Chapter 17: Entrapment

That is a little more than one stick of incense (about 30 minutes).

General Shangguan Fei turned back to rein in his horse and scanned the battlefield coldly from a high position.

It was more like a one-sided massacre than a battle.

Most of the enemies have fallen.

The commander-in-chief Guan Shengyun abandoned his army, the commander-in-chief Guan Jianlin was killed in battle, the friendly forces were defeated miserably, their physical strength was severely exhausted, and the overwhelmingly superior enemy surrounded them... When all of this came together, the fighting will of Poxiao Battalion began to collapse. The faces of the soldiers who were still resisting had already shown signs of disintegration.

He lost the ferocious look at the beginning and replaced it with a look of pity. Rather than fighting, he just tried his best to block the blade that was slashing towards him from left to right - however, he couldn't stop it, even if he risked his life.

They may not be able to fight against the personal guard battalion, which is also the direct descendant of the army commander, let alone lose their fighting spirit? Every moment someone falls down screaming...

The massacre soon came to an end.

The battlefield in the twilight gradually became silent.

The lonely general flag with the word "Guan" was still planted on the ground, and no one was going to chop it down. Only one enemy was left, standing alone with the sound of the general flag behind him.

Judging from the armor, he should be Mr. Qian. His chest was heaving violently, his helmet was gone, his blood-stained hair was tied up and spread out, his left arm hung down weakly, blood gurgled out from the sunken arm armor, and his right hand had a long

The knife was lying across his chest. The tip of the knife had broken off, and there were two or three gaps in the body of the knife. In front of him were the corpses of three Sun Jie's soldiers. He showed no fear in the face of the soldiers surrounding him, and his arms

His eyes were wide open, looking like a trapped animal still fighting to choose someone to devour.

The moment their eyes met, the man raised his broken blade and pointed it towards Shangguan, shouting: "How dare you, a cowardless person, to fight with your Grandpa Gu?"

The soldiers who surrounded the enemy flew back to Shangguan to look at him.

Shangguan Fei curled his lips in disdain, shook his horse's reins, and was about to spur his horse forward. He gave a light scold, and the knight next to him took a few steps forward, and the knight turned over and dismounted.

It was Sun Jie's personal guard Qian Zong Shi Erlei.

Riding on horseback requires one hand to control the reins and the other to hold a weapon. Because his arm injury was not healed and it was inconvenient to ride, Shi Erlei did not follow Sun Jie to pursue Guan Shengyun, but stayed with Shangguan Fei's cavalry on the right.

Shi Erlei turned back to Shangguan Fei and gave him a toothy smile, silently answering the latter's inquiring gaze.

Shangguan Fei nodded slightly, and the soldiers surrounding the enemy moved to both sides to make way.

Shi Erlei stood still three steps in front of the enemy, glanced at the corpse on the ground, raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Excellent skills! Please give me your name, good man."

The other party said proudly: "Under the command of Marshal Guan, there are thousands of cavalry soldiers, Gu Baisong."

Gu Baisong is Gu Baihua's cousin and the officer of Guan Shengyun's cavalry. The cavalry of more than two hundred riders has been kept by Guan Shengyun for tactical maneuvers. Although it appears to be an independent organization, in fact it can be regarded as Guan Shengyun's personal bodyguards.

In order to block Zhao Sanxi's reinforcements, the cavalry team temporarily assigned Gao Tengdou to help lure the enemy and block the attack. After completing the task and returning to the army, in order to strengthen Zhang Ding's slightly thin defense line, more than half of the cavalry were transferred to the north gate to assist in the defense. Gu Baisong led the troops.

Sixty riders stayed with Shengyun in Dayingguan.

Gu Baisong did not participate in the reconnaissance in the morning. He originally had two horses. When Sun Jie counterattacked a while ago, Gu Baihua's mount was injured, so he gave one to his brother who was escorting the military advisor; the other had just been given to Guan Shengyun's bodyguard.

He took them away, and he led his subordinates who lost their horses to stay in Guan Jianlin's Poxiao Camp.

Shi Erlei nodded slightly: "This is Mr. Shi Erlei, Commander-in-Chief of the Qian soldiers under Marshal Sun." As he spoke, he lowered his head and glanced at his left arm, raised it slightly to indicate, and continued: "I'm not bullying you. Let's move in.

"

Gu Baisong knew he was going to die, and if he didn't answer again, his head was chopped down with a knife in the air.

Shi Erlei did not dodge, but instead took a step forward among the lightning and flints, and suddenly shouted loudly in the face of the opponent who was very close at hand! When Gu Baisong was startled, he felt a chill in his lower abdomen, Shi Erlei's saber had already been

Taking advantage of the situation, he penetrated until he reached the handle!

The faces of both sides were almost touching.

With a clang, Gu Baisong dropped the waist knife that touched Shi Erlei's head. Shi Erlei stared intently into Gu Baisong's eyes, then took a step back and drew the knife.

A stream of blood arrows shot out.

Gu Baisong staggered forward two steps, clutched his lower abdomen and knelt down weakly.

Shi Erlei reluctantly stretched out his left arm with an old injury that was still unhealed, and tried to grab Gu Baisong's disheveled hair. He reached halfway, hesitated, retracted his hand and whispered softly: "Gu Qian is always a good man, he should have a full

corpse."

Gu Baisong grinned, and after a while, he weakly replied: "Thank you."

After finishing speaking, he used all his strength, closed his eyes, raised his head and straightened his throat. Zhu Lei swung the knife with his right hand and lightly touched the opponent's carotid artery...

When Zhu Lei raised the steel sword high, the Guan Zi Shuai flag crashed down, declaring the end of the war here.

Cheers and the sound of weapons hitting shields resounded through the sky.

Almost at the same time, a flame soared into the sky from Guan Shengyun's Chinese army camp not far away.

General Ishii Isao led the cavalry on the left. After completing the circular encirclement, he looked at the battle situation from a distance and found that he had almost nothing to do - Shangguan Fei's nearly 100 cavalry were enough to cope with the situation here, so he led his team to withdraw from the encirclement and went straight to

Rush towards the enemy camp.

General Shi Shen did not have any extravagant hopes at first: if the camp gate was closed and the horses could not climb the wall, the main force of the attack would have to rely on infantry: forcing the prisoners to brave the firepower of the defenders to fill the trenches and burn the camp walls, and then the infantry charged.

Breaking in and opening the camp gate, the cavalry can be used. All you need to do is prevent the camp soldiers from organizing an organized rescue response. The remnants of the enemy who were still scattered in the field with their lives at this moment are almost exhausted, and more than a dozen of them are being sent out.

The cavalry gathered together and staggered here. When the infantry finished the fighting over there and drove up, they could first watch the prisoners fill the trenches and die. When they were almost dead and the Changjie Battalion could recover some of its physical strength, it would then begin

Attack by force. Of course, it would be best if you could collect some heads by the way, put them on the edge of a gun and drive around the camp several times, on the one hand to frighten the defenders and on the other to force the prisoners to become cannon fodder.

However, when he was approaching the enemy camp, Ishii was surprised to find that not only the camp gate was open, but there were also many fires and torches lit in the camp, and the suspension bridge was not even pulled up! Under normal circumstances, it would be the defenders who were guarding the camp.

Set up bonfires outside the camp and throw many torches outside the wall - in this way, through the light of the fire, the attackers can't see clearly the defenders' layout, and the camp wall can even use darkness to attack the light, taking up a lot of space.

The cheapness...

Just as he was hesitating to defend the enemy, he should imitate Zhuge Wuhou's empty city strategy, when one or two hundred guys suddenly ran out of the camp and knelt in front of the horses to ask for surrender. Judging by their clothes, most of them were miscellaneous soldiers guarding the camp.

It took a lot of effort for General Shi Shen to understand their garbled voices: Jia Lianwang, the guerrilla who stayed behind with the title of Jia Lianwang, said he was going to ask for help and ran away with a few guards. Now the biggest official in the camp is a weekday man.

Mr. Qian, who was no one wanted to see him, had been kidnapped by everyone... When Mr. Ishii gave up his doubts and rode into the camp, he found that the ground was also full of people - masters in long robes, cooks in short robes, and doctors carrying medicine boxes.

Lying on the ground with his head in his hands: They all know that as long as they don't threaten the other party, they can save their lives in most cases: Talents with special skills are welcome everywhere, oh, no, at least they are needed.

So General Shi Shen ordered a huge fire to be lit in front of Guan Shengyun's Chinese army's tent to inform the friendly forces of the good news that the enemy camp had been breached...

Soon after, the exhausted but highly motivated Changjie Battalion rumbled straight in.

Ishii's headquarters is the Panshi Camp. As the name suggests, this unit is good at defense and is also the main force guarding the Luzhou city wall. Sun Jie came out in full force, and General Shi Shen, who had nothing to do, was appointed to temporarily lead the left cavalry. At the camp gate

Watching the Marshal's personal barracks file in, Ishii secretly stuck out his tongue: The Marshal's personal barracks are indeed made of iron - they didn't take any prisoners!

If you don’t bring it, you don’t have it; if you don’t bring it, you don’t have it!

It's too far from the city, so we might as well spend the night in the enemy's camp.

It is impossible to bring auxiliary troops in a counterattack assault battle. The enemy camp's cooks and miscellaneous soldiers make temporary guest appearances. Some treat the wounded, some boil water for cooking, and the largest part returns to the battlefield under the supervision of the armored cavalry, stacking the two sides together.

The body was brought back to the camp.

From time to time, seriously injured people who were still alive were found among the corpses brought back. Without exception, like the wounded soldiers from the Gangfeng Battalion found in the enemy camp, they were all dragged out and slaughtered mercilessly - who could wait patiently?

They! What's more, some soldiers even forced the captives to perform various tortures on the wounded. If they hesitated even a little, the captives would fall in a pool of blood. War will distort human nature. Moreover, in this era, humans are still killing each other.

In the stage of fighting for natural resources, all we know is life and death. No one knows what mercy is.

There were more than a dozen or twenty armored soldiers on Sun Jie's side who were seriously injured and were unlikely to survive. They were carried in and placed side by side on a slightly higher ground. In this way, they could witness the massacre of the enemy before they died.

A long-shirted master from the enemy camp was dragged over, trembling, and wrote down their names one by one.

In Guan Shengyun's army, there were two Luo military advisors, the younger one, a father and son. Unfortunately, the old military advisor Luo was seriously ill, so Xiao Luo and Gu Baihua took care of him and sent them to Anqing Prefecture to recuperate. They left the camp a few days ago. This military commander is in his fifties.

, named Yuan Jingzhai, he was a talented scholar who had failed many times in Runing Prefecture, Henan Province, and was kidnapped by Jia Lianwang. Jia Lianwang's nickname was Jia Wanzi. Seeing that the situation was not going well, he ran away early, so he had just "become a thief"

Master Yuan was left alone in the camp.

Seeing the army marching in, Master Yuan felt that he was going to die unjustly: What's the use of reading and literacy? You can't pass the exam, and you've spent countless money on travel expenses for decades. If you don't know how to read, at your age, you will be attacked by thieves.

I won't be kidnapped when I come here. It's good. I'm wearing a long robe and I'm grabbed by a thief. If I don't obey, I'll be stabbed. I've just surrendered to the thief, and the army comes again. If I don't agree, I'll be a thief and chop him to death.

——Is there any way to survive? It wasn’t until he was dragged by the collar to write down his name that Yuan Xiucai’s hands were trembling, and he completely gave up on mental arithmetic. He couldn’t help but secretly sigh again: It’s better to read and be literate! Whether it’s an officer or an army,

Be it a thief, he is useful wherever he goes! He doesn't expect anything like a thousand bells, millet, or jade, but he can save his life, and he has escaped another disaster! Well, I have to tell the officers and soldiers later, I am a good citizen.

The team officers will report the names of the fallen brothers after the battle. But as long as there is still breath, it is also the tradition of Sun Jie's army to let them tell their names and place of origin, which can make the brothers feel at ease. The last-hitting team stands

Waiting quietly on the sidelines. After a while, when the doctor feeds the brothers to drink the rice wine found in the enemy camp, they will end the suffering of these brothers in the fastest and gentlest way.

*Added title

A title is an honor that is given to someone with a false title that is higher than his/her own position, similar to today's department-level cadres who "enjoy deputy ministerial level treatment". We are familiar with the "grand master, grand master, young master, young master"

They are the additional titles of senior civil servants; "Taibao, Shaobao" are the additional titles of senior military attachés.

The garrison soldiers were given the title of guerrilla Jia Lianwang, and their position was the Qian Corps officer under Gu Baihua. The garrison soldiers were similar to the recruit training team. In addition to guarding the camp, another important purpose was to transport well-trained recruits to the combat barracks. Because in name only

Forming an independent battalion could also better scare the new recruits, so Gu Baihua asked Guan Shengyun for a false title of guerrilla for him - those above guerrilla and below deputy general could be called "general".

In the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the highest commander of the first army was the chief military officer, who was the second rank. Being appointed as the chief military officer was called "Kaizhen". It was similar to today's "army" or "division" (can't dig it to death, it's impossible)

100% accurate correspondence), the chief military officer is roughly similar to the commander of a military division. The position of chief military officer in the Ming Dynasty was relatively valuable, with only about twenty in total. The chief military officer was called "marshal".

The deputy commander-in-chief is called "deputy commander", also called deputy general, from the second rank. The appointment of deputy general is called "kaixie". "Xie" is similar to "brigade" - later generations Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai and others used the Western military system to train the new army

, "Xie" was directly renamed "brigade".
To be continued...