In the face of an enemy that has fallen into a state of collapse, the most correct way is to persuade it to surrender.
Naturally, the Han army tried to persuade the enemy to surrender, but they found that the enemy was surprisingly tough. They could not escape and would not surrender. Instead, they worked hysterically.
After the Persians and Romans decided to oppose the Han Dynasty, they have been advocating the Han policy, including the complete castration of slaves by the Han Empire.
Being captured after defeat is nothing for many races. Even some races are happy to be dogs for the victors after defeat. The information they get is that the Han people rarely take dog legs and are castrated when they are slaves to the Han people. For this reason, except for a very small number of people of all ethnic groups, they chose to kneel down and surrender.
"We must turn the tide!" Li Kuang has ordered the sword and shield soldiers who have been charging in front to retreat and repair. He has obtained the results of some prisoner interrogations. He knows that bossashan and Rome have been promoting the domineering side of the Han people and the seriousness of the matter: "the hopeless enemy must resist and choose to the end. This should not happen."
The Han Empire is very strong and the Han army is also very brave and good at fighting, but the war is destined to bleed. Once every enemy fights with the Han army with despair, the Han army will suffer some unnecessary casualties if it can fight again.
In fact, a powerful enemy is not terrible. The most terrible thing is an enemy who is desperate and has the will to die.
"Although most of it is true, it should be reversed." Song Ping already had his own preliminary battle damage data: "does Duhu want to be a model?"
What you really do is often not important. It is to let people who want to know some information get the information they let them know.
It is true that the Han Empire would castrate slaves in an all-round way, but it should not be "hammered" to increase the negative impact of the enemy's death.
"Yes, there should be a model." Li Kuang thought of the Wusun people for the first time and soon vetoed them. He thought for a moment and said, "we should properly arrange this group of prisoners so that all ethnic groups can see that the big man is a state of etiquette."
Some armies treat prisoners of war better than their own soldiers. It is nothing more than psychological warfare, which gives soldiers an impression that even if they lose and surrender, their personal safety can be guaranteed and their childhood may be better than staying at home. In this way, it can weaken the enemy's will to die, and may even induce the enemy to take the initiative to surrender.
Song Ping knew exactly what to do and immediately responded.
Today's battle began when the white fish appeared in the East in the morning. The battle between the Han Army and the anti Han axis coalition took nearly two hours on the front battlefield, and another hour or so on the front of the "city wall". It entered the camp state at noon.
The camp of the anti Han axis coalition army is very large. Although the anti Han axis coalition army was in chaos, it took the Han army about two hours to advance about seven or eight miles. On the scale of the whole camp, it only occupied about 34 / 10?
In the offensive and defensive war in the camp, the casualties of the Han army were much higher than before. The two Qudao shield soldiers who had been charging in front finally retreated, of which 76 were seriously injured, and the rest were more or less slightly injured.
Song Pinggang just received statistics on the losses and results of the sword and shield soldiers. The losses are those. The results that can be counted by ears are to kill more than 4000 people, and those who orally report military achievements are to destroy about 6000 enemy troops.
Song Ping thought that the results reported by the sword and shield soldiers were very reasonable. After all, the enemy fell into chaos at the beginning. It was difficult to retreat back before it fought back in chaos.
The anti Han axis coalition forces really squeezed themselves to no retreat, resulting in their friends in the east facing the slaughter of the Han army. Instead of being in the front line of fighting with the Han Army, the tribes fought for a living.
From the beginning of the battle to the present stage, Song Ping guessed that the enemy destroyed by his side should be more than 30000 people, and some people of the enemy died fighting each other all the time. It is certain that even if the main force of this anti Han axis coalition army is not completely abolished, it will take at least more than half a year to recover its combat effectiveness after escaping.
"The other side is too chaotic. Our people can't confirm the trend of their main force." Song Ping felt ridiculous when he said this. At the same time, he had a headache: "this war has become a bad war."
As a commander, Li Kuang had long recognized that it was a bad battle.
It's not that Li Kuang lost command of his own forces, but that there are too few troops and the enemy is too chaotic. Even if his own side is trying hard to kill, the enemy is killing each other, but his own side can't effectively persuade him to surrender and it's difficult to end the war in a short time. It's that he meets the enemy in the process of killing and all those who can escape escape escape.
The reality is that if an army does not surrender in batches and the number of troops reaches a certain level, no matter how chaotic it is, it can not be destroyed in a short time.
There is only one possibility that a large number of troops will be destroyed in a short time, that is, this army lost its will to fight and surrendered in order.
Many times, there is always a saying, such as whether an army is defeated or completely destroyed in a very short time, then there is usually an evaluation such as "if how many pigs are killed by the enemy, we should kill X days". It is because pigs will not surrender that they will run to safety or die. The troops who surrendered at the command of the commander became prisoners at the command.
A full Legion and a disabled Legion in Rome, with about 10000 vassal races, left the camp under the leadership of marus.
The problem of short legs of the Romans was fatal. Unlike those who fled on horseback, they galloped and fled to the mountains and fields as soon as they left the crowded area. They could only evacuate by trotting among the fleeing troops.
I don't know whether it was out of pride or quality. The Romans kept a relatively perfect formation even when they ran away. This is very rare compared with all the defeated troops, including the Persians.
The Han army was a stranded anti Han axis coalition army, and the routed soldiers were held back. It was difficult for the scattered scouts to carry out effective investigation because the overall situation on the battlefield was too chaotic. Many times, it was difficult for the scouts to report the effective intelligence detected. The news of the Romans fleeing the camp was not reported to Li Kuang for the time being.
Elbata also escaped from the camp, but compared with marus who could bring most of his troops, the troops he could effectively control were less than 3000, and the rest were left in the camp.
It makes no difference whether the anti Han axis coalition forces have commanders or not. Their extremely chaotic situation has prevented the high-speed advancement of the Han Army in some ways.
Liu Shen, who was on the battlefield, was in a state of confusion in the face of the scene in front of him. What he saw was a mess everywhere. Not only the Han people were killing, but also the enemy were killing each other. People were falling everywhere. There was no sign of "emptiness" in a short time. At a glance, it was still so crowded.
After the riflemen of the Han Army entered the enemy camp, it was difficult to maintain a long array line due to the influence of the terrain. They are divided into several teams and have their own shooting vision.
Compared with the long array line before, the rifle soldiers of the Han army were divided into several teams, and the probability of impact increased greatly.
It was the reduction of fire density and firing frequency, and then they were hysterical enough to ignore the enemy's death.
It's funny, but it's a reality. The anti Han axis coalition forces are hysterical enough to forget their fear and ignore the people in front of them. They keep falling down and run frantically. On the contrary, they really rush to the distance where they can fight hand to hand with the rifle soldiers of the Han army.
It was just the irrational anti Han axis coalition. They ignored the impact of death and just wanted to run out of a channel that could escape. After the collision with the Han riflemen, no one wanted to fight with the Han soldiers at all. They ran away and continued to run forward without death.
"Get out, get out of the camp!"
The heralds ran in various positions to convey the latest orders issued by Qin song.
Riflemen should not stay in such a battlefield. Their current number is still scarce. They themselves are used as the seeds of army expansion. That is why they still maintain the title of junjishan Lieutenant department. In the future, they will be scattered to various standing armies and become the backbone of the formation of firearm divisions.
Qin song ordered the Musketeers to retreat with Li Kuang's consent.
As Li Kuang, who had an overview of the overall situation, did not immediately answer Qin song's request. It was only when the troops reinforced in the rear could take over the fighting position of the riflemen that he allowed the riflemen on the front line to retreat.
In fact, it is not a reinforcement force. It is the garrison that Li Kuang originally stayed on the East Bank of the Pinchi river. Their original role is to prevent adverse river crossing operations, and play a necessary force to ensure River defense even if the river crossing troops are defeated or even wiped out.
After the collapse of the anti Han axis coalition, Li Kuang ordered the original reserve team to approach the battlefield and send it to the East Bank of the Pinchi River later.
Li Kuang, who had found that he could not end the war in a short time, ordered the troops newly put into the battlefield to just make a pressing posture, continue to give the enemy fear and let them kill each other, but don't rush up and shake it.
"We have too few troops!" Li Kuang doesn't know how many times he said this. With a wry smile on his face, he said, "after winning the war, it turned out that it was impossible to advance and retreat."
"Duhu, after this war, you have become a famous general in the world." Song Ping didn't think he was flattering: "you put in 10000 troops, but you defeated more than 200000 enemy troops."
That's why Li Kuang feels oppressed.
People always think that since they have done it, if they have more chips on hand, they can do better. After doing better, they will want perfection.
Li Kuang is now in such a situation. If he can defeat more than 200000 enemy forces with 10000 troops, he will not be reconciled. He will only defeat them. He is greedy and can't get the supplement of troops in a short time, resulting in depression.
As the commander of the winner is depressed, why should marus and albata, who have become the defeated side?
The commanders of the two anti Han axis coalition forces never regained contact after they left the chaotic camp, and even chose to retreat in different directions.
Elbata retreated straight to the West. What he wanted to do most was withdraw to the third line of defense, quickly take over the command of the third line of defense, and prepare to resist the approach of the Han army.
Marus chose to retreat to the north. He knew that his own legs were very short and he was likely to be caught up in retreating to the north, but he still chose to do so because it was clear that the city wall could not stop the attack of the Han Army at all. He retreated to the north to the grazing area of the coalition army to obtain enough walking livestock. Without turning back, he had to retreat directly to Sasan through hunit.
The different choices are due to the different countries behind it. Elbata's country is a hunit from the middle of the Han Empire. However, if there is still hope, even if it is only a weak hope, he will not give up trying to resist the Han army. As long as they can block the Han Army for one more day, sashan will have one more day to prepare.
Marus's Rome is far enough away from the Han Empire. We should worry that it is also the maritime expeditionary army from the Han Empire. Unless sassanne falls, Rome will face the land invasion of the Han Empire for a long time.
There are people fleeing everywhere in the wilderness, some running on foot, some galloping on horseback. Everyone's face is either a happy expression of escaping from life, or a lingering fear on his face.
Elbata tried to close the surrounding rout soldiers. Next, he had to organize the layout of the third line of defense. The more troops, the better. He knew that rout soldiers were not a good choice, but how could one more head consume one more arrow or bullet of the Han army?
Al Bata, who was hungry and wanted more troops, soon knew that all ethnic groups no longer bird the so-called Persian authority. The people who directly refused had more weapons against each other.
All ethnic groups have seen the strength of the Han Empire and how much they fear the Han Empire, so how much they hate the Persians who pull themselves into the anti Han axis.
They were also afraid of the power of Persian Sassanian before. After such a big defeat, they saw that the Persians were so vulnerable in front of the Han people. They would more or less have the idea that "the Persians are just like this". They didn't dare to face the Han people, but dared to show their teeth to the Persians.
"Fools! Those fools!" Elbata was not angry to abuse, but sneered: "they have joined the anti Han camp. Will the Han people let them go? If they don't stand firmly with us and continue to fight the Han people, not only the Han people will attack them, but also we won't let the hostile bastards go!"
Elbata, who was riding wildly, suddenly saw a black line in front of him. At the same time, he saw the collapsing soldiers running towards the black line falling in pieces. For a moment, it suddenly came over. No wonder the number of Han troops before was so small. It turned out that there were Han troops detouring back to the rear of the battlefield.