Four hundred and fortieth chapters tithe order to kill
In front of the winding brown earthen wall, a crowd of people spread like a retreat, and the team behind them had dispersed. レ♠レ ( = money man,,,.) But there were horse soldiers rushing from between the camps.
The two kinds of soldiers and horses are intertwined and moving in opposite directions, like a whirlpool. The scene is very spectacular.
The horse soldiers rushed over with sparse rangers and were attacked by rows of muskets. Many fell off their horses, but due to their running speed, many people approached the earth wall. However, there was a deep hook in front of the earth wall, and the horse soldiers were not stupid enough to go there.
Jumping into the ditch, they fired three-eyed muskets at the wall, then drew their bows and fired arrows. This group of horsemen was very brave, with nearly half of them dead and wounded, as if they were here to die; they were obviously trying to win the attack for the infantry behind them.
Time. Like a forest of armored infantry, long guns and spears like a moving forest.
People kept falling under the sound of gunshots, but a group of central army infantrymen endured the casualties and approached. They roared and rushed up, stabbing the wall with their spears. But at this moment, the firearms behind the Suzaku Army
The soldier stood up, not only outside the attack range of the spear, but also higher than the waist wall. "Bah, bang, bang..." a gunshot rang out. The army infantry finally couldn't stand such a battle, and those who survived dropped their spears and turned around.
Just run.
The infantry at the front retreated, and soon the phalanxes at the rear were told to stop their advance, and they wisely turned around and retreated.
A large number of people and horses retreated into the distance. On the flat ground outside the waist wall, there was a horrific scene. There were corpses lying in almost every small area. In some concentrated places, corpses were even piled up on top of each other.
. Weapons stuck on the ground and debris scattered everywhere make the battlefield full of chaos and chaos. Corpses strewn all over the field is probably what it looks like.
There have been greater disasters in the world, such as the Yellow River flooding, which killed and injured hundreds of thousands, but the intuitive visual experience was completely inferior to such a battlefield. People who died in natural disasters were widely distributed, but the war at this time was limited by the power of weapons.
, with the main mode of concentrating troops to determine the outcome, it would be very shocking if so many people died on a small battlefield.
The gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated, and the faces of Zhang Ning and others were seen to be darkened, as if they had been smeared with pot ashes. Next to them, Xin Wei was silently wiping his face with a handkerchief.
Zhang Ning looked into the distance. In the distance, the army camp was full of people. He felt that the British Duke Zhang Fu should be there, but he just couldn't see it. This battle should have been ordered by Zhang Fu, but he didn't know that he saw corpses scattered all over the field.
What do you think about the scene?
At this moment, I saw some people carrying racks walking over from a distance. A man on horseback came forward holding a wooden stick tied with white silk and shouted: "Look, we didn't bring any
Weapons! They are all raised by their parents. We all have wives, children, and children at home. Don’t let the brothers across from you use guns. It’s just a convenience and let us save the dead ones."
The soldiers behind the wall stood there and watched, no one said anything. Zhang Ning on the earthen fort saw clearly and turned to a soldier who sent the order: "Go and send the order. Attacks are strictly prohibited at this time and let the other side take away the wounded soldiers. To the officers and soldiers
The military commander said that the king respects the soldiers who fought bravely and allowed the wounded soldiers who had done their duty to go home alive."
After a while, the shout of the messenger came from below, repeating Zhang Ning's words. The general on the horse raised his head and looked at the figure on the bunker for a long time.
At this moment, Zhang Chengzong suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: "Don't move, just stand where you are... The people on your side will remember that I put you on the first wall, how did you get to the back?"
?Where is your leader, come out!"
Some of the people were standing, and some were sitting against the wall, looking at the group of people who were grabbed. Some were eating dry food and drinking water, and some were looking after the injured. The surrounding area had calmed down. Zhang Chengzong turned over.
He mounted his horse and rushed over with a group of soldiers. While cursing, he ordered someone to disarm the deserters.
Zhang Ning called another messenger and whispered: "Go tell Zhang Chengzong and kill one of the ten deserters!"
The deserters were cleared out, and they were all members of the Jiujiang Army. The soldiers of the Yongding Battalion were not willing to retreat in such a battle that was obviously undefeated. The deserters totaled about a few hundred people, and all of them were robbed of muskets and short rifles.
The soldiers were driven in groups to the spacious flat ground between the two walls. The people stood dejectedly and frightened, because there were troops with loaded firearms facing them on both sides.
Zhang Chengzong ordered them to be divided into eight rows and said loudly: "Count from both sides. If you count to ten, you will die. If you dare to leave the place where you are standing, you will be killed!"
The soldiers who carried out the execution pointed their guns one by one, touched people's backs with the muzzle and read out a number. The faces of the unlucky deserters were all as white as paper, and some of them broke out in cold sweats. When the count reached ten, one
A musket was pressed against the person's back with a bang, knocking him down. Even if he wasn't dead, after this experience, it felt like walking in front of the Lord of Hell's door.
Zhang Chengzong shouted: "There is a saying in our army: The living will die, and the dead will live! After this battle, not one of the ten people who are fighting in the front will die; if you run away, one of the ten will have to be picked to take the blame! If you run away from the battle,
It’s pretty light!”
The battlefield was quiet all afternoon, and Zhang Fu sent no one to try to attack. Zhang Ning sent someone to shout, agreeing that the army would send people to collect the corpses. If the corpses were left in the field, they would rot and be prone to plague. At the same time,
The officers and soldiers probably would not want to see their own people exposed to the sun and rain in the wilderness and suffered.
In the evening, the army troops began to retreat towards the corridor on the north shore of Baishui Lake. They had no results in this battle, but they might not give up unless they gave it a try.
The Zhuque Army and Jiujiang Army garrison troops also camped and set up tents behind the earthen wall in the evening. On the land that had been trampled to nothing during the construction of the fortifications, smoke was rising everywhere, and the injured soldiers were gradually carried to the city.
Zhang Chengzong was left on guard duty, and the remaining civil and military personnel followed Zhang Ning back to the city.
In the evening, the governor's Yamen came back to make a detailed report and reported the news to Zhang Ning face to face. The South Route Army of the official army transported troops by boat from Duchang. The former army had captured Nankang Prefecture in the south of Jiujiang. Beijing in the west
No one has come back to tell us what is going on with the Route Army. It is probably time to get to the Yangtze River and cross the river.
Zhang Ning, Yu Qian and others discussed for a while in the lobby. Everyone was speculating on what the officers and soldiers would do when more troops arrived at Jiujiang City. Some people said that the officers and soldiers might attack from three sides at the same time to disperse the strength of the Suzaku Army.
But after today's battle, Zhang Ning didn't think Zhang Fu would do this; even if the army had hundreds of thousands of troops, they still couldn't afford such a high-loss tactics. After all, the price paid by the Suzaku Army for such a battle was very low.
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Surrounding without attacking, trapping everyone to death? Zhang Ning guessed Zhang Fu's thoughts. This stupid method is also very common. In ancient times, when generals encountered a fortified city and had no artillery, they would surround and wait if they couldn't defeat it.
Jiujiang City has a lot of food stored up. Zhang Ning said: "Tomorrow morning, you come with me to check out the various granaries."