Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 124

The beggar-like Shanyue bandit soldiers here, even though they have the foundation of Danyang's powerful soldiers, were crushed by the rain of arrows shot by Ling Cao's archers.

The [-] soldiers that Ling Cao brought were all neatly dressed in red and leather armor of the Han army. They looked like regular Han soldiers. The comparison between the two was due to a psychological weakness of a thief who sees soldiers, which made these soldiers even more so. A bit of fear arose in the hearts of the Shanyue bandit soldiers.

For a while, on the battlefield on the concave slope, it was like a red current rushing towards a puddle of mud, and it was as easy as a hot knife cutting tofu into the vanguard of the Shanyue bandits.

The forward army of the Shanyue bandits was completely in disarray, and many Shanyue bandits had completely lost their will to fight and resist.

They had run a lot of mountain roads and rested here with their whole bodies soft, but Ling Cao led his men to ambush them, and many of them were stunned by several rounds of feather arrows.

Many people started to flee in all directions, some fled to the mountains where they came from, some couldn't find their way at all, they were running around anyway.

The rest of the ferocious bandits who wanted to fight back were coerced by others and could only run for their lives, not daring to stay alone to resist.

As for Ling Cao's [-] soldiers, all the archers stopped, and only the [-] swordsmen and shields continued to charge forward after Ling Cao who had changed their swords and shields. Knife chopping.

"Kill! Kill!"

Shouting loudly, Ling Cao rushed to a Shanyue bandit soldier first, kicked him over with one kick, and then stabbed the bandit soldier's neck with his knife.

Then he turned around, drew his knife out, and slashed at the neck of another Shanyue bandit soldier, severing the opponent's main artery with one knife, and sprayed blood soaring into the sky, using Ling Cao's force value to deal with these Danyang Shanyue soldiers Ordinary thieves, of course, have no problem.

"Kill, kill!"

With Ling Cao taking the lead, the other [-]-blade shield soldiers rushed forward as if they were in no man's land.

They are superior in weapons, and they are attacking suddenly. Even if these Shanyue bandits are the vanguard of the bandits, they are considered bandits in the mountains. Fighting alone may not be weaker than the soldiers led by Ling Cao, but at this moment they basically put their backs on He gave the blades of the soldiers led by Ling Cao.

What's more, the [-] vanguard soldiers led by Ling Cao were also Liyang soldiers who had received some training and knew how to form an formation and cooperate with each other. Naturally, they were not afraid of the resistance of these Shanyue bandits.

Of course, the more than 500 archers who stayed behind, under the protection of about [-] other sword and shield soldiers, continued to shoot bows and arrows at the Shanyue bandit soldiers, and shot and killed all the Shanyue bandit soldiers who dared to resist.

Therefore, the vanguard army of three or four thousand Shanyue bandits here completely collapsed. After about half an hour, the raid was over.

After the war, Ling Cao didn't take any prisoners. Of course, he didn't mean to kill all the captives, but to make up for all the surrendered, wounded and captured Shanyue bandit soldiers, turning them into wounded Shanyue soldiers.

This is also what Zhu Wei told him, sometimes killing an enemy soldier is better than injuring the enemy one more time.

At that time, whether the enemy should treat the wounded or give up the wounded was a troublesome question. It is not easy to treat wounds in these years, not to mention the need for a lot of medicinal materials.

Even in the period of the modern Anti-Japanese War, this problem was still a big problem for our army, so how should we face it in the Three Kingdoms period when loyalty was emphasized.

If you don't treat your own wounded soldiers, it will greatly damage the morale, and who will dare to fight hard at that time.

Anyway, these Shanyue bandit soldiers who surrendered and captured were basically cut off by Ling Cao's order. This seems to be the method Zhu Wei ordered.

Now Ling Cao has no way to march with the captives, even if someone surrenders, he dare not take them away, and these Shanyue bandit captives don't have a right thumb, so they can't hold their weapons tightly to hurt people, even if they are released Now, he can no longer continue to threaten Zhu Wei as a Shanyue bandit soldier.

This point seems to have been brought up by Pang Yan when he threatened Liyang to surrender, and Zhu Wei felt that Pang Yan's statement made sense, so he implemented it in the army.

It just so happens that these fingers can be used as proof of killing the enemy under the soldiers, and they can be rewarded with military merits after the battle.

This time, Zhu Wei's army, which was formally established after Zhu Wei reorganized the army in Lingyang County, perfectly carried out this military order in the first battle under the leadership of Ling Cao. Refers to the origin of the army".

Anyway, the enemy soldiers who fought against Zhu Wei's army, except for those who ran away or surrendered, had their right thumbs cut off one by one regardless of life or death.

From a practical point of view, using the thumb as the standard for recording merit is also convenient to carry and easy to count. It is definitely easier to carry than the method of killing an enemy and chopping off the head to record merit, and it is also easier to save than cutting off the ears to record merit, even if the flesh is rotten. Yes, finger bones don't rot.

Well, anyway, with the end of the battle, the soldiers led by Ling Cao on the battlefield began to chop off their fingers.

Of course, the method of using thumbs to record merit like this cannot be to ask soldiers to cut off the opponent's fingers during the battle. Generally, after the battle, according to the combat tasks of the army, the partial battlefield is divided to allocate fingers to record military exploits.

As for how to use fingers to memorize merit, Wang Yuyan also made a strategy. Anyway, there is no need to worry about soldiers snatching fingers after the war.

It's just a pity that the Shanyue bandit soldiers who surrendered and captured this time are all young and strong men, but now even if they want to surrender, they have no chance to keep their fingers.

Who told Ling Cao to be only a vanguard army, and he was under orders, so there was really no way to march with the prisoners.

After finishing all this, Ling Cao didn't dare to stay for a long time, after all, the main force of the Shanyue banditry was not far away, and after a long time, the main force of the Shanyue banditry would catch up and besiege him.

So Ling Cao and his men finished cutting off their fingers, then let the living Shanyue bandits stay and led the troops to leave first. As for the capture, there was no need to think about it. There was nothing valuable that could be obtained from these Shanyue bandits. .

However, when the news of this battle reached the camp of the Yue bandit army in Zulang Mountain, Zu Lang, commander of Shanyue Zong in Jing County, was a little confused. Nearly 1000 soldiers died, more than 1000 were injured, and more than 500 were scattered when they fled. In the end, less than [-] to [-] people fled back to report. This vanguard army was almost wiped out.

Where did the Han army come from?

You must know that Zu Lang brought so many Shanyue bandit soldiers all the way from Jing County. Although he also looted many local villages, he didn't do anything to the county town, so he hid his tracks.

Zu Lang was worried that if he made a big noise, he would attract Liu Yao's army to encircle and suppress him. If he couldn't reach Lingyang County, he would have to face Liu Yao's army...

(End of this chapter)