There is a wheat field in the middle of the Lianghe Ridge. The ground has become too smooth because of the blood. The soldiers on both sides can only step on the bodies of unknown persons to continue fighting, and the commanders of both sides know that this is the result of willpower.
Battle. A head-on battle between the strongest Han army in the field and the strongest alien race in the field. Once both sides order an active retreat, they will cause serious losses to their morale.
"Please send reinforcements." King Wuhuan Khan looked anxiously at King Bear Ivanov.
But Ivanov was unmoved. He sat on a tall carriage and looked at the Han army's rear formation in the distance, where there were about 100,000 Han troops preparing for war.
"No, it's not time for a decisive battle yet." Ivanov rejected Wu Lidan's request for more troops. "This is a test. I want to see the real strength of the Han army, and I need them to mobilize the main army first."
"But……"
"There's nothing wrong with that."
Wu Litao said: "If the fighting continues, all the Wuhuan people will be killed."
Alkaki smiled and said: "No, no, no, you still have 30,000 soldiers who have not pressed forward. Relax a little and don't care about the casualties of some people, because the final destination of soldiers is the battlefield."
"Yes, the proudest way for a Rakshasa to die is to die in battle," Varianka said.
Wu Lita cursed in his heart, it was not you Rakshasa people who died in Hezhe, and the Wuhuan under him were no longer the original elite Wuhuan. For this southern expedition, he mobilized almost one-tenth of the men in the country, many of them
The Wuhuan soldiers on the front line were simply farmers, and some even sent some old people and young people to join the army in order to avoid military service. Along the road, half of the 50,000 people who froze to death were Wuhuan people, and most of them were old people and young people.
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The killing sounds and screams of the Han people and the barbarians resounded from morning to night. It got dark and both sides had to retreat. The Wuhuan people withdrew first, and then the Tartar people also withdrew back to the camp. The Han soldiers
They slowly withdrew from the battlefield, not even having time to clean up the battlefield.
Du Shanbo then sent five thousand civilians carrying torches into the battlefield to look for survivors, while the Rakshasa people also sent three thousand slaves to look for survivors. The civilians and slaves on both sides had a tacit understanding and did not take action. They took away their weapons and carried them.
Gone were the soldiers who were dying but not yet killed.
In the first battle on the first day between the two sides, the Han army retained 8,000 Wuhuan cavalry and 5,000 Tartar herdsmen at the cost of 4,000 dead, and countless others were slightly injured. This was a tragic victory.
, the soldiers of the Han army did not feel the joy of victory. They looked at the corpses of the soldiers and listened to the screams of their injured comrades. They couldn't help but recall the deadly battle during the day and shuddered.
The 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th regiments of the White Tiger Army were all scarred. The 9th and 12th regiments that had not yet participated in the war were not protected by Du Shanbo, but because most of them
They are all rural troops brought in temporarily to make up the numbers. Most of the rural troops perform the task of protecting the county. They usually fight a dozen bandits, and it is difficult for the bandits to fight head-on with the army. Therefore, this time they fought head-on with the dog barbarians.
The rural soldiers realized the cruelty of the battlefield.
"Did we win?" asked a recruit.
"No, this is just the beginning." The veteran smiled.
"Will it be more cruel?" The recruit opened his mouth in surprise.
"Probably not."
"Why?"
"Because the first battle was a morale battle between the two sides. If we had been defeated and escaped in the first battle, there probably wouldn't have been a confrontation."
"How long will we face each other?"
"How long the confrontation lasts depends on the food supply."
"Do they have food?"
"How do I know."
"Do we have food?"
The veterans became worried. Their food came from the imperial court, and they had previously opposed the imperial court and killed Zhang Xiaowu, but now they needed reinforcements from the central command. It was really tit for tat.
The losses during the day made Du Shanbo worried. The White Tiger Army lost the elite troops of the Holy Han, while the Rakshasa Army only lost its servants.
In fact, during this confrontation, the White Tiger Army appeared to number 200,000 people, but in reality there were only 50,000 troops, 30,000 township troops and other reinforcements from various places. The 200,000-strong camp was just a bluff.
"When will Zhang Xiaowu's reinforcements arrive?" Du Shanbo asked Wang Jingzhi anxiously.
Wang Jingzhi said with a grimace: "He is recruiting soldiers from various places, but now he needs to recruit both soldiers and food."
Du Shanbo frowned and said: "Forcibly recruiting soldiers? Are the people unwilling to serve the country?"
Wang Jingzhi said: "Generalissimo, not everyone is a White Tiger Army, and not every civilian will be loyal to the empire. For many civilians, the defeat of the empire means they just changed their master."
Du Shanbo was very helpless. The separation between the common people and the country was gradually increasing, and there were even situations where many common people did not take it seriously when they heard the arrival of foreigners. The children of the noble family were taught to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic from an early age, but as for the common people, living is the meaning of their lives.
Well. Even if they are all Han people, some people do it for survival and others for their ideals. There is no way to prove who is greater.
"It's now time. Foreign races have invaded the Central Plains, and the blood of the Central Plains will no longer be pure." Du Shanbo said.
The expressions of the generals were all different, but today's daytime battle exposed their family background. There were only a hundred ballistae, and they had all been taken out. If the Rakshasa people had any secret weapons in the future, how would they deal with it.
"Commander, shall we attack or defend tomorrow?"
"Attack!" Du Shanbo said, "We must attack, but don't attack as fiercely as today. How about we have a battle?"
Everyone looked at each other and burst into laughter.
The next day, Du Shanbo led the army and beheaded it, and the Rakshasa Army also moved forward slowly. When the two sides were two thousand steps apart, the White Tiger Army stopped and then sent out a general. This person was Yang Zhen, the double-sword tiger.
, is the captain of Du Shanbo's bodyguard and the most powerful person among the eighteen adopted sons. Before Yang Zhen rushed to the battle, he raised the long sword in his hand and pointed it at the Rakshasa military formation. Then he pulled out another waist sword and faced the enemy.
The backs of knives touch each other.
The Rakshasa people didn't quite understand what it meant. In their minds, they didn't have the habit of fighting one-on-one with generals in front of the battle. Instead, Wu Litan saw this and said: "His Royal Highness, the Han people want to have a one-on-one fight with your men."
of wrestling."
"Glare fight?" Ivanov asked, "Why?"
Wu Lita explained: "Generally speaking, this is the battlefield rule of the Han people. The winning side will choose to attack, while the losing side will choose to defend."
"What a broken rule." Ivanov said with a smile. In the hearts of the Rakshasa people, battles or wars are collective. They do not advocate individual bravery. There is a proverb in the Rakshasa people, no matter how brave the general is,
will be killed by soldiers, so Rakshasa people are not accustomed to
Military generals are accustomed to single combat - unless they are competing for a spouse. Rakshasa men only fight alone when fighting for women, and choose to fight in groups when fighting. This is also an important reason why Rakshasa people can survive in the ice and snow fields.