Chapter 83: Embarrassed
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When he heard Yue Fei say that they were here to report the victory, Yang Yizhong was not stunned, but only envious. While he took Yue Fei and others to the big tent of the recruiting department, he said with confidence: "I knew that General Cai would definitely win a battle. General Cai would be strict in the army, and he would be strict in the middle, and strict in the middle. He was a model of the ancient generals. How could he not win a battle?"
Seeing that Yang Yizhong admired Cai Jian so much, Yue Fei, who was already impressed by Cai Jian, suddenly became more and more pleasing to Yang Yizhong. While walking side by side with Yang Yizhong, he said, "You are right. My general's military management is the most important thing, but he is generous. My general loves soldiers as much as his son, but never volunts troops. Our Jinwu army will not demolish houses when frozen to death, starve to death and will not plunder, and will not take a needle or thread to the people. It will be fair to trade..."
Listening to Yue Fei's endless talk of Wang Po selling melons, Yang Yi said: "This person admires his General Cai!"
After finally waiting for Yue Fei to brag about himself, Yang Yizhong asked: "Brother, can you tell me what great victory you have achieved this time?"
This good news was originally a notification, and it is impossible to tell others about it.
Yue Fei said: "My general lured the enemy down the mountain and wiped out six thousand enemies in two battles. He now led a large army to surround the rebel Zhang Liang's village, which made the rebels dare not take half a step out of Zhang Liang's village."
When he heard Yue Fei say that the Jinwu army wiped out 6,000 Song Jiang's rebel army, although he still admired Cai very much, Yang Yizhong still couldn't believe it.
First of all, this battle is too brilliant, which inevitably makes people doubt it.
Secondly, the Jinwu army annihilated 6,000 Song Jiang's rebels, and some Song Jiang's rebels were defending Zhangliang's mountain village. There were 7,000 people and horses on Zhangliang Mountain. This shouldn't be true. Is there only two or three thousand people and horses on Dusu Mountain?
Based on these, Yang Yizhong said: "Can you tell me the details of your battles?"
Fearing that Yue Fei would not say anything, Yang Yizhong added: "This place is still a long way from Zhaodaoshi. If you have nothing to do, just talk to me so that I can make progress."
This is not a secret, but a big show of his face. Moreover, Yue Fei had a good impression of Yang Yizhong, so he said: "What's wrong with this... After receiving the order to restrain the rebels on Zhang Liangshan, my general divided my Jinwu army into three parts and promoted all the officers of my Jinwu army..."
As Yue Fei told him, Yang Yizhong became more and more surprised. He never expected that the battle could be fought like this!
Yue Fei went through these battles throughout the whole process, and he was extremely meticulous. Therefore, his description of the details was very intuitive and objective. When Yang Yizhong heard it, he knew that Yue Fei had said before that he wiped out 6,000 Song Jiang's rebels was not exaggerated at all.
Yang Yizhong said from the heartfelt admiration: "General Cai is really reborn in the face of General Nirvana!"
Yue Fei nodded and said, "My general is indeed powerful. If it were another general who brought two or three thousand new troops to restrain the seven thousand rebels on Zhang Liang Mountain, it would be great if he could complete the task smoothly. But my general led 3,000 new troops, not only successfully completed the task, but also annihilated 6,000 rebels and surrounded 1,000 rebels. How many people did Song Jiang have in total? Only about 20,000, my general and 3,000 new troops eliminated more than 30% of them, how powerful!"
Yang Yizhong said: "You've said less. This group of rebels has been suppressed for a year and a half. The government army has been defeated repeatedly. As a result, more and more rebels have been suppressed. Only your general Cai fought several great victories and severely damaged the rebels, regaining some face for the court, so that the mobs who are ready to act dare not act rashly."
Yue Fei suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, how are you doing here? How long will it take to wipe out the rebels on Dusu Mountain? The rebels we captured told me that there were actually only three thousand rebels on Dusu Mountain."
When Yang Yizhong heard this, his face turned red!
He was so embarrassed!
There were three thousand to seven thousand, annihilated six thousand, and surrounded one thousand!
On their side, a 50,000 army besieged 3,000 and attacked for several days. But even though they could not see any hope of breaking, they even lost thousands of them!
It's a shame!
It's embarrassing!
Yue Fei's emotional intelligence was indeed a bit bad. He didn't see Yang Yizhong's embarrassment and reminded him again: "Brother Yang?"
Yang Yizhong had no choice but to say as hell: "When we arrived at the first mountain of Duisu Mountain, we all, the generals were humble (actually shirking each other). Therefore, we could not decide who would take the lead in launching the attack."
Yue Fei widened his eyes and said, "Is this a waste of a day of precious time that we finally won?"
Yang Yizhong was even more embarrassed to hear the words!
That's right. If the Jinwu Army did not annihilate the rebels on Zhangliang Mountain, but just used bluffs to temporarily scare the rebels on Zhangliang Mountain and make the rebels on Zhangliang Mountain not dare to go down the mountain for the time being, then the Zhidao Si would have wasted a day of precious time that the Jinwu Army finally won.
Yang Yizhong was really embarrassed to take on this, so he could only change the topic: "The next day, sirs, the general, after sufficient discussion, elected Shun'an Army as the vanguard. Shun'an Army sent General Cong Rang to fight. General Cong Rang led the way and rushed to the wall of the village. Unfortunately, as soon as General Cong Rang rushed up the wall, he was knocked down by a locust stone by the rebels. He was unlucky and died on the spot. Then, the rolling wood and stone were hot oil and gold juice from the wall of the village. Shun'an Army was wasted all his efforts. After that, Shun'an Army organized several attacks on the village, but in the end they were all defeated by the rebels."
Before Yue Fei asked, Yang Yizhong said again: "In the evening, Liang Dujian sent your Central Imperial Army General Wang Zongyi to lead the Central Imperial Army to attack the mountain village. General Wang Zongyi also led the army and once stepped onto the wall of the village. But later, because the rebels counterattack were too fierce, General Wang Zongyi had no choice but to jump off the wall of the village again, and broke his leg. Liang Dujian sent General Tian Shizhong to fight again, but after trying several times, he returned in vain."
Yang Yizhong continued: "In the past two days, the army surrounded Dusushanzhai and attacked in turn, but they were unable to break through for a day or two nights. In desperation, Huang Zhaotao and Liang Dujian ordered a rest first and then to continue attacking after the rest."
actually--
Most big cities are easier to fight than small castles, because the protection of big cities is generally guarded by continuous passes and troops nearby. When the enemy is under the walls of the big city, it only means that the troops of the defensive party have been almost wiped out. All wild battles have basically failed, and important passes have been lost, and morale has been lost.
The huge wall of the city looks terrible, but when it really fights, the defending forces are scattered on the city walls that cost dozens of miles, and it is easy to be concentrated and broken through. For example, Li Yuan defeated Chang'an and the Qing army defeated Jinan, they are all easily captured.
The hardest thing to fight is actually the kind of ancient castles, small towns and small villages. These ancient castles, small towns and small villages have all kinds of methods of defending the city, with enough internal personnel to rotate, and external troops are waiting for opportunities to act, and their morale is high, so the siege can only fight hard for their lives.
The more representative ones are the battles of the Jade Bi Battle and Zhang Xunshou Suiyang.
During the Battle of Jade Bi, Gao Huan's army of hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Wei Xiaokuan, dug soil and tunnels, etc., almost all the solutions that could be thought of were used. As a result, 70,000 casualties were killed or injured in 60 days. The city still stood firm, which made Gao Huan die of worries and anger.
Zhang Xun guarded Suiyang with seven thousand people (when the city was broken, only four hundred people were left) to block the action of An Lushan's tens of thousands of rebels going south to Jianghuai, and saved half of the country for the Tang Dynasty. The so-called defending one city to defend the world was the small Suiyang city guarded by Zhang Xun guarding.
In short, some ancient castles, small towns and small villages are indeed very difficult to fight.
But Yue Fei didn't quite understand these things now. He thought to himself: "The 50,000 army can't even attack a small mountain village defended by three thousand rebels. This combat power is too poor!"
Although Yang Yizhong understood that there was a big reason why Dusu Mountain Village was not attacked by them because this mountain village was indeed too difficult to fight, but the 50,000 army could not defeat a small mountain village guarded by 3,000 people. No matter what the reason was, it was not glorious.
Yue Fei and Yang Yizhong were silent at the same time.
At this moment, a strong man came towards him.
This man was obviously a lieutenant, or a lieutenant, and he was considered a military officer who was barely qualified.
When Yang Yizhong saw the strong man, he immediately bowed to him and said, "Judge Zhang Cheng (Chengxinlang)!"
The strong man smiled and said, "It turns out it's Brother Yang, where are you going?"
Yang Yizhong replied: "I want to take the brothers of the Jinwu Army to recruit the Ministry of Justice to report the victory."
The strong man said in surprise and enviously: "General Cai has made another contribution? How much is it?"
Yang Yizhong did not immediately answer the strong man's words, but introduced Yue Fei to the strong man first: "This brother is named Yue Fei. He is the captain of General Cai's personal guards. He also made great contributions this time. He captured Mu Heng alive and captured without any obstacles."
When the strong man heard Yue Fei's identity and the great contributions made by Yue Fei, he immediately said enthusiastically: "It turns out that it is the brothers of Yue Fei. If you can capture him alive and capture him, you must be a great hero with good martial arts!"
Yang Yizhong introduced the strong man to Yue Fei and said, "This Zhang Chengji, surnamed Zhang Mingjun, is my commander and a passionate hero. Last night, he was the first to rush up to the village wall and fought on the village wall for about a stick of incense. Later, because there was no successor, he jumped off the village wall again."
Those who can rush up to the city wall and village wall are often the most brave people in the army. Such people are very respected in the army.
Therefore, after hearing Yang Yizhong's introduction, Zhang Jun said that Zhang Jun was the first to rush up to the wall of the village last night, Yue Fei said in awe: "Brother Zhang is so brave!"
Zhang Jun waved his hand quickly and said, "Hey~ So what if you rush up? No one will continue to do it. After all, it will be futile. Unlike Brother Yue, you have made a real contribution. I am afraid that it won't take long to see you. Brother Yang and I will salute you when we see you."
Although Zhang Jun's face was full of smiles at this moment, anyone could hear his loneliness.
In fact, Zhang Jun rushed to the wall of the village to make a contribution, but just because his comrades were not good enough, he was allowed to take risks in vain. How could he be peaceful?
Yang Yizhong heard Zhang Jun's loneliness, deliberately changed the subject and said, "Director Zhang Cheng, didn't you just ask General Cai how much contribution he made this time? I told you, don't be shocked and dropped your chin."
Zhang Jun said: "General Cai has made great contributions again?"
Yang Yizhong said: "I will wipe out six thousand rebels, kill two rebel leaders, and capture one rebel leader alive. I am afraid that it won't take long for General Cai to become the chief envoy (Zhusi Zheng Envoy, the seventh rank) and command the one-sided team."
Zhang Jun was really shocked, and then he showed a look of naked envy and even jealousy. He thought to himself: "Others who are in Bianting put their heads on their waists and work hard all their lives may not be able to reach a height. This General Cai did it in less than half a year. This is really awesome!"
"Promotion? Expanding the Army? Opportunity?"
Zhang Jun suddenly had an idea, and then he bowed deeply to Yue Fei and said, "Brother Yang and I are both brave people who fight bravely, but it's a pity that heroes are useless. I heard that General Cai is currently in a battle of low-level generals who dare to fight (actually, he is digging the corners of friendly forces) and Brother Yue is a popular person around General Cai. Can you say a few good words to me?"
Chapter completed!