Chapter 205: Dumbfounded
Miao Bo rushed out with four thousand people.
After all, it is an army of economics, so of course it goes into battle in neat lines.
The strength of the enemy army was already evident in yesterday's offensive and defensive battle. In fact, they were just farmers and soldiers pulled from the fields, which suppressed the desperate spirit of some rogue bandits.
Actually, he wanted to take the initiative yesterday.
Since ancient times, in city defense battles, if there are no peripheral strongholds that echo the main city, and the defenders dare not go out of the city to attack, it will generally be very difficult to defend the city.
The enemy's siege engines cannot be burned.
The arrows shot cannot be recovered.
We cannot take advantage of their failed siege and retreat to effectively kill or injure their personnel.
Not to mention the night attack that kept him awake.
It is absolutely taboo to stick to it!
Miao Bo is familiar with military books and has led soldiers. Although he has never fought in a war, he still knows this.
So, after seeing the enemy retreating in chaos, he fought against all opinions and led his army to attack, hoping to defeat the enemy in one battle and capture and kill thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
When the news reaches the palace, how happy I will be!
After the army left the city, they chased for hundreds of steps. When the bandits behind them saw them, they only resisted for a moment, then dispersed and fled.
Miao Bo laughed loudly and said: "A careless thief will collapse at the first touch, and it is easy to break."
At this time, the originally tight pursuit formation was It gradually became scattered as it advanced.
There is no other reason. There is a lot of money and silk on the ground.
When the first person couldn't help but bend down to pick it up, a second person soon followed suit.
The bandits also abandoned many livestock.
Several Forbidden soldiers ran towards the horses and scrambled to grab them.
Some people jumped on the big car and rummaged through the car looking for their belongings.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have time to rummage inside the carriage, just untie the harness, lead the oxen that pulls the carriage and leave.
The whole scene was chaotic, even more chaotic than the enemy's retreat just now.
Miao Bo subconsciously felt something was wrong, and with a straight face, he scolded: "Send the order, anyone who picks up property without permission will be killed without mercy."
The soldier turned his horse's head and was about to go After passing the order, I saw the sky filled with smoke and dust in front of me, and a large group of thieves rushed over along the post road.
At this time, in the mountains and forests on the left and right, there were also bandits shouting and rushing down.
Liu Ling used all his old tricks. Thousands of people besieged him from three sides, killing the Forbidden Army by surprise.
"Miao Bo!" Liu Ling jumped out of the mountainside with a heavy halberd in his hand and ran straight down the mountain along the path.
"Bang!" The euphorbia seemed like a light toy in his hand. When he waved it casually, it was so powerful and heavy that everyone who was swept away screamed and fell to the ground.
Miao Bo was stunned, and the only thought in his mind was: It's over, he's been tricked!
Liu Ling was wearing heavy armor and opened and closed his halberd. He knocked down more than ten Forbidden Army soldiers in an instant and headed straight in the direction of Miao Bo.
The people on the battlefield looked a little stupid. They had never seen such a powerful person.
The hundreds of soldiers behind him, chanting the slogans of Tianshi Dao, marched forward bravely, and they were brave and invincible.
The outer front quickly collapsed, and Liu Ling was only dozens of steps away from Miao Bo.
"Whoosh!" A stray arrow flew towards him, and Miao Bo's horse's front hooves softened and he fell to his knees.
Miao Bo exclaimed and came to his senses, immediately turned around and ran away.
As soon as he escaped, the Imperial Guards soldiers who had planned to resist immediately collapsed and fled in all directions.
Liu Ling pursued closely, leading hundreds of soldiers to bite Miao Bo's tribe.
Miao Bo passed the city gate and rushed into Sheyuan Pass.
Liu Ling chased him outside the door.
Miao Bo did not stop and rushed directly to the back of Guancheng.
Liu Ling rushed into Guancheng with his soldiers.
Miao Bo took over a horse, waved the whip and ran away.
Liu Ling was furious and asked the cavalry to come up quickly and pursue them without stopping.
Behind Liu Ling, more and more thieves came back and poured into Sheyuan Pass like a tide. No one could stop them.
Guancheng has fallen.
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"On April 20th, he defeated the bandit army of King Lezi in Xiangcheng, killed more than 3,000 of his soldiers, and captured 4,000 others. Lezi only "On the 21st, eight thousand of the Zhang brothers were defeated."
"On the 22nd, we defeated it again and killed more than ten people below the general and commander. We captured more than 3,000 enemies in two wars and beheaded 2,800 people."
In three days, the Silver Spear Army was the main force. The Southern Route Army fought four battles in the Ru River area, beheading more than 6,000 people and capturing more than 7,000 people, while the rest fled.
After all this, the thieves who were confused and engaged in "Brownian motion" finally calmed down and stayed away from this place, either returning to Yingchuan or heading south to Runan, but most of them still He followed Wang Mi to the north.
Wang Mi can't control everyone. The bandit leaders who "joined" have their own ideas, and he doesn't bother to care about them. He only needs to hold on to the tens of thousands of people he can control. Unexpectedly, under Shao Xun's series of blows, the thieves went north one after another and took the initiative to follow the "General Zhengdong". It must be said that it is very ironic.
"Send an order to Huang Biao and lead a reserve team to sweep along the Ru River. There are many remnants of the enemy scattered outside. Don't let them get close to Luyang, Guangchengze, and Liang County. If the defeated enemy can be gathered, gather them together, but not gather them together. Yes, attack without suspicion." Shao Xun gave the order to the messenger on the way to Yushanwu.
After repeating the story, the messenger took the order and left. Shao Xun shook his horse's belly and rushed forward.
On the country road soaked by drizzle, the army with high morale meandered.
The prisoners and captured property have been handed over to the reserve team, and now they are going into battle lightly again.
In addition to the auxiliary troops of the Silver Spear Army, Fu soldiers and the Hebei surrender army, there are more than 2,000 "Yi Cong" warriors with various weapons and equipment in the team, most of whom are from Xiangcheng who voluntarily followed. Brave young men and knight-errants, the rest are mostly powerful boy servants recruited from Xiangcheng and Jiacheng, and released prison inmates.
A force cannot only have elite soldiers, but also needs a large number of miscellaneous soldiers.
In a battle, even if the enemy only gestures with you a few times, he will be unable to hold on and retreat. But in this process, you can't shoot from a long distance with a strong bow or a crossbow, or fight in close combat. You can't have no casualties.
Even if you are wearing iron armor, you cannot withstand the force of a blunt weapon in close combat.
No matter how well you protect yourself, a powerful crossbow can fire several arrows at once and pierce multiple iron-armored warriors to the ground with ease.
The strong bow can be fired at close range, and the iron armor cannot stop the bow and arrow, let alone others who can shoot in the face.
In a dense formation, the lethality is especially terrifying.
Even if you achieve a mythical casualty ratio of one to dozens or even a hundred, and kill or capture ten thousand enemy troops, your number of deaths will not be less than one or two hundred.
The edge of the knife will become dull if you hit it.
Elite soldiers will be consumed by killing, if there is no time to replenish them.
At this time, miscellaneous soldiers or second-line troops are crucial.
If he hadn't distrusted the newly captured Wang Mi thieves, Shao Xun would have already selected some of the stronger ones to add them.
It would be great if you could join from Samurai with righteousness.
With these two thousand people as the vanguard, wherever they go, they are full of courageous thieves. At this time, there is no need to waste precious silver spear soldiers. After all, even if you chase and defeat the enemy, there will be casualties. .
In the afternoon of the 24th, the army approached Yushanwu. After hearing about their arrival, Wang Sang's tribe fled north in a hurry. After some pursuit, the people in the fortress retreated.
"Your Majesty, nothing has been lost at Yushanwu." Li Chong came down from the mountain and reported respectfully.
“You fought well.” Shao Xun patted him on the shoulder and said: “We defeated tens of thousands of thieves with more than 5,000 soldiers and killed a lot of people, which is not bad. Do you have any insights?”< br>
Li Zhong pondered for a moment and said: "To deal with these thieves who don't care about human life, it is best to fight with them in the field. Attacking and defending the city, but let them use their advantages. This time Yushanwu was defeated by them. Trapped. If Junhou doesn't come, they will have to hold on for many more days until they can no longer bear the casualties. The gains and losses of every battle have been compiled, and now you can add this part."
A field battle with a small number of elite troops like Wang Mi, who coerces the majority of cannon fodder, can easily cause the cannon fodder to collapse and affect the situation. The morale of its elite main force then turned into a rout.
But attacking and defending the city is not necessarily the case.
If the thieves build walls and dig trenches to surround the city, it will become a siege, and casualties will increase sharply.
Of course, with the 2,000 Yamen Army and 600 Silver Spear Army recruits in Li Zhong’s hands, he may not be able to win the field battle. After all, the Yamen Army is a light infantry with poor equipment and training that is not as good as the Silver Spear Army. military.
Shao Xun didn't mean to criticize him harshly. In fact, he played very well.
Yu Shanwu was nailed here and contained a large number of enemy troops, including Wang Mi's cousin Wang Sang. It was said that he was worthy of the court, and no one could accuse him of avoiding war.
"Is the prince going north now?" Li Zhong asked.
"If you are tired from a long battle, let's rest for a day or two first." Shao Xun rubbed his chin and said, "Moreover, let Shenyuan Pass test the enemy's spirit. If Wang Mi is not fully If you are exhausted and your morale is still there, it would be troublesome to turn around and attack me."
"It is the right thing for a ruler to be mature and prudent," Li Chong replied.
In this war, Marquis Lu Yang fought hard against the rebels from beginning to end. He won four victories in three days and shocked Xiangcheng. He did not do any passive avoidance of the war.
Even if Li Chong was worried about Luoyang, he had to admit that Marquis Lu Yang had tried his best.
Shao Xun then looked down at the farmland at the foot of the mountain.
The thieves did not deliberately cause damage, but trampling was inevitable as the army marched back and forth. I don’t know how much I’ll harvest from the millet sown this spring. It seems that it is best to sow winter wheat in every Wubao, manor and even Guangchengze under the rule this year and try to harvest as much grain as possible.
As for the maintenance of the soil...
The Huns have already reached Pingyang, and they will probably go south next year, and they still need to maintain the soil!
After the war breaks out, farmland will be in a de facto state of fallow, and there will be plenty of time to restore soil fertility.
On the 25th, the army rested for a day at Yushanwu.
Shao Xun transferred some officers and soldiers from the seventh building of the Silver Spear Army to join the first to fifth buildings to improve its organization.
I will find a way to recruit new people to fill the vacancies in the seventh building.
On the afternoon of the 26th, Shao Xun mobilized one thousand Baoding and five hundred Yamen troops from Yushanwu, with Zhang Gu as the vanguard, and assigned two thousand Yi followers to them. Northbound.
Early in the morning on the 27th, the Silver Spear and Long Sword armies and the auxiliary troops marched northward in large numbers to pursue the enemy.
On the 28th, Sili Colonel Mi Huang sent an envoy from Dagu Pass to detour to Liang County and Yushanwu to catch up with Shao Xun from the rear.
"Sheyuan Pass was lost, most of the five thousand forbidden troops were defeated, and the palace general Miao Bo escaped alone." When they heard the news from the breathless envoy, everyone was stunned.
If nothing else happens - the accident will happen soon!
You can really seek death!
Shao Xun didn’t know whether to be happy or sad when he heard about the fall. In the end, he could only laugh or cry.
"Give the order to the front army, march day and night, and chase after it." Shao Xun ordered: "Then give the order to Wang Chan and Hao Chang, put the ox cart at the back, and first select a group of horse carriages and mule carts. Come up and set off with the army."
After the order was given, the army's speed suddenly accelerated.
(End of this chapter)