Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 122 Zhang Yu was frightened
  The Jin army's infantry circle was currently being attacked by Zhang Yu's middle army and right wing. Yang An roared at the top of his lungs:

"Hold it! Hold it all! The Lord is behind you! He is watching you!"

Huan Xi has always attached great importance to the treatment of soldiers. Not only does he provide military pay and spring and winter clothing, but there is always a meat meal in the daily meals. Even the most fertile land is selected and distributed to their families.

If someone dies in battle, their parents will be supported by the government, and their orphans will also have a future. As for whether the future is promising, it depends on their own efforts.

Huan Xi tried his best to eliminate the soldiers' worries on the battlefield and make them dare to fight.

Of course, simply showing kindness is not enough to win over people's hearts. Huan Xi led them to conquer the north and south, winning one victory after another. While the soldiers reaped rewards, they also developed a strong sense of collective honor.

They were the troops that Huan Xi relied on to start his career. As Yang An said, the general was right behind him, so how could he show cowardice on the battlefield and lose to this rabble on the opposite side.

Yes, although the soldiers who followed Zhang Yu out of the city are also known as elites, there is also a gap between the elites.

When the Jin army was inspired by Huan Xi's supervision of the battle in the formation, they all fought bravely, but instead they drove back the besieging Zhang Yu soldiers.

Zhang Yu was extremely anxious at this time. If he could not defeat Huan Xi's infantry formation, when the Jin army's cavalry eliminated his left wing and turned around to fight, he would be attacked from both sides.

What are you afraid of? What's coming? Just when Zhang Yu was extremely anxious, the deafening sound of horse hooves sounded behind him.

When Zhang Yu and his soldiers came back to look, they saw that the Jin cavalry that was supposed to be entangled with his left wing had come back, but his left wing had collapsed.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The Jin army's spearmen and cavalry roared loudly, and they rode forward with impatience.

And the Xiongnu archers were worthy of their reputation of being good at fighting with the wind. They had already put on their bows and started shooting on horseback in the outer circle. Screams came one after another. In an instant, hundreds of people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.

Faced with attacks from both front and rear, Zhang Yu's soldiers were completely in disarray. They were at a loss as to whether they should continue to attack the Jin's infantry or turn around to meet the impact of the Jin's lances and resist the attack of the bows and cavalry.

At this moment, Zhang Yu was also panicking.

We are not afraid of making the wrong choice, but we are afraid of not being able to make a choice. The situation changes in a flash, and there is no time for people to think twice.

Just when Zhang Yu was hesitant, Deng Xia had already led the cavalry and rushed forward. Zhang Yu's soldiers didn't even have time to turn around and form a formation before Deng Xia rushed into the formation.

Lieutenant General Zhang Yu's army was attacked from both sides and saw the defeat of his left wing, and his morale was at the bottom. However, the Jin army's infantry became more and more courageous as they fought. Under Huan Xi's order, they switched from defense to offense and cooperated with the cavalry in combat.

For a time, Zhang Yu was defeated like a mountain. No matter how much he shouted, he could not change the idea of ​​his soldiers to escape back to Luoyang.

When Zhang saw the situation, he had no choice but to abandon the infantry and flee under the cover of cavalry.

As soon as the general fled, the few soldiers who were still fighting were completely discouraged. The Jin army took advantage of the victory to cover up the attack, and a one-sided massacre was staged in the west of Luoyang City.

Although Zhang Yu's soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the battlefield was only two miles away from Luoyang City. After all, Huan Xi was worried that the battlefield would be set too far and Zhang Yu would not dare to continue the pursuit.

The defeated soldiers ran wildly, throwing away their helmets and armor along the way. However, the pursuing Jin soldiers could not throw away their armor and weapons, and could only rely on the cavalry to cover them up.

But the endurance of horses is not as good as that of humans. After carrying knights and their armor and weapons, charging back and forth without stopping on the battlefield, they are already at the end of their strength, and it is impossible to really defeat Zhang Yu and his 20,000 cavalry. Stay on the battlefield.

After a pursuit, more than 10,000 people followed Zhang Yu and fled back to Luoyang. The rest died, surrendered, or fled in other directions.

Huan Xi left the infantry to guard the prisoners, and led the cavalry to the outside of Luoyang City again. The big pot that had been set up before had been overturned, and the corn had been dumped on the ground. It was unknown who had done it.

The gates of Luoyang City fell, and the Jin and Hungarian cavalry shouted long live on the mountains outside the city to celebrate the victory.

The defenders on the city wall looked pale, and the more than 10,000 soldiers who finally escaped back were even more frightened and uneasy, fearing that the Jin army would attack the city.

After experiencing a major defeat, the morale of the Luoyang army was shaken. If Huan Xi really led his troops to attack the city, they might be able to regain the old capital after paying a certain amount of casualties.

But it was too late, Fu Jian was heading south quickly.

Huan Xi came to the city and shouted:

"Go to your father alone, and you don't need to send him off when you meet your son."

After that, he led the cavalry to leave Luoyang and march towards the west.

Zhang Yu watched the Jin army retreat arrogantly, feeling trembling and cold.

Just as he was patting the railing angrily, the counselor Yang Ai, who had previously been dissuading him from sending troops to pursue, changed his previous attitude and encouraged Zhang Yu:

"Lord! The Jin army has a new victory. The soldiers are arrogant. Now they are eager to return to the west. They must be unprepared. If the lord leads another army and goes out of the city to pursue, they will definitely win a great victory. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Xiu followed Jia Xu's plan and did this. We can defeat Wei Wu's rear army."

However, Zhang Yu, who seemed to be very resentful towards Huan Xi, was no longer willing to leave the city to fight again.

Although this battle was lost, the world would also see his courage to pursue, and for Zhang Yu, he was already satisfied. If you leave the city to fight again, you may not have such good luck in escaping back.

"The morale of the army is low and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. It is not appropriate to pursue them any further."

Zhang Yu shook his head and said, although he didn't say it, he was really afraid of Huan Xi in his heart.

There are no empty warriors under the great reputation. Huan Xi fought for several years and won such a huge foundation. Neither he nor the elite soldiers under his command were in vain.

After all, if Huanxi's infantry is inferior, he might be able to change Zhang Yu's family. Just like the Battle of Mangshan in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, the left army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was defeated by the right army of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the left army of the Western Wei Dynasty was also defeated by the Eastern Wei Dynasty. The right army defeated it.

If this situation really happens, the outcome is really unpredictable.

It cannot be said that Zhang Yu's decision to turn around and engage in the battle during the retreat was wrong. It can only be said that the elite troops provided by Huan Xi from the land of three states are better than those provided by Zhang Yu from the land of Xu and Luo. powerful.

In fact, not only Zhang Yu, but also the soldiers who were lucky enough to escape were already discouraged and unwilling to fight again.

Everyone secretly felt happy when they heard Zhang Yu rejected Yang Ai's proposal.

While Yang Ai was still regretting that his suggestion had not been adopted, he did not know that Huan Xi had not left too far and set up an ambush on the west side.

It's not like Yang Ai is the only one who knows the story of the late Han Dynasty. Huan Xi knows much better than him, so why wouldn't he come back in case Zhang Yu is defeated?

Huan Xi waited for a long time and saw that Zhang Yu never left the city, so he ordered his troops to retreat.

He led the cavalry to catch up with the infantry. Yang An and Shi Yue had already cleaned up the battlefield. They sent people to loot the enemy prisoners and corpses for their belongings, which would be classified as spoils of war.

The remains of the Jin and Hungarian soldiers will also be taken away.

No one will covet their relics. After all, this is considered a taboo in the military.

In this battle, Deng Xia and Zhou Chu quickly defeated the opponent's left wing and returned to the rescue in time. The Jin army did not suffer many casualties, with only 600 dead and only more than a thousand injured. When they returned to Guanzhong, they could quickly Quick replenishment.

Although every soldier killed in battle represents the breakdown of a family, there is no way to fight without casualties. This is the origin of the saying that kindness cannot lead an army.

When condolences to the families of soldiers who died in battle, you can show sadness, but you must not take this sadness into your heart. You need to be as hard as iron.

Otherwise, it was Yang Jun, King of Qin in the Sui Dynasty. When he was conquering Chen, he was the commander-in-chief of more than 30 troops and commanded hundreds of thousands of land and water troops. However, he was worried that there would be casualties in the war. He was so kind-hearted that he kept confronting the Chen army. Refuse to fight.

Huan Xi was certainly satisfied with the results of this trip. He moved a total of 31,000 Guandong households, and many of these people had not been divided into households.

According to Huan Xi's regulations in Guanzhong, if he is not the only son in the family, but he reaches sixteen years old, he will be divided into households.

After these relocated people are divided into households, and the more than 3,000 prisoners captured in this battle are added to register them into households, the population under Huan Xi's rule will also reach the 300,000 household mark.

Based on his plan of raising one full-time soldier for ten households, he could plan to expand the number of soldiers from 25,000 to 30,000.

Of course, the prisoners captured in this battle cannot be generalized to the battle of Langshan. Those hundreds of people were die-hard loyalists of the Di tribe of the Fu family. Huan Xi did not dare to use them. He stayed in Guanzhong for fear of causing chaos, so he could only be used as slaves. Sent to Jiangnan.

As for Zhang Yu's surrender, there is a possibility of surrender. After all, they are all Han people.

The day after Huan Xi evacuated Luoyang, Fu Jian had already led 60,000 cavalry southward via the river bridge. However, when he arrived at Henan County, he saw that the surrounding areas of Luoyang were deserted.

Fu Jian was furious when he learned that Huan Xi had left yesterday and moved more than 30,000 households with him.

How could he sit back and watch Huan Xi take advantage of this, and immediately coerced Zhang Yu to pursue him with him? In Fu Jian's view, Huan Xi and the people could catch up even if they set off one or two days ahead of him.

It wasn't until he saw those complicated and deep wheel marks, and heard that Huan Xi used an ox cart to go east and pick up the people, that Fu Jian finally gave up the pursuit.

In the commander's tent, he said to his staff Xue Zan:
  "Zhang Yu cannot be allowed to stay in Xu Luo anymore. I want to move all his people north. Otherwise, Huan Xi will often go east to plunder people and livestock, and Zhang Yu will not be able to resist. Sooner or later, the population of Xu Luo area will belong to the Huan family."

At this time, there were still about 20,000 households in Luoyang city, and there were also 20,000 to 30,000 households in the surrounding areas of Xuchang. Fu Jian wanted to take all these people away and use Xu and Luo as open space.

Once Huan Xi took the opportunity to occupy Xu and Luo and move the people to run the business, he could also imitate him and often go south to plunder people and livestock.

Xue Zan worried:
  "I'm afraid Zhang Yu won't agree."

Fu Jian heard this and sneered:
  "This is not his fault!"

I took 60,000 cavalry and worked hard to go south, so I couldn't make the journey in vain.

　Next chapter at twelve o'clock in the evening.

　　
  　
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