Chapter Fourteen: Gathering the Remnants
Bi Shiduo, who was caught off guard, had only time to lift the spear up, and the mace fell on the gun rod. With a "click", the gun rod was directly broken. Fortunately, Bi Shiduo reacted very quickly. With the help of the horizontal buffer of the gun rod, he kicked the horse's belly with his right foot, tilted his body, and he avoided the horse's back.
"Plop"
The extremely heavy mace hit Bi Shiduo's mount, smashing the entire horse's head to pieces. Seeing this scene, Bi Shiduo was so shocked that his eyes leaped. If his reaction just now, if it was a little slower than half a beat, even the Western Rong barbarian would be smashed into meat pie by this Western Rong barbarian.
As Qin Yan said, Liang Xiang was an unparalleled general and he was definitely not an opponent. Bi Shiduo was secretly shocked.
Although he avoided the person who came, the storm behind Bi Shiduo suddenly started again, but Chen Gong took the opportunity to attack and slashed his neck directly.
At the critical moment, he followed Huang Chao's experience in fighting in the battles and his agile skills to save him. When he heard the sound of the wind, Bi Shiduo threw half of the gun rod in his hand behind him. He was on the ground. He rushed forward and narrowly avoided the fate of splitting his head.
The Western Rong generals Liang Zhang and Chen Gong were attacked from front and back, but were avoided by Bi Shiduo. Taking advantage of the two of them being wrong, Bi Shiduo jumped up, pulled onions from the dry land, kicked a tooth soldier behind Liang Zhang away from his mount. Bi Shiduo took the opportunity to seize the opponent's horse and roared at Qin Yan: "General Qin should retreat quickly. This person is Liang Zhang, and we are attacked again."
After saying a word, Bi Shiduo ran away from the village without looking back. On the banks of Xiangshui, even the soldiers under his command were not caring about. Now he had only the idea of escaping, so he could not care about anything else.
On the banks of the Xiang River, Linshui Dazhai, as Liang Zhang arrived in person, the war immediately reversed.
The Jingzhou army, who was originally besieged in the Dazhai, immediately rose in morale when they saw reinforcements. They even used their strength to eat, and fought desperately.
The Cao Army, which had originally besieged the Jingzhou Army, suddenly became motivated when they saw countless more people coming from the other side, and almost immediately descended to the end. Someone saw the chief general Bi Shiduo fleeing south in a panic, and did not care about killing the Jingzhou Army, and immediately fought to the direction where Bi Shiduo ran away.
After Bi Shiduo, Qin Yan was not negligent. He quickly tried his best to shake Zhang Lin's long sword, slapped his horse and chased Bi Shiduo. Both generals fled, let alone other grass army soldiers. The anxious grass army guards desperately fought to kill the reinforcements brought by Liang Zhang and chased their generals.
Although some people killed them, some people were still besieged, and the Cao army was intercepted on the north side of the Dazhai. When these Cao army saw that the situation was going, they immediately ran away in panic. Now they are not competing with who is brave, but who runs faster. They don’t need to be the fastest, they just need to be faster than others. Most veterans are rushing around with this idea.
Among these people, there are three young people. They are none other than Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guimu.
Zhang Guiba had joined the regular guards early in the morning and was defeated in both battles. I don’t know how this passionate young man is now in his mood. When Bi Shiduo reorganized the army, he had been promoted to the Fire Chief, so he took his two younger brothers to the fire he commanded for easy care.
Zhang Guiba saw Bi Shiduo and Qin Yan fled south. He also wanted to break south and follow Bi Shiduo. At this moment, Zhang Guimu seemed to have thought of something and suddenly anxious.
The earth shouted, "Brother, let's run north."
At this time, this voice made Zhang Guiba, who was the fire leader, have no time to think about it carefully, and there was no time to ask why. Out of trust in his younger brother, he immediately gave up his plan to go south, turned around and led his remaining soldiers who were in a fire to flee north.
Most of the Cao army still followed Bi Shiduo and Qin Yan, so the number of Cao army flees south is far greater than that of the people fleeing. Even so, there are two or three thousand people fleeing north.
Liang Zhang was unwilling to watch these people escape, and he immediately ordered: "Chen Gong, follow me to pursue Bi Shiduo; Zhang Lin, you lead your subordinates to pursue north and try to eliminate other miscellaneous fish."
"No" Chen Gong immediately responded to his order and hurriedly followed Liang Zhang with his men.
"No" Zhang Lin had no choice but to respond. He didn't care about the fleeing fish in the north without big fish. However, as a deputy general, he could not fail to obey Liang Zhang's orders, so he had to lead his troops and chase north listlessly.
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At about nine or ten o'clock, the defeated soldiers fled to the place where Wu Dao, Zhu Li and others were stationed. Wu Dao led Pang Xun's old troops, in an orderly manner, with a powerful army, standing tall in the sun. Many of the defeated soldiers recognized Wu Dao and did not need Wu Dao to greet them at all, so they automatically moved closer to them.
"Person Martial Arts, why are you here?" A captain fled here and asked in surprise.
"Shouldn't I be here?" Wu Dao didn't look at him at all, and said leisurely: "If I weren't here, could you escape from Tanzhou alive?"
The captain looked at Wu Dao with a complicated expression. His guards had experienced this battle and fled again. There were only a few people left. At this time, he did not dare to argue with Wu Dao, the captain who was waiting for his leisure and looked unscathed. He obediently ran behind Pang Xun's old subordinate like other remaining soldiers, sat down and rested.
"Zhu Li, you reorganize them separately, and these people will be under your command from now on." Wu Dao turned around and looked at Zhu Li and ordered in a deep voice.
"No" Zhu Li immediately responded. He knew the master's plan and agreed very readily.
As the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. The remaining soldiers who fled here rely on Wu Dao's military power to rest and repair them.
Naturally, I dare not refute Zhu Li's reorganization. The reorganization of the remaining soldiers went very smoothly. Zhu Li just copied them and gathered them into the organization according to the military system of the Tang Dynasty.
If this defeated soldier had been the Chief of Fire before, Zhu Li would not have been demoted to him for no reason, and he would still have appointed Chief of Fire. He was the Chief of Team before and also asked him to be the Chief of Team. However, one thing is, if this person was the Chief of the Commander before, I'm sorry, I can't care about you, so you can report to Wu Dao.
One after another, about twelve o'clock noon, the two hundred people who went to collect food were already escorted back in a cart. Zhu Li also searched and gathered nearly 900 defeated soldiers.
What made him even happier was that the three brothers Zhang Guiba actually came closer. By this calculation, the master and apprentice had already mastered nearly two thousand elite soldiers in their hands.
Now that people have people and food have them, Wu Dao does not plan to continue collecting the defeated soldiers. He immediately commanded everyone and pushed the grain cart onto the raft and transported it to the east of the Xiangshui River in batches, and then all the ones were sent in batches.
The elites were transported over.
After everything was ready, Wu Dao and Zhu Li led nearly two thousand elite soldiers, without walking on the main road, and took the small paths, hiding and hiding toward Jiangxi.
On the way, Wu Dao personally trained more than 900 defeated soldiers of the grass army. During the training, Zhu Li not only had to learn, but also train with the soldiers, almost eating and living together, without any exception.
In addition, Zhu Li also had to receive Wu Dao's separate training and teaching, including not only martial arts, but also military tactics, literacy, archery, etc., which almost squeezed him out of time for rest.
However, Zhu Li's growth is also very gratifying. Among the familiar people, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guimu's martial arts were originally above him. Now, when a few people walk together, they can't help but compete with each other. At first, they could torture Zhu Li, but the good times didn't last long. Gradually, the two of them combined were no longer Zhu Li's rivals.
In desperation, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guimu came to their elder brother and competed with Zhu Li.
Zhang Guiba's martial arts are very good, and he has reached the late stage of a second-rate general. It is rare among more than 900 remaining soldiers. Zhang Guiba was able to fight Zhu Li for a while at first, and the fight made Zhu Li not have any temper. But not long after, he became unable to do so. With a simple battle, Zhang Guiba is no longer Zhu Li's opponent.
Zhu Li became stronger day by day, completely stimulating the three brothers of the Zhang family. The three of them spontaneously worked hard to train, hoping to go thousands of miles a day like Zhu Li. Now, the three brothers combined can't even beat a child, which makes them have no reason to be lazy.
But they didn't know how good Zhu Li was treated. His body not only had the uninterrupted medicinal bath nourishment, but also the assistance of "Shan Hai Jing", and some strange fruits would pop up from time to time to improve his abilities. With Wu Dao's harsh advice, the growth of martial arts was not just a thousand miles a day, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as changing with each passing day.
In addition, Zhu Li got along very well with the remaining soldiers who had gathered. At the beginning, these veterans looked down on Zhu Li, a little kid with a baby face. They were forced to obey Zhu Li's command due to Wu Dao's pressure.
But as Zhu Li's martial arts grew, even the few lieutenants who escaped by chance became no match for him, at this time, the remnants of soldiers were afraid of the young officer from the bottom of their hearts.
Being in the army, fearing the strong is a potential consciousness. In the era of cold weapons, this consciousness is even more deeply rooted, and they have to refuse to change their attitudes.
The army marched east along Xiushui, and did not move very quickly. Wu Dao did not seem to be in a hurry to march. He would camp after walking more than a hundred miles and train the military formations for more than ten days.
Then he stepped forward and marched for more than 100 miles again, then set up camp to train troops again, and sometimes he would organize his subordinates to hunt, fish, replenish food, etc.
Two months have passed, and they have set up camp three times and trained more than four times. However, Zhu Li has made great progress in the past two months. His martial arts have been cultivated to the middle stage of the second-rate general. However, when he starts, even Zhang Guiba, who is in the late stage of the second-rate general, is not his opponent. He has been able to train bows and arrows in a variety of ways, and he knows the first and second-rate generals.
Chapter completed!