Chapter 240: The Official's Calculus (Part 2)
As the night became late, a Song army suddenly left the barracks quietly. At this time, Song Jiu and Wu Yanrou were both sleeping.
The sky is getting brighter.
When the Southern Han army arrived, boats of all sizes were moored and landed one by one. The scene was a bit chaotic, which was the inevitable result of the beach, but it was not a problem. The Song army was still twenty miles away. Several soldiers were carrying Hu beds, which were the kind of chairs that could sit and lie down. Many brave generals liked to sit and command, especially the people of the Tang Dynasty. But on the shore, there were big eyes staring at him in the dense bushes in the mountains and forests.
Shoot the man and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief first!
It was him who was waiting for this moment. Wu Yanrou came ashore and was able to implement the beheading plan. Moreover, the Southern Han army was in chaos. After a while, the Han army would gather. If they fought at that time, they would be a tragic victory.
The horn sounds.
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty shook off the disguise from the bushes and killed them all. They pointed at Wu Yanrou. This trick worked very well. Southern Han also had scouts. If you want to ambush, you should not use too much force, otherwise you would be seen by the scouts of Southern Han. There were few people and could only implement the beheading plan. But if Wu Yanrou became panicked, she could not command. An army without command would be the same as a mess.
Although the Southern Han soldiers were weak, they were also soldiers, but they were caught off guard and resisted in panic. Wu Yanrou jumped off Hu's bed, not knowing whether to command or escape on the ship. The Song army rushed to him.
Song Jiu didn't know all this.
But he was wisely not involved. What's the point of participating? Just after breakfast, he reported that the Southern Han army landed on the shore. The army was neatly dressed. Song Jiu thought he was going to face a positional battle. Who knew Pan Mei ordered: "Run!"
Song Jiu was even more confused. If this were the case, why not refuse to defend on the shore and wait until the enemy hit the mudflat before rushing. Wouldn't that be more effective? Later, I thought about it carefully and realized that Pan Mei's plan was so wonderful. If it was really as he thought, could Wu Yanrou still get on the beach here? She had already gotten off the boat south of Hezhou City and entered the city. How to make a head-on attack.
He had to ride a horse and rushed south with the army. Fortunately, it was only twenty miles away, not too far, and he arrived in a while. But at this time the battlefield had already become a slaughterhouse. Before the reinforcements from the rear arrived, the ambush captured Wu Yanrou alive. Even the leader was taken down. Although the Southern Han army had more than dozens of times, it became a battle with their own troops. No matter how many people were, it was useless. He was constantly slaughtered by these ambushers. Pan Mei waved the flag and the army killed him again.
After experiencing several wars, Song Jiu was going to get better. Seeing that the Song army was killing people everywhere, many people were lying down and surrendering, and they were still killing, so they rode over and shouted: "Surrender and not kill prisoners, you must not kill them."
The main reason why the news of not killing prisoners had not reached the rear of the Southern Han Dynasty. Wu Yanrou's subordinates didn't know that one of them saw Song Jiu wearing a general suit, and anxiously slashed him with one knife. Song Jiu raised his Pu sword in panic and still let the knife slash on his thigh.
The battlefield was not his own, so Song Jiu escaped again. Then he sent his subordinates to find Li Chao and asked him to call him. He sat down and asked the military doctor to bandage the wound. Because he was in a hurry, many equipment were not brought, including the tiger cannon. Although it was simplified, it was still bulky and did not even transport the logistics. Besides, it was a tiger cannon. However, it brought disinfected alcohol and boric acid water. The wound was a little deeper. When the doctor wiped the alcohol, Song Jiu grinned in pain.
Li Chao organized it more than him. After a while, the Southern Han soldiers put down their weapons and surrendered. Nearly ten thousand elite soldiers of the Southern Han were shouting in a while, six or seven out of ten dead. The Song army recruited prisoners of war and cleaned the battlefield.
Song Jiu limped over and shouted, "Grandma, who cut me off just now."
It hurts so much.
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty grinned one by one. That was the place of battle. What were you talking about when you rode a horse and inserted it in?
But they did not expect the prisoners of war to admit it. Who dares to admit it? But they unexpectedly saw a soldier step out of the crowd and said, "General, it's me, but you said that you will not kill the prisoners."
"I shouted that I would not kill the prisoners is to save your lives. You can also chop me with a knife," Song Jiu was furious in pain.
The soldier was frightened.
Fan Yu looked at Song Jiu's injuries. It didn't look serious and said happily: "Military law must be enforced, so don't be killed in anger."
Song Jiu thought about it and what to do. It was what he said, and then he thought about it and asked, "What's your name?"
"The little one is called Wang Zheng."
"Okay, I won't kill you anymore, but you must be my personal guard in the future."
Wang Zhen dared not answer. Isn’t this a nonsense? What kind of personal guard? If you don’t like me in the future, don’t you torture me if you want to torture me?
Fan Yu kicked him and said, "Boy, you have left the great fortune, thank the governor quickly."
Then he whispered: "Jiulang, whether it can be executed or not, whether it can be avoided from the tragedy of Hunan and Bashu depends on you."
In fact, Song Jiu was so angry that if he asked these soldiers to surrender a moment ago, hundreds or thousands of people would die less. However, after thinking about it, he still suppressed his anger and said, "Follow me."
Wang Zheng followed him with a lot of worries.
Song Jiu continued to lame, and he was panicked once when he was behind the pillow. Song Jiu said again: "The King came to save you from the fire and water, so he announced eleven marching laws."
Let dozens of Fuzhou people who took the initiative to escort logistics with the army to tell them the so-called military discipline. What they said doesn't count, and they have to let the people of Southern Han talk. After they finished speaking, Song Jiu said again: "After the battle of Hezhou, I will release you back immediately. But before you have to do one thing, make a box, identify these dead soldiers, mark their names and hometowns one by one, burn them into ashes, and give them to their families in the future."
Pan Mei shook her head on the side.
Come with Song Jiuhu.
The army once again came to the city of Hezhou. Pan Mei allowed Song Jiu's policy to implement the policy of prisoners of war, but did not let Wu Yanrou go. She beheaded Wu Yanrou at the city and ordered Hezhou to surrender. Hezhou still did not surrender, and Pan Mei discussed with Yin Chongke and Wang Jixun, who was lying on Hu's bed.
Lao Wang is also old. The marching speed is too fast, and he can't bear it and finally falls ill. Lao Wang said: "I ordered the rear to quickly transport tiger cannons, otherwise the attack will lead to heavy casualties. We only have tens of thousands of soldiers. We can only barely take the first step in conquering the Southern Han. If the casualties are too great, the successor will inevitably be weak."
Pan Mei also thought it was.
Wang Ming said anxiously: "Should take advantage of the victory of the city's defense and attack quickly, otherwise reinforcements will arrive again, and the morale in the city will rise again, and our army will be old and will be ineffective in the south attack."
The reason is very simple. How many soldiers and horses in the Southern Han were coming in groups of people. The Song army was just like this. It seemed that the court had not sent reinforcements to come, and morale would inevitably reverse at that time. What is caused is morale. If you lose morale, don’t talk about conquering the Southern Han, go back quickly.
Several generals did not speak, and Wang Ming said anxiously: "If you don't attack, I will attack."
Everyone thought he was telling a joke. Wang Mingzhen attacked, with a lot of people, thousands of civilians and soldiers. They could not only let the civilians protect the grain, but there were also many soldiers who protected the grain, and there were also a hundred people...
In fact, the main army marched too fast, and many people were still behind, and they had no time to rush to the city of Hezhou.
After continuing to discuss, the main generals did not expect that he was supervising prisoners of war to build urns and identify the corpses. One by one, there were also the corpses of the Song army. They had been identified, and there were very few, only about one hundred people. Most of them died at the beginning, but later the army arrived, and the entire one-sided massacre was completely slaughtered, with almost no casualties. Song Jiu was on the list of casualties. He was so painful that he rubbed his thighs. Seeing that something was wrong, Wang Zheng hurried over to rub him.
"I asked you, I called out, don't you understand, why did you cut me?"
There are also language differences, but the Southern Han Dynasty is mostly Han soldiers, and the difference is not big. Wang Zheng said with a sad face: "The general, the young man didn't know, so he just slashed it casually."
"Did you cut off all my armor, or just cut it?"
"Young people will definitely forgive me for your sins. I hope the general will let me go."
"Help me go."
"yes."
Song Jiugang stood up and saw Wang Ming rushing down the city with a hundred grain-protecting soldiers. Song Jiu scratched his head, "It's wrong, siege the city, but the people can't let the people attack the city." But these people were even more excited than the soldiers. They held a shovel and shovel in their hands and rushed towards the city. Hundreds of Fuzhou people shouted at the same time: "The King's Army is invincible."
Song Jiu hurriedly said to Wang Zheng and Guo Da: "Please take me to the Central Camp."
He has seen the siege battle, and Taiyuan attacked and defended many times, and the tragic scene is still fresh in memory. These people rushed to the city and were undoubtedly sent to death. As long as a rain of arrows on the top of the city rained, at least half of the people could be lost. There are few people everywhere. Therefore, although Hunan has become a little better now, many areas are still in a desolate scene and cannot be allowed to die like this.
But just after jumping a few steps, he said again: "Stop, stop."
There was no movement on the top of the city, and there were soldiers guarding the city, but they looked at the crazy people, one by one, and they were stunned. Song Jiu took out the telescope from his arms and looked up. He saw that the soldiers on it were confused, scared, worried, and even saw an official, probably Chen Shouzhong, the governor of Hezhou. His eyes were the same as the soldiers. This scene shocked the soldiers on the top of the city. Even a civilian who was escorting grain was so fierce that he could fight.
Thousands of people were working, and they were moving very quickly. The trench was filled in the blink of an eye. Another civilian shouted excitedly: "Come on the siege ladder."
Half of them waved shovels and shovels at the top of the city, and half ran back to get the siege equipment. Don't lift it. Seeing the trenches filled up and went straight to the city gate. The people in the city opened the city gate by themselves. You are the king's army, please come in, we will not resist. From beginning to end, Chen Shouzhong stood blankly at the city gate, and forgot to issue orders. Pan Mei also came out. He thought Wang Ming was talking or angrily speaking, and did not take it seriously, and continued to discuss all kinds of conspiracies in the big tent. Then the soldiers came over to report that Wang Ming had really attacked the city. Pan Mei was furious and hurried out with Yin Chongke to punish Wang Ming for his crimes. But like Song Jiu, they saw something wrong on the city, so they stood there to watch the situation develop.
The trench was filled, and Pan Mei was about to order Wang Ming to bring people back. It was easy to fill the trench and difficult to attack the city. But then his eyes were about to be revealed. Before the ladder was moved to the back camp, Wang Ming led a group of civilians to attack Hezhou City.
Is this a magical truth?
Pan Mei forgot to inform the army to enter the city immediately, and stood there in a daze. Song Jiu was helped by Guo Da and Wang Zheng, and Pan Mei asked, "What's the injury?"
"It hurts the flesh and no bones, and the problem is not serious."
Pan Mei looked at Wang Zhen and said, "You little bastard, the two armies are fighting and have suffered casualties, but anyone can be injured, you can't hurt Song Jiu."
Wang Zhen lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
In fact, it is mainly because Liu Feng is too cruel and the soldiers do not have the sense of honor of their family and country. Pan Mei said: "Go to the city."
The war was done by myself, and the son-in-law had to do the comforting matter. Song Jiu helped Dahei and rode a horse into the city. On the horse, Pan Mei said: "Song Jiu, I finally understand why the official family only gave me this little force, that is, pacifying the southern Han."
Chapter completed!