"Your Majesty..."
The wounded soldier who spoke was already crying with gratitude. In the "Forest of Guns", in the tent that originally belonged to Zhao Kai, there are now more than a dozen wounded soldiers with broken arms and legs lying there. They all had tears in their eyes, watching their king Zhao Kai personally bury a slave. A cavalryman who fell off his horse and broke his leg was splinted.
Every wounded soldier in this tent now believes that they have really met the Lord of the Ming Dynasty... The Song Dynasty really has their share!
Everyone secretly made up their mind that when they recovered from their injuries, they would work hard for the king. Even if they were broken into pieces, they would still help the king drive the gold thieves out of the land of the Song Dynasty.
By the way, I also want to support the king as an official! It is really unjust for such a good king not to be an official!
Of course, there are also people with darker psychology in this tent.
For example, Zhao Kai's confidant Chen Ji worked with Zhao Kai all day and night. He even went crazy and rode a horse to charge into the battle at night... He couldn't see it at all. He was like a blind man riding a blind horse. ! He didn't fall to death. It was really a blessing from his ancestors!
So when he came down from the battlefield, Chen Ji was wondering if he should stay away from this lunatic Zhao Kai in the future?
But at this moment, Zhao Kai suddenly saw a wounded soldier lying on the ground and screaming. Zhao Kai, who was about to return to the camp, actually dismounted himself and asked Guo Tiannu to dismount with him. Then the two of them checked the wounded soldier's wounds together, and then Together they bandaged the man briefly and helped him onto the horse - Zhao Kai's own horse!
Later, Zhao Kai announced that he would not return to the camp for the time being, but would rescue the wounded soldiers first! Moreover, he also announced that he would take out the tent where he lived to accommodate the wounded soldiers!
This shocked Chen Ji and all the military officers and civilian officials who followed Zhao Kai... This is so good at winning people's hearts! This king not only charges into battle with the soldiers, he is also very good at winning people's hearts!
Not only was he very generous when giving out money and official positions, but he also allocated fields and land to the soldiers below. He also always claimed that he wanted to share the world with the warriors, and now he cares for the wounded soldiers as family members.
This style of work is clearly the king of entrepreneurship in troubled times! No, you must follow closely!
Including Chen Ji, everyone's loyalty is soaring!
However, Zhao Kai's concern for the wounded soldiers was not a show, but he truly regarded them as relatives... and he really felt sorry for them.
Although the battle in front of Niangzi Pass was won, the casualties were not small. At least three thousand were killed and one thousand were lost.
Although it is not a tragic victory, Zhao Kai has little capital now and cannot afford to suffer too much loss...
This army at Niangziguan is almost all the elite soldiers Zhao Kai can get, and it is also all the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty in Hebei.
This time, Zhao Kai was able to win two battles and defeat the arrogant Jin soldiers. The main reason why Zhao Kai was defeated, besides "going crazy" and reusing powerful generals such as Han Shizhong and Li Xiaozhong, and "sharing the world with warriors", was The tactic of concentrating elite troops to fight against gold thieves was successful.
Although the overall military strength of the Song Dynasty in this era can be said to be weak, it does not mean that the Song army does not have elite soldiers and generals. If it really did not, then the Jin Kingdom should dominate the world!
However, the number of elites in the Song Army was indeed small, and they were also very scattered. In the era of cold weapons, soldiers who were not good at wearing armor and fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy were definitely not elites. The Song Army has developed for more than a hundred years under the military guidance of shrinking and defending the city. Of course, it has formed a situation where the proportion of heavily armored soldiers in the army is very low.
Therefore, among the imperial infantry of the Song Army, which numbered about 10,000 people, there were usually no more than a thousand elite warriors.
The Song Dynasty Forbidden Army had about 500,000 soldiers on paper, and the actual number was up to 300,000. Among them, the infantry accounted for the absolute majority, with a total of more than 200,000.
If calculated based on a ten percent ratio, there would only be more than 20,000 heavily armored men in the battle. The remaining 200,000 people have no problem defending the city, but the field battle is a bit poor. If you encounter a Jurchen warrior who can wear two layers of heavy armor and ride a horse to maneuver quickly, it will be difficult to win.
Of course, this is only the case of the Song Army's forbidden infantry. Most of the cavalry in the Song Dynasty were "prepared for three battles" and could dismount to fight. Oh, except for the elite cavalry of the Fourth Army in Kaifeng, most of them are no longer good at riding horses...
In other words, there are actually some soldiers in the Song Army of this era who can fight against the Jurchen warriors face to face. It's just that the number is very small, probably tens of thousands in the whole country, only a fraction of the elite of the Jin Kingdom. Moreover, these soldiers are scattered everywhere, and are commanded indiscriminately by a group of civilian officials who know nothing about military affairs. At the top, there are father and son Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, whose lethality is comparable to a hundred thousand golden soldiers... Therefore, there is a peaceful war. Shame is not surprising.
But whoever can gather tens of thousands of elite Song troops, led by a mad king who takes the lead, and commanded by a military strategist like Han Shizhong, can still go head-to-head with a comparable number of Jin soldiers.
If the Song army did not have such capabilities, then there would be no Southern Song Dynasty in history.
The eight thousand elite soldiers that Zhao Kai brought to Niangziguan were actually a "condensed elite army". Most of them were cavalrymen from the Western Army (Shengjie Army). The rest were either the elite of Xiangzhou soldiers or those led by Li Xiaozhong. Warriors from the northwest. Everyone can ride a horse, and everyone can wear armor and fight with thieves!
Such an army is not much worse than the Yue Family Army that became the mainstay of the Song Dynasty in history!
However, with only eight thousand people, it is still a big weakness... In the just-concluded "Niangziguan Victory", although Zhao Kai achieved the result of annihilating three thousand enemies, his own casualties also exceeded one thousand!
If Wanyan Zonghan sends generals like Lou Shi and Yin Shuke to fight with 10,000 Jurchen soldiers (there are too many to deal with), can Zhao Kai still fight?
In this situation, Zhao Kai would of course feel sorry for the wounded soldiers below!
Each of them seemed so precious... He wished that the wounded soldiers in this tent would recover immediately and be alive and well with him to rescue Yue Fei!
Just as he was carefully bandaging the wound of another wounded soldier, Dong Jingang's voice suddenly came from outside the tent: "Your Majesty, great news! Yelu Yujian is surrendering to you!"
"Ye Lu Yu Jian?" Zhao Kai bandaged the wounded soldier and asked Guo Tiannv beside him, "Isn't he some kind of Marshal Youdujian of the gold thief? If you don't serve as an official for the gold thief, why did you surrender to Gu? Isn't it a scam?"
"Your Majesty, there will be no deceit," Guo Tiannv said with a smile, "Wanyan Sheyema, who was picked up by Huang Taiwei last night, is Wanyan Zonghan's beloved son... As soon as Sheyema dies, Yu There is no way for Yu Jian to explain to Zong Han. Moreover, gold thieves have always treated people poorly, so Yu Jian will definitely have a hard time with them."
Zhao Kai nodded, and then continued to bandage the wounded soldier. After finishing, he said a few words such as "take good rest", and then said to Guo Tiannu: "Goddess, you personally bandage the remaining wounds... ....Remember, after finishing the bandage, you need to wash your hands and wrap it with clean gauze."
After finishing the instructions, Zhao Kai stood up and cupped his hands to the wounded soldiers in the tent: "You are all Zhao's heroes. Zhao asks you to take good care of your injuries...take good care of your body, and let's kill the thieves together! "
"Okay! Let's kill the thief together!"
"The little one is willing to die for the king!"
"The king is so kind that even if he is broken into pieces, it is hard to repay him..."
A group of wounded soldiers were really moved. If they were not seriously injured, they would have put on their armor and went to kill the thieves for Zhao Kai!
Zhao Kai waved his hand, "Don't call yourself young, call yourself a minister! You don't have an official position now, but you will definitely have one in the future... Even if you don't, you are still a lonely minister!"
After saying this, Zhao Kaicai said to the civil servants and generals around him: "Let's go together to meet Yelu Yujian... He is also the marshal of the Jin people, You Dujian, so he must know the plans of the gold thieves. He Xushi, if he can defect to us, it’s really God’s help to the lonely family!”
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