The rise of the prince

Chapter 801 Difficulty Night
Li Xingzhou made great contributions to the whole camp on the spot.

The military merits of the new army are different from those of the past.

In the past, the military merits were calculated according to the head of the enemy. Not only would soldiers grab the enemy's head on the battlefield and delay the fighter's opportunity, but each capital (100 people) had to arrange several warlords to be responsible for recording the merits, which was very inconvenient. At that time, the Mongols' method of cutting off ears to count their work was actually advanced, which was convenient and light.

This method of recording military exploits was not improved until the Ming Dynasty, especially in the army of Qi Jiguang, a generation of military masters. He began to let soldiers emphasize collective merit rather than individual beheading of a few heads. The meritorious service of the team and the first battalion, as long as they make meritorious service, all will be rewarded.

Therefore, the Qi family army has strict discipline, pursues collective interests and military exploits more, and is more cohesive, which also creates their strong combat effectiveness.

The new army's military merit system also abandons the calculation method based on the first-level captured, and emphasizes cooperation and collective credit. Of course, there are individual rewards, but unless they are very prominent.

Watching the sunset in the distance, the long dragon stretching to the north was full of beacon fires, and the smoke and dust and ruins left by the shelling were everywhere. This long dragon that spanned the ages was seriously injured by his men.

"When the sun rises tomorrow, everything will come to an end." Li Xingzhou muttered to himself, and after a while, the soldiers came to report, and Liu Ji, who led the chase, also came back. His two regiments had a great harvest, which can be called a great victory.

In addition to the garrison of Ninghai Fort, they took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Golden Army South Camp five or six miles behind Ninghai Fort. The troops stationed inside were the troops deployed by the Jin Army on the southern front of Shanhaiguan. There were more than 1 people, but the battle lasted only one month. The whole line collapsed in a few hours, and the casualties were even much less than theirs.

This was expected. The reason for the large number of casualties in the north was that the city was narrow and the new army could not deploy, resulting in a lot of wasted firepower, and the firepower advantage could not be brought into play.

However, Liu Ji's side did not have these problems. Once the new army expanded into skirmishers, the powerful firepower was definitely not something that the army of this era could resist.

In the end, Liu Ji defeated the southern camp of the Jin Army, killing more than 3000 enemies and capturing more than 5000. The exact data is still being counted, but there is no doubt that it is definitely a great victory that can affect the situation of the battle.

The most important thing is that after the southern camp is pulled out, their troops can encircle the north without any scruples!
Li Xingzhou excitedly credited Liu Ji and the two regiments he brought with him. The next step is to rectify the troops, attack northward, return to the division with Wei Yubai's troops, and encircle the main city of Shanhaiguan!
The Shanhaiguan battlefield, which had been stalemate for many days, suddenly turned around after a day of fierce fighting!

While Li Xingzhou ordered people to send the news of victory to the capital urgently within eight hundred miles, he reorganized the army and marched north without taking care of rest.

The sky gradually dimmed, and the darkness gradually deepened, casting shadows all over the sky on everyone's mind.

A suffocating terror permeates Shanhaiguan.
Yelu was disorganized, his eyes were bloodshot, there was no sound outside the city except for Night Breeze, and the Jing Kingdom's tens of thousands of troops were terribly silent, as if they didn't exist. All confrontation, temptation, and siege stopped.

Yelutu didn't know what they were doing, they were waiting, just like wild wolves that were dormant before hunting, they were waiting for the dawn, and only at dawn could their cannons and guns exert their greatest power.

The battle report from the south has already come. Fort Ninghai fell, the elite reinforcements he sent were defeated, and the southern camp was broken up.
He didn't have much time left, he didn't go to the south to see, so he didn't know how the Jingguo people flew over the four or five feet high city wall, but he knew that the south was completely occupied, and it was only less than ten miles to the north from there However, even if Jing Jun wants to rest and regroup, it will only be a matter of tonight.

He only has one night!

"It's over, it's over." Yelv Tuohu muttered to himself, and the soldiers around him also understood the current situation and were all downcast.

"Their coach has been making a lot of noise from the very beginning. He is not outside the city at all, he has been in the south." He shook his head, his face full of frustration. He never expected that the people of Jingguo would fight like this, and he never expected that they could easily break through the city , entered from the south.

"My lord, let's escape! Flee north overnight!" The adjutant suggested: "There is Ningyuan and Jinzhou behind us, and we still have many cities."

Yelu turned his head away, and everyone looked at him eagerly.

These people are all his personal soldiers, they are Khitan people, they are brothers who were born and died together.

Yelv Tuo shook his head sadly: "There is no hope, you don't understand, I am a foreign general and a Khitan. If I am a Jurchen rich man like the coward (Wulin Huang) who ran away before, then I can flee north. But I am not.

The guilt of losing Shanhaiguan is too great, they will not let me go, and going north is a dead end. "

everyone fell silent
Yeluhu patted the adjutant on the shoulder, "Take most of the troops and flee north. Bring the rest of the soldiers. They are in urgent need of manpower to fight against Jingguo. You will definitely be spared." He looked around at the soldiers around him, " You go together, so you can save your life."

"If the general doesn't leave, we won't leave either!" The soldiers all glared angrily, "If we are going to die, we will die with the general!"

Yelutuo shook his head: "No, there is no need for that. You and I have fought so many battles for half our lives. It is not easy to live. Don't say anything so easily that you will die!"

The surrounding soldiers remained unmoved: "Khitan men are never afraid of death!"

"Sooner or later, you will die. It is better to die with the general than to be a golden man's dog and wag your tail to survive."

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Seeing the resoluteness of the crowd, Yelutuo was speechless, and the adjutant also firmly stated that he would not leave. He grabbed the adjutant's shoulder and said earnestly, "You can't leave the brothers here to die. You understand that once the people from Jingguo enter the city , we can't stop the muskets and cannons, take them away! Their lives depend on you!"

The adjutant burst into tears and nodded silently.

Yelutuhu summoned the defenders in the city overnight, not only in the south, but also in the frontal battlefield for so many days, they also suffered heavy casualties, not only because of the tentative siege of the Jing army, but also because the Jing army would occasionally fire into the city at night, causing They have no peace, and many people died unexpectedly.

The most terrible thing is that some traitors fell down the city wall with a rope at night and revealed to Jing Jun the location of the camp in the city. Jing Jun's cannons were more accurate, and more people died.

Death in battle, fleeing, too many wounded waiting to die, plus the huge loss of the battle in the south during the daytime battle, the hearts of the people in the city are now scattered, and there are not many troops that can be gathered in time, and he can't see how many people there are at night, and he has no time to count them , I always feel that there may be fewer than ten thousand people.

Yelutu told everyone his plan in a loud voice, and asked them to follow his adjutant to go north overnight and flee to Ningyuan.

In the middle of the night, everything was well arranged. To Yelutu's surprise, besides his own soldiers, many soldiers stayed behind, some were Khitans, some were Jurchens. He died together.

At this moment, Yelu Tuohu, a veteran of many battles, finally couldn't help crying bitterly. This was the first time he cried like this since he was sensible. He felt sorry for his subordinates, sorry for the brothers who worked for him. Better yet, maybe they don't have to die.
(End of this chapter)