Eight hundred and twentieth chapters a good phenomenon
Over in Beicheng, the people were crying for food. They had been waiting in the city for too long, and they must be eager to join forces with the Jin army.
The Jin army should also respond to their expectations as soon as possible.
If the Jin army fails to act as soon as possible, the people in the city may face great danger. If the Qin army discovers their plan first, what awaits the villagers is almost catastrophe!
However, the situation here in Nancheng is also as urgent as a spark.
Kaicheng!
Surrender directly!
What kind of opportunity is this? This kind of opportunity is almost a once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-century opportunity!
Once Zhang Hao, who is guarding Beicheng, arrives, the situation in Nancheng will be reversed instantly. At that time, can Li Dalian still keep his words? Or, even if Li Dalian still chooses to open the city, can the Jin army capture it immediately?
In Yecheng, everything is uncertain.
Wang Mi had full confidence in occupying Yecheng. With the current strength of the Jin army, they would definitely be able to do it.
However, how to achieve the greatest victory with the least casualties is also a problem that Wang Mi, as the commander-in-chief, cannot get around.
Must be considered.
As the saying goes, pulling one hair affects the whole body!
The dominoes that drive the progress of history!
In the chaotic thoughts, these two sentences suddenly appeared. For Wang Mi, it was simply a revelation!
My whole body was awake, and I felt that my eyes suddenly opened up and a smooth road appeared.
right!
Just do it!
"Amai, go beat the drum quickly, gather the soldiers together, and attack the south gate!"
He Mai took over the errand, but when he saw He Wuji and Zeng Jing following him, he was still a little hesitant.
"What about the North City side?"
"The people in the city must be looking forward to us joining forces with them as soon as possible. This opportunity cannot be missed!"
This He Mai, why did he make a mistake at the critical moment?
However, among everyone present, He Mai was not the only one who made the mistake. Even his boss, He Wuji, who was always smart and witty, had a question mark on his face at this moment.
He Mai expressed the same view.
"You guys are in trouble, what do the people of Yecheng really need?"
"Are you going to fight side by side with us?"
yes!
Not this, why did they send news outside the city and risk their lives? The audience once again reached a consensus.
Wang Mi shook his head: "What you think is too simple."
"What the people of Yecheng need most now is our rescue. As long as we can capture Yecheng and let them live a good life, will they care whether they join forces with our army to fight?"
"Now, we already know that the people in the city are interested in helping us, which is good. As for whether we should join forces, it depends on the changes in the situation."
"Now Zhang Hao will rush to Nancheng soon. If we seize the opportunity and rush into the city, Nancheng can be captured immediately. At that time, if the whole body is affected by one move, Nancheng will be occupied, and Beicheng can still be alone.
How long will it last?”
"This is the most important breakthrough in this battle, why are you still hesitating?"
What's there to hesitate about?
Wang Mi really couldn't figure it out. He had to think about such a simple truth for a long time. It was a waste of time and life!
yes!
This is indeed the truth!
As long as Nancheng is captured, will there still be suspense in Beicheng?
The generals looked at me and I looked at you, then immediately turned their horses and headed towards the city gate.
As for He Mai, of course he has gone further than them. Such an important matter as recruiting soldiers must be handled by him, who has a certain status in the army.
The south city gate is about to be opened, and the Qin soldiers have given up resistance. For the Jin army, as long as they hold their chests high and take big steps, they can walk in with dignity. What problems are there and why should they step out?
Anyone who asks this question has never experienced ancient wars. At the very least, they do not have a deep understanding of ancient wars.
Ancient armies were often not very disciplined, and once they attacked, the army would press on the territory. Within a radius of a hundred miles, Wuyang Wuyang would be full of people.
This is of course an exaggeration, but the meaning is almost the same.
In the battle formation, when you are fighting to the death, you can also say that as long as there are strangers around, just pick up a weapon and kill them.
Although it is a desperate job, because it is easy to operate, the risk factor is relatively low, especially for some people who are already strong in martial arts.
When an army is in battle, when is the most dangerous moment?
That's when the Lord will change his intentions!
Changing the formation and changing the direction of the battle are taboo.
Because in this era, once the impact starts, the original phalanx will disperse and cannot be maintained.
Soldiers want to kill the enemy, so of course they can no longer maintain a rigid formation. There is nothing wrong with this.
However, once the general wants to change the direction of the battle, or advance, retreat, or outflank, he needs to reintegrate the original scattered queues.
Integration is only the first step. What is more important is how to effectively change the direction of attack for the temporarily integrated team.
This is definitely not an easy task.
In history, Fu Jian was defeated by Feishui precisely because of a seemingly insignificant decision.
At that time, the armies of Jin and Qin were facing each other across the river. The situation at the beginning was that the Jin army was uneasy when they saw the Qin army approaching the border.
After years of struggle, the Jin army is still quite capable of fighting against the Qin army and is not easy to deal with. Although they have mobilized all the elite soldiers and generals in the Jin Dynasty this time.
Moreover, the whole court was united as never before.
It can be said that this was the best moment for external resistance after reaching the southern crossing of Jin Dynasty.
However, the strength of Qin Bing still cannot be underestimated.
On the other hand, the situation in Di Qin is actually the same.
Worry!
Especially the commander-in-chief Fu Jian, Di Qin's words mattered.
In his consistent impression, the style of the Jin army was equivalent to that of the Jingzhou soldiers. They were lazy and lazy. It would be unfair to say that they had no combat effectiveness.
But to say that the combat power is so strong that one can equal a hundred is a joke.
So, when Fu Jian led his army and marched south in a mighty manner, he was quite confident. In addition, before Feishui, the Qin soldiers had actually captured many places and fought well.
Make Fu Jian more confident.
He believed that this battle must be won, and that it would be a great victory, an overwhelming victory.
The Jin army, which he regarded as a bug, was almost in a state of collapse at the first touch.
However, when he saw the true face of the Jin army, he immediately realized that he was wrong. The Jin army in front of him was completely different from the Jin army in his impression.
Their military appearance was solemn, their morale was high, and there were also a lot of people. To say it was an exaggeration, Fu Jian was actually a little scared before the battle officially started.
Perhaps, he is still regretting it. If he had known better, he should not have been so stupid that he came all the way from Xiangcheng to Feishui.
Isn’t this asking for death?
Before the war started, the psychology of the two armies had undergone extremely subtle changes. Therefore, when the Jin army threw out the bait and suggested that the two armies were too close to each other to make the battle formation difficult to develop, and the Qin army could retreat slightly,
Pandora's box has been opened!
If the battle formations were so easy to mobilize, the Jin army's bad ideas would not succeed at all, and it would not be able to touch the Qin army's fundamentals.
However, the Qin soldiers originally came from afar, so they were physically and mentally exhausted. In addition, the general's mind was wandering, and the morale of the army was unstable.
When the battle formation retreated slightly, the entire phalanx was disrupted, and the soldiers behind could not hear the orders of the general in front.
There was no expectation that the front army would turn around, so for a moment, the soldiers were piled on top of each other, all pushing each other, and some even abandoned their weapons and ran away blindly.
The Jin army was the one who witnessed the strange behavior of the Qin soldiers. They watched helplessly. How could they not take action?
So they took advantage of the chaos and rushed into the enemy's formation, and soon gave Di Qin the biggest defeat since the founding of their country.
It can be seen that how to keep ancient soldiers disciplined in battle formations is a very important and extremely difficult matter.
Only someone like He Mai, who has both ability and general knowledge, and most importantly, a sharp tongue, can do the job.
At this time, Captain Li, who was given high hopes and took the initiative to open the city gate to welcome the Jin army, was doing what?
Of course Captain Li can't just let him go. Wouldn't that make him a liar?
The Jin army is pressing down on the country, and even if you lend him some courage, he won't dare to lie to you, because it is obvious that although the Qin army is not dead yet, it will definitely be destroyed in a short time.
Li Dalian has long seen clearly that it is difficult to save the defeat by relying on Zhang Hao alone, not to mention that Yecheng is just an isolated city!
Outside Yecheng, there were no reinforcements and no cities that could act as horns to support each other and involve the Jin army's strength.
It is difficult to change the overall situation simply by relying on such an isolated city.
Since you will eventually become a prisoner of the Jin army, what difference does it make if you do it sooner or later?
Captain Li will tell you with his strength, of course there is a difference!
And the difference is huge!
Those who are defeated by the Jin army are called prisoners, but if they take the initiative to open the city gate, it is called surrender and can be exchanged for preferential treatment.
It's like surrendering yourself before the police arrive. That's called surrendering, and it's a legally lenient circumstance.
But if the police arrive and arrest you, sorry, no matter how frank and positive your attitude is later, it can only be regarded as an honest explanation of the problem.
It cannot be exchanged for any benefits, it can only be regarded as an obligation.
The most important thing is that this is ancient times!
Being a prisoner will never end well!
First of all, in the late Jin Dynasty, the bad habit of killing prisoners had not been effectively eradicated. On bloody battlefields, such things often happened at the end of the battle.
Even some seemingly benevolent generals, such as the future Emperor Zhu Baba of the Ming Dynasty, did not advocate killing prisoners and sternly warned his subordinates not to do so.
But Zhu Baba's logical starting point is not forgiveness, but some superstitious thoughts.
The so-called killing and surrender are ominous.
What era was Zhu Baba in? It was almost a thousand years ago, and his general Chang Yuchun still liked to kill prisoners!
However, compared to death, there is another punishment that falls on the prisoners, which is even more uncomfortable than death!
It's one size fits all.
Commonly known as gelding.
Prisoners are the property of one's own army, and even slaves are already members of the defeated army. The victorious party can do with them how they want, and no one can say anything.
Therefore, given that the majority of the army was made up of men, corruption (that is, becoming a eunuch) was a very common punishment method. When he thought that he might become a eunuch if he did something carelessly, Li Dalian felt a dark wind coming from behind.
Chilling.
I don’t want to become a eunuch!
If you don’t want to become a eunuch, the only way to go is to surrender!
His little follower followed him closely along the way and was extremely attentive. The most important thing is that this person always supported Li Dalian infinitely in all his decisions and flattered him every step of the way.
This further strengthened Li Dalian's confidence.
He was already the number one person on the South City Tower. When he climbed onto the tower and turned to face the soldiers, it could be said that Li Dalian's words were an imperial edict!
"Team leader, why don't we ask General Zhang for help?"
"We can send more soldiers. As long as we guard that city wall, there will be great success!"
Facing the crisis, more people still want to give it a go. When they see Li Dalian come back, they don't have the complicated thoughts to think about why their leader suddenly disappeared when the situation is so critical.
And now, it's back intact.
They just want to fight!
Need a leader!
Even if there is no leader, it doesn't matter, as long as they can let them fight!
"You are too naive, why are you still fighting?"
"It's just a waste of energy, and it will cost you your life."
"Look at the current situation. How brave the Jin army is. It is simply not something we can resist."
Some are brave and some are cowardly. Among the crowd, there are also many people who want to simply go down the slope.
However, judging from their statements, it seems that their ideas about the next step are still relatively ambiguous. Perhaps many people have considered surrender as an option, but they still have questions about whether to surrender or whether there are other solutions.
Not very clear.
Even though they knew in their hearts that surrender would be a matter of time, they didn't want to say it now.
Who wants to be the scapegoat?
Some of them, those who are smart, observant, and even those who are close to Li Dalian, have long known what Captain Li is thinking.
Now that Captain Li has made his decision, what are they waiting for? As long as Li Dalian gives an order, they will all follow it. This is the best cooperation.
There are still some people who are still trying to figure out Captain Li's true thoughts. If Li Dalian wants to surrender, then if they propose it at this time, it will be a righteous act and a good thing.
However, if Li Dalian hasn't made up his mind yet, or even doesn't want to surrender at all, wouldn't it be easy for them to be unlucky if they jumped out at this time?
The soldiers would put forward various arguments, which Li Dalian had expected for a long time. But now, they were collectively waiting for Li Dalian to make a decision, but Li Dalian was a little surprised.
Surprisingly, no one jumped out to fight with him!
Pick up your weapons, rush out of the city, and fight to the death with the Jin army!
If there were any Qin soldiers in the past, there would have been warriors like this. No matter what, they would just pick up the guy and do it!
Whether it's bloody or reckless, they will do it anyway.
However, looking back now, although there are people who disagree and there are many who complain, there are not many people who go out of the city to challenge the Jin army without obeying Li Dalian's command.