Chapter 16: The Great Victory of Cangnan

On the 25th day of the lunar month, the third day of the destruction of the city of Dezhou, Na Yan, the commander of the Dongyu Wang's tent guard, led more than 1,000 horsemen to be annihilated in most of the southeast of Cangxian County, Hejian Province, and the escapees were less than 100 horses, which was a great victory for Cangnan. This is also one of the few great victories that the Great Yue Dynasty can be announced on the table since the entry of the Eastern Captives.

Since the battle of Jiyin, a total of 37 people from the Nayan tribe, including Yejin Nayan, have been killed in battle, and they are mainly the children of the Yeji family of the Donghu royal family and the Nahe family of the Dashi clan.

Yejin Nayan and Yejin Natuzhen are the nephews of the eldest prince Yeji Luorong.

Yezir Nayan was regarded as a rising star of Donghu, and at his age, Yezir Khan and Yezi Luorong had less than 300 elite warriors under his direct command who could be compared to the king's tent soldiers. Although Donghu was still very weak twenty years ago, it also reflected the outstanding status of Yejin Nayan among the young generals of Donghu from the side.

For the Ye Ji family of the Donghu royal family and the Nahe family of the Dashi clan, the heavy losses in the first battle of Cangnan can even be compared with the first battle of Gaoyang. In the first battle of Gaoyang, although more than 6,000 casualties were paid, less than 2,000 were killed in the direct battle, and the number of Ezhen warriors killed in the battle was less than 30, let alone the battlefield of the children of the royal family.

In the first battle of Cangnan, the proportion of casualties among the Ezhen warriors who were regarded as the nobles of Donghu was so high, in addition to the reason that a total of nearly 500 Wang Tent soldiers were annihilated one after another, there were as many as 11 outpost rangers in Yangxin, Jiyin and other places for Ye Jinayan to participate in the battle.

Although most of the commanders of these outpost rangers were only low-level officers at the small banner level, because Yezir Khan required the direct descendants of Yezi, Nahe and other tribes to have experience in outpost reconnaissance before officially leading the troops, most of the low-ranking officers in charge of the outpost rangers were from Ezhen warriors.

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Lin Jian rode a horse and inspected the battlefield under the escort of dozens of elite horsemen.

Every time the soldiers who clean the battlefield pick up a silver domino, they will excitedly proclaim it, and those who can ride horses will directly cut off the head of the thief and tie it with the domino, and pick it up with a spear to shuttle back and forth on the battlefield to show off.

"My lord, haha, you really expected it, Ye Ji Nayan, the turtle son, really froze to death in the river," the first battalion sentry who walked to the river embankment held up a golden domino, strode towards Lin Lian, and said loudly, "The river is frozen again, and the ice must be chiseled to dig out his body......"

Lin Jian was also quite excited, took the golden domino in Ma Po Monkey's hand, raised it and squinted at it, and said with a smile: "This is a good thing, the others are cut off their heads, Ye Ji Nayan's body is hard to dig out, it is very useful!" ”

From the early years of the first emperor, the soldiers and civilians in the Jiliao area fought against the Donghu people, and there were more than a dozen major battles, countless small battles, and the internal situation of the Donghu people was also relatively clear.

Donghu originated from the Bulun Mountain, which is often called the area of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in later generations, and the Donghu tribes did not go out of the Bulun Mountain to establish the Khanate for a short time, only thirty or forty years, and Yezir was the second generation of the Donghu Khan.

The direct descendants of the tribes who were the first to attach to or allied with the Ye Ji family and the children of the royal family constituted the aristocratic class of the Donghu people, and because the Donghu people cultivated and fought together, the vast majority of the military attaches of the Donghu army were held by the children of the nobles, also known as the Ezhen warriors.

Just as the Han people used the tooth card and the belt tied to the tooth card as a status symbol, the original Donghu people also had a string of dominoes around their necks to identify their identity, which was made of animal bones. The general Ezhen samurai dominoes are distinguished by silver threads embedded on the edges, and the dominoes of the royal family are more special, inlaid with gold wire or pearls and jade for decoration, and the bones and grinding process are also more exquisite, and they are not bad as high-quality handicrafts.

Ye Ji Nayan and Ye Ji Natu are really the children of the Ye Ji family of the Donglu royal family, and they are the nephews of Ye Ji Luorong, the eldest prince of Dongyu and the commander of the northern line of the Dongyu cavalry.

Lin Jian threw Ye Ji Nayan's identity golden domino to Ma Po Monkey, asked him to show off some time, and then handed it over to the labor camp, and he reined in the horse and returned to Xiaobotou Village.

Although it was said that it had all kinds of advantages in this battle, the Jiangdong Left Army was still a very young army, lacked combat experience, sometimes lacked courage, and sometimes was too aggressive, and paid many unnecessary casualties when encircling and annihilating the thieves. Since the beginning of the battle in Jiyinxi, more than 300 generals and soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army have been killed in battle, and the total number of wounded and temporarily reduced personnel is close to 1,000.

If a mature army had such a great advantage, it would have been possible to avoid such a large degree of combat attrition.

But in any case, this was a brilliant victory, especially since the entry of the Eastern Captives, the poor appearance of the other defenders and the Qinwang Division, the victory of the Jiangdong Left Army was particularly dazzling. The morale of the Jiangdong Left Army has also soared to the extreme, and such a high proportion of combat attrition has not affected the high mood of the generals at all, and the mood of the villagers in Cangnan is also very high, as if they have taken revenge for blood and hatred.

"My lord," Lin Jian had just returned to Xiaobotou Village, and Sun Fengyi, the head of the Sun family in Xiaobotou Village, greeted him enthusiastically, "I looked around and you couldn't find ......."

"What is Mr. Sun looking for me?"

"What gentleman is not gentleman, which one dares to call himself a gentleman in adulthood? Please call the adults a small name," Sun Fengyi squinted and said, "This battle for the Cangnan children to relieve hatred, revenge, many people know that the adults will also take the Jiangdong Left Army to kill the enemy in Yannan, they all came to me, I pleaded with the adults, and allowed them to join the Jiangdong Left Army to kill the enemy side by side, they are all with the thieves and blood feuds......"

"I happened to be looking for Mr....... Sun," Lin Jian said, and ordered the guards to send people to find Sun Shangwang and Lin Mengde, Cao Ziang, and Sun Wenbing, who had no task of reorganizing the army.

Although the battle of Cangnan was a big victory, but the situation was still very grim, but Sun Fengyi and the villagers of Cangnan were in high spirits and became very optimistic, mainly because they did not know the strength of the Donglu troops who entered the Kou this time, and the first battle of Cangnan could not hurt the bones of the Donglu at all, and it may even provoke the Dongyu to send a large number of cavalry to counterattack Cangnan.

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"What, prepare to withdraw from Cangnan before dusk tomorrow!" Sun Shangwang's voice suddenly raised an octave, and he suddenly stood up, his face flushed with excitement, and said, "With the power of Cangnan's great victory, the children of Cangnan will return to the adults with their lives, and then send fast horses into Shandong to spread the word to the world, so that the villagers who fled south will return to the north, and the village will be firmly defended, and the adults will be able to block the thieves from counterattacking and make miraculous achievements......"

Sun Fengyi also poured cold water on him, but he didn't expect Lin Jian to decisively decide to evacuate Cangnan, he said: "What about the villagers of Cangnan Village? They are full of hope to follow the adults to kill the thieves, and the adults cannot abandon them! ”

Lin Jian sat there and said quietly: "We are full of blood, but we can't sacrifice in vain. Those who fear the enemy and avoid war are not heroes, and what is the benefit of fighting and killing those who only fight and kill with blood? Shang Wang knows that the thieves are strong, and if they are not greedy for life and afraid of death, they dare not fight to the death with the enemy, but it is not the best policy to defend Xiaobotou Village......"

"Adults are by no means greedy for life and afraid of death," Sun Fengyi felt that his tone just now was too heavy, knowing that if Lin Jian was greedy for life and afraid of death, he would not be able to win a great victory in Cangnan, so he hurriedly eased up, "But the current situation is very good, it would be a pity to give up like this......

"......" Lin Jian smiled and said, "You are all wrong, I want Xiaobotou Village and other Cangnan Wuzhai villagers to prepare to evacuate before tomorrow." A large number of cavalry from the east gathered in the north of Texas, and from the time we got the letter to send a large group of cavalry to counterattack, it only took four or five days at the earliest, leaving us not much time to retreat. The villagers of Cangnan Wuzhai can hold on to this day, and they are not a seed, but the people of Cangnan cannot be sacrificed in vain, let alone plundered and enslaved by the eastern captives...... I will not leave with the Jiangdong Left Army, and will continue to stay in Yannan to fight, and contain the Dongyu cavalry to relieve the pressure on Jinan Province and Gyeonggi, which is the main purpose of my army to advance into Yannan, and I will not easily give up this purpose until the Dongyu are repulsed. ”

Sun Fengyi and Sun Shangwang knew at this time that they had misunderstood Lin Tie, their faces were red, they were a little embarrassed, and they were silent for a while, and then Sun Shangwang said: "There are four dock villages in Cangnan that have not been broken by the enemy, and they contain more than 5,000 villagers...... Although the counties of Linzi Prefecture have not fallen, but the captives and cavalry are very interspersed, and the defense of Yangxin and Bincheng counties is quite poor, and they can only lure the enemy to attack when they avoid entering the city, and they are afraid that they will have to go all the way to Linzi Mansion or to the big city further south to avoid the enemy. There are a lot of old and weak women and children in the 5,000 villagers, and it is difficult to evacuate to the south of Linzi Mansion before the captives arrive......"

"Yes, not only Linzi Funan, I want you to retreat until Jimo and then stop," Lin Jian stood up and pointed to the map on the table to Sun Shangwang and Sun Fengyan, retreating to Jimo (i.e., Qingdao City) means that you have to cross the entire Shandong Peninsula and reach the southern coastal area of the Shandong Peninsula, and the straight-line distance is also seven hundred miles, "In addition to hoping that you will go to Jimo to avoid the enemy, I also want you to confuse the captive cavalry who are about to counterattack Cangnan, thinking that our Jiangdong Left Army has retreated back to southern Shandong after this battle......"

"......" Sun Shangwang and Sun Fengyi glanced at each other, Lin Tie gave them this problem is too big, from Cangzhou to Jimo to take the post road is almost thousands of miles away, the Jiangdong Left Army marched to Jimo is naturally easy, Cangnan villagers only set off three or four days ahead of the captive cavalry, to rush to Jimo before the captive cavalry, it is impossible to do, but Lin Tie asked them to lure the enemy to benefit the Jiangdong Left Army in Yannan, and they could not refuse.

"I won't let everyone walk with their feet alone, and they won't be able to walk Jimo for a month. The old, weak, women and children, as well as hundreds of wounded soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army, took the boat by sea, and the young and strong took the land route to meet at Jimo. If the enemy situation is very urgent on the way, you can also avoid the city to avoid ......" Lin Jian said, "This battlefield captured, there are nearly 800 horses undamaged, the Jiangdong Left Army will replace 800 mules and horses to you, you will use these 800 mules and horses and Cangnan Qingzhuang to disguise the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army to retreat south to the south of Shandong, you attract a captive cavalry to chase south, and I will lead the Jiangdong Left Army to operate in Yannan, only in this way can we contain more captive horses and ensure that Jinan Mansion is not lost!" ”

"Boats? Where are the boats? Sun Shangwang and Sun Fengyi asked suspiciously, when the captives came, those who could escape by boat were gone, and there were still a few broken fishing boats in Cangnan, but they could not tolerate two or three thousand old and weak women and children to flee to Jimo by sea.

"There is a ship in the left army of Jiangdong parked in the east of Yangxin County, but the wind direction is not favorable to the north in the past few days, so it has not come over. Now Cangnan has no interference from the enemy, even if it is pulled by people and mules, tomorrow the boat can be pulled to Cangnan to carry people out ......to sea," Lin Jian said.

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