Chapter 20 Burning into white ground
In a short while, the Dulun Village was filled with the fragrance of rice and the aroma of meat.
The Song army put the rice in a large wooden barrel, and two soldiers carried it to each of the separate groups of Dangxiang, and ordered each to hold a big handful and eat it.
Where did Qingning Deguang eat such rough things? He glanced at the rice in the bucket, turned around in disgust and said, "I am the general of Xia State, and I am here to do things on the order of the Prime Minister! I have a noble identity, let your general talk to me!"
The two soldiers glanced at Qingning Deguang, and without saying a word, they carried it to another person.
The personal soldiers held a big handful of rice from the bucket and whispered to Qing Ning Deguang: "Taiwei, the Song army may burn the grain. After eating this meal, I don't know when the food will come into my mouth next time, and I will eat more than one!"
Seeing that the food was piled up by Song Jun, Qingning De suddenly woke up and hurriedly shouted: "Come back, I want to eat it! I want to eat it!"
The two Song soldiers seemed to have not heard of it, carrying the food over one after another, and holding as much as they wanted, and would not persuade them if they didn't want to eat.
The Dangxiang people ate here, and the Song army also ate there. The meals were the same. The difference was that the Song army had tableware. In addition to the cooked rice, they also poured a large spoon of meat, and each person had two pieces of meat. There was no shortage of cattle and sheep in the military village, and everyone was satisfied with this meal.
After using the meal, Zhang Ke and Yao Shouxin divided their troops and led their men south toward Tumaochuan.
Yao Shouxin finished the army and said, "You all army will take turns to rest as planned. The rest of the people watched the Dangxiang people demolish the city! This village will be abandoned in the future, and must be demolished like white land! Any prisoners who do not obey the orders will be carried out by military law!"
Several generals agreed to arrange their soldiers, some of whom went to the houses and village halls next to them to rest, and the other part led the Dangxiang people to demolish the city. This is a military village. Except for a few merchants, all of them were soldiers and there were no ordinary people.
At this time, the rafts arranged outside the Nancheng had returned, and more than 200 people were captured, less than 100 people were killed, and about 100 people ran away. Only God knows how many of these escaped people could pass through the desert and return to Xingqing Mansion quickly.
Qingning Deguang heard that he wanted to work by himself and did not eat, so he jumped up and said, "I am a general of Xia State, and I have a noble status, who needs to do things!"
After hearing this, Song Junyi on the opposite side looked him up and down, kicked him up, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't go to demolish the city, kill him on the spot!"
As he said that, he pulled out his waist knife.
The personal soldiers hurriedly protected Qingning Deguang and said, "Grandpa calmed down, the Grandpa was just talking, he couldn't count, and he would do his job!"
The utility glanced at Qingning Deguang on the ground coldly, ignored him, and arranged for the group of Dangxiang people to demolish the Nanzhai Gate.
Wang Liang looked at Qingning Deguang's back and whispered to Yao Shouxin: "General, that person must be a big shot in Dangxiang, don't ask?"
Yao Shouxin shook his head: "In this battle, the Jingli made it clear that he should not kill and surrender, not take prisoners, and not ask for confessions. We just pursued the fugitive households, and the Dangxiang people blocked them, so they broke their village. After the war, the Dangxiang people went to fight with the Jingli Division and the court."
The Song army had few troops and asked to fight quickly and retreat quickly. If they led prisoners, they would slow down. Du Zhongxiao had such a personality and decided not to take prisoners, so he would not ask any one. He didn't ask any important figures. He treated them as ordinary soldiers. In fact, the Song army broke the village, but in fact, there was no communication with the Dangxiang people except for the battle process. When the two sides fought for a lawsuit in the future, they were completely unaware of it.
Not only do we not only do not take prisoners, but we also try not to bring war materials. In addition to armor and weapons to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Dangxiang, we must take them away, there are also some valuable items, including meat and fur, and the rest should not be left. Even the food was burned. The Yingtianxiang Army was not allowed to be seized on the battlefield and was all disposed of by the army, which is different from other Song troops.
Except for a small amount of corn, most of the military rations of Dangxiang were barley, green pockmarks, and the Song army used them as horse feed, but they were really worth taking away. Dangxiang's horses used to carry seized weapons, armor, carnivorous fur and horse feed, and it would be a burden to bring the rest.
Artillery popularized, unless the big city, such a defensive fortress has no value. Not only does it not play a defensive role, the soldiers and horses in the village cannot be deployed in time, but they are trapped in it. After this battle, the Song army will also adjust the fortress on the border of Dangxiang, abandoning the small and defending the big.
After this battle, the fort system implemented by the Song army over the years came to an end.
For a whole day, the largest military camp in the upper reaches of the Quye River was demolished. All the city walls and the building ground were demolished, rammed earth was smashed, and all the wood was burned, turning into white ground.
After resting here for a night, Yao Shouxin reorganized his army on the second day and the army set off the camp.
Watching the Song army brigade heading south, Qingning Deguang held up his two hands full of blood bubbles and shouted: "You are leaving by yourself, what should we do? We are unarmed, so you must not kill prisoners! Otherwise, the Prime Minister will definitely raise a large army!"
The guards Song army ignored him at all. Seeing someone piled with firewood and grass in the grain pile, the guards' effectiveness said: "Slaying and surrendering is forbidden! Since you have put down your swords and guns, you will be spared! After our army leaves, we will find our way. If we are caught next time, we will definitely be killed!"
After saying that, he ordered the soldiers to come forward and cut off a piece of each person's hair as a mark. Originally, there were some people with hair and hair tied up like Han people in Dangxiang. After Yuan Hao ascended the throne, he ordered the whole country to have hair, otherwise he would be killed. Now the hairstyles of Dangxiang people are unified, with hair in the middle, and they are covered with hair around, and after cutting one side, it is also conspicuous.
After the processing was completed, the fire was burning over there, and the fire was raging. The guards of the Song army gathered together and left.
Watching the Song army walk away, the Dangxiang people looked at each other, but they had never encountered such a thing before, and they didn't know what to do as soon as they entered.
The personal soldiers said to Qingning Deguang: "Taiwei, the Song army has gone far away, the camp leader Liu Sheng has been destroyed, I will obey your order!"
Qingning Deguang reacted immediately, went to a mound of soil, and whispered loudly: "I am the Grand Marshal Qingning Deguang, everyone obeyed my orders!"
Some of the Dangxiang people had indifferent expressions, some obediently and obediently, and there were all kinds of things.
Qingning Deguang cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "The Song people attacked my city for no reason and slaughtered our army. If this revenge is not avenged, it is not a human being! I will take people back to Xingqing Mansion, report to the Prime Minister, and raise a large army to compete with the Song people!"
A personal soldier whispered below: "Taiwei, put out the fire first and grab the food quickly! Food is important!"
"What I said is, say yes! Go to the river to get water quickly and put out the fire in the pile of grain! The Song people were stupid and didn't wait for the grain to burn before leaving-"
At this time, no one heard Qingning De Guangji noise and shouted that they all went to Dulunchuan outside the village to fetch water. However, all the equipment was burned by the Song army and could not break the ice for a while. They finally smashed it open, but there was nothing to hold water. Seeing the fire on the grain pile there getting bigger and bigger, I was anxious.
A small officer shouted: "It's too late to get water! Use sand and soil to put out the fire, and clean it up later!"
It made sense to hear this, the Dangxiang people ran back from the river and sprinkled the wasteland left by the demolition of the city on the pile of grain to extinguish the water. After half an hour, the fire gradually decreased. Seeing that the fire was getting smaller and there was still food below, the group of Dangxiang people breathed a sigh of relief.
Qingning Deguang was overjoyed when he saw his personal soldiers peeling off the ashes and half-cooked food was revealed below: "As long as there is still food, we will have a way out! Follow my orders, bring the food here, and get supplies to Xingqing Mansion!"
A personal soldier whispered: "Taiwei, there is a fortress downstream of Dulun River, so let's go closer there."
"Are you stupid? Are you stupid?" After hearing this, Qingning Deguang cursed. "Didn't see the Song army heading south? They must have been attacking those forts. We are not going to die! Get the food quickly and take it to Dijinze to the west! The leader there is familiar with me!"
No one dared to speak back, and they went to the extinguished fire to grab food. After robbing the grain, it is hard to say how much they would go with Qingning Deguang and how much they would go back to Xingqing Mansion.
Looking back at the fire gradually getting smaller, Tan Chen sighed: "The cannon owner is still kind-hearted, so we will lead our troops away without waiting for the food to burn it. If the fire is smaller, it must be the Dangxiang people who put out the fire and robbed the food. For the remaining food, most of them can survive."
The general on the other side said: "It is good to have a kind heart to the master of the cannon, but it is not easy for the Dangxiang people to survive on the surplus grain. Most of the grain is burned, and it is hard to say how much they can steal. If a grain of grain is not left and these people have no way to survive, it will be our trouble."
In the command hall of Dongshengzhou Jingliu Department, Han Qi and Shi Quanbin stood by the table in the middle hall, watching several officers change the signs on the map, and there were officers calculating the march route, mileage and time, and sighed: "I have been the commander on the side for many years, and this is the first time I have seen such a war. In the past, the most important thing in combat was to not leak military situations. Anyone with plans or military orders was to pay attention to secretly not showing anyone. Du Jingliu's battle here was calculated here, and there was no need to meditate on the strategy. Where to fight, how many soldiers to use, where to go, what terrain, how much time it took, all the calculations were clearly calculated on the map. All the matters were done by these specialists, and the generals only had to grasp the overall situation."
Shi Quanbin said: "What my husband said is. When I first arrived at the camp and the Tianwu Army, I felt very impatient when I saw them calculating like this. On the battlefield, it was important to fight for military merits with one sword and a gun. Who was patient with doing these paper articles? After a few battles, I realized the benefits of doing this. If everything is dead, the generals know what to do, and the soldiers know what to do when they fight. Once they go out of the battle, they will be like a sharp knife being sheathed, and the sword is bloody!"
Han Qi nodded with a smile. Shi Quanbin was originally a military supervisor. He killed Yelu Zong since Tang Long Town. He obeyed Du Zhongxiao and never caused any trouble. Not only that, he also took the initiative to help Du Zhongxiao explain to the emperor and the court to eliminate the doubts of the court. Without using his brain, he would have great military achievements after following Du Zhongxiao, and Shi Quanbin would wake up in his dreams.
What shocked Han Qi the most when attacking Dulun Village this time was the tactics and command of Yingtianxiang Army. The tactics were simple and direct, and each army had clear goals. The first requirement was to complete the task. If the task could not be completed, no matter how beautiful the battle was, it was regarded as a failure. No matter how expensive the task was to complete the task, it was also a victory.
If you encounter a policeman, you will be able to fight according to the head and the seizure, and there are no fighting methods you have known before. There are no various tricks and no military orders. It is just where you go, where you go, how to go on the road, how to fight when you arrive, and how to end after the battle.
The main basis for planning wars is geography, enemy situation and firepower. Leading soldiers and generals and different armies is a secondary consideration. Unlike Han Qi before, this army has strong combat power, this general is good at leading troops, and that general is good at defending the city, and most of his energy is spent on people. Here, Du Zhongxiao, strategy is strategy, tactics is tactics, and facing the enemy on the battlefield is facing the enemy, and all levels are responsible for matters at all levels.
Chapter completed!