Chapter 175 Alien
In the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, on the sixth day of March, it was no time. A fierce offensive and defensive battle began in front of the Jibei National Army's Dazhai on the east bank of Wenshui River.
At this time, Chen Gui stood on the watchtower and continuously dispatched troops to the square array in front, which could no longer hold up.
The military sequence he arranged in front of the camp at the beginning was that there were four songs in the front, with a total of 800 soldiers. Then there are three songs for the second echelon, six hundred pawns, and the final three songs for the reserve echelon, six hundred elite soldiers.
But no one expected that the opponent only launched one charge, and three of the four front ones had already collapsed, and another one was also retreating step by step under the squeeze of the opponent's troops.
As soon as he climbed up the final reserve echelon, he found that he was completely powerless. While lamenting that I am getting old, just standing on the watchtower and blowing some wind is no longer useful. On the other hand, he asked the military officer to get him a big cloak and put it on him.
Several staff members advised him to go downstairs first, but Chen Gui refused. Just kidding, how dare he slack off when the battle is going like this. But looking at the loud killing sound in front of him, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Rong's department of the right army in the southeast, anxious about why they hadn't arrived yet.
At this time, Zhang Rong and his brothers were marching hard in the mud. Zhang Rong used to ride a horse, but before that he led his mounted followers to walk on the muddy ground, splashing the nearby infantry with mud and causing them to scold them constantly. So Zhang Rong asked everyone to dismount and walk with the brothers.
He had already seen that the brothers were unhappy. He didn't believe that even after walking so far, these old brothers he had brought out would be so depressed.
He turned around and asked his guards:
"Have you noticed that the brothers are depressed? What's going on?"
The soldier who was asked felt guilty, but his face remained calm and he smiled and said:
"Captain, there is no other reason. The brothers are probably tired from walking. No one will be happy walking in this muddy ground."
Zhang Rong nodded when he heard this, but immediately shook his head and said:
"That's not right. We are all descendants of the water bandits, and we are not pampered. Not to mention the muddy road, even the knife road is not easy. Why are we complaining and tired?"
The guard wanted to cover up, but there was an outspoken guard over there who couldn't stand it any longer. He said directly:
"Zhang Kui, what you are talking about was in the past. How can brothers compare now with before? In the past, although we were miserable and precarious, but whoever had a piece of meat, other brothers also had meat. Whoever had a jar of wine must be the same. Brothers have a drink together. Now that you have moved into the city, many things are unclear. Let’s put it this way, brothers are not feeling well overnight. For example, our camp has always had the worst food and wages, and it is also the worst for those dogs. The officials are discriminating and still regard us as thieves. But now that they are suppressing thieves, let us be the vanguard and let us thieves kill thieves. How can we keep our spirits up?"
In fact, this guard still gave Zhang Rong face, and some of his words were very obscure.
What was he actually going to say? It's you, Zhang Rong, who is now prosperous and wealthy, but the old brothers who have followed you through life and death are now hungry and are being discriminated against, and you, Zhang Rong, don't know anything about this. After entering the city, you met the old brother several times. He spent the whole day either licking the King of Jibei or wagging his tail behind the Prime Minister of Jibei. All this is in the hearts of Brother Han. What's even more unacceptable to the old brothers is that when everyone was needed again, you joined the camp and told the brothers to be the vanguard. Why, the old brothers have to die before I can change your ribbon seal to a blue one?
These soldiers have always supported Zhang Rong in the past because he was able to fight, brave and resourceful. In the past, I could often lead my brothers to make the most correct choices when I was in the park. Even when they went ashore to recruit people, everyone thought that Zhang Rong could continue to lead them to a good life.
But after Zhang Rong entered the city, he became a different person. He lived in the mansion where the ribbon-bearers lived, raised enchanting men and beautiful concubines, and even applied powder like those dirty people, and the ostentation became more and more beautiful. Big, old brothers are coming to ask for instructions.
Of course they know that Zhang Rong is doing this because you want to integrate into the ribbon circle of Jibei Kingdom, but to put it bluntly, we are thieves. Once we are thieves, we will always be thieves. Just because we wear shoes, our clothes will not become theirs. member's.
Not once did they hear those behind the ribbons ridiculing Zhang Rong for winning the title just like a monkey. We are "alien" in their eyes.
Zhang Rong, why can’t you understand it so well? We are not the same people as them.
Although the guard's words were vague, Zhang Rong knew what he meant, so he remained silent. Finally he sighed and explained nothing. He just asked the old brothers to believe him again. He and everyone promised:
"After this battle, we have everything."
The army continued to advance, and Zhang Rong could already hear the fierce fighting coming from the Chinese army's stronghold ahead. He was about to order the entire army to prepare for the attack.
A soldier covered in blood rushed from the rear. As soon as he came, he knelt on the ground and cried:
"Kui, the brothers in the rear were suddenly ambushed by the bandits and suffered heavy casualties. Please return for reinforcements quickly."
As soon as this statement came out, the generals were in an uproar and asked for orders one after another, but Zhang Rong asked directly:
"Where does the rear end move now?"
"Still where the original formation was set up in the southeast."
Zhang Rong was annoyed:
"What's going on? It's been so long since we withdrew our troops. Why hasn't the rear moved a step?"
The soldier kneeling on the ground covered in blood turned red and muttered:
"The general said..."
Zhang Rong scolded:
"What did you say?"
"I said I don't want to risk my brothers' lives to exchange ribbons for those noble people, and I said that my brothers' lives are also life."
Zhang Rong angrily smashed the riding crop on the ground and cursed:
"Damn it, when did that golden fat man love soldiers so much? Hot bitch, you said you were protecting the lives of your brothers, but now? Isn't it because he was so stubborn that he harmed everyone?"
The soldiers kneeling on the ground, their faces full of tears, mixed with mud, kept kowtowing:
"Qu, hurry up and send troops. It's too late, all the brothers are really dead." Zhang Rong, who was still angry just now, was speechless for a long time when he heard his words, just looking at the mountains and seas of fighting in front of him in trance.
The other generals also saw that something was wrong with Zhang Rong, and it was the general who wanted to cover up just now who took the initiative to talk:
"Kui, we'd better send out these soldiers quickly. It's really dangerous until Fatty Jin comes, and he won't call for reinforcements."
The soldier who was kneeling on the ground with tears on his face heard this and kept nodding his head, looking at Zhang Rong longingly, but he heard a bolt from the blue news from Zhang Rong.
When they saw their leader, Youyou said:
"Ask the brothers to stay on guard for a while, and then go rescue him after I finish fighting here."
The soldier didn't believe that Zhang Rong had said this at all, and he wanted to kowtow again. Over there, Zhang Rong had already ordered his troops, waved flags to the various ministries, and rushed back to the battlefield to support the Chinese army.
In the end, only the soldier was left kneeling in the mud, looking at Zhang Rong's back, and he murmured:
"Zhang Rong, you are so cruel."
After saying that, he ran back to the rear without looking at Zhang Rong. He will die with his brothers.
As soon as Zhang Rong and his right school captain appeared on the battlefield, Chen Gui, who was standing on the watchtower, saw it. He immediately sent down the order and informed the whole army:
"Reinforcements are coming."
After that, the Chinese army, which was still organized on the battlefield, chanted:
"Reinforcements are coming."
The military formation and morale, which had been on the verge of collapse for a while, were visibly recovering.
In fact, it is not easy for the Chinese army's 1,500 soldiers to withstand the fierce attack of Dian Wei and Guo Liang's 1,000 troops until now. Although they still have more people, their army morale and tactical armaments are not as good as those of Dian and Guo. If Chen Gui hadn't been a good soldier, he wouldn't have been afraid of death. Several times before, the thieves had advanced to less than twenty steps away from his watchtower, but he never took a step back. In this way, the Jibei National Army can barely survive until now.
But now, reinforcements from Jibei Kingdom have finally arrived, and now it's their turn to counterattack. So at this moment, everyone in the Jibei National Army was working bravely, not only stabilizing the retreating military line, but also pushing the military line ten steps forward with the roar of the sky.
But standing on the watchtower, with a higher vision than the soldiers below, Chen Gui, the Prime Minister of Jibei, discovered something was wrong with the reinforcements.
This Rong's soldiers don't look like many. Didn't everyone come here? Just when he was thinking wildly, a thunder suddenly exploded over the battlefield.
Then a bean-sized drop of rain hit Chen Gui's nose. He touched it and it was salty and wet. Then before anyone could react, it started pouring rain all over the world.
Zhang Rong had already led his army to the right side of the battlefield. When he was preparing to attack the thieves who had invaded the Chinese army, a heavy rain suddenly came.
The rain in March poured directly into his armor with coldness. The clothes all over his body were soaked and clung to his body, making him feel cold all over. What made him even more heartbroken was that with the appearance of the heavy rain, the rescue that was supposed to go smoothly had unexpected changes.
Under the heavy rain, the bowstring became wet and could no longer be pulled. Even if he managed to shoot it out, the arrow wet with rain would be weak. But the Taishan Army had no intention of withdrawing its troops. They actually launched a fierce offensive against the Central Military Headquarters even when reinforcements from Jibei Kingdom arrived and there was a heavy rain.
As far as Zhang Rong could see, soldiers from the Chinese army fell down in the rain from time to time and were stabbed to death by tiger and wolf Taishan bandits. With blood and wailing all over the ground, Zhang Rong hesitated.
And with Dian Wei's strength, the Taishan Army's military line was less than twenty steps away from the Chinese army's stronghold in Jibei Kingdom. Until this time, Guo Liang, another general of the Taishan Army, finally sent his last crossbow unit to the front line.
Less than twenty steps away from the watchtower, a group of fifty crossbowmen raised their crossbows and fired at him. For a moment, countless crossbow arrows tore through the rain curtain and poured onto the watchtower like a gust of wind.
Upstairs, Dai Qi, one of the Five Dragons of Jibei Kingdom, was always strong and vigorous. When he saw a group of crossbowmen appearing below, he immediately raised a big pillar and blocked him and Jibei Prime Minister Chen Gui. Then, before anyone else could react, arrows from below covered the watchtower like locusts.
In the end, except for him and the Jibei Kingdom, the others, such as Yan Jiao, Fan Zhao, Xu Yan, Xia Yin, Liu Bin and other famous celebrities, were all nailed to death on the watchtower before they could say a word. .
Chen Gui, who was hiding behind the pillars, finally came back to his senses. Looking at Yan Jiao's dead expression, he tremblingly said:
"Retreat~, everyone retreat to the camp."
(End of chapter)