Yu Ling's face was a little frightened. The reason why the bed crossbow was not so powerful on the frontal battlefield and was used more as a deterrent was because its rate of fire was not very fast. Especially the large bed crossbow, the more powerful it was. The bed crossbow's firing speed will be slower.
Because it requires several people to slowly wind up through the winch, and within the range of the bed crossbow, it often shoots at most two or three rounds of siege soldiers before they have reached the bottom of the city wall and entered the blind spot of the bed crossbow.
But what kind of attack speed is this in Datang? Not only does it have an abnormal range, but its rate of fire is also so abnormal? Are all their soldiers born with supernatural powers? Otherwise, why can the crossbow be cocked at such a fast speed?
If the bed crossbow had such a cocking speed, its threat would be completely different from before.
Just look at Goguryeo's forward troops now. Almost everyone has a look of horror on their faces. This rate of fire is too fast! Too fast for them to bear.
Because bows and arrows can also be protected with shields, but bed crossbows have no protective capabilities.
Almost all shields are vulnerable to it, and even if the bed crossbow grazed a person's body, it would probably take away a large piece of flesh. Such wounds would be fatal on the battlefield. .
"Withdraw the troops! Withdraw the troops! Ming Jin withdraws the troops!" Yu Ling yelled and gave the order directly.
With such an attack speed, if their forward force of a thousand soldiers rushes across the 500-meter distance, hundreds of them will probably die even at the fastest speed. But when the distance is closer, there are still bows and arrows.
He didn't believe that the Tang Dynasty only had bed crossbows. The bed crossbows of the Tang Dynasty were so abnormal. There was no way the bows and arrows were bad.
The sound of Ming Jin's troops withdrawing quickly resounded throughout the battlefield. Goguryeo's soldiers rolled and crawled and began to retreat, while the large Goguryeo army also began to retreat. Almost as soon as the sound of Ming Jin's troops withdrawing resounded throughout the battlefield, Li Daozong ordered Stopped.
There is no point in continuing to shoot. In such a battlefield, the focus is on the heart. Killing a few people has little effect. If the number of enemies is counted as a whole, it is estimated to be as many as 100,000, and they only have 10,000.
Therefore, it is difficult to make the enemy retreat by killing alone. It is enough for both sides to maintain a tacit understanding.
But now that he knows the depth of the Tang Dynasty, he should know the rest.
Seeing Datang stop shooting, even during their retreat, with the power of Datang's bed crossbow, it would be no problem to fire at least one more round, but Datang stopped.
The battlefield not far away may not be called a battlefield. After all, the only casualties here were Goguryeo soldiers.
Many Goguryeo soldiers were still wailing on the battlefield. Yu Ling was silent for a moment, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Order the auxiliary troops to enter the field, remove all weapons and equipment, and rescue people. If the Tang Dynasty attacks, withdraw. If the Tang Dynasty attacks, If you don’t attack, just bring back the corpses and so on.”
"yes!"
Auxiliary soldiers are non-elites who did odd jobs in various armies in ancient times. They are found in the armies of various countries, and Goguryeo also has them. Currently, except for the Tang Dynasty, there are no medical soldiers or health workers among the soldiers of other countries. statement.
But are there military doctors and medical officers in the army? have! To be precise, although they are called military doctors, they are all doctors selected from the medical department and doctors selected from the imperial medical department to serve as medical officers with the army.
However, they cannot be replenished to each army, but are concentrated to follow the march of the large army, because there are not so many medical officers or military doctors who can spread to the grassroots units.
Only Datang has trained a large number of grassroots medical officers and soldiers because of the "Military Medical Manual".
These officers and soldiers are just like the barefoot doctors who treat diseases through the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual". They know it but don't know why. They are trained to provide emergency rescue for trauma and emergency rescue on the battlefield. As for the subsequent treatment, there are also military doctors in the Tang Dynasty. Those who follow the army will be put in charge of these military doctors when the time comes.
And Goguryeo could only save people with these auxiliary soldiers.
Just as Yu Ling thought, when these auxiliary soldiers came on stage, Datang probably felt that it was a waste of crossbow arrows, or simply maintained a tacit understanding and did not attack these soldiers who were picking up the corpses and wounded.
Seeing that Datang did not attack, these auxiliary soldiers became bolder and quickly began to take action on the battlefield.
The military doctors accompanying Yu Ling quickly rushed into the battlefield and began emergency rescue.
After they had removed all the wounded and corpses from the battlefield, everyone in Datang's city remained calm, as if there was no reaction.
Yu Ling withdrew his troops and retreated for more than ten miles before setting up camp.
There are several villages nearby. Most of the people in the villages have already run away. Yu Ling doesn't care about those who haven't run away. Naturally, there are people to deal with it. Anyway, there are almost no outsiders left in the village and nearby.
"General, the casualty statistics are out. 432 people were killed and 86 injured. Whether they can continue to live depends on follow-up treatment." Soon the general in charge of logistics came over to report.
Yu Ling: "..."
In just one encounter, before they could even attack the city, more than 430 of the thousand-man forward troops died in battle? The casualty rate has exceeded 50%. If it hadn't happened so quickly, their army would have collapsed long ago.
That is to say, Datang's attack was too fast, so fast that these soldiers did not react at all, so there was no collapse or the like. It is estimated that they did not know how many people died.
"I understand. Now we also know something about the army of the Tang Dynasty. Well, let's find someone to write a report. Let's say that our army fought with the army of the Tang Dynasty. There were more than 500 casualties and three cities were occupied. We are currently in a confrontation with the Tang Dynasty army." Yu Ling thought for a moment and then said.
"yes!"
You have to look at how to write the record.
Is there anything wrong with the record written by Yu Ling? No, what he wrote is all true, and he indeed won these three cities. No one can find fault.
More than 500 casualties? We captured three cities with only over 500 casualties. Is this a great victory?
As for the next step of the battle, Yu Ling thought for a while. It seemed that the old patriarch was right. He had to be steady. It was normal for the battle line to be anxious.
Although Li Daozong didn't know that Yu Ling had an idea, he didn't bother to pay attention to it. He just carried out his own affairs step by step.
For example, first hire these refugees who have fled to this county.
However, Datang cannot directly hire people at the beginning.
As the saying goes, your kindness to them is like candy, it’s gone after you eat it. But the damage caused to them is an unforgettable wound, and they will have scars after they heal.
So you have to let them have scars first before giving them candy.
