stubborn thief

Chapter 126 Cannon Whistle
Even if the chief officer of the army was captured, the turmoil on the battlefield continued for a long time.

Liu Chengzong gathered four generals under his command, Wang Wenxiu, Yang Yao, Gao Xian and Feng Ru, and led them to run around to recruit officers and troops.

He knew very well that it would be difficult for others to recruit these soldiers following Li Bei.

It was even more difficult for him to recruit him to surrender, harder than ever before.

Wang Wenxiu said: "What's so difficult about this, all the losers are defeated, except for those who run away, the rest are captives, who are stuttered. Where are the soldiers, they don't get food, they eat more with us."

Liu Chengzong shook his head and told the four generals, regardless of whether they are willing to be prisoners or surrendered soldiers, they must be optimistic.

This group of people is different from those in Liu Guozhen.

The battle over there was really bullying the weak by the strong, and there were no fewer people in Liu Chengzong's headquarters than them. In addition to the three thousand soldiers of Tianhou, the officers and soldiers were undoubtedly weak.

And from the beginning to the end, the thirty centurions of Shangtian Monkey retreated again and again, but they never showed the appearance of breaking up.

Surrendering is also an art. If you are strong, others will be willing to follow you for a living.

Originally, it was not easy to be a thief and recruit the officers and soldiers, but they lost again.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and the king used thousands of people to get eight soldiers to chase him away for several miles.

Who can recruit these eight people?
Liu Chengzong couldn't even recruit them. Feng Ru's cavalry went over and killed one and captured four. The remaining three fled into the mountains and would not come out.

These three people must have realized that even just three people can do great things.

If you can do great things by yourself, who will follow you?
Even if we change places, whoever defeats Liu Chengzong like this and wants to recruit him, he will not be willing, and would rather beat you to death.

The result was indeed the case. Few of the officers and soldiers who were fighting on their own were willing to surrender. They either fled into the mountains on the east and west sides, or fought to the death.

In the end, counting those who were too weak to move and could not be captured, there were only more than [-] people.

In turn, the price they paid was too great.

In the military tent in Li Bei's camp, Liu Chengzong put down the letter in his hand and turned to look at the tent door.

Liu Chengzu came in with his head bowed, with a complex expression, both the relief of a heavy burden and the pain of heavy casualties. He looked around the tent, sat cross-legged and sighed.

Liu Chengzong asked: "Brother, how are you doing, how are the casualties?"

Liu Chengzu gritted his teeth and hammered the ground hard with his fist, his eyes were red, and he shook his head slightly: "The ones who were killed, the ones who were slightly or seriously injured, and those who escaped, totaled nearly two thousand."

"How much? Nearly two thousand?"

Liu Chengzong was also frightened by this number.

He and Liu Jiusi joined forces in the mountains to attack Liuguo Town.

Liu Jiusi's soldiers were weak enough. Thirty centurions, the more injured five were withdrawn, and the less injured two retreated. It was almost a touch and then retreated.

In this way, Liu Guozhen and more than a hundred officers and soldiers were killed with more than three hundred casualties, and the battle was won by three to one.

Liu Chengzong had roughly calculated the loss in his heart earlier. They dispatched six formations, three cavalry formations, and more than 6000 people in nine formations to fight this battle.

There are only more than 600 enemies, and [-] deaths are almost enough. Even if three people are exchanged for one, can't they lose [-] people?

After fighting such a battle, it is not surprising that Liu Chengzu's eyes were red.

Liu Chengzu sighed, and fell into deep self-blame: "If you hadn't made the final decision, we would have lost this battle."

The feeling Liu Chengzong found in his brother for the first time was powerlessness.

He could only comfort him, it wasn't the elder brother's fault that the war ended like this.

The eldest brother is the best cavalry captain, and he brought twenty brothers home, and these people obeyed him and let him do what he said.

Later, in order to help him, Shi Chang Gaoxian, the left and right arm, was divided over, and half of the subordinates.

His independence came in exchange for his brother's decline in control over his subordinates.

To control 500 people, at least [-] grassroots officers are needed.

Liu Chengzu's officers are less than [-]% of this number.

Not to mention controlling other teams.

Liu Chengzong sighed in his heart, his elder brother was still the officer in Yuhebao.

For officers, the greatest frustration and sense of powerlessness is not facing an invincible enemy, but the moment when soldiers under their command lose their organization.

"Brother, let's learn a lot of wisdom." Liu Chengzong searched around and handed out a sealed channel: "This may not be a bad thing."

Liu Chengzu sighed, and turned his attention to the letterhead, which was a letter sent from the Trilateral General Mansion in Guyuan, mentioning that Wu Weifan was attacking the Liu brothers over there in Qingyang Mansion.

There are two brothers over there who are also surnamed Liu, named Liu Daojiang and Liu Daohai.

But this name is really not a good omen. Zhao Nai, who joined forces with Liu Liu and Liu Qi, was later skinned by Emperor Zhengde to make a saddle.

If these two brothers can't stop Wu Weifan, they still have seven or eight days.

While the Liu family brothers were discussing countermeasures, Cao Yao came.

This old thief is a man who is used to life and death. He wiped his hands on his clothes and entered the tent of the Chinese army. Carpenter Ying is rushing here with medicine."

Li Bei's Chinese army tent is full of novelty to him, he looks relaxed and happy when he sees it.

After waiting for a while, no one paid any attention to him, then sat down beside Liu Chengzong, rubbed his hands and laughed, and said, "Lion, General Liu, none of the seven infantry battalions, three cavalry battalions... can play cannons. "

As Cao Yao said, he leaned back tactically and touched Liu Chengzong with his elbow: "Give it to me?"

This mentality is probably Liu Chengzong's greatest source of happiness. He smiled and said, "How many guns are there?"

"Hey, I have to settle this with you."

Cao Yao clapped his hands together, sat upright, cleared his throat, and said, "Four hundred catties of Francois machine guns, the elite artillery of the army, all of them carry water, and they won't hurt you at all if you fight several battles in succession. gun."

"And there are three big general guns, not the old ones from before, but the new big general guns made by Ye Junmen. They all weigh a thousand catties and are made of clean iron. They are all made of cast iron. The quality is comparable to other cast iron, The copper cannon is too strong."

Hearing Cao Yao's description, Liu Chengzong couldn't help wondering, forging cannon?

It is also said that the quality is better than cast iron cannons, which is normal, but better than copper cannons. Are there three steel cannons co-authored?
Cao Yao said with joy, and stretched out his hand to gesture: "That's it, Ye Gongshen's cannon carriage, that is the small Ye Gong cannon, this one is large, very good, and there are thirty small cannons. Give me all these cannons, and your battalion cannon posts will expand on the spot."

In the past two days, Cao Yao was extremely aggrieved by Li Beipao's beating, and this meeting can be regarded as elated: "There are ten cannons and 45 small cannons. If the Qingyang soldiers dare to come over, they will directly fire the cannons to defeat him!"

Liu Chengzong laughed when he heard this, and said: "You still want to have such a good opportunity, where can you find another good opportunity like this battle?"

This battle is really a good opportunity.

Liu Guozhen was discovered by them as an opportunity for partial divisions to enter the mountains. In fact, it was most beneficial to them on the flank battlefield where there was no heavy firepower.

That's the biggest chance of winning.

Liu Chengzong actually had some arrangements for these cannons in his heart, and said to Cao Yao: "All the big cannons will be allocated to you, but the small cannons will not work. I plan to distribute the small cannons to each sentry. Look at Li Bei's soldiers. After the formation, there will be the main artillery , but there are small artillery guards on all sides, if it is not surrounded, it would be difficult for the cavalry to rush in."

As for Li Bei's formation being broken by Zhang Tianlin, he could see clearly from behind the formation that Zhang Tianlin was using a very standard cavalry formation.

When horsemen charge into battle, it depends on whether they can be impulsive, and the victory or defeat lies in the last twenty steps.

During those twenty steps, the cavalry felt the strongest pressure on the infantry. If the formation moved, the cavalry could drive straight in. If the formation did not move, they would have to do it again.

On the contrary, Gao Yingxiang's style of playing with the cavalry directly into the field is a minority.

But it works too.

The only thing is that the two teams shouldn't rush into the enemy's formation at the same time. They collide with each other in the enemy's formation, and neither of them can get out.

Liu Chengzu said: "I think the biggest disadvantage of this battle is that there is no center, and it is difficult for the various ministries to coordinate. Even if they all risk their lives, it is difficult to win."

Liu Chengzong and Cao Yao deeply agreed, but then they looked at each other, and there was no other way.

The point where they gained the most points in this battle was that Liu Chengzong cleaned up Liu Guozhen on the outside, and the point where they lost the most points was that they did not have a unified command.

As long as there is an order flag on Jiapao Mountain, let Zhang Tianlin break the formation, Zhang Tianlin will break the formation on the left wing, keep Gao Yingxiang still, and Gao Yingxiang will stay still on the right wing.

When Zhang Tianlin kills through from the right wing, and Gao Yingxiang covers up the kill from the left wing, it will be a brilliant victory, nothing will happen afterwards.

Cao Yao sighed: "There is no one who can unify the command!"

This old thief knows best that it is not easy for the officers and soldiers to unify command, let alone the bandit soldiers who are working together.

It's easy to say, there is someone in the middle of the command, as long as you can convince the crowd.

"When it's time for people to fight to the death, will King Gao Chuang let Chengzu Wanqing fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, or will the lion let Zhong Dou Xing push the front line to the faces of the officers and soldiers to eat?"

After Cao Yao finished speaking, he crossed his legs and said, "It might as well be like this."

What's more, if you retreat ten thousand steps, Gao Yingxiang and Liu Chengzong will both lead the headquarters.

Without these two of them, the fighting power of the anti-king joint camp was directly reduced to the level of a centurion of the official army.

"Joint venture."

Liu Chengzong pondered for a long time, said these two words, and said to Cao Yao: "I plan to join forces with Shangtian Monkey, let him be the deputy general, appoint the middle sentinel at will, fill in all his subordinates as auxiliary soldiers, and expand the number to 4000. Full battalion."

Cao Yao didn't experience the battle to annihilate the town of Liuguo, so his impression of Shangtian Monkey was still dirty, and his impression of his troops was still in the past.

He took off his helmet and scratched his head, and said in surprise: "Shangtian Monkey is a good guy, but his subordinate... Lion, you should think about it again. I think Luo Cao Cao, Guo Tianxing, and Shooting the Sky, which one is not as good as the captain of the post?" He, let alone the best candidate is your brother!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand towards Liu Chengzu, stared at his scarred eyelids and said to Liu Chengzong: "If you want elite soldiers, the Liu Guan team will be reorganized. One hundred soldiers can be assembled. If you want to be full, you will directly have 500 mid-posts." "Shangtian Monkey's gang of beggars, if you pull them in, they will just dig their graves in another place."

Liu Chengzu didn't say anything, Cao Yao curled his lips and said: "Our brothers all want to live well, no one cares whether there is a leader who digs the grave after death, why make him a deputy grave digger?"

Seeing that Liu Chengzong was unmoved, he said in a low voice: "What's more, 9000 people have been assembled for this battle. Let them go after the battle. Can they afford it?"

This is the worst thing.

This army was stationed in the Yanhe Valley, fought for three days, and ate the food and grass of the past month.

Whether the Heavenly Monkey is willing to cooperate is one thing. Even if he is willing, Liu Chengzong can't afford the food and grass for this army to survive the winter.

"Brother Cao, you didn't take part in the battle in the mountains to the west. The monkeys in the sky don't have enough equipment and skills, but they are obedient."

Liu Chengzong looked at Cao Yao and nodded heavily: "It suits me very well."

"As for my brother, my idea is to shoot Tatian, Cao Cao, Chuangtatian, Guotianxing, and Monk Wang, and also join forces. My elder brother and my father have experience in leading the region, so I will move around."

After that, he turned his head and said to the two: "It's a bit early to say these things, and I haven't made up my mind yet. In short, I will clean up Wu Weifan first, and then I will think about what to do this winter."

"Speaking of what to do." Cao Yao said with a smile: "What about Li Bei, if he doesn't get money, it's useless to say anything, what are you going to do with him?"

Liu Chengzong also had a look of embarrassment on his face, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, I can't think clearly about this matter."

It's funny to say, at that time with Lu Cheng, what Liu Chengzong regretted the most was that Lu Cheng was stabbed to death by a wooden chip.

It is precisely because of this regret that he has countless beautiful fantasies in his heart, fantasizing that if Lu Cheng is not dead, if he is tied up by his side, maybe he will be able to influence this person and use him for himself.

That's a very traditional officer, not a small squad leader or squad leader like them.

That's the general.

At first, the battalion that the old man occupied the magpie's nest belonged to the normal team, wasn't it specially prepared for recruiting officers to surrender.

But now that Li Bei is really captured, it makes Liu Chengzong very difficult to deal with.

Keep it, he himself couldn't find a reason for Li Bei to surrender, so it's impossible for him to use it.

It's impossible to let him go. General Li will make a comeback next month after he is released, and he will be all-out to deal with him.

Killing is even more inappropriate. Li Bei can't beat him today. In the end, he has no other way to capture him without his hands.

Keep it, it's a little uncomfortable to keep it.

Put it on the troop's shoulders, this is a general of the imperial court, and he may instigate rebellion against his troop at any time.

A simple sentence: let me go, help me out, and recommend you as an officer.

This person is gone, maybe he will be beheaded if he instigates a few more rebellions.

Seeing his embarrassment, Liu Chengzu said: "Let him go to Tianmao, let Mr. Yang talk with him, and pick a few good hands from the tribe to watch him, better than others."

In fact, it's better. Blood relatives are more reliable than others, but without common interests, they are more destructive.

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and knocked on the table a few times, suddenly thought of someone, and asked his elder brother, "Brother, where is Ren Quan'er?"

(End of this chapter)