"Want to escape?"
Gan Ning reacted quickly, raised his knife and gave chase.
"Xingba! Forget it."
Yuan Yao also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Gan Ning was also unharmed despite being stabbed.
In just two sentences, Liu Pan had already run out more than ten steps.
"This guy doesn't have much martial arts skills, but he can run pretty fast."
Seeing Liu Pan flying up and down the mountain valley, Gan Ning was also a little stunned.
"Is the Major General injured?"
Yuan Yao shook his head: "I'm fine."
"You took that knife blow just now, are you okay?"
Gan Ning patted his chest: "Thanks to this treasured armor given by the Major General, the general will have nothing to do."
"But Liu Pan is not so lucky. Although the last knife did not destroy one of his arms, he will have to rest for at least half a year!"
Yuan Yao nodded: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time... Where is the rear army now?"
Gan Ning: "It's right at the foot of the mountain. As long as the major general gives the order, I will lead a counterattack on the mountain!"
Yuan Yao: "Liu Pan has no strength to fight anymore, but I don't know if there are other Jingzhou soldiers nearby. Just drive him away. Don't chase after the poor enemy!"
"The last general takes command!"
…
After the battle that day, Yuan Yao collected his defeated troops and counted his soldiers, and was shocked to find that he had lost nearly two thousand people in this battle.
Not counting the missing, there were more than 1,300 dead and more than 400 injured. The total number of casualties exceeded any previous battle by Yuan Yao.
What is most unacceptable to Yuan Yao is that most of the casualties did not occur in frontal combat with the Jingzhou Army. It was caused by the Jingzhou Army's pursuit and killing of the defeated soldiers, the defeated soldiers' trampling and crushing of each other, and the Yuan Army's bloody suppression of the defeated soldiers as a last resort.
Gan Ning's final counterattack did not achieve any results.
Liu Pan escaped quickly.
When Gan Ning led his men back to the mountain, only Yuan Jun's corpse and the wailing of the survivors were left all over the mountains and plains.
The Jingzhou Army has retreated along Liu Pan's original route.
There is no doubt that Yuan Jun was defeated in this encounter.
In this defeat, the only two things that made Yuan Yao feel lucky were that he saved his own life and that when cleaning the battlefield, he found the injured and unconscious Lu Dai under a low cliff.
The first thing Lu Dai saw when he woke up was Yuan Yao's face.
"Major General!"
After breaking away from the military doctor who was still bandaging his forehead, Lu Dai rolled to the ground and cried: "The last general is incompetent and killed the entire army."
"Major General please punish me!"
Seeing Lu Dai wake up, Yuan Yao's frown relaxed a lot.
But immediately, Yuan Yao suddenly changed his color, stood up, flicked his sleeves, and shouted angrily: "Do you know how many people you killed this time?"
Lu Dai's face was pressed tightly against the ground: "The final general... I don't know."
Yuan Yao looked at Lu Dai and said, "You just need to know that in this battle... your front army alone lost more than half of its soldiers!"
Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Lu Dai's forehead.
"This...how is this possible?"
He did not believe that more than half of his subordinates suffered casualties, but it was impossible for Yuan Yao to bluff him with the casualties.
"Hmph! Not to mention your former army, even the young master's personal barracks were wiped out. If the young master hadn't been lucky..."
One of Yuan Yao's soldiers who survived could no longer bear his resentment towards Lu Dai and spoke out directly.
Yuan Yao glared at him fiercely, and the soldier could only shut up in anger.
What? Even the young master's personal barracks were completely wiped out?
Lu Dai's expression was dull, and then he realized that the crime he had committed was much greater than he imagined.
"Today's defeat is all due to General Mo's negligence and his inability to resist Liu Pan... General Mo is willing to shoulder all the blame."
"Major General, please punish Dai for the crime of death!"
Lu Dai kowtowed heavily at Yuan Yao, blood oozing out of his forehead again.
Yuan Yao was naturally reluctant to kill Lu Dai.
To be honest, Yuan Yao did not expect this encounter today.
Who knew that I would bump into Liu Pan!
One day earlier, one day later, neither party will come into contact.
Even if the two sides had encountered each other an hour earlier or an hour later, Yuan Jun would not have been defeated so miserably.
As soon as Yuan Jun's former troops reached the undefended mountain stream, the Jingzhou Army led by Liu Pan launched an offensive from a high position.
What a big loss!
If the two parties were on flat ground, Lu Dai could still command his soldiers to deal with Liu Pan.
But when we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!
In the encounter, Lu Dai was no match for Liu Pan, who was brave and good at fighting.
Pioneer general, take the lead with courage!
Lu Dai is actually not suitable to be a pioneer.
After all, Yuan Yao is also responsible for this defeat.
So even though Yuan Yao felt resentful after losing the battle, he would not take all his resentment out on Lu Dai.
You must be punished!
The defeat resulted in heavy casualties for the whole army. Failure to punish was not enough to establish military law and calm the hearts of the army.
But Yuan Yao is still thinking about how to punish Lu Dai.
Seeing that Yuan Yao didn't speak for a long time, Lu Dai smiled sadly: "Thank you very much, young master Quan Dai for your face."
"Lü Dai never dares to forget the young master's kindness in promoting and employing him... There is nothing he can do to repay him in this life. I hope he will still serve the young master with all his strength in the next life!"
After finishing speaking, Lu Dai jumped up suddenly and pulled out the sword from the waist of the soldier just now, intending to kill himself to apologize.
"Sin will be atoned for by death!"
Lu Dai shouted and put the blade on his neck, intending to wipe it off.
Yuan Yao was also shocked by this sudden change and could not react for a while.
"No!"
Ding dong~
There was a crisp sound, but Gan Ning drew his sword and held the blade in Lu Dai's hand at the critical moment.
Several soldiers behind Yuan Yao also reacted, quickly holding down Lu Dai's wrist and forcibly grabbing the blade.
"I didn't kill a few people with my sword today, but I saved them all!"
Gan Ning cursed and withdrew the blade.
Yuan Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and then said angrily: "How can you ask for death without being judged by this general?"
"Listen to me, you all, since you worship me as your master, your wealth and life will be entrusted to me."
"You can only die if I let you die!"
These ancient people were so bad-tempered that they would die if they wanted to!
Do you really like the one-and-done way of acquitting yourself by committing suicide?
Yuan Yao was also anxious, he drew his sword and shouted angrily: "Listen clearly, I hate people who commit suicide the most in my life!"
"They are all cowards!"
"What, you committed suicide to show that you are loyal? It shows that you admitted your fault?"
"Shit!"
"This is just evading responsibility!"
"Is there any point in asking a dead person to show his loyalty to me?"
"If you know your mistakes and can correct them, you will be happy to die, and you will leave your mistakes to others to make up for it?"
"Why don't you want to correct your mistakes?"
"Even if you have committed a capital crime, you must first be tried to see if you can atone for your sins!"
"You just touched your neck, glared at your legs, and then you laid down in the coffin. What's wrong? Let others suffer?"
Everyone in the tent, whether they were Gan Ning, Su Fei and others who had just joined Yuan Yao's tent, or Lu Dai and the generals who had followed Yuan Yao for a long time, had never seen Yuan Yao get so angry and fire a barrage of fire. Swearing the same way.
"Lu Dai, I am very disappointed in you!"
Lu Dai lowered his head, blood flowing across his cheeks and dripping on the ground.
Taking a deep breath, Yuan Yao leaned down and pulled off the military talisman from Lu Dai's waist.
"Lü Dai did not do well in the battle and caused this defeat. He should be punished for his crime."
"Since he was in charge of the army, he has been diligent and diligent in his work, and he has made many military exploits..."
"However, death penalty can be avoided, but living penalty cannot be avoided."
"He was removed from the title of Colonel Zhaoxin and demoted to the rank of Sima of another department. He still led the old department in the hope that he would be able to achieve meritorious service."
"..."
"Lu Dai, can you plead guilty?"
The two Yuan soldiers who were holding Lu Dai threw away Lu Dai and saw him kneeling on the ground, kowtowing heavily and saying: "The guilty general is willing to use his body to atone for his sins!"
"Thank you, young master, for not killing him..."
"Stop talking nonsense. If you want to thank Xingba for stopping your knife just now."
Yuan Yao said and threw Lu Dai's military talisman to Gan Ning on the other side.
"Sima Ganning of the other department, obey the order!"
Gan Ning hurriedly knelt down in the tunnel and said: "Gan Ning obeys the order!"
"Xingba saved me from Liu Pan's sword. I will remember this contribution for the rest of my life..."
"From now on, you will take over the position of Colonel Zhechong, above Lu Dai. I want you to rectify the remaining defeated generals as soon as possible and restore their combat strength!"
Gan Ning cupped his fists and knelt down: "Gan Ning has the order!"
Nearly two thousand soldiers were lost in one fell swoop, which was a serious injury to Yuan Yao, whose family was not wealthy to begin with.
And the most important thing is that the first school unit under Lu Dai was beaten to the point of losing its complete organization in this battle. While suffering heavy casualties, its morale was even more depleted.
Originally, around Yuan Yao, apart from Lu Dai, there were only 800 people from Gan Ning, 1,000 people from Huang Zhong, and 100 soldiers of his own.
After this battle, Liu Pan directly defeated half of the combat power around Yuan Yao.
Whether we can walk back to Shangxiao safely is a question!
In order to quickly restore combat strength, Gan Ning's 800-strong army could only be merged into Lu Dai's first school establishment.
Along the way, Yuan Yao was also observing Gan Ning.
Although he seems a little careless and carefree, and he is completely different from the strict and steady Lu Dai, Gan Ning's cheerful and forthright side easily wins the support of the lower-class soldiers.
Now we can only hope that Gan Ning can rally the troops and improve their morale.
As for Lu Dai, he should be demoted and retained until he recovers from his injuries.
The facts that followed also proved that Yuan Yao did not choose the wrong person.
Although the remaining defeated generals under Lu Dai had their own thoughts, they were very resistant to Gan Ning at first.
But within a few days, Gan Ning, who came from a rough background and was informal, became one with a group of lower-class soldiers from poor backgrounds, eating and sleeping together.
Gan Ning also compared his previous deeds of plundering homes and houses, being hunted down by the government, and hiding and fleeing in various places, to the disastrous defeat of this encounter, which made the generals gradually let go of their pessimism and slowly accepted this failure and its consequences. Unbearable.
Of course, words alone won’t do.
Gan Ning did not hesitate to take out all the remaining belongings he had - mainly the two boxes of treasures and silks that he had brought to the ship. They were all given to all the soldiers. He only said that they were the trophies he had captured and regarded them as this time. Additional rewards for the Battle of Jiangxia.
Although the military exploits of all soldiers will be registered, Yuan Yao will only reward them according to their merits after returning.
As usual, the generals would allocate part of their generous rewards to the soldiers, but that was basically after Yuan Yao's reward.
This is also the practice of rewarding according to merit in the ancient army.
The soldiers first received the "big favor" from their master, and then received the "small favor" from their generals, so that the soldiers would not become the generals' private interests, and only the generals would obey.
Therefore, although Gan Ning's move had good intentions, it was suspected of going too far.
But why does Yuan Yao care about these details at this time?
He was even more worried about whether he could return to Shangliao safely.
Fortunately, two days later, the scouts finally found out the situation.
Within a radius of eighty miles, there was only Liu Pan's Jingzhou army.
Moreover, they had changed their route and headed towards Changsha County in the west.
Obviously, Liu Pan did not expect this encounter.
But Yuan Yao was very curious. According to his understanding of Liu Pan, he was the kind of person who was petty and vengeful.
Under normal circumstances, he won a big victory. Although he was slightly injured, he would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat Yuan Yao.
Why did you withdraw?
Could it be that his wound was infected and died?
It was just the scout's reward that made Yuan Yao furious.
The reason why Liu Pan withdrew his troops was only for one reason.
He doesn't have many soldiers either.
In total, there were no more than two thousand people in total.
Although they defeated Yuan Yao for a while, Yuan Jun's corpses were everywhere.
But Liu Pan also knew that Yuan Yao had more than one school of soldiers.
According to Huang Zu's letter from Jiangxia, Yuan Yao led at least three schools of troops to sneak attack Jiangxia County.
Although Liu Pan believed that Huang Zu said this to make himself look less incompetent, he was suspected of exaggerating the facts and urging him to return to the army. But Liu Pan also roughly knew the number of soldiers and horses under Yuan Yao's command.
Those who attacked Jiangxia were probably only two schools of soldiers and horses, and five thousand people were held to death.
As an expert in mountain warfare, Liu Pan is not as stupid as Han Xi and Liu Hu, who can follow the wind and rain.
With more than 5,000 people, it is impossible to guarantee the supply of military food for marching in the mountains.
If the size of the team is too large, the marching speed will inevitably be slowed down. In addition, the amount of dry food carried by the soldiers was limited, so Yuan Yao could only lead 5,000 people on the hundreds of miles of mountain road from Shangliao to Xiakou.
He killed two thousand Yuan's army, but Yuan's army still had three thousand left, and he only had two thousand, so he was still at a disadvantage.
The most important thing is that Liu Pan was frightened by Gan Ning.
If Yuan Yao's army was filled with generals like Lu Dai who were not very brave, Liu Pan would defeat Yuan Yao without any discussion even if he outnumbered them.
But now that he was injured by Yuan Yao's secret arrow and lost to Gan Ning, Liu Pan no longer had the courage to meet in a narrow road.
What's more, the old man Huang Zhong still doesn't know where he is.
If he attacks rashly like he did in Shangliao last time and is attacked by the thieves Gan Ning and Old Huang Zhong, then there will really be nothing left to do.
It’s better to accept it as soon as it’s done!
Damn Yuan Yao, it looked like an embroidered pillow, but he didn’t expect that he could actually shoot an arrow!
It’s enough to have Huang Zhong under his command to fight on his behalf.
Where did this thief Gan Ning come from? So capable of fighting?
Huang Zhong, that old man, is older than me and has superb swordsmanship. He pressed my head and I recognized him.
Where did you get the name Gan Ning? His body shape and sword skills are faster than mine!
I also like to pretend!
He said he was good at using two swords, bah!
When I'm healed, I'll let you pretend again!
I like to pretend!
The unlucky Liu Pan didn't know it at this time.
The opponent he meets next time is even more energetic!
Every time we encounter difficulties, it’s still different every time!
