Chapter 170: Praise
Yan Gang was trembling all over. Apparently he was seen by Li Fu, the cavalryman in the row behind him. He silently stepped forward to take the place of Yan Gang, a white knight on the battlefield, as the leader of the battle.
Suddenly a thunderous roar came from behind the formation:
"Who is he?"
The cavalry were all too familiar with this sound. Only this sound could make their blood boil, because the person who made this sound was Zhang Chong, the leader of the Ququ.
The troops shouted:
"Yan Gang."
Zhang Chong roared again:
"Who is Yan Gang."
The Chinese army shouted again:
"Kill the enemy three knights and say nothing."
Zhang Chong shouted again:
"Who is Yan Gang? Yan is bold. He dares to be the leader in the first battle. Who is Yan Gang?"
This time the troops roared like mountains and seas:
"Yan boldly."
Yan Gang, who was at the front of the queue, was shaking even more violently during these three questions and answers, and this time it was not fear but a kind of courage that shot straight into the sky.
If I dare to stand upright, who else can I be strict and bold?
Then, between the two armies, Yan Gang suddenly made a move, and in the complicated eyes of Li Fu behind him, he let out a shocking roar and galloped towards the enemy in front.
Release, lift, clamp, breathe, breathe again, hold your breath, hit.
After a set of moves, Yan Gang moved smoothly, fully displaying his excellent cavalry fighting moves, and many cavalry warriors behind also followed this new leader and dug into the enemy cavalry again.
In fact, the five hundred cavalrymen coming from the south of the county had already been defeated in just one battle. They came from a long way, were short of men and horses, and had incomplete fighting equipment. They wanted to rest here and there, but because the general was lucky, he wanted to take advantage of the opponent's slackness, attack quickly with cavalry, and annihilate the enemy unprepared.
But who would have expected that he would bump into Zhang Chong's most elite unit, the Cavalry Department. Zhang Chong's 5,000 soldiers were selected from hundreds of thousands of Shanliao soldiers, and the Cavalry Department selected the best among them. The generals are brave, the soldiers are sharp, and the armor is well equipped. Not to mention the five hundred cavalry in front of them, even if they come with thousands of cavalry, they can't even hope to get favors from the sudden cavalry.
After three arrows and another collision, the morale of the cavalry in the three counties south of the county collapsed. They were able to turn around and charge again not because of their courage but because of inertia. Of the five hundred cavalry, only a few scattered and less than two hundred cavalry rushed out. Then under the inertia, they turned their horses' heads off, and saw the cavalry on the opposite side making waves and their morale was like a rainbow. In fear, the last thirty or so riders turned their horses around again and ran towards the east.
This is another blow to the already difficult morale. You must know that those who are running away now are the former vanguards. They were the warriors in the army, and now even they have run away.
But it didn't stop there. The remaining Han court cavalry also had their own arrogance. die? That means death, so why fear? They, the Han cavalry, would die on the way to charge.
Under the leadership of a military officer, the remaining more than a hundred cavalry once again formed a formation and charged fearlessly towards the Taishan bandits.
After a while, the spear was broken, the horse hit the man and flew away, and the flag fell.
This Han cavalry from the three counties in the south of the county, except for the more than thirty cavalry that ran eastward before and the few cavalry that had a chance to kill through the Taishan army formation and then ran westward in panic, the entire army was completely wiped out.
At this moment, Yan Gang, who is the leader of the group, is surrounded by the robes. The boy with the fluff on his mouth no longer had the arrogance he had before, but instead nodded honestly at Pao Ze's praise.
However, when he saw Zhang Chong, the leader of the canal, in the distance, his gratitude and gratitude turned into a strong piety of a soldier dying for his bosom friend. He, Yan Gang, finally understood why Taishan's army was so mythical about this young man who was only a few years older than him.
He just has such charisma that people are willing to charge into battle for him, and their hearts and brains will be wiped out.
Zhang Chong was currently instructing Tian Jun to collect the enemy's horses while it was still dark. After the battlefield was cleared, there was no need to set up camp anymore. He directly set up torches and rushed to Liang Fu's Li Damu camp overnight. Just stay there.
After finishing these instructions, Zhang Chong saw Yan Gang looking at him, so he took the initiative to go over, stroke his back, and encouraged:
"Work hard, I am brave. I want to hear that in the future, the enemy will cry when they meet you: 'If the enemy is brave, our army will be scared.' Work hard."
Yan Gang nodded heavily, he would probably remember what he said that night for the rest of his life.
In fact, Zhang Chong was indeed praising the general. When Zhang Chong saw Yan Gang motionless from behind the formation, he knew that Yan Gang had experienced a battle for the first time and was frightened. Seeing that Li Fu wanted to take his place behind him, he hurriedly cheered Yan Gang up. Because he knew that as a cavalry commander, if he was dismissed in this situation, he would be useless in this life. A man who doesn't even have the courage to charge cannot be a cavalryman. But Zhang Chong has always known people. He could see at a glance that Yan Gang had the potential to become an excellent cavalryman despite his young age. He couldn't let such a good prospect be ruined like this, so he had an idea and chose the formation. Praise the general in advance and use the power of the army to build his courage. After this battle, Zhang Chong believed that soon another tiger general would appear in their sudden cavalry.
After finishing things here, Zhang Chong led his cavalry, lighting torches, and continued heading toward Liangfucheng in the northwest along the official road.
Around the time of Xu, Zhang Chong rushed to the outside of Liangfu City with his sudden cavalry.
I saw the stars of a small fortified city in the distance, and another camp two miles outside the city, which was very dense and forbidding, like a giant beast lurking in the night.
Just when Zhang Chong was about to stop his army, he asked his troops to use the talisman to signal the camp to open. In fact, it is very dangerous to do this. If it is not handled well, it will cause a roar. Those officers who were sleeping outside the camp suddenly saw a cavalry outside the stronghold. No one could guarantee what they would do in fear.
Don't say whether Zhang Chong has confidence in his soldiers, but this is due to human nature, and human nature will not be tested if it cannot be tested.
But at this moment, a voice came from the darkness in the distance:
"But in front of Qu Kui?"
Seeing what Zhang Chong was about to say, Tian Jun on the side immediately grabbed the words:
"Qu Kui is behind, who of you belongs to which department?"
Then there was a rustling sound in the darkness, and then two capable soldiers ran down from behind the slope. They were all wearing black clothes and scarves, so they couldn't be spotted hiding in the darkness. As soon as they came down, they ran under the torch and directly saw Zhang Chong, the current leader of the canal. They were all happy and paid their respects:
"Qu, the two of us are Li Gan, the commander of the right team of the Zibu Youqu, Zuotun, and the commander of the right team, Zhang Wei."
Zhang Chong has been eating and living with the officers and soldiers of the Taishan Army. He may not know the whole army, but the whole army must know him Zhang Chong. But with the torch, he recognized this general named Li Gan at a glance.
This person is somewhat legendary. He is not a local, but a warrior from a tribe in Wuyue. During a fight with other tribes over hunting grounds, he was captured by mistake. He thought he would be beheaded, but who knew what happened? The tribal chief sold him to a Han businessman.
A Han businessman bought him for six bushels of millet and sent him to the Fenggao market for sale. Like these Wuyue warriors from the mountains, many strong men from high places like to join their troops and then send them into the mountains to fight with the Taishan bandits.
Later, Zhang Chong captured Fenggao and all the slaves in the city were freed. But how could a person like Li Gan, who was thousands of miles away from home and even the tribe didn't know if he was still there, survive alone in the Han world? So when the Taishan Army raised a recruiting flag in Fenggao, this man joined the army.
Originally, his name was not Li Gan. His first and last names were drawn from the character box respectively. It turns out that Taishan's army is still small, and those who have no name or surname will still be raised by Zhang Chong. Later, when there were more and more people, Zhang Chong didn't have time to name everyone, so he set up two character boxes in the military station, one for surnames and one for names. If the recruits had no names, they would be drawn from the first box. You can draw three times, and then you can choose which one to use.
It is best to divide human beings into categories in order to distinguish the difference between the names before and after. Those soldiers who were named by Zhang Chong personally called themselves "people with the same surname", and the soldiers who were named after him were called "people with the foreign surname". Later, this matter was spread to Zhang Chong's ears, and he was After scolding him, he restrained himself somewhat, but this distinction was passed down from word to mouth.
This Li Gan was unlucky, naturally he had a foreign surname, but he was a little lucky and got a famous name. At that time, many people said that if he were asked to change his name, he could not bear this name and it would harm his health. But Li Gan refused to obey. When he heard that the name was that of a fierce general from the previous dynasty, he insisted on recognizing it and refused to listen to anyone's advice.
And why did Zhang Chong know Li Gan? During the recruit training at that time, he was the only one with a haircut and tattoos. He had shoulder-length short hair and a tattoo of a devouring pig dragon embroidered on his back. He couldn't stand out even if he didn't want to.
At that time, Zhang Chong went down to chat with the man and first asked him what the significance of this tattoo was. Li dared to say that the dragon behind it was the most powerful prey he had killed in his adult life, and the tribal shaman used this as his tattoo.
Zhupolong is also an alligator. If he can kill a crocodile, he can be called the brave dragon. Although the fellow recruits next to him couldn't ridicule him because Zhang Chong was here, it could be seen from their faces that they felt that Li Gan was talking too much.
But Zhang Chong looked at the top of Li Gan's head and knew that this man should be silent. He was a warrior. But what Zhang Chong envied even more was Li Gan's short hair.
To be honest, Zhang Chong couldn't stand his long hair. If he didn't wash it for three days, it would become very oily, and then it smelled weird. But if he washed it a lot, it would be really troublesome to have it so long. But Zhang Chong had no intention of giving himself a haircut. In this ancient era, wearing clothes inside out was a big problem for the Han people, let alone shaving their hair. Who are the people who shave their hair? Sinners and barbarians.
He Zhang Chong can be a fighter, and he will fight as long as he feels it is necessary. But after all, he is only one person, and he has to compromise on what is universally accepted as aesthetics.
Later, this pig-woman warrior became famous, and then he was poached by Yu Jin himself before he finished his training. In terms of acumen, no one understands the meaning of Shang better than Yu Jin.
Back here, Zhang Chong saw Li Gan and smiled:
"Agan, how polite you are, you don't recognize me."
With that said, he patted Li Gan on the back to signal to relax.
Li Gan was flattered, but still reported the matter:
"Going back to Ququ, the general ordered me to wait here for Kui to arrive. The camp has prepared grass and hot food. I will lead the way for Qu Kui."
In this way, Zhang Chong led his troops to stay overnight outside Liangfu City in the Forbidden Camp.
(End of chapter)