Seeing Ma Chong coming over, Luo Rong went up to him.
"I don't know what's going on. Only five hundred people came, and we didn't even get anything. We didn't sleep for most of the night."
Luo Rong spread his hands helplessly.
Ma Chong looked at Chu Ying again. It was Chu Ying who suggested that Nurhachi might launch a night attack tonight, so they should take more precautions. Now that the night attack had come, but the scale was a little funny. Chu Ying didn't know what to say.
"Forget it. I guess this is your problem, Old Luo."
Ma Chong said to Luo Rong.
Luo Rong was surprised. "My problem?"
"That's right. You were the one who gave the order to kill them, but they only sent five hundred people. This was obviously a test. Their main force was behind them. If you let them go, they would definitely catch the big fish when their main force arrived. In the end, you alerted them, and the big fish escaped. Just these five hundred people made us unable to sleep for most of the night. Don't you think it's your fault?"
Luo Rong blinked and couldn't find anything wrong with Ma Chong's words.
It seemed that it was true.
After all, they all agreed that Nurhaci would not sit still and wait for death. He would definitely find a way to turn the situation around, and a night attack was his only way. So they decided to carry out a counter-night attack together. If they could catch up with Nurhaci and kill him in time, then the big thing would be done, and they would not have to wait for Mao Wenlong to attack the tribes in Jianzhou.
But now they only harvested five hundred small fish and shrimps. Judging from their clothes, they didn't look like people of high status. Now that they had startled the enemy, Nurhachi would certainly not dare to attack again. They could only fight head-on during the day.
This place was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Jianzhou troops were more familiar with the terrain, and their numbers were no less than that of the Qin Army. Although they were weaker, they had more people. It was not difficult to win by force, but they might suffer great losses. If they could win at a lower cost, of course, they wouldn't mind.
After all, this elite Liaodong Corps was formed with 30,000 elite soldiers from Burma as the backbone. After the establishment of Daqin, Xiao Ruxun reorganized and trained the four battalions. In order to conquer Liaodong, he strengthened the personnel allocation of the White Tiger Battalion and the Battle Wolf Battalion. The new Liaodong Corps was strengthened a lot and a group of officers from Burma were recruited.
Many of their old brothers were literate, and they really couldn't bear to let a large number of them die on the battlefield of the alien races. In the past few years of war in Myanmar, the battle against the Dongwu Martial Artists, and the northern expedition, more than three thousand of the thirty thousand Myanmar elite soldiers had died.
There were even fewer old brothers who had followed Xiao Ruxun from Ningxia to North Korea and then to Myanmar.
If one of them died, there would be no more. They had been friends for so many years, and it was really hard to bear.
However, there had been news recently that the Emperor had plans to reorganize the entire army. No one knew how the reorganization would be carried out, but in everyone's opinion, the four battalions were indeed a little too large and were no longer sufficient. It was likely that they would have to be reorganized in the future. This was also something that the generals in the army were mentally prepared for.
They just didn't know how the former marshal and the current Emperor planned to reorganize.
But all this had nothing to do with the Liaodong Corps. When the Liaodong Corps set off, Xiao Ruxun told them to guard Liaodong well and fight hard if there were combat tasks. The reorganization of the army didn't start with them, and they had to be at the end.
Obviously, Xiao Ruxun planned to launch more than one battle in Liaodong. It seemed that he wanted to completely eliminate the hidden danger in Liaodong.
For the Liaodong Corps, this was a military achievement, and everyone was very excited.
Of course, Luo Rong was also very excited, but this ambush was indeed not beautiful.
"Even so, the dust has settled now. What can I do? That barbarian is quite cunning, and there are still people to explore the way. "
"What did His Majesty say before the troops were sent out? Don't underestimate any opponent! No matter who it is, we must pay attention to them and not look down on them. What did His Majesty say? Oh, by the way, it's rare to fail miserably in an easy task. Hmm? "
Ma Chong seized the opportunity to teach Luo Rong a lesson to show his cultural accomplishment, but Luo Rong looked at him with disdain.
"Aren't you only able to recognize 23 more words than me? What are you so proud of? "
"Twenty-three characters aren't characters, are they? Why didn't you say that I've read one more book than you, 'Wu Zi's Art of War'? "
"'Wu Zi's Art of War'? Can you understand it without those books explaining it to you in plain words? How many years have you been able to read? Why do you have to pretend to be a scholar? Why don't you see if you're made for it! "
Luo Rong continued to mock Ma Chong.
Although the White Tiger Battalion and the Battle Wolf Battalion were of the same level of organization, because the White Tiger Battalion had more people and was more comprehensive, while the Battle Wolf Battalion had fewer people and was purely a cavalry battalion, the army generally agreed that the chief generals of the two cavalry battalions had the same position as the deputy generals of the four main battalions. The two of them were actually on equal footing in the army.
This time, Liao Zhong had decided that Ma Chong would be the chief general and Luo Rong would be the deputy general. However, Luo Rong was really not afraid of this kind of bickering.
The two of them went back to the barracks to sleep, cursing and swearing, leaving Chu Ying alone to look at the miserable battlefield and the 500 dead clansmen.
At the same time, his heart was also filled with resentment towards Nurhachi.
If it weren't for him, they wouldn't have died, and no one would have died.
He began to place his hopes on Mao Wenlong's long-distance attack. He hoped that Mao Wenlong's attack would succeed as soon as possible, so that the clansmen in front of him would collapse as soon as possible and stop fighting against the Daqin army. Every day of fighting would mean thousands more deaths, and this kind of loss was not something the Jianzhou army could bear.
If all the men died in battle, could the Jianzhou Jurchen continue to exist?
It was really hard to say.
Mao Wenlong used the good tradition of his elder, Mao Sui, who had the same surname as him, to show his talent in front of Ma Chong and successfully obtained the command of 2,000 elite cavalry. He was also given the important task of attacking the Jianzhou army and destroying the Jianzhou army psychologically.
This was very meaningful to him, because once the lives of their family members were threatened, the frontline troops would not have the will to fight. The reason why they could stand at the front was to protect their family members behind them.
How could they fight if their back was occupied?
This was the fastest way to end the battle. Mao Wenlong did not dare to slack off. After asking Chu Ying to mark the route on the map, he led the cavalry and ran for hundreds of miles.
After going around Chimney Mountain, he continued south, then turned east, and continued northeast.
With a great detour, he bypassed any possibility of the Jianzhou army's defense. Along the way, he also pulled out three Jurchen villages to replenish their supplies, ate a meal of meat, and killed a group of people. Then, he patted his belly and continued on his way.
He wasn't the least bit worried that these 2,000 elite cavalrymen wouldn't be convinced. He was only 23 years old, yet he openly led 2,000 cavalrymen who followed Xiao Ruxun on the Northern Expedition and commanded them without any sense of modesty, telling them to do this and that, not treating himself as an outsider at all.
But unexpectedly, the 2,000 cavalry did not feel dissatisfied with his command.
This was because Mao Wenlong's command was very methodical. It seemed reckless, but it was actually very smart. He led them all the way and did not hesitate at all along the way, as if he was not worried at all that he was going the wrong way.
When he sneaked up on the village, he was also very sharp and merciless. He killed people as if he was cutting melons and vegetables, and did not look like someone who had read military books at all. It was no wonder that he was appreciated by Ma Chong and kept by his side as a personal officer.
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