Outside Gaotai City, there were two camps for wounded soldiers, where the wounded soldiers howled and groaned intermittently.
Liu Chengzong used a curved steel needle to sew up the wound in front of his eyes, washed his hands with hot water, patted the black seal lying on the hospital bed, and said with a grin: "You are really lucky. After three to five months of rest, you are alive and well again. I've asked someone to prepare a sedan for you. Do you want to go back to Suzhou to rest? Or should you follow me for a while and go to Ganzhou to rest?"
Ding Guodong's subordinate General Hei Chengyin was the first person to reach the top of the high platform city. He relied on his armor to fight on the city and received the most severe beatings. The cloth surface of the iron armor was cut into pieces like a mop, and the armor pieces with dome shells were cut. Thirteen arrows were pierced, seven small lead pancakes were paste, and three iron bars were embedded.
But all that was left were minor external injuries and minor internal injuries. The most serious fatal injury came from his legs. His legs were broken. It is said that the Ming army soldiers who dealt with him found that weapons could not kill him quickly. There was The strong man stepped forward empty-handed, but Zhou Cang carried a knife and pushed him off the horse path.
Zhou Cang's sword-carrying technique is a wrestling technique. It is also called arm-carrying or arm-carrying, similar to an over-the-shoulder throw.
Hei Chengyin was directly thrown into the wall. Fortunately, Ding Guodong's troops climbed to the city quickly, and the subsequent troops started fighting on the city. The defenders did not care about this guy who seemed to have been thrown to death under the city. No one was able to hit him, so he picked it up. A life.
Hei Chengyin's head was still buzzing from the fall. After listening to Liu Chengzong's question, he asked: "Your Majesty, how many hundred generals are coming to the city with me?"
The smile on Liu Chengzong's face gradually faded, and he shook his head slightly and said: "It's all gone. There was a man named Huozhe. When he saw you being thrown off the city, he stopped the strongman and rushed down the city to help you take revenge. He also Two of the remaining four were killed on the city, and the other two were too seriously injured and could not be rescued after they were withdrawn."
Hei Chengyin's bearded face was extremely sad, and Liu Chengzong couldn't tell whether it was pain from his wounds or grief inside. His eyes were filled with tears, but they did not fall. He just gritted his teeth tightly and sighed after a long time.
"This is war."
In fact, the death rate of nine out of ten of Ding Guodong's officers above 100 was not a surprise to Liu Chengzong. On the contrary, it was the strong combat effectiveness of this thousand headquarters on Gaotai City that really surprised Liu Chengzong.
Because although Ding Guodong was a guerrilla general, the soldiers he led to garrison Jiayuguan were not guerrilla battalions, but garrison troops led by two thousand households of Suzhou Guards.
The Weisuo Banner Army had three soldiers guarding the city and seven soldiers stationed in the fields. Hei Chengyin was originally the hereditary Qianhu of Suzhou Wei. After surrendering to the Marshal's Army, their 800 soldiers were reorganized on the spot into a dissatisfied Qianqian headquarters.
Their advantage was that they had eaten well in the previous three months, but their disadvantage was that the soldiers were not well equipped. Even the small flag officers or even the chief flag officers had inferior armor quality compared to the Milayin battalion soldiers who were from the former Suzhou Battalion.
In other words, the five hundred generals who came to the city with Hei Chengyin were all Baihu in the past. Under Ding Guodong, only officers of this level generally met the two conditions.
The first is to have officer armor that meets quality standards, and the second is to meet the physical strength and training required to wear armor for combat.
It's just that after this battle, Ding Guodong's direct-controlled officers were almost wiped out.
Liu Chengzong did not sigh, but just said: "Under Ding Qian's headquarters, there is a Bai Zong named Chang Hu. I have promoted him to Qian Zong. The nine Bai Zong who died in the battle were all guards, and they all inherited Bai Hu as brothers and nephews. , and will go to Xining Xincheng Academy to study after the war."
"The remaining officers and soldiers at all levels will be rewarded according to their military merits, and the quota of officers will be filled up, and then the number of soldiers will be replenished."
When Hei Chengyin heard Chang Hu's name, his eyes immediately regained his luster: "He's still alive? That's great!"
In fact, he and Chang Hu were not close, they just narrowly escaped death. It was inevitable to be excited to know that some of the colleagues who used to get along day and night were still alive.
Chang Huli was not called this name originally. He was born as a yellow-headed Uighur, and his ancestors had settled in Suzhou in the Yuan Dynasty. His name was Yuan Huli. The name itself is a very Chinese name.
Jade is a ritual vessel used by the Central Plains people to worship the four directions of heaven and earth in ancient times. It is divided into Bi, Cong, Gui, Zhang, Hu and Huang. Bi is used to gift the sky, Cong is used to gift the earth, Gui is used to gift the east, Hu is used to gift the west, and Zhang is used to gift. Lili to the south, Yihuan to the north.
The white tiger in the West is the main soldier, so the amber is carved into the shape of a tiger. The one with holes is called a tiger-shaped jade pendant, and the one without holes is called jade amber. It is also used to send troops, which is the jade tiger talisman.
In any army, if you see this name when registering for military registration, you will know at a glance that he is a guard officer, and it is very likely that his father or grandfather has a high official position and has a certain level of education. The desire to make achievements in the military and pray for blessings.
But the logic of the Marshal's Army is different.
The person in charge of registering military registration is well-informed about all kinds of gangster accounts. Even when he sees a strange name, he not only doesn't dig into it, but also develops a strange feeling of closeness.
Chuangtaitian, Shootingtaitian, Sky Monkey, Li Laojiao, Wai Liangzi, Liao Beard, Bee Tail Needle, Azalea, what kind of monsters and monsters have we not seen before?
Chang Fox, what can it mean? It shows that this person is a member of the Shaanxi Township Party and his behavior is quite cunning. Good!
The news that some of his colleagues were still alive comforted Hei Chengyin, who had withdrawn from the battlefield for the first time. He was stunned for a long time, and when he knew that Liu Chengzong had comforted him a few more words and told him to have a good rest, and was about to leave, he suddenly asked with some embarrassment. Said: "Commander...why are you rebelling?"
Liu Chengzong was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "This is a big question. Six or seven years ago, I would have held you and told you carefully why I rebelled and why you should follow me. But today, I can only tell you Your time has come."
"Instead of me telling you, why don't you use your own eyes to see why the soldiers around you are willing to follow me? Is our land and our people's life better or worse... Go to Ganzhou, I will leave Ganzhou to the left The official position of Commander of the Guard Palm Seal is given to you, and you can recuperate in the past few months. Many things will have answers."
Hei Chengyin was grateful for the official reward, but he was also as uneasy as Hu Zhishen when he first took charge of the general.
Liu Chengzong did not delve into this. The generals who were promoted in this siege needed a certain amount of time to accept their changes in status, but he no longer needed to worry about the loyalty of these people.
They have no absolute loyalty at all, but there is no absolute disloyalty either. The Gansu commander-in-chief Yang Jiamo, who went through fire and water, is their certificate of surrender.
Liu Chengzong had more important things to do.
The Battle of Gaotai was extremely fierce, with only one day of close combat. More than 2,000 soldiers from both armies were seriously injured and killed, and more than 1,000 were slightly injured or disabled.
Liu Chengzong's thorough preparation played a huge role in the siege. In the post-war casualty statistics report, although the total proportion of killed and wounded was slightly higher than that of the Ming army, this did not include the raids of Mo and Jing troops led by Luo Junjie. As a result, in the actual siege operations, the Suzhou Battalion suffered slightly lower casualties than the Ming army.
But even so, because the siege troops were concentrated in Suzhou Camp, the actual losses were extremely heavy.
Among the four generals before the war, Hu Zhishen led 800 people, Milayin led more than 900 people, Ding Guodong led 800 people, and Fengweizhen led 500 people, totaling 3,000.
After the war, there were 700 people from the Hu Zhi Shen Department, 600 from the Milayin Department, more than 400 from Ding Guodong's Department, and 400 from the Fengwei Needle Department, totaling 2,100. Among them, nearly half were wounded, and ten of Ding Guodong's 100-member generals Only one person remains.
The tragic war required higher rewards. Therefore, in addition to fulfilling his promise to Suzhou Camp before the war, Liu Chengzong divided the land for all the soldiers of the battalion and rewarded the three First Ascension Hundred Headquarters horses and livestock. He also temporarily formed a team from Huben Camp. A hundred troops who are good at calculation.
They will count and price all the loot except gold, silver and copper coins seized in the city, and divide it into four parts. One part will be kept in the Chinese army, one part will be distributed to the Suzhou camp based on military merit, one part will be used as a death pension, and the last part will be used as a special Rewards are given to officers and soldiers who perform exceptionally well in combat.
The captured gold, silver and copper coins were worth more than 1,400 taels of silver. Liu Chengzong also used this money for rewards. According to the price of one tael of silver per acre of land, he returned to the soldiers who survived the Suzhou camp but did not want to receive land rewards. Purchase three acres of land per person.
As for the soldiers who died in battle, they sent people to ask their family members who stayed in Suzhou whether they wanted land or silver. The land should be distributed by Song Xian, the commander of the Suzhou Guards, and the silver should also be paid by the Suzhou Guards.
After this battle, although the Suzhou Battalion suffered considerable damage, the surviving soldiers had made a qualitative leap in armor. Almost every one of them was assigned armor, and most of the soldiers also had mounts. Liu Chengzong also learned from Huben Camp transferred two soldiers from the Hundred Corps to serve as low-level officers and completely took control of Suzhou Camp.
What Suzhou Battalion lacks now is just to replenish a group of soldiers and restore it to full strength.
Although there were many prisoners in Gaotai, Liu Chengzong did not make it difficult for these prisoners. After checking their identities, he released 93 officers to Suzhou and asked Kang Liangfu, the commander of Chijin Guards, to send troops to Haibei.
Ordinary soldiers who were injured were treated and given medicine and stitches when necessary. Those who were inconvenient to move were left on the high platform and returned to the temporary craftsman camp Qianzong Yin Ruyue for resettlement.
Yin Ruyue was originally a Confucian martial arts student at the Qianhu Institute in Gaotai. Now for the Marshal's Mansion, Zhenyi and Gaotai had lost the significance of setting up Qianhu Institute.
Therefore, Liu Chengzong integrated the two places and changed it into Gaotai County. Yin Ruyue became the first magistrate of Gaotai in the Marshal's Mansion and was responsible for the reconstruction of Gaotai people's residences. Firstly, the autumn harvest could not be delayed. Secondly, even if they dug holes in the ground, they had to complete the residences before the freeze. Reconstruction work.
As for the uninjured deserters and prisoners, Liu Chengzong asked Han Shipan to ask for their wishes. If they were willing to join the marshal's army, they would first follow the army and wait for distribution. If they were willing to go home, they would be released from their armor and returned to Ganzhou.
In the end, more than 200 people were left who were willing to join the Marshal's Mansion. Liu Chengzong did not organize them into the Suzhou Camp. Instead, he set up a separate Ganzhou Camp to temporarily follow the Huben Camp.
This group of people fought a bloody battle with the Suzhou Battalion in Gaotaicheng. They were bound to have a bad end if they were incorporated into the Suzhou Battalion. The matter of replenishing the Suzhou Battalion fell to Wei Qian'er, who had surrendered the super force in Suzhou earlier. From him Nine hundred people were transferred to the Suzhou camp.
The most chaotic situation now is actually Ganzhou.
Gaotai was a small place, and the fighting was fierce, but the war affected a very small area; Ganzhou was a big place, and the fighting was chaotic, and the scope of the war was wider. When Gaotai was fighting, war reports, pond reports, and other reports from Ganzhou were sent from the east. There have been more than 800 letters, and the situation gradually became clear in Liu Shizi's eyes.
If the Huben camp digging large pits and building cemeteries for more than 2,000 soldiers from both sides who died in the high platform made Liu Shishi feel depressed, then the increasingly clear battle situation in Ganzhou was rare news that could make Liu Chengzong happy.
There were almost no tough battles there. The local troops in Ganzhou were all eliminated by Liu Chengzong's high platform. Most of the Liangzhou soldiers followed the deputy commander Li Hongsi and fled to Liangzhou. The rest in Ganzhou...how should I put it, are all Shaanxi people. .
Li Hongsi's troops were all Shaanxi soldiers, and they didn't even have a single army horse from Gansu Town; Zhang Tianlin and Gao Yingdeng were also led by Shaanxi soldiers, and there were only a few generals such as Tang Mingshi on the battlefield, who led Gansu soldiers. .
The structures on the battlefield were completely in disarray, and the various departments were fragmented and fighting independently. They were already on the verge of collapse, but because the battle line was heading east, even if it collapsed, the state of collapse of the two armies was different.
The Ming army was in disarray, killing each other, fleeing in all directions, looking for the wind, robbing everywhere, and even a guard riding a horse to kill Mr. Qian.
Zhang Tianlin and Gao Yingdeng’s subordinates were those who got lost, fled in the opposite direction, fell behind, were captured and then rebelled against the entire team, those who did not want to fight and disguised themselves as common people to spread revolutionary ideas, those who infiltrated into the territory of non-common people as disseminators of advanced technology, and even There are also people who can capture a commander and occupy the castle to wait for the weather to change.
The entire battlefield was a blur. More than 20 castles on the Zhangye Oasis were connected to each other after the marshal flag was erected in Ganzhou City. However, the organization of the two battalions was very chaotic.
The military in the Marshal's Office has a strong sense of autonomy. It has been out of command many times in the past, and Liu Chengzong has never blamed or punished anyone for generals or officers acting beyond their authority.
But this time on the Zhangye battlefield, the marshal's army used the power of a great victory in the Eastern Expedition. When the Shaanxi people saw the Shaanxi people, they were able to recruit the collapsed army to surrender with a little beating, creating small teams and large groups that could win the battle, and severely weakened the general's military strength. In order to maintain the organizational structure, the super-employed people chose to send people to deliver messages to the high platform, appointing themselves to lower-level and equal-level official positions, and claiming higher-level official positions.
Gao Yingdeng is very courageous. There are now five thousand generals in the camp, two of whom he has appointed as temporary acting generals. Zhang Tianlin is said to be very courageous, but because she had robbed the Guitu Taiji war horse earlier, she was afraid of the war. Liu Shishi was punished for several crimes. There were still three Yingqianzongs, but there were ten chiefs. Three of them were self-proclaimed by Mr. Bai, and one was captured by Mr. Bai Yingshanhong for him.
The two battalions plus one, Liu Chengzong roughly estimated, there were 11,000 or even 12,000 people... With this kind of force composition, it was already difficult to maintain military discipline.
Therefore, the main force of the Marshal's Army must enter Ganzhou as soon as possible, otherwise Zhang Tianlin and Gao Yingdeng's two battalions will inevitably cause big trouble.
This is like the siege of Gaotai. Yang Jiamo's Ganzhou battalion had more soldiers than Suzhou battalion. The two sides fought one to one at the top of the city. More than half of the two main forces of Suzhou battalion's headquarters were killed or wounded, but Yang Jiamo's army collapsed.
Just because the Huben Camp, the Mongolian Brigade, and the Wei Qian'er Camp were all stationed on the edge, the general situation suppressed people's hearts. The Suzhou Camp was as stable as Mount Tai, and the Ganzhou Camp was defeated.
With a funeral ceremony completed, the battalions of the marshal's army advanced into Ganzhou. The news that Liu Chengzong had conquered the high platform and that Yang Jiamo had self-immolated and died also spread to Shandan and Yongchang guards along with the deserters... until they reached the last stronghold in Gansu. Liangzhou City is a solid fortress with food.
Good evening!
(End of chapter)
