Chapter 329 Wild Fruit
Li Rui's face turned red... He also felt that he could be independent. After all, he easily won the two siege battles he commanded by himself, and Rangcheng, who was tenacious in the enemy's defense, was about to win. With these achievements, he could survive on the battlefield without relying on Beigong Jing's care. But unexpectedly, he still needed Beigong Jing to worry about him and help him find a bodyguard!
If Beigong Jing hadn't been careful and asked Beigong Chun to follow him, it would have probably grown one foot tall next year today!
With a conflicted mood, he ran to meet his subordinates. Xu Hun and others couldn't help but feel relieved when they saw that he was safe and sound, especially Xu Hun, who was quite nervous, but now he saw that Li Rui had a lot of hair, and he relaxed and asked with a grin, "Captain, are you okay?"
Li Rui said angrily: "I'm not dead yet!"
Xu Hun: "..."
How did he answer this?
Li Rui kicked him in the ass and cursed: "I'm so happy to throw it away and rush around on the battlefield just now? Ah? It's so good that you don't even remember where your boss is. I've never seen a mentally retarded captain like you! With a captain like you, I've really been in trouble for eight lifetimes!"
Xu Hun quickly admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry, I was really confused just now. I just rushed myself and forgot to protect you. I won't know next time, and I will definitely not know next time!"
Li Rui roared: "Next time!?"
All the soldiers laughed secretly.
Li Rui stared at them and roared: "Smile, laugh, you are also like birds. When you fight, you only care about yourself. You have no idea to take care of your boss. With soldiers like you, how could I live long on the battlefield! I tell you, you are having a big deal, and I am angry! The kind that can't be coaxed!"
Seeing that the boss was really angry, these unreliable soldiers came to coax him quickly. This one gave him a captured war horse, the other one gave him a pair of armor that he had taken off from some unlucky guy, and someone gave him a pickup from the battlefield. He thought the lieutenant would definitely like it, and he had a strong bow and crossbow. Of course, there were many people who gave him swords. Anyway, he gave him all the most valuable spoils he found, without asking for anything else, just asking for the boss not to be angry.
Beigong Chun was so amused and crying.
Seeing these guys so sensible, Li Rui's anger subsided and waved his hand: "Register the spoils first, and then divide them after the war! Now, let's get together for me and kill those rebels!"
At the end of the day, he gritted his teeth.
Everyone also gritted their teeth. The battle just now was so dark that they won, but the losses were not small, with more than 400 casualties, which was equivalent to reimbursing a regiment. Since they formed the army, they have never tried such a huge loss. How can they not hate it?
Fu Sheng said: "Justice and Pei Tuanshu rushed to the middle of the rebel infantry with a cavalry regiment just now. They found that the rebel infantry was quite tough and fierce, and seemed to have some deep hatred with our army. When they fought, their eyes turned red. I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!"
Li Rui said: "Take me to see the situation of the rebel infantry!"
Fu Sheng and Pei Wei immediately took him to ride a horse toward the south. Before they could walk far, they saw the battle flags waving in front of them, and horns were connected, and a huge infantry phalanx appeared in front of them. Li Rui looked around and saw that there were tens of thousands of infantrymen forming a huge square array with a width of more than 4,000 meters on the front. The spear was like a dense jungle, covering the earth, which was shocking!
He was dumbfounded: "My goodness, so many people!"
Pei Wei said: "There are tens of thousands of people, and it is really scary to stand together."
Li Rui was worried: "Even if we lined up and let us cut, we wouldn't be able to cut all the way to the point of being weak!"
Fu Sheng said: "We have to increase our troops and transfer the remaining five regiments too!"
Li Rui gritted his teeth and called a messenger to ask him to return to Rangcheng Camp immediately and transfer the remaining five cavalry regiments to come over.
When Li Rui was dispatching troops, Wang Ru was also deploying troops.
Originally, Wang Rushi looked down on the officers and soldiers. In his opinion, the officers and soldiers were just a bunch of wastes. No matter how many people were, they were just a bunch of wastes who were afraid of death. It was no more difficult to beat them than to drive sheep. However, the performance of the Jin army today really subverted his perception. Just over a thousand cavalrymen killed more than half of the five thousand cavalry he had finally pulled up. His fierceness, sophisticated tactics and overwhelming charge all made the rebels frightened!
His situation is very embarrassing: he was only a short distance from Rangcheng, but he ran into the most elite cavalry of the Jin army. After a head-on confrontation, the cavalry unit that he had finally managed was crippled. The cavalry that had won a great victory did not retreat, but circled around them, looking for opportunities to start. He had to gather his troops and form a huge square formation to resist the fierce charge that the opponent could launch at any time.
"What is the name of the officers, soldiers and generals?" He frowned and asked his adviser.
The strategist said: "This army was nominally led by Sima Fan, the King of Xiangyang, and was actually commanded by a captain named Li Rui."
Wang Ru frowned: "Li Rui? I have never heard of this person!"
The strategist said: "I heard that this man is quite strategic and has made many tricks when fighting against the Hu people in Luoyang, which really caused a lot of hardships for the Hu people. Even Shi Le was beaten to death and wounded by him."
Wang Ru was surprised: "Isn't even Shi Le his opponent?"
The strategist said: "Uh... it's mainly because the Liangzhou soldiers are very fierce, and he has many tricks, which makes Shi Le suffer a lot..."
Wang Ru pondered for a moment and said, "Go and find Diao Ying. I have something to discuss with him!"
The strategist immediately went down to find Diao Ying.
Diao Ying came soon, and he didn't even take off his armor. It was because he didn't take off his armor that Wang Ru clearly saw his helmet, shirt, heart protection mirror and other places crisscrossing, with several traces of sharp weapons left behind. Just now, his main cavalry was out and almost killed Li Rui, but the two cavalry regiments of the Jin army rushed straight to his commander's flag, and the sharp arrows shot to his flagpole. Diao Ying rushed up with a thousand Jiehu cavalry and intercepted the Jin cavalry in time, so that the Jin cavalry's spear was not allowed to stab Wang Ru's chest. But at the cost, Diao Ying rushed forward with a thousand Jiehu cavalry and intercepted the Jin cavalry in time.
The thousand Jiehu cavalry led by Ying encountered an unprecedentedly tragic battle. The Jin cavalry intercepted by them were all fierce and fierce. The Jiehu cavalry, who were skilled in martial arts and good at cavalry shooting, could not gain any advantage in the hand-to-hand battle with them. They were killed and injured under the attack of spears, single-edged swords and scimitars. Even Diao Ying himself suffered several heavy blows on the front and back of his chest and almost died. Fortunately, the Jin cavalry suddenly retreated for some unknown reason. Otherwise, how many of his thousand men would survive would be hard to say.
After all, the other party saved his life, Wang Ru naturally had to be polite to him. As soon as Diao Ying came over, he stepped forward to greet him, with a look of concern: "Diao Changshi, thank you for your hard work in this battle, aren't you injured?"
Diao Ying said: "Fortunately, thanks to the armor given by General Wang, he was not injured."
His armor was really given to him by Wang Ru. Wang Ruting was good at being a human being. Although he had been betrothed with Shi Le, he respected Shi Le very much and did not dare to have the intention of being the second son of Shi Le. Kui'an, Zhi Xiong, Wang Yang, Guo Ao, Taobao, Kong Feng, Lu Ming and even Shi Le's counselors all received his gifts. For example, those powerful generals who like to charge and rush into battle received well-made armor, weapons, famous horses, and counselors.
What he got was wealth, calligraphy, paintings, and jewelry. Anyway, he was just to his preference. The armor that Diao Ying received was taken down by Wang Ru from a Jin army general who was killed by him. The Jin army general was said to be from a noble family. This armor was very well-made and had amazing defense ability. He could not even shoot with a big yellow crossbow within twenty steps. It was a rare treasure armor. When he gave it to Diao Ying, his heart was so painful!
Diao Ying also knew that this pair of armor was rare, so he was very grateful to Wang Ru and was very polite when speaking.
Wang Ru smiled and said, "It's good that Diao Changshi is fine! You are General Shi Le's right-hand man. If you have anything to do, I don't know how to explain to General Shi Le!"
Diao Ying smiled indifferently and said, "General Wang, you have become sworn brothers with our general. You are our own people with us. There is no need to be so polite between our own people... I wonder what is the important thing for General Wang to call the Mo General over?"
Wang Ru rubbed his big hands and said, "It's nothing big, I just want to inquire about something from Diao Changshi."
Diao Ying immediately understood: "General Wang wants to inquire about Li Rui, right?"
Wang Ru said: "Yes. Since Wang started his army, he has fought with officers and soldiers a lot, and there are many so-called famous generals he has defeated, but he has never encountered such a tough character. He dared to rush into the 50,000 army with less than two thousand cavalry. This is a strong enemy. I heard that Diao Changshi had fought with this person in Luoyang, so I want to learn about this person's military style from Diao Changshi and try to know himself and his enemy."
Diao Ying pondered for a moment and said, "I will not hide it from General Wang. At that time, the general was mainly responsible for recruiting soldiers and collecting food and fodder in Hebei. He did not directly fight with the Jin army, so he didn't know much about this person."
Wang Ru was quite disappointed: "That's how..."
Diao Ying said: "However, Kui'an, Taobao, Zhixiong and others have fought with this person. They have talked about this person with Mo Jiang, but they have not had a high opinion of this person."
Wang Ru raised her thick eyebrows: "The evaluation is not high?"
Diao Ying nodded: "Yes. They said that although this person had some clever plans, he never dared to lead troops alone. It was all up to the boy of the Beigong family to be brave and good at fighting, and the Liangzhou soldiers were strong and strong. His plans were successful. Without these two, he would not have accomplished!"
Wang Ru's eyes lit up immediately!
Chapter completed!