Chapter 366 Monster
The situation in the middle took a turn for the worse, and Zhang Chong, who had been observing the formation from the left back high ground, naturally saw it.
He frowned as he watched the Feibao, Tianwei, and Tianwu armies being first intercepted by a group of cavalry troops, then suppressed in a long and narrow grassland, and finally dismounted to fight.
Zhang Chong watched the whole process, but he didn't say a word.
Guo Zu on the side couldn't help it anymore and stepped forward to give advice:
"Commander Qu, the third battalion of assault cavalry in the middle is surrounded. We still have five hundred assault cavalry. Do you want to go and save them?"
Zhang Chong remained silent, obviously thinking about something.
Guo Zu and other crossmen stopped talking, knowing that Qu Shuai was thinking about something very important.
After a moment, Zhang Chong smiled and said to Guo Zuda beside him:
"Have you noticed anything strange about the enemy?"
Among the generals such as Guo Zu, except for Guo Zu, who was considered a rough embryo, the others were all elites selected from various armies. At this moment, after hearing the reminder from Commander Qu, they also began to seriously drive ahead to change the chaotic middle road.
This look really made them see a bit of reality.
One of the generals in the collision team was named Zhao Dan, who was a veteran from the Laiwu area. After thinking about it, he said to Zhang Chong:
"Commander Qu, this enemy army is indeed a bit suspicious. Although they surrounded the back road, the intensity of their attack was not high. It seems that they did not try their best."
With Zhao Dan's beginning, another composer Li Bao also expressed his opinion:
"Shuai Qu, if you look at their assault cavalry, it's the same. They've obviously already entered the formation, but they've also rushed out. All these things make you look suspicious."
Zhang Chong nodded.
Although he is the commander-in-chief of the entire army, he is not on the battlefield after all, and his judgment of the entire situation is chaotic. For example, he can't tell whether the enemy is luring him in or has no way to survive.
At this time, the person who knows the most about the battlefield is the military leader on the front line. He believed that these loving generals who had experienced countless wars would have their own judgment.
Therefore, even if he saw the crisis of the third battalion in the middle, Zhang Chong still decided to stand still and wait and see.
Zhang Chong held the riding crop and said calmly:
"Look again."
……
Zhang Chong and the other generals' judgment was correct.
There is really a problem with the Han army in the middle.
That was when the old Great Wall beacon soldiers of the Third Battalion of the Chinese Army began to lose their physical strength.
No one would believe it. Not even half an hour after the battle, the physical fitness of the beacon soldiers was exhausted? How to fight this?
It's ugly to say that these soldiers have not had enough to eat for more than half a year.
The beacon fire troops of the Old Great Wall were first built in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty by Emperor Xiao'an. In the autumn of that year, Daijun Xianbei invaded and killed the chief official of Guizhou. So the Han Dynasty sent 20,000 Bianjia soldiers and Liyang soldiers to garrison in the Shanggu and Zhongshan areas.
After that, the Zhongshan Kingdom's beacon-sui soldiers became an organization, and they were all used to prepare for the Xianbei autumn attack, but the scale of the troops was not as large as in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty.
After all, it costs a lot to support the beacon soldiers stationed there.
According to the standard rations for beacon soldiers in the Han Dynasty, each soldier must be provided with food, horse materials, military uniforms, and military supplies on a daily basis. From livestock, donkeys and horses to as small as a file and a saw, the Han Dynasty needed to supply everything from top to bottom, which shows the great pressure of raising troops.
For example, in non-war times, each soldier's daily ration was twelve stones a year, and twelve pieces of cloth were donated a year, including half silk and half cloth. The first line of the Old Great Wall was originally a border county, and its daily use was double this number.
At the beginning of the dynasty, this treatment could still be maintained, so the beacon soldiers in the border counties had always been able to fight. But later the court focused on the Qiang rebellion in the west, so the Yanggei Du branch of the original border soldiers was placed in the northern counties of Jizhou such as Zhongshan Kingdom.
Naturally, the small Zhongshan Kingdom could not support such a large daily expenditure, so the establishment of the Beacon Soldiers was repeatedly withdrawn, and now there are only less than 2,000 people left.
Yes, the actual number of beacon soldiers that Zang Min recruited to go south this time was only 1,500, and the remaining 500 were recruited temporarily.
After the dynasty recruits troops, whenever the army goes out for an expedition, the food supply and expenditure will be based on the establishment of each battalion. And this establishment is the military status of the military officers who went out for the expedition. But in fact, during battles and stations, the number of troops will inevitably be reduced due to illness or running away.
In order to maintain the number and combat effectiveness of the army, each army will choose to temporarily recruit brave men to maintain the number of registered troops. Of course, the prerequisite for this is that the daily provisions of the army cannot be reduced.
In other words, if you are given an establishment of two thousand, it doesn't matter how many people you have, but the court or the local government will give you two thousand in money and food supplies.
But even so, the supply of these beacon soldiers cannot be guaranteed.
So from a long time ago, these Fengsui soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom began to cultivate and farm near Fengsui. The Zhongshan State Government provided them with cattle, tools, and seeds to cultivate and farm fields, and the harvested millet and wheat were used as military rations. Even in order to increase their enthusiasm, if they had surplus grain, the Zhongshan State would purchase it at a higher price than the market price.
In this way, these garrison soldiers who migrated over a hundred years ago also relied on this method to take root in the north of Zhongshan. Their father and son successively formed a new clan.
But any policy will have its drawbacks over time. Since the Zhongshan Kingdom charged the Feng Sui soldiers for their crops at a higher price than the market price. Then why do these Feng Sui soldiers farm the land? They could just buy it from elsewhere and sell it to the Zhongshan Kingdom.
Therefore, wealthy families, corrupt officials, and Fengsui officials repeatedly arbitrage. It enriches the private sector and harms the public sector. The most miserable thing was the ordinary soldiers who were cold and had no clothes to wear and no food to eat.
In the original peaceful situation, Zhongshan State continued to purchase, but in fact this was spread to hundreds of thousands of Zhongshan State people, and it could still be maintained.
But with the Taiping Dao uprising, the world was in chaos, and various places were no longer interested in production, and the roads between them were cut off. Zhongshan Kingdom has not traded with the Feng Sui soldiers for half a year.
The Feng Sui soldiers, who had long been unable to farm, hastily planted a season of millet, but did not obtain any big output. So this time, the Prime Minister of the State held a grand ceremony, and they went south happily.
Because there was no more supplies, the Fengsui officials were worried that they and others would be the first to be killed by the rebels below.
Although two thousand Zhongshan beacon soldiers went south, they were far away from the gathering place, so when they arrived, they didn't add much at all, and they went south again.
And this journey was at night, and it was scary. Especially when he came into contact with the charge of Taishan Army's bandits and cavalry on the battlefield, although he only resisted for half an hour, the consumption of physical energy was huge.
Just like that, the beacon soldiers were paralyzed.
……
Watching the Zhongshan Kingdom's beacon soldiers continue to collapse on the ground due to exhaustion.
Zang Yi, who had just led the Wuhuan Cavalry to turn around, frowned. He realized a big loophole that he had never noticed before.
That is what he really knows about the two thousand Zhongshan soldiers that he and Sun Jian trained together. He knows their physical strength and will.
But although the beacon soldiers showed excellent combat skills at the beginning, they were nothing more than embroidered pillows. At this moment, people kept falling down and gasping for breath, and even consciously retreated to the outside.
Zang Yi never expected that he would lose to these people at the moment when the battle turned upside down.
He also saw that these human abilities had reached the extreme, and no matter how much he tried to encourage them, they would have no effect. Looking back at the middle of the battlefield on the opposite side, the enemy's more than a thousand assault cavalry still maintained sufficient physical fitness even when they were dismounted and fighting on foot. I really don't know how such soldiers were trained.
At this moment, Zang Yi suddenly heard the rapid sound of horns from the north and the south, and his heart tightened.
He couldn't see clearly at the moment, but judging from the sound, it was two lines of enemy cavalry rushing over for reinforcements. Zang Yi didn't think much about it, and after explaining the situation to many Yi Cong in Wuhuan dialect, he ordered the whole army to abandon the besieged Taishan Army in the formation and move towards the west.
It was also at this time that several old soldiers on the side asked Zang Yi in confusion:
"Why give up on this little beast in the trap?"
Zang Yi did not answer them, but looked at the high ground in the southwest, where an apricot-yellow paper was held high, and said this:
"The enemy is on the left high ground, kill them."
Then the Wuhuan Yi followers looked to the southwest one after another, and then they all smiled cruelly.
In this way, Zang Yi decisively gave up his plan to continue to encircle and annihilate the three battalions of cavalry in the middle before the Taishan Army's northern and southern cavalry encircled him.
By some strange combination of circumstances, he found the biggest winner in this war.
That is, kill the enemy commander and put an end to the war.
……
The actions of the Han cavalry below fell into the eyes of General Hengchang on the left high ground.
Those Han cavalrymen knew that they were first-class Hu cavalry just by hearing the sounds of yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaities and the hair and attire). Looking at the direction in which they were sprinting, it was obvious that they were rushing towards themselves and others.
So Guo Zu, Zhang Chong's general, couldn't help but persuade:
"Qu Shuai, let's get out of the way."
After hearing this, Zhang Chong turned his head in confusion and asked:
"Azu, will you follow me on the first day?"
Guo Zu's face turned red when he was asked directly by these words. How could he, Guo Zu, be greedy for life and afraid of death? But Guo Zu can kill with passion, but can Qu Shuai? If something happens to you, Commander Qu, my wife and the military advisor will not be able to skin him, Guo Zu?
Of course, his Guo Zu’s life is a piece of shit. But without Qu Shuai, what would happen to the thousands of Taishan troops?
Therefore, Guo Zu had already made preparations. If Commander Qu was unwilling to withdraw, he would drag him away temporarily even at the risk of being beaten to death by Commander Qu.
But Zhang Chong saw Guo Zu's thoughts.
Zhang Chong burst out laughing and cursed at the generals who had the same thoughts:
"Since when has the world forgotten my reputation as Zhang Chong? Since when did anyone dare to charge in front of me? Even though they are so weak, they can force you back?"
After walking a few steps, Zhang Chong had already reached his mount. He turned his back to the generals and said:
"I started to become the military leader of Mount Tai, and I started to strategize from behind. When everyone felt that the superior could not take risks lightly, so everyone began to ask me to seek stability and safety. But do you know?"
Zhang Chong suddenly turned around, pointed at the Hu riders below, and said angrily:
"What you know, the enemy also knows. These people have seen that I don't dare to take risks, and they also see that you don't. That's why they are so wanton and arrogant. They think they are barefoot, so they think we are wearing shoes. Will you definitely quit? I want them to know that I, Zhang Chong, can still take off my shoes. I am still the same person and will never change.”
"I want to tell you today that I, Zhang Chong, am a martial artist. In my world, no matter who I am, I mean no one can let my banner take half a step back."
He said coldly:
"Since these people choose to die in this way, then I, Zhang Chong, will help them. Let them understand what kind of mistakes they have made."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Chong ignored the generals, mounted his horse directly, and then shouted:
"Raise the flag."
After saying that, Zhang Chong, wearing armor and horseback, sprinted down the slope, taking the lead.
Zhang Chong's actions shocked the generals.
Especially Guo Zu, this big man from Qingzhou, his eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes. He immediately got on his horse, roared and ran forward, even directly surpassing Zhang Chong.
More and more collision officers and assault riders got on their horses and sprinted wildly. They stared closely at the high-speed moving mirror armor knight, who was the person they swore to follow and protect to the death.
Therefore, the elite Taishan Army in Zuo Highland directly chose the toughest way to welcome Zang Yi's beheading.
They surged down like a yellow tide.
……
Zhang Chong rushed faster and faster along the ramp. In his field of vision, he could only see Guo Zu, who was slightly ahead, and Cheng Puhandang, who somehow rushed to the front.
Han Dang made a big mistake in this battle, and Zhang Chong was prepared to punish him severely.
But during the war, this man thought he was a good man and would die on the battlefield even if he died, and begged Zhang Chong to give him a chance.
All the generals begged for mercy, but Zhang Chong did not comment and just said:
"Watch your behavior."
Then Zhang Chong saw Han Dang, who was charging like a mad tiger.
At this moment, in order to pursue speed, he directly rushed naked, rushing and beating wildly without any obstruction. If Cheng Pu hadn't been protecting him, Han Dang would have died long ago.
But it was Han Dang's fearlessness that greatly dampened the enemy's morale.
Han Dang's madness even made the Wuhuan veterans speechless:
"This is a lunatic."
Zhang Chong looked at Han Dang and cursed the same thing, but the corners of his mouth were slightly exposed. It was obvious that Han Dang's behavior made Zhang Chong very satisfied.
At this moment, Zhang Chong also began to greet the first echelon of enemy cavalry.
This was a very clean Wuhuan man, which was in sharp contrast to the filthiness of the barbarians Zhang Chong had seen.
This time, Zhang Chong also had a sigh in his mind:
"This is a decent man."
But it's a pity that this decent man died in such an undignified way.
When this man held up his horse and used a standard mid-level stance to pick off Zhang Chong's head, Zhang Chong's head was faster than him.
Zhang Chong completely ignored the approaching Ma Jin and directly cut off the head of Hu Qi opposite him, then followed the man's side and continued to kill the enemies behind him.
As for this Wuhuan warrior, he didn't even give his name. His headless body was carried forward by his mount for a few steps before he fell to the ground.
After that, Zhang Chong picked and killed several more people. Later, he felt that it was too slow and directly used the horse in his hand as a stick, knocking back and forth the Hu Qi who were in the way.
Every blow was like a volley and explosion, and the huge force hit Hu Qi's head, making it look as white as a watermelon.
So when Zhang Chong appeared in front of Zang Yi wearing mirror armor full of red and white.
Under the iron mask, Zang Yi made a trembling cry:
"What the hell kind of monster are you?"
(End of chapter)