choke element

Chapter 778 Courage

For a soldier who has just entered the battlefield and is ignorant, the only way to evaluate a general is bravery and boldness.As the experience becomes richer, you will know that the five virtues are required to be a general.

Of course, among the five virtues of wisdom, trust, benevolence, bravery and strictness, different generals will have different emphasis.For example, a reckless general like Guo Ning relied on courage to start his career, and the most important thing when judging an enemy general is courage.In just a short moment, he praised the enemy general's courage twice in a row, almost making the attendants around him a little jealous.

However, the bravery in Guo Ning's mouth is not just the performance when rushing.

He himself is the best at charging and fighting, the enemy general in front of him may not be in his eyes.The point is that this person led the team straight to the convoy, obviously in order to find a flaw and take advantage of the gap, so he was caught off guard.However, with the iron artillery showing its power, the convoy has become the key to victory or defeat, and the navy must be on strict defense.

In this case, the enemy general only attacked with [-] cavalry. It was a real determination to use the life of the headquarters to fight for a chance for the successor Jin army!
The Jurchen regime has been rotten for decades, and when it was about to perish, a group of loyal and brave men emerged one after another.

Perhaps these people have been subdued for many years and have been blocked by the Jurchen's own high-ranking officials and nobles.It wasn't until King Sui Wanyan Shouxu opened up a new world in Kaifeng that they were given a chance.

It's a pity that they will all die here, and the Xintian, which the Jurchens have placed high hopes on, will also collapse.

Dong Jin said from the side: "Grandfather, the enemy cavalry is coming so fiercely, I really want him to rush to the chariot camp..."

He wasn't necessarily worried about the gun carriage, but he actually wanted to say that if the enemy army rushed to this place, Guo Ning might not be able to fight in person.That's not appropriate anyway, and it's too embarrassing for the generals of the Ding Navy.

"It's okay." Guo Ning pretended not to hear Dong Jin's implication.

Holding the reins of his horse, he continued to watch the battle: "The ambush circle set up in the formation is for Wanyan Congtan and the others, don't move for now. The team in front of you is Guo Zhongyuan's soldiers, and the leader is Guo Alin, he is reliable... …they're trying to trap the enemy."

Among the officers of the Ding Navy, Guo Ning knew many of them.In addition to being remembered by Guo Ning, Guo Alin can still get a "reliable" evaluation, which is extraordinary; if this evaluation reaches Guo Alin's ears, it will make him happy for several days.

But Guo Alin is not very happy at the moment, he is going all out to gather the queue, and he has nothing else to do.

The several main generals of the Ding Navy each have their own cadres and subordinates, and each has their own specialties.Relatively speaking, Guo Zhongyuan and his close subordinates have always felt that their own group is relatively weak.

After all, few of them are serious warriors.Before taking refuge in Guo Ning, Guo Zhongyuan had only been a big soldier for two years, and he worked hard to become a general.Guo Alin and the others are all gangsters in the capital city. After half their lives, not to mention that they have nothing to do with fighting on the battlefield.

So Guo Zhongyuan has been telling Guo Alin on weekdays that there are no secrets or tricks for us to fight with soldiers, as long as we follow the four words step by step and follow the drills in a down-to-earth manner.

Guo Zhongyuan himself did this, and Guo Alin, who regarded Guo Zhongyuan as his father and brother, did the same.

His team was ordered to go forward, and as soon as they arrived at the designated position, they were attacked by monk Wanyan Chen's troops. The team was instantly disorganized, and there were heavy casualties.The Jurchen cavalry galloped to and fro, screaming and killing, and the horseshoes trampled the ground, causing smoke and dust to billow, as if thousands of cavalry were intertwined with their own side.

If someone else led the army, he would probably be nervous and try his best to adapt, but Guo Alin has calmed down a lot in the past two years. He didn't think about anything, just kept gathering soldiers and rearranging according to the requirements in the drill code.

"There are still 21 people left in Li Lailu's department, so they will be included in the second battalion of C, and go now."

"Where's Chen Hula? Make a beep, blow the trumpet, tell him to stand still, both left and right, and now he's in command!"

"Yu Xing is seriously injured? Ask Yu Mang'er to bring someone to take over that part!"

Some of these orders worked, and some were unable to catch up with the changes in the situation. For example, Chen Hula, who was supposed to command the three capitals, was intercepted from behind by Monk Wanyan Chen and died on the spot before he could stand still.

Guo Alin didn't jump into a rage, nor did he care about being surprised, and immediately issued an order to let a lieutenant beside him rush over to take over the command.

It wasn't long before the lieutenant took the men there, when suddenly there was a roar of killing around Guo Alin.A group of golden cavalry flaunted their power and slammed into them. They shot arrows at a distance of several zhang.

One of the soldiers didn't look well, and flew over from the side to protect Guo Alin. As a result, he was hit by two arrows in the chest and abdomen, and died instantly.

Guo Alin was pushed by the soldiers, tripped over the gravel, and staggered suddenly.He jumped to the side, and then jumped up with one hand on the ground.Because he was splashed with the blood of the soldiers, many subordinates around him suddenly exclaimed.

Guo Alin shouted: "I'm fine! Everyone raised their shields and stood still! There are not many people in the Jin army, so they can't rush us!"

Amidst the shouts, the subordinates raised their shields to greet them one after another.Immediately, the muffled sound of horses and shields colliding, and the crisp sound of metal collisions followed one after another, forming a huge sound wave.A soldier beside him opened his mouth to ask something, but Guo Alin didn't hear clearly at all.

The sounds of fighting around were too dense and too loud.Another soldier, spitting blood, retreated all the way to Guo Alin's side, and suddenly lay down motionless.

At this moment, Guo Alin felt that his scalp was numb, but he quickly calmed down, drew out the long knife, and laid it across his chest.He shouted: "The Jurchens can't touch us! They retreated again!"

Sure enough, the Jurchen cavalry could not forcibly break through the dense formation, they galloped around the small phalanx twice, and seeing that there was no opportunity, they whistled and turned to the side.

Guo Alin took two steps forward before he felt pain in his thigh.Looking down, it turns out that an arrow was shot in the leg at some point.Fortunately, the thighs were protected by armor, and the arrow clusters did not penetrate deeply into the flesh. He directly pulled out the arrows, threw them away, and cut off a section of sleeve, wrapping the wound in twos or twos.

Amidst the smoke and dust, he saw the front of the queue, Yu Xing stood up staggeringly.

He immediately shouted: "Did you see Fatty Yu? He's still alive! Send a whistle!"

Immediately behind him, an orderly shot a Ming Dy, but he didn't aim at it, but when the arrows fell, they almost touched Yu Xing's stomach.Yu Xing was taken aback, and felt relieved when he saw that it was Mingdi with our special specification.And the sharp sound of Mingdi immediately alerted the scattered soldiers around, telling them to gather towards the sound.

Guo Alin then turned to other directions and continued to mobilize manpower. In just a short while, he issued another seven or eight orders, and the soldiers who were in charge of playing semaphore, shooting gongs, and blowing horns were busy.

On this battlefield, tens of thousands of soldiers are making decisions every moment, from as small as whether to slash up and down during a fight, as large as whether the general reserve should move or not. Promoted changes in the battlefield situation.

That's why Wei Liaozi said that to eliminate harm lies in daring to judge, and in the art of war it is also said that the disaster of the three armies lies in suspicion.It means that you must first dare to make a decision. As for whether the decision is right or wrong, it is another matter.

Guo Alin continued to mobilize and gather troops, sometimes it was as if he gathered up the heads and waited to die on the galloping route of Monk Wanyan Chen, but more orders gradually took effect.

Following the implementation of orders to gather troops and form formations, the 2000-man army suffered considerable casualties, and suddenly stabilized its position, and then gained the momentum to wrap up the enemy's cavalry.

In contrast, Monk Wanyan Chen found that his previous decision was decisive enough, but it was wrong.

When he rushed across the long moraine, Ding's navy infantry lined up to stop him.Taking advantage of the failure of the enemy's formation, he could actually lead his troops around to avoid entanglement.

But firstly, he wanted to solve the huge threat of the gun carriage as soon as possible, and secondly, he was worried that after he made a detour, he would bump into Ding Haijun and then sent to intercept the soldiers, so he chose to charge in a straight line, forcefully broke through the infantry formation, and rushed towards the convoy.

As a result, although he himself was rampaging in the formation, the cavalry who followed up one after another were mostly entangled with the enemy.

It is impossible for Monk Wanyan Chen to take dozens of cavalry and continue to penetrate into the enemy's formation. Of course, he had to turn back to meet his companions, but he charged twice in a row and sent out more than a hundred cavalry; They couldn't rush, they couldn't show their speed; some people shouted wildly, obviously they were trapped!

Monk Wanyan Chen was so angry that he yelled, "Five hundred iron cavalry were blocked by weak pawns... How can there be such a reason in the world?"

(End of this chapter)