It was pitch dark in the cave, and Danbei Daiben was leaning against the damp mountain wall, sitting silently in the shadow.
Opposite him, several Baili nobles who had lost the battle also had depressed expressions, and someone was slowly sharpening a knife on a stone.
In the dark corner of the cave entrance, Danbei's slave lay on the ground and carefully observed the situation outside the cave. A little light came from the deeper corner, and Master Danba was slaughtering horses and roasting meat. He was choked and coughed and burst into tears.
The victor on the battlefield is always full of order, while the defeated general will only feel chaotic and at a loss.
Mr. Su Mang walked out from the corner holding his nose. As he walked, he glanced at his nephew who was grilling meat and sighed in his heart.
Danba's life will be difficult from now on. The biggest loser in this battle is not King Baili Dunyue Dorje, but Danba.
He lost his land forever. After burying King Baili's two thousand troops, even if the Danba territory was recaptured by Baili's army, it would never be returned to him.
Su Mang walked up to Danbei Daiben and said: "Daiben, the slave who was captured said that the Han army consisted of 240 people and was not an army. Their leader was called the Grand Marshal."<
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Dan Bui lost the battle, but he was not angry because of it. Silence was just worried about his lord, King Baili, and his opponent was stronger than he thought.
He frowned in confusion at first, and then got a little angry: "Not an army? Su Mang, I respect you very much."
Two hundred and forty people casually formed a horizontal formation, facing the cavalry attack, no one retreated, but actually took two steps forward. Even the best infantry could not grasp the distance of the cavalry attack like them.
These people put down their spears, picked up their muskets, fired very continuously, loaded the ammunition and completed the round of firing. King Baili had three hundred close-quarters warriors who also practiced this, but they were not as skilled as them.
After the infantry phalanx was defeated, half of the people stayed in the position to block the charge of the defeated troops. The other half mounted their war horses and charged with their spears. When the spear broke, they pulled out the Yanling knife. Without the knife, they brandished the three-eyed gun and transformed.
He became a skilled horseback warrior again.
They formed several cavalry teams of twenty or thirty riders, stabbing or shooting at each Dingben team from the flanks. They were especially excited when dealing with the Duokang cavalry. In a moment, seven Dingben were captured alive, and two hundred cavalry were captured alive.
Defeated.
There were still twenty-four Han soldiers on horseback, driving more than three hundred people from one end of the battlefield to the other. If he hadn't sent the tiger heroes as his personal soldiers, those madmen would have continued to pursue them. p>
In the end, more than 300 wastes were saved. They didn't even bother to turn around to help. They just lowered their heads and ran away, burying their heads into the pockets of the Mongolian soldiers.
His sixty tiger heroes were all surrounded by Han soldiers and cavalry twice their size in the fight, and none of them came back.
It was supposed to be an evenly matched battle. Although the Tiger Heroes were few in number, the Han soldiers' spears had long been destroyed in successive battles. The Yan Ling Dao could not do anything with their armor and mail.
But Three-Eyed Gun, Three-Eyed Gun is a real dog.
One by one, the tiger heroes who had made great contributions to King Baili rushed towards their enemies with their spears straightened out, seven or eight steps away, just seven or eight steps, and the war horses raised their hooves a little farther.
There was a bang, and the ugly black thing started to smoke.
Two or three lead pellets flew out of a pipe, either beating the war horse until it was so painful that its hooves were raised, or the tiger hero was injured and fell off the horse.
They will even circle around the fallen hero and ignore him after he is dead. If he still wants to stand up, he will shoot him in the head again.
If Danba, who was doing the barbecue, was not familiar with the territory and led them into the mountains to escape the pursuers, Danbei would have eaten the hot meal prepared for the prisoners by now.
This kind of opponent, Mr. Su Mang said that they are not an army. Dan Bei asked Su Mang to explain to him, what the hell is an army?
Su Mang didn't know why, but Dan Bei's face changed so easily.
However, he had no choice but to continue explaining: "Every fifteen of them were originally part of a hundred-man team. As the general's support to Basan, they were put together in a hurry, and they didn't even have officers."
Dan Bei turned his face to the side, raised his hand to support his chin and thought for a long time before turning his head: "There are no officers?"
Did you defeat a group of stragglers by yourself?
Su Mang probably guessed why Dan Bei changed his face. It was probably because reality severely hurt the veteran's self-esteem, so he quickly added: "Yes, there are twenty-one officers."
There were twenty-one officers in the stragglers. Dan Bui tsked in his mouth, leaned back slightly and said: "That's right, let me tell you, why are there no officers... What's wrong?"
Seeing that Dan Bei was very pleased with the fact that the enemy army had officers, Su Mang didn't know whether he should say the next thing.
Dan Bei urged him twice more, and Su Mangcai replied with erratic eyes: "That officer was a hunter leader. He was not on the battlefield during the war. He took a hundred hunters out the night before yesterday, and the captured slaves didn't know it."
Where is he?"
The leader of the hunters in his mouth is Dai Daozi. During the war here, because there were no roads in many places and it was necessary to climb high to see far away, the hunters were responsible for the investigation.
In the eyes of slaves, Dai Daozi and the Tang soldiers, who always run out without a trace, are like a group of hunters.
Dan Bei said in surprise: "Who is raising the flag?"
"He's a new soldier. He should be a new soldier. The veterans always laugh at him."
Danbei closed his eyes in pain.
What is this? The officer is not on the battlefield, but a group of stragglers.
Any general who encounters a situation like this with the enemy will laugh out loud in his dreams.
Unfortunately, he was defeated by such a person, twice.
Dan Bei did not forget the black smoke rising from the valley on the other side. He estimated that it was the good deed of the officer who ran out. It was precisely because of the black smoke that he did not escape to Su Mang's territory.
Just as Danbei Daiben was busy dejected, Danba came over with roasted horse meat on a stone slab. Before he could get closer, his uncle looked at him to indicate that it was not time to speak.
Danba put down the horse meat and stepped aside without saying a word.
His uncle told him about the current situation, and King Baili would not be angry with him yet, but it was a foregone conclusion that Danba would lose his territory.
In this war, the entire Kham region is in turmoil. It is not yet known whether the Su Mang territory, which is the front line of the war, can survive. My uncle cannot protect him for the rest of his life.
Being in this cave is a good opportunity to please Danbei Daiben. If you can get his appreciation, maybe Danba will have a chance to turn around in the future.
At this moment, the slave who was lying motionless at the entrance of the cave ran to Dai Ben and shouted: "Master, the army, there are troops passing over to Danba Manor."
The dejected Danbei Daiben and several nobles quickly stood up after hearing this and ran to the entrance of the cave to look outside.
As night falls on the mountainous grassland, the large team holding high torches spreads out, spreading out blurry fire snakes on the grass, meandering towards Danba Manor.
They came from the direction of Nangqian and were Han reinforcements.
The main force of the Lion Army is marching.
At night, they were only a moment away from Danba Manor.
Liu Chengzong received news from Dai Daozi on the road that Bai Lijun had assembled more than two thousand troops to attack Danba Manor, which made him realize that something was unusual.
Danba is a small territory, the manor is not very valuable, and the geographical location is not an important military area, so it is not worth the effort.
He didn't know why King Baili would send a Daiben army here, but no matter what the reason behind it was, it was always a good thing to have a Daiben army here.
King Baili's total military strength is limited. If there are two thousand more in this place, there will be two thousand less in other places, which saves his army from searching around in unfamiliar places.
For this reason, he sent Wei Yan to take the west route to Qamdo, personally led the army to support, and ordered Zhang Tianlin, the commander of Qianqi Battalion, to lead the army to rush for reinforcements.
Unexpectedly, before Zhang Tianlin arrived, Dai Daozi had already brought news of the frontline victory, and had won two games, which made Liu Chengzong particularly excited.
Dai Daozi was specially ordered to come over and tell him the battle process on the way.
After hearing this, well... Liu Chengzong no longer wants to praise Dai Daozi.
Except for the fact that the general did the work of the small soldiers, and the small soldiers did the work of the general, all his soldiers fought well.
He was overjoyed by Wailiangzi's performance, but what Dai Daozi did cannot be said to be bad. The results were very fruitful, and there were no casualties. He surrendered more than 700 slave soldiers and robbed more than 400 shi of rations from the enemy. It can only be said that it is different from the choices made by normal people.
Liu Chengzong rode forward and asked: "What do you think, abandoning the army and running to the other side of the river to go deep behind enemy lines?"
Dai Daozi was half a step behind and was stunned for a moment before replying: "Commander, this is what I have always done."
"Yes, but you have never thought that the order given to you is to lead the army to help Basang control the army?"
Dai Daozi scratched his face. He had many explanations for this problem.
He discovered that the enemy was crossing the river during his investigation. He originally wanted to wait for an opportunity to attack behind the enemy, but when he saw a better opportunity, he attacked the grain camp on the other side.
What's more, his people don't understand the language, and it's not the same system as military training, so staying at Danba Manor is of little practical use.
But Dai Daozi didn't say anything, he just agreed and said that he would not go far in the future.
In the first place, he had made meritorious deeds and done good deeds. The generalissimo's words were not harsh, perhaps he just said them casually. It would be very bad if he turned this incident into a bad thing because of his talking back.
Liu Chengzong indeed said casually that war is too complicated.
It’s so complicated that the same situation, different approaches, sometimes lead to the same end.
When it comes to the issue of water sources for camping, some people disperse their camps according to the water sources and lose; some people concentrate their troops away from the water sources, and they also lose.
A matter of life and death is the most complex art in the world. With the same tactics, some people can win and others can lose. Even if the basic conditions are met, sometimes you can win by just rushing up.
The only eternal truth in war is winning. No matter how the fight ends, as long as you win, there will be future generations to explain and learn from.
If you win, you will be a famous general throughout the ages; if you lose, you will be a negative example.
But learning, learning is always useful.
Liu Chengzong swung the reins on his horse: "You don't want to be a captain forever, do you? When this battle is over, you will go to the Central Military Camp to stay for half a year and learn new things. I will find a good place for you."
"Thank you, Marshal!"
Dai Daozi was overjoyed on horseback. After saluting with clasped fists, he asked: "The commander-in-chief said that we are crooked people?"
"Yes, Wai Liangzi fought well in this battle, hey!"
When Liu Chengzong mentioned Wailiangzi, he couldn't help but smile. He was a winner in life in the Lions Army, and he was very excited at the time.
Liu Shizi is in charge of the army and never does everything himself. He knows what the soldiers want. The Lion Army will undergo changes in all aspects if it wants to transition to a normal regime, and having a family and having children is one of them.
Some officers in the Chinese military camp believe that the Lion Army is now in its most carefree state and has the most morale.
But Liu Shizi doesn’t think so.
The morale he believed was that of ancient scholars. A scholar was a confidant. At the critical moment of the decision between life and righteousness, he decisively sacrificed himself without fear of death.
He doesn't want his Lion Soldiers to live up to the last four words. The starting point is because living is boring.
On the contrary, he believes that caring warriors, out of their attachment to life, can have greater faith and courage between life and death.
What Liu Shishi hopes to do most is to make his soldiers responsible for fighting to the death for more important things, and he is responsible for relieving the soldiers from worries.
Wai Liangzi came forward without an officer, providing strong support for his views.
Liu Chengzong didn't say much about this matter. It was a foregone conclusion that Dai Daozi and Wai Liangzi would be promoted. He just asked the guards to record the establishment of the merit examination system, and then raised his whip and asked: "Those stubborn nobles have not caught
Arrive?"
"We haven't caught him yet. We are not familiar with the mountain roads here. We only have a captive monk at Wailiangzi who understands Chinese. It would be inconvenient for Basang's slaves to search for them, and since they can't be led by anyone, we can't find them yet.
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After Dai Daozi finished speaking, Liu Chengzong took a moment to react before realizing the point of this sentence: "What inconvenience is there?"
"Some of those nobles are the masters of Basang's slaves. We can't let them go find them by themselves." Dai Daozi shook his head and said: "I'm worried that someone will let them go. There is one named Danba among them. We must not let him run away.
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Danba?
Liu Chengzong knew that this territory was called Danba: "What did he do?"
"We occupied the manor, and he sneaked back and tortured a slave to death in a cave. His methods were extremely cruel."
Dai Daozi said to Liu Chengzong very firmly: "Commander, I have a witness. A woman named Bu Chi saw it with her own eyes. She was so frightened that she thought she was possessed by a ghost."
Liu Chengzong narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "This is because he was dissatisfied with the confiscation of his territory and took it out on the slaves... Can you find out where they are hiding?"
"It should be on the mountain here. There is no road in the mountain. My Tangqi men are short of manpower, so I can only let Xie Erhu's Mongolian soldiers block the road out of the mountain and search bit by bit."
Dai Daozi shook his head and said: "I guess it will take a long time to find."
"No matter how long it takes you to find it."
Liu Chengzong showed his innocence. He was not afraid that others would hold grudges, but if he knew who would hold grudges against him, he would do everything possible to kill them as soon as possible: "Have a rest tonight. Tomorrow I will ask Mr. Zhang Qian to help you and lead the troops to search the mountain together." p>
Speaking of which, Zhang Tianlin actually played a major role in this battle. He was a master of attacking with cavalry in the Lion Army.
Wailiangzi's training infantry battalion was able to advance and counterattack in a frontal battle, and the enemy cavalry did not dare to charge a second time. It was Zhang Tianlin who repeatedly attacked the infantry formation in the Juerwan camp drill.
It was him who gave the Lion Army infantry great experience in dealing with shocks. They suffered more shocks in half a year than many armies endure in a lifetime.
"We must find this person. This is a good example to let slaves know what is right and what is wrong."