Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 309 Taking the blame
In the Yu army camp, thousands of horses and horses were in silence, and it was a gloomy and bleak scene.

Fu Huangmei knelt in the king's tent. There was no doubt that he was the focus of everyone's attention.

Especially Fu Jian's gaze was the sharpest, as if he wanted to eat him alive.

In the previous battle, Xie Ai's infantry phalanx could no longer hold out for long, but because Fu Huangmei was defeated earlier, Deng Xia's Baibao Xianbei arrived on the battlefield in time and changed the situation of the battle.

In the end, Liang Jun turned defeat into victory, and Yu Jun was defeated.

Now that Xie Ai and Deng Xia have determined that Bald Lu Pan and Helan Litan are both responsible, naturally, the biggest responsibility for the Yu army's defeat lies in the fact that they were driven out of the battlefield and failed to delay Deng Xia's Fu Huangmei. body.

Fu Huangmei himself knew this, and now that Fu Jian had not punished him for a long time, Fu Huangmei's heart was still hanging, and his back was soaked with sweat.

Of course Fu Jian was resentful. If killing Fu Huangmei could change the outcome, he would have crushed his cousin to ashes.

But now he already knows the cause and effect, and he also knows that in that situation, no matter who is in Fu Huangmei's position, he is afraid that he will not be able to reverse the defeat.

That Baibao Xianbei team was really not afraid of death in order to protect their family and property in Gaopingchuan.

Fu Jian looked at him and continued:

For the cavalry under Fu Huangmei's command, their fighting skills may not be familiar to Bai Bao Xianbei, but they do not have the determination to die.

"This battle is not your fault alone. When I faced the enemy, I made improper arrangements and it is equally inevitable."

Fu Huangmei kowtowed repeatedly:

It was impossible for Fu Jian to kill Fu Huangmei because of this incident.

The more critical the situation is, the more internal unity should be required.

"The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be forgiven. Duke Guangping lost the battle and was ordered to be demoted to one rank and given a hundred military staffs. Are you convinced?"

Even when Fu Sheng was in power, he caused resentment among the country's sergeants and people because of his violent temper and wanton killing of loyal people. Fu Jian's overthrow of him can be said to be in line with public opinion.

Of course, the most important thing is that talents are rare. Fu Jian loves and cherishes talents, almost to the point of being a demon. He still has a tolerant heart towards enemy generals, let alone a clan general.

Today, it is not impossible to use this incident to challenge Fu Huangmei, who had a close personal relationship with Fu Sheng, and have him executed. However, Fu Jian was also worried that others would mistakenly think that he was taking the opportunity to eliminate dissidents.

In a cavalry battle, if one of the soldiers loses their courage, the outcome will no longer be determined by the general's personal ability.

Fu Huangmei didn't expect that he still had a chance to survive.

Not to mention that Fu Huangmei was one of the few generals in the clan who could lead an army in battle, but also because of the relationship between Fu Huangmei and Fu Sheng.

But not only did Fu Jian have a son, but Fu Jian was not in the right position after all.

After all, he and Fu Sheng had been close since childhood. When Fu Sheng came to the throne, he couldn't wait to confer royal titles on him and Fu Fei and other close associates. Now it's just that Fu Jian doesn't want to be emperor and just becomes the king of heaven, so the clan members have all been demoted from kings to kings. County Duke.

Fu Jian took a deep breath and sighed:

"The king of heaven is merciful and forgives the mortal sin. This is the ultimate grace. The general is convinced."

"Get up."

Fu Jian looked at Fu Huangmei with a moved expression: "I will remember these hundred military sticks for the time being. I will leave you to serve in front of the army and make meritorious service. We will discuss rewards and punishments when you return to Jinyang."

Fu Jian no longer wanted to stay outside Yinchuan City at this time. Since the morale of the army had dropped to the bottom and there was no hope of breaking the city, he should take charge of his troops and drive back Huan Xi who invaded the east of Hedong.

Fu Huangmei was overjoyed and responded quickly:

"The final general will definitely live up to the King's expectations and should fight to the death."

Hearing this, Fu Jian thought to himself: Now what's the point of mentioning fighting to the death?

In the king's tent, including Fu Fei and others, they saw that Fu Jian was not unreasonable and insisted on putting Fu Huangmei to death, and finally believed that he was really taking these childhood friends of Fu Sheng as his own. people view.

After all, no matter how nice he says it, it still depends on what he does.

At this moment, Xue Zan got a tip from the confidants outside the tent and hurriedly entered the king's tent.

Before he could salute, Fu Jian asked urgently:
"Shilang Xue, how many troops did our army lose in this battle?"

Xue Zan's face looked a little ugly, but he still reported the report:
"Report to the King of Heaven, 50,000 cavalry left the camp, but now only 40,000 have returned, and more than 30,000 pieces of armor have been lost, and more than 26,000 weapons of various lengths and lengths have been lost."

Fifty thousand infantry and cavalry went out to fight, but only 40,000 came back. This does not mean that Liang Jun captured and killed ten thousand people. There must have been many broken troops who scattered and fled in other directions.

Fu Jian looked much better after hearing these statistics.

Because the soldiers abandoned their helmets and armor, they lost a lot of weapons and armor along the way, but fortunately there were still spare armors left in the camp.

As for the 40,000 people who escaped, it was not considered a loss of vitality. It was just that it was difficult to boost morale in a short period of time, so they chose to withdraw.

In fact, in ancient wars, unless they were caught in a tight siege, there would rarely be a large number of killings and prisoners.

In the final analysis, it is still because one party in front abandoned his armor and ran away, and the person chasing behind him could not take off his armor and throw away his weapons to chase.

One side is fleeing with light armor, while the other side is armed with armor, so how can they catch up with others?

After the cavalry has experienced a wandering battle, how much physical strength can the horse have left? Since the endurance of horses is not as good as that of humans, they generally cannot continue to chase after a certain distance.

In this battle, the 10,000 Yu army did not return to camp. This was because the two thousand cavalrymen of Bald Lu Pan and Helan Xitan drove away Fu Huangmei, and the Yu army's infantry formation on the front battlefield had been defeated. Under such circumstances, Yu Jun suffered a 20% loss after turning around to fight.

As for Baibao Xianbei, who was approaching the end of Qiannu, since the enemy army had been defeated, Deng Xia naturally wanted to cherish the war horses, instead of choosing to pursue the defeated troops at all costs and run away the horses.

These days, war horses are worth more than human lives, especially these tall war horses that can be equipped with armor to ride on. They are precious.

Fu Jian listened to the statistics after the strike and said to everyone:
"Now our army is not injured, but after all we were at a disadvantage at the Morale Mountain. I would like to hear your opinions on whether to continue to stay in Yinchuan or to retreat to the east of the river."

That said, but considering Fu Jian's tough attitude of insisting on attacking Yinchuan at the beginning, now he actually made everyone reconsider whether to stay or not. It can be seen that Fu Jian already had the idea of ​​​​retreating, but he was embarrassed to say it out.

Fortunately, there were many people who could understand what was going on. Everyone spoke up one after another, asking for the troops to withdraw, but there were also some who were blind and asked for severe punishment for Xue Zan, who had previously advocated going south.

However, Fu Jian had told Xue Zan at the beginning that he was a responsible person. Naturally, he was not deceiving Xue Zan. He took the responsibility of going south on himself, just as he was investigating Fu Huangmei's fault. At that time, he also took the initiative to take part of the blame.

(End of this chapter)