Chapter 141: Go to Heaven, Go Back to Hell
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Last night's extra-time match between Argentina and Switzerland was fantastic.
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"What a ......" How to say it, Lu Zhe raised the bamboo slip in his hand with his right hand and was silent for a moment: "The whole camp is full of wounds, we need to rest." β
A pyrrhic victory, really a victory that was almost lost. They dispatched about 25,000 men, and after several battles, no more than 5,000 people were intact, and most of these people were reinforcements from Yiling from behind, and almost every one of them who participated in the battle from the beginning was wounded.
The orthodox Qin army of the first school, 3,500 soldiers, killed more than 1,500 people, and the rest were wounded, even if they were slightly injured, they basically lost the battle, because they were too tired; Of the 1,500 auxiliaries, more than 300 were killed in the decisive battle, and more than 200 were seriously wounded, and the rest were not fit to fight again, not because they were tired but had not yet recovered mentally.
Of the 20,000 soldiers who were temporarily organized, more than 3,000 were killed by young men between the ages of 18 and 30, about 2,000 by the elderly, and only about 400 by those under the age of 18.
This is a thrilling data, Lu Zhe was really frightened when he learned that the total number of casualties was more than 12,000, the number of soldiers who survived and rested for a period of time and could still participate in the battle was less than 1,500, and the number of young and strong people was even reduced by half, leaving less than 4,000 people left to fight.
Don't you have to rely on those old and weak to fight? If there are more people than the enemy, you can try it, and the ant attachment tactic is used on the side that has the advantage of numbers without training. The number of people is not dominant. To take less than 10,000 old and weak to fight 50,000 enemy troops, isn't that driving them to death!
This is equivalent to nearly half of the casualties for a force of only 25,000 people, and the casualties are still the main combat strength of this army, Lu Zhe understands that his army is already disabled.
"Pack up the loot and prisoners," Lu Zhe touched his painful left shoulder, "Let's go back to Yiling for the time being." β
Having a sense of pain is a good thing for Lu Zhe, he originally thought it was useless, and having a feeling means that he can recover, but it is estimated that it is impossible to recover. He had a comminuted fracture of the bone in his left shoulder, and he didn't have a plaster cast in those years. It can only be fixed with specially sold wooden boards and strips of cloth and hung on the chest.
Ji Bu, who led the army alone and completed the task, was a little different from before, not that he had become arrogant and domineering, but that there was a sense of confidence in his eyes. He led his troops at the most opportune moment...... Well, in fact, he simply attacked immediately, but he really attacked Ouyue's baggage troops at the most opportune time. Under the sneak attack, the baggage defenders of Ouyue thought that the front was defeated and was simply about to collapse, and captured most of the grain and grass that the Ouyue soldiers did not have time to burn, a large number of strange furs and livestock.
It is completely understandable that the army carries grain and livestock. The grain of the Baiyue people is basically rice-based. The livestock is mainly black-haired pigs, and there are a large number of buffaloes; The question is, what did the Baiyue people do when they were fighting with hundreds of carts of animal fur?
"Commander!" Ji Bu stood up and arched his hand: "Please give Zhi a force of 1,000 men, and let Zhi go after the enemy army that is still fleeing." β
In a war, the cycle of chasing the enemy's soldiers is actually very long, and sometimes it is normal to chase and kill for half a year after the battle. LΓΌ Zhe's subordinates only pursued for two days before returning to their respective camps because they were tired.
"A thousand people," Lu Zhe thought for a while, they had to repair in Yiling for at least half a month, "It's okay." You go down and recruit volunteers to go after you, but don't go near Gangneung. β
Can't get close to Gangneung Jibu understands that it doesn't irritate the 50,000 Baiyue people there, but what kind of thing is a volunteer?
"The soldiers are too tired to let those who have the physical strength to want to gain merit and wealth voluntarily choose whether to go or not," Lu Zhe explained when he saw Ji Bu's face full of doubts. He said to the other officers, "Go down and get ready." After that, he stopped his eyes on Li Yuncong, Liang Qu, and Haojian, "The three of you stay." β
Except for the three men who were named, the other officers all went out.
Waiting for the unspared officers to come out of the tent, at least twenty samurai with long swords poured out of the back tent, and they immediately surrounded the three who had been left behind.
Li Yuncong already knew the news of Tu Sui's self-immolation, and he had been very decadent since he knew the news of Lu Dao, and he just turned his head to look at Lu Zhe in a daze in the face of several warriors surrounding him.
Liang Qu and Haoma showed frightened expressions when they were surrounded by samurai, and Liang Qu asked loudly: "Lord General, what do you mean by this!?" β
Lu Zhe felt that their luck was too good, he had deliberately arranged the three of them in the first sequence of the charge, and the others were either dead or disabled, and the three of them were not only dead but also not injured.
"Li Yuncong, the chief doctor, is the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army. He was brave, and after learning that the general Tu Sui was killed, he killed the enemy in anger, beheaded the enemy thirteen, and was besieged and died in battle. β
Almost as soon as Lu Zhe finished reading, the five warriors surrounding Li Yuncong roared and pounced, Li Yuncong had a stunned expression until he was stabbed in the chest by the long sword, and when he fell to the ground and vomited blood, he looked at Lu Zhe with a calm expression in confusion. He didn't understand, as Tu Sui's personal soldier, even if he said a few more words, he was just doing his duty, and he was not guilty of death at all.
Li Yuncong, who fell in a pool of blood and was about to die, intermittently: "For, for...... What to kill...... Kill...... I ......"
Lu Zhe's face darkened when he was asked, and he couldn't answer.
Hao Jian and Liang Qu were so frightened that they almost jumped to their feet, and they yelled at Lu Zhe again and again: "Kill Pao Ze without permission, aren't you afraid of military discipline!" β
The warriors looked at Lu Zhe and killed him with Lu Zhe nodding.
"Liang Qu, the lord of the Jue, the five hundred masters of the southern expeditionary army. His people were fierce and fearless, and they did not retreat in the face of unfavorable situations, and they killed twelve enemy heads with outnumbered blows, and died bravely. β
Liang Qu, who had already cut off two arms with his bare hands, laughed when he heard Lu Zhe "telling" in a calm tone. He was pressed down by a samurai who shouted "Wait! ", looked at Lu Zhe and said, "Thank you, Jun ......" Before the word 'Hou' was finished, the blood vessels in his neck were pulled by the long sword, and the blood arrow spurted out, so soft that it was on the ground.
Haojian has been retreating, but now there is no way to retreat, he was surrounded by seven warriors in the middle, and when he saw that Li Yuncong and Liang Qu had been killed, he looked at Lu Zhe: "The main general." Let's not say a few more words, sin will not lead to death! β
Lu Zhe's face was gloomy: "I'm really sorry, if it were in normal times, I would abandon you at most, but now...... There is no room for uncertainty right now...... So. I'm sorry you guys...... I will exalt your sorrow to the highest level. Your descendants will be rewarded with great bounty by Your Majesty. β
Haoma pulled an ugly smile. "It's okay, warriors will inevitably die in battle. Tell me how I died. β
Lu Zhe nodded: "Haojian, Doctor Jue, the five hundred lords of the Southern Expeditionary Army." He was good at fighting, fought bravely in the face of the enemy's encirclement, and unfortunately died in the battle when he led the army to break through. β
Haoma pleaded, "Can you let me kill myself?" β
Lu Zhe hesitated and shook his head: "I don't want to change." "What a joke. It would be hilarious to give a weapon and then Hakuma suddenly burst out and kill himself.
"Don't you even want to retain the dignity of a warrior?" His voice was dry, and Hiroma closed his eyes regretfully.
The sound of a sharp weapon breaking through a muscle. There was no scream, only a muffled grunt, and Haoma's body fell to the ground with a bang.
All three were killed, and the warriors saluted respectfully to Lu Zhe, who was sitting on the throne with a gloomy face, and then retreated to the back tent.
Lu Zhe with a gloomy expression on his face was not hypocritical, he didn't want to kill the officers under his command by this means, "They don't die on the battlefield for what they don't ...... for", these three people have been challenging the authority of the chief general in front of all the officers, even if he is a temporary commander, it is not allowed, "I'm really sorry, but for me, for more people, I have to kill you!! β
The curtain was opened, and Ji Bu lowered his head and looked up to see the mess inside the tent. He was stunned for a moment when he saw the corpses of the three people, and then saw Lu Zhe, who was sitting on the main seat looking very melancholy, and wanted to withdraw from the body, but Lu Zhe's eyes had already been seen.
"This ......," Ji Bu felt that he had discovered a secret that he should not know, and he was dumb for a while, and said with some difficulty, "the Lord will ...... Job, job specially came to ask for a warrant. β
"I killed them," the smile on Lu Zhe's face was reluctant, "You guessed right, I did order someone to kill them." β
At this moment, what else could Ji Bu say except to be silent? He was scolding the fierce man guarding the tent curtain in his heart, why didn't he block himself, if he blocked it, he wouldn't see such a scene.
"You ......" Lu Zhe stood up, and he walked towards Ji Bu.
Ji Bu was a little nervous when he saw Lu Zhe coming, he almost couldn't control and took a step back, but he was stopped by his own gritted teeth.
"You," Lu Zhe had already stretched out his right hand, and he saw Ji Bu's cheeks tremble like cramps, "Don't worry, I didn't want to kill you." The raised right arm patted Ji Bu's shoulder, looked at Ji Bu who was relieved, and smiled bitterly, "You...... Follow me and work hard, and the future will be promising. After speaking, he turned around and walked to the long case of the main seat, took out a talisman, walked back and handed it out.
Ji Bu had the talisman in his hand, and he didn't know how he had exited the bloody tent. He stopped in his tent and looked down at the talisman in his hand, only to hear footsteps before he turned his head to look over, and saw more than twenty samurai with blood on their bodies and disappearing in a corner.
How to describe it, Ji Bu is not the thirty-year-old Ji Bu, he has too little experience now, and his personality is very righteous, but that doesn't mean that he is jealous or hateful. Besides, he is now just a 500 master who has not become famous, and he is not qualified to interfere too much, and he is not very familiar with those three people.
What kind of experience and what kind of fame has the corresponding character and thoughts, Ji Bu at this moment does not feel angry, he feels more at a loss.
"This ......," Ji Bu lowered his head and took another step, "Is the main general's qi very small?" Kill three people because of a few objections? As if he had bumped into someone, he crooked his body and didn't stop, thinking to himself, "The Lord has been appointing sages, and his personality is very easy-going, isn't that kind of person!?" βγ He is only a 500 master, thinking about a very situational matter, without a vision of the overall situation, he is destined to not figure out why Lu Zhe wants to kill Li Yuncong, Haojian and Liang Qu.
"Do you want to follow the Lord?" Ji Bu was a little uncertain, "The main general has recorded his military exploits, and the living robes, the general (five hundred lords) should be promoted to the second rank at least to the second rank, and the hundred generals are also promoted to the first rank and may also be promoted to the general, and the rest of the soldiers can also be promoted to the ...... of the field", yes. He reacted, Li Yuncong, Haojian, and Liang Qu, who had no wonderful performances, did not match their achievements at the meeting, and at the meeting, he was very unconvinced that the merits of these three people were higher than his own, so he asked for orders to pursue, and now he reacted. "That's when the Lord is thinking about their offspring!"
Maybe, just maybe. Ji Bu felt that such a master would not kill his subordinates for no reason. Maybe Lu Zhe really had a reason to kill three people?
Lu Zhe in the tent was in a daze, he seemed to have forgotten to let people restrain the bodies of the three people, he didn't think it just now, and now there was a strong smell of blood in the tent.
"Fame and fortune!" Lu Zhe didn't want to stay in the tent anymore, he walked towards the tent curtain, "Heh." Opened the curtain and walked out of the tent to look left and right, and saw the guard by the tent, "After Xianyang is approved, your title is a third-class lord." He observed Mamyo's expression very carefully, "Do you feel happy?" β
How can Mammoto not be happy? He nodded violently: "Happy, happy!" Xie Lu Xie Jun cultivated! β
"Oh......" Lu Zhe looked at his subordinates who were busy, "among them, the Qin soldiers will get at least a hundred acres of land as long as they live, and some of them will be promoted by beheading; A large part of these people in the Six Nations will also be rewarded for their merits. He looked at Mamyozo again and asked, "Will they be happy?" β
Meng San still kept nodding: "If you don't die, there will be blessings, of course they will be happy." β
"Hmm!" Lu Zhe smiled, "That's right!" Most people are happy, and the minority obeys the majority, so they will be happy! β
Meng San hesitated for a moment, "Military Master, the three of them are innocent of death, why bother with a knot?" β
Heart knots? Lu Zhe thought about it seriously for a moment, "Do I have a knot?" Hasn't anyone who climbed to a high position done something that he didn't know what was right or wrong? He didn't believe that everyone was noble and pure, "No, no, I don't have a knot." If you do it, you will be depressed and depressed, but there is absolutely no knot!
Adjusting his mood, Lu Zhe looked at the blue sky and muttered to himself: "I really miss the era when there was no war." Oh...... No, in that era, I would always be a. Here...... "I want to make a move to embrace the world, but I can't lift my left shoulder," here, life is more colorful! β
Just as Lu Zhe was lyrical, a rapid sound of horses' hooves broke his sentiment of becoming a poet from far and near.
There were a total of three cavalrymen, all of them were one man and two horses, and they approached and dismounted and saluted: "Lord, Jiangling is urgent!" β
Lu Zhe opened the box sealed with beeswax with a serious expression, took out the wooden coffin inside and looked at it in detail, the more he looked at it, the bigger his eyes became, and he couldn't help but take a breath: "...... Lots of weapons! β
Yes, if there were no reserves, those weapons would have been enough to arm 130,000 and 500 men.
"Five thousand crossbows!" Lu Zhe's eyes lit up a little: "Mei Kai has always regretted that he didn't have a crossbow, otherwise why would he use a crossbow to organize an arrow formation and fight so fiercely." He should be laughing now, right? β
Lu Zhe was also very surprised that there were 5,000 three-pointed two-edged swords, but after thinking about it, he also understood that there were a lot of tall people in the Qin people, and it was actually easy to draw out manpower to form more heavy infantry when he wanted to defend, the difference was only that the combat power was uneven after strict training and temporary cameos.
"It's a pity," Lu Zhe blinked his eyes, "there is no heavy armor!" Otherwise, it would be very simple to raise at least 3,000 heavy infantry against 30,000 Baiyue people in this kind of terrain in the south. β
Thinking of something again, the original posture of shining eyes became sluggish, and Lu Zhe resumed his wry smile: "More than half of the casualties, how can you hurry to Jiangling to rendezvous?" β
After more than an hour of preparation, the whole army was ready to move, and it was only two hours' journey from this plain to the camp in Yiling.
Walking on the road, Lu Zhe has been thinking hard about how to meet Yan Bi in Jiangling.
The army under his command could no longer fight, but Gangneung was surrounded by 50,000 Baiyue enemy troops, and it seems that Baiyue had already made three attacks, one of which was a tentative attack, and two of which were attacks of more than 25,000 men.
The first tentative attack of the Baiyue people almost hit directly, and encouraged by this tentative attack, the last two attacks of Gui Yue and Min Yue fought very fiercely. According to Yan Pi's return. If it weren't for the courage of the 10,000 convicts who were armed, they would have been defeated by the second attack of the Baiyue. And the third time, it may be that the losses of Baiyue's side in the second attack were greater than expected, and their third attack was cautious about casualties and did not attack, otherwise the defenders of Gangneung would not be able to withstand it.
In the true sense of the word, there are less than 70,000 defenders left in Jiangling, and there are still more than 28,000 troops that can be used in Yan Bi's hands, and this is due to the addition of more than 6,000 people from the Zheng family, which means that more than 8,000 people have been reduced in the three battles.
That's a terrifying statistic! After three battles, there were more than 8,000 casualties, which was almost two-thirds of the losses since Lu Zhe led the army.
"No! Yan Bi has no talent to lead the army! Lu Zhe subconsciously looked at his subordinates who were marching: "There are so many weapons in it, don't be killed by the Baiyue people." Do you want to ......?"
Still won't work. Although he should be able to dispatch about 6,000 combat forces to Jiangling with encouragement, Lu Zhe has already announced to the officers the order to repair, if the main general of an army changes the order of the day, how can he lead the troops?
"But......" Lu Zhe really hesitated, "but what about the loss of Jiangling and the acquisition of the batch of ordnance by the Baiyue people!?" β
Tell Yan Bi that all the ordnance was burned when he couldn't hold it? Lu Zhe's heart was trembling, it was a material that could arm an army of 130,000. At least within three months, they will be burned without any support, so how can they fight Gui Yue and Minyue, whose morale has been greatly boosted after the great victory, if they lack weapons!
"Jiaoqu?" Of course, Lu Zhe still remembers such a person. He was still very impressed by Jiaoqu. But it's not about military talent, it's about the intrigue between Jiaoqu and Jiaojiao, "How did he become a prisoner?" β
Back at the camp in Gangneung, facing the earth-shattering cheers of the old and weak women and children left behind, Lu Zhe showed a real smile for the first time.
There is absolutely no way to eat pot pulp to welcome the king, but the picture of relatives hugging each other and crying with joy looks very warm. What about more? It is the grief of learning that a loved one died in battle.
Just watched it for a while. Lu Zhe convened a meeting of the officers.
"Eighty thousand spears, thirty thousand spears, five thousand crossbows, ten thousand bows, twenty-six hundred thousand crossbows, and eight hundred thousand ordinary arrows. Five thousand three-pointed two-edged knives, five hundred long swords used by officers, and five hundred pairs of armor," Lu Zhe could see the ecstasy on the faces of the officers. His next words made the ecstatic people look like ashes, "There are no soldiers in Gangneung, and the pessimistic estimate is that it will not be able to hold out for five days. β
And if those ordnances were obtained by the Baiyue people? Lu Zhe didn't say this, but the officers all sounded the alarm in their minds.
"Three days!" Lu Zhe raised his right hand and gestured out three fingers, "We only rest for three days." Three days later, I decided to go to the aid of Gangneung! β
The so-called nest is less than 20,000 people who can fight, and the age grace has been put to thirteen to fifty-five years old. Some able-bodied women will also be organized, and after all those who can fight in Yiling have been taken away, they will be armed to guard the camp.
A kind of grievance and humiliation mentality gave birth to the hearts of the Qin officers, how long has it been, except for the era of Xiangong Yingshi, when the Qin State was captured by the Wei State in Hexi, when did the Qin State need to rely on children and old people to fight? And it was in that era that the women were sent out to fight.
What kind of situation is this? In other words, it has reached a crisis that we can't afford to lose!
"We've been winning," Lu Zhe's tone was affirmative, "yes, we've been winning several times in a row." But! The enemy can lose in a row, and we only need to lose once...... Even once, yes, we're all going to be doomed! β
Looking at the officers with grim faces, Lu Zhe suddenly laughed "Ha Lu Ha Ha": "In the face of 50,000 Ou Yue, we fought against 10,000 at one time, ambushed and killed at least 10,000 Ou Yue twice (exaggerated), and at the last time, he used 12,000 inferior people to launch a charge, and directly beat them to scatter and flee!" Most importantly," he pointed to Yi Huze, who was tied up next to him and his mouth was gagged, "We also captured the leader of Ouyue,"
Not? This is important, but there's no need to laugh wildly, right!?
"No, no, no!" Lu Zhe looked proud: "You didn't pay attention to my intentions. Not only did we capture Yi Huze, but we also captured Ouyue's Daxu ......"
The officers looked at the expression of victory on the face of the commander, and the quick-witted people reacted, and they were more confused.
"I don't know if there are any examples of pretending to be enemy troops in the history of the road to win a big victory," Lu Zhe said in an impassioned tone: "We will pretend to be Ouyue people this time, whether it is a successful sneak attack, or we are discovered by Gui Yue and Min Yue." We're all going to win in the end! β
Well, there really hasn't been such a war in history, it's not that no one thinks about doing this, but in the Xia, Shang, Zhou, and even the Spring and Autumn Warring States, those generals almost never did this because of their dignity or something. (Well, it's the honor that can't be found, who can help with the reminder?) οΌ
"Hmm!" Unconsciously uttering a syllable, Lu Zhe stood up: "God bless Great Qin!" β
The Qin officers were so enthusiastic that they stood up and shouted, "God bless Great Qin!" β
The officers of the Six Nations were embarrassed, and they also stood up excitedly, as if they did not know whether to shout the slogan or not.
"Heaven protect our army!" Well, I don't know who Lu Dao is clever, and the officers of the six countries behind him all shouted. (To be continued......)
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