In this battle, the peasant army fought bravely and tenaciously, but Song Jun was as brave and tenacious. Both sides fought a 50-50 split, and no one took advantage.
Zhao Yucheng felt guilty that he had lost some troops because of his misjudgment. He felt that he needed a meeting to make a self-criticism.
Wu Gong, on the other hand, sincerely thanked the heavy snow, because without it, the hand-to-hand combat could not be fought, and his army must have been the first to collapse.
After returning to the barracks, many soldiers collapsed instantly and ran into the tent regardless of military discipline, which was obviously frozen to a certain extent.
The most important thing is no longer this war. The most important thing is whether you can go back alive or not
So Wu Gong began to arrange the evacuation.
Chapter 92 I have seen Wu Gong die.
For this war, if we want to retreat, of course, we must catch up with the peasant army before it is discovered.
If it’s by the lake, he can leave here by boat without worrying about being bitten to death.
But it happened that he was just outside Nanchang and the waterway leading to Poyang Lake was blocked by the peasant army. He could retreat quickly by two legs.
At present, there are at least more than 5,000 wounded and sick people in the army, and the number is increasing. If we take them all at this speed, we will definitely not be able to come quickly. If the peasant army finds out that it is chasing all the way, it will be wiped out by waiting for Song Jun.
He is going to die as a general.
If we want to retreat quickly, we must abandon these wounded and sick people and leave them here to fend for themselves in the face of the sharp blade of the peasant army.
Is this appropriate?
Wu Gong was hesitant at first, because many of the wounded and sick people came from Sichuan and Sichuan together to relieve the old troops. He did this to his army, but it seems inappropriate to do this to his old base, which may lose people’s hearts.
But he soon thought of what Wu Jun, his nominal father and actual brother, had said to him-kindness does not command troops.
A commander-in-chief must always take actions that are in the best interests of the whole, and he must not ruin everything because of a woman’s kindness. He must try his best to protect his strength even if he gives up something.
Gecko’s will to survive is an example he should follow.
The world is cruel. If you want to struggle to survive, you must be cruel. Without Zhuge Liang’s ability, you can’t kill and chase Zhang He and withdraw your troops. You should honestly make careful plans and not allow twists and turns.
Wu Gong thought for a long time and finally made this decision, and decided to crusade.
Song Jun was ordered to retreat quietly on a snowy night.
Braving the goose feather and heavy snow, various ministries in Song Jun began a secret operation. They retreated northward to the lake to find a boat and quickly left here by boat to achieve a successful retreat.
Although they will abandon more than 5 thousand wounded and sick people and can’t take them away, it is a feasible thing and must be done to let more people live
When the news of the withdrawal from the north was reported layer by layer, some people did not want to abandon their fellow villagers, friends, comrades-in-arms, and Wu Gong ignored the dispatch of Qinbing to force the army to withdraw from the north. Those who dared to disobey it would be cut off.
Some people really didn’t want to leave and were finally killed on the spot.
Telling everyone in a steaming corpse to go or die.
In order to live, Wu Gong successfully led the army to retreat, braved the vast snow and retreated all the way north, abandoning several wounded and sick soldiers in military camps and letting them struggle in the cold wind.
They left, and the rest were abandoned.
When these wounded and sick soldiers finally realized that they had been abandoned, they were quite angry.
They panicked and swore and hated Wu Gong, cursing his ancestors for cursing him for not dying a natural death, and also tried to escape north and didn’t want to be left here to die.
But they are too weak, and their roots will soon fall down in the snow and no one can help them get up from the snow and move on, so their end is obvious.
Zhao Yucheng reviewed after an unsuccessful test, but he did not give up turning the tide. I hope that the ministries will still believe Zhao Yucheng.
After a day of army reorganization, the snow stopped, and Zhao Yucheng sent scouts to investigate the situation of Song Jun barracks to see what happened in Song Jun, only to find out that something was wrong.
There is too much snow in Song Jun barracks, and there is almost no trace of cleaning up, which is about to crush the army account, and there is no guard. The guard can’t see the patrol post, which is not normal.
Don’t …
They pulled out?
Zhao Yucheng hesitated briefly and immediately sent Gao Meng to lead troops out of the city and directly crossed Song Jun Daying journey to the south to pursue Song Jun.
Zhao Yucheng himself personally took people to see the Song Jun military camp and sent troops to clear the snow in the military camp to see what was left in the military camp.
He was surprised to find that there were no living people in this barracks.
After the snow was finally cleared, Zhao Yucheng and the peasant army soldiers appeared, which was a terrible scene.
Most of the barracks are empty, and some of them are injured in the last few barracks.
But it is here that the scene is very frightening.
Clean up the snow around the camp, open the curtain and look inside. They are all lying asleep, covered with broken cups of straw and frozen bodies. It is extremely cold and there is no temperature in the military account.
Some camps are surrounded by bodies, and the bodies are all falling in the outside direction, while some beds in the military account are empty. Probably, these people can’t resist the cold and freeze to death soon after they leave the military account.
From the doorway of chancellorsville to the exit of the barracks, there was a long straight line. Song Bing’s body was stiff without any wound, and he was obviously frozen to death.
They tried to leave the barracks, but failed to leave and froze to death.
What’s with these Song Bing?
What did the retreating Song Bing do?
Did you abandon them?
Zhao Yucheng is not clear.
The next morning, Gao Meng came back with his head down and said that he didn’t chase Song Bing’s main force, but he caught a group of Song Bing who didn’t retreat with the main force for various reasons and lay on the side of the road to die. About 500 people.
Gao Meng brought them back from the war.
Watching them shivering with cold, Zhao Yucheng ordered them to wear clothes and drink ginger soup, which brought more than 500 people back from the line of life and death.
Then these half-dead Song Bing prisoners knelt before Zhao Yucheng and thanked him for saving his life, crying and telling him what Zhao Yucheng wanted to know.
Because even a few of them are in charge of military supplies, Zhao Yucheng knows more about them.
Wu Gong abandoned all the sick and wounded.
Due to poor logistics, this winter material in Song Jun is very poor, and many of them are secondary places that can’t keep out the cold. Since the sudden drop of temperature in the past, a large number of soldiers have lost their fighting capacity with colds and fever in Song Jun.
And with the weather getting colder and colder, there are more and more patients, and soon thousands of trends can’t control Wu Gong, but they can’t solve this problem. Finally, it’s snowy, and Wu Gong is worried about continuing to go to Song Jun headquarters to freeze to death, so he decided to withdraw.
But at that time, more than 5,000 people were seriously ill and couldn’t get out of bed. They were a burden to retreat. Wu Gong decided to give up. They left here with soldiers who were healthy and slightly ill and could run and retreat north.
Wu Gong took away rations and energy supplies and abandoned more than 5,000 patients.
And these people are struggling in the ice and snow, with no food, no water and no medicine. They end up starving and dying in the ice and snow.
Zhao Yucheng and an officer instructor of the peasant army said nothing after hearing this, and then took the more than 500 people to see the Song Jun military camp cleaned by them.
Watching more than 5,000 Song Bing die of freezing disease, more than 500 people cried themselves hoarse and knelt down, as if they were confessing to the dead in the hope of being forgiven by them.
Looking at such a scene, Zhao Yucheng has deep feelings.
"Although there is an old saying that a general who is merciless should control his feelings, victory can give up a lot of things, but I always feel that a general who is cruel to win and fight can’t last long.
Perhaps the theory of kindness is not only to ask the general to be cruel to the end, but also to be carefully measured by the general, rather than to kill an emotion into a killing machine simply because of four words
Wu Gong is good at fighting, but will anyone believe him after that? Will anyone else be willing to fight with him and live and die together? I may follow him because of orders, but I will never help him in times of danger. I have seen Wu Gong die. "
Chapter 929 Zhao Shen is obviously a mature emperor who has learned to jilt the pot.
After feeling, Zhao Yucheng ordered the more than 5,000 frozen Song Bing Department to be cremated.
Then he decided to erect a monument here to record this terrible event and remind future generations of the cruelty of war, the coldness of generals and the hatred of bureaucrats.
More than 500 people who were lucky enough to live were never willing to go back. They all knelt before Zhao Yucheng and asked to join the peasant army to fight to the death.
"If you decide to turn over a new leaf, you can say that there is still salvation. We won’t give up on you, but you should remember that you shouldn’t fight with me and you don’t need someone to fight. You need an idea to fight, and you will know it later."
Zhao Yucheng’s words are a bit riddled, but there is no doubt that these 500-odd people will never want to return to that terrible group in Song Jun again.
Nothing is more instructive than the immediate hell.
Having experienced cruel abandonment, they have been extremely disappointed with Song Jun.
With the retreat of Wu Gongmian, this "anti-bandits war" on Jiangnan West Road ended again when Song Jun was defeated and the peasant army was defeated.
Although Yao Zhong, the general of Sichuan and Sichuan, appeared in the information before, it is reported that Yao Zhong has arrived in the Jinghu war zone but has not continued to March into the posture. I think that even if he picks Jin Xian, he will not change anything because of the retreat of Wu Gong.