Chapter 602: Take Zhang Xun to make dumplings first
? Since Xuzhou and Qingzhou have become war meat grinders, there must be enough troops to play the role of meat filling. There is no doubt that Zhang Xun, the general of Yuan Shu who is desperately fleeing south, is the first piece of fat meat that the Jin army is preparing to eat into his mouth.
Zhang Xun, who was as frightened as a betrayal dog, had too many reasons to feel humiliated and unwilling. Because he now felt like he was the rat under the claws of the flying tiger cavalry behind him. He was clearly teasing him, but he didn't even have the courage to fight.
It’s not that Zhang Xun was willing to fall into depravity and was willing to be a mouse played by the young general Li Tiezhu. It’s really that Zhang Xun was beaten by Li Tiezhu.
Zhang Xun, who escaped from Xia Pi City, organized three effective snipers on the way to escape south, but they ended in a crushing defeat. Under Xia Pi City, the first night attack of Chen Deng was the target of Zhang Xun's troops. That night, Zhang Xun lost 2,000 soldiers; later, the four-way coalition forces siege the city at the same time, and Zhang Xun's troops died in battle at Xia Pi City. When Zhao Yun led the flying tiger cavalry to enter the city, he also killed and crippled more than 1,000 soldiers who were siegeing the city.
By this calculation, when Zhang Xun escaped towards Yangzhou, he was still carrying about 14,000 soldiers, three times that of the 5,000 Flying Tiger Cavalry led by Li Tiezhu. But even so, Zhang Xun was still no match for Li Tiezhu, who was just a newcomer, and was abused by the Flying Tiger Cavalry again and again.
When Zhang Xun led his army to the Xiaqiu area, he set up the first blocking line here, leaving more than 3,000 Danyang elite soldiers to become unlucky rear-end troops, and he led the remaining 10,000 people to run away to the Huailing area. With more than 3,000 Danyang soldiers to block the 5,000 Flying Tiger Army led by Li Tiezhu, which had not yet been "Kaihe". Only Zhang Xun, who was as timid as a mouse, could do such stupid things.
If any general from the Crouching Tiger Lecture Hall commands such a battle, he would definitely choose a terrain where the cavalry is not easy to attack, throwing all 15,000 soldiers into the battle, fighting a desperate battle with the pursuers, and completely solving his worries.
General is the soul of the army. Even the main general abandons his soldiers and flees. How much fighting will the soldiers who stay to block the enemy in suicide? Just like if a person has no soul, even if he has the strongest body in the world, he is just a zombie. How can he defeat a well-trained opponent? What's more, the Flying Tiger Cavalry is not an ordinary opponent, but the most powerful opponent in the world!
Therefore, the first interception organized by Zhang Xunjun ended in an unsurprising failure. When more than 3,000 Yuan Shu soldiers saw the brigade of flying tiger cavalry rushing towards the formation like lightning, their will to fight was instantly disintegrated. They chose one move at the same time, which was to throw away the weapons in their hands and then beg for mercy.
The reason why these Danyang soldiers who were originally quite powerful did not choose to escape in various places or fight collectively, but stayed there to beg for surrender and beg for mercy is that Li Tiezhu used the psychological warfare and propaganda war on the battlefield well.
When the Jin Navy was first established, thousands of Danyang soldiers who were abandoned by Yuan Shu resolutely chose to join the Navy and became the backbone of the Navy. When Li Tiezhu was sailing south, he sat on the side of the big ship to watch the majestic and magnificent scene of "the bright moon rising on the sea" described by his lord Zhao Xing, and began to think about how to ask for a group of Danyang soldiers from Taishi Ci.
Li Tiezhu asked Taishi Ci that the Danyang soldiers were actually not large, only about one hundred, but they had to be the one who had a little fame or had a wide connection in Yuan Shu's army. As for the use of these people, he kept Taishi Ci at that time. When Li Tiezhu led his army to pursue Zhang Xun, the 100 Danyang soldiers who followed the army finally played an unexpected role.
In fact, Zhao Xing used Li Tiezhu's approach when he attacked Zhang Jiao, which was to "mobilize the masses and disintegrate the enemy." Before launching an attack on the remnants of Yuan Shu's army blocking the road, Li Tiezhu let more than 100 naval officers and soldiers walk to the front of the battlefield and shout at the Danyang soldiers not far away according to his special words.
The navy officers and soldiers spoke authentic Danyang accent, first reported their names and experiences of staying in Yuan Shu's army, and then began an extremely powerful psychological offensive.
Some veterans shouted, "Brother opposite, your opportunity is here! Look at how happy I am now, brother! Hurry up and throw down your weapons and join us. Brother, I will take you to the sea to catch big fish. Just grab one and you can sell a lot of money. Then we will get half the money!"
Some veterans shouted, "My fellow villager across the street, don't work hard for Yuan Shu's unmannered son of Turtle and Zhang Xun, a coward who is afraid of death. We are all good brothers. Our brothers don't beat our own family. As long as you put down your weapons, I swear in the name of my ancestors, you will definitely be fine!"
There were even veterans who grew up in the same village as the soldiers on the other side, but they barely held their hands and kept their arms open. While scolding the thousands of Danyang soldiers on the opposite side, they walked into the Danyang soldiers' camp. The brave veteran walked to the brothers in the same village, and first shook his old friend with a little bit of tranquil forcefully, and then said anxiously: "Damn Xie Xiaosan, you are still alive! I thought you had died under Jiguan back then! Tell me, how are my father and my mother doing now?"
The Danyang soldier, known as Xie Xiaosan, woke up at this time, regardless of the hot weather, and held his good friend hard, and then cried loudly. It didn't matter if he cried, but it made the Danyang soldiers around him panic and confused, and tears couldn't help but drip down.
Seeing that the psychological offensive was almost the same, Li Tiezhu picked up the large standard copper trumpet and shouted to the Danyang soldiers blocking the road in front of him: "Brothers opposite, I am Li Tiezhu, the military advisor of the Flying Tiger Army! Your fellow villagers, that is, my subordinates, have already shouted the policy of Jin to treat prisoners very clearly. Whether it is dead or alive, everything depends on your own choice! Now I count from one to ten, those who are willing to surrender will throw away their weapons and lie on the ground waiting for inclusion! Those who are unwilling to surrender, I will come and gesture with you after counting!"
"One...two...ten!" Before Li Tiezhu could finish calling out the ten numbers, the Danyang soldiers who were originally standing opposite him were lying in groups, crowded with a large area. Occasionally, there were a few deadly tough members. When they saw that the brothers around them knelt down, they no longer had the courage to resist, so they had to knelt down.
Li Tiezhu saw all this, then turned to ask the Shadow Team members beside him: "There are a few people on the opposite side who only kneeled down at the end, you can secretly stare at me!"
The first blocking front left by Zhang Xun surrendered without fighting. Li Tiezhu just spoke and gained more than 3,000 well-trained soldiers. Now he could easily fulfill his promise to Taishi Ci to "borrow one and return ten".
Li Tiezhu left behind a thousand flying tiger cavalry to besiege more than 3,000 Danyang soldiers who surrendered. These more than 4,000 people will enter Xiaqiu City, waiting for the Dragon Cavalry that is coming to reinforce.
After dealing with these chores quickly, Li Tiezhu led 4,000 cavalry to continue to chase Zhang Xun. When he chased him to the edge of the Huai River, he happened to see Zhang Xun leading his troops to cross the river in a hurry. In order to prevent Zhang Xun from being completely destroyed in one go, Li Tiezhu actually ordered all the soldiers to get off the horse and rest, and stood on the high side of the river bank and watched Zhang Xun lead 10,000 soldiers across the river.
Zhang Xun, a idiot, saw that Li Tiezhu had less than one thousand cavalrymen, and thought that the soldiers who left behind the rear had severely damaged the Flying Tiger Cavalry, so the Flying Tiger Army was timid and did not dare to attack.
Based on this irrational and fearless spirit, Zhang Xun actually left 4,000 people guarding the other side of the Huai River after crossing the river, intending to attack the Flying Tiger Army who was planning to cross the river. If he knew that Li Tiezhu was worried about his rat, if he did not flee to the closest place to Yangzhou with a large number of soldiers, then Yuan Shu would not send troops to rescue him, and he would not know what he would feel?
Zhang Xun ran away, and left four thousand Danyang soldiers. Li Tiezhu on the other side of the river had light in his eyes, and he was almost draining out of his mouth. However, the situation this time was different from the last time. If he forced to cross the river, the Flying Tiger Army would be afraid that he would take a slut.
Because the current forces of both sides are the same as 4,000, the Danyang soldiers on the defensive side clearly have a advantage in geographical advantages, and once the flying tiger cavalry gets off the horse and crosses the river, they have no advantage. In this way, no matter how problematic the generals will not order to cross the Huai River, let alone Li Tiezhu, a guy who is more skilled than a monkey?
Li Tiezhu thought to himself: Since the Flying Tiger Army does not want to cross the river to capture Danyang soldiers, then find a way to get the Danyang soldiers to come here by themselves! This is really a crazy idea, and only Li Tiezhu can think of it. He actually sent Shadow Team members back to Xiaqiu City, asking the two Flying Tiger Army battalion commanders who were responsible for escorting more than 3,000 Danyang surrendered soldiers to divide the troops again, and let 500 of them be responsible for escorting 1,000 Danyang soldiers to rush to the bank of the Huai River!
These Danyang surrendered soldiers who were taken to the Huai River were carefully screened by more than 100 veterans of Jin State navy and might be the first to complete the transformation. They did not have much negative emotions about Jin State, and after the guidance and education of the left-behind Flying Tiger Warriors, they had already expressed their desire to switch to Jin State.
The Jin State battalion commander who was responsible for leading them to the bank of the Huai River solemnly told the soldiers that if they could complete the tasks assigned by the military advisor this time, then they would make great contributions in advance. Once they entered the Jin State's army, they would definitely have good development.
The Danyang soldiers who were eager to make contributions finally showed their good military qualities at this time, fully carrying forward the spirit of running faster than four legs, and actually followed the Flying Tiger Cavalry to the bank of the Huai River.
Looking at the thousand Danyang soldiers who arrived on the bank of the Huai River in just over a day, Li Tiezhu felt so happy that he was even sweeter than eating honey. With this kind of physical fitness, he was already comparable to the newly recruited recruits who had just come out of the Jin Dynasty training regiment. He felt that he had found a treasure this time.
Li Tiezhu specially selected twenty capable veterans from more than 100 naval officers and soldiers originally from Danyang, Yangzhou, and promoted them to the position on the spot, each of which was set at the level of company commander. Then he assigned the twenty people to a thousand Danyang surrendered soldiers, asking them to command fifty people each, ready to carry out an incredible task.
ps: Damn, even the word "Tiger Rider" must be blocked. I wonder...~
Chapter completed!