kingnovel Chapter 480 The general died in battle
Chapter 480 The general died in battle
It was originally an exploratory battle in which the three parties had their own ideas, but because Lu Cheng personally led the troops to charge, it directly turned into a melee.
As the three thousand cavalrymen continued to charge back and forth, the entire battlefield was completely disrupted. The troops of the Jin and Liao sides were mixed together and cut into pieces. The generals of both sides were unable to give orders to their subordinates to retreat.
Moreover, the Yangwei Army didn't care about friendly or enemy troops, they basically killed anyone they saw. The Jin Army naturally regarded both the Yangwei Army and the Liao Army as enemies, and killed them as well. Only the Liao Army thought that the Yangwei Army was a friendly army at first, but then they found that there were no friendly troops on the battlefield, and even their own people around them might attack them if they were too angry.
After completely disrupting the entire battlefield, Lu Cheng led his team out of the siege, wandered around the periphery of the battlefield, and continuously killed the Jin and Liao troops who wanted to withdraw from the battlefield.
The battle lasted from morning to evening. The battlefield was littered with corpses, scattered weapons, broken limbs, and dead horses, crisscrossing the battlefield. It was extremely tragic.
When the fighting reached its end, the soldiers of both the Jin and Liao sides were blood-thirsty, and even the old, weak and sick burst out with amazing fighting power.
Therefore, except for a few people who were sent out to ask for help, the rest of the 5,000-strong vanguard of the Jin army basically all fell on the battlefield. Even the prince of the Jin Dynasty was cut in half by Lu Cheng, leaving no intact body.
In such a complicated and chaotic war, it is extremely difficult to protect oneself. Not every general has the military power and leadership like Lu Cheng.
After the battle, Lu Cheng's 3,000 cavalrymen also suffered a lot of losses. He commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, find the bodies of their own people, and find a suitable place to temporarily bury the dead soldiers and mark them so that these soldiers can return home in the future.
As early as after the Yangwei Army was officially established, Lu Cheng asked the artisan department to make a bronze plate with an identity number for each soldier to facilitate the determination of the identity information of soldiers who died in battle and the payment of pensions.
This small identity card also makes all the soldiers feel respected and a sense of belonging.
In this era, ordinary soldiers had no status at all. They were just numbers that could be sacrificed at any time, not to mention any pensions.
The Yangwei Army's perfect logistical support, medical assistance, and a pension system that was never discounted or delayed also freed the soldiers from worries, allowing them to fight more wantonly on the battlefield.
Moreover, since Lu Cheng started, every soldier who died in battle has the most complete information record, including the year and month of birth, time and place, how many people were in the family, the growth experience from childhood to adulthood, why he joined the Yangwei Army, what battles he experienced, how many merits he made, and in which battle he died in the end, etc.
Today, there are martyrs' shrines in southern Liaoning, Jinzhou, and Xijin Prefecture to enshrine the tablets of soldiers who died in battle. Each martyrs' shrine has a hero book, which records the information of each martyr according to their place of origin and years of service.
When an ordinary person joins the Yangwei Army, after three months of recruit training, he will receive ideological education, visit the Martyrs' Shrine, and listen to the stories of heroes.
There are monuments and memorial halls in every military academy and school in southern Liaoning.
The families of those who died fighting for Lu Cheng will receive the best treatment, with a fixed allowance every month and every year, as well as subsidies for their children's education and the care of the elderly.
It is precisely because of these measures that the soldiers of the Yangwei Army have a stronger sense of honor and loyalty, and they are not afraid of death at critical moments.
Strict military discipline, scientific training methods, perfect logistical support and wise leaders have created an iron army.
Even if Lu Cheng took his soldiers to die, they would not have any fear.
After burying all the comrades who died in the battle, Lu Cheng led the rest of the soldiers to pay their respects to the simple graves, and then took them away to a new scene.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the battles on other battlefields, Lu Cheng did not hesitate to use himself as bait to mobilize more troops to encircle and suppress him. Now, the battle has just begun.
Accompanied by a loud cry, a steppe eagle came galloping and landed in front of Lu Cheng, bringing the latest news from Huanglong Mansion. The main force of the Jin army in the rear had already set off and headed straight for the battlefield where Lu Cheng was.
At the same time, Pang Wanchun, Hua Rong, Lu Da and others also sent out their own troops. Almost all the troops in southern Liaoning, including those from Jinzhou, Laizhou and Xijin Prefecture, were mobilized.
However, in order not to attract the enemy's attention, troops from various locations attacked in batches, leaving the city at night and marching in secret.
Two nights later, Hua Rong led his troops to lurk under the city of Tongzhou. He first sent elite scouts, who used special equipment to sneak across the moat under the cover of darkness, placed explosives under the city gate, then ignited the fuse and lowered the drawbridge.
With a deafening explosion, before the Jin army in Tongzhou City could react, Hua Rong had already led his troops to attack the city and personally charged forward, shooting sharp arrows from his strong bow to clear a path for his troops.
The Tongzhou siege turned into a street fight in a short period of time. The Yangwei Army, which had conducted street fighting training exercises in advance, quickly suppressed the Jin soldiers with sophisticated crossbows, simple grenades, incendiary cans and other weapons.
Just after the siege of Tongzhou began, Pang Wanchun also led his troops to Longhuazhou and started another battle.
At the same time, Lu Da and Shi Jin also led their troops westward along the southern border of Liao, catching the Liao border troops by surprise.
A few days later, on a grassland somewhere in the north, Lu Cheng once again led his cavalry to hold a simple funeral for the brothers who had just died in battle.
This was the third funeral that Lu Cheng had held with the soldiers since the war began.
During this period, Lu Cheng led his cavalry to harass and mobilize the main forces of the Jin and Liao armies. He fought more than a dozen battles, large and small. The original 3,000 cavalry were less than 2,000.
Many times, facing the heavy pursuit of Jin and Liao forces, there was no extra time to collect the bodies of the soldiers' comrades, and every grassroots officer could only do a temporary statistics.
Almost every day there would be soldiers killed or missing. The final list would be reported to Lu Cheng, who would keep it and make detailed statistics and arrangements after the war.
Generals die in a hundred battles, and strong men return in ten years.
Fighting on the battlefield, casualties are inevitable. Even if Lu Cheng has invincible strength, he cannot take care of every soldier around him.
Looking at the soldiers around him, Lu Cheng spoke loudly: "Soldiers, victory is just around the corner. These dead brothers are watching us, watching us win this battle and conquer a large piece of land, so that our descendants will not be bullied and will enjoy eternal peace!
Raise your heads, polish your swords and guns, feed your horses, and continue to charge with me!"