Datang New Order

Li Chengzhong couldn't think of a good solution for a while. There were 80 people under the high platform beside him, among them was Zhong Silang, the most elite combat unit under his command.He was hesitating whether to send them all. If he sent them to participate in the "Top Bull", his subordinates would have no more power to use. If anything happened, he would be in an embarrassing situation with no soldiers to move.

At this moment, Li Chengzhong saw Zhao Da leading the logistics team's brothers rushing up, but why were they still carrying a few iron pots?When he saw Zhao Da and the others put down the iron pot, he saw clearly that the iron pot was full of firewood that had been burned for cooking for the brothers in the army just now.Most of these firewoods were more than half burnt, not completely burnt out, and the burnt part was still glowing with red flames.

Zhao Da commanded these people to wrap cloth strips around their hands, then grabbed the burning wooden sticks and threw them directly into the formation of Khitan soldiers.

Li Chengzhong looked at the scene in front of him in amazement, and muttered with his mouth wide open: "This is really... the Tang version of the grenade..."

As the wooden sticks were thrown in one by one, there were screams of screams from the formation of the Khitan soldiers, followed by a smell of burning, which made Li Chengzhong's scalp go numb, and he couldn't help but shudder. I shivered.

The firewood attack achieved decisive results, and the Khitan finally turned around and fled under such a blow!

The task of the spearmen commanded by Zhang Xingzhong was to defend, so when the Khitan soldiers retreated, they did not pursue them.It was the sword and shield team led by Zhou Mandao who launched the pursuit. This guy who had been behind him for a long time was already depressed and panicked.

Li Chengzhong was worried about Zhou Chopper's pursuit without orders, but he was relieved when he saw that the Khitan people really started to collapse.In order to increase the effect of the pursuit, he ordered Zhong Silang to lead [-] soldiers from the reserve team to join the pursuit.

The most significant victory in this battle occurred during the pursuit.Due to wandering around the White Wolf Mountain by mistake for several hours earlier, coupled with the fierce battle in front of the military stronghold, the Khitan soldiers were finally exhausted, and they really couldn't run away from the pursuers led by Zhou Padao and Zhong Silang. Some were wiped out one by one on the mountain road of Bailang Mountain.

Zhou Kuaido and Zhong Silang led the troops to chase all the way to the mountain pass, and drove the remaining Khitan soldiers into the formation of the Khitan auxiliary soldiers remaining at the mountain pass before stopping.The two sides confronted each other at the mountain pass for half an hour, and then the Khitan mounted their horses and left.

When the sun was about to set, the defense of the White Wolf Mountain Army Village was finally over. According to Li Chengzhong's order to keep no prisoners, Zhou Medao and Zhong Silang really did not leave a single alive. All the Khitan soldiers who squatted down and surrendered along the road were cut down. On the ground, all the injured Khitan soldiers were also stabbed.In this battle, a total of 270 heads were beheaded, 89 pairs of bows were seized, more than 25 bags of arrows, about 17 pieces, and several sabers and carbine guns.Lu Longjun himself killed 32 people, seriously injured [-] people, and slightly injured [-] people.

"You won't really kill them all? No one will be left alive?" Li Chengzhong said in surprise looking at Zhou Machete.

"Didn't Dutou say that you don't want to take prisoners?" Zhou Paidao was a little strange.

Li Chengzhong is not a bloodthirsty person. When he said these words at the time, there was actually a ruthless taste, as if two people were fighting, and the weaker side would always throw a few harsh words before the fight, such as "Wait!" I'll beat you so hard that your mother can't even recognize you" are meaningless, the purpose is nothing more than to embolden yourself.

Li Chengzhong was rendered speechless by the rebuttal, and he muttered in embarrassment: "Zhou Da, you are very resolute in carrying out orders, and I didn't see you coming to ask for orders when you pursued without authorization..."...,

Zhou Da stared and said: "Didn't you say before the battle that a certain sword and shield team is in charge of chasing..."

Responsible for chasing and acting after receiving orders are two different concepts. Li Chengzhong couldn't explain the difference between the two in detail to Zhou Paidao for a while, so he had to let it go, but he had already planned in his heart to "obey orders" "This sentence has become the focus of officer training.

In any case, Li Chengzhong was very happy with such a disparate battle loss ratio, but this was not what he was most satisfied with.When fighting the Khitans head-on, although his soldiers were no match for the Khitans in terms of experience or skills, at least in terms of courage, they performed no worse than their opponents, and this is what Li Chengzhong was most satisfied with. of.

The people who fled into White Wolf Mountain came from three villages at the foot of the mountain. There are some hunters in the village with the surname Cheng. These hunters are often injured when they go hunting in the mountains, so they also know some herbs and healing methods. At the moment, they are busy treating the wounded soldiers.Their methods are very rough, and in Li Chengzhong's opinion, they can even be described as "barbaric".The tools are very simple, that is, put the knife on the fire for a while, and then several people hold the wounded soldier, and cut off the bad meat directly from the wound.Then I chewed some unclear grass roots and leaves and applied it directly to the wound.For those who were dislocated or twisted out of their joints during the battle, they were directly pulled over and pulled hard, and then pushed hard. The sound of friction from the bones made Li Chengzhong feel chills in his heart.

But Li Chengzhong had to admit that these hunters were very effective in the treatment of trauma, especially the herbal mud they spit out of their mouths was really effective, and it took only a few days to scar the wound.So Li Chengzhong set his mind on these hunters, and he planned to catch all of them and collect them all into his tent for use.Of course, those who can be cured are still only the slightly injured, and all the seriously injured are all ineffective.Li Chengzhong has experienced many wars. In these wars, almost none of the seriously injured he encountered survived. This is the status quo of medical treatment in this era, which is really sighing.

Li Chengzhong asked old craftsman Zhang to make a ten-meter-tall wooden sign, and then stood the wooden sign in front of a sheltered mountain in the back mountain.He buried all the soldiers who died in this battle in the mountain depression. The names of these soldiers were engraved on the wooden plaques, and the person who wrote them was Feng Dao.Li Chengzhong gathered all the soldiers and common people, and held a brief memorial ceremony in front of the wooden sign.During the ceremony, he loudly read the names of every soldier who died in battle, and then announced on the spot that these names would be recorded so that their families could be found. Each family member of a soldier who died in battle would be allocated [-] acres of fertile land.After the announcement, Li Chengzhong stood at the forefront of the team and led all the soldiers to bow in silence to the wooden plaque.

The military merit review meeting was held on the third day after the war ended. According to Li Chengzhong's intention, all officers above the rank of deputy lieutenant and above participated in the review, and Feng Dao attended the meeting as a non-voting delegate.Before the review, it was a routine battle summary.

Li Chengzhong didn't think he was a military genius with a keen sense of the battlefield, and he didn't even think he could be called a "good general".He was just a big-headed soldier who had served in the army for two years before crossing over. He didn't even get a sergeant. His greatest achievement in the army was getting into the training class for party activists. Countless costume dramas.He didn't think he could do better than the ancients in commanding the battle.In those time-traveling novels, the pig's feet kill all directions when they appear on the stage, they show their extraordinary military talents when they first enter the battle, and they dare to dominate thousands of troops when they take command for the first time. Apart from admiration, he can only kneel down and worship, which is really something he can't do and dare not do.All he can do is to recreate the experiences he had heard and seen in the army before he crossed into the habits of this era as much as possible. His ultimate goal is to train a group of qualified officers to compete with the outstanding generals of this era with the strength of the team! …,

Li Chengzhong regards the summary of the war as the training for officers. By reviewing the whole process of the war, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of himself and the enemy, he finds the advantages that should be inherited and carried forward in the battle, and corrects the shortcomings and defects that have been exposed. To sum up, it is possible to gradually leave some basic combat concepts and ideas in the minds of each officer, so that these grassroots officers can better understand the characteristics of their soldiers, what to pay attention to and what to avoid in battle. When this accumulation reaches a certain level At that time, Li Chengzhong believed that these officers under him would become generals who are proficient in war in the future!

The biggest problem exposed in this battle is insufficient training.One is the lack of combat skills, and the other is the lack of array discipline.Because of the above two reasons, when the Khitan rushed to fight head-to-head, they immediately rushed into a mess in the seemingly well-organized gun array, resulting in a funny scene where the two sides huddled together and "push each other". If it is put into a field battle, it is likely to cause a major setback on the entire battlefield.

The biggest gain in the battle is the change in the courage and will of all soldiers.From the time when I heard the arrival of the Khitan people under Yuguan a month ago, I was trembling with fright, and now I am still desperately maintaining the front line after being broken by the Khitan people. The brethren were surprised.In any case, the transition was exciting and anticipated, and many officers could not help but speak of it with glee.Zhou Paidao even directly suggested whether it is time to try to confront the Khitan people head-on in the field.

After the conclusion of the battle, there will be a review of military merit. According to the method proposed by Li Chengzhong, each officer present has three right to nominate suggestions, and then vote according to the nominations. The soldiers who get the top [-] votes will be promoted to a higher level.The military merit evaluation of officers above the team leader will be reviewed by a higher-level officer meeting, that is to say, it will be discussed by Li Chengzhong, Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong, and Zhou Badao. The basis for the discussion is the number of times their subordinates have been evaluated as meritorious groups.

In addition to the evaluation of meritorious soldiers, a total of four gangs were rated as meritorious groups in this battle.

The first is Zhong Silang and his team. After successfully delaying the Khitans, they captured more than twenty horses. Although part of the reason for this was because of Fatty Wang Quan, ten people went to meet the enemy. The will to fight is enough to set an example for the whole army.

To everyone's great surprise, the logistics team led by Zhao Da, or the logistics team, performed very well this time, and it can even be described as decisive in one fell swoop.When this group was established, soldiers who performed poorly in each group were selected and formed. At that time, no officer would have thought that this group could play such an important role in this battle.In fact, in the final analysis, this guy didn't really come forward to fight. What they did was very simple, that is, they threw the burning firewood lumps into the Khitan crowd like throwing stones... When Li Chengzhong talked about this issue, he deliberately emphasized, Judging from the performance of Zhao Da and his group, combat really requires brains, and sometimes a humble idea is enough to turn the tide of the battle.

The other two gangs who did meritorious deeds were the gunmen who faced the enemy head-on at the gap.The losses of these two gangs were also the heaviest in this battle, with seven casualties each, and when the two gangs were combined, only six survived, and everyone was injured.In the face of such a heavy loss, the two gangs still stood on the front line and did not turn around and run away. This performance is really commendable. Therefore, when discussing these two gangs, all the officers had no objection.

After the military merit assessment was completed, Li Chengzhong secretly calculated a sum of money, and couldn't help being shocked. He found that his debts were quite astonishing.In terms of large expenditures, the two rewards that need to be cashed in front of him are beyond his reach, and everything has to be found.The first is the resettlement fields for the families of the soldiers who died in battle. 42 people were killed in battle, and each household has 40 mu, which adds up to [-] mu.Then there are rewards for the four meritorious groups, each of which needs to be rewarded with [-] yuan, which is [-] yuan, or four hundred guan.In addition, there is another sum of money that Li Chengzhong is seriously considering whether to pay, that is, the issue of rewards for soldiers who participated in the war after the war.

According to the practice of this era, every time an army is dispatched to fight, the military leaders will routinely distribute various rewards, including starting fees, beheading rewards, post-war appeasement fees, and so on.But Li Chengzhong didn't want to do this. He was afraid that after his soldiers developed a habit, they would have the habit of not going to war without money in the future. This kind of habit is very bad. For a truly mature army, it is Very deadly.

After deep thought, Li Chengzhong chose to ignore sexual amnesia, and simply did not mention this issue.Perhaps because of the special and difficult conditions in White Wolf Mountain, the officers under him did not ask about this matter, or maybe it was because the soldiers under him were refugees recruited from outside the customs, and they didn't understand these "conventions" in the army at all. So no one thought about it.As a result, Li Chengzhong's bad behavior of "stealing, raping and playing tricks" has achieved unprecedented success. In the days to come, his behavior that violated the military habits of this era has instead become the practice of his troops, saving him a large amount of military expenses at the same time. , It also made this army take a different path from other contemporary armies.