Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 87 Retreat the enemy ([-])
"Lu Huaizhong!"

"The end is here!"

"Lead a battalion of elite soldiers, and form a formation to take the enemy army. Go to a place with a lot of people and kill them. Be sure to kill them and leave them alone. Don't worry about the enemy generals."

"The last commander will obey!" Lu Huaizhong threw his helmet on the ground, his hair was disheveled, he pulled out a thick-backed machete, and shouted, "Children, kill the thief with you!"

The sergeant of the former battalion responded with a bang, and quickly formed a small formation. When facing the enemy, he first released three rounds of arrows, and then attacked the enemy with imposing manner.

The fields are already green in May.The wind blows across the land, and colorful wildflowers dance with it.A clump here, a clump there, bathed in sunshine and fragrant.

However, it was such a beautiful scene, but it was completely destroyed by the tragic killing of tens of thousands of sergeants on both sides.The blood splattered, dyeing the green field a crimson.Horseshoes burst, trampling the flowers into mud.What's more, the endless rain of arrows almost made the ground grow a piece of white hair.

The nest army failed to form a complete formation from the beginning.The sergeants can only fight on their own, often dozens or hundreds of people gather together to protect themselves like hedgehogs, like a small tree that may fall at any time in the violent storm.

The Tang army came up, and before the battle, they formed a battalion as a unit, and threw a rain of arrows as if they didn't want money.Afterwards, the spears were like a forest, and the weakly squeezed nest army retreated step by step, and the cavalry roared, slashing and slashing from the side, tearing the enemy formations one by one.

Zhang Yan finally resigned.

Li Tangbin was like a mad dog, and the hundreds of people under him were like mad dogs, biting him desperately.His fighting valor was almost the most fierce among the Tang army battalions.One's own person beats one's own person, how can he do it!
"Let's go, General!" The general took a dagger and stuck it in the back of Zhang Yan's warhorse. After he was gone, he picked up a long spear from the ground and cried, "Li Tangbin, return my brother's life!"

Several people rushed forward into the Tang army formation, only splashing a few small waves, and soon they were silent again.

The neat footsteps never stopped.

There was the wounded Chao Army soldier lying on the ground and groaning, watching in horror at the large group of Tang Army soldiers in brown spring clothes and outer leather armor, coming towards him.The silver light of the lancet blade was shining, and it was stained with a lot of blood. With a single poke, you could never see the sun tomorrow.

The wounded soldier laughed miserably, murmured a few words in his mouth, and then he was trampled on by endless boots, motionless.

How could the target of the Tang army's infantry team be him? It was the only small formations of the nest army left in front!
Those who are in the field of battle first and wait for the enemy are free, and those who are in the field of battle later and are eager to fight work hard.Prove it now!
Violating the principles of the art of war, greed for merit and chasing after, the defeat of the Chao Army was almost doomed from the beginning!
"Quickly annihilate the remaining enemies and clean up the battlefield." Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Shao Shude rode forward and ordered.

Wei Boqiu, the deputy general of the personal soldiers, was sweating profusely, and kept persuading the envoys not to take risks.It's a mess here. What if you get hit by a stray arrow and the military envoy has no children. What will everyone do?Could this Tie Lin army have just disbanded?
"Lieutenant General Li, you played very well today. Going forward, breaking three formations in a row, you are worthy of the name of the camp." Shao Shude pointed his whip and said to the soldiers who were kneeling all over the ground: "After the war, the nest army surrendered. , you pick another battalion and be promoted to ten generals!"

"Xie Junshi cultivated!" Li Tangbin exclaimed with joy.

There were still the last two or three remnants of the nest army on the battlefield, each with about a hundred men, who refused to surrender.But it is basically impossible for them to live, and the Tielin army will soon send them a few waves of arrows, adding hundreds to the number of kills.

"Military envoy, isn't there a thousand and five enemies killed in this battle?" Chen Cheng rode forward from the rear, looking at the corpses all over the ground, his face slightly pale.

"At least [-]!" Guan Kairun, Qian Shousu and the others laughed loudly and said, "There are more than [-] descendants, and at least [-]% of Zhang Yan's soldiers have been lost. How can we fight again?"

"It's a pity I couldn't kill Zhang Yan, otherwise it would be a great achievement." Xu Hao slammed his mouth and looked regretful.

"Military envoy! All stubborn enemies have been annihilated." Not long after, Lu Huaizhong, Cai Songyang, and Fan He, who were covered in blood, came to report.And their arrival also heralded a perfect victory in this counter-pursuit battle.

"Okay!" Shao Shude got off his horse, helped Lu, Cai, and Fan to straighten their helmets and armor, and said, "Go on, the auxiliary soldiers will clean the battlefield, and the soldiers will rest in place. The cavalry will spread out and scout the enemy. , and send five hundred auxiliary soldiers to send the Chao army's surrender and the captured equipment and goods back to Gaoling."

"Military envoy, this time we entered the battle to encircle Chang'an, and all the armies retreated. Only my Tielin army broke through the pursuers, beheaded two thousand, and surrendered more than three thousand people. Zheng Xiang heard of it, and he was relieved." Chen Cheng approached Shao Shude. aside, said in a low voice.

Shao Shude nodded slightly.It doesn't matter whether Zheng Xiangxin is pleased or not, the key is to be pleased with the saint!As soon as the sage was happy, he directly ordered Zhuge to be the military commander of Sanchuan. Even if he continued to command battles in Guanzhong as a recruiting envoy, it didn't matter. Just give the name first and then talk about it.

Once the commander has a place to go, he can take over as Xia Suiyinyou Jiedushi.Not to mention that old dog Tuoba Sigong, the Tielin army won two battles in Guanzhong, and killed and wounded nearly [-] of the nest army in a few months. With such a record, who should the court win over, is it still unclear?Tuoba Sigong could also draw [-] or [-] party soldiers, and he had not proven himself, so he had basically lost his chance.

"There is one more thing. The military envoy still has no children, and the generals are uneasy." Chen Cheng only said this half a sentence, and did not go on.

Shao Shude understood what he meant.Although his prestige in the Tielin army was at its peak, he was very different from the generals in other feudal towns who were either appointed by the imperial court or driven to the top by killing generals, but the lack of heirs was indeed a big problem.After a long time, everyone will hesitate and feel pessimistic about the future.

This matter really cannot be delayed, and of course there is no need to hurry.

He came from a very low background, unlike those general families in Hedong.However, a low background also has the advantage of a low background, that is, he raised the troops with one hand, and he promoted the generals one by one, and his loyalty was relatively reliable.In this matter, the generals of Hedong do not know how envious they are.In a short period of time, as long as he is still there, no one dares to turn the sky.

The matter of the heirs, let's go.Now that the war is abroad, one wife and one concubine are all in Suizhou, and there is no way to be anxious.

After the half-hour rest, they were waiting to order the entire army to continue to the south. As a result, the cavalry returned. They intercepted the second nest army more than ten miles to the south, about four thousand people, including a thousand soldiers. Yu, [-] auxiliary soldiers, was unprepared in a hurry, and was defeated by a group of more than a thousand cavalry, and more than a thousand troops were sent down.

General Zhu and Zhe Er asked the infantry brigade to march quickly to take over the nest army, and stated that there was a large amount of baggage and food and grass seized, and it should be quick rather than late.

Shao Shude was overjoyed when he heard the news, and ordered the battalions to march forward, but they had to control their speed and maintain their physical strength.Otherwise, wouldn't we have made the mistake of Zhang Yan?

At the time of Shen, the Tielin army brigade had not yet arrived at the destination, but they saw Zhu Shuzong and Zhe Siyu returning north with boundless carts and pack horses, and among them were two thousand Chaos troops who were downcast.

"After the military envoy, the great thief general Zhang Yan, this generation fled all the way, and even left behind the soldiers and horses to go to Baqiao Station. The last two generals led their cavalry soldiers to chase south, killing hundreds of enemies and capturing two More than a thousand people. According to the explanation of the soldiers, there are [-] Dendrobium grains and beans and more than [-] bunches of forage in the barracks, all of which are here." Zhu Shuzong pointed to the chariot and horse brigade that spread to the distant horizon behind him, and reported that .

"Okay!" Shao Shude said loudly: "Zhang Yan, this person has been under the commander's hands twice. If you are ashamed, you can wipe your neck on the spot."

The generals laughed, and their morale was bursting.

"Bring back the baggage, food, grass, and soldiers, and take it when you see it." Shao Shude said: "The enemy has been afraid and will not dare to pursue it."

The Tielin Army Brigade did not return to Gaoling County until late at night.

Zhuge Shuang had already brought some of his troops and carriages north to Sanyuan. The sergeant Kunfang who stayed behind was reluctant to open the door at first, but after Shao Shude shot down the banner above the gate, he panicked and opened the city gate.

When the captured chariots, horses, and luggage entered the city, and a large number of nest troops with their hands tied appeared in front of them, the Kunfang army all changed color.Even Li Xiaochang, the envoy of Jiedu who had already fallen asleep, got up to meet him at the gate of the city, his expression no longer arrogant, and said, "All the armies fled, but the general turned back to kill the enemy, and returned with a great victory, which Li admired. to."

In troubled times, the army does not understand the righteousness, but only knows whose fist is hard.

"Tomorrow, our army will leave for the north, and I will trouble the sergeant of Kunfang to stay for one more day, can I?" Shao Shude asked.

"Yes."

After a night of rest in Gaoling County, Shao Shude took the team to Sanyuan County the next day.On the way, I received an order from Zhuge Shuang, don't stop after Sanyuan, continue to Fuping, temporarily move the north camp here, and watch the wind.

On June 23, the Tielin Army arrived in Fuping County with a large number of luggage and prisoners.The Fufang army was two days behind them. Sure enough, there was no Chao army chasing them on the road, and everyone arrived in Fuping smoothly.

Retreat, but also pay attention to the method!
(End of this chapter)