Chapter 801 Credit
The last resistance on the battlefield has come to an end.
When Sima Lang was fighting for his life, the Taishan army officers and soldiers who had been scattered everywhere gathered here and surrounded the remaining members of the Sima family.
Especially when these people saw that Sima Lang seemed to be attacking in the direction of the king, the officials on the front line became even more angry. They directly launched an attack on the Sima family's position to break it into pieces.
In this way, the Sima family who wanted to take risks finally tasted the consequences.
Risks and benefits are two sides of the same coin. There are always some people who only see the benefits but fail to see the risks behind them.
It must have been a fierce battle for a while, but by this time the Sima family's position was full of corpses, and their heads were placed on the ground one by one, waiting for the law officers to examine them.
According to the Taishan military system, a legal officer will come to inspect the heads immediately after the war and register everyone's military merits. The heads of the named ones will be specially prepared and packed in wooden boxes.
The reason why the head should be prosecuted as soon as possible is actually to avoid conflicts at the grassroots level of the army over snatching the head.
Don't think of the officials of the Taishan Army as being too noble. They are also human beings and the same consumables. Without the restraint of the system and the infiltration of honor, people's evil thoughts are inevitable.
Therefore, the first time Fa Cao came over was to maintain military discipline and determine whose contribution to each leader was.
Since the founding of the army, the Taishan Army has always recorded merit according to the level of enemy heads it obtained. Whoever gets the most heads will have the highest merit.
In fact, senior military officials are gradually discovering the shortcomings of this.
That is, as the army's arms become more and more complex, each army has a large number of crossbowmen. It will be unfair if the merit is only recorded based on the head level.
Because the crossbowmen all use crossbows to kill enemy troops, and they are all located in the middle and rear. The swordsmen on the front line often get more credit because they are closer to the front line and more convenient for beheading.
But even if we are aware of this problem, there are not many solutions. After all, beheading is a rare method. It can not only prevent cheating but also quantify the merit.
Otherwise, by the Ming Dynasty, military merits would still be recorded by head.
At this moment, Fa Cao was inspecting the heads with more than ten calligraphers. They were scattered everywhere to count and record the heads one by one.
Among them, a member of the Guo clan from Taiyuan, as a scribe of Facao, was responsible for registering heads in the east.
Among the heads, he saw a familiar one at a glance, but he was not sure.
So, he pointed at a head with a withered face and said to his friends and colleagues beside him:
"Is this person Sima Yi?"
My friend is also from Taiyuan and has always had a wide circle of friends. He has visited the Sima family of a prominent family in Hanoi before and has an impression of Sima Yi.
The man glanced at it and nodded silently, unwilling to say more.
Seeing his friend like this, Fa Cao's scribe could only sigh:
"Sima Yi also has a great reputation in our area. Everyone would have thought that he would do something good in these troubled times. Unexpectedly, he is like this today."
In fact, this person's deeper sigh was not expressed.
You must know that in Hanoi, everyone who met Sima Yi praised him highly. They thought that although Sima Yi was young, he always worried about the world, acted decisively, and had extraordinary heroic appearance. Even Sima Lang back then was incomparable. on.
Although these two people are also from Taiyuan aristocratic families, they all come from small branches, and even their families can barely allow them to study.
Therefore, to the two of them, Sima Yi was undoubtedly someone else's child, an existence that was out of reach.
But what now? The two mediocre and timid people are still alive, but the talented person with the heart of the world has fallen, and his head is even on the ground waiting for them to check.
So sad.
The two sighed for a while, and after checking again, they placed Sima Yi's name in the column in the book.
This means that the two men have acknowledged that this is a valuable head.
In this case, one of the solemn warriors who performed the decapitation jump jumped up happily.
He danced directly in front of Pao Ze to thank them for their loyalty.
The other warriors also felt sad when they saw it, because every valuable head was a meritorious service. That boy Su Shen might be able to be promoted to a military officer with this first-level skill.
Oh, what a bad luck.
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After the Sima family was also destroyed, there was no resistance in the central battlefield. The defeated soldiers were stopped by the assault cavalry from the south and were concentrated here.
But on the western front battlefield, the Yuan family still had a powerful army resisting, which was Yuan Shu's own army.
These are the disciples of Nanyang with about a thousand people. They were originally Yuan Shu's guard. Now the leader of this army is Ji Ling.
Previously, Ji Ling had someone escort Yuan Shu to the Chinese army to take refuge, and he led the Nanyang armies to continue fighting.
But after the attack, not only the Nanyang armies were left with a thousand-man barracks, but even Chunyu Qiong's army, which had the largest number of troops, collapsed.
Even Chunyu Qiong's head was being carried around by the sudden cavalry of the Taishan Army.
It was also at that time that Ji Ling understood that the overall situation was irreversible, so he withdrew to the west position with the only remaining guard camp.
Yuan Shu's battalion is the most elite battalion in his army, even compared to Yuan Shao's Red Heart Corps.
However, on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, this extraordinary army did not perform as well as it should. It could neither turn the tide from collapse, nor protect the Nanyang Army's battalions. It could only support itself.
What's interesting is that when the Taishan Army on the western front defeated Yuan Shao's armies, they seemed to have no intention of attacking Yuan Shu's main formation and just let it go.
What's even more interesting is that when the defeated troops of the Western Front armies tried to escape into Yuan Shu's formation, they were shot and killed by Ji Ling's order.
It seems that this formation of more than a thousand people is isolated in the stormy waves.
But when the entire battlefield was about to calm down, Luo Gang, the leader of the mighty army, and Duan Xiu, the leader of the Zhenwu army, each led their own troops to surround Ji Ling.
At the same time, Ji Ling seemed to realize that the situation was no longer sustainable. With traces of enemy troops appearing on three sides, if he did not break out, he would have no other choice but to surrender.
But just when Ji Ling and others were hesitating to leave and surrender, Yuan Shu, escorted by Wenpin and several generals, walked through the chaotic battlefield and arrived at Ji Ling.
It turned out that when Yuan Shu saw Yuan Shao ordering Li Dian to be killed, Yuan Shu knew that his adopted son was going to run away, but he did not want to go with Yuan Shu.
But it was not something Yuan Shu could do to go through the chaotic battlefield and go to the west to find Ji Ling's troops.
So he thought of Wenpin fighting on the front line.
Wenpin's troops had actually collapsed at that time, and the Taishan Army's assault cavalry was penetrating his formation unscrupulously. If he hadn't known that Yuan Shu was on Yuan Shao's side, Wenpin would have withdrawn long ago.
Therefore, when Wenpin saw Yuan Shu secretly arriving at the formation, he decisively led a hundred or ten soldiers to cover Yuan Shu's westward breakthrough.
After suffering heavy casualties, Yuan Shu, Wenpin and others finally arrived at Ji Ling's military formation.
Afterwards, the three people discussed it and decided to break out immediately.
Ji Ling originally wanted to break out of the encirclement from the rear, but behind him was a dense forest, and the road conditions could not allow the army to pass at all.
So Ji Ling made a bold choice.
That is to charge forward and break out from the already weakened western front of the Taishan Army.
At this moment, these disciples of Yuan Shu's formation no longer have any idea of victory or defeat, they just want to return to their hometown alive.
Return to Nanyang. Therefore, Yuan Shu personally lowered the military flag, broke the military flag, and stopped identifying himself.
Ji Ling then covered Yuan Shu and led hundreds of guardsmen to break out, while the remaining hundreds of people, led by Wenpin, followed behind.
In this way, Nanyang Xiaoyong, a total of a thousand people, shouted the bugle and charged desperately at the risk of death.
With roars, horns, and steps, the whole army started running toward the front in the shape of arrows.
This abnormal situation surprised Luo Gang and Duan Xiu, who were preparing to encircle them.
Among them, Duan Xiu issued an urgent order, ordering the front army to stop advancing, not to engage the enemy, and only to attack the enemy with arrows.
As a qualified general, Duan Xiu knew very well that he should not stop the army when it returned, not to mention that this breakout army was Yuan Shu's elite force.
If we engage in direct battle with them, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties to our army.
It's not that he can't bear casualties, but the war is almost over, and it would be inappropriate to let his disciples throw away their lives for nothing.
So Duan Xiu conveyed military orders to the battalions ahead:
"The enemy is struggling to the death, let go of the road, and follow and chase."
This was Duan Xiu's tactic, to get out of the way, but bite from behind, biting off the returning army's flesh and blood one by one.
At the same time, Luo Gang over there seemed to have the same idea. On the front lines of the two armies, military officials could be heard everywhere shouting:
"Let it go!"
However, some troops were on the periphery and did not hear the military orders, so they encountered Ji Ling's charge.
As a result, the peripheral teams moved north one after another, only to be pushed back by Ji Ling's Zhu Tu.
After the military orders were conveyed one after another, each team finally began to let go of the northern passage and began to surround Ji Ling's troops from behind.
Just like slicing sausages, no matter how far Ji Ling and the others charged, some of the follow-up troops would be surrounded by the Taishan Army.
In this way, Ji Ling's troops became smaller and smaller.
But even so, when the Taishan Army's encirclement became tighter and tighter, Ji Ling and the others were still able to break through. No matter how many layers of the encirclement in front there were, they could escape through the torn holes.
In this way, Ji Ling's troops became more and more courageous as they fought, their speed did not slow down at all, and their morale became stronger and stronger.
And it seemed that the direction of Ji Ling's group's breakout was passing through Duan Xiu's main formation.
At this time, Duan Xiu's face was already livid as he looked at the enemy troops who were charging and killing them.
If the enemy forces really penetrated his formation and broke through, then Duan Xiu's face would be really swollen.
So Duan Xiu waved his fan and began to issue death orders:
"Kill all the enemy troops."
In fact, Duan Xiu's troops were very tired after such a long battle, and many people on the front line even started to lose their temper.
After all, they already have enough heads hanging around their waists. It would be an injustice if they lost their lives at this time.
Not to mention, the higher-ups had previously ordered them to open the passage, and it seemed that the higher-ups did not want to fight to the death.
This is a real twist on messaging. Any news that reaches the grassroots level will be adapted in a way that suits the interests of the grassroots level.
If they want to fight to the death above, they will kill them all and leave no one alive. When the superiors wanted to suppress the war, they just danced with spears and showed off.
The officers at the bottom of the Taishan Army are also human beings, not machines, and they will still comply with this law of human nature.
But now there is an order from above to fight to the death. At this time, the brothers know that they can no longer mess around.
As a result, Ji Ling and others, who had been invincible just now, felt as if they had hit an iron wall, suffering repeated setbacks.
At this time, Wenpin from the rear came over with three cavalrymen. It seemed that the troops at the rear had been completely wiped out.
At this time, Yuan Shu and others seemed to be desperate.
Wenpin and Ji Ling glanced at each other and both wanted to surrender. After all, the Taishan Army was quite ethical in accepting prisoners.
But Yuan Shu had no such idea at all.
Analyzing his nature, although Yuan Shu was a son of a powerful man, his behavior was similar to that of a knight-errant.
At this moment, the more critical the situation, the more the young Yuan Shu felt that this was the time to show off his talents.
Therefore, he strangled his horse's head, holding a ring-headed sword in his hand, and charged desperately towards the Taishan army outside.
The remaining twelve riders behind them had no choice but to charge forward.
During the charge, Yuan Shu shouted loudly:
"I am Yuan Shu, the cavalry general! Protected by gods and ghosts!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
And with this shout, all the Taishan troops on the periphery went crazy.
They looked at the fool wearing a scarlet short-sleeved coat, and seemed to see countless wealth dangled in front of their eyes.
So, all the officials put away their crossbows in a tacit understanding, put on their rifles and began to surround him.
Yuan Shu and others were brave. In the encirclement, they fought with swords. When the swords broke, they changed their swords and fought again, but the final result was already determined.
Ji Ling was knocked unconscious to the ground by a stick, Wenpin was lifted into the air by seven or eight spears, and Yuan Shu got off his horse in panic, surrounded by spears.
As for the others, except for a few unlucky ones who were stabbed into bloody gourds, the rest were all kneeling on the ground and captured.
Soon, Duan Xiu appeared in front of Yuan Shu under the protection of a group of soldiers.
After confirming that this person was Yuan Shu, Duan Xiu was ecstatic. Who would have thought that he would win Yuan Shu in the end.
As an important figure second only to Yuan Shao, he already had a lot of merit, let alone Yuan Shu, who was still a prisoner. What great merit did he get from this?
You know, there is a complete Nanyang behind Yuan Shu.
At the same time, Luo Gang, who was also leading the troops nearby, saw what seemed to be enthusiastic shouts erupting from Duan Xiu's side.
Then, the officials in front reported that Yuan Shu was captured on the other side.
At this moment, Luo Gang almost regretted it so much that he bit his back molars. He smashed the riding crop on the ground angrily and cursed:
"It is really a shame for our generation to let Duan Xiu take the lead in this great achievement."
But what can be done?
Afterwards, Luo Gang could only regret it.
In this way, he could only watch Duan Xiu leading Yuan Shu and others towards the southeast, where the king was.
It seems that Duan is really unwilling to share the credit with him. Damn it!
(End of chapter)