sweeping the world

Chapter 341 Battlefield Song
There are not many countries in today’s world, let’s not talk about those that are too far away, but there are about a dozen countries that are on the same chessboard as the Han side, and the first ranks are Shijie Zhao Guo and Murong Guo. Yan State, Eastern Jin Xiao~Chao~Ting, as for the second series of countries, there are Zhang's Liang State, Li's Chenghan, and Tuoba Dai State, and the third series of countries are Ran's Qin State, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Xiongnu The ministries, the fourth sequence is some local separatist forces.

Being able to rank the first rank of the Han Department is considered by many people to be a record, but if you really understand the Han Department, you will not only look at the military, but also look at productivity and economic strength.

If an open and fair comment is made, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty on the chessboard, a country and a tribe, any of them can completely beat the rest of the countries in terms of productivity and economic strength.

Although the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in a state of embarrassment, at least they once had the right to rule the Central Plains. Furthermore, the background of ethnicity and inherent traditional territories made the Eastern Jin Dynasty's production capacity and economic strength suffer heavy losses due to the loss of the Central Plains, but its soft power is still not enough. underestimate.

The Han Department is purely due to Liu Yan himself. Unsystematic production is under construction, agricultural planning is also in progress, and handicrafts and the like are taking shape the slowest.

Everyone only sees that the Han army has no shortage of weapons and armor, but what they don't understand is that Liu Yan exists on the basis of everything. They will only take it for granted that the Han army has internal affairs experts, or those with dozens or hundreds of layers. A master who is as tall as the building.

Of course, Liu Yan's things are also exchanged for resources, and they are also made of real materials. The difference is that the production process is carried out by system personnel, not out of thin air.

Yao Yizhong made all the arrangements and came to the Chinese army's archery tower alone.

In the night, the course of the Yellow River was full of flames. It was the arrival of Han ships firing massive rockets at the pontoon bridge. The rockets ignited the pontoon bridge, and the fire spread to the floating objects in the river.

There is no need to guess too much, the fleet of the Han army must have thrown igniters such as kerosene into the river. Under the physical law that oil is lighter than water, they will float down the water flow and stick to some floating in the river. Anything on it, as long as there is a spark, it will burn.

The Han fleet appeared, and four pontoon bridges were destroyed one after another. At least six thousand people disappeared along with the pontoon bridges. They were either killed in the fire or fell into the water and were washed away.

Yao Yizhong had already informed the whole battalion, emphasizing the more than 6000 old and weak women and children killed by the Han army. He wanted to arouse the indignation of the soldiers. It cannot be said that it had no effect, but the effect was actually very limited.

The concept of the Hu people is different from that of the Miao descendants of the Han family.The Miao descendants of the Han family pay attention to the family, and would rather sacrifice themselves than protect the old and the young.The Hu people give priority to preserving themselves and take care of the old and the young when they can. Even when they encounter someone who must be sacrificed, the sacrifices are definitely the old and the weak. You can see it.

The Yellow River's retreat was cut off, which put a lot of psychological pressure on Yao Yizhong. He has been like this, and one can imagine what kind of mentality other people must have.

Facing the crisis situation, Yao Yizhong, the commander in chief, showed absolutely excellent qualities. He calmly appeases the army, so that they won't be defeated so badly that they can't even resist.But he didn't expect to be able to turn defeat into victory. After all, the soldiers' mentality was in a panic, and it was easy to see the collapse of repeated counterattacks. Persistence would become extremely fragile as the Han army continued to attack.

There was a sound of wood being stepped on by cowhide boots, Yao Yizhong turned his head to look, Yao Xiang's head first appeared and then slowly climbed up the arrow tower.

"Father." Yao Xiang has a rare quality for teenagers, that is, enough persistence and calmness in times of trouble.He saluted first, and then said: "The horses in the camp have been gathered."

"Yeah." Yao Yizhong looked at the Yellow River again, and said in a low voice, "This time, it's because my father doesn't know geography, and I didn't expect that the Han army would be so tenacious, and they could survive the absolute numerical disadvantage. keep on."

"Father, the troops brought by Liu Yan must be die-hard loyalists, otherwise how dare they use themselves as bait." Yao Xiang persuaded: "Father also has die-hard loyalists under his command, even more than Liu Yan."

Yao Yizhong had only one goal in gathering the horses, calling the loyal troops to prepare to break through, not wanting to continue the fight as he said before, and it was even more impossible to play tricks of using himself as bait when the morale of the army was so shaken.

Low morale, coupled with confusion in the army, is it disgusting to live long enough to use yourself as a bait in such a situation?Yao Yizhong was trying to appease and deceive those non-Qiang generals, preventing them from escaping first.He knew the truth in this way, Shijie Zhao Guo can't talk about integrity or morality, if people who are not from the same clan really believe it, they must be out of their minds.

"Father?" Yao Xiang hesitated for a long time, and finally asked: "There are tens of thousands of old and weak members of our family in the camp. Do you really want to give up on them too?"

Yao Yizhong initially brought more than 50 Qiang people here, and some Zahu and Jin people came here on their own, making the number close to 15.A series of battles were fought, and the number of casualties must have exceeded [-]. As for the number of people killed in battle, Yao Yizhong's side is not as accurate as Liu Yan's side, but the estimated number of casualties is approaching. One hundred thousand.

Three days ago, Yao Yizhong planned to evacuate the old, weak, women and children to the north bank of the Yellow River. The number of people who successfully reached the north bank of the Yellow River should be about [-].

In order to intercept the Han army who came to support Liu Yan, the Qiang army divided into two troops, [-] troops along the way to intercept the Han army's infantry, and [-] troops along the way to intercept the Han army's cavalry.After the collapse of the two interception forces, the number of people who fled back to the camp should be roughly [-]?
Exactly how many people does Yao Yizhong currently have? Since there is no precise concept, there is only a guess number, which should be around 24?
"In just seventeen days, less than half of the original 55-strong team stayed in the camp..." Yao Yizhong said with a wry smile to his fifth son, Yao Xiang: "This campaign, for the sake of Even if father successfully breaks out with his troops, it is conceivable that he will be ridiculed by the world."

The ridicule is secondary, what Yao Yizhong needs to worry about is how Shi Hu will settle the matter after his prestige is gone.Furthermore, the Qiang people suffered heavy losses in this battle, so how should they be treated by other ethnic groups.

The war has been eroded, and it is eroded from the hearts of the people. If you continue to be surrounded, how easy is it to turn the situation around?Look at the battlefield and see how many Qiang troops counterattacked. Except for a very small number of troops who were able to hold on longer, the rest were immediately collapsed by the powerful bows and crossbows of the Han army.

After all, Yao Xiang was still young, Chi asked: "Father, we... can we successfully break through?"

Things haven't happened yet, and who can be 100% sure what the outcome will be.Yao Yizhong did not blindly make unreliable guarantees, but said: "In the early morning of this morning, the [-] cavalry broke through in two stages."

The back road of the Yellow River was cut off. Fortunately, the long and narrow land of the Yellow River and Jishui still had the west to break through.

At present, the Han army is still at a disadvantage in number, but the Han army is encircling from three sides of the land. Although the Han army is the most in the west, it also makes Yao Yizhong feel at ease.If the number of Han troops in the west is small, Yao Yizhong should really be worried. After all, anyone can guess that the west is the way to break out.

There are not many choices that can be given to Yao Yizhong, and he has to do it knowing that it will be very difficult.He was only initially appeasing those generals who didn't know the truth. The deception would not last long. Once the first wave of cavalry began to break through, those generals would definitely react. It was hard to say how those who were deceived would react.

"When we broke through, we closely followed Weifu." Yao Yizhong looked at Yao Xiang very seriously, almost gritted his teeth and asked, "Do you understand?"

There are too many fires burning, the fires caused by the fighting inside the camp.In addition to the burning camp, there were too many torches and bonfires on both sides to imagine.

The day of the full moon has just passed, and tonight is a moonless night. The fire light like daylight illuminates the clouds, and the light even covers the stars.

Yao Yizhong took Yao Xiang to inspect the camp area. Of course, he did this to let the soldiers see that he was still in the camp area, so as to appease the soldiers and at the same time check how the situation had deteriorated.

"Master, there is really no other way."

"That's right, Commander. It's not that the soldiers didn't work hard, but the Han army's bows and crossbows are too strong to charge forward!"

"Even if we rush up, we can't break through the enemy's shield wall..."

"With 1000 people charging, three or 400 people can charge to the enemy's shield wall is already a lot."

Yao Yizhong walked all the way, and heard pessimistic remarks along the way.I don't know if it was an illusion, but he saw resentment and a dangerous look in the eyes of some non-Qiang generals.

After returning to the core area, Yao Yizhong summoned his confidant generals and said, "The situation is far more serious than we imagined, and the breakout will be launched in advance."

No one said a word, and everyone was serious.

Breaking out of the siege needs cover, but it doesn't mean that breaking out is just a head-on rush, then there needs to be rear troops, and the rear troops cannot give up resistance, and should play a role in preventing and delaying.

Someone asked: "Chief, will they surrender?"

Yao Yizhong decided to break out of the siege ahead of time when he found such signs. No one could be sure whether someone on his side had secretly reached an agreement with the Han army.And under the extremely unfavorable situation of the battle, betrayal has never been a rare thing, especially since his subordinates are composed of many ethnic groups, and there are still [-] to [-] Jin people in the camp.

Now that a decision has been made, Yao Yizhong's so-called loyal troops can only speed up their preparations, causing quite a commotion.

Too much movement will attract attention, and the generals who don't know why come here in person or send people over. They all ask Yao Yizhong questions, such as whether they want to break through and retreat.

I don't know when, singing began to appear in the camp where the killing sound was shaking, and the singing was from the women stranded in the camp. After one took the lead, it attracted echoes from afar, and the clear and crisp singing voice unique to women was accompanied by the sounds of fighting and screams. , groaning... and so on, the voice is singing.

"Hey!" Cheng Shuo looked out through the gap in the shield wall, and asked his immediate superior, Doua: "What is the barbarian girl singing?"

Dou'a was holding a clay pot and a spoon and didn't know what he was eating, especially since the air was full of stench and blood, and he could still eat deliciously.He listened intently for a while, then curled his lips and said, "A love song of the Qiang people."

"What?" Cheng Shuo was stunned, and said in astonishment, "They are all singing love songs on the battlefield of the dead?"

"Otherwise!" After Dou'a was promoted, he went through intensive training, knew a few words, and heard a lot of stories: "Anyway, it is a good thing for us that Hu women start singing, for example, what did the Huns women sing hundreds of years ago?" with?"

"What made me feel colorless?" Cheng Shuo looked at Dou'a with a slight distaste, and muttered, "I kept boasting that I learned a lot, but I didn't learn anything."

Dou'a pretended not to hear the ridicule, he went to participate in the training camp for less than a month, if his grades were excellent, he would not be a Sima of another department, he should be a military lord.That was the pain deep in his heart, and he also felt that it was an extremely shameful thing.

The two were chatting, but they saw a robe Ze running with an obvious smile on his face.

"That... is Wang Biao?" Cheng Shuo said strangely, "What a wonderful thing happened, he smiled so flamboyantly."

"Wait." Doua stood up abruptly as if thinking of something: "Did I just say that it's good for us for Huren women to sing?"

Cheng Shuo nodded: "Yes, you said so."

The next moment, Dou'a jumped on the spot, said "We're out!", and then ran wildly.

Cheng Shuo looked at Dou'a in surprise, "haha" and quickly ran away, his face full of astonishment.

It can be seen that some officers on the front line reacted one after another, and they ran towards the rear almost ecstatically.

It is not common for singing to appear on the battlefield, such as the story of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu's "besieged on all sides", and the former Huns who sang many times and were expelled by the Han army for three thousand miles.It is a more obvious reminder that the military camp has never been a place where you can make noise at will, and it is a basic discipline not to shout, let alone so many people singing songs that can feel desolate and sad when you listen to them.

Liu Yan, who was in the rear, naturally didn't personally meet those officers who came to report when they noticed the clues. What he saw were the superiors of those officers' superiors.

Well, it is a taboo for the army to report to higher levels, no matter how urgent it is, they should report up one level at a time, looking at delays, but discipline is discipline, and it is better to be delayed than to be flexible.Once the discipline of the army develops in a flexible direction, if it is small, it will be how officers lead troops, and if it is large, it will become disorganized and disciplined.What can an undisciplined army expect them to do?
After receiving the report, Liu Yan almost didn't even think about it, and said firmly: "Yao Yizhong wants to break through!"

……Dividing line……

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