The main force of the Northern Expedition, which once again captured the troops of Jin and Tujia for a day, chose a strong terrain to station itself.
It’s time to send out letters and compile battle reports again.
In the large tent of the Chinese army, many generals looked at the battle reports compiled by the troops and horses. Although their faces could not be called resentful, there was a hint of anger hidden in their faces.
Just as Cheng Kai and Han Peng said, when looking at the battle reports showing the results of the troops under their command encircling and suppressing the enemy, many generals felt very angry.
Good fellow, we were so exhausted that we surrounded the enemy. As a result, the cavalry took all the credit for the battle, which no one can accept.
“Commander, please read the battle reports sent by the front soldiers of each guard camp.”
“Commander, this is the battle report of our troops. Please read it, Commander-in-Chief!”
More than twenty generals, big and small, placed the battle reports in their hands in front of Yunyang, turned around and sat on their chairs, staring at the sand table and fell silent.
Yunyang sat on the handsome chair and silently read the battle report in front of him while facing the lighted lamp.
As the piles of battle reports dwindled, Yunyang's brows became more and more frowned. From time to time, he raised his hand to rub his temples and sighed slightly.
He is the commander-in-chief of the three armies. How could he not notice that there has been an increasingly subtle atmosphere in the tent these days?
He also understood that in today's charging battles on the grassland, the advantage of cavalry is several times greater than that of infantry.
Every time an enemy is successfully encircled and suppressed, 60% to 70% of the combat success during the attack will be divided up by the cavalry, leaving only a few percent for the main infantry force.
Coupled with the fact that the infantry was divided into various guard camps, the credit gained was even less.
More than ten days ago, he noticed that the emotions among many of his generals were not quite right, and he could not find a reasonable solution for a while.
When two armies encounter each other, you can't just give orders to the cavalry officers and wait for the infantry officers to kill the enemy.
Once the enemy seizes the opportunity, wait for the opportunity to break out of the encirclement.
In this way, the cavalry officers and soldiers are no longer a matter of killing the enemy or not, but a matter of delaying the opportunity to fight and must be dealt with according to military law.
Moreover, this is not only a matter of delaying the fighter plane, but also has a great impact on the overall situation of the Northern Expedition. The most obvious point is to extend the time of the Northern Expedition.
Millions of soldiers and horses consume tens of thousands of grain and grass every day. If we delay for one more day, the burden and pressure on the court will increase.
Although the national treasury is rich now, it cannot be consumed by endless conquests.
Yunyang closed the last battle report, stood up and walked around the sand table, looking at the more than 20 infantry generals from time to time.
“Well, it seems that everyone is in a good mood because of their military exploits.”
Many generals were stunned, glanced at Yunyang in surprise, and quickly lowered their heads without daring to answer.
“Isn’t this the time for you to gain a lot of military exploits during the siege of the Jin Kingdom?
During the conquest of the Kingdom of Jin, hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen spared no effort to support your attack on the city, and spared no effort to support the enemy cavalry who came to harass the battle formation. Only then could you lead the attack with all your strength and achieve countless military exploits.
At that time, dozens of cavalry generals led their soldiers but only captured a small number of enemy troops.
Have they complained about anything? Have they ever complained? Can they hinder you when blocking the enemy's cavalry?
The grassland is vast and vast, and it is the main battlefield for cavalry to attack and kill.
When you encounter the enemy, you can't just let them watch the enemy attack without charging to kill them, right?
What is the purpose of encircling and suppressing the enemy without killing them?
The war is changing rapidly. You are running on two legs. Who knows what the war situation will be like?
Oh! They can help you attack the city without any complaints, can't you spare no effort to help them charge into the battle?
Is this still the Northern Expedition Army? Is this still Paoze?
The Northern Expedition Army, the Northern Expedition Army, you are all the Northern Expedition Army. The cavalry and infantry are both the Northern Expedition Army.
In the future, it is not this commander, nor any of you here, nor the individual cavalry or infantry, but the entire Northern Expedition army that will be remembered in history and be remembered forever.
Your combined infantry and horses are called the Northern Expedition Army.
You are dissatisfied because of a little military success, you have let me down so much!"
Listening to Yunyang's increasingly severe scolding words, the faces of many infantry generals gradually turned red, with a hint of shame on their faces.
Zang Kuang sighed, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Yunyang: "Commander, calm down, brothers are all eating from the same pot, how can you be dissatisfied just because of a little military success?"
Zang Kuang had already noticed the subtle atmosphere in the big tent, but he didn’t know how to deal with it!
After all, his son Zhang Mo, as the deputy commander of the Western Region Protectorate, is one of the cavalry generals, and he is now an infantry general.
It’s not appropriate to speak for anyone.
He had no choice but to pretend not to know and wait for Yunyang to handle the matter personally.
“Report, report to the commander-in-chief, the cavalry guards, the general of the camp, the golden eagle, and the falcon battle report.”
“Bring it up!”
"yes!"
Yunyang took the battle report from the soldiers, sat on the chair again and started reading.
In the blink of an eye, Yunyang handed the battle report to Zhang Kuang with a touch of relief in his eyes.
“Let’s divide it and let them take a good look at it!”
“Ah? Yes!”
Zhang Kuang kept a battle report for himself, and passed all the rest to the infantry generals present.
Although the generals were puzzled, they still took the battle report and started reading it.
When they saw the battle report that the cavalry was preparing to shrink the defense line and retreat to cooperate with the main infantry to encircle the two enemy armies, everyone's face was as hot as a monkey's butt.
They are not fools, and they all know why the cavalry, which can continue to rush and attack, behaves like this.
There was an inadvertent smile hanging on the corner of Zhang Kuang's mouth. After all, he was the soldier and horse under the command of the King of Pingjian who always talked about those who know the current affairs as heroes.
Yunyang looked at the blushing faces of a group of generals and did not say any more words to attack them. He stood up and walked to the sand table and picked up the bamboo pole in his hand.
“Now our position is less than 600 miles away from the Yinshan Mountains, which means that the troops of the Turks and the Jin Kingdom have been forced to the point where there is almost no way out.
Whether they fight or flee, it makes no difference to us.
Six hundred miles away, the enemy troops are like grasshoppers after autumn. No matter how much they jump, they will not be able to stay alive for long.
Nangong Ye!"
“The end is here!”
“Send a message to the generals of all the guard camps, with our main army as the center, and press forward step by step in a triangular charge formation, completely compress the enemy’s defense line, and gain momentum to capture the entire Turkic territory within three months!”
“Get the order!”
"What are you doing here? Why don't you go back to rest immediately and prepare for the final attack on the enemy?"
“With the order, we shall retire.”
On the grassland about a hundred miles east of the main camp of the Northern Expedition Army, eleven fast horses were galloping desperately against the horse hoof prints on the snow.
Liu Song originally thought that he would meet Cheng Kai and the Six Guards troops within two days, but he did not expect that the army had already opened such a long front on the grassland.
Fortunately, there are still traces of the horse's hoof prints, and they are becoming clearer and clearer, which cheers up Liu Song's group's somewhat depressed mood again.
Eleven Cavalry, who was immersed in driving, suddenly felt the earth tremble a little, and then the thick sound echoed in his ears more and more clearly.
While they were stunned, twenty iron cavalrymen armed with crossbows from each of the four directions, southeast and northwest, rode towards them and surrounded them.
“The eleven men in front should dismount immediately! Otherwise, we will be waiting for you with an arrow array!”
“The eleven men in front should dismount immediately! Otherwise, we will be waiting for you with an arrow array!”
“The eleven men in front should dismount immediately! Otherwise, we will be waiting for you with an arrow array!”
“The eleven men in front should dismount immediately! Otherwise, we will be waiting for you with an arrow array!”
Twenty horsemen from four directions shouted in unison, circling around with crossbows in hand, wrapping Liu Song and the others eleven in the formation.
“Generals, please don’t fire your arrows. We will dismount immediately. May I ask your general’s name and who belongs to the Northern Expedition Army?”
"You, the vanguard scouts of the Polu Army under General Zhou Baoyu, who are you, and what are you doing so sneakily?"
“But the soldiers and horses under Polu Army, one of the six guards of the New Army?”
“Exactly, who are you?”
Liu Song and the other eleven stood in the snow and looked at each other. Liu Song hesitated for a moment and looked around at the soldiers and horses that were constantly charging.
“General, can you let the civilians see your flag?”
“You don’t ask any questions, and you come up to understand us clearly. You look like a spy from the two countries!”
“Don’t dare, general. The grassroots are from northern Xinjiang. Something happened in their families. They don’t dare to expose their identities at will. It is precisely because they are afraid that you are soldiers of the two countries.
If you are the Sixth Guard of the New Army under the command of King Liu Mingzhi, why are you afraid of letting us ordinary people look at your flags?
There are only eleven of us, but you have hundreds of cavalry!"
There was a brief silence, and the first rider separated, took off the command flag behind his back, and stopped at a position about fifteen steps away from Liu Song and the others.
Liu Song looked at the word Polu on the flag and looked happy, finally finding it.
“General, I, Liu Song, stand side by side with the chief steward of the palace, and come with the prince’s gold-skinned arrows to deliver the order!”