After all, Liu Shi was a civil servant and had never been in a battle. He was frightened by today's bloody battle. Facing the entire warehouse of gunpowder, he had already lost his previous calmness and reserve. He pulled Cen Changqian and trotted out.
Although Cen Changqian was bold and courageous, she was still young and inexperienced, so she felt a little guilty at this time. The two of them were still running at a trot at the beginning, but thinking about the powerful powder keg behind them, they couldn't help but feel chills on their backs, and they ran faster and faster.
, in the end, I almost sprinted out of the warehouse door...
Panting, he turned back to look at the towering and solid warehouse. The two looked at each other and quickly turned around to join the others.
Cen Changqian held a musket in her hand and looked around the crowd. She saw that her classmates, who had been so heroic in the past, were now scarred and exhausted. She was moved in her heart and said loudly: "Although we come from all over the world, we have all bathed in the emperor's grace. We swear
Be loyal to Your Majesty, loyal to the Tang Dynasty, devoted to learning, and become the pillar of the empire in the future! But now the rebels are raging, intending to destabilize the country and overthrow the country. We, the disciples of the emperor, should bring order to the chaos and fight to the death!"
"Don't turn your heels!"
"Allegiance to Your Majesty!"
All the students were in high spirits and their morale was high.
After all, in this era when imperial power is supreme, loyalty to the emperor is loyalty to the country. These proud men from all over the world regard themselves as disciples of the emperor and regard it as the supreme honor. At this moment, in order to maintain the orthodoxy of imperial power, they are willing to work hard.
Fight to the death!
In fact, no matter in any age, the most susceptible to instigation are young people who have knowledge, ideals, and passion, and are willing to shed their lives and blood for the justice they yearn for!
Even if you die, you will have no regrets.
Cen Changqian paused, and was very satisfied with the students' reaction, and continued: "Although we are not afraid of death, we cannot sacrifice this useful life in vain. I have made arrangements in the warehouse, and in an hour
After that, all the gunpowder will be ignited, so I ask you all to break out with me later! However, we are classmates and have the friendship of classmates. At this critical moment, we should advance and retreat together, and we will live and die together! If any classmate is injured,
, the people around you must help each other and never abandon or give up!”
"Do not abandon, do not give up!"
They are all hot-blooded young people, and they were inspired by Cen Changqian's few words!
Seeing that her morale was ready, Cen Changqian said loudly: "Very good! Let's break out all the way south. As long as we escape into the mountains and ravines of Zhongnan Mountain, we can escape naturally! Now, let's start the breakout!"
More than a thousand people gathered in one place, and with unified command, they immediately launched a breakout towards the surrounding rebels without hesitation.
Cen Changqian took the lead, holding up his musket while running. Without aiming, he fired a shot at the dark group of rebels ahead. A general in leather armor fell to the ground, and the rebels around him were startled and fled.
Cen Changqian threw away the musket, drew a horizontal knife from her back, and charged forward with an angry look.
Ouyang Tong and a group of students followed closely behind. First, they fired the last shot of the muskets in their hands. Regardless of whether they hit the target or not, they simply threw away the muskets before they had time to reload, and rushed forward waving their swords.
More than a thousand students fought bravely to be the first, like a tiger descending a mountain, with great momentum!
This sudden breakout caught the rebels by surprise. They thought that the outer perimeter of the Foundry Bureau had been breached. Most of these students could only defend the core area of the warehouse and rely on the fortifications to continue resisting until they were exhausted and either were killed or captured.
, who would have thought that he would launch a charge and break through without fear of death?
When they reacted, the distance between the two sides was only a few dozen feet. They quickly bent their bows, nocked arrows, and fired a round of arrows. Before they could fire a second round, more than a thousand students rushed into the formation bravely and started fighting at close range.
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This round of arrows hit quite a few students, but these students were all tenacious and fearless. They endured the pain and used sharp blades to cut off the arrow shafts. It would be best if they could take out the arrow clusters. Even if they could not be taken out, they would just leave them in the body and bandage them briefly.
He continued to charge under the supervision of his classmates.
People have the desire to follow the herd, so morale in the army is very important. Once a soldier is afraid of fighting, it will easily lead to a collapse of morale. Often one person will escape before the battle, which will cause the entire army to disperse.
On the contrary, in the current heated atmosphere, even those who are usually spoiled, timid and cowardly people will burst out with strong courage, without knowing what fear is, and will disregard life and death!
Especially after listening to Cen Changqian's speech just now, he put the friendship between classmates in the first place. Everyone worked bravely and fought for the first place. They were even willing to stand up and use their bodies to defend the classmates around them from the enemy's arrows. This kind of bravery
The fear of death and the spirit of unity made these more than a thousand students burst out with extremely powerful fighting power, like a sharp sword that penetrated straight into the rebel formation.
If a regular army were to face such a charge by students, they might be caught off guard due to lack of preparation at first, but then they should react in time, gather from the two wings to the center, compress the formation of the students, and try to cut them off in half.
Divide them into two, and then defeat them one by one. However, the rebels are a mob. Most of these people are not even government soldiers. They seriously lack experience in a battle formation of this scale. They were rushed by the students and were immediately thrown into disarray.
Another point is that these rebels are just domestic slaves and farmers of various Guanlong families. They are not real rebels after all. They cannot be so vicious and wanton killings. Facing these proud men who usually need to be looked up to,
I was originally afraid, but now I was intimidated by the momentum. I was so frightened that it was difficult to organize an effective offensive to resist the students' breakthrough.
Not to mention that these students not only have knives in their hands, but from time to time, the thunderbolts flying out of the hands of self-study students fall into the formation, causing the rebels to flip over and disrupt their formation, running around like headless flies. Even the leader of the general...
Time cannot be constrained.
In fact, even the leader of the generals who was born in Guanlong was shocked by the students' tiger-like momentum going down the mountain. Seeing the students rushing into their own formation like a broken bamboo, the thunder in their hands was thrown around.
, every one thrown would explode to death. Several rebel generals couldn't help but gather together, discuss with each other, and decided to open a way and let these students leave.
First of all, each of these students is the proud son of heaven, and almost every one of them represents a family or a force behind him. Don't look at the fact that the Guanlong clan is launching a mutiny in order to completely control the power of the court, but in the final analysis, it is impossible to have power in the world.
Being monopolized by the Guanlong family, in the end we still have to make some compromises with all parties.
If all these students are killed now, then the Guanlong clan and the forces in Jiangnan and Shandong will have a deadly feud that cannot be resolved, laying the foundation for future control of the court.
Furthermore, they don't care whether these students can break out. Their mission is to capture the foundry, seize the muskets, artillery, gunpowder and other firearms in the warehouse, and use them to attack the imperial city. Since these students have already worked hard to break out, why bother?
How can we stop it despite massive casualties?
It's better to just let them go and hurry up to move the firearms in the warehouse...
Several generals came from different clans and commanded the armies of their respective clans. They immediately reached an agreement to gather the rebels and allowed the students to fight their way straight to Zhongnan Mountain. They organized the rebels to first forge the soldiers.
The bureau was cleaned up, and then the warehouse was opened.
When I saw countless muskets and neatly stacked powder barrels in several warehouses connected together, I was immediately ecstatic!
If so much gunpowder were transported to the Imperial City and ignited, it would probably blow up the entire Imperial City!
This is a great achievement! Rewards will be given based on merit afterwards. For generals and officers like them, it is easy to get promoted to one level. Maybe they can even get a rank...
"Go find some carts to transport gunpowder!"
"Don't mess around, line up!"
"Assign tasks to each. Some are responsible for transporting gunpowder from the warehouse, while others are responsible for transporting gunpowder to Chang'an City on trucks!"
Under the coordination of several generals, more than 10,000 troops gradually restored order, and everyone began to carry the gunpowder from the warehouse.
First of all, we naturally start from the largest warehouse in the middle. There are almost no other firearms in this warehouse. They are all gunpowder in wooden barrels. The orderly transportation work begins, and the remaining rebels who are of no use are guarding the warehouse.
Around the warehouse, bows and knives were unsheathed and ready for battle. If the students turned around and made a surprise attack while everyone was carrying gunpowder, the formation would be disrupted and heavy losses would be caused.