When Guo Dian discovered that the cavalry of the Taishan Army had returned to support, he was despairing.
Because he knew that not only the reinforcements from the Zhongshan Kingdom might have been in trouble, but his own breakout channel had also been cut off.
Again, why did he dare to break through? Was it because the enemy's cavalry was transferred away?
Now that the cavalry is backing up, can he outrun the cavalry?
With this thought, Guo Dian's face seemed to wither.
But at this time, another military officer from the battalion came with an order flag and said on the spot:
"Master Fu, my camp general said he would wait until the officials have had their meal before coming to help!"
Does what this person says make sense? Of course it makes sense. It’s already noon and there’s not even a drop of rice yet. How can we have any fighting capacity?
But what time is it now? Guo Dian hasn’t even eaten yet, and you still want to delay?
So Guo Dian couldn't bear it any longer, so he personally picked up his Huanshou sword and chopped off the military officer in front of him with one blow.
Before he died, the military officer couldn't believe why he would be killed just because he came to deliver an order.
After killing this man, Guo Dian felt extremely regretful.
Before the war, he felt that the battalion leaders were reorganized due to the defeat and lacked the will to fight. So he arranged them in the rear formation a little later as a reserve team.
But now? After another, after another.
What do they want?
Don’t you know that if we don’t unite as one in this battle, we will definitely die without a burial place?
Guo Dian's sudden killing spree startled Wei Shou who was standing next to him.
But he quickly found a solution. He stepped forward and suggested to Guo Dian:
"The camp leaders will be slack, but they will not dare to surrender in front of the formation. Because these people have no idea how much Taipingdao blood is on their hands, they have no way to retreat. Therefore, Ming Gong can order these camp generals to come to our camp quickly to answer the order, and then
Then you can exchange your confidants for your generals."
Wei Shou's method is no longer a method.
Because it is taboo to change generals before the battle. A new general is assigned to the head of the camp. The general does not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, and there is no running-in between the top and bottom. How can he go to war?
But Guo Dian understood the essence of Wei Shou's plan. It was not to let these people go to fight at all, but to stabilize these battalion heads and avoid defecting in the face of battle.
Guo Dian had no choice but to take this as a countermeasure.
But at this moment, the sound of roaring mountains and tsunami came from the opposite side.
Then Guo Dian saw dozens of flags representing the camp heads of the Han army being thrown in front of the formation by the enemy. Only then did the Han army on the front line know that all their reinforcements had been wiped out.
As a result, morale fell to the bottom.
Among the people behind Guo Dian, Zang Hong's face turned pale. He knew that his father was probably in trouble.
It was also when morale was faltering that a sergeant from the Taishan Army came out with a loud voice and shouted:
"Destroy Zhongshan first, then Julu. Surrender will be lenient, resistance will be stern. Surrender or not?"
Finally, the three armies shouted in unison:
"Will you surrender or not?"
At this moment, the faces of all the Han soldiers turned pale, and they were so horrified that they dropped their weapons.
…
The victory of this battle has been decided.
With no reinforcements from outside and no food or fodder inside, what else could the Han army do to resist fearlessly?
Once the battle formation collapses and morale collapses, the military, no matter how tight it was before, will fall into chaos, and everyone is trying to find a way to survive.
The Han troops in the front camp had no choice but to surrender to the Taishan Army because their way back was blocked. Their survival depended on whether the Taishan Army was really the king's division as rumored.
The Han army camp heads in the middle and rear formations began to flee toward the southwest. Although there were Taishan troops guarding there, they could only escape as much as they could.
After seeing the collapse of the entire Han army, the Taishan Army naturally began to chase the enemy northward.
The well-trained assault cavalry also put on new war horses, followed the flow of people, and began to pursue the victory. The pursuit team was endless, stretching from the north to the south of Handan.
Guo Dian has already run away, taking Wei Shou and other staff and county officials with him. They also have war horses.
But Tian Feng was not among the crowd because he had been abandoned by his colleagues.
But it can also be said that Tian Feng gave up on them.
Tian Feng understood that all these people were doing was in vain, because at this time, there was a big pocket outside Handan City. The trenches, corridors, and walls outside had already surrounded the Han army inside. And the Taishan Army had already surrounded them.
Several large fighting passages were blocked, so they couldn't go anywhere.
So since the ending has nothing to change, why is it so disgraceful?
So Tian Feng sat on a dilapidated bullock cart amidst the chaos of people, facing the direction of his hometown in the northwest and smiled.
Then he took out his dagger blade and stabbed himself in the chest.
But at this moment, a horse came running towards him. He was originally chasing the enemy, but suddenly he saw that this man was so spirited. With a thought, an arrow missed and was nailed to Tian Feng's hand.
Tian Feng wailed in pain, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground.
Then I heard the knight say to his companion:
"This man is a man of integrity, take it."
So the companion dismounted, pulled out a rope and tied up Tian Feng.
Tian Feng had no resistance and was sent to a net bag. Looking at the heroic knight, Tian Feng endured the pain and asked:
"Who are you? Why do you want to save me?"
When the knight heard this, he clicked his tongue. It seemed that the Confucian scholar knew what was good and knew that he was saving him.
But the knight didn't care about this. At this moment, he heard a colleague in front shouting:
"The enemy commander is on the left front."
The knight couldn't help it any longer, so he called to his companions and hurried after them.
Tian Feng was left alone on the battlefield. He was trapped in a net bag and could not move. He had to wait for the Taishan Army infantry behind him to come and take him into custody.
Tian Feng was looking at the sky blankly, when suddenly a voice came:
"The one who saved you is my husband, Changshan Zhao Zilong."
But it was Zhao Yun's companion who couldn't see his husband's way of doing good deeds without leaving his name, so he came to make him famous.
Tian Feng's eyes focused slightly, he read the name, and then sighed again.
…
Wei Shou has been separated from Guo Dian and others.
At this time, he was running wildly with two knights accompanying him.
Just as Tian Feng thought, Wei Shou also knew that he would probably not be able to escape this time. But when people are dominated by fear, they will not sit still and wait for death.
Even if they are running around like headless flies, they will feel that there is a slight chance of survival.
"Whoosh"
An arrow shot from nowhere, knocking off Wei Hui's companion and dismounting him.
Soon, another arrow was fired, but Wei Zao and the others dodged it.
Wei Shou cursed secretly:
"Aren't these killers from the Taishan Army saying they should be treated leniently?"
As everyone knows, the Taishan Army treated the prisoners with mercy, not the defeated troops. As long as the weapons are not thrown away, the battle will not be over.
Another wave of random arrows came, and this time Wei Shou and his companions were not so lucky.
His companion was shot through the neck by an arrow, while Wei Shou fell off his horse due to avoidance.
Knowing that he couldn't run away, Wei Shou decisively lay down in the pile of corpses and pretended to be dead.
Soon, the Taishan army, chasing after the defeated troops, ran to the vicinity of Wei Shou. But because Wei Shou was hidden, these people all chased Wei Shou, and no one found that there was a living person lying there.
But Wei Shou's joy could not last long.
Soon behind the pursuers, a wave of soldiers came up to clean up the battlefield.
They inspected the corpses one by one, classified them separately, and cleaned them in an orderly manner.
Wei Shou could no longer hide his whereabouts, so he had to get up and secretly threw away the ribbon around his waist, trying to sneak into the crowd of prisoners.
But Wei Shou's little idea was immediately seen through. A Taishan soldier grabbed Wei Shou's sleeves and saw that the lining was made of silk, and said angrily:
"Who are you? You dare to pretend to be a soldier? Tell me, what position are you in?"
Wei Shou was startled. He didn't expect that just any soldier in the Taishan Army could have the awareness to actively observe, so he hurriedly explained:
"I am a general of a group, and I was so frightened that I panicked."
The Taishan soldier didn't say much and sent the man to the back.
He wasn't worried about this person lying, he had a trick up his sleeve.
Soon, the soldier discovered another six Han soldiers gathered under a trench. He immediately rushed forward, raised his sword horizontally, and shouted:
"Why don't you come out and surrender? Do you dare to resist?"
These six people were already so frightened that they dared not resist after hearing these words, so they had no choice but to tremble out of the trench and surrender.
These six thick men showed no resistance in front of this Taishan soldier.
This is the military might of Taishan Army.
…
The pursuit of captives was still going on, but over there Wei Shou was walking among the crowd of soldiers, bowing his head.
He didn't expect that he could sneak in so easily.
But soon, he realized that something was wrong, because he saw that they were registering the prisoners in front of them. This was not good. Why did the Taishan Army regard the prisoners as so important and specially selected a group of liberal arts books?
What about handwork?
In fact, Wei Shou did not understand that the Taishan Army had grown from a force of less than a thousand men to the present, and a big task was to melt the prisoners of the Han Army and replenish its own troops.
Zhang Chong has always regarded absorbing Han captives as an important task to supplement the army. Because these people generally have good military skills and are proficient in military formations. More importantly, absorbing these military combatants can maintain regional stability.
Therefore, after several large-scale battles, except for some who were injured and retired, and those with great public dissatisfaction, most of the prisoners were replenished to various battalions in the army to maintain the combat effectiveness of each battalion.
But these prisoners were not absorbed casually. After several summaries, the Taishan Army mainly used these methods to melt the prisoners.
One is the dedication of an old captured soldier. The other is persuasion and education with local people. The other is the explanation of the Taishan Army's land distribution policy.
And when each of them speaks with the accent of his hometown and has become a senior general or corps commander, greetings and explaining the land that will be allocated after joining the army, how can you make these poor Han soldiers not be moved?
Don't think that today's Han soldiers are the same as the Chinese soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, the sons of the wealthy are officers, and the Guizhou leaders and liberated slaves are soldiers.
And these people are generally squeezed out of military merit in the Han army system. In addition to receiving some old millet and rags as rewards, they will be soldiers for a lifetime. Unlike in the Taishan Army, what I hear and see everywhere is that this person has performed well.
He became a corps commander in three days. He was a very capable person and was promoted on the spot.
In short, everything here in Taishan Army is so incompatible with the environment of Han Army.
At the beginning, all the battalion heads of the Taishan Army liked to recruit this kind of captured soldiers. Because these people have combat experience, they can immediately form combat effectiveness as soon as they enter the camp.
On the other hand, the local field guards who were often recruited by the Taishan Army in the past were often very demanding, and their combat capabilities were not as good as these captured soldiers. Therefore, each battalion recruited a large proportion of captured soldiers, and even the field guards appeared to report, but they were not required.
Case.
This matter was quickly stopped by Zhang Chong.
He understands the disadvantages of this kind of thing all too well. That is, although the captured soldiers are strong in combat, they are willing to work with you. But because their interests are not bound or restricted, these soldiers will change once they are defeated or retreat.
Became a deserter.
Because no matter how good your talk about dividing the fields is, it is still empty talk. After all, you have not been able to reach their hometown.
But this is not the case for the field-dividing soldiers. Their interests are only related to the rise and fall of the Taishan Army. If the Taishan Army is defeated, their fields in their hometown will have no one to protect them. How can they withstand the powerful forces who return home later? So even if the war is difficult, these
People will also try their best for the Taishan Army.
As for deserters during the retreat, Zhang Chong still remembers that when he led his troops out of Changshao, he led his troops to attack Mou County overnight, and more than a hundred people were lost in the night. If it were ordinary soldiers, these
The people had long since disappeared, but these field guards were still able to find their own troops and return to the formation on their own initiative.
Therefore, in the composition of the Taishan Army, a certain proportion must come from field guards.
However, Zhang Chong also understood that at this stage of the development of the Taishan Army, it is an inevitable trend to absorb captive soldiers on a large scale, because he can form combat effectiveness faster and be better able to deal with subsequent counterattacks.
Therefore, Zhang Chong gave each battalion a target, that is, in each battalion, field guards must account for four floors, and the remaining 60% is reserved for prisoner soldiers.
Although this ratio is very large, in fact, all captured soldiers captured in the past are counted in this 60% indicator. Therefore, each battalion attaches great importance to the captured soldiers it wants to absorb every time.
But just as Wei Shou planned, there will definitely be many military officials who infiltrate the ranks because they have blood debts on their hands and are worried about being liquidated.
So there was a scene that Wei Shou saw. The Taishan Army registered every prisoner in a register.
After registration, these prisoners will be divided into dozens of teams, and then the military officials and sergeants will be screened out. Then the prisoners of the same establishment will identify each other, and then each military officer will identify them. After such cross-identification,
, the true situation of each prisoner population is often impossible to hide.
In this way, Wei Shou's identity was exposed in the first wave of identifications. As soon as he heard that this person was the chief emissary of the Yellow Turbans, he was also the traitor who betrayed his old brothers in the Guangzong Incident.
The people were so filled with righteous indignation that they wished they could beat Wei Shou to death.
After all, the Taishan Army and the Yellow Turban Army are still a family, and their hearts are still close to each other.
If the military officials had not stabilized the situation, then Wei Shou would really have been beaten to death. At this moment, a burst of jubilant cheers suddenly spread from the front, but they heard:
"Zhao Zilong captured Guo Dian, the governor of Julu, Cai!"
Then Wei Shou saw that his good gentleman was like an old dog being grabbed by his belt by a heroic young general, coming in high spirits.
It seems that our Ming Gong could not escape either.
In this way, Wei Shou and Guo Dian met each other and saw the despair in each other's eyes.