The fatigue caused by high-intensity fighting is very strong. Some people who are overtired may not wake up after sleeping all day and all night.
Su Yonglin was pretty good, mainly in commanding, and the fighting time was not too long and not too tiring.
Even so, he only slowly woke up from his deep sleep when it was getting brighter and closer to noon the next day.
He opened his eyes and saw an unfamiliar roof. After sitting up, in addition to the pain all over his body, he also felt an extremely strong sense of hunger.
For a moment, he didn't have any other thoughts except the idea of eating. He just wanted to eat, and he ate like crazy. He wanted to eat whatever was edible as soon as he saw it.
Of course, this situation is not unique to Su Yonglin. To be precise, everyone has it.
Everyone who participated in the war and woke up felt like this. They all wanted to eat, and they wanted to eat crazily.
When Su Yonglin opened the door of the house where he lived, he smelled the strong aroma of meat.
There was a bloody battle yesterday and a large number of horses died directly. It is a pity.
Lin Jingchun, who had relevant experience, once again used waste. He organized logistics and civil servants to cut off the good meat from the dead horse and transported it to the Huotou Army camp by vehicle. He washed the meat and put it all into a large pot to stew.
There is enough salt pipe, and some methods of removing the smell are even used to make the meat more delicious.
When it was daylight and the soldiers woke up one after another and clamored for food, he brought pots and pots of meat in front of the soldiers.
Rich broth and chunks of horse meat.
To be precise, the taste is not very good. Apart from the salty taste, there is only the taste of the meat itself. The fishy smell is relatively small and not as strong as expected, which is quite good.
Of course, this is not important. This is meat, which is meat that everyone rarely eats. In addition to meat, there is also rich broth to drink.
What kind of enjoyment is it to eat large pieces of stewed meat and drink rich and hot broth in the cold wind?
What more bikes do you want?
Thanks to the victory over the Czech army, the rest of the troops who did not participate in the war also ate horse meat, because the amount of horse meat was so large that nearly 100,000 people could eat it together for several days.
Su Yonglin naturally received the highest standard of hospitality. A pot full of fragrant stew was placed in front of him. This was not an ordinary stew. It was a stew with a lot of seasonings and soy sauce. It was specially made to remove the smell. This is dish-quality stew.
His stomach made a loud noise, and he secreted a lot of saliva. The fragrant smell made him lose his mind directly, and his eyes and heart were full of meat.
Regardless of how hot it was, he took out a large piece of meat from the pot and ate it directly.
Bite with big mouthfuls, chew with big mouthfuls, swallow with big mouthfuls, eat with wanton flamboyance, eat with evil charm and madness.
Lin Jingchun sat aside and watched Su Yonglin eating and drinking, his eyes unconsciously showing a bit of tenderness and admiration.
Lin Jingchun was less than thirty years old. He didn't know exactly what year he was in his twenties. He was probably twenty-eight or nine. Specifically, he had never heard his family mention the year he was born.
Very few farmers in the field know their exact age, and most of them only know a rough idea.
Who makes the imperial court always change its year names?
The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are not something that these peasants, who cannot read a lot of Chinese characters, can understand.
Back then, he was rescued from a near-death state by the Su family. Some people in the Su family who knew how to read teeth told him how old he was. Counting from that time to now, he is about this age.
To be honest, this age is not considered a young person in the Shengjiejun team.
To be precise, except for Guo Jingshun, who is in charge of Huotou Camp, who is over forty, there is no cadre in the entire Shengjie Army who is older than him, so he always regards everyone as his younger brother and takes good care of them. .
As the soul of the entire army, Su Yonglin was only twenty years old, just twenty years old, and had just reached adulthood.
Everyone is too young.
But it is such a group of young guys who have created miracles.
They defeated the Jin Army's cavalry in one battle and won the battle. The land they fought was full of corpses, human corpses and horse corpses. When they just crossed the river and came here last night, they all covered their noses. .
The smell of blood was too strong.
Yesterday during the day, when Su Yonglin made the decision to fight, he summoned the heads of their logistics department and told them to retreat immediately if the situation went bad, run south to find Zhao Kaishan, and try to survive.
Zhao Kaishan hates him, but he doesn't hate the capable professionals under his command. He will definitely accept them and let them continue to work, and they can survive.
Following Zhao Kaishan, they can survive for a while. If the Jin army goes further south and defeats Zhao Kaishan, they will find ways to escape to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Although he won't live a good life, at least he won't be killed easily.
Guo Tou, who was in his forties at the time, burst into tears. He stepped forward and hugged Su Yonglin, crying and telling him not to go, saying that he was thinking of the Su family well and Su Yonglin wanted to take them with him. Go and fight for your life, if you can't come back, what's the point of living with this old bone?
Su Yonglin hugged Lao Guotou and then pushed him away.
"I may not die, but what if I win? It's possible after all. You can't just treat me like a dead person now, right? If I win, we will have a brighter future! Right?"
Su Yonglin smiled and said something similar to his last words, and then led 20,000 elite troops across the river to the other side without looking back, and faced the Jin Army's cavalry head-on.
The battle was earth-shattering.
This battle lasted for more than three hours from near noon to dusk. The sound of killing was loud and the sound of war drums resounded through the sky. Lin Jingchun and others' hands and feet were so nervous that they did not dare to watch the battle.
Because the battle situation was unclear, some of the landowners' armed forces who followed Su Yonglin had even run away secretly.
They were pessimistic about whether Su Yonglin could defeat the Jin Army. As soon as a group of people gathered together, they took their own people and ran away.
Not only did they run away, they also took away a lot of food and other military supplies. The euphemistic claim was that they could not be trapped in the local area and needed to move to other places to continue fighting. They could not just be swallowed up by the Jin army.
At first, only one or two landlord armed groups escaped, but then more and more landlord armed groups, who were appointed as battalion commanders, took their men and ran away along the bridge without a trace.
As a result, the atmosphere in the entire Zhending Camp became even more ominous.
Those who have not run are thinking about whether to run, and those who insist not to run are only a minority among the minority.
There is a situation where the war has not yet decided the winner, and the real camp is about to fall apart.
To be honest, at that time, Lin Jingchun really felt that if the news of Su Yonglin's defeat came, it would not be impossible for these local armed forces to immediately capture them all and offer them to the Jin army for peace.
People's hearts at that time were really too restless.
No one can guarantee that they will still be alive in the next second.
Until the sky darkened and they were almost suffocating with nervousness, a cavalryman rushed back from the other side, panting, covered in blood, and looking like he was about to die.
"Win the fight, win the fight!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs, fell off his horse and fainted.
There is no need to say more about what happened next.
Su Yonglin originally sent him here so that he could gather troops who were not involved in the war to clean up the battlefield, but he fainted immediately.
Then Lin Jingchun and others were extremely excited and rushed across the river to see the situation, including the landlord armed forces who did not dare to fight and were ready to run away at any time. They also followed to the other side of the river.
They couldn't believe that Su Yonglin really led the Shengjie Army to victory. They couldn't believe that this was true.
Then they saw a hell-like scene.
Many people were so frightened that their legs weakened on the spot, or they couldn't help but vomited.
Lin Jingchun, Guo Jingshun and others were already crying so much that they could not even speak.
It's too difficult, really too difficult.
How many people died?
From the river to the surrounding area of Wuji County, there were dead bodies and blood all the way. The smell of blood was so strong that it was almost impossible to get rid of it.
The boys fought hard to win the battle, almost not taking their own lives seriously.
The battlefield is so terrifying, one can only imagine the extent of the bloody battle between the two sides.
Later, Lin Jingchun learned about Su Yonglin's arrangements before he fell asleep. Under the leadership of Lin Jingchun, the logistics department organized manpower to clean the battlefield in an orderly manner, counting the results and losses, and kept statistics overnight.
Lin Jingchun also did what he had been doing all night, preparing food and drinks, but he didn't sleep all night.
Su Yonglin finally woke up near noon, and he hurriedly brought a large pot of meat to Su Yonglin that he had watched being cooked, and watched him gobble the meat with his own eyes.
As long as you can eat, it's good. If you can eat, it's good. If you can eat, you can live well.
He was so excited that when he saw Su Yonglin eating meat in large gulps, looking at the way he was eating meat without his life, he burst into tears and kept wiping his eyes.
Su Yonglin ate more than a dozen pieces of horse meat in a row and drank half a pot of soup. After finally taking a breath, he had time to look at Lin Jingchun.
"Why are you crying? We won the battle, shouldn't we laugh?"
"You shouldn't cry, you really shouldn't cry."
Lin Jingchun wiped his tears hard and smiled as he wiped them away: "We should laugh at such a happy event, we must laugh! We won the battle, and we drove away the gold thief! Many gold thieves died, and we fought a big one Win the battle!”
Su Yonglin smiled, grabbed a large piece of horse meat and began to gnaw hard, chewing hard and swallowing hard.
After chewing five or six more pieces in succession, my cheeks felt sore, so I stopped temporarily and wiped my mouth.
My stomach is about sixty-seven percent full, and my desire to eat is no longer so strong. Calm and prudent thinking has once again occupied the high ground in my brain.
So Su Yonglin regained his senses.
"Tell me about the statistics. Have the specific figures been released?"
Lin Jingchun sniffed and nodded.
"Basically, the statistics have been calculated. Everyone has been counted one by one. The current statistics show that there are a total of 12,739 golden thieves' corpses on the battlefield. The golden thieves' corpses range from Zishui shore to Wuji To the north and west of the county, for more than ten miles, they are all dead, dead all the way."
Su Yonglin frowned and nodded slowly.
"As far as we know, the total strength of the Golden Thieves before was almost 20,000. Now they have lost nearly 13,000 in the first battle, which means that there are still at most 7,000 left. The army on the south bank has about 4,000, which is also That is to say, they only ran away about 3,000 people..."
"That's basically it."
Su Yonglin took a deep breath, exhaled it slowly, and was silent for a while, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.
"If we had more cavalry, they wouldn't have run away. If I had a cavalry reserve, I would be able to keep them all here! Damn it! You let them run away with so many people!"
He clenched his fists, his face full of unwillingness, and his heart full of anger.
"There is nothing we can do about it, but Alang, in this battle, we also captured more than 4,100 intact horses, and more than 6,000 horses that were injured but could be cured."
Lin Jingchun laughed: "We have collected those in the city and outside the city, those captured by the army, and those stored in the city. There are still many war horses scattered outside the city. We spent a lot of effort to bring back many war horses. , they are all good horses, so we can train more cavalry."
Su Yonglin's eyes lit up.
"so many?"
"Yeah, I was shocked when I started counting. Who knew the harvest was so big? According to my estimation, there must be more war horses scattered in all directions. If we continue to march in the future, maybe we can win in the wilderness. There are quite a few horses found somewhere in the countryside."
"Indeed, it would be a good thing to find a lot of horses. We are short of this."
Su Yonglin laughed for a while.
"Very good, has the Golden Thief General found out?"
"It's a pity that there is no relevant report. The big flag representing the identity of the general has been found, but the leader of the Golden Thief himself has probably escaped. But it doesn't matter, we found the bodies of many Golden Thief officers. The Golden Thief cavalry has already Crushed.”
"Well, it seems that we haven't done all the work yet. It would be great if we could kill the Golden Thief General as well..."
After sighing for a while, Su Yonglin looked at Lin Jingchun.
"That's pretty much it for the gold thief. What about us? How much damage did we lose in the battle?"
"..."
Lin Jingchun was silent for a while.
"Tell me, I know it will be no less."
"Indeed, there are quite a few. From what has been calculated so far, excluding those that have not been found, there are 3,773 people who died directly in the battle, and the injured... are even more. Almost everyone has some... The injury may be minor or serious, and the medical team is complaining to me that there is not enough gauze and herbal medicine.
A little estimation shows that including the newly recruited recruits, our entire Shengjie Army currently has less than 10,000 people who can continue to fight. The remaining ones who are still alive are either lightly wounded or seriously wounded. It is impossible not to take a good rest, so If the gold thieves move south on a large scale at this time, it will be difficult for us. "
Lin Jingchun had an ugly smile on his lips.
I don’t know if it’s the joy of victory that’s greater, or the bitterness of losing a comrade.
But in Su Yonglin's opinion, there is no doubt that it is more bitter.
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