Chapter 356: The Smoke of War Rises, Jiangshan Looks North
Chapter 356: The Smoke of War Rises, Jiangshan Looks North
Annan Camp,
The Siamese cavalry had already arrived and were killing people indiscriminately.
This situation not only caught the soldiers in the Annan camp off guard,
Even the Zhenla camp nearby was a little at a loss and didn't understand what was going on.
The civilians in the camp hid here and there.
Looking at the corpses all over the ground, he shouted loudly,
The camp, which was already somewhat chaotic and complicated, became even more chaotic and disorderly.
During this period, the Annan soldiers did not form an organized counterattack.
Instead, they fought each other, and there was chaos.
Like the Luchuan camp, it was leaderless.
Just because Siamese Aju Miao used the same old trick again,
Relying on his familiar face, he intercepted the Annan general Li Jiahao near the central military tent of the Annan camp.
Compared with Daiwang in Luchuan,
He had a few more guards around him, but they were just a few guards.
Aju Miao suffered less than a hundred casualties.
He captured the military tent that was defending and personally chopped off Li Jiahao's head.
In the previous Luchuan camp, although Siam and Zhenla controlled the cavalry,
But the truly powerful army was still the Annan Army.
They have their own war horses and infantry, and have always looked down on the small countries on the border.
Laos and Siam have always coveted it.
They tried to send troops to occupy the city several times, but were eventually mediated by the Ming Dynasty.
And now, the moment Li Jiahao's head was chopped off,
Ajumiao suddenly felt that it would be better to follow Mingguo.
The Annan general who used to show off his might was killed without warning.
If I follow Luchuan, I might have to endure the humiliation and smile.
The blood on the blade dripped little by little, but did not cause a single drop of bright red.
Just because the surrounding ground is already covered with bright red.
The blood dripping on it would at most make its color a little brighter and a little wetter, but it would not cause the slightest change.
Just like an ordinary corpse on the battlefield at this moment,
More or less does not affect the battle situation.
At this moment, a violent explosion sounded behind him.
Ajumiao's body trembled, his thoughts withdrew from the joy he had just felt, and he suddenly turned around to look behind him.
There are countless camps between us.
He could hear the orderly footsteps and the continuous explosions.
He knew that the Ming army was coming!
A trace of horror flashed across Ajumiao's eyes.
It's only an hour before the battle begins.
Nearly 20,000 soldiers from Luchuan were eliminated just like that?
Although the lack of a leader will lead to a loss of combat power,
But whether they are soldiers or civilians, it will take some time even if they are killed one by one.
Now, how come the Ming army came so quickly?
While thinking, Aju Miao raised his long sword and waved his hand vigorously.
He led a group of personal soldiers towards the entrance of the camp.
Before he even got close, he smelled the blood and gun smoke.
The two mixed together, and the disgusting smell rushed straight to the top of the head.
Ajumiao suddenly held his breath.
The wrinkled face suddenly had more wrinkles, and the old body felt extremely heavy.
Then, the scenes before his eyes made his pupils tremble violently.
I stood there in a daze, forgetting to hold my breath.
"Three-stage attack!"
"volley!"
"Alternate forward!"
As military orders were issued one after another, flames gushed out.
It almost blocked the entire entrance and exit of the Annan camp!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As the sound of the muskets exploded,
A row of enemies who were still resisting, trying to rush towards the approaching Annan soldiers, fell to the ground together.
The armor on his chest was already full of holes, and blood was oozing out.
Then he fell to the ground with a loud bang, his body trembling and he lost his voice.
The next moment, orderly footsteps sounded.
Teams of musketeers marched forward in neat steps.
Rows and rows of volleys were fired in an orderly manner.
The battle line was getting more and more turbulent.
At this moment, it is like a mouse seeing the sun, retreating and fleeing continuously.
Because they killed the enemy quickly, when the musketeers entered the camp,
A brief clearing formed ahead, filled only by corpses.
This not only stunned the Siamese soldiers who were watching from the side,
Even the Annan soldiers in the battle array could not help but feel fear.
They were the elite of the southern countries, but they had never seen such a scene.
Before they could react, the Ming cavalry who had been waiting on the side rushed into the camp.
Then they quickly dispersed and killed indiscriminately!
The sounds of fighting, horse hooves, and shouts intertwined together, filling the entire world.
Fear began to spread, and the Annan soldiers wanted to change the battlefield.
Fighting with the Ming army with long swords in hand,
But wherever I looked, I could see either cavalrymen on horseback or infantrymen holding muskets.
Neither of them could do anything about it.
Even though they retreated again and again, the scouts and Siamese soldiers were not ready to let them go.
Xu Zengshou and Guo Quan looked at each other, nodded silently, and then gave the order in a deep voice:
"Musketeers!"
"Split the troops!"
The musketeers, who were originally numerous and clearing the entrance to the camp in an orderly manner, were instantly divided into two teams.
A team of 500 people rushed in the north and south directions.
Liu Heiying, who was at the rear of the battle formation, saw this.
Without any hesitation, he waved his hand and shouted:
"Army attack!!"
"All members of the front army's scouts, charge into the camp!"
Well--
The desolate horn sounded suddenly, and the fierce sound of horse hooves could no longer be concealed.
Outside the military tent, the remaining nearly two thousand cavalrymen rushed forward and squeezed into the Annan soldiers' camp.
As the soldiers charged, they looked back and forth, searching for their commander.
Soon they found the main general Lu Yunyi who was charging in the front at the core of the Annan camp.
At this moment, the cavalrymen surrounding him were like his arms.
With a casual wave of his hand, he easily broke up the solid battle formation in front of him.
Then, something that everyone could have expected happened.
I saw Lu Yunyi put the long sword in his hand into the scabbard.
He then grabbed a spear from the ground, and then rushed into the battle formation first!
Faintly I could hear him shouting:
kill--
The fighting spirit was aroused at this moment, and the soldiers of the front army scouts followed and also shouted loudly,
The shouts and cries of killing were deafening and frightened the enemy.
In the army, a general who can charge into battle will always have soldiers following him, no matter how strict he is.
What’s more, he is the commander-in-chief of their front-line scout unit.
Lu Yunyi took the lead, his spear shot out like a dragon,
Every sprint can inflict the heaviest casualties on the enemy.
Even if the Annan troops were blocked,
But the strong armor was enough to block most of the attacks, and the personal guards also stood by to prevent the enemy from encircling.
Even if there are feather arrows to attack from a distance,
The front army scouts also have archers and will attack the enemy's archers!
The main general's charge will not only boost morale,
It can also lure the enemy into using some of their previously hidden methods.
When Annan's enemy blocking methods and archers were all lured out,
This war also means the end.
Time passed, and two hours on the battlefield passed in a flash.
The sunlight is no longer as refreshing and gentle as it was in the morning.
Instead, it took on a hint of heat and generously sprinkled it on the earth.
The originally moist blood-red land becomes dry and cracked again.
The bloody smell that was originally hidden due to the moisture was also revealed under the scorching sun.
The entire Luchuan camp had already been mostly occupied.
After clearing out the main forces of Luchuan and Annan,
There was almost no decent resistance in the entire Luchuan camp.
The scouts of the front army rushed to the camps one by one.
At this moment, they were extremely tired, and many soldiers were sighing in their hearts.
Fortunately, there were musketeers in the army who could kill the enemy effortlessly.
If I were to chop it off one by one, it would be too difficult.
The Siamese soldiers, who had never experienced anything like this before, chopped the enemies with great enthusiasm.
If the armor on your body is torn, you should take it off and put it on the enemy's body.
When the blade of the weapon was broken, he threw it away and picked up the enemy's long sword.
By the way, you can also touch the enemy's bodies and take away the few silver coins they have.
They attacked the camps one by one, enjoying the process.
In the camp, except for the southern countries,
There are also some Tusi tribes in the southwest who also contribute to Luchuan in the army. Like the southern countries, they are full of distrust.
Even if there are more than a thousand people stationed in a camp,
The north and south must be blocked to prevent friendly forces nearby from attacking in the dark.
This also created the best battlefield for the front army scouts and Siamese soldiers.
From one against ten, to the current situation of many against the few,
Is the battlefield divided naturally, or is it the enemy's initiative?
Lu Yunyi and many generals of the front army scouts had never heard of or seen such behavior.
When asked whether there was a similar incident, Lu Yunyi could only think of the Burning of Red Cliffs.
Pang Tong proposed a series of strategies to trick Cao's army into connecting the warships with iron chains.
Huang Gai pretended to surrender and burned Cao's warships. Cao's army was defeated.
Now, the battle in Luchuan at this moment is similar in nature.
At this time, Lu Yunyi had already withdrawn from the battlefield.
A group of personal soldiers have already set up tents in the woods.
There are desks, papers, pens and sand tables.
At this moment, the red and blue sides on the sand table have changed drastically.
The Ming army, representing the red color, has changed from being outnumbered in the past to being like a snake swallowing an elephant!
On the banks of the Lidu River, the entire Luchuan camp was captured.
Everyone knew that at this point in the war, the Luchuan camp had been defeated.
In front of the smaller tent next to the military tent, a very strange atmosphere was taking place.
A group of guards were waiting outside.
Hearing the adult humming a little tune of unknown origin in the military tent, everyone looked at each other in surprise.
"The smoke of war is rising ~ look north to the country!
The dragon flag is rolling, the horse is neighing, the sword is as sharp as frost, and my heart is as vast as the Yellow River.
Twenty years later, who can resist me?"
The guards' eyes widened little by little.
Turning around to look at the Luchuan camp not far away, he felt extremely absurd.
On one side, there was a war going on, and on the other side, the commander was bathing and singing.
Such a strange scene, at least the guards had never heard of or seen before.
If others saw this, they would certainly think that such a commander was uneducated and extremely incompetent.
But now, they attacked from both sides, with a small force against a large one, and broke through the Luchuan stronghold of 100,000 people.
Such achievements are rare in the entire Ming Dynasty.
“Horses go south, people look north.
Looking north, the grass is green and yellow, and the dust is flying.
I wish to defend the land and expand the frontier.
The great China wants all the people to come and congratulate us."
There seems to be nothing wrong with humming some little songs.
Moreover, although the music in my ears is strange, it sounds very good.
Just like that, in a strange moment,
In less than two quarters of an hour, Lu Yunyi finished washing and put on new armor. He walked out of the military tent while wiping his face.
Seeing him come out, Feng Yunfang on the side hurried forward to report:
"Sir, our troops have advanced ten miles to the Luchuan camp.
The enemy was routed and fled in all directions.
Instead, the civilians knelt down and surrendered one by one.
Duke Cao sent me a letter earlier, asking whether these civilians should be killed or not."
Lu Yunyi had already walked into the military tent.
When the clerks saw him come in, they stood up hurriedly and called him "Sir" with strange looks on their faces.
Lu Yunyi stopped in front of the sand table, wrapped the towel around his head, and looked at Feng Yunfang in surprise:
"Why would we kill the civilians? We are not murderers.
Order the whole army to kneel before the enemy and do not kill them."
As soon as these words came out, all the guards and clerks present bowed their heads.
The rumor of a 'murderer' has been circulating in the military in recent days.
I didn’t expect the adults to know so quickly.
After the guards hurried away, Lu Yunyi walked up to the clerks and asked:
"How's the preliminary forecast of the outcome?"
Yao Tongchen, who was sitting at the head, stood up suddenly and spoke in a deep voice:
"Sir, we expect to kill more than 40,000 enemies and capture more than 70,000.
If we catch some of the escapees, we may have more prisoners.”
At the same time he added:
“The specific number will be higher.”
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire military tent seemed to freeze.
Both the clerical guards and Li Jinglong who had just rushed into the military tent were stunned where they were.
This result is a bit too great.
So much so that Li Jinglong, who was standing there in a daze, had already started to think about how to give Lu Yunyi an official title.
The final conclusion is that it is difficult to be recognized as young and I don’t know how to be recognized.
Lu Yunyi nodded calmly and continued to ask:
"Has the initial damage been calculated?"
Yao Tongchen's face darkened, and he let out a long sigh, his voice slightly heavy:
"Sir, when we attacked the Luchuan camp, 300 people were killed or wounded.
If this is the case, the final casualties among the army may be around 1,500.”
Lu Yunyi's face suddenly darkened, and then he let out a heavy sigh.
When outnumbered, casualties are inevitable.
Lu Yunyi didn't feel bad about the death of a thousand people.
What distressed him was that many of these people were soldiers who had followed him from Gyeongju to travel across the country.
Maybe they were childhood playmates and classmates.
He did not die on the grassland, but in the southwest, the place farthest from his hometown.
Li Jinglong came up at this moment and said in a deep voice:
"Yun Yi, this level of damage is already within the controllable limit.
The real hard work of attacking the city and capturing the stronghold was done by the Siamese soldiers and the captured soldiers.
On the battlefield, there will always be some casualties.”
Lu Yunyi's expression quickly returned to calm, and he nodded gently:
"You're right. There will be some damage on the battlefield eventually."
He turned to look at Yao Tongchen:
"Record the names of all the dead and wounded soldiers in detail, and include the missing as dead in the list.
If you find it, cross out its name.
If you can’t find it, that’s it.”
In the current Ming army, "death in battle" and "missing" both represent death.
But "missing" could also mean desertion.
According to military law, all soldiers' casualties must be confirmed.
There must be a corpse and a record of battle, as well as evidence from fellow soldiers and guarantees from superiors.
This is considered a death in action, and pensions will be paid out in the future.
It's just a 'missing', although money will be given, it's too little.
Yao Tongchen pursed his lips and nodded vigorously:
"Yes!"
Lu Yunyi turned to look at Feng Yunfang and asked:
"What happened to the matter I asked you to ask Zou Jing last time?"
Feng Yunfang's face turned serious and he shook his head slightly, with some regret on his face.
Lu Yunyi was not surprised at all after hearing this and nodded slightly.
"understood."
After finishing speaking, Lu Yunyi came to the sand table and sat down, staring at it blankly, with a thoughtful look on his face.
Li Jinglong also slowly came over and sat aside.
He also cast his eyes towards the sand table and said softly:
"Yun Yi, you are right, Jingdong is a cover.
Si Lunfa has appeared in Dali Dingbian. According to the scouts' report,
They have begun to besiege the city and set up camp.
The siege may begin in two days. What should we do?"
Lu Yunyi fell silent for a moment.
Then he gave Li Jinglong a reassuring look:
"Duke Cao, as long as we take down the camp ahead, we will surely win this battle."
As he spoke, Lu Yunyi took a bunch of red flags from the side and threw them all at Chuxiong.
In an instant, the densely packed blue flags of Chuxiong were submerged.
Li Jinglong stared at the sand table in a daze. Lu Yunyi's movements had not stopped.
He then took a handful of red flags and threw them on the Jingdong front line, drowning out the blue flag representing Luchuan.
At this point, the entire sandbox has changed drastically!
Dali in the north, Jingdong in the south, and Chuxiong in the east surrounding Dingbian had all been occupied by the Ming army.
The blue flag representing Silunfa is now firmly surrounding Dingbian!
Moreover, there is a red flag planted on Dingbian City.
Seeing this sand table, Li Jinglong's eyes suddenly widened.
The black fog in my mind seemed to be split by lightning.
The situation on the battlefield is now clear.
Even the guards standing nearby understood the situation and couldn't help but gasp.
Si Lunfa, there is no escape!
Li Jinglong stared at the sand table in a daze, muttering:
"Yun Yi, the battle we are waiting for is over. Will the battle in Chuxiong go smoothly?"
Lu Yunyi's eyes were firm, and he thought of his father-in-law who was kind at home and taciturn in the army, and nodded slightly:
"It will definitely go very smoothly."
Li Jinglong's tense body suddenly relaxed and he let out a long breath.
Lu Yunyi looked at Feng Yunfang and spoke in a deep voice:
"Send someone to Chuxiong to inform Lord Mu,
The battle in Jingdong has ended, the Luchuan coalition forces have been defeated, and our army can be assembled and march north at any time."
Pursing his lips, Lu Yunyi spoke in a resounding voice:
"Fifty thousand soldiers and civilians are available!"
Feng Yunfang looked surprised, but immediately straightened his body:
"Yes!"
(End of this chapter)