Chapter 149
The wind blows away the clouds
Perhaps God saw the murder of humans for a day, and finally couldn't see it. The last little light finally disappeared, and the whole world sank into darkness. Even the original slanting wind and drizzle had turned into strong winds and heavy rain, and the entire canyon had become muddy.
There were corpses everywhere on the battlefield, blood flowing into rivers, and when the rain washed away, the ground in the entire canyon was covered with blood.
In the heavy rain, torches had already been erected, and torches were spotted in the entire canyon.
At the foot of a mountain, a large tent has been set up here temporarily, and all the generals in the army have gathered here.
"Report to the Grand Commander, my troops in the west have completely surrounded the Liao army in Goguryeo. Now we have learned that the Liao general is the younger brother of Yuan Taizuo, Fuyu City. Now he is leading the remaining two thousand Liao cavalry to retreat on a small hillside to the west to resist stubbornly. Following the general order of the Grand Commander, we are currently surrounding him and not attacking him."
Chen Kefu was not untied, and leaned there in a thick and gorgeous armor, looking a little tired. He was late at noon and it rained again in the evening. After rolling in the mud for so long, he was exhausted.
"Now we have mastered the entire battlefield situation, and the soldiers are tired and hungry, so let's take a slow down first. This battle of trapped beasts should not be underestimated. We have to deal with it carefully. Let's take a closer look. Those people have no food or drinks, and it rains heavily this day. As long as they surround them for a night, God will help us clean up them. However, you must pay attention to the performance of the Yuan Pure Land today. Such people are not good people. You must be careful that they will raid at night tonight. Arrange more troops and guard him to death. The more capable Liao generals are, the less we can give them the chance to enter the mountains again."
"Yes, I have mobilized 20,000 troops to surround him. Even if he puts wings on, he will not be able to fly out of our encirclement." Mao Yi smiled and said confidently.
At this point in the battle, it can be said that Chen Kefu had already won, and now what he wants is a complete victory.
The Liao people's central army was defeated, and more than 20,000 slaves surrendered in front of the formation. The remaining more than 20,000 young and strong tribes were surrounded by Chen Kefu and others. In the end, more than 20,000 people who were desperate were all surrendered under the leadership of the remaining tribal noble lords, and the entire central army was completely destroyed.
In the process of defeating the central army, Chen Kefu and others even joined the cavalry troops in the east, like the wind swept the remaining clouds, and took advantage of the momentum to sweep the rear troops of the Liao people in the east. More than 10,000 troops had been defeated by the cavalry several times, but this army was originally the elite tribe private soldiers carefully created by the Yuan clan. Although they were broken, they did not defeat the attack and still gathered again and again. Especially after the two thousand elite white horse camps brought by Yuangai Tong joined, the momentum increased sharply.
It’s a pity that the central army was defeated too quickly, otherwise they might have the chance to gather with Yuan Taizuo’s troops and form a powerful combat power. It’s a pity that there is no if, when the central army collapses, Chen Kefu’s reserve team, Li Benlei’s cavalry, Zhang He’s Fourth Division, Li Shimin, and Li Xuanba’s brothers’ heavy infantry brigades, rushed away like a tsunami.
No matter how powerful Yuangai Tong was, he could not stop the army that had concentrated all the essence of the entire Liaodong Army. He was defeated in one battle, defeated again and again, defeated three battles and three defeats. Without waiting for the fourth defeat, Yuangai Tong's troops finally stopped resisting, and turned the entire army to turn their heads and retreat desperately.
Less than a few miles away, the entire rear army originally had more than 15,000 soldiers, and at this time, only less than 8,000 remaining soldiers were forced to the south. Like Yuan Pure Land, they could not escape the fate of being besieged from all sides.
"In today's battle, the heavy cavalry brigade performed well and was very outstanding. Among the thousands of troops, they broke the formation and seized the flag, and promoted the reputation of our Liaodong Army. After this battle, when rewarding merits and rewards, they must remember a great merit. General Li, the Liao people's rear army was surrounded by troops, so I will give you the responsibility. I will draw another 10,000 troops for you, and you have 30,000 people surrounded by 8,000 people, right?"
The old man smiled, "Please rest assured, commander, we will guarantee to complete the task."
"General Li Jie, have those prisoners handled it?"
Li Jie also smiled at this time. Although he had no affection for Chen Kefu in private, he had to admire him. In this battle, a soldier with 90% of the new recruits defeated 80,000 Liao people in the field. Although most of the Liao people were slaves and the tribes were strong, no matter what, this was a war with a total of 180,000 people. It was definitely not a lucky chance to win such a war. As a soldier, he was also extremely proud of the one who created this victory.
"Master, please rest assured. According to statistics, there are more than 43,000 prisoners of the entire Liao people, including nearly 20,000 slaves, more than 18,000 tribes of the tribes in the northeast of Goguryeo, nearly 3,000 private soldiers of each nobleman, and about 2,000 regular soldiers and horses from Fuyu and other cities who were injured on the battlefield. Now we have all disrupted all the prisoners and sent 10,000 people to be responsible for guarding all the prisoners."
Chen Kefu was also surprised by the more than 40,000 prisoners. He was silent for a while and did not speak.
"Master, did you kill all these prisoners?" Shen Guang said.
"Master, killing prisoners on the battlefield is for ominousness. Please think twice. Since we have defeated the Liao people, there is no need to kill unnecessary." The voice was Zhang He, the commander of the Fourth Division. Today, the Fourth Division also performed extraordinaryly. Zhang He also swept away the gloom in front, smiled and started to attend the speech.
Chen Kefu smiled, "I don't care about these auspicious things, but we are not very suitable to kill them now. Let's do this, General Li Jie, let the prisoners identify all the nobles and the confidants of the nobles among the prisoners, and then detain them separately, and tie them up for all the prisoners to prevent any trouble from happening to these people. When this ends, we will talk about how to deal with them at that time."
"How is Yuan Taizuo doing?"
"It's still the same. This guy was trapped on a mountain in the east with about 13,000 people. He saw the defeat of the central army and felt that things were unsuccessful and could not save them, so he wanted to run with his men. Fortunately, General Li left thousands of men at the entrance of the east valley. After a long battle, they could not rush out. After seeing our army surrounded, they hurriedly went up the mountain. However, the mountains on both sides of the canyon were high and steep, and they could no longer get up to the mountain when they reached the hillside."
"In order to prevent them from escaping, the foot of the mountain was surrounded by cavalry. Even on the mountain, we sent more than a dozen infantry regiments to surround it. Even if Yuan Taizuo wanted to abandon his troops, it would be impossible to escape alone. We followed the commander's military order and shouted to this guy for a long time to persuade him to surrender, but this guy ignored us."
Chen Kefu sneered, "The hero cut off his arm, Yuan Taizuo is not missing a person, but he actually wants to recruit abandoned soldiers to protect the car. Looking at the battle today, this man was a ruthless man. Our right-wing Fifth Division was beaten by him today and collapsed across the line. If we were to break through the Liao people's central army a little later, we would be afraid that we would be surrounded on the mountain at this time, blown by wind and rain, and still hungry."
Since Liu Tiezhu entered the tent, he had a gloomy face and said nothing. Today, the Fifth Division's performance was too poor. He was defeated by Yuan Taizuo and collapsed on the entire line, and the entire army was completely defeated. Until Chen Kefu led the army to besiege the Liao people on three mountains, it took more than an hour to slowly gather together. The entire Fifth Division had more than 10,000 people. In addition to the cavalry transferred to Li Benlei, he still had about 6,000 infantry, but he was finally assembled and counted.
There were more than 6,000 infantrymen, and less than 3,000 people were left, and more than half of them were missing. Even when he, the division commander, was chased by Yuan Taizuo the most urgently, there were only a platoon of personal soldiers and a flag-holding officer who ran and guarded the flag.
If Chen Kefu captured the Liao people's central army a little later, the division flag of the Fifth Division would be lost today. His fifth division, Liu Tiezhu, would become the first general in the entire Liaodong army to lose the division flag. Although the division flag was not lost, only two of the four infantry regiments still retained the regiment flag in the end, and two regiments lost the flag. Among the twelve infantry battalions, seven battalions flags were lost, and the entire Fifth Division was completely destroyed.
Such a result made this man who had always been cautious and calm in the army and had always been very prestigious in the Yuanpo military camp, and his reputation suddenly fell to the bottom. In the past, his personal prestige was above Mao Yi, Lu Shishen and others, but now, he has become the first general to be defeated and almost lost his entire army.
"General Li Jie, have the soldiers of the logistics battalion prepared meals for the soldiers of the entire army? The soldiers fought a day and should be able to eat hot food, but they can't let them chew dry food to deal with it? There are also doctors from the medical battalion who have begun to treat the wounded? Most of the soldiers on the battlefield were only injured. No matter how minor or serious the injuries were, we had to do our best to treat them. These are our brothers. Don't care about the precious medicinal materials. No matter how precious medicinal materials are, as long as they can get the life of a brother, I, Chen Kefu, will never be reluctant to give up and will do my best to treat me."
"But you also send some soldiers to help them deal with the prisoners of the Liao people. But if you want to use medicinal materials, don't worry. We brothers, we can't be stingy, but these Liao people don't have to be so good. Let them depend on the destiny of heaven. If God lets them live, they will survive. If they can't bear it, it means that God will not let them live and help them get rid of their pain."
Chapter completed!