Chapter 230: Temporary Silence
The soldiers of the South County Headquarters have people who need to be protected, whether they are soldiers or auxiliaries, as long as they are not the kind of hopeless dead, they can at least hold on. The guest army has nothing to worry about in Nanjun, in modern language it is to describe it as having no sense of responsibility, it is good to win, and the first thing that comes to mind when there is a slight setback is to run.
A good temptation, under the cover of the vine armor soldiers, approached the Qin army camp, and in the process of advancing, the vine armor soldiers paid nearly two hundred casualties to cover the archers of the guest army within the range of the bows, but they didn't think that the guest archers just shot a round of arrows, and the Qin army made them collapse with a round of bed crossbows.
The guest archers who turned around and ran lost the cover of the vine armor soldiers, how could the crossbowmen of the Qin army let go of the opportunity to kill when they saw it, and the behavior of the guest archers who turned around and ran attracted the crossbow arrows of the Qin army with a kill range of 400 steps, and the guest crossbowmen who ran out of 400 steps away and were lying on the arrows were at least 700.
Along the way, Mei Kai sent only 2,000 vine armor soldiers and 1,500 guest archers, waiting for the tentative troops to withdraw, there were more than 1,700 vine armor soldiers left, and there were more than 800 guest archers.
A temptation, the process did not take more than two quarters of an hour, and there were 1,000 casualties, although less than 400 were killed on the spot, but this also annoyed Mei Kai too much.
On the one hand, Mei Li was satisfied that the vine armor soldiers had advanced and retreated to a certain extent, and did not live up to the drill of half a year, and on the other hand, he looked at the guest archers with a look of death after running back with burning eyes.
"Pick out the first to run and cut it!" The tone was very cold, and Mei Li didn't intend to appease, he took out iron-blooded means.
The vine armor soldiers were also on fire, and when they heard the order, they surrounded them, and dragged out nearly a hundred people amid the stunned or angry shouts of the guest archers.
There must be a second time, and even if Mei Kai felt that the time was not right, he ordered that in addition to the people who built the barracks, those who should take over the fort to clear the enemy troops in the fort, the rest of the people were assembled. He must use these 100 heads to act as a deterrent!
Of the 30,000 troops, 15,000 were Wu Rui's subordinates, and 10,000 were under the command of large and small leaders. After they were assembled. Mei Kai asked the soldiers to maintain order, and then asked people to escort nearly a hundred routs whose hands were blocked by their backs.
Looking at the nearly 30,000 people who didn't know why, Mei Hong's voice was very loud: "Flee without a fight, be ashamed of your father, disregard your robe, and kill him!" ”
The sound of "buzzing" conversation suddenly sounded, and a leader from Wu Rui's side raised his hand high, and then walked towards Mei Hong.
The leader approached and said eagerly: "Before you get used to the first battle, you can just punish with a military stick, how can you kill your own people before you start fighting?" ”
"Don't kill these hundred. In the future, if the stalemate of the war occurs again, there will be no more than 100 people who will die! Mei Kai pointed to the nearly 15,000 people who were watching, "Qin, Ci is not in charge of the army, it is not for me to make things difficult for the guest army, if our army appears to flee without a fight, it will kill more than 100 people, it should be all the routs." ”
After the guest army came to South County, the officers of South County have been emphasizing military discipline. There is no difference between an army without military discipline and stragglers, and if a good wind battle can be fought in a tough battle, it should collapse quickly, not only the leader Qin, but many of the leaders under Wu Rui's command agree with this.
Now Mei Kai is talking about this again. The leader Qin didn't have any words, and he bowed back with a bitter face.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you can remember the following words: War, husbandry; Victory. Do not be discouraged; In the event of a battle, there is no order, and those who retreat will be killed! After Mei Li finished speaking, he waved his arm at the soldiers waiting for execution.
For the time being, there is no ghost head knife dedicated to decapitation. Two soldiers pressed people, and one soldier stabbed the short Ge in his hand in the back of the kneeling person with a "hey", and in an instant, the sound of sharp stabbing into the flesh appeared frequently, and the person whose mouth was blocked could only make a muffled sound when he was dying.
The expressions of the people watching the execution were different, the only thing that was the same was that their eyes were looking directly at the corpses that were lying face to the ground and constantly leaving blood, and Mei Kai over there was still constantly warning, and the sentence "No matter how many people escape, they will all end up like this" poured into their ears like a magic sound.
Initially achieving a deterrent effect, Mei Kai was actually relieved to see that no one was in a commotion, he looked at the nest car in the Qin military camp, and watched for a while before turning around and walking towards the location of the fort.
The Qin army camp, Shao Ai, who was still on the nest car, naturally saw the end from the beginning, he saw more and more shadows of the Qin army from the defenders of Nanjun, and even the battlefield discipline was exactly the same. The Qin army also had strict battlefield discipline during the war, and those who retreated without orders were beheaded no matter how many people were killed.
Shao Ai was curious about the types of troops that appeared in the defenders of Nanjun just now, and he asked a soldier to come out of the camp to pick up the enemy armor and take a look, and found that the enemy's armor was actually woven with rattan, and he tried to pull it and found that the rattan armor was relatively strong, and it felt very slippery to the touch.
"No wonder the arrows slide away when they are far away," Shao Ai sniffed, and he smelled the smell of tung oil.
The components of the rattan armor are divided into the front chest, two ribs, two shoulders, swing skirt, knee pads, when the rattan armor soldiers retreated, there were talking about the corpses of the dead in the war pulled back, Qin pawns picked up not complete, Shao Ai saw only the front breastplate, swing skirt and Teng Dun.
"This armor must be afraid of fire!" Shao Ai instantly made a judgment, and in order to confirm his judgment, he threw Teng Dun into a brazier, and just thrown it in, Teng Dun was instantly ignited, and it was all burned after a while.
Just now, Mei Kai came with his troops to Shao Ai to look carefully on the nest car, and the reinforcements of Nanjun had at least 3,000 soldiers wearing rattan armor, and he immediately ordered the crossbowmen to wrap strips of cloth around the arrowheads as rockets.
"It's a pity, I didn't carry black oil this time." Shao Ai is talking about the sharp weapon that the Great Qin Army will use a stone-throwing cart to throw out every battle in the later stage of the unification war, which is a kind of oil that has been simply smelted.
About an hour, the commander of the Qin army had already counted the remaining troops in the battalion, and there were only 6,326 of the 20,000 Qin soldiers left, so it can be said that more than half of the losses were really lost in three days, which was difficult to imagine before departure.
can be one of the two forwards, the Qin soldiers under Shao Ai are naturally not county soldiers gathered from all over the country, they are based on the officers of the Blue Sky Battalion as the backbone, and then with the conscripted soldiers. Most of the soldiers of such an army have experienced the battle of unification, and their combat power is second only to the border army and the Lantian army, and it is stronger than the Beijing army that defended Xianyang.
It wasn't the right time before, but now it's a question that has to be asked. Dang Xuan was called over by Shao Ai to describe the battle, and the process of telling it became a question and answer.
“…… Defeated for the first time, and then the enemy turned back after a short rest? Shao Ai's handsome face showed a confused expression, "You say this is a ploy?" ”
"Yes, General." Dang Xuan also felt that it was unreasonable to use 10,000 people to deploy the strategy, and explained: "Otherwise, how can you explain that the enemy army in the first battle will be crushed at the first touch, and then turn back and kill back so durable." If there had not been a thousand troops sent to pursue the return of the enemy, the enemy would have been annihilated. ”
"I think there are capable people in the enemy army...... isn't it? With that courage to use 10,000 main forces to deceive and defeat to deploy a strategy, Shao Ai asked himself if he didn't have that courage, he asked: "Do you know the name of the main general of the Qin army at that time?" ”
Dang Xuan showed a look of shame: "I didn't know. ”
Shao Ai was silent, thought about the description of Dang Xuan in detail, and smiled bitterly when he thought about it: "The uniforms of the two armies are the same, the enemy army has not changed, and we can't change it." Isn't it possible to distinguish between friend and foe in future battles, this ......?"
Dang Xuan reacted more loudly: "At that time, it was dark, and the people who fought were all in the same battle clothes, and I asked the soldiers afterwards, and they were distracted by fighting together in order to identify the enemy and me." I also thought about it for a while, if I could clearly distinguish between friend and foe, the war should not be like that. It can be seen that it is in this cunning way that the enemy army can hold out for so long. ”
How can any orthodox Qin army want to change its robes? Even if they knew, there was no way, as Shao Ai said, they were Qin Army, so naturally there was no reason to change their robes.
The two looked at each other, and they all thought in their hearts: "The enemy army is too shameless and skinless, and it is shameless to this extent." ”
After killing a hundred examples, Mei Kai mobilized 2,000 jumping soldiers and 5,000 guest troops to defend the Qin camp, and drew out 10,000 soldiers to garrison the camp.
They have also made contact with the defenders in the fort, Mei Kai sent a part of the vine armor soldiers to enter through the gap and the entrance, and after playing a distance, they were blocked by the iron gate, and the gate weighing a thousand catties would not be opened for a while, and the speed of clearing from the outside to the inside could not be fast.
The defenders meant to let some of the soldiers of the fort come down and take the reinforcements to the dark passage, and then the reinforcements would enter from the dark grid on the second floor, so that they could attack inside and outside with superior forces, and they should be able to clean up the Qin soldiers in the fort before dark.
Junhou Mian had already come down from the second floor of the dark grid, and he briefly reported the battle to the local highest-ranking official, and said that the chief official Shuo was killed in battle, Mei Kai's face was angry.
"The Lord has said many times that the duty of a commander is to command the whole army, not to fight fiercely. As an officer, once he dies, who will deploy the soldiers, and no one will command the soldiers how to fight! Mei Kai was talking about the operational thinking of the various armies in Nanjun, and he asked: "You are in command of the defenders in the back?" ”
How dare the military marquis take the merit, and return truthfully: "It's the left deputy officer of the fort, Gao." ”
"There's finally a conscientious one." Mei Kai's first battle did not go well, and the fact that he would be so angry had a lot to do with the failure of the test just now. He also said: "After clearing the enemy troops of the fort, you will work with the deputy officer Gao to restore the fortifications of the fort. ”
"Hey!" The military marquis only salutes to receive orders.
Seeing Junhou Mian climb up the slope with a shield again, Mei Kai's eyes turned to the south, the purpose of 30,000 troops rushing to rescue the fort had been achieved, and there were still 70,000 troops in Yan County.
The direction of the Qin army's attack was not only on the side of Dengxian, but also in the direction of Shandu, about five miles away from Fort No. 2, there were also 20,000 Qin troops. In addition, the main force of the Qin army of 60,000 has not moved, and I don't know whether it will come to Deng County or Shandu, and the 70,000 army led by Lu Zhe is the safest to stop at Yan County. This is a pre-arranged operational policy. (To be continued......)