Qiming 1158

Chapter 930 I have seen Wu Gong's death

For this war, if we want to retreat, of course, we must hurry up when the peasant army has not yet discovered it.

If it is by the lake, he can leave here directly by boat without worrying about being bitten.

But he is now outside Nanchang City, and the waterway leading to Poyang Lake has been blocked by the peasant army. He cannot retreat quickly, and can only rely on two legs.

Now there are at least 5000 wounded and sick in the army, and the number is still increasing. If we bring them all, the speed will definitely not be fast. If the peasant army finds out, they will chase them all the way, and then wait for the Song army. What is more, the whole army is wiped out.

He's going to be doomed as a master.

If you want to retreat quickly, you must abandon these wounded and sick, leave them here, let them fend for themselves, and face the sharp blade of the peasant army.

Is it appropriate to do so?

Wu Gong was a little hesitant at first, because among the wounded and sick there were many old troops who came from Sichuan and Shu with him to change defense. Appropriate, may lose people's hearts.

But he soon thought of what his nominal father and de facto elder brother Wu Jie once said to him - kindness does not lead the army.

As a commander, he must take actions that are in the best interests of the whole at a critical moment, instead of ruining everything because of a momentary woman's benevolence, he must preserve the maximum strength, even if he sacrifices something for it.

The will of the gecko to survive by docking its tail is an example he should follow.

This world is cruel. If you want to struggle to survive, you must be cruel. Without Zhuge Liang's ability, don't think that you can kill Zhang He, who is pursuing him. When withdrawing troops, you must honestly make careful plans and do not allow any twists and turns. .

Wu Gong thought for a long time by himself, and finally made this decision and decided to crusade.

Song Jun was ordered to retreat quietly on the snowy night.

Braving the goose feather heavy snow, all the Song army units started a secret operation, retreated to the north in an all-round way, went to the lake to find a boat, and quickly left here by boat to achieve a successful retreat.

Although they will abandon more than 5000 wounded and sick people and cannot take them away, this is a helpless thing, and it must be done so that more people can live.

When the news of the northward withdrawal was reported layer by layer, some people were unwilling to abandon their fellow villagers, friends, comrades in arms, and subordinates. Wu Gong ignored it and dispatched his own soldiers to force the entire army to withdraw to the north.

Some people really didn't want to leave, and were finally killed on the spot.

The steaming corpse silently told everyone to go or die.

In order to survive, in order to live better, Wu Gong successfully led the army to retreat, braved the heavy snow to retreat all the way north, abandoned several wounded and sick soldiers in the barracks, and let them struggle in the cold wind.

They were gone, and the rest were abandoned.

And when these wounded and sick soldiers finally realized that they had been abandoned, it was quite sad.

They panicked and cursed. They hated Wu Gong so much that they cursed his ancestor, the Eighth Generation, and cursed him to die. They also tried to escape north, not wanting to be left here to die.

But their bodies were too weak to run for long, and they soon fell into the ice and snow, and no one could help them get up from the ice and snow and continue forward, so their ending was obvious.

After an unsuccessful trial, Zhao Yucheng made a review, but he did not give up hope of turning the tide of the battle, and his subordinates still trusted Zhao Yucheng.

After the whole army was reorganized for a day, the snow stopped, and Zhao Yucheng dispatched scouts to investigate the situation in the Song army's barracks, wanting to see what was going on in the Song army, only to realize that something was wrong.

There was too much snow in Song Jun's barracks, and there were almost no signs of clearing. It was about to overwhelm the military tent, and there was not a single guard guarding the guards, and there was no patrol post in sight. This was not normal.

Is it...

Did they withdraw?

Zhao Yucheng hesitated for a moment, then immediately sent Gao Meng to lead his troops out of the city, directly crossing the Song army camp all the way north, and chasing the Song army.

On the other hand, Zhao Yucheng personally led people to inspect the Song Army barracks and sent troops to clear the snow in the barracks, wanting to see what else could be used in the barracks.

It was only then that he was surprised to find that there was no one alive in this barracks.

After the snow was almost cleared, Zhao Yucheng and the soldiers of the peasant army were confronted with a horrific scene.

Most of the barracks were empty, and only the few barracks at the back were occupied, most of them were wounded barracks.

But here it is, the scene is horrific.

After clearing the snow around the tent, I opened the curtain and looked inside. All I saw were frozen corpses lying on the ground sleeping with straw and covered with broken cups. The military tent was extremely cold and there was no trace of temperature.

Some of the tents were surrounded by corpses, and the corpses were all falling towards the outside. However, there were no people in some of the beds in the tents. It was probably because these people could not resist the severe cold and freeze to death soon after they left the tents. .

From the entrance of the military tent to the exit of the military camp, on a long straight road, lay a long body of Song Bing. There were no wounds on his body, his body was stiff, and he was obviously frozen to death.

They tried to leave the barracks, but were unable to leave, and froze to death.

What happened to these Song soldiers?

What did the retreating Song Bing do?
Did you abandon them?

Zhao Yucheng is not clear.

In the early morning of the next day, Gao Meng came back with his head down, saying that he hadn't caught up with the main force of the Song soldiers. Instead, he caught a group of Song soldiers who were lying on the side of the road waiting to die for various reasons, about 500 soldiers. many people.

Gao Meng brought them back as trophies.

Seeing that they were shivering with only half their lives left, Zhao Yucheng ordered them to be clothed and ginger soup to drink, pulling these more than 500 people back from life and death.

Then these half-dead captives of Song Bing collectively knelt down in front of Zhao Yucheng to thank him for saving his life, and while crying, told him what Zhao Yucheng wanted to know.

Because there are even a few of them who are military officers and soldiers responsible for the supply of military supplies, so Zhao Yucheng knows more about them.

Wu Gong abandoned all the wounded and sick.

Due to poor logistics, the winter supplies of this Song army were very poor, many of which were defective and could not keep out the cold at all. Therefore, since the previous temperature drop, a large number of soldiers in the Song army began to have a cold and fever, and lost their combat effectiveness.

And as the weather gets colder and colder, there are more and more patients like this, and soon there will be thousands of them. The trend can't be controlled at all, but Wu Gong can't solve this problem. Finally, when it snows, Wu Gong is worried that Song Jun will all go on. Frozen to death, so decided to withdraw.

But at that time, more than 5000 people were seriously ill, lying in beds and unable to get up. They were a burden to the retreat. Wu Gong decided to abandon them and leave here with healthy and mildly ill soldiers who can run. withdraw.

Wu Gong took away all the rations and available supplies, and abandoned more than 5000 wounded and sick.

And these people are struggling in the ice and snow, and they have no food, no water to drink, and no medicine. I think they will end up in the ice and snow, under the pressure of hunger and cold, and die tragically.

After hearing this, Zhao Yucheng and a kind of officer instructor of the Peasant Army were silent, and then took the more than 500 people to see the Song Army barracks that they had cleaned up.

Looking at the more than 5000 Song soldiers who died of frostbite, the more than 500 people cried hoarsely, and all knelt down, as if they were pleading guilty to the dead, hoping to be forgiven by the dead.

Looking at such a scene, Zhao Yucheng was deeply moved.

"Although there is an old saying that kindness does not control the army, generals should control their emotions, and can give up many things in order to win, but I always feel that a cruel general who only fights for victory cannot last long.

Kindness does not control the soldiers, maybe not just that the general must be ruthless to the end, the scale of which may be something that the general should measure carefully, not simply because four words obliterate all emotions and become a killing machine.

Wu Gong is good at fighting, but after this, will anyone trust him?Will there be anyone willing to fight with him and live and die together?Maybe he will follow him because of orders, but he will never help in times of crisis. Therefore, I have already seen Wu Gong's death. "

(End of this chapter)