Chapter 224: The subordinates dare to fight again
Although Lu Qi's position as captain has been removed, and now he is only a member of the ordinary forbidden army, but in the battle just now, his bravery has brought too much shock to everyone, if it wasn't for this person to take the lead in the charge, their team would not be the first to kill the Xuanwu Gate.
Seeing that victory was in sight, how could they be beaten back by those chaotic soldiers at this critical moment?
"Follow Captain Lu to kill the enemy, kill the enemy!"
Lu Qi's team killed and injured more than a dozen people, but on the way, it also gathered a lot of forbidden troops from other teams who had run away, and after gathering together, the current scale has exceeded the number of more than 100 people.
And with hundreds of people against hundreds of soldiers who are waiting for the battle, Lu Qi actually has no confidence, after all, he is the first time to go to the battlefield with real swords and guns to fight with the enemy, no matter how to simulate the real battlefield in the past, there is still a big gap.
Lu Qi silently recited in his heart the steps he had taken in the previous training exercises, and at the critical moment, he could only pin his hopes on the tactics formulated by General Zhonglang.
The belief and obedience of the whole army of the Shenwu Army to Qin Jin is not entirely the effect of brainwashing, a large part of the factors come from the mountains of anti-Hu heads outside the Qinglong Temple.
This was also the main reason why Qin Jin was able to tame these gentlemen in the shortest possible time. And this kind of convincing and obedience can be transformed into combat effectiveness at some moments, if it is according to Lu Qi's instinct, he should rush forward at this time. According to the ordinary training of the Shenwu Army, when encountering a strong enemy, they must form a formation to protect themselves.
"Listen to Lu's command and form a five-row horizontal line!"
At this juncture, Lu Qi was not polite to the officer, and immediately took over the command.
Queue training is the most basic training subject of the Shenwu Army, almost day after day, and the Shenwu Army has reached the level of proficiency like an arm.
In an instant, these forbidden soldiers seemed to have returned to the training ground and began to search for their respective horizontal platoons. However, there were also problems in this, hesitating to suffer casualties and gathering soldiers from other teams, and the original structure had been disrupted, and it was not possible to form a complete phalanx accurately and quickly when forming a formation.
Lu Qi's brows furrowed, knowing that the form on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and he couldn't help hesitating and making mistakes, otherwise when the rebels reacted, a charge might overwhelm them all.
"The original brothers in the team formed in the front row, and the last ones joined in the back row......"
Sure enough, Lu Qi's method played a role, and after a short period of confusion, these people suddenly returned to order.
The rebels obviously lost their best chance to fight back, but the Shenwu Army, which had been rushing and fighting, suddenly sold the flaw, but it made the rebels think that the Shenwu Army was doing some tricks again, and hesitated to move forward.
Lu Qi guessed correctly, Gao Lishi was under the Xuanwu Gate.
This is his only hope, and if he gives up, he will lose contact with the Son of Heaven in the city. In that case, all his plans would be in vain, and the Son of Heaven would be placed in an unpredictable situation.
Therefore, Colliers must concentrate on the armor soldiers he can control to be the last and fight hard.
These people were hired by him with real money, and with cash in their hands, they naturally worked harder than those rebellious soldiers. At the beginning of entering the Taiji Palace, Gao Lishi attached great importance to the Xuanwu Gate out of his understanding of the mutinies of the previous dynasties of the empire, so these "elites" were not placed in the Chengtianmen and Yong'an Gate, which faced the Shenwu Army, but were all placed in the Xuanwu Gate, which was not war-free in the north of the city.
At present, it is true that this has given Colliers a chance to recover the defeat at the critical moment when the army is defeated, but if he has put these "elites" in the right position from the beginning, why is there such a defeat today?
However, there is no regret medicine to buy in this world, and even if Colliers realizes his mistake, he will not contribute to the situation.
"Brothers, the success or failure of the great event is in one move, no matter whether you live or die after the first war, the number of thousands of gold will inevitably be sent to your home!"
"What the general said is true, don't cheat the case, we will work hard......
These "elites" were obviously deeply suspicious of the promise of empty white fangs, and they did not dare to move forward. This also caused them to miss the opportunity to annihilate Lu Qi and others again and again.
However, the situation made people have no choice but to raise his right arm and shout in public: "Gao Lishi hereby swears in the name of his ancestors, if he breaks his promise, the sky will be thundered five times."
"Okay! If the general swears, we will believe it, and the general will say, how should we fight?"
Gao Lishi's heart is full of a sense of powerlessness, no wonder these new troops are among the eliminated, such greed for life and fear of death, and there is no sense of distress for the family and country, and there is no trace of awe and loyalty to the Son of Heaven, how can such people who only know how to eat and take money are worthy of being the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty?
But, in spite of all the grievances, he had only such a group of men at his disposal, and the number of people to drive was greatly reduced, and now at best there were only one or two thousand, and if the hearts of the people were not stabilized in a short time, I was afraid that more would flee, surrender, or be killed.
And the Xuanwu Gate is his last chance, as long as he guards the Xuanwu Gate, it is possible to regroup, after all, as Gao Lishi knows, the entire Shenwu Army is only 3,000 people, if he defeats the small Shenwu Army in front of him, and then gather some of the scattered men and horses, and gather thousands of them, so as to be equal to the strength of the Shenwu Army, at least there is still the strength of a battle.
Previously, Gao Lishi had sent Yizi to contact Chen Xuanli and ask him to send troops to escort him, but this white-eyed wolf only said that now he was under the control of Qin Jin and could not move freely, and the Longwu Army also had various opinions, and it was very rare for him to be able to control the Longwu Army without mutiny. If Gao Lishi can make Chang'an break the situation inside and outside, he can use enough reasons.
Gao Lishi secretly scolded Chen Xuanli for eating inside and out, and couldn't stand the Son of Heaven, but what could this be? Even if he pointed at Chen Xuanli's nose and scolded him in person, could anything change?
There will be no change at all, and at the moment of such a change of dynasty, everyone is carefully choosing their own position, after all, this kind of thing involves not only personal honor and disgrace, but also the survival of the entire family. Therefore, in the face of personal honor and disgrace and the survival of the family, the court and the Son of Heaven are just gambling games and bargaining chips for the game.
Gao Lishi was tired of scolding and had to face the reality, and he didn't expect to make such a big move, and even reached the verge of success, but in the end it was still a failure.
The direct cause of all this seems to be accidental to the extreme. After the army entered the Taiji Palace, Gao Lishi found Bian Lingcheng's fake son Jingyou, who was smart and loyal and hardworking, which gave him a very good impression, and Jingyou was a eunuch, so he was naturally much more reliable than those generals.
Therefore, Gao Lishi did not care about the view of the portal, so he resolutely entrusted Jingyou with the important task of letting him lead people to guard the Yong'an Gate in the south of Taiji Palace. And tonight's nightmare began with the decision of Jingyou to be entrusted with the task of guarding the city.
Gao Lishi never imagined that it was his most trusted eunuch who betrayed him, and according to those who had fled, it was Jingyou who killed his cronies, and then opened the Yong'an Gate and let the Shenwu army into the city. In the middle of the night, the vast majority of the new army slept regardless of it, and naturally suffered a crushing defeat under the surprise attack of the other side.
Gao Lishi regretted it too late, hating himself for not using people properly, but the big mistake had already been made, and how could it be so easy to remedy it? The most important thing in a large army battle is morale, as long as it collapses in front, even if it is forcibly retracted, it will be a group of broilers who have lost their combat effectiveness and are waiting to be slaughtered.
However, Gao Lishi only has a vague awareness of this, and he is not like Bian Lingcheng who has supervised the army in Anxi for many years, and even once followed Gao Xianzhi's army to destroy several countries in a row, it can be said that he has no experience in battle, and it is really rare to be able to maintain a calm state of mind at the moment of life and death.
"Kill, kill!"
Suddenly, there was a penetrating voice from the front, and this sound of killing made Gao Lishi's heart tremble.
He knew that he couldn't hesitate any longer, if he continued to hesitate, once the follow-up men and horses of the Shenwu Army rushed over, the current strength and weakness ratio would be reversed in an instant, and the final plan to gather the remnants would be completely aborted.
"What are you still doing in a daze? Kill me, kill me! There are few thieves and soldiers, and there are many of us, so we have nothing to fear! If we win this battle, everyone will be given five official ranks!"
Colliers strengthened his spirit and cheered up his subordinates. What he didn't expect was that this actually had an effect.
"What General Gao said is that there are many of us, how are we afraid?"
"Kill the past, kill one is enough, kill two to earn, and also let out this bird breath!"
If it weren't for the Shenwu Army's ingenuity in the previous military exercises and a surprise attack, how could they have been defeated in embarrassment and then all of them were eliminated?
Of course, the premise of selling his life is that Colliers has promised enough gold and silver, as long as he gambles once, once he wins, he will win a lot of money, gold and silver wealth, and official status, so what more can he ask for in such a life?
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Yanzheng Gate Longwu Army Station, Chen Xuanli recruited Changshi Chen Qianli, he looked at this person silently, and had mixed feelings in his heart. I can't imagine that the gold, silver and status in the past half a year can't match Qin Jin's words, thinking of this, he sighed, people's hearts, the most unpredictable thing is people's hearts.