Wanli 1592

Chapter 712 Let's Stop Here!

At noon on April 26th in the [-]th year of Wanli, with Li Rumei's [-] cavalry returning to Guihua City to rejoin the army, the four-day Guihua City Annihilation War finally came to a smooth end.

This battle, which started with a surprise attack, started from the very beginning with the Ming army occupying an absolute advantage. The northern captives entrenched in Guihua City had no idea that the Ming army would gather a powerful force of tens of thousands of people to launch such a battle. massive counterattack.

After all, for a long time, the Ming army’s attack on the north was limited to small-scale raids, harassment and burning operations. The purpose of the active attack was mainly to destroy a series of factors that were helpful for the northern captives to go south, making it more difficult for the northern captives to go south.

For example, some small tribes that were particularly close to the defense area of ​​the Ming army were destroyed, strategic materials such as cattle, sheep and horses were seized, and the grassland was burned so that the horses of the northern captives had no fodder to eat. Few of them had the strategic purpose of annihilating the vital forces of the northern captives. massive attack.

The battle of the Northern Expedition of [-] cavalry has been a large-scale attack that has not occurred in many years. What's more, the attack of the Ming army is not for simple burning and seizing cattle, sheep and horses. Annihilate their vital forces.

In order to fight the war of annihilation, the Northern Expedition and the fortress were not something that the Ming army could do in the minds of many northern captives. At least since the death of the prince Ma who made them afraid, there were not so many Han people who dared to The general who launched a counterattack against the northern captives.

And what happened now made them unable not to believe that the nightmare that they once thought had disappeared had returned.

The large amount of food continuously transported to Guihua City during the journey of Lalik to the south is the basis for a large number of northern captives to gather here to spend the winter, so many northern captives summoned by Lalik have no intention of continuing to go south at all, but spend the winter here.

It's spring, and they don't plan to go back. They just graze here and wait for the news of Lalik before going south. As a result, the news of Lalik did not come, but the counterattack of the Ming army.

Now they're screwed.

This group of Ming soldiers was completely different from the other Ming soldiers they had seen before. They were particularly tough and good at fighting, especially brutal and bloodthirsty.

When encountering the Beilu cavalry who were finally preparing to fight back in groups, they would attack them with a firearm, blast their group, and then rush in to fight, making the Beilu's resistance very fragile.

It was a very sudden battle in itself, and the northern captives were not prepared at all, and the settlements where old and weak women and children gathered were relocated. They thought this was the rear area, but they didn't expect it to suddenly become a battlefield. Under the chaos, there were only a few leaders A considerable number of cavalry can be organized to defend themselves and counterattack, but these people often become the key targets of the Ming army.

They don't know why the Ming army has suddenly become so strong, good at fighting, so brutal and bloodthirsty, one person dares to run after a dozen of them with bared teeth, and a small group of Ming army cavalry dares to attack more than a hundred of them The team rushed and fought, as if the strong and weak changed hands overnight, and time and space were reversed.

Xu Guangqi rode his horse to a Beilu barracks that had been destroyed by the Ming army. Looking at the mess and corpses everywhere, although there was pity in his eyes, the resistance was no longer the same as before.

He himself didn't know why he insisted on going to the Northern Expedition with Xiao Ruxun, he just felt that after waking up from that coma, something seemed to have changed in him.

"Don't you vomit anymore?"

Xiao Ruxun came to him on horseback and asked calmly.

"The governor was joking. He has already seen blood kill people. How can he still vomit?"

Xu Guangqi shook his head.

"Still blaming Ben Du?"

"Don't dare."

"It's good not to blame the governor, and it doesn't matter if you blame the governor. At least, you are already a real military man. These are things that books can never bring you, but military life can bring you.

It can let you see with your own eyes what is called blood flowing into rivers and corpses piled up like mountains, and what is called a general who died in a hundred battles and a strong man returns after ten years. The words and sentences in the book cannot make you truly understand the horror of the battlefield, but what you see with your own eyes can , it is better to kill it by hand. "

Xiao Ruxun rode his horse and slowly patrolled the camp. Seeing this, Xu Guangqi also rode his horse to follow.

"In such a scene, my subordinates really never thought that these soldiers were not so strong and good at fighting in Datong, and they would not be so fierce when facing the northern captives. Why now they seem like jackals, tigers and leopards meeting pheasants. Like a hare? Just a military order?"

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"It's just a military order, a military order that is enough to make soldiers explode several times their normal combat power. This is like the Qin army's first-level military merit system in the Warring States period. With such a system, only the Qin army can easily send three to five thousand. Big win."

Xu Guangqi was puzzled again: "But I heard that Zhang Jiangling once restored the first-level merit system, but why didn't it succeed? Instead, a military order of wanton looting doubled the strength of the soldiers?"

"Times have changed, and the system that worked well for the ancestors is not good for today's people. The reason why northerners ride horses and southerners steer boats is because there is less water in the north and more water in the south of the country. It is only developed according to local conditions.

Just like when Zhang Jiangling simply restored a system, he didn't notice that the world had changed from Great Qin to Great Ming. He had already changed the world, but he didn't pay attention to changing other things. Jiangnan is like letting people ride horses, chaos abounds.

These sergeants joined the army not for the righteousness of their family and country, but to get promoted and make a fortune. There are only so many official positions, and it is impossible for everyone to take care of them. The sergeants who deeply understand the truth that promotion is difficult put their main purpose on making a fortune.

I told them that they are fighting this time not for the imperial court and the country, but for themselves, for their own better life, and everything captured is their own, so they will use their lives like this. , is theirs, and the northern captives are holding it, and they are robbing them, so there is no other way, kill it, and grab it back. "

"The ancients said that if you read a book a hundred times, you will see its meaning, but the more I read it, the more I feel confused. It was not until I went to the battlefield that I finally realized that reading can't understand everything. You have to see it with your own eyes. All kinds of things are really wrong."

Xu Guangqi looked up to the sky and sighed.

After a while, Xu Guangqi asked again: "What does the governor plan to do next?"

"Next?"

Xiao Ruxun stopped the horse and looked to the north where there was more darkness. After a while, she slowly turned her head and looked to the south.

"Let's call here. It's time to go back. If I don't go back, some people should worry about me."

(End of this chapter)