As long as they win this battle, it doesn't matter if some soldiers and horses of the guard station are killed or injured. But if they lose this battle, they can't protect themselves. No matter how many soldiers and horses of the guard station are killed or injured, it doesn't matter to them.
Ordinary soldiers and horses in the guard station will die when they die. They, the commanders of the guard, do not feel sad. Only when the person who dies is the soldier and servant they raised around them, will they really feel sad.
Ordinary guardsmen and horses, as long as they return to the guardhouse, they can have as many as they want, and those military households can collect a head by just pulling one out.
"Look honestly, as long as we capture this rebel bandit by the Hun River, I will ask the imperial court for your credit." Zhao Shujiao made a promise to several guards commanders.
He still understands the principle of giving a sweet date with a stick. If you want these guards to command and work hard, you can't just oppress them, but also promise some benefits when they should be given.
Sure enough, when several guards commanders heard Zhao Shujiao's words, their faces showed joy.
The banks of the Hun River.
Dozens of cannons from the tiger-shaped flag's artillery formation kept firing, but the guardsmen and horses rushed closer and closer. Even though many people were killed and injured, they still had no intention of retreating.
The captain of the artillery team of the First Battle Division is Xu Bingyu, a native of Liaoyang.
The family is half a scholarly family. My grandfather's generation was a member of the imperial family during the Jiajing period, so he had some land in Liaoyang. Later, several uncles from his father's generation failed to gain fame. In addition, the Li family in Liaodong was powerful, and the Xu family gradually decline.
And his name, Xu Bingyu, was given by his late grandfather.
Later, slave thieves captured Liaoyang, and the Xu family fled to death. He followed his uncle and two cousins to escape into the pass. Soon after, his uncle and two cousins died of hunger and illness on the way, and he They walked and stopped all the way to Datong, and finally followed other refugees to Lingqiu, where they survived.
Relatives died and scattered, and he had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry, so he joined the Tiger Banner and became a heavy transport soldier. Because of his literacy, he was given important positions and became one of the first batch of missionaries to follow several Thai and Western missionaries. People who learn Thai and Western knowledge.
After the Taixi people left, he joined the artillery team and became a team leader. Later, he gradually accumulated merit and was promoted to the artillery team leader of the First War Division.
"Damn, this is desperate! Send the order, don't use solid bullets, replace them all with iron sand." As the soldiers and horses of the guard station got closer and closer, Xu Bingyu ordered the artillery team to change cannons.
Solid bullets have a long range and can hit enemies far away, while iron sand, as a cannon, has a much shorter range, but is extremely powerful and has a longer range than the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
The gunner used a brush to clean the barrel and also to cool the barrel.
The muzzles of all the cannons were no longer angled, but were all flat, pointing at the guardsmen and horses getting closer and closer in front.
Beep! Beep!
Two rapid copper whistles sounded.
Immediately afterwards, the cannons fired again, and countless iron sands flew out from the barrels, like a rain of flowers, densely covering the entire sky.
The guard soldiers who rushed at the front didn't even have a chance to react. They lay down in a large area on the spot. Many of their bodies were beaten to pieces, with blood and flesh splattered all over the floor.
A round of shotgun was fired, and the soldiers and horses of the guard station at the front were directly emptied, leaving a Shura scene on the ground.
Some of the guardsmen at the back were frightened by the scene in front of them.
Being shot to death by arrows, there is still a whole corpse left behind. The body was smashed by countless iron sand and iron balls. It was mixed with the flesh and blood of other corpses around, and it was impossible to find and collect them together.
boom! boom! boom!
The cannon sounded again, and countless iron sand and iron beads fell onto those guard soldiers who could still stand.
The killing scene occurred again.
The guardsmen at the back were completely frightened. Even if they faced the bows and arrows of the archers behind them, they were unwilling to face these cannons on the edge of the Hun River again.
The guardsmen and horses on the battlefield were in an uproar.
Countless soldiers from the guardhouse scrambled to flee, fearing that they would be hit by the cannons on the bank of the Hun River and become rotten meat on the ground.
Thousands of guardsmen crowded into each other on the battlefield, jostling each other.
Countless guards soldiers who fell to the ground never stood up again, and were trampled into a puddle of flesh by countless feet.
"Stop them and let me shoot them with arrows." When Zuo Fu saw the soldiers of the guard station in front retreating in defeat, he quickly ordered the archers to shoot arrows at the soldiers of the guard station who retreated.
The archers at the rear pulled out their bows and shot arrows at the retreating guardsmen.
But there were too many guards soldiers who retreated. Even if these archers fired two rounds of arrows, they could not stop these guards soldiers from fleeing.
"General, we can't stop him anymore, let's retreat, otherwise we will be in danger if we get caught in the chaos." Zuo Fu's soldiers came up and persuaded Zuo Fu to retreat temporarily.
Zuo Fu stared at the unstoppable retreat and said helplessly: "Return to the army."
After speaking, he turned the horse's head and led the people to retreat towards the army behind.
The surrounding archers retreated behind them.
In order to prevent being trapped by the defeated army, the archers retreated while shooting arrows at the guardsmen who retreated in their direction, forcing these people to change the direction of retreat.
The army at the rear.
When Zhao Zhijiao saw that all the soldiers and horses in the guardhouse had retreated in defeat, his expression was extremely ugly.
Naturally, he knows who the cannon fodder mentioned by the other party is.
After he led his army to Yanqing Prefecture, he recruited soldiers and horses from several surrounding guards to be used. The soldiers and horses of these guards were what the deputy general said.
"Don't hesitate, they are only of this use, can we really count on them to kill the enemy?" Zuo Fu said disapprovingly.
After joining forces with these guards, he was completely disappointed with the guards here in Xuanda. At the same time, he also understood why the Liu thief was able to capture so many places in Xuanda in a short period of time.
It is really the local garrison that is too incompetent.
If these soldiers and horses in Xuanda were in Liaodong, they would not even be qualified to be used as cannon fodder.
Zhao Shujiao squeezed his brows together and said: "We will stay in Datong from now on. If we offend these local forces, I am afraid we will be in a lot of trouble in the future."
Local connections are inextricably linked, and he has begun to consider staying in Datong.
"If they don't come, there will be no one to resist the rebel bombardment. We can't send the soldiers and horses we brought from Liaodong to be cannon fodder. General, don't forget, this is just one of the rebel soldiers and horses under Liu Thief. There is another one near Xuanfu Town, let alone one in Datong." Zuo Fu persuaded.
A Taoist friend who will die in poverty will never die.
As the deputy commander-in-chief of this army, he naturally does not want to waste his own soldiers and horses to make wedding clothes for others.
His persuasion seemed to have worked.
I saw Zhao Shujiao grit his teeth and said, "Just do as you say. Send the soldiers and horses from the guard station to attack the rebel artillery formation, and our people will follow behind."
Rather than killing his own people, he chose to sacrifice others.
"Did you hear what the general just said? Go and deliver the order quickly." Zuo Fu said to the token officer on the side.
