Chapter 101: Swear by blood, heaven and earth as witnesses
Li Ze once again witnessed how quickly an army that was still fighting stubbornly collapsed after the commander of the first army was killed. Chu Xuan only blocked Shi Zhuang's three knives, and at the moment when the two horses were staggered, Shi Zhuang's knife circled around him at a very strange angle, and then cut off Chu Xuan's head with one sword.
Li Ze's mouth opened wide in surprise. Tian Bo beside him was the same as him, and his two big eyes almost popped out of his sockets.
"Is this Shi Zhuang's true combat power?" Li Ze said to himself. No, that shouldn't be enough, the weapon he uses handily is a horse lance, not a saber."
"It's amazing." It took a long time for Li Ze to hear Tian Bo's muttered exclamation.
In Tian Bo's exclamation, Li Ze saw that the surrounded Shenzhou Army collapsed in an instant, and the Shenzhou Army, which was still fighting tenaciously like a desperate wolf, immediately turned into a lost wild dog after Chu Xuan was killed.
"Tian Bo, the battles you have experienced before, is it true that after the Lord is killed, he will lose all the courage to fight like the Deep State Army in front of him?" Li Ze asked.
Tian Bo nodded: "Almost, Childe, it will be the courage of the army, once the main general is killed, the soldiers have no backbone, and it is natural to be defeated, but such a thing is rare, no matter what kind of battle it is, the generals are generally closely protected, and the main generals who will end up in person are very rare, unless they are faced with a desperate situation and have to do it. In fact, at this time, this army is not far from defeat."
Li Ze nodded: "Have you ever seen such a brave general who took the head of the general from the army?"
Tian Bo blinked, as if he didn't understand what Li Ze meant.
"I mean, the two armies were evenly matched, but one of the generals on one side bravely crowned the three armies, led a death squad, broke through the army formation and killed directly in front of the opposing general, and then killed him with one sword, so as to reverse the battlefield form and achieve a big victory?" Li Ze added.
Tian Bo couldn't help laughing: "Childe has read too much of the script, right?" Those storytellers are all nonsense, otherwise who would be interested in listening to it? What a blood-soaked game! It's a trick they use to cheat people out of money, to cheat people who haven't been on the battlefield at all."
"That's a lie!" Li Ze was a little disappointed: "Even a person like Shi Zhuang can't do it, right?"
"Of course not!" Tian Bo said bluntly. Let's take our Jiedu envoy as an example, in the war, there will definitely be no less than 500 to 1,000 armor soldiers around him, even if the battle reaches the most critical juncture, there will never be 500 people around him, really let Shi Zhuang kill the army formation of 500 people, even if those people stand there and let him cut, after cutting dozens of them, his knife will be broken, his hands will be sore, and the rest of the people can easily take his life, not to mention the real battlefield, everywhere is slashing and spearing, crossbow arrows flying sideways, even if it is a fierce general like Shi Zhuang, In the melee, seven points of strength are used to cut the enemy, and two points are used to guard against cold guns and arrows, and the remaining one point is still in the form of observation, pointing at the army at any time!"
"I see!" Li Ze nodded.
The two of them said this, and the battle below has turned into a chase battle. Tu Lichun and the others each snatched each other's horses, and were chasing the scattered and fleeing Shenzhou soldiers and Henghai soldiers everywhere, while Shen Congxing and the others commanded a large army, forming a formation and pressing the opponent's activity space.
When Li Ze took Tian Bo and some young men to the gentle slope of the battle, the battle was completely over.
Standing on the top of the slope, looking down on the entire battlefield, because of the final chase battle, the battlefield distribution is a little broad, as far as the eye can see, there are bloodstained corpses scattered everywhere, broken arms and stumps, broken or complete weapons, the most is blood, some flow into a puddle, and some scatter a large area. Not far from Li Ze, around those scattered wooden shields, dozens of corpses lay on top of each other.
Li Ze stood up, he found that he still overestimated his ability to bear, after witnessing so many corpses and blood, his legs trembled slightly, his hands involuntarily clenched into fists, clenched very tightly, and the dantian was a little tight, which meant that there was some urgency.
He once imagined that he would be majestic on the battlefield full of corpses, but when he was really in this scene, Li Ze found that he still needed more time to accept such a scene.
A country of peace from the era of peace to such a barbaric era where human life is like mustard, it always takes experience again and again to truly integrate a person into this era.
Taking a deep breath, Li Ze tried to make himself look calmer. Because at this time, at the bottom of the gentle slope, his generals and his soldiers were lined up in a neat line, waiting for his review.
Tu Lichun and Shi Zhuang stood at the forefront. Behind them were Shen Congxing, Chen Bing, Chu Sheng, Li Hao, Li Han and other twenty generals with armor, and then there were the soldiers of the secret camp.
The largest, and the last, were the 2,000 soldiers who had been recruited for this battle.
Li Ze could see the expressions of these people clearly.
The ironclad generals at the front had very calm faces, even Li Hao, Li Han, and Li Mi, and the soldiers in the secret camp were very excited, but those young and strong people had different expressions. Some people are excited, some are nervous, some are dazed, some are panicked, and some people seem to be scared.
Li Ze can understand the feelings of these people. Just by looking at it, he was a little uncertain, and those people, who had participated in the battle themselves, might have killed people with their own hands.
This is also a first for them.
Killing people must be different from slaughtering chickens and pigs, a kind person in the past, suddenly used a knife and gun, killed a living person, there must be an adverse reaction in his heart.
After Li Ze came here, he ordered people to be killed, and he had seen people die in front of him, but it was still the first time he had seen such large-scale casualties.
But there is a first time for everything, and after experiencing it, you will slowly get used to it. This is the main theme of this era, on the basis of the history that Li Ze knows, the population has plummeted by more than half, and it is said that the corpses are thousands of miles away from the Spring and Autumn Period.
He stretched out his hand, and Tian Bo knowingly pulled up the big flag embroidered with Li characters beside him, and Li Ze raised it high.
"Victory!" He used all his strength and yelled.
After a moment of silence, twenty warriors from the former secret camp raised their right arms at the same time.
"Victory!"
Li Ze waved his flag and shouted again: "Victory!"
This time, the two thousand soldiers in the rear also finally raised their right arms. Loudly echoed Li Ze's shout.
The roars of thousands of people shook the rock, and there were rubble falling from the rock and falling into the stream below, splashing water splashes.
Li Ze waved the big flag and walked steadily down the gentle slope, waving the big flag in his hand as he walked, and every time he waved it, he roared victory.
Every time he roars, he will usher in the sonic shock. Tian Bo tried hard to keep up with Li Ze's pace, and he could see it very clearly, with this shout of victory, those young men who had originally behaved differently were slowly infected by the passion at the moment, and became fanatical little by little.
Li Ze finally walked in front of his soldiers, he planted the big flag on his side with a bang, holding the flagpole with one hand, a strong wind blew, and the Li character flag was unfurled, blowing the hunting sound.
"Today is our first battle, but also our starting point, we take victory as our starting point, we will also take victory as our end, from today, this banner will lead you from one victory to another."
Shi Zhuang smiled, Shen Congxing showed ecstasy, Li Hao and Li Han and others showed excitement, this is Li Ze's declaration. If Li Ze used to think about running away, about escaping, and about going to a place where there was no strife to live a happy life, then today's battle has already doomed him to have no way out.
He's already on this stage.
Of course, Li Ze also understood this, he leaned down, picked up a short blade from the ground, and slashed it in the palm of his hand, blood oozed out, and he smeared the blood on the banner beside him.
"Swear by blood!"
Shi Zhuang strode forward, took the short blade from Li Ze's hand, and also slashed his palm, smearing the blood on the flag. Tu Lichun, Shen Congfen, Li Hao, Li Han and others stepped forward in turn, smearing their palms and blood on the flag.
"Swear by blood." They knelt down in front of Li Ze in unison.
Three hundred soldiers of the secret camp fell to one knee.
"Swear by blood, forever loyal to the son, never abandon until death!"
Two thousand young men knelt down on one knee.
"Swear by blood, forever loyal to the son, never abandon until death!"
The sound of the oath sounded in Li Ze's ears over and over again, which made him a little tearful, these people will be the capital for him to get out of this small village, and they are also the foundation of his survival.
"Gou Fugui, don't forget, you don't abandon me, I don't live up to you." Pressing down with both hands, the roars of more than 2,000 people stopped abruptly, and Li Ze also knelt down on one knee, pointing to the sky with one hand and the ground with the other. Heaven and earth are proof, if this oath is violated, the sky will strike it, the earth will destroy it, and the gods and ghosts will not tolerate it."
"Heaven and earth are proof!" More than two thousand people raised their weapons high into the sky with one hand, clenched their fists with the other, pointed to the ground, and shouted in unison.
Swear by blood, heaven and earth as proof. This is Li Ze's promise to his subordinates here, and it is also his first cry to this world, after this army that first showed signs of a strong army, dozens of soldiers from the Henghai Navy who were tied to the ground with five flowers, and dozens of prisoners of the Shenzhou Army were all colorless.