Su Yonglin had always had expectations for Li Xiao, an old subordinate with whom he had a good relationship.
He feels that Li Xiao is a courageous person with relatively upright views and is worth looking forward to.
"Su Shuai!"
Li Xiao was very excited and called out the previous title. Su Yonglin did not correct him deliberately, smiled and greeted him with a smile.
"I haven't seen you for a while, General Li."
Li Xiao showed an embarrassed expression.
"Hahahaha! Su Shuai is overly praised. How can I afford this title? Only you who have made such great achievements can afford it!"
“I don’t deserve the big credit, it’s just a small contribution.”
Su Yonglin smiled, then pointed at the several capitals and asked: "Did the gold thieves use the heads of our dead soldiers to build the city?"
Li Xiao looked over, suppressed his smile, and shook his head.
"Not only that, the gold thieves not only killed many of our soldiers, but also slaughtered many villages around Fei County. Most of these should be residents of Fei County's surrounding areas..."
"resident?"
Su Yonglin's breath froze and his eyes widened.
"Yes, the gold thieves used many despicable methods to force us to surrender. They also burned, killed and looted everywhere. Because we didn't dare to fight, we could only watch them burning, killing and looting.
Some of our local soldiers went crazy after seeing these sights. The army also caused trouble and almost caused turmoil. I led the troops and killed some people before the military camp was stabilized. "
Li Xiao lowered his head, feeling very depressed.
Su Yonglin turned to look at the several temples, and his eyes fell on the terrifying and sad head of an unknown person.
To be honest, on the battlefield, Su Yonglin didn't mind using Jingguan as a means to defeat the enemy.
Jingguan is the highest form for one army to show off its force to another army. Since ancient times, the two armies have faced each other. It is not uncommon to use Jingguan to deter the enemy. On the battlefield, it cannot be said that this is wrong.
It is not surprising that soldiers often used the heads of slain enemies to build temples.
But.
These temples were not built with the heads of enemy soldiers.
Su Yonglin remembered that he had arranged for the farmers in the villages under his control to take refuge in the mountains under the guidance of the farmers' association to avoid the Jin army's raids. Later he received a report that the residents of the new rural areas under the control of the Shengjie army had basically been spared. He was not killed by the Jin army.
As for the villages beyond the control of the Shengjie Army, naturally no one chose to escape, or had no time to escape. Their fate may end in these few capitals.
Facing the deliberate attack by the Jin army, they were as fragile as newborn lambs, with almost no power to fight back.
In terms of organization, training, weapons and equipment, and ferocity, these farmers could not surpass the Jin Army.
The Jin Army has no constraints in this regard. They are not a victorious army, and they will not have the idea of being close to the people. They will only regard the people as natural prey, use the weapons in their hands to kill them, plunder their property, and satisfy their own desires. .
This is to be expected.
But after really knowing all this, Su Yonglin still felt uncomfortable.
After calming down for a moment, Su Yonglin looked away and looked at Li Xiao.
"Commander Zhao didn't lead the troops to pursue him, did he? Who did?"
Li Xiao blinked.
"Huh? Pursuit?"
"Well, let's pursue. Didn't the golden thief be defeated by you? Who will pursue the defeated troops? This time the results will definitely be great."
Su Yonglin looked at Li Xiao, but saw that Li Xiao's expression gradually became a little strange.
"Su Shuai, what did you say?"
"ah?"
Su Yonglin was also rarely confused.
Later, Su Yonglin was able to confirm that he and Li Xiao had jointly created a super misunderstanding that could be called an anecdote for the ages.
The Jin Army in Feixian County was not defeated at all. After the fire broke out in the Jin Army camp, the Liberation Army did not dispatch at all, because Zhao Kaishan suspected that this was a strategy of the Jin Army to lure the enemy.
Yaoshou, is such a big fire a tactic to lure the enemy?
Su Yonglin didn't understand what Zhao Kaishan was thinking.
Why not attack?
Can’t you see the benefits of attacking?
Su Yonglin's opinion of Zhao Kaishan suddenly changed sharply, and he began to worry that Zhao Kaishan would make unexpected moves under the various pressures that the Liberation Army would face in the future.
What made Su Yonglin even more speechless was that the Liberation Army actually thought that he led troops to attack the Jin Army camp and fought hard all night to finally defeat the Jin Army.
Was the fire at the Jin Army’s camp and the death of so many people caused by their own internal strife?
What kind of civil strife can directly collapse an army of tens of thousands?
Su Yonglin had a hard time imagining what happened in the Jin Army camp before he arrived.
And this brings up a more important question.
The Jin Army camp collapsed, but it was impossible for all the 30,000 troops to die. Excluding those who were already dead, what about the rest?
This issue is very serious.
What if they collectively dispersed and then gathered somewhere and regained their fighting strength.
That's a big problem.
Su Yonglin didn't have time to see Zhao Kaishan, so he explained what he had done to Li Xiao for a while, and asked Li Xiao to tell Zhao Kaishan. Then he turned around and returned to the Jin Army camp to personally follow up on the battlefield cleanup results.
He wanted to determine where the fleeing Jin army had gone and whether they were still a threat.
Li Xiao was left alone in shock for a long time before he finally accepted the reality with difficulty and returned to the military camp to find Zhao Kaishan.
Near noon, the results of the battlefield cleaning came out.
The total number of dead and charred corpses exceeded 5,000, and one-sixth of the Jin army was lost in this chaos.
According to Li Xiao, the Liberation Army repelled more than ten attacks by the Jin Army in a row, and each time they lost at least a hundred people, so the Jin Army's battle losses would not be less than a thousand.
A conservative estimate is that before yesterday, the Jin Army lost at least a thousand troops. With these more than 5,000 troops, the Jin Army's losses would be more than 6,000.
In other words, there are still more than 20,000 Jin army defeated.
Su Yonglin was a little worried. He didn't know where the defeated troops had gone, let alone whether they could be reunited to form a fighting force.
The news that slightly reduced Su Yonglin's worries was that he learned that there were many people wearing unusual clothes among the corpses.
According to judgment, these corpses with unusual clothing and relatively strong bodies should be those of officers. It is absolutely impossible for ordinary soldiers in the Jin Army to have generally strong bodies.
Therefore, it can be concluded that many Jin Army officers died in this chaos.
When the troops cleaning the battlefield approached the center of the Jin Army's barracks, they found several corpses in unusual clothes near the Chinese army's tent.
Based on the location of the corpses and the extraordinary clothing of the corpses, it can be basically concluded that these corpses have a high status and should be mid-to-high-ranking military officers.
Although their identities cannot yet be determined, Su Yonglin ordered their bodies to be disposed of and then taken back to the Jin Army soldiers to identify them and see if they were famous generals.
"The gold thieves injured a large number of officers, and these men in extraordinary clothes died tragically. It can be seen that the level of chaos at that time must have been very serious, comparable to the roar of the camp."
Su Haisheng, who followed, made his own judgment on the situation in the Jin Army camp.
Wei Kexian also agreed with him.
"It is very likely that the news that our army occupied the grain and grass camp was leaked directly after it came, causing the military's morale to be unstable and further triggering violent turmoil. An army like the Golden Thief has a complex composition, and there is no unity at all.
The lack of food and grass and the loss of retreat were enough to cause these signing troops with little fighting spirit to collapse in an instant and flee directly, causing chaos and even greater melee. According to me, this is how the main force of the gold thieves collapsed. "
Su Yonglin thought about it carefully and felt that it made sense.
"The main force of the gold thieves' army is the signing army. The signing army has little fighting spirit and will definitely run away if it can. The signing army mainly comes from the Dongping Prefecture area. In other words, if the gold army breaks up, it should mainly go to the west... Run away, to the west is... Tengzhou!"
Su Yonglin made a basic judgment and immediately gave orders to Su Haisheng and Wei Kexian.
"You two each take 500 cavalry and pursue Tengzhou in the west. No matter whether you can catch up or not, you don't have to come back. Go along Tengzhou to Yanzhou, pass Yanzhou and go directly to Dongping Mansion. If you catch up, try to capture as many defeated soldiers as possible. "
Su Haisheng and Wei Kexian immediately took the order.
"Here!"
Then the two men fired up a thousand horses and pursued them to the west.
