Chapter 201: The army is defeated like a mountain
"The third secret...!" Kong Erlang shouted excitedly when he saw an arrow hit a bandit again.
At this time, for the Divine Mechanic Guard, it was a feast. The archer shot the bandits nearby, and the Great Yellow Crossbow Guard shot the bandits slightly further, one... ten... hundred...!
Watching the bandits fall down one by one.
The guards were panicked.
"Oh... I shot another one. Why is this bandit so stupid? You can hide...!"
"Yes... hide, these brothers of the Divine Mechanic are too accurate, and they are shooting without any effort. What should we do if all of them are shot?"
"I also think about going back to buy a piglet for my mother this time... If all the brothers of the Divine Mechanics guards were killed, we wouldn't even drink the soup."
"Brothers of the Shenjiwei, please put some water in a little bit and leave some soup for us to drink..."
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Ang Lee's guards were watching the attack of the Divine Mechanics in front from behind, and they were all so hungry that they were about to drip. One shot at one time, one by one. The money was so good that they earned, and they didn't even move their positions.
The guards felt a little distressed when a bandit died, and all these divine guards were still firing arrows, which was a little too much.
Looking at this scene... Even Meng Ke was anxious. He rode a horse to Zhang Hu and said, "It's our turn to attack... If you don't attack, these bandits will be killed."
Zhang Hu glared at Meng Ke and said, "Get back and listen to the military orders. These bandits still have momentum. We must use crossbows to knock out these bandits' momentum. Don't mess up my morale here."
"No..." Meng Ke was scolded and had to leave obediently.
At this moment, a large group of bandits began to gather. Zhang Hu saw this situation and smiled at the corner of his mouth. Xue Ding hurriedly said, "Brother... the bandits have finally recovered and are ready to gather and want to rush to us..."
"Okay... Let them rush and notify the Divine Mechanic Guards to shoot in a row. You must attack the opponent's charge for me. As soon as they retreat, the guards and cavalry will immediately kill them.
Break the other party in one go...!"
"No..." Xue Ding received the order, and soon Zhang Hu's order spread throughout the army. He followed the Great Yellow Crossbow Guards to take out their respective arrow boxes from the Great Yellow Crossbow and replace them with a new five-arrow arrow box.
This time, the requirements of the Great Yellow Crossbow Guard were not accurate, but fast. He had to shoot out all the arrows in the arrow box as soon as possible, suppress the bandits to the greatest extent, make the bandits feel trembling and knock out the bandits' momentum.
As long as these bandits run away and their momentum is destroyed, the other party will be finished.
"Kill...ah..." The gate of the Giant Pirate's Chapel was opened, and the bandits began a battle of breaking pots and trying their best to retreat.
What these bandits never dreamed of was that after they rushed out, three hundred divine guards shot out a wave of arrow rain. The arrow rain composed of arrows was like a black wall, and instantly swallowed up the most fierce bandit who rushed to the front and rushed to the front.
And this is just the beginning, the second wave, the third wave... Each wave will take hundreds of lives.
Soon... the bandit's confidence collapsed. When a bandit had the intention of retreating, he shouted, ran away... and then it means that he had already won half of the victory.
This is the defeat in the military book. A considerable number of war examples from ancient times to the present are that after the two sides began to fight, one side collapsed after suffering certain casualties, or the original orderly retreat evolved into unorganized defeat. Most of the casualties of the side that failed in such a battle occurred after the collapse, and the winning side suffered very little losses at this stage. There is a saying by the ancients that was very concise, which is called defeat like a mountain.
If the opponent is defeated, the attacking side will suffer very little loss. Zhang Hu's fighting style is to protect the guards and cavalry. He wants to prevent the guards from being killed or injured as much as possible.
The Battle of Feishui during the Southern and Northern Dynasties...is a typical example of a mountain of defeat.
In order to go south to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Former Qin Dynasty "issued a letter to send all public and private horses from various states, and ten people sent one army." In the end, "there were 970,000 soldiers and soldiers who had a brief plan."
The people who followed Fu Jian's southern expedition included more than 600,000 soldiers and 270,000 cavalry. Their main force was directed to the Jianghuai line, while there were only 80,000 soldiers from the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern Palace here.
Although the Former Qin army was a temporary pieced together army, and its average quality was far inferior to that of the Northern Mansion soldiers, if they fought with a dignified formation, the Northern Mansion soldiers could not afford to lose money.
The real Battle of Feishui was actually the Northern Palace soldiers who started fighting before the Former Qin army assembled. At that time, the Former Qin army in the war zone was estimated to be up to 300,000, and the fewest were estimated to be only more than 100,000. The difference in the strength of the two sides was not as great as 10 to 1.
When the Northern Prefecture Army had the advantage in the average combat power, the Former Qin army's outpost battle in Luojian was defeated and was greatly defeated, with 5,000 dead, and Fu Jian looked at the grass and trees on Bagong Mountain as the Jin army, which is the origin of the idiom of "the grass and trees are all soldiers".
During the Battle of Feishui, the Former Qin army retreated continuously. The General Fu Rong, the Southern Expedition, rode a cavalry and was killed while the horse fell down. The Former Qin army was defeated, and Fu Jian himself was also trapped in a trap and lost control of the troops.
The defeat of the front-line troops triggered a chain reaction, which caused chaos in the subsequent troops of the Former Qin army. In the end, the Qin soldiers followed each other and the dead blocked the wilderness and blocked the rivers. Their departures heard the news and cried, and they all thought that the Jin soldiers were coming, and they did not dare to rest day and night, so they slept in the open, and were hungry and frozen. The dead were seventeen or eight.
In other words, most of the Former Qin army actually did not see the shadow of the Eastern Jin army at all, and they were defeated by themselves. Moreover, many people trampled on each other during the defeat, and most of them were starved to death during the escape, and the death was frozen.
Because the Former Qin army was defeated dramatically in the Battle of Feishui, the "wind and cranes were heard, and the plants and trees were all soldiers" in later generations described this kind of situation where the fighting will was completely lost and the enemy was defeated like a tiger.
"Caval...attack..." Zhang Hu shouted.
Then he saw Meng Ke pulling out his own one, and Ma Dao yelled: "A team of guards, follow me to attack...! Kill...!"
When Meng Ke shouted, the other guards... were not willing to be outdone and rushed away. At this time, the bandits were already in the same shape as the Qin army in the Feishui War that they had just mentioned. They had no desire to resist at all. What they were thinking about now was to escape quickly.
"Die..." Meng Ke's sabre quickly stabbed into the back of a bandit. The air groove opened on the sabre made the sabre very easy to pull out, and quickly pulled out the sabre.
Then Meng Ke slashed at another bandit with a knife.
That was a fierce and fierce person who was called killing, without a trace of pause, riding on a horse and chopping left and then chopping like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.
"Run..." The bandits only have these two words in their mouths now, and it is absolutely impossible to resist.
This ensures the mortality rate of the guards and cavalry. If you are lucky enough, there will be no dead or injured person. Zhang Hu is a very qualified commander. He directly defeated the bandits with his own advantage.
Then he sent cavalry to harvest the heads, safely and blood... Riding on the horse, Zhang Hu looked at the scene where all the initiative was in his hands at this time, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. At this time, Zhang Hu also breathed a long sigh and looked at Xue Ding. Zhang Hu smiled and said, "I can finally get a deal with Your Highness... The casualties this time should not be too great."
"Brother's command is still the same as before..." Xue Ding smiled and said, "If the eldest brother had not taken over the task of protecting the princess, he would have been a general now."
"Haha..." Zhang Hu smiled and looked at the moon in the sky and said, "Maybe...but I am still glad to be able to protect the princess, and even more glad to be by your highness."
"Yes... so do I..." Xue Ding also looked at Zhang Hu and laughed.
"Hey...!" Just when Zhang Hu and Xue Ding were satisfied, Kong Erlang, who was in front of the village, sighed and said, "I should have five silos this time...whether of you?"
Erlang Lao Zhuang, who was in a dormitory, both Shapi and Dou Yao replied one by one:
"I'm not satisfied with five slogans, I only have three slogans."
"Hey... I've shot several times, but it's not a place to die... Someone later added arrows!"
"I'm... I shot three people in the thighs and was later repaired. It's really annoying. I have to practice archery well when I go back. If I don't practice well, I won't be able to earn rewards."
After saying that... At this moment, the sound of the horn of the war was over.
As long as the sound of this horn sound is sounded, the battle is over, and the Divine Mechanic can also enter the battlefield to clean the battlefield, then check your arrows, and then cut off your own ears that killed the bandits.
One is always in exchange for money with ears.
If two or three arrows appear on a corpse, then the arrow that hits the head is the person who takes the money. If there is no head, then the neck, heart... and so on.
Entering the battlefield to clean the battlefield is also to let the warriors of the Divine Mechanics taste what the battlefield is, so that they can be powerful quickly and powerful.
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"Brother...good news...!"
Xue Ding came over again, and this time he brought another good news to Zhang Hu.
"How many casualties?" Zhang Hu asked lightly.
"The God's Mechanical Guards have no casualties...the guards have not died, but they have injured two...!"
"Oh...is it serious?" Zhang Hu asked.
"It's not too serious, it's because of nervousness that I fell off my horse, one broke and the other was sprained...!"
After Xue Ding answered, Zhang Hu finally smiled and said, "Okay... This is really great, what about our achievements?"
"A total of 1,800 bandits in the village were destroyed, and hundreds of people remained, but no one resisted... We also found 1,000 taels of gold, 5,000 taels of silver, 30,000 stags of copper coins, and 10,000 pieces of silk in the village.
Other food, weapons, horses... have not had time to count the various things, so I made a small profit...!"
After saying that, Xue Ding smiled happily. As the butler, he was still more interested in money.
"That's great... By the way, you should keep an eye on those warriors and you must not hide them privately... Your Highness later said that you will also give rewards, but all spoils must be handed over to the public. It will be distributed uniformly."
"No..." Xue Ding bowed.
Chapter completed!