Chapter 15 Riding Battle
The guards who stayed to protect Guan Shengyun all knew that today was the day they died.
These personal guards are all Guan Shengyun's servants, and some of them are even adopted sons.
It is absolutely unimaginable to rebel against the master and survive!
Their lives have been firmly tied in a chain of allegiance.
Loyalty is the most important standard of conduct in this era, and enemies will respect it. If you really fall into the hands of the enemy, as long as you show enough loyalty and courage, most of them will die a happy death, and you may even get a bowl of Zhuangxing wine; on the contrary, betraying the enemy is despised by everyone. There are many precedents: the victor first threatens, instigates, tempts, and even makes various promises, but once he surrenders, he will be ridiculed and humiliated in all kinds of ways, and his death will be more miserable and the death process will be slower. In this era, human beings Before empathy has evolved, cruelty to the same kind is one of the common forms of entertainment in the world.
It goes without saying that any force hopes to warn and maintain the loyalty of its subordinates in this way.
Of course, all the above are only aimed at the bottom. For those crucial characters, it is another kind of drama: threats are definitely necessary, and maybe some symbolic pain will be made to the flesh and blood - that's all. , usually those who do this will not seriously seek death. This is standard procedure, and there will always be a process to go through, but there will be an unspoken understanding between both parties. Then the victorious party said with great enthusiasm: Sir, you are such a tough guy, I admire you so much! Zhejie condescended to give enough face, and even received a few scoldings... The captured party put on enough airs, fully performed their own righteousness, and in the end, was "touched" by the other party... A few scenes After doing enough, everyone is happy with the win-win situation: the winner obtains vital information and help, and the captured person can also give an explanation to himself and others: Although I surrendered and personally led the enemy to deceive my old employer, I But I was moved...
A positive example is Wen Tianxiang in his previous life, who directly broke through this layer of window paper: Don't bother, I won't surrender, everyone should save some trouble and be generous. A negative example is Hong Chengchou in later generations. He first asked his subordinates to bluff a few words, and then Huang Taiji wrapped his mink coat around the old guy: Mr. Wrongful is caught in the cold! The latter was "deeply moved" and bowed his head: "This is the right emperor!" Then he led the Qing army to pursue Nanming all the way without sleep...
It's all a show.
——As a side note, later Qianlong compiled "The Biography of Erchen"❷, and Lao Hong was named and cursed to death, just to serve as a negative teaching material.
Guan Shengyun's guards all knew that as a martial artist, they were not worthy of the other party's efforts to perform such a performance. Therefore, even though their physical strength was completely exhausted, no one hesitated - not to mention, the young man still expected the commander to look after him...
Soon, a three-layer defense line of more than ten riders in each row, five or six feet apart and more than ten feet deep, was sparsely opened.
In this era, the wall charge of later cavalry had not yet been invented. Although Jin Wushu's Tiefutu Guaizi Horse is astonishingly powerful, unlike the tall Arabian horses and Western Region horses, Hetao horses and Mongolian horses are generally short in stature. Those who can charge with physical strength after wearing heavy horse armor are rare, and occasionally there are one or two All the horses were kept by the generals for their own use, making it difficult to form an army. Moreover, due to the credit of the storyteller, everyone knows how to crack it: focus on attacking one or two of them with strong bows and crossbows. As long as they fall, the iron ropes that maintain the line will bring down all the others. It is even difficult for a knight in heavy armor to Standing up, the infantrymen with heavy hammers and axes began to step forward to harvest lives...
As mentioned before, the armor-cavalry confrontation at this time was to keep a wide distance between each other and fight independently. This kind of hedging needs to test bravery, physical strength, martial arts, riding skills, luck, and most importantly... speed!
Of course, if one of the forces has the advantage, it will win: organize a multi-level charge. The opponent has a two-way column. In the past, if one's own side lined up four lines to meet them, they would be sure of victory - no one could withstand coordinated attacks from both the left and right sides at the same time.
Today, however, the situation is very different.
Despite the numerical advantage, everyone knows that today's hedging is suicide with no chance of winning. The price of life is to buy time for the head of the family: the opponent's goal is the head coach. With such power, the opponent could completely avoid it and pounce directly on the benefactor! Therefore, there must be a wide enough front to effectively block it - this means that most of the people in the three-layer defense line will run around with nothing to do, while the brothers who meet the enemy will withstand many consecutive attacks!
No one could survive such an attack.
But, they have no choice.
"They are all good men!"
Seeing the opponent's linear formation to meet the enemy, Sun Jie immediately understood their intention and couldn't help but secretly praise them. But then, hatred immediately overwhelmed the feeling of sympathy between soldiers, and another loud roar burst out from his lips. He clamped the horse's belly with his legs and rushed forward first.
"Commander!"
The Tiger Guards who followed him shouted loudly, trying to rush to the front for cover, but Sun Jie turned a deaf ear.
The enemy is getting closer.
Sun Jie glanced out of the corner of his eye. The enemy cavalry scattered on both sides of the interception line were trying their best to move toward the center. They must have been too late to stop themselves. At most, they could only hit the tail of the column.
The enemy in front of him had a five-foot-long lance under his ribs—but it had no speed at all.
With a light swing of the saber, the back of the saber swung away the pointed spear point, and the horse galloped past the enemy's horse without paying any attention - the guards behind him would naturally take care of him.
Sure enough, within a breath, the enemy's screams could be heard in his ears.
The guard who was less than a horse body following Sun Jie casually swung his sword at the enemy knight whose weapon was swung open and the door between the chest and abdomen was opened. The steel blade easily split the enemy with the help of the huge momentum of the galloping horse. The breastplate and the cotton lining inside were cut open nearly 2 feet from the center of the body to under the right rib. Bai Sensen's broken ribs were immediately flooded with blood, and his internal organs flowed out.
The rider looked down at his wounds in horror and let out a shrill scream.
The third horseman of the column did not continue to make unnecessary attacks. He just tapped the enemy's mount with the back of his sword and drove it away so as not to block the brothers behind. The frightened horse suddenly jumped out and its owner fell to one side. , his intestines were dragged to the ground, and his screams stopped abruptly.
The tiger guard at the rear tapped his stirrup lightly. Stimulated by the spurs, his horse suddenly exerted force and passed through the gap between the enemy cavalry outflanking him on both sides.
The second opponent Sun Jie encountered had restrained his horse early and blocked the way with a horse sword as tall as a person.
The dismounted horse did not want to run into it, slowed down its pace and tried to avoid it. Sun Jie swung his sword to block a powerful slash and felt his arm go numb. However, the opponent did not attack again, but threw the horse sword over his hand! Then he jumped up from the horse and rushed towards him with his arms wide open, as if he wanted to hug himself!
This completely lifeless fighting style was a big surprise to Sun Jie: after many years of military service, the enemy had thrown swords many times, but no one had ever thrown out horses and soldiers in the first round of the battle! He dodges in a hurry, but his shoulders are still tied up by the long handle. Before he feels any pain, his opponent has already rushed towards him regardless, holding his shoulder armor firmly with both hands! The war horse was also startled, and stood up with a long hiss, shaking its head, kicking its legs, and swinging its body widely, trying to get rid of this sudden increase in burden.
The horse's speed suddenly dropped to zero!
The sword was still raised in the air, his shoulders were grabbed by the enemy, and their eyes met. From then on, Guan Yehuo's appearance was engraved in Sun Jie's mind, and it still lingered many years later - this is a story for another day.
The guards galloping behind him ignored Sun Jie, who was almost pulled off his horse, and Guan Yehuo, who was entangled with him. He rode his horse past and let out a loud roar, which was enough to catch the third enemy who stabbed Sun Jie's vest. nail gun, fighting with the opponent.
The third horseman of the column reined up his horse and swung his sword, slashing the right arm of the enemy who was holding the commander's shoulder. Sun Jie was immediately splashed all over his face with blood from the severed arm. The enemy also let go of his left hand as he screamed. The horse staggered two steps as he fell off the horse, before he was beheaded by Sun Jie who turned the horse's head, and the iron helmet flew away in response. The saber was blocked by the iron helmet, and only half of the head was split open before it became embedded in the skull. He was pulled hard and could not be pulled out. Seeing another enemy rider approaching, Sun Jie let go decisively, took out the spare saber from his saddle, and The cavalrymen rushed forward with stirrups... Because it is easy for weapons to fall off or be damaged in cavalry battles, and cavalrymen are elites who have no worries about funds. At that time, the standard weapon configuration of cavalrymen, except for the long soldiers charging into the formation, usually carried more than two weapons. Melee weapons, some even more. Generals generally do not use the standard equipment issued by the Ministry of War, and they all customize it themselves.
The enemies at both ends of the interception line gradually gathered together. Because of Sun Jie, the Tiger Guards also reined in their horses and gave up the pursuit. They guarded the commander. The horses' hooves crisscrossed each other, and the two sides were entangled in a melee.
❶Lao Hong slept with Xiaozhuang and so on, it was just a shameless person's sexual pleasure, don't pay attention to those shameless people. Some guys with extremely despicable and dark psychology seek balance in women because they are cowards: Xia Jie was exiled because of Yuxi (note that "妺" is not "mei", it is pronounced "mo"). Of course, the ancients did not have a "Xinhua Dictionary" 》 and Chinese pinyin. Before the Han Dynasty, people used knives to carve bamboo slices. If they were not consistent, they would use too much force to carve the longer ones, so there were also people who wrote it as "Meixi". It cannot be wrong, but after all, it is better to say that Wuxi big is better) Love to tear Silk likes to drink, Shang Dynasty died because he was too cruel, Tang Dynasty collapsed because Yang Guifei's skin was too white and she had to eat lychees, Song Dynasty was beaten to pieces, Taijun She, who was more than a hundred years old, led a group of widows to The Liao people beat us so miserably (the subtext is that we are good at beating our wives, and my wives beat you, so don't look at us being beaten by you, in fact we still win, if winning once is not enough, we win twice)...
❷Appendix Qianlong’s edict says:
Because I think that at the beginning of our dynasty, at the end of Ming Dynasty, all the ministers looked forward to the wind and surrendered. For example, Hong Chengchou showed his masters with his military strategy, and the prisoners surrendered; Zu Dashou used the method of suppressing the generals to fear disaster, and brought the city to surrender. At the time of Dingding, Ruo Feng Quan, Wang Duo, Song Quan, Jin Zhijun, Dang Chongya, etc., who had all been prominent in the Ming Dynasty, still served as cabinet ministers in this dynasty. As far as Ruo Tiange pointed, they disarmed and begged to surrender, such as Zuo Mengeng, Tian Xiong, etc., countless of them. To create the scale of a great unification, he had to be employed in order to appease people's hearts and make people aware of compliance.
Judging by emotion after the fact, if everyone is trying to defeat the country's ministers, but encounters difficult times, cannot accept orders for his master in danger, often fears death and lives happily, and surrenders in disgrace, how can he be called a perfect man again! Even if the film is slightly longer than the original recording, its flaws cannot be concealed. If Li Jiantai and Jin Shenghuan, who were rebellious, were surrendered, and Qian Qian, who was slandering and slandering them after being surrendered, would be better than others, especially if they turned against Qian Xie, they would not be compared to human beings.
I think that for those who have failed in important matters, I cannot think of their achievements and forgive them while they are alive; nor can I forgive them after they are dead just because they still have descendants. Now, in order to be accurate and reasonable, we should set up a separate "Biography of Er Chen" in the history of the country to record the official records of the officials and their famous deeds in this dynasty according to the facts, so that they cannot be hidden in any subtle way. Sun Baishi can't change it... This is actually my great and righteous heart, which will set the standard for all generations of ministers! "
*It seems that it should be "rank" - Baidu copied the original text, it should be Du Niang Du Niang. You are wrong...
Translated into modern Chinese simplified version:
1. Those who surrendered at the beginning were all bastards, and the bastards did not use them in vain.
2. Those who surrender once are bastards, those who surrender several times are super bastards, and those who appear submissive but harbor resentment are still bastards.
3. A bastard will always be a bastard. Let’s see who dares to be a bastard in the future.
4. I am the most upright, if you are dissatisfied, come out and see the sword!
Admire this!
