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Chapter fifty-one

Chapter 51: Turning around

Looking at the Liao army running away on horseback, Wu Ji felt very sorry. If there were cavalrymen, the results would be extremely rich in the battle. Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty lacked horses and could not form cavalry.

"Cabinet, cavalry, I must have cavalry!" Wu Ji shouted in his heart.

"Long live the Song Dynasty!"

"Long live the Song Dynasty!"

Just as Wu Ji was feeling regretful, a shocking cheer burst out, and it was the people, Ding Zhuang, soldiers, and the heroes of Qiyun Club who were cheering.

They hugged each other, patted their shoulders, pounded their backs, laughed, clamored, jumped, jumped, vented their joy in ways they could think of.

It was an incredible victory to use five hundred people to deal with two thousand people, and to defeat two thousand Liao troops and flee in panic. This was an extraordinary victory, which was extremely rare in the Song and Liao Wars.

Not to mention, the Song army fought a battle with the Liao army in a tough battle and suppressed the Liao army, which has never been seen in the hundreds of years of Song-Liao wars.

"Commander Wu!" A group of people were about to come up, and each of them had a joyful expression on their faces, and they yelled with a cracked mouth.

"Commander Wu!" Li Mingchu was close to Wu Ji, and hugged Wu Ji and threw it. The nearby Converted Army hurriedly joined the ranks. Wu Ji was like a ball, giving the converted army that was so happy that the people threw it up. After they fell, they caught it and threw it up again.

Thousands of people surrounded Wu Ji, shouting "Commander Wu", cheering and expressing their love for Wu Ji in their ways.

Looking at the happy faces, Wu Ji sighed with great emotion, "The Song Dynasty needed victory too much."

During the hundreds of years of the Song and Liao War, the Song Dynasty lost more than it won, and it was difficult for the people of the Song Dynasty to taste the taste of victory. Now, they finally got what they wanted, who would not be happy?

Zheng Tai, Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao were thrown away. The three of them were in the air, waving their arms, shaking their fists, and shouting with all their hearts. They were full of passion and the taste of victory was so wonderful!

The people were extremely enthusiastic, and they wanted to stop, but they didn't know when they would go. Wu Ji had to yell and ask them to let him go, but the people would not let him go. After several efforts, the people reluctantly let him go.

"Commander Wu, you can't be so disappointed!" Li Mingchu's big mouth complained again.

"It's not that I'm disappointed, hurry up and clean up the battlefield." Wu Ji looked around and saw corpses all over the ground, ownerless war horses, broken scimitars, bows and arrows, broken limbs and arms everywhere, broken internal organs, broken bones, broken bones... the whole city was red.

The strong fishy smell makes people feel sick.

After he mentioned it, the people finally reacted, shouted "Check out the spoils", and suddenly dispersed and went to clean the battlefield.

Zheng Tai put it down, his face was full of red and smiling. He quickly walked over, gave Wu Ji a bear hug, and patted Wu Ji heavily on his shoulder: "Commander Wu, you fight well! You fight so well!"

"Yes!" Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao came over, and he was also a bear hug.

"How are we losing?" Wu Ji wiped the blood from his face and bought a hot red handful. Although the weather was very cold, it was too late to cool the blood.

"Report to Commander Wu, the specific casualties are still under statistics. However, the approximate number is still known. We were killed in battle, seriously injured, and eighty or ninety people lost their combat power. The rest, everyone was injured, even Commander Wu, you were also injured. However, you have not lost your combat power and have good care of your injuries. We are a hero again!" Huangfu Song pondered for a brief moment and concluded: "In this battle, we killed no less than seven or eight hundred Liao dogs, and almost everyone was injured in Liao dogs, and even Yelu Bodhisattva was injured."

"This is an unprecedented victory! We killed seven or eight hundred Liao dogs at the cost of 80 or 90 deaths. This is a casualty ratio of 1 to 10. This has never been in the history of the Song Dynasty, never before!" Zheng Tai was a scholar, and was very clear about the history of the Song Dynasty. He screamed excitedly: "Even famous generals such as Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, and Di Qing, there was no such casualty ratio in such a victory. Commander Wu, you have created another number one in the Song Dynasty!"

With an admiration on his face, his thumb almost pierced the sky.

"The best in the Song Dynasty!" Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao believed in Zheng Tai's judgment and were shocked.

In the past, when the Song Dynasty fought against the Liao Kingdom, it was often the Liao army that had to exchange two or three Song troops. There were very few cases of the Song army's battles for a very small casualties, but there were very few casualties like one to ten. There had never been any incidents.

"Commander Wu, Zeng Danian slashed me with a knife! This traitor dared to surrender to Liaogou, and he would die!" Huangfu Song was very angry: "If you are a robber, you should be a robber, and you can't ignore your ancestors."

"It's OK to die!" Zheng Tai also hated Zeng Danian. Zeng Danian wanted to slaughter and return to Xincheng City, but he almost succeeded. His hatred for Zeng Danian had reached an extreme level.

After a brief pause, Zheng Tai said, "Commander Wu, you lead the army into the city to rest and recuperate, treat the wounds. Leave the matter of cleaning the battlefield to me." Zheng Tai looked at the soldiers and saw that everyone was injured, but they were all extremely excited and very happy.

"Okay!" It's enough for the people to clean the battlefield, and there is no need for the army to participate. The Congxin Army really needs rest and treatment. With Wu Ji's order, the Congxin Army retreated into the city and returned to the military camp. The doctors in the city rushed to heal the soldiers.

If it were in the past, these doctors were afraid that they would not hide far enough, but today they came to treat the soldiers spontaneously, using the best medicine and carefully treated them, and kept praising the soldiers for being invincible and very intimate, just like facing relatives, completely losing the disgust of "thieves and soldiers" in the past.

Wu Ji was slightly injured and just bandaged it slightly, so he came to inspect with Huangfu Song. Wherever he went, the soldiers were naturally very surprised. In their words, "Commander Wu made us heroes once."

If it weren't for Wu Ji, they would be just a group of refugees, and whether they could survive would be a question. How could they dare to hope to defeat the Liao army? It would be such a great victory.

Life is of course precious, but dignity is even more rare. They finally regained their dignity!

After the inspection, Zheng Tai came and reported the results to Wu Ji. In this battle, 859 people were killed and 241 war horses, bows, arrows, and scimitars were seized. In addition, more than 3,000 taels of silver were found from the dead Liao army.

The Song army died in battle and injured 34 people seriously. A total of 102 people were reduced, which was slightly more than Huangfu Song's estimate.

Despite this, it was also a great victory, which was enough to refresh the history of the Song and Liao wars.

More importantly, after this battle, the Converted Army became elite, and their temperaments changed tremendously, fierce, sharp, fierce, like wolves and tigers. These temperaments that originally only appeared in the elite Liao army appeared on the Converted Army.

If the surviving Converted Army returns to the battlefield, they will definitely be the elite among the elite and will cause great trouble to the Liao army.

"More than two hundred war horses! Haha!" Among these spoils, Wu Ji was most concerned about the war horses.

The horses of the Song Dynasty were short and could not be used on the battlefield, which was an important reason for the shortage of cavalry in the Song Dynasty. In order to build cavalry, the Song Dynasty still worked hard and bought war horses from the Liao and Xixia. However, the Liao and Xixia knew the importance of war horses to the Song Dynasty, and they often had to pay high prices and slaughter the Song Dynasty, which made the Song Dynasty overwhelmed.

The cost of building a cavalry in the Song Dynasty was enough to cover the cost of five infantry. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Shen Kuo and others proposed to "use infantry to control cavalry" and not build cavalry, but to develop large numbers of infantry to curb cavalry in the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia.

Because of the heavy financial and tax burden, more and more ministers supported the "use of footsteps to control cavalry", and even the emperor believed this, which became the national policy of the Song Dynasty for decades, and the status of cavalry was getting lower and lower.

As long as it is well equipped and used well, infantry can deal with cavalry. However, the price is even more difficult to bear. First, without cavalry, you cannot launch a powerful counterattack. The enemy can attack calmly. It is not easy to defend it. If there are cavalry, you can seize the fighter plane, launch a strong counterattack, and defeat the enemy.

Second, without cavalry, one cannot pursue the enemy and cannot expand the results of the battle. This battle just now is the best proof. Wu Ji defeated the Liao army, but because there were no cavalry, he could only watch the Liao army withdraw and could not pursue.

Therefore, what Wu Ji wanted most now was to build cavalry, and the more than 200 war horses he seized were his hope. The war horses of the Liao Kingdom were tall, fat and strong, which were much better than those of the Song Dynasty.

With these war horses, cavalry will be built. When this situation occurs, cavalry can be sent to intercept them. The results will be much greater and more gains will be obtained.

"Commander Wu, aren't you going to build a cavalry?" Zheng Tai was a little surprised.

"That's certain!" Wu Ji didn't even think about it and focused on it: "If there are no cavalry, you must defeat the Liao Kingdom and recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, don't even think about it!"

"This... Commander Wu, you have to know that cavalry costs a lot, and one cavalry costs enough to spend five infantry. If you form two hundred cavalry, it is equivalent to spending one thousand infantry." Zheng Tai was a literati and also supported the strategy of using infantry to control cavalry. He did not agree with Wu Ji's formation of cavalry.

"Mr. Zheng, it is said that soldiers are more important than elite soldiers. No matter how many soldiers you have, they are not useful, they are worse than not. Weak 100,000 are not as good as elite soldiers. Can one thousand infantry catch up with four-legged cavalry? We suffer a loss in this battle because there are no cavalry. If there are cavalry and intercepting them, our results will not kill 859 Liao dogs, but more than one thousand. It doesn't take too much. I only need two hundred cavalry, and I can expand the results by half." Wu Ji was full of confidence and extremely excited.

"Soldiers are more important than elites!" Zheng Tai savored it, his eyes lit up.

"Cabinets, it would be great if there were cavalry!" Huangfu Song also supported this discussion, but he changed his tone: "Wu Zhijun, do you think Liao Gou will come again after retreating?"
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