Chapter 358: The Righteousness Discrimination
When Liu Wenxiu led the Xuanhu heavy cavalry and the full cavalry whistle toward the right wing Yang Guozhu army's army, there was a strait like a steel mecha monster in front of Yang Guozhu's army, and he had just arrived.
Everyone was wearing three layers of armor, wrapped in fine steel armor from head to toe, with only two eyes exposed, like a rampant team member of the mecha monster armed to the teeth. They were definitely the most elite heavy armored infantry in the late Ming Dynasty.
These Tang army heavy armored infantry with superb martial arts and heavy armor were each like a miniature tank, holding a tiger sword, a tiger rifle, a long-handed sword, a thick-backed military sickle and other heavy weapons, shouting loudly towards the shocked Yang Guozhu tribe.
Yang Guozhu, the chief general of the right wing of the Ming army, saw these heavy-armored infantry in the Tang army, was so brave. Unconsciously, his pupils suddenly shrank, and the flesh on his face kept trembling.
Speaking of which, Yang Guozhu himself is a veteran of the battlefield. The combat power of his subordinates is much stronger than that of a bastard. However, when Yang Guozhu saw the heavy armored infantry of the Tang army rushing towards him like a mecha monster, he was still surprised and frightened.
He saw that although this rampant whistle that rushed over seemed to have only 600 people, less than one-eighth of his 5,000 subordinates, his fierce and fierce momentum and uniform cooperation were not comparable to those of his subordinates who were neglecting training, poor equipment, and long-term owed food and wages.
Yang Guozhu clearly saw that many people on the faces of his subordinates looked frightened, and there were even many soldiers, who were already trembling and trembling all over, and were about to turn around and escape.
Seeing that the soldiers of the army were already timid and their morale was sluggish before they even fought, Yang Guozhu was very angry. He drew his sword and shouted angrily: "Welcome to the enemy! Welcome the enemy! The rebels of the Tang army have arrived. Our army needs to move forward and kill the enemy soldiers!"
With a dull bang, the two armies quickly fought together.
As soon as the two armies came into contact with each other, the fierce and fierce Tang army Dingbei Camp rampant post immediately gained the upper hand. Although Yang Guozhu's troops had excellent numbers, they were almost vulnerable in front of the rampant post with strong combat power, sharp weapons and heavy armor.
The rascal whistle jumped into the Ming army formation, wherever the sharp sword light went, there were corpses, flesh and blood storms, and the remaining limbs flew out. The wails and tragic sounds of Ming soldiers were heard.
"Mr. Yang, the enemy's soldiers are fierce and our army is unable to support us. We should ask for help from the central army quickly!" A personal guard shouted to Yang Guozhu in a sarcasm.
Yang Guozhu's face was very difficult, and he cursed angrily: "Bastard, this ghost weather is like sand and dust, and you can't even see the shadow of the central army, so you can't even ask for help!"
After Yang Guozhu finished speaking, he had not had time to motivate the soldiers to fight hard again, suddenly his ears heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind his own battle formation.
"Mr. Yang, a large number of Tang army cavalry attacked from the back of our army!" A personal guard shouted from behind him.
Yang Guozhu's face turned pale in an instant.
However, before he could speak, the Tang cavalry behind him had already arrived.
Because it was attacking the enemy's formation on its back, the Xuanhu heavy cavalry and the Manzhou cavalry of the Tang army did not place a wedge-shaped battle formation in order to increase the strike area as much as possible, but rushed in a wall-shaped linear formation, directly attacking the back of the Yang Guozhu army formation on the entire right wing.
The dull sound of swords and guns entering the flesh, the jingle of swords and swords, and the screams of Ming soldiers' dying screams were instantly mixed together. The right-wing Yang Guozhu army formation, which was struggling to resist the attack of the frontal rampant sentry, collapsed in an instant.
Countless Ming soldiers abandoned their weapons, turned around to escape, and flags and swords were thrown everywhere.
Fortunately, the Tang army had received orders and allowed them to escape and not chase after them.
At this time, the pale-faced deputy general Yang Guozhu also led the remaining more than ten guards to pull out his horse and want to escape.
With a whoosh, a sharp arrow shot towards him, hitting the head of his mount. The mount screamed sorrow that it overturned Yang Guozhu to the ground.
Yang Guozhu had been through the battle formation for a long time. When the war horse fell down, he thought it was not good, so he quickly pulled away, and was lucky enough to avoid being crushed by the fallen mount. From the corner of his eyes, he happened to see a Tang army cavalry dressed in the armor of the Manzhou Zhenghuang Banner in the distance, slowly retracting his bow.
At this time, Yang Guozhu's more than a dozen guards, except for two or three guards who were killed by the Tang army that were swarming in, the rest of the army had already run away.
Yang Guozhu, who had rolled on the ground, endured the severe pain from his injured thigh, and was about to get up from the ground. A cold tiger sword covered with blood suddenly rested on his neck.
"Run, you can run! If you move again, I will chop your dog's head!"
A member of the Tang army's stalker with a bloody face, shouted loudly at him in a heavy Shandong accent. At the same time, he added force to the tiger sword, and the sharp blade pressed heavily on Yang Guozhu's neck intimidatingly, which scared Yang Guozhu so much that he subconsciously shivered.
"Don't do it, I am the deputy general of Xuanfu Town, Yang Guozhu, who is the right wing chief. I am willing to surrender and surrender to your army." Yang Guozhu said this with trembling.
When he heard that the person who was captured was a general of the Ming army, holding various weapons and surrounding him, he immediately cheered.
"Grandma, I didn't expect to capture a high-ranking official and now I can get the Tiger Roar Medal!" The Tang army rampant soldier who forced him to surrender had a bright smile on his bloody face.
Hearing the cheers from the Tang soldiers, Liu Wenxiu led a group of cavalry to Yang Guozhu's side.
"Oh, it turns out that you are Yang Guozhu, the deputy general of Xuanfu Town, and I'm lucky to know."
Looking at Liu Wenxiu who was quietly looking at himself with a teasing look, Yang Guozhu looked embarrassed. He sighed, closed his eyes, and allowed the Tang army to tie him up and take him down.
The wind was howling, and the sandstorm continued to decline, but the sound of fighting on the battlefield had completely disappeared.
At this time, in the central army, the face of the Ming commander Lu Xiangsheng, was extremely ugly.
Just now, when the left and right wings were fighting with the enemy, because the wind and sand were too strong and the enemy was unclear, Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to act rashly. He ordered the entire central army to suspend its advance and tighten it together, and wait for the possible attack of the Tang army to launch in a constant manner.
Although a large number of defeated soldiers ran to the central army regardless of their butts, Lu Xiangsheng had no other way to imagine except to order these guys who had no fighting spirit to gather and merge into the central army immediately or retreat on the spot immediately.
At this moment, he only hoped that this vast sandstorm would pass earlier. Only after the sandstorm passed earlier could Lu Xiangsheng truly understand what the situation was in the current situation of the troops who were raided.
Lu Xiangsheng originally thought that the Tang army would take advantage of the rising sandstorm to attack the central army again, but what surprised him was that after the battle between the left and right wings, the Tang army had not been moved.
The real situation at this time was that all the troops of the Dingbei Camp of the Tang Army had formed a huge circular formation, curling Lu Xiangsheng into a group of central troops, firmly surrounding them, and then patiently waited for the sand and dust to pass, and then proceeded with the next battle arrangement.
After more than half an hour, this vast sandstorm finally passed, and the dust between heaven and earth settled and gradually became clear.
Lu Xiangsheng's eyes quickly widened.
He was horrified to see that his originally huge military formation was only one of the central troops, and the rest of the left wing, right wing, and the logistics and logistics troops behind him were no longer there.
Instead, it was a large Tang army formation surrounded in a circular shape, firmly squeezing its own central army into a group and surrounding it in the middle.
Lu Xiangsheng's face turned pale in an instant.
The Tang army had such strong combat power. Within two quarters of an hour, they wiped out all the left and right wings of their own army and the logistics troops. Moreover, the number of such strong rebels was much larger than the thousands that they had previously estimated. After a brief visual analysis, Lu Xiangsheng determined that the number of Tang army was at least nearly 20,000.
Now, the central army with only more than 10,000 people is only half of the Tang army. With this little force alone, whether it can be defeated in Jintang City or not, whether it can be defeated with it is a serious problem.
"Mr. Lu, now our left and right wings, as well as the logistics forces, have all been destroyed, and the central army is firmly surrounded. Now, let Lord Lu make a decision quickly!" Chen An, the captain of Lu Xiangsheng's confidant, whispered in horror.
Lu Xiangsheng's face trembled, but before he could speak, a stern and loud voice sounded on the front of his army.
"I am Duan Shiqi, the head of the Dingbei Battalion of the Tang Army. Governor Lu. The defeat of the army has been decided. In order to save the lives of Er troops, please ask Governor Lu to stop resisting stubbornly."
Seeing Duan Shiqi, the head of the Tang Army Dingbei Battalion who was standing on horseback, standing outside his own army formation, with a serious and solemn look, Lu Xiangsheng felt extremely depressed. He couldn't help but sighed long, but he was silent and did not reply.
"Governor Lu, my Lord Li, had expected that the court would send Governor Lu to attack our Jintang City, so he specially instructed me to show mercy to our generals and not to kill Lord Lu. Therefore, I hope that when Lord Li is already kind and kind, Lord Lu can adapt to the situation and not to act in vain to resist." Duan Shiqi's voice came coldly again.
After Duan Shiqian finished speaking, he whispered to the side, and some personal soldiers knew to leave.
Soon, a group of personal soldiers came over with the dejected Lu Xiangguan and Yang Guozhu.
Seeing that his second brother and his most trusted deputy general had fallen into the hands of the Tang army, Lu Xiangsheng's face twitched, his beard shook, and his eyes were filled with sadness.
However, Lu Xiangsheng still didn't say anything, his face was as gloomy as iron.
"Mr. Lu, both the left and right wings of your army have been destroyed, and the logistics and supplies have been obtained by our army. Your last central army is also firmly surrounded by our Tang army. It is not because I was boasted that your army has exhausted all its troops and food and no reinforcements are outside. It can be said that you are in a state of death. Even if you are reborn from Sun Wu and Zhuge will not be able to do anything again. If you are determined to fight to the death, what is the benefit of killing other soldiers?"
The cold words of the second half were like a sharp knife, stabbed Lu Xiangsheng hard in the heart.
Yes, now it is a sure defeat. I really have to fight hard and let these soldiers bury them in this barren and vast northern border area?
However, can you really surrender to such a rebel and the rebels of the Ming Dynasty? In this way, your lifelong reputation will be completely destroyed. What is the difference between yourself and those Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered to the Qing court and the bandits!
The only death in the ages is difficult. If you must use your blood and life to express your loyalty to the country and the court, let yourself be loyal to the country in this remote and remote place in the northern border!
"You traitors are right. You want me, Lu Jiandou, to surrender to Li Xiao, who rebels against the court, to be a dream!" Lu Xiangsheng finally gritted his teeth and said, "Since Lu received the favor of the king, he only knew how to fulfill his kindness for the country, and how could he think of the rest! Lu's battle was unfavorable, but he could still fight for this passion and repay the emperor's great kindness with all his righteousness. How could he surrender to you and other traitors, and survive with shame!"
Lu Xiangsheng thought that after he said this, Duan Shiqi looked ashamed, but he did not expect that Duan Shiqi, who was opposite, would raise his head and laugh after hearing his passionate words.
"Battleman Commander Duan, why are you laughing at?!" Lu Xiangsheng asked sternly.
"Hmph, I laugh at you Governor Lu. You have been reading poetry for many years. You don't even know what the righteousness is. But you still have the nerve to speak loudly and talk nonsense in front of the two armies!" Duan Shiqi replied loudly without hesitation.
"You, you dare to contradict the governor like this. You are simply..." Lu Xiangsheng was choked for a moment and his speech was not smooth.
"Governor Lu, you said that for the sake of justice, you must ignore the fate of defeat and the lives of these soldiers under your command, and continue to fight our army to death. Personally, you have fought the so-called reputation for loyalty and righteousness, but the lives of thousands of soldiers will be stained with blood and left your soul outside the border. Do you Governor Lu really have a clear conscience? Can you face the thousands of ghosts who have resented their lives with peace of mind?!"
The words of time made Lu Xiangsheng feel so painful.
However, he was so angry that he was trembling all over. Before he could reply, Duan Shiqi sneered and continued, "Governor Lu, I would like to ask you, there is one person in this Ming Dynasty who can, like Lord Li, who can not spend half a grain of rice or grain of the court, or a copper bank of the country, raise food and money entirely, train troops, fight against the Tartars, destroy bandits, and send troops to the country to seize Taiwan, defeat the Hokkien, occupy the warehouse, and vigorously expand overseas land. It is a pity that Lord Li fought for the country, and these things are not great achievements. However, the court was deeply suspicious and believed in the slander of villains. When the bandits were not destroyed and the Tartars were rampant, they would take this strategy of hiding all the birds. How could they not make the loyal and upright people in the world completely disappointed?!"
After listening to the painful words for a while, Lu Xiangsheng's face looked very complicated. After a long time, he sighed.
"Governor Lu, I can also tell you that with the combat power of our Tang army, if we really want to rebel with Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming that day, I am afraid that there will be no Ming army in the Ming Dynasty, which is the opponent of our Tang army. The reason why my family deliberately endured and did not raise an army to fight with the court is really a way to endure humiliation and take into account the overall situation. Because, if our army and the court continue to fight in this way, it will only be a fight between cranes and clams, and the fishermen will benefit, and the real benefit will be the bandits and the Tartars! And the only ones who suffer are the country and the people."
Chapter completed!