Chapter 13
: A perfect match (")
The night is as cool as water, silent.
The camp in the north of the city is where the Goguryeo garrisons are located. This camp that occupies a large area in the north of the city can accommodate 30,000 troops at the same time.
However, at this time, the camp had only nine thousand soldiers and horses, which made the broad camp a little empty. All the soldiers in the camp already knew that few of them had gone out in the morning and followed the prince back.
The soldiers in the entire camp were circulating with news that the Sui army had arrived. Some said that 30,000 were coming, but some people immediately argued that 50,000 were coming, and even said that the Emperor of the Sui army was personally in charge and brought a million troops, otherwise they would not have defeated the fifth master.
Rumors always spread like the wind, especially when all the officers above the lord were called to discuss matters by the prince, all the soldiers were even more panicked.
Facing the panic-provoking rumors in the camp, no soldiers could sleep, everyone gathered together to chat, guessing who the prince was defeated today. Tonight the sky was pitch black, and even the sparkling starlight of the past hid in the clouds.
A team of soldiers pushed dozens of large carts into the military camp, and many people recognized that the leader was Lord Jinbudamoke beside the prince.
"The prince's orders that the Sui army will come to attack the city tomorrow. The prince is polite to all the soldiers. Now I'm going to send an order. Today I will reward all the soldiers with 10,000 kilograms of beef and mutton, and a thousand jars of good wine. Even though everyone has opened up, they will eat and drink enough. The Sui dogs who will attack tomorrow will be killed down the city one by one. People will distribute wine and meat to the soldiers." As soon as his voice fell, the soldiers behind immediately moved all the beef, mutton, wine and meat from the cart, and distributed them to the soldiers who were already saliva in the camp.
Distribution of wine and meat before the war is also a tradition in the army. At this time, all the officers above the head of the army were deceived by Gao Qi to the south gate. These soldiers had good wine and meat to eat, and who would care about so many others? Such an opportunity is rare. Today, the prince would be kind, so why not grab it?
The officers who came to distribute wine and meat today were also very generous and were completely unrestrained to everyone. As long as you want to eat, you can eat and drink, and even took the initiative to persuade everyone to eat more. The uncontrollable carnival continued for several hours. At the last moment before dawn, there were basically few soldiers in the entire camp still sober. Many drunk soldiers lie on the open space outside the tent with the wine jar and slept soundly.
Chen Kefu has been standing on the city gate tower in the south city. From the high city gate tower, he could look at the ups and downs of the hills outside the south gate. If Gao Qi had not first sent a large city out of the city to fight, and then surrendered to the Sui army for fear of death, it would be like this mountain city. If Gao Qi brought these 20,000 people to retreat to the city and stayed in the mountain city, they would not do anything except sweep the nearby villages with his 3,000 troops.
But at this moment, he was already standing above the city, and he was still not a slaughter. The seven regiments that had finally cleaned the battlefield outside the city had already come in. Although it took a little longer than Chen Kefu had expected at the beginning, it also brought unexpected surprise news to him.
During the day, in the field battle dozens of miles away, the three thousand Pojun cavalrymen, with their strength of the veterans of hundreds of battles, their elite armor and weapons, and the experienced veterans of Li Benlei, they won a great victory against the 11,000 Goguryeo second-line troops led by Gao Qi, and even said to be a complete victory. More than 700 Goguryeo infantry was killed, and nearly two thousand were seriously injured and slightly injured. Most of these authors were because Gao Qi went out of the city to fight in the field but did not bring enough shields. When he met Chen Kefu, his team, which was also considered a archer and cavalry, was injured by the indiscriminate forty-five degrees of ejection.
Especially after Goguryeo was dispersed and disrupted, the Goguryeo people began to be defeated. The entire 10,000 infantry was captured by thousands of cavalry in the Pojun Camp. Only the 1,000 cavalry was better, but they were also troops under the focus of the cavalry in the Pojun Camp. More than half of the cavalry were wiped out and hundreds were captured. Only a few of the defeated soldiers were left to scatter everywhere on the horses under their foot and escaped from the battlefield. However, after hearing that those defeated soldiers were fleeing in the direction of Liaodong City, Chen Kefu felt relieved.
"General, because we are worried about the situation here, we are afraid that we will take them to waste time, so we killed all the wounded. We just escorted here a total of 8,000 people, and we seized more than 800 war horses and countless armor and flags. Congratulations to the general, after making this great contribution to the sky, he will definitely reward the Lord. The Lord is now General Yingyang Lang, and maybe His Majesty the Emperor will directly reward the Lord a tiger-fang Lang this time, which is a fourth-rank official." The face of the Yueqi Captain Hu Hai, who had a hideous scar, was full of smiles, but the scar made people look more like crying.
Chen Kefu patted Hu Hai on the shoulder, "Mr. Hu is now in the sixth-rank military position of Yueqi Certificate. This time, he will definitely be promoted to the Eagle Fighting General. He is from the fifth-rank. General Hu is so young and has a bright future."
Hu Hai said excitedly, "Thank you for your cultivation, generals are all under the command of the general. Only by transporting troops like a god can you make such a small military merit. All of this is given by the general. In the future, the subordinates will only follow the general's leader, but they will never refuse to refuse." Hu Hai made merits in the past, but he may not be rewarded if he made merits. It is not uncommon for military merits to be falsely taken in the army. Some bosses even think that their subordinates are disobedient, they will deliberately suppress their subordinate generals. Chen Kefu is not alone to break the military camp. There are nine Yueqi lieutenants with the same position as him, but they are all from Chen Kefu. I heard that they are still servants who grew up together since childhood. If Chen Kefu suppresses him a little and specifically calls his confidant, then Hu Hai has no choice.
Chen Kefu looked at Hu Hai's excited look and smiled, "As long as you follow me, I will never treat my brothers unfairly. Let's see, how many casualties have our brothers been killed or killed this time?" This is what he cares most about, and every soldier is his treasure.
When talking about this, a man like Hu Hai couldn't help but feel sad, "General, the 1,000 cavalry of the Goguryeo people today caused a lot of harm to us. I just counted it. This time, I lost 113 brothers in the military camp, and more than 200 injured brothers. Among them, there were about 200 slightly injured, and more than 30 seriously injured, most of whom may not be able to survive. Although many of the slightly injured brothers can recover after recuperation, at least more than 20 brothers will be disabled in the future. They can only retire and cannot go to the battlefield to kill the enemy."
In an encounter between elite troops against the second-tier troops, they still paid the price of more than 300 casualties by relying on their advantages in all aspects. This was as many as one-tenth of casualties. It made him feel heartbroken when he thought of this number. Even if those slightly injured people recovered, he would still have to lose almost one hundred and fifty elite soldiers in this battle, one-twentieth number. How long does it take to cultivate an elite soldier? He could not calculate the time when the elite soldiers in a hundred battles grew, but he knew that if he lost one-twentieth of his troops in a single battle, he would have lost one-twentieth of his troops in a simple encounter.
If he had encountered a defender like the Liaodong City defender, if Gao Qi had surrendered today, then if he wanted to take down this mountain city, he might have been wiped out by the mountain city. If he was not in charge of the family, he would never know the cruelty of the war.
"Have you brought back the bodies of those brothers who died in battle?" Chen Kefu said heavy.
Chapter completed!