Chapter 1603: The decisive battle in Xiangzhou (4)
There is a great horror between life and death.
All living beings strive to survive and try their best to avoid death. The so-called ants are greedy for life, and it is better to live without death. This is what it means. Even if you have to retreat and you are unable to avoid it, you will still fight to the death, wanting to exchange for the almost invisible dawn of life. Therefore, there are trapped beasts fighting, and there are dogs who are anxious to jump over the wall.
This is the case with the Chu army now. They feel that they have no way to live. The Chu army stationed here, like the Huofeng Army, is now all in the capital. They have no other way except to fight to the death. They could have been guarding the city before, but now the epidemic broke out and the city will only be slowly infected by the epidemic, which is still a word for death. Instead of doing so, it is better to fight to the death.
They had no choice but to retreat, and if there was still a way out, it was to defeat the Ming army in front of them and win the victory of this war.
This kind of hope is slim, but for this little bit of vitality, they dare to give everything.
So there is a battle on the battlefield where you are willing to die and fight to the death.
Their courage made the Ruijin Camp, Canglang Camp, and the miners Camp, which were used to fighting fierce battles, a little scared. Since their establishment, they have never encountered such a tenacious army. Even the Qin army back then was not as crazy as the Chu army they faced now.
The right wing of the Chu army had long dispersed under the attacks between Canglang Camp and Jiang Shangyan, and the whole thing had long been disbanded, with no formation and no response, but they did not collapse as expected by the time they were immediately and Jiang Shangyan. Even if there was only one person left, they still shouted and rushed towards the Ming army opposite, until they were stabbed or chopped down to the ground. Seeing those Chu army lying in a pool of blood and stretched out their hands to hold the horse's hooves, even Jiang Shangyan had such a mighty general immediately, and their eyes showed admiration.
Fortunately, they forced these guys out of the city and had to fight field with the Ming army. If they were allowed to seize the city, I wonder how much the Ming army would have to pay to kill these tenacious guys.
Because of the tenacious resistance of the Chu army, the plan to assist the central army with Jiang Shangyan and attack Sun Chenglong's central army from the rear was extended for more than an hour. When the last soldier on the right wing of the Chu army who was still resisting flew high in the collision of war horses, like a fallen leaf, the sun in the sky was quietly sinking towards the horizon.
The Sun was ready to clock in and get off work, but the two desperate armies had no intention of stopping the battle.
The reserve teams of both sides had already been put in. Suqian, who was originally planning to watch the fun and then clean up the battlefield, led his subordinates to join the battlefield.
On the entire battlefield, there were only Qin Feng and Eunuch Le left. Qin Feng could not help but want to join the battle, but was stopped by Eunuch Le. Because last time Qin Feng participated in the war himself, the political affairs hall submitted memorials at the same time. Quan Yun also sent a special envoy. They just advised the emperor, but scolded Eunuch Le around the emperor. The envoy came over thousands of miles away, but was actually ordered to scold the emperor's chief executive.
Even Min Ruoxi, who was in Jinghu, was quite dissatisfied, but her way of expressing her dissatisfaction was very special. She sent a letter from Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu to their father. Qin Feng smiled, and Eunuch Le knew that the queen was also expressing some emotion to her.
So today when Qin Feng wanted to go out on his horse again, Eunuch Le stopped the horse and hugged the horse's hooves. This was very obvious. If Qin Feng wanted to go to fight, he could only step over his body.
Qin Feng had no choice but to give up, but sent all the guards, including Murong Hai, to the battlefield. Under the banner of the central army, only Qin Feng and Eunuch Le were left.
Sun Chenglong could clearly see the big banner, and also clearly see the two figures of Zhuo Li under the big banner, as if they were close to each other, but they were far away from the world.
He could not break through the defense of the miners' camp. The Fire Death Camp was peeling off his outer skin layer by layer like peeling onions. The final addition of the reserve team did not change the situation of the war at all. When the shouts of aiding the Ming army sounded on the left and right wings, Sun Chenglong closed his eyes in despair.
Today, there is really death.
In the Xiangzhou County City, Yang Chuang was restless. He was the pacifier, nominally at the same level as Sun Chenglong, and he was a civil servant. Sun Chenglong did not make him forced out of the city to fight. More importantly, Yang Chuang was also a member of the rear tribe.
However, Yang Chuang knew very well that Sun Chenglong would go out to fight to the decisive battle, and he would definitely go but not return. The time when Xiangzhou fell depends on how long Sun Chenglong could resist.
As an appeaser, Yang Chuang naturally had his own subordinates. After he arrived in Xiangzhou, he also brought many people to him. Now his armed forces, including the guards given to him by Sun Chenglong, had more than 1,000 people. The most important of them was the one sent by him who secretly infected the suspected plague of the 500 people.
When these five hundred people were infected with the epidemic, Sun Chenglong wanted to kill these people without hesitation, it was Yang Chuang who jumped out to fight against Sun Chenglong.
It is precisely because of Yang Chuang's lead that the generals below have the courage to challenge Sun Chenglong.
Such a large-scale massacre of soldiers would only disperse the morale of the army. The generals understood this principle, and Sun Chenglong naturally understood that Sun Chenglong originally wanted to use the Fire Phoenix Army to suppress other troops, but because of Yang Chuang's opposition, all his ideas fell in the air.
He had to go out to fight.
Yang Chuang personally asked a doctor to diagnose these people. These people had not been infected with the disease. With the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, they naturally recovered quickly. After the recovery, the soldiers naturally regarded Yang Chuang as their reborn parents. Yang Chuang also took the opportunity to include them in his pocket.
Sun Chenglong knew very well that these people had already hated him to the core. If they took them to the battle, they might not have any trouble on the battlefield. It would be better to send Yang Chuang to make a favor.
The spies sent by Yang Chuang would send the general situation on the battlefield back to Xiangzhou City every once in a while to report to Yang Chuang. At the time of sunset, Yang Chuang finally confirmed that Sun Chenglong was no longer able to do it.
"It's time for us to leave." He stood up and looked at a captain beside him and said, "Person Liu, gather the army!"
"Emphasis envoy, where are we going?" Captain Liu Guangjun was the whistle leader who almost killed Sun Chenglong.
"Let's go back to the capital!" Yang Chuang said: "General Sun is going to be defeated."
It is naturally good for these people to escape back to Shangjing City, but Liu Wenjun said with a sad expression: "Empse, we can't go back if you can go back. General Wei has already defined an area outside Shangjing City, and no one can cross this line of life and death to enter Shangjing City. As far as I know, basically no one who returns from Xiangzhou City can enter Shangjing City, and exile is a dead end. We, those who are outdated and out of Liang, will not be tolerated by Shangjing City."
Yang Chuang pondered for a moment and said, "I finally saved you, so I will naturally not let you ignore it. But what you said makes sense. If you want to bring you back to the capital, we have to think of a way, or if we make a contribution, we will have a remark."
"What kind of contribution can you achieve?" Liu Guangjun sighed: "Even General Sun is about to fail."
Yang Chuang's eyes flashed, "The information just now said that although General Sun was about to be defeated, they fought very bravely and had attracted all the Ming army to the battlefield. At this time, if we quietly leave the city, go around the rear of the Ming army, attack them once, and then escape, they will not be able to catch up with them."
When Liu Guangjun heard what Yang Chuang said, he was stunned. Isn’t the comforter talking in his sleep? It was just a military layman who would say such an inexplicable and completely self-destructive plan.
However, before he could object, Yang Chuang walked out with great enthusiasm: "Person Liu, gather the team and let's go. Once I have made contributions, I will take you back to Shangjing City. When I arrive in Shangjing City, I will have this pacifier to take care of you and keep you nothing."
After this, Liu Guangjun was too lazy to argue anything. He was just one person who died. Following Yang Chuang to Hu Chuang would naturally be dead. But if you just escape like this, you can avoid death?
It’s a knife to stretch your head, and it’s a knife to shrink your head, so it’s better to die heroically. In this way, your family in Shangjing will not be implicated. Ma Xiangdong’s strategy of connecting seats is extremely vicious.
This middle of the night was unimaginable for Liu Guangjun to be a Chu. Their trip was extremely smooth. Not only were there no Ming army's troops intercepted, but even their scouts did not see one of them. They walked around the rear of the battlefield, and then they robbed a shelter camp. There were some local people who were infected with the epidemic, and there were only some unarmed doctors.
Under Yang Chuang's instructions, they tied up more than a dozen doctors and dozens of ordinary medical soldiers here, robbed a large number of patent medicines for treating the epidemic, and then ran towards the capital under the cover of the night.
It was completely unimaginable for Liu Wenjun. He had been in the army for many years and had never encountered such a strange thing. He could not understand how all this happened. In the end, he could only attribute this to Yang Chuang's great fortune. The comforter who saved himself from the knife seemed to be a person with great fortune.
Of course, what he didn't know was that as they left the camp, the people in the Eagle's Nest were watching them silently.
Sun Chenglong finally did not see the sun rising the next day.
He vowed to surrender to the death and led the final Houfeng Army to launch a final attack. When he fell under the sword of Murong Hai, the deputy commander of Qin Feng's personal guard, he had already been hit by dozens of arrows. The veteran fell a moment before the dawn was about to arrive.
Chapter completed!