The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 341

Chapter 69: Hunting Era

The beastmen are really strong, and their per capita individual combat power is comparable to that of an adult tiger. It is not an exaggeration to say that the per capita martial strength is comparable to that of an adult tiger.

If such individual soldiers' qualities could form a strict battle formation, it would be worse than being trapped in a camp, and more Spartan than Sparta.

But beastmen have a huge flaw, that is, they are not good at cooperation, and their teamwork skills are even worse than real beasts.

This was extremely obvious when fighting with humans from the Great Song Dynasty.

To be honest, a standard Yuanyang Formation combat team can barely fight against a strong beastman without making mistakes. However, Ergou's training time with the rebels is not long, and the formation tactics of the Yuanyang Formation are not good. If you are skilled, how can you not make mistakes in battle?

That is to say, most of these soldiers themselves are old soldiers and have relatively rich combat experience. Even if something goes wrong, they will not lose their position.

On the contrary, those beastmen who were lucky enough to kill humans never wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to expand their victory, but were obsessed with devouring and plundering the corpses.

When other beastmen see their companions' "harvest", they will immediately be stimulated into a frenzy. Unfortunately, this kind of rage is not directed at the humans who are opponents, but at those of the same kind who are "happy with the harvest".

Ergou and the others discovered more than once that in the battle with the beastmen, as long as a dead person appeared on their side, the beasts would immediately fall into incomprehensible madness.

Even if the nearby humans only need to move their hands to kill and harvest the trophies, they will immediately turn around and attack the "harvesters" among the beastmen.

That's right! Beastmen are so pissy! Chaos, brutality, and absolutely irrational.

Of course, beastmen are not without fear. They will succumb to more powerful and cruel violence, but this kind of surrender is like the memory of a goldfish, short and fragile.

It can be said without mercy that beastmen may be powerful predators, but they are by no means qualified soldiers.

The shortcomings exposed by the beastmen are equivalent to Buffett discovering the password to wealth for the people of the Song Dynasty who like to use their brains to fight. It is simply the password to victory.

Almost any Han Chinese can think of the best way to deal with these beastmen.

First send a warrior who is not afraid of death to kill the beastmen, triggering internal strife among them, and then send out the army to harvest the whole place, it is as smooth as Dove.

However, although sending dead soldiers to death is not a big deal for an army, if this kind of thing is made a routine, it will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the morale and morale of the army.

Therefore, everyone in the army used their brains to find some alternative methods, such as using the bodies of dead people, living livestock, wild beasts, etc. People soon discovered that corpses that had been dead for a period of time did not trigger the madness of beastmen. Only those who were killed on the spot had such an effect.

As for the living livestock or wild beasts, if they are male, their fate will be without exception, they will be killed by the beastmen on the spot and then eaten as food.

But if the livestock and beasts that fall into the hands of the beastmen are female, the result will be more eye-catching.

The beastmen will force the miserable animals to perform some unspeakable activities, and then if the beastmen are not too hungry, they will drive away the traumatized animal.

But if the beastmen feel hungry after such activities, they will kill the poor animals and then eat them.

Surprisingly, the corpses of dead beastmen are equally attractive to living beastmen, almost second only to humans killed by beastmen on the spot.

But no matter what, the human army is becoming more and more skilled and easy in hunting beastmen.

Set up a trap, set up an ambush, lure, then surprise and kill, and finish.

Just like the hunters of the Song Dynasty who surrounded and killed big insects, it was dangerous and exciting.

In the past two months, ten leaders (Er Gou had taken Gu Zhengxi's place) led their respective teams and took turns attacking every day, with a total of more than ninety attacks (two teams of troops were dispatched every day, which is equivalent to Twice), killed nearly a thousand beastmen, cleared more than 50 beastman villages, and expanded a relatively safe zone of nearly 500 miles.

The so-called relatively safe zone means that there are basically no beastmen in a certain area, and ordinary humans can move around without restrictions in the area.

Such as hunting, reclamation, gathering, etc.

After roughly understanding the habits of the beastmen, and with the advice of veteran general Wang Hou, Ergou persuaded the army to change their marching strategy.

Build walls high, store grain widely, and quietly expand hunting grounds.

"Build walls high and store grain widely" is easy to understand. It means building a safe camp or even a castle with sufficient defense capabilities, and then people will open up wasteland and cultivate land around the castle to accumulate food supplies.

The so-called expansion of hunting grounds refers to the clearing and killing of a series of strange beings and beasts that threaten humans, such as beastmen, to open up more relatively safe areas for people.

Of course, if you want to complete this series of big plans, the tens of thousands of rebels alone, plus the talents and civilians collected, will add up to less than 100,000 people. This manpower is far from enough.

They need more manpower and materials, and all of this naturally needs to be obtained from the realm of the Song Dynasty.

In this way, the veteran general Wang Hou became a very important helper.

He returned to Xihe Road in the northwest and continued his official position as Xihe Road's strategy and pacification envoy.

Wang Huan became the commander-in-chief of the rebel camp in Qishan. He relied on his father's reputation in the military circles of the Song Dynasty, especially among the border troops in the northwest, and made secret transactions with the military leaders without any scruples.

Since ancient times, it has been a very common phenomenon for generals in the army to drink the blood of their soldiers, and the Song Dynasty was no exception. It can even be said that in the entire Song Dynasty, the only one who dared to say that he did not drink the blood of his soldiers was Yue Wumu. The Yue Family Army.

Since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, most civil servants in the imperial court were wary of the armies in the northwest, resulting in the corresponding military supplies always being blocked. This made the phenomenon of drinking soldiers' blood and eating empty pay gradually become more serious in the army.

Of course, since the Northwest Frontier Army has been on the front line facing the Xixia invasion, the test of the war has made the generals here dare not reduce the strength of their troops too much, which also makes their corruption behavior always have a certain bottom line.

But this does not mean that the generals do not want to make more money, but they just do not dare.

Master Lu once said that in the face of piles of gold, even the most disciplined people will turn into unscrupulous beasts.

Therefore, when Wang Huan presented the gold collected from the Shenyang Realm and expressed his favor, countless materials that were absolutely taboo in the eyes of the Song Dynasty court officials were sent to the Qishan camp of the rebel army without any hindrance. Then he was transported into the Shenyang Realm.

Swords, guns, crossbows, armor, horses, green salt, and even groups of soldiers and civilians, and even party prisoners captured by the Song army, all became capital for the Song generals to exchange for gold. The most interesting thing is that because the soldiers and horses of the ninth battalion of the Zhao'an Rebel Army were very strangely disobedient and ran to the "desperate" place in Qishan, some courtiers who were very dissatisfied with the existence of the rebel army immediately mobilized their forces to punish the rebel army's behavior. He slandered and remonstrated with many officials and sent troops to suppress it.

Zhao Ji was not a hard-tempered person, and it happened that the Tibetan general Zhao Huaide rebelled. When the courtiers complained about it, they angrily ordered Qin Feng Road and the surrounding Zhoufu Road to jointly destroy Wang Huan's troops.

Naturally, several troops from the northwest came with orders, including the imperial army commanded by brothers Cao Ping and Cao You, who also came to join in the fun.

They surrounded the Qishan camp of the rebel army, and initially blocked Wang Huan's way to purchase supplies. After all, the army was surrounding the mountain, and who could bring the supplies in?
But Wang Huan soon discovered that just because a large army surrounded the mountain did not mean that gold could not be exchanged for supplies.

At first, a Song Army scout approached the rebel camp and was captured by the rebels.

Originally this was no big deal, but one of the people who wanted to be caught was the son of a military commander, a boy named Lu.

The general named Lu was panicked, but he disguised himself and entered the Deyi army camp, hoping to get his son back.

Wang Huan did not make things difficult for the other party. After all, General Lu was a strong general in the army and had served as an errand under Wang Hou. In order to appease General Lu, Wang Huan even gave him some gold as compensation.

In order to repay Wang Huan's kindness, General Lu immediately arranged for a batch of supplies to be sent to Wang Huan after taking his son back to the camp.

Of course, in order to deceive others, General Lu and Wang Huan made a show, pretending that the supplies had been intercepted by the rebels.

Once something like this got started, it was impossible to stop it. At first, it was General Lu's army, and later it expanded to other armies.

However, they launched attacks on the rebel camp from time to time, and often even managed to break into the camp, only to be beaten by the rebels and fled back in embarrassment.

As for losing some weapons, equipment or supplies during the battle, isn't that a very common thing? Who can tell what is wrong?

And the only ones excluded from this inside story are the Forbidden Army.

However, the clever Cao Ping soon discovered some intrigues between other armies and the rebels, and learned that Wang Huan had a lot of gold in his hands.

Then he mobilized the Forbidden Army and launched a nearly devastating assault on the Qishan Camp of the Rebel Army.

Unfortunately, the result of this raid was not as smooth as Cao Ping expected. Before they actually took action, someone had already sent relevant information to the Qishan camp of the rebel army.

Then, Cao Ping led the imperial army into the rebel trap and was forced to become a fish in the net.

At least close to a thousand Forbidden Army generals were besieged and had to surrender to the rebels. Only Cao Ping rushed through and broke out of the encirclement.

Cao Ping didn't dare not run away because he had already smelled the scent of Ergou.

The surrendering Imperial Army was led by a Tiha officer surnamed Lin. It was Lin Tiha who had some scruples and was persuaded by others, so he ordered the Imperial Army sergeants to surrender.

In fact, if the Forbidden Army's fighting will is firm enough, they will have a high chance of charging out while preserving most of their manpower.

However, sergeants in other armies have set an example many times before. Surrendering is not a big deal. It is even possible to eat a meal of mutton in the rebel Qishan camp and then be released back unscathed.

It's a pity that Lin Tiha doesn't know that sometimes the results of what others can do may be very bad.

For example, after he and the Forbidden Army soldiers surrendered, they were not released as scheduled. Instead, they were escorted to an unknown place to work as coolies.

This made Lin Tiha feel very hurt. He had a wife and son in his hometown. How could he go home to see his wife and children after working as a coolie like this? !

Of course, Ergou and others were extremely happy about the arrival of nearly a thousand Forbidden Army laborers.

They are all strong men with good physical strength, and they can do the best work.

In particular, Lin Tiha, the commander of the Forbidden Army, was really good at martial arts. He might not be as good as top players like Wang Huan, Zhang Kai, and Jia Gan, but he was no worse than Wang Wende, Xiang Yuanzhen, Mei Zhan, and others.

With such a good hand, Ergou didn't want him to waste his skills as a coolie building a city.

Therefore, Lin Tiha only worked as a Chengdan coolie for three days, experiencing the hardships of the coolies, and then was taken away by Ergou to become a hunter.

When these two dogs are hunted by these hunters, they are not natural beasts, but real beastmen.

Lin Tiha was assigned a fine war horse, a pair of leather armor made of unknown leather, and a fighting spear. Then he followed Ergou's hunting team for a day's trek before arriving at a camp. .

After resting for a night in the camp, they arrived at a beastman town the next day.

What's interesting is that the residents of this town are not just beastmen, but also some creatures of their own race, such as goat-headed monsters, centaurs with armor to cover their shame, weird upright walking lizards, huge Humanoid monsters - ogres and so on.

As for the bait to lure the beastmen to the bait, Ergou did not choose to sacrifice anyone, but took out the corpses of the dead beastmen as a bait.

Although the body odor of dead beastmen is a bit strong, the temptation for living beastmen is really strong.

Soon, several beastmen sneaked out of the town and came to the trap setting area.

The next process can be described as lackluster. The elite cavalry first launched a charge-like surprise attack on the chaotic beastmen, and then the "life terminators" holding single-molecule tactical knives disemboweled the demons one by one and sent them free to re-enter. Reincarnation as a human being, of course, the premise is that they can still have a next life.

In this hunting-style battle, Ergou barely made any moves, and the hunting was over.

Of course, this does not mean that Ergou plays a small role. On the contrary, he is the spiritual support for everyone to dare to face the beastmen.

Even when a certain sergeant had a problem and was about to die, Ergou quietly shot an arrow to save him from danger.

　This is Chapter 69. The original Chapter 69 has been temporarily blocked. It will be replaced with the content of Chapter 70 and will be released tomorrow morning.

　　
　
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