Chapter 229: Good at Shooting

Wu Jie felt the helmet to measure the temperature, and then charged with a hand-to-hand weapon, defeating the Jin army greatly. He then chased the Jin army for several miles and burned down the camp before returning.

After the first battle, the momentum of both sides was reversed. Wanyan Salihe, who fled to the second camp in Huagou and stopped the collapse with the support of Han army archers, felt hot all over but his heart turned cold.

Because at this point, he was very sure that it would be impossible for him to capture Fangzhou City within the deadline, which was before tomorrow.

It’s not because of this defeat on the battlefield.

To be fair, losing a battle is really not a big deal, and being chased like a rabbit is also not a big deal. Victory and defeat are common in the military, which is really a golden saying on the battlefield... If you really want to say being chased like a rabbit, wasn't Wu Jie the same way several times before?

Who is the one who has been defeated in three battles and all the way here?

If you lose, next time you can learn from Wu Jie and fight back bravely after learning from his mistakes.

Therefore, the problem is not about the future, but about the present: when the defenders who have the advantage of geographical location dare to counterattack, dare to fight hand-to-hand, and can win, it means that the morale and military spirit of the defenders have reached a certain level. At this time, it would be ridiculous to want to capture the city by intimidation and non-consumption means.

And in the current state of Fangzhou City, if it is purely consumption, how many lives will be lost? How long will it take?

However, Salihe couldn't just retreat like that... It wouldn't matter if he was ridiculed by Tuhesu and others, but the key point was that he still had a military order to capture the city in three days!

If I go back like this and anger Lou Shi, I will be beheaded according to military law. Who can save me?

Of course, I dare not cover up today’s failure.

So, in the evening, Salihe finally bit the bullet and sent a message to the Hekou camp, explaining the battle situation and requesting the next "instructions"... The original words were, requesting General Loushi, the commander-in-chief, to give him "tactical guidance".

When night fell that day, instructions came from Lou Shi as expected.

"The three-day deadline has not yet arrived, and there are no new orders. So I will follow the previous order?" Salihe was stunned. "Does that mean I should continue to attack the mountains and capture the cities?"

"That's probably what you mean, right?" Wanyan Mouyan didn't look at Salihe, but his eyes wandered. He was attracted by the chaotic scene of wounded and deserting Jin soldiers around him. He was obviously on a mission to observe the military situation. "Father, that's all you have to say."

Salihe was completely speechless.

Mou Yan did not stay long. Seeing this, he bowed slightly, then went to the camp to ask a few familiar officers, and then went back to the Hekou camp overnight.

Not to mention it that night, the next morning, Salihe prepared his troops and continued to turn west to prepare to execute military orders. He did not dare to really test Lou Shi's patience.

However, when this cold-faced man was heading towards Fangzhou City again, he first saw the burnt remains of his own military camp, and he felt powerless. But after passing the burned military camp and walking into the main battlefield of yesterday, he suddenly felt panicked again... It turned out that the Song army naturally did not forget to clean up the battlefield when they evacuated, so the armor, clothing, and weapons on the corpses of the Jin army were almost stripped off. Not only that, the heads of almost every corpse were chopped off for military merit, so that headless naked corpses were scattered everywhere.

There was no way. On the battlefield, this kind of situation was expected. It was just that the Song army knew that their field combat capability was insufficient and they were afraid of being counterattacked, so they did not have time to concentrate on burning or burying the bodies, which was why they looked so messy and barbaric. The Jin army was even worse. Because as the invading party, the Jin army often carried out large-scale and systematic massacres of cities and towns after the war in order to deter and plunder, and often burned designated fortresses and cities to ashes, and even engaged in large-scale slave hunting.

Therefore, Salihe knew very well that he had no right to say that the Song army's actions were barbaric.

However, back to the present, the Jin army collected the corpses of their own side along the way and gathered them together for cremation, but the troops' mentality changed drastically when they saw this situation while marching. After all, they usually did this kind of thing to intimidate others, but today they encountered this in turn, and found that they were no different from the enemies who were intimidated before... They were also terrified, hateful, numb, and at a loss.

These were just the thoughts of ordinary soldiers. For officers or Salihe, the psychological torment did not end there... Before Salihe even entered the city, he had already found himself in a dilemma.

This Jin army commander clearly knew that it was impossible to capture the Song army's position in a short time, but because of the serious military order issued by Lou Shi in the rear, he had to personally push his men into this death tunnel again! And these people, these living people, are likely to become those headless naked corpses again!

It's no wonder that Salihe is sentimental. He has followed Aguda since he was a child, then followed Nianhan, and later followed Loushi. He only needed to obey orders and charge on horseback to enjoy the glory of the victor. He never had to consider the consequences of defeat. He never thought that he would encounter such a thing. He has always been the one trampling on the lives of others.

Therefore, at that moment when the battle was about to begin, Wanyan Sali hesitated.

Reason and the military education he received since childhood told him that just to maintain the fearless attitude of the Jin army and the morale of this expedition, the lives of some men were not worth mentioning, not to mention the pressure from military law and the commander. But yesterday's defeat and the heavy casualties in just two days still made the youngest commander of the Western Army fearful.

This fear is not a personal fear of death, but a commander's panic on the spot... It may be fine tomorrow, but today he is at a loss.

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