Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 131 You Pass

"Supervisor!"

When Deputy General Liu Qin saw this, he thought that the commander was exhausted and his legs were weak due to fighting for a long time.

How could a marshal-level figure who was loyal to the king kneel down to a small pawn so easily?

He was a direct general brought up by the commander-in-chief. Seeing that the commander-in-chief seemed to be looking at his own uncles, he rushed over to support him.

"No need to help me."

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand to send Liu Qin away, and gave him a reassuring smile, indicating that he was fine.

This Black Flag Battalion from southern Henan had only a thousand people plus captured prisoners, but they dared to cross thousands of miles to support Zhili, breaking through the scouts of the Eastern Tartars and killing their way to the central army.

In the end, they really defeated the Eastern Tartars and even beheaded their leader in battle, bringing a resounding victory to the Ming Dynasty!
A deadlocked game was turned around by the Black Flag Battalion, from the despair of failure to the joy of victory.

We deserve thanks, rewards, and worship!

Lu Xiangsheng took off his helmet and placed it beside him, then bowed deeply to Ajie and the others with a gesture of great respect, and his armor creaked as he bent his body.

"Thank you so much to all the brave warriors of the Black Flag Battalion for saving us from this dire situation. Without your help, thousands of soldiers would never have seen the sunrise again.

On behalf of all the soldiers, Xiang Sheng would like to thank you for helping me break through the siege, helping me win today's narrow victory, and helping me defeat the Eastern Tartars! Thank you very much!

Only after Lu Xiangsheng solemnly performed his ceremony did Ajie and the others slowly walk forward.

"We are all warriors defending our country. There's no need to express gratitude... Please, Commander, please do your best."

Ajie used his intact right hand to hold Lu Xiangsheng's armpit to gain leverage, and Liu Qin also rushed over to hold the commander's other arm.

Lu Xiangsheng used his thighs to slowly stand up. When he turned his head, he saw that only two-thirds of "Ajie's" left arm was left, and the tightly tied cuffs were soaked in blood.

He looked at the warrior in disbelief. Such a brave warrior was crippled, and his future life would be full of inconveniences. He couldn't help but shed tears as he stared at his injured arm.

This is the broken arm injury he suffered while fighting for his Tianxiong Army!

"It's okay. I'll be a good man again in eighteen days."

"..."

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head bitterly, thinking it was just the warrior's open-minded words.

Even after eighteen days, the lost forearm will not grow back.

Hu Dawei took off his water bottle and handed it to a player to get close to him. He pointed at He Lusi, the captain of the Black Flag Battalion, and said, "I don't know what kind of training methods your officers in the Black Flag Battalion used to train you to be so brave. With just over a thousand people, you dared to charge the Tartar formation."

"He is only a captain, not one of our generals."

"Is your general officer someone else?"

Hu Dawei was shocked that all the members of the Black Flag Battalion could burst out with such combat power under the command of a thousand-man commander.

If the guerrilla general who trained such fierce soldiers personally went to the battlefield, wouldn't the morale of the entire army soar to the sky?
Ah Jie boasted proudly, boasting like he didn't need to be taxed. "A few days ago, my guerrilla general led his troops to fight against bandits. With only 3,000 men, he defeated 100,000. He received thirteen wounds, and even his horse was killed. Yet, he still held the flag and led us into the charge, charging all the way to the enemy's center and beheading the bandit leader."

"Three thousand defeated one hundred thousand? Can you still fight after suffering thirteen wounds?" Hu Dawei took a breath of cold air.

If someone boasted like this in front of him, he would not believe it at all and would just turn around and walk away.

But this was the Black Flag Battalion that had just helped them break through and win. The corpses of the Jiannu soldiers scattered all over the ground were the best proof of this.

The Black Flag Battalion can really do it!
"As long as my general recovers and leads thousands of auxiliary troops north to join us, then the Black Flag Battalion will be the real fighting force."

"You are just the vanguard of the Black Flag Camp?" Hu Dawei opened his eyes wide and his mouth wide open, as if he had seen an amazing vision.

"Hmm..." Ajie pondered for a moment, "I guess so. We are all soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion. The remaining auxiliary soldiers left in the mall also have some combat power. Almost three of us are equivalent to one soldier.

Hu Dawei looked up at the sky with his eyes rolled up, silently calculating the number and combat strength of the Black Flag Battalion's auxiliary troops.

The ratio of combat troops to auxiliary troops in general armies is one to one, or one to two. Some armies do not bring any auxiliary troops at all, relying solely on conscripted civilians to help carry supplies and armor.

This means that the Black Flag Camp still has thousands of auxiliary soldiers at home, and their combat power is equivalent to the current thousand combat soldiers.

Fifteen hundred combat troops could hold back over ten thousand Jiannu. If another thousand Black Flag combat troops were added, wouldn't that hold back another ten thousand Jiannu? Counting generals like Hu Dawei, Yang Guozhu, and Liu Qin, they could easily face off against the Jiannu with thirty to forty thousand auxiliary troops.

This does not include other friendly forces who are afraid to fight in the field.

If we add together the more than 4,000 troops of Wang Pu, the more than 6,000 troops of Chen Xinjia, the more than 4,000 troops of Shanxi General, and the 30,000 infantry and cavalry of Gao Qiqian who were stuck in Jize, the commander-in-chief will have about 50,000 troops to support the king.

Even if 50,000 infantry and cavalry could not win a field battle against the Jiannu, it would be a success as long as they forced the Jiannu to not act rashly or even to retreat hastily outside the Great Wall.

Hu Dawei told his thoughts to the commander, who actually had the same idea as him.

In this battle, a total of 17,000 pigtail soldiers were killed or captured, hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver, and countless war horses and supplies...

When such a battle record is reported, all participants will be promoted at least one level, and the Black Flag Battalion with the greatest merit will be promoted at least two levels, or even three levels, and the rewards will be even more generous!
There was no controversy over the treatment of the prisoners. Many family members of the officers and soldiers were used as human shields and killed by the Jiannu in this battle. They wished they could skin the Jiannu and boil them alive to eat their flesh and blood.

All captured Zhen Tatars were beheaded, and the cumulative number of Zhen Tatar heads reached five thousand.

At the suggestion of the Black Flag Battalion, the bondservants of the Eight Banners were killed in groups of three. One of the three people was chosen and given to the other two to kill, thus executing 3,000 bondservants.

The remaining bondservants were tied up with ropes and distributed to various camps for custody as criminals. The Black Flag Camp received the largest number of people, 2,000.

With this, the total number of soldiers in the Black Flag Battalion reached 3,700, leaving 1,200 players.

The bondservants assigned to the players tried hard to integrate into the "Black Flag Camp" circle, but the players didn't care. It was also good to have two thousand more auxiliary soldiers to help them transport money, food and ammunition.

However, hundreds of former bondservants and slaves who had fought alongside the Black Flag Battalion could not help but cheer up and began to regard themselves as the legitimate auxiliary troops of the Black Flag Battalion.

There was a sense of hierarchy of "I was here first", and there was a lot of sarcasm and contempt in the words of these latecomers, and he was very clear in supervising the execution of this group of criminals.

In order to distinguish the two, the Black Flag Battalion named the former auxiliary troops and the latter "criminal army".

As for the slaves and civilians abducted by the Eight Banners, they were temporarily placed in Shunde under the control of the prefect, and would be assisted by the government to return home after the war subsided.

Although the Jiannu army has been defeated, its main force is still there. If the fleeing defeated soldiers join forces with the main force of the Jiannu army, it will still be a stubborn problem that the commander-in-chief cannot handle.

Lu Xiangsheng summoned all the generals, including those from the Black Flag Battalion, to discuss matters together.

How to deal with the main force of the Jiannu.

The Jiannu were like a group of hungry wolves, roaming around the heart of the Ming Dynasty, waiting for the government troops to show any flaws and then rushing out.

In fact, the method to defeat the enemy is very simple. Gather all the friendly forces together and work together to rebuild the slave army.

However, the friendly forces were all afraid of the enemy. As soon as the scouts saw the Jiannu vanguard, the main force of the government army immediately retreated more than dozens of miles.

The Black Flag Battalion brainstormed and came up with a simple suggestion: use the heads to lure the scattered friendly forces to gather together.

There are several reasons why the Ming army was afraid of the Jiannu.

First, the generals were afraid that they would be defeated in a field battle and their entire army would be wiped out. In this chaotic world, if they lost their soldiers, they would lose their voice and would end up being unemployed at home.

The Black Flag Camp helped Lu Xiangsheng win the Battle of Julu, and the news of the victory would soon spread across the North China Plain: the Tatars were not invincible.

Secondly, the Ming army was afraid that if they won the battle, they would suffer heavy losses, their military merits would be taken away by the civil officials, and their hard-earned rewards would be embezzled and discounted.

All the generals knew Lu Xiangsheng's character and he would never embezzle their military merits and rewards. As long as everyone fought hard, they would be promoted and rewarded normally.

Of course, words alone may not necessarily convince these cowards who are "afraid of the enemy like a tiger."

We need to give them a little sweetness to taste.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered his generals, "Immediately send out skilled riders, each bearing ten heads of genuine Tartars, to summon Governor Chen, General Wang, General Li, Governor Sun, and Grand Supervisor Gao to garrison Linqing. If they arrive on time, I will give them an additional forty heads."

According to the troops led by these people, if they can get fifty heads of real Tartars without fighting, even if they cannot be promoted to a higher rank, it can offset one suspended sentence for "meritorious service while serving a sentence".

In order to get the "balance" of the remaining forty heads and to verify the authenticity of Lu Xiangsheng's resounding victory, they will definitely obey the order and come to Linqing for the meeting.

The victory report that Lu Xiangsheng urgently submitted soon reached the Emperor, and the governors and generals staying in various places also received news of Lu Xiangsheng's desperate counterattack.

In a short time, the whole north knew about this hard-won victory.

(End of this chapter)