this battle, no matter from which point of view, the chopping foot was defeated, with 600 people on their own side and more than 400 people coming back. With the current morale, there is no possibility of another attack.
He hesitated for a moment, and ordered to "withdraw", and the remaining hundreds of native soldiers did not care about packing up rations and other supplies, and evacuated the battlefield in a swarm.
Watching the enemy disappear into the mountains, the nervous guards slackened and shouted "Win, win!" On the wooden wall, the people of Tinan Mountain were relieved and hugged each other, celebrating the escape of their clansmen.
Xia Nan also relaxed, and for a while felt pain everywhere in his body. After asking someone to bandage the wound on his shoulder, he was still a little scared when he recalled the battle just now. If they did not withstand the impact of Huang Mengjia, the guards who lacked combat experience would definitely collapse, and the guards who had the advantage in formation and tactics would be defeated.
The victory in this battle was generally won by strict discipline and training, and long-range strikes at critical moments were the magic weapon to win. There is no doubt that the strike of long-range firepower is the king, and the pace of firearms in the troops must be accelerated. In hand-to-hand combat like this, even if your side has better training and discipline than your opponent, the casualty rate is unacceptable. Today, they are only facing the native soldiers of ethnic minorities, and if they encounter the Houjin army, which has the strongest hand-to-hand combat ability in this era, I am afraid that the casualty figures will be even more terrifying.
Leaving people to clean up and count the battlefield, Xia Nan returned to the village with his teammates, and he still had something to do.
When he arrived at the wooden wall, the coward who had flinched in battle still collapsed in place, with a trail of water under him, emitting an unpleasant smell, and he was actually scared of feces and urine, and it seemed that the tragic battle made him very frightened.
Xia Nan asked coldly, "What's your name?" ”
This man's teeth are fighting," Tan ...... Tan Gouzi ......"
"How many people are in the family?"
Tan Gouzi understood something, but there was still a trace of luck.
"At home...... There are also parents, wives, and sons......" He plucked up his courage and got up and lay down in front of Xia Nan, "Old ...... Master, please see that I have elderly parents and a wife and children to raise, spare me this time! ”
Xia Nan still replied coldly: "You have parents, wives and children, don't they?" He pointed to the wounded team members behind him, and then to the bodies of the guards under the wooden wall, "What about the dead, don't they have parents, wives and children?" ”
Tan Gouzi didn't dare to speak, just lay on the ground and kowtowed, and after a while, his head broke, and blood flowed down his forehead.
Xia Nan continued to say coldly: "The reason why we are fighting against these vicious Li soldiers is to protect everything we have from being destroyed. If we retreat, today they will take possession of Tinan Mountain, tomorrow they may destroy the village of Mayu, destroy our factories, take away goods and women, your father and mother will be killed, and your wife will be taken captive and ravaged. ”
Tan Gouzi defended in a low voice, "They will only attack Li Zhai, and they will not come to attack our ......."
Xia Nan said sharply: "If you have ears, you can hear the words of their master: An incident is about to start and attack Chengmai County and Lingao County!" Do you think we can avoid it by hiding in Lingao? Or do you think the government can protect you? ”
Tan Gouzi was speechless. This Li people are extremely fierce, if a riot is launched and Lingao is attacked, more than a dozen officials of the county government will obviously be unable to resist it, and without the escort team, the county will inevitably be washed in blood, and it will be difficult for Ma Yuan Village to escape the catastrophe.
The guards behind him imagined this scene and couldn't help but be afraid. If they can't defeat the other party, after the Tinan Ridge is baptized in blood, it may be their family's turn next.
Now Mayuan Village is no longer the poor and numb Mayuan Village, life is much richer than before, everyone has a passion for life and expectations for a better life in the future, and everyone does not want all this to be destroyed.
Xia Nan announced: "Execute Tan Gouzi in public, confiscate all family property, drive the family out of Ma Yuan Village, and never set foot in Ma Yuan Village for life." ”
Tan Gouzi's teeth rattled and his whole body trembled, this decision broke his luck and was something he couldn't bear.
Yang Youji stepped forward, raised his spear, and was about to stab it, when Xia Nan spoke: "After all, it's a person from Ma Yuan Village, so I won't see blood, leave a complete body for his family."
When Yang Youji heard this, he put down his spear, set up Tan Gouzi, wrapped his bowstring around his neck, and strangled it tightly. Tan Gouzi's eyes rolled when he was strangled, his tongue stuck out from the elder, and he died after a while.
The guards watched Tan Gouzi's tragic condition, but no one pleaded. The convoy fought with their lives to win the battle, and this kind of coward who survived secretly did not deserve sympathy. It's a pity that his family was affected by him, confiscated his family property and drove him out of Ma Yuan Village, and he had to bear the shame, which was worse than death. Several timid team members were frightened, glad that they had finally jumped off the wooden wall, otherwise they would have ended up with him.
At this time, after the cleaning of the battlefield was completed, the team members in charge of the inventory came to report that twenty-nine of the guards were killed, seventy-seven were wounded, one hundred and three were killed by beheading, and eighty-six were seriously wounded. Judging from the proportion of casualties, the escort team completely defeated the local soldiers, and most of the escort injuries were cut wounds, which would not endanger their lives, while the injuries of the native soldiers were very serious, and the wounds that penetrated the wounds could not be closed, and the bleeding did not stop, as long as they were left alone, most of them could not survive for half an hour.
Xia Nan came to the battlefield and commanded everyone to transport the bodies of the 29 dead team members back to Mayuan Village for burial. When passing by a seriously injured native soldier, the native soldier struggled to try to grab Xia Nan's calf, and hissed, "Please, give me a good time." ”
After wandering between life and death three times and twice, Xia Nan no longer has the compassion he had in the face of the Hu family, and the seriously injured enemy is also an enemy, if he sympathizes with them, he is the one who lies on the ground and begs for mercy. He nodded and said, "I'll give you a good time, as long as you tell me, why did you attack Chengmai and Lingao County?"
This is a question he has had since before the war, Chopping Foot has the experience of assisting the government to suppress other Li riots, and should be a supporter of the government, why did he suddenly riot? Moreover, attacking the county seat is a naked rebellion, the government will not tolerate such a thing, and it is bound to mobilize officers and soldiers to suppress it, what is his Huang Mengjia trying to do?