Chapter 518: The setting sun shines on the lonely pass
There are often battles in history books in which a small number of people win a victory over a large number, but without exception, these battles have a huge problem that has been concealed, battle damage.
Of course the battle loss ratio of winning with less is very high, but the battle loss ratio of the same victor is also astonishingly high.
The Xiqiang people came well prepared. The troops in front were all consuming the weapons of the Qingping Pass defenders. Their goal was to capture the pass. Ye An suddenly found that he had ignored this key issue.
When the Song soldiers under his command began to suffer casualties, when the number of casualties continued to rise, and when he saw the young face behind the mask falling to the ground, he suddenly panicked.
Every time a Song Army soldier fell, Ye An felt a sudden shock in his heart. Although he knew that casualties would be an inevitable result in the war, he still felt pain in his heart.
They are real life, a living life, a brother who was fishing for a spoon in a big pot with you yesterday, today was beaten to death by the Xiqiang people with a sledgehammer and put into the armor, watching his seven orifices bleed.
The appearance of Ye Anxin was like a fire, and the pain was heartbreaking.
But what frightens Ye An the most is that this scene is constantly being staged. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty defended Qingping Pass with their own lives, and he had used all the means at his disposal. He had reached his limit and could not pass.
In order to reduce the casualties of soldiers through external forces, the only way is to throw yourself into this war and become a part of the flesh and blood mill......
"The setting sun shines on Guguan, and the soldiers have not yet returned..."
After the Xiqiang people retreated, looking at the corpses intertwined on the city wall, Sha Wentian recited poetry in a low voice, squatted down and even gently closed his eyes for the Song soldiers who died in the battle. The desolation made Ye An feel even more depressed.
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War in the era of cold weapons ultimately requires human lives to win victory. This is an unchangeable fact. Ye An did not share his sentiments, but led Tieniu and other soldiers to treat the wounded on the city wall.
As long as the treatment is timely and effective, many of them can be cured, and even if they become disabled, they will not lose their lives. Zhou Wuyao led the soldiers with white cloth on their arms to carry a stretcher back and forth on the city wall, as long as there was a breath injury
Soldiers will receive medical treatment, and the Song soldiers who died in battle will be carried away by special personnel, and their names will be written down by civil servants to report their military merits.
As for the corpses and wounded soldiers of the Xiqiang people, they would be mercilessly thrown off the city. Even our own people could not save them. Who would take care of the enemy?
The sun has shed its last rays of light on the top of the mountain, and the chirping of insects in the summer heat gradually appears after the battlefield falls silent.
Tieniu, Zhao Hu, Li Ergen and others have collapsed on the ground from exhaustion, but their eyes are still full of anger and worry: "Master Hou, we have been holding on for five full days, but the Zhenrong Army has not yet appeared. As for Zhou Wenzhi
The Dingbian Army and the Security Army have not yet arrived! More than 600 soldiers at Qingping Pass were lost, and the number of casualties will only increase after today!"
Zhao Hu fiddled with the armor scales on his arms, and with a little force he tore off a broken armor leaf and sneered: "The Xiqiang people died more! Our Qingping Pass defenders are enough to resist!"
"Master Hou? Master Hou?"
Tieniu and Zhao Hu talked for a long time without seeing Ye An speak, so he looked at Ye An curiously, but what he saw was a pair of expressionless faces and eyes that had been devoured by flames.
Tieniu swore that he had never seen such a look in his life. It was so cold and terrifying, just like the feeling he had when he fell into an ice cave in the winter when he was a teenager. His whole body was instantly suffocated by the cold.
"Report! Report to Ye Shuai that the Xiqiang army has advanced to two miles outside the pass. The Baima tribe...the Baima tribe...has shown its first flag, saying that its leader Baima Wulan has not died in the battle, and is willing to speak with Ye Shuai in front of the formation!"
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Although it was an expected thing, it still made Tieniu and others exclaim for a while. Naturally, they couldn't believe the strangeness of people resurrecting from the dead. After all, Zihe Kuling killed Baima Wulan with his own hands.
After all, twins are rare, but it is not uncommon. Ye An suddenly smiled and looked at the soldier who informed him: "Go and answer, and say that I would like to meet him outside Qingping Pass!"
"Master Hou!" "Ye Shuai! You can't do it!"
It is common for the two armies to send envoys to each other during battles, but the commanders of the two armies rarely meet on the battlefield. This shows the great sincerity of one of the parties, and of course it may also be the most sinister killing move.
Ye An did not shy away from it, and was even quite happy that God actually sent such a good opportunity to him. In the wars of this era, the commander-in-chief of an army is very important. It is where the heart of the army is tied. Once he dies,
At worst, the morale of the army will be shattered, but at worst, it will fall apart!
At present, the war is stalemate, and Qingping Pass does not have many options. It can only rely on a war of attrition to defend the pass. Ye An originally planned to lead the elite of the army to carry out "decapitation operation" again, but Bai Ma Ulan learned wisely and has been hiding in the west.
Ye An had no chance to attack the central force of the Qiang army.
During the siege, if he wanted to reverse the war situation, he had few means other than relying on foreign aid. He had to seize this opportunity.
It is rare for the generals of both sides to meet on the battlefield, but since the Baima tribe made this request, it is obvious that the Xiqiang army will not have a hard time.
From the third day of the battle between the two sides, Ye An could clearly feel that the Xiqiang people were consuming the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, and there were more people from other tribes and fewer people from the Baima tribe.
This shows that the White Horse Tribe has already occupied a dominant position among the soldiers and horses of the Western Qiang tribes, and has begun to consolidate its leadership position by consuming the soldiers and horses of other tribes. When the White Horse Tribe becomes the dominant force, the attack on Qingping Pass can be considered official.
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Ye An has conducted deductions, and it is not that the more soldiers the better, only the more elite soldiers will have positive blessings on the battlefield. On the contrary, the more old, weak and remnant soldiers, the more it will hinder the army and waste supplies.
This is also the reason why in ancient wars, the victory or defeat of a small number of armies between the enemy and ourselves often affected the entire battle situation.
Since the past two days, the threat posed by the Xiqiang army to Qingping has become more and more serious, so much so that the casualties of the Song army have skyrocketed, and Ye An is almost suffocating in pain.
At present, reinforcements are still delayed, and the only variable is this "pre-battle talk".
What Ye An was worried about was not that Cao Yi and Zhou Wenzhi were delayed on the road, but that they encountered other "resistance". If this was the case, a more terrifying consequence would probably occur, with the involvement of third-party forces.
After thinking for a long time, Ye An turned to Cheng Gongshou and Xu Yongzhang who were inspecting the armaments on the city wall and said, "Can your people still leave Qingping Pass?"
These words surprised the two of them. Cheng Gongshou said with a smile: "What the Marquis said, I can probably leave..."
Ye An nodded, he knew these two things and the way to send people out: "Let your people go out to investigate why the Zhenrong Army and the Dingbian Army stopped moving forward. The news has been cut off for too long..."
Cheng Gongshou and Xu Yongzhang looked at each other. They were not stupid either. They naturally knew what Ye An meant. If Cao Yi and Zhou Wenzhi were held back by party members, it would be troublesome...