Chapter 239: On the Rewards for Merit and Deeds (1)
Updated: 2013-04-26
The fire gradually weakened, the wood and stones were burned, and the corpses on the mountain road were burned by the fire, which made people feel choking and nauseating. It was just enough to make people lose their appetite. You could see and smell even the Hun warriors who were murderous, frowned and couldn't hide their disgust.
"Master, Deputy Ma seems to be in danger!" Doudang and Ma Jing had similar scent and had always had a good relationship. At this moment, he said to the Xiongnu commander Liu Cheng with a dark face.
Doudang looked unhappy when he died, but Liu Cheng's expression was ten times worse than Doudang. Even though Doudang had always had something to say and was not good at observing his expression, he saw that it was inappropriate at this moment. He immediately covered his mouth and dared not say it again. He felt sorry that Liu Cheng had not heard his words just now.
At present, there are still 30,000 to 40,000 people in the alien race, and the troops are still strong, but the main force of the Jin army is huddled in Jinyang City. The black smoke from the mountain roads is curling and the Jin army is not seen for a moment. Liu Cheng knew that no matter whether it is a duel in front of the formation or a tough battle, his soldiers and generals under his command are not inferior to those of the Jin people.
But this place is close to the heart of Jin State. Although it is still far away from Yedu, it still needs to pass through Yanmen and emerging counties to reach it. This terrain cannot defeat the infantry and cavalry of the alien race, and it cannot stop the alien race from advancing towards Jinyang. However, at this time, the Jin people used the terrain to cut off several major mountain roads, making the alien race very uncomfortable!
Liu Cheng snorted coldly and said, "Ma Jing, this trash, wants to kill me like this!" Liu Cheng, who has always been happy and angry, was no different from most aliens, but his eyes were fierce and fierce. Even Dou Dang, who was good at fighting, felt cold and frightened when he saw him.
After hearing Liu Cheng's words, it was obvious that the responsibility for defeat was that Ma Jing was unfavorable in the rear, which led to the Jin army cutting off the main road and causing a dilemma. How to do not know the generality of Dou Dang, and also know that there was no room for him to interrupt at this time. Liu Cheng had something in his words, and this sentence undoubtedly shirked his own responsibility.
If anyone doesn't open his eyes and still says good things for Ma Jing at this time, I'm afraid this person will not be able to return to Xinxing territory...
Someone answered at this time, and when he heard the devastating voice, he knew that it was a powerful alien general Shinmi. Shinmi beat the horse and came to Liu Cheng and said, "The rear army was unfortunately ambushed, and Ma Jing was unlucky. There are still several small paths for walking. What do the general think?"
Liu Cheng shook his head and said, "It is difficult to walk on a small road and is easily ambushed. It is a strange thing for the Jin people to appear behind our army without knowing it. You should not be ignorant of it. There are still tens of thousands of cavalry here. If you walk on a small road, most of these ten thousand war horses will be left behind..."
Shenmi said respectfully: "The Grand Marshal is very good, so what should we ask the Grand Marshal to make clear." When he said this, seeing that Liu Cheng's face was eased, Shenmi knew that these two words had come to the point, and immediately glanced at the dowry with pride, not without showing off.
Doudang was so angry that he saw it. In the previous formation, Shen Mi and he rushed to kill Jin general Pang Chun. At first, both of them used their strength, but when Pang Chun was not strong enough, they were afraid that they would get the advantage of each other, but they left some strength under their hands.
If not, how could Pang Chun survive? Unfortunately, although he escaped the murder of the two, he was still dead outside Jinyang City in battle. However, Doudang had a marriage with Shen Mi. Ma Jing was his brother. Not only did Shen Mi take advantage of the situation, but he was so provocative, how could people not be angry?
Liu Cheng said: "I have sent someone to explore the way. I will be rewarded after a while. Although the people of Jin hide their whereabouts, they have no ability to set up ambush everywhere."
If Zu Ti was here, he would have praised Liu Cheng for being so clear-headed even though he had suffered setbacks. Although the Qihuo Army had the ability to attack the rear of the alien race, if Zu Ti had not happened to meet Ma Jing and killed him, the alien race would have the ability to support Liu Cheng's army to help.
At that time, Zuti successfully occupied the mountain road and could not stop the direct advancement of the alien race, not to mention that the beggars on the other mountain roads were fighting desperately with the alien race. As soon as Ma Jing died, the chaos in the alien race affected the morale of the army. The beggars took the opportunity to win, but in terms of strength, it was not as exaggerated as it seemed.
Shen Mi nodded in agreement and said, "As long as you can open up the main road, you can ensure the passage of cavalry. If you join the Jin people, you will block the road, and things will be bad."
As soon as he said that Shenmi knew that it was him who would not be the second. The so-called too much will lead to mistakes. He showed off his knowledge in front of Liu Cheng. Now, it is no longer possible. After Liu Cheng glanced at him, Shenmi stopped talking and secretly scolded him for talking too much. The Doudang on the side was full of joy, but he still looked at Shenmi with a deep look on his face.
Others couldn't tell the truth, and Shinmi was too lazy to see Doudang, but she always felt that Doudang's eyes were sweeping around on her body, and she felt very uncomfortable.
Liu Cheng had naturally made a comprehensive assessment of the seriousness of the matter in his mind. It was not that he could not withdraw his troops, but that he had to minimize losses as much as possible. Cavalry is the main combat power of the alien race. The horses under the crotch of the knights of all races were good horses. If he could only abandon the horses because he could not walk, it would be like giving them to the Jin people for nothing. This was something that Liu Cheng and any alien warrior did not want to happen.
Even if I kill all the abandoned horses, I will lose nearly 10,000 horses in vain, which is also a considerable loss.
"There are still more than 10,000 troops in the rear that have not arrived. It is still time to calculate the time. The Jin people may not have the courage to act rashly under the attacks from the front and back!" Liu Cheng seemed to be a little consoling to himself, and he heard no generals beside him dare to speak, and they were silently waiting for the spies' reward.
The wind blew in the mountains, and the corpses were smelly. The soldiers and generals of foreign races were extremely strong and they still retreated for five miles to avoid them. The distance between five miles, you could still smell the burning smell of the corpses, but you could not retreat any further. It has been half an hour since sending out the scouts, and only half of the spies have returned.
Nearby, spies could come back to report the situation on the small paths in the mountains. Most of them were blocked by wood and stones, and the rest were either rugged or unfavorable for cavalry walking. The spies who headed to the three or four major roads did not come back. According to common sense, they obviously encountered an unexpected situation!
The alien soldiers began to get a little impatient. People were talking and talking, from lowering their voices to gradually making noise, Liu Cheng couldn't hold back.
"When you come here, how many Jin soldiers are there in the battle just now?" Liu Cheng turned his head and summoned several surviving generals under Ma Jing to inquire about the situation of the battle.
Several foreign generals came to the front with bitter face and knelt down and said, "Report to the Grand Commander, we have repeatedly calculated that the total number of Jin people in each group is no more than 15,000, and the soldiers and armor are not complete and not as good as the regular Jin army."
"Oh? Isn't the regular Jin army so powerful??" Liu Cheng said in a somewhat questionable tone, his eyes coldly swept over the alien generals, and he was also puzzled. These people were all generals in the army, and their judgments should be correct.
If the Jin army really had only 15,000 troops, it would have been a lot of losses after the war. How could the remaining troops stay on the road to set up an ambush at the risk of being attacked from front and back? If there were no ambush, how could none of the spies sent out could come back?
Those foreign generals were also depressed. They scratched their heads and couldn't figure out why these incompletely-clad Jin soldiers were even more brave and cunning than the regular Jin army. This is obviously unreasonable. But the regular Jin army could not dress up like this and go to the battlefield. You should know that many of them were picked up on the battlefield at a glance, including weapons from foreign generals.
"I don't know, I hope the general will forgive me!" Several people kowtowed repeatedly and couldn't help Liu Cheng's doubts.
Seeing this, Shen Mi said in a broken voice: "The Grand Marshal is a clear guide. The Jin people are huddled in the city for a long time, and they will inevitably have the intention to move. If they communicate with the Jin people who are ambushing on the mountain road, the situation will be detrimental to us."
This time, Liu Cheng was not angry, but looked at Shenmi with praise and said, "What do you mean is to break it if you want to break it?"
Doudang also saw the truth from the side and said, "Don't worry, wait until someone goes ahead to find out!"
"Okay, don't be reckless with you three thousand soldiers!" Liu Cheng was also preparing to use the powerful generals in his army. He volunteered to fight and said happily.
There are as many as three relatively spacious mountain roads. Doudang and the other two generals each led 3,000 soldiers into the three roads, among which Doudang chose the middle road.
The Jin army was able to climb up the hillside and walk among the rocks of the highlands because the Jin people were infantry to ambush rather than march. If they marched from the rocks of the highlands, they would probably be difficult to reach the intersection at the other end from the rising sun to falling.
Now, in order to thoroughly investigate the ambush in the mountain road, Doudang sent out a deputy general to lead 500 people to travel normally on the mountain road. The remaining 2,500 soldiers were divided into two routes, climbing up the hillside and slowly searching for the traces of the Jin people. The Jin people had few troops and could not intercept them head-on, so they must have chosen to ambush both sides of the dangerous section.
Although he was brave and had no lack of combat wisdom, he worked tirelessly to search for traces of the Jin people.
The mountains and rocks stand at different heights. More than a thousand alien soldiers crawled away, and from time to time, some people slipped down and climbed up. The journey was very hard.
The alien races on both sides have worked hard and their speed is not fast. As they walk, they have to distinguish the direction. Sometimes, in order to choose an easy-to-go terrain, the mountain road is not allowed to disappear from their sight and walk around. I don’t know how long it took to walk, but gradually I can’t even remember the direction.
Although the five hundred alien infantry on the mountain road advanced rapidly, the bodies burned into black charcoal and the flesh and blood burned by smoke were unbearable to see them. They could only hold their heads high and make up their minds to resist the vomiting. There were wood and stones piled up on the mountain road and still burnt, so they had to extinguish them. There were also areas that were burned red and had not cooled down yet. The soles of shoes were burned, and the unlucky infantry rolled on the ground with their soles...
All these actions were under the observation of the Zuti brothers. The alien soldiers and generals were driven out of the mountain road by the Qihuo Army and joined the main alien soldiers in Jinyang. However, the endless soldiers and supplies showed that after this war, there would still be subsequent alien soldiers and horses to kill.
The alien races under Jinyang City were about to retreat, and the alien races in the rear were eager to make a pass. If the Qihuo Army stayed in the mountain road, they would be trapped and annihilated by two alien races in the front and back sooner or later. Zu Ti was not a short-sighted person, and would not be blinded by the temporary victory. Therefore, he opposed the opposition and let the Qihuo Army take advantage of the opportunity when the alien races began to retreat and narrowed the scope of the investigation to travel to Jinyang from a small road to meet with the main force of the Jin army.
Although the Qihuo Army is a unified force, the refugees and exiled officials from all over the country have their own organizational forces, so there are many leaders in it. Finally, they can win a big victory, and everyone is reluctant to give up the victory.
However, Zu Ti was very clear, and everyone felt it was reasonable for a moment, so they acted according to Zu Ti. According to Zu Ti's idea, if the main force in Jinyang could defeat the alien race, the alien race would block the road when it was eager to escape, and the ambush would still be rewarding a lot.
However, the Jin army in Jinyang City was so embarrassed that they were killed by the Xiongnu commander Liu Cheng and were unable to go out of the city to fight. The tactical significance of the Qihuo Army no longer exists. With the combat power and military strength of the Qihuo Army, they cannot set up defenses everywhere and face the risk of being attacked from front and back at any time. It is undoubtedly the best choice to stop when you see the good.
Zu Ti designed a sneak attack strategy and killed Ma Jing, the deputy commander of the alien race, and invisibly established prestige among the crowd.
Therefore, Zu Ti and his younger brother Zu Yue selected five hundred strong elites lurking in the mountain road with him, preparing to wait for an opportunity to attack the alien race who intends to withdraw, and then rushed back to Jinyang from the small road. The spies from the alien race had already sent all the ambushings as Zu Ti had expected.
Now that the purpose of deterring the alien race has been achieved, Zu Ti gathered his troops and was ready to take the opportunity to detour and leave.
Unexpectedly, the five hundred foreign races could not bear to see the tragic phenomenon on earth and could not retreat, so they advanced very quickly. Before they knew it, they had already left and right and left and left Dou Dang, who was slow and unaware of the geography, left and right and left behind.
In fact, it is not possible to blame Doudang for others. It is natural to walk on the mountain road. It is possible to keep the direction by staring at the mountain road and walking on the rocky high ground on both sides. Just to avoid the difficult sections, sometimes you can't climb the road, so Doudang and others have no direction inadvertently.
Seeing that there were only four or five hundred people, Zu Ti couldn't help but feel moved and directed Zu Yue and others to prepare to ambush the other party.
After only a while of killing, half of the five hundred alien races fell down, and the remaining more than 200 people turned around and ran away without a trace. When they came, they were worried about how to dislike this disgusting environment. They were escaping in public without realizing it, and they were just determined to escape from the siege of the Jin army.
"The Hu people are just like this!" Zu met him and sneered, but he sighed in his heart. There were countless famous generals in the Jin army. If he could face the alien race from the beginning, he would probably not be as good as the current land.
Zu Ti said: "Although aliens are cunning, they are still a minority. If you can deal with them patiently, it is not that scary. You cannot stay here for a long time now, so I will quickly find a way to retreat to Jinyang!"
He was determined to return to the territory of Jin State. Zushi, the nearby mountain range, had already taken people several times. Although he did not say it all, he also recognized the way.
The Jin people left without a trace. The more than 200 defeated soldiers on the other side ran out of the mountain road in panic and reported the situation inside to the Xiongnu head coach Liu Cheng.
When Liu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but curse: "I'm confused! The people of Jin are really hiding. Just because you 500 people want to run back half of them!?"
After hearing this, the alien soldiers present couldn't help but feel relieved. It seemed that there were not many Jin troops, otherwise it would be strange if these 500 people died in the mountain road. How could so many people escape?
"Master, since this is the case, there are only some obstacles in the mountain road. You can move forward quickly without delay. There are so many dreams!" Shen Mi's broken voice recalled again and reminded Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng was also a quick decision. After finding out the situation, how could he wait? Now the army is divided into three groups to advance together! Liu Cheng kept urging elite soldiers to speed up the marching speed, and perhaps he had the opportunity to seize the ambush of the Jin people. The Jin people who were so brave and dared to stay and deter their own army were not ordinary people.
If you have a little bit of troops in your hand, you will be so bold. If you take charge of thousands of troops, you will be fine?
The Jin court was corrupt, the country was declining, the generals in the army were killed one by one, and the commander who led the troops was not a great figure. This was a good opportunity for the Huns to occupy Hebei and seize the foundation. If such a Jin general jumped up, he would inevitably become a barrier, which was definitely a stumbling block to the Huns' hegemony and a strong enemy of the alien coalition!
Although Liu Cheng suffered a defeat in this battle, he was still calculating whether he had the opportunity to remove this hidden danger, and it would be a waste of his trip.
The more you walk in the mountains, you will be more confused, and you don’t know what Liu Cheng is thinking at this time. If you know, you may be powerless.
More than a thousand infantrymen were walking and stopping, and four or five hundred people were separated. Just imagine that this mountain road was difficult to walk and there was no fixed direction. The team was in front of a high ground, but its tail was left in the valley. How could they not fall behind and get lost when marching like this?
The more people go, the more people are dispersed, the fewer people are. They are anxious and angry and drive the soldiers to turn back to marches in order to pick up the old road. Instead of thinking, they go astray and don’t know where they have gone. The dry food on their bodies can only support a few meals. Most of them have long since lost their dry food after the fight. On average, they can only survive tonight.
If you can’t find a way out in this mountain range, you will be dead. How can Doudang and others not be anxious?
I was anxious to find the voices and looked for them. Before I could find out what was going on, hundreds of Han people jumped out and each swung their swords to kill them! The sound of the alien marching was even louder. The Han people knew the way through the marching, and there were spies cruising back and forth, so naturally they discovered the positions of the alien soldiers and generals first.
Seeing this, Doudang shouted that he was good, and he led his army forward to fight with a sword! With the Han people, he could vent his anger, grab dry food, and catch livestreams to ask for the way. Isn’t this a reward given by God?
Chapter completed!