I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 410 Referee?Judge?
"interesting."

"really interesting."

Chang'an City, Weiyang Palace.

The news of Mayi's great victory, with Liu Sheng's connivance, has spread rapidly to all directions with Chang'an as the center.

By mid-October in the winter of the second year of Tianzi Shengxin, the news had spread almost throughout Guanzhong.

And the significance of this great victory to the Han Dynasty can also be summed up in this sentence.

——An unprecedented victory!
—A total victory never before seen!
Although the specific details have not been heard by too many people, the general situation has spread throughout the streets and alleys of various counties and counties in Guanzhong.

As for the moment, Liu Sheng looked at the three memorials on the plan in front of him with an intriguing smile.

To be more precise, these are reports on the battle situation sent by the chariot general Zhidu, the top general Zhang Xu, and the former general Cheng Buzhi without each other's knowledge.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Sheng finds these three memorials 'interesting'.

The first letter was sent by the supreme commander of this battle: Chariot and Cavalry General Zhidu.

In Zhidu De's report, the focus of the Mayi battle was almost entirely focused on the defense of Mayi in the first half of the battle.

According to the data compiled by Zhidu, more than [-]% of the casualties of the Han family in the Battle of Mayi were in the defense of Mayi.

Correspondingly, the main losses suffered by the Xiongnu army basically occurred during the attack on Mayi.

——A battle to defend Mayi lasted less than a month, and the Han family lost more than [-] soldiers!

If counting the severely wounded or even disabled due to injuries, this number may be more than tripled.

In other words: In Mayi alone, the Han family announced that more than [-] active soldiers were retired from active service due to casualties.

As for the losses of the Huns, although Zhidu used words such as "heavy damage", "quite huge" and "injury", he failed to give an accurate figure.

This did not exceed Liu Sheng's expectations.

Huns~
There was a custom of snatching corpses, and it was a city attack and defense battle, and there was no overwhelming result;

Even though the sky was dark and the sky was dark, it was completely reasonable that the Mayi defenders under Zhidu's command could not go out of the city gate to take the head.

But Liu Sheng's ability to understand it does not mean that the current system of the Han Dynasty-the staggeringly strict military merit system can understand it.

Taking this battle as an example, Zhidu's chariot and cavalry army's combat merit calculation, the most core indicator: floating chop, is the problem that Zhidu must be having a headache at the moment.

According to Fu Zhan's calculation formula of 'the number of people killed in battle minus the number of people beheaded by the enemy', the casualties of the army of chariots and cavalry under Zhidu's army in the Battle of Mayi were roughly around 5000;
The corresponding number of beheadings by the enemy is a jaw-dropping single digit.

——Even this number of beheadings, I'm afraid I have to thank those few Huns who rushed to the top of the city recklessly, causing their bodies to fall on the top of the Mayi wall, or even inside the city wall.

In this way, the problem is a bit serious.

The military experience is shallow, and he has just become the "first person responsible for the corruption of the northern defense line" not long ago. He also commanded the Mayi battle as the supreme commander.
Just as killing five thousand enemies is enough to make Zhidu crack the earth and make him a marquis: a floating beheading of five thousand is enough for a Marquis of Che who has thousands of households to "pay for his crimes with nobles" in order to save his family and lives. Chehou, the highest rank of military meritorious lord, was pushed to the bottom to the highest official.

People who have Chehou Shiyi have to pay for their crimes with noble titles, and at the cost of 'the title is smashed to the end' in exchange for their wealth and life, let alone Zhidu...

Liu Sheng has been having a headache for a long time recently.

It is certainly not scientific enough to use floating chop as the core indicator of military achievements;

However, after many investigations, Liu Sheng had no choice but to admit: Relatively speaking, Floating Slash is the lowest verification cost in this era, and at the same time, it is the most fair military achievement accounting method.

Therefore, for Zhidu, Liu Sheng can only convict him on the grounds of "floating and chopping as a negative" at most, and then pardon him on the grounds of "the overall result is quite optimistic".

As for rewards, they can only follow the tradition of the past, and have a show with the two empress dowagers of the East Palace: Liu Sheng sings the red face, and the two empress dowagers sing the bad face, and make up for it in private.

He had been mentally prepared for Zhidu's "negative floating chop", so Liu Sheng was not too surprised by Zhidu's report.

What really surprised Liu Sheng, and even felt "interesting" and "interesting", were the other two memorials that were in stark contrast to Zhidu's memorial and had diametrically opposite positions.

——After the chariot general Zhidu, it is natural that the former general as the 'deputy commander' does not know Cheng Cheng.

Unlike Zhidu who defended himself between the lines, Cheng Bushi's memorial is just like his character, highlighting his honesty and honesty.

From the first day when the army of chariots and cavalry arrived in Mayi, Cheng did not know what orders Zhidu gave, what mobilization the army of chariots and cavalry was ordered to carry out, what results they achieved, and what losses they suffered. Ten of them were written on the report.

How detailed is it written?

For a report, the bamboo slips used by Zhidu were four feet long, Zhang Xu was less than three feet long, but Cheng Bushi used six volumes of five-foot bamboo slips!

Moreover, in the whole report, there are no descriptions from subjective perspectives such as "I think" and "he is this" at all, and there are only cold narratives like history books: On a certain day, a certain year, a certain month, a certain place, so and so issued a certain Order; So-and-so followed the order and did such-and-such thing; So-and-so's troops roughly killed and wounded the number of enemy troops, and how many people were injured and killed.

Just writing down the running accounts, Cheng Bushi didn't even forget to make a summary report at the end: In the Battle of Mayi, 730 soldiers were killed in the battle and 210 people were disabled.

As for the harvest, Cheng Bushi used the 'eye side' as the standard, and gave a rough judgment: the Huns' Aries and Loufan were both damaged by more than a thousand, which caused the army's morale to slacken;

The Zhelan tribe lost at least three thousand, so that they were unable to continue to attack Mayi, and had no choice but to return to the camp to rest.

In addition, there are slave cannon fodder that the Huns have always been accustomed to use in sieges and fortified battles. There are at least 3000 people, and the loss is likely to reach 5000.

Liu Sheng couldn't help sighing because of his cautious choice of words and neutral stance: If that bastard Li Guang had the awareness of Cheng Buzhi, he wouldn't have ended up in the end of "Li Guang is hard to seal".

Generally speaking, it is still obvious what Cheng Buzhi wants to express in this memorial.

If it is said that Zhidu’s memorial is that Zhidu is using words to justify and justify himself, a little bluntly saying that he “has no merits and faults” or “the merits outweigh the faults”, then Cheng does not know this memorial. It is quite a convincing argument.

Show the data, show the facts, and tell Liu Sheng directly with the facts: the casualties of Zhidu's troops were not due to incompetence, but inevitable casualties, and what should be exchanged was also exchanged.

Moreover, compared to Zhidu's subjective perspective description of "I have done more than my faults" and "I really have done something", Liu Sheng still prefers Cheng Bushi's euphemistic and convincing description.

——The thing is such a thing, the above is what happened, I don't say who is right and who is wrong, who has merit and who has fault, the data and facts are here, Your Majesty can judge for himself, right?

It has to be said that Liu Sheng still prefers Cheng Bushi's almost mechanized step-by-step approach to Li Guang's unorganized, undisciplined, unparalleled military force and the title of "parachutist".

It wasn't that Liu Sheng became conservative and stubborn at such a young age, but the particularity of the emperor's profession made Liu Sheng instinctively resist some subjects who were too subjective and often failed to bring good results.

Especially when this subject was born in the army, as a military general, every move is related to the survival of thousands of soldiers, and even the outcome of a war, Liu Sheng's love for Cheng Bushi became more and more Expand uncontrollably.

Closer to home: What makes Liu Sheng interesting is of course not the difference between Zhidu and Cheng Bushi.

Whether it's Zhi Du's self-defense, or Cheng Bushi's tactful excuse for his senior brother, they all belong to human nature in an absolute sense.

What really interested Liu Sheng was the memorial letter from Captain Flying Fox Zhang Xu.

What did Zhang Xu say in that letter?
Liu Sheng can only say: Zhang Xu, Captain of the Flying Fox, is really a very pure warrior.

First of all, at the beginning of the report, Zhang Xu listed several crimes such as "not keeping mobile troops outside the city", "not using tactics flexibly in the process of defending the city", "not effectively mobilizing the morale of the army during the battle" and so on;
After almost bluntly expressing the intention of "Zhi is a piece of rubbish, I really didn't say that he is really not worthy of being a charioteer general", Zhang Xu began to make a formal report.

——As soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Zhang Xu discovered that neither the Huns outside the city nor the army of chariots and cavalry under Zhidu's army in Mayi City had occupied the only high ground.

Therefore, Zhang Xu led his army to occupy that high ground almost without hesitation, and put on a condescending posture, ready to cut into the battlefield from the flank at any time.

Such a move undoubtedly greatly relieved the pressure on the city's defenders for the chariot and cavalry army under the Zhidu of Mayi, so that the Huns could not concentrate on attacking the city at all, and instead focused more attention, or even more than half of their attention, on the city. The flying fox camp outside the city.

The reason is simple: No matter how powerful the army of Zhidu chariots and cavalry in Mayi is, they will eventually shrink within the city walls, and it is almost impossible to leave the city at the risk of losing the city gate;
But for Lieutenant Flying Fox, who has experienced countless battles, especially as a frontier firefighter and dealt with the Huns countless times, it is almost no difficulty to descend from the camp located on the high ground.

The later strategic choice of the Huns also effectively proved this point: after a long time outside the city of Mayi, the Huns would rather face Captain Feihu, who has extremely rich combat experience and powerful combat effectiveness, than bully the soldiers under Zhidu’s command. Guanzhong Young Master Bing.

——Even if it was just a night attack, and it was a completely failed night attack, it could also prove this point.

And that night attack was undoubtedly the climax of Zhang Xu's memorial.

According to Zhang Xu's remarks, the reason for not intervening in the offensive and defensive battles in Mayi is because Zhang Xu believes that compared with the arrows shot, they are undoubtedly still on the bowstrings that are fully drawn, ready to go, but they don't know when they will be shot. The arrow feathers are more deterrent.

Based on this alone, and the fact that he actually shared Mayi's defensive pressure, Zhang Xu cleared himself of the accusation of "waiting on the sidelines and watching Mayi's army of chariots and cavalry suffer heavy casualties".

Afterwards, Zhang Xu was sure that the Huns would not give up, let alone return to the grassland in desperation after attacking Mayi.

After a series of deduction, Zhang Xu came to a very simple conclusion: After eliminating Mayi as the target of attack, the only option left for the Huns was the Captain Feihu led by him.

Therefore, Zhang Xu ordered Captain Flying Fox to do everything as usual during the day, and to evacuate the Flying Fox camp in batches at night, hiding in the mountains and forests east of the location of the Flying Fox camp.

In the end, the Huns launched a night attack as expected, and they were not ambushed or encircled as Zhang Xu expected.

As for the results of the battle, it is even more fruitful...
"——Hun and Baiyang, from the left general to the shepherds, beheaded 480 levels;"

"——The upper part of the Xiongnu Tower, from the right down to the big household, beheaded 140 five levels;"

"——The Zhelan tribe of the Xiongnu, from Zhelan King Hakan down, the entire army was wiped out, and no one survived."

"—more than [-] Zhelan heads were obtained, and thousands of corpses were burnt to death. All of them were made of skulls, and they were cast in the forty miles north of Mayi..."

···
"Whoo~"

"There are no less than [-] levels of heads that are 'convincing evidence' alone;"

"In addition to those thousands of Zhelan people who were burned to ashes, and even King Zhelan himself."

"Especially the troika that the Xiongnu suppressed Munan..."

"—Zhang Xu, he is about to be named a Marquis."

"It's not just Zhang Xu, I'm afraid that after this battle, Captain Feihu will have at least five more martial arts masters."

"Especially Zhang Xu himself, there are at least three thousand households in the food town..."

Looking at the scroll in his hand, the roll was obviously not long, but it made people feel a surge of energy and blood. Liu Sheng couldn't help but take a deep breath as he played the report with a heavy breath.

When his eyes fell on the end of the report again, the young emperor, who was still a little bit helpless because of the victory in the battle, finally showed that intriguing smile again.

"Impeachment is ineffective in fighting, and the opportunity to fight is delayed, and the right and wise king of the Xiongnu escapes from birth..."

"Hey;"

"The title of 'Chariot General', I'm afraid it made Zhang Xupifu angry..."

···
"Zhidu, my Han family will be the most reliable coach in the next 20 years;"

"Cheng Bushi, my favorite and most trusted general of the new generation;"

"Zhang Xu is the captain of the flying fox and the general of chariots who have served for many years. He is also the number one hero in this battle. He will soon be named the hero of the marquis."

"——he is also the first hero in my dynasty to be granted the title of Marquis because of his martial arts."

"The first hero who is confirmed to be buried at the foot of the emperor's mausoleum in the future..."

Muttering to himself, Liu Sheng's gaze once again scanned the three memorials in front of him in order.

Not long after, the young emperor thought of it from the imperial couch with a relaxed tone.

"In the battle of Mayi, Captain Feihu should take the lead."

"Written: Captain Feihu returned to Feihu Jing, selected hundreds of meritorious soldiers, and followed Captain Feihu to the court to receive rewards."

···
"The army of chariots and cavalry has made great achievements, and the general of chariots and cavalry has served as the guard of Yanmen for several years. It is time to report to the court."

"Written: The chariot and cavalry general Zhidu, select five hundred chariot and cavalry soldiers who have meritorious service, and return to Chang'an first."

"The former general didn't know Cheng Cheng and stayed in Mayi for the time being, and he will teach slowly."

···
"Go and report to the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager: In the battle of Mayi, our Han family won a great victory!"

"—The queen mother and the imperial grandmother have also been worried for a long time."

"In a few days, I will personally serve the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, and lead the Captain of the Flying Fox, the General of Chariots, etc., to the temple to worship the ancestors."

(End of this chapter)