Chapter 49: The Defeated Army

Dali's army collapsed like a flood, this is the first fiasco since Dali's division, Duan Zhong brought the 30,000 troops to return to Yanjing less than 20,000 people, this ten-day thousand-mile run finally ended in failure, and this failure, it seems to mean the beginning of a turning point, the horn of Daliang's counteroffensive was completely sounded, when Dali's army returned to Yanjing, all the soldiers were shrouded in the cloud of defeat, and the invincible artillery corps failed for the first time, The impact on morale can be said to be extremely huge, even if everyone knows that victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, but the soldiers of Dali have understood a truth, when the cannon is not the previous cannon, Dali's army is not the original Dali's army.

The reason why Duan Zhong has been reluctant to arm Dali's army with cannons, bombs and other thermal weapons is because Duan Zhong is clearly aware that this world is a world of cold weapons, and when hot weapons appear, it will definitely bring about an extremely terrible upheaval, but when the upheaval is over, the method of dealing with thermal weapons is studied, or a new thermal weapon is on the stage, then it means that the original side that relied on thermal weapons will definitely face the result of destruction. It means that Dali's advantage will no longer exist, Duan Zhuang has been anxious to calm the world, but there is no deep level of Duan Chong's thinking, which has led to such an extremely painful situation at the moment, Dali's army does not have an advantage in numbers, firearms is not dominant, and even the master level is not dominant.

Duan Zhong understands that since his opponent can create "mines" and "firearms", then bombs and cannons are also very likely to be manufactured, so from the level of thermal weapons, the opponent's technology is even much higher than Duan Chong, and Duan Zhong knows a truth, knowledge is power, when hot weapons appear, it will inevitably bring the weakening of cold weapons, Duan Chong's history in the previous life, the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, a musket unit of several hundred people, can beat thousands of Qing cavalry to abandon their armor and flee in the wilderness. It is enough to show all the problems, so Duan Zhong understands that now Dali does not have an advantage in any aspect, and even above the people's back, Dali is also at a disadvantage, after all, the other party is under the banner of recovering the country, with the royal support of the Southern Liang and Northern Liang, as well as the head of the world's ministers, Dong Zhongshu, a scholar, and more than 100,000 troops, which are not the strength that Dali has now can fight.

Three days after Duan Zhong returned to Yanjing City, the 50,000 reinforcements led by Emperor Kang had just arrived, and they had already received news from the east and west, Xiao Li's 100,000 troops and Xiao Zhengrong and Xiao Beiping's 100,000 troops led a total of 200,000 troops marched towards Yanjing together, and the morale was high and the fighting spirit was very strong.

And even if Emperor Kang led the army to help, there were only 100,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Yanjing City, and if the Dali army scattered around Yanjing was withdrawn to the command, there were only 120,000 horses, at this time, Duan Zhong and Emperor Zheng Kang had two choices, the first was naturally to wait for the enemy to resist in Yanjing City, after all, the city of Yanjing City was high and deep, after the Dali army conquered Yanjing, the damaged city wall has been repaired, and now it has been repaired, and the cannon on the city wall has the advantage of two stages of firing range, can have the strength of a battle, and the second option is to lead the army to retreat directly south, return to Nanjing City, integrate the soldiers and horses near Nanjing City, and re-give the army of Daliang.

After Duan Zhong and Emperor Zheng Kang discussed, he chose the first option, staying to resist desperately, in the words of Emperor Kang, Dali was only the first defeat, and the other party was just a thief who destroyed the country, so the soldiers of Dali were boosting morale while actively preparing for war, this Emperor Kang brought a thousand cannons from Nanliang, plus more than 1,000 original Yanjing, there were more than 2,000 guns, enough for Liang to eat cannonballs for a long time.

And after getting the news of the two ways of the Great Liang, Duan Chong did not hesitate at all, and after discussing with Emperor Zhengkang, he directly took Zongzi and Jiang Mingchen in addition to Yanjing City, and went straight to the west, Duan Chong was gambling this time, after all, this Xiao Li was in Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong's army at the moment, and Xiao Li also knew that Duan Zhong was in Yanjing City, so he would not dare to disturb it easily, and Duan Chong was betting on Xiao Li's psychology, and Xiao Li did not dare to rush into Nanjing City without authorization, so he took this opportunity to go to the Liang army in the northwest. Wait for an opportunity to do something.

The army of this western girder numbered 100,000. Although there is no Xiao Li in charge, there are still people such as Wang Haitang and Queen Wang who are in charge of the overall situation, and it is also an extremely terrifying force, the only thing Duan Chong can rely on is the cultivation of his own grandmaster-level master, sneak into the army to do some things, and Duan Chong also realized that he came to the most important enemy in the world, and the person who came to this world with him seemed to be in the other party's military camp, and Duan Chong did not dare to rush into the big tent, after all, Duan Chong did not know what kind of weapon was waiting for him.

The army from the west has already set off for two days, and Duan Chong's foot journey also needs two days to meet the troops marching in this big beam, and the army led by Xiao Li, Xiao Beiping, and Xiao Zhengrong feels that Yanjing City also needs seven or eight days, so in terms of time, as long as Duan Zhong grasps it tightly, it will still have time to rush back to Yanjing City before Xiao Li's army arrives.

Along the way, Duan Zhong saw that people were constantly going out of exile from their residences because they were about to ...... The war, this is enough to see from the fact that Dali withdrew all the troops stationed in various cities, and at the same time, Duan Chong also saw a lot of young and strong laborers going in the direction of the Daliang army, stopped to ask, only to know that these people were all defecting to the Daliang army, and wanted to participate in the crusade against the "Dali bandits" of the "righteous army", so the people's back, it can be seen that in general, Duan Chong asked himself that Dali was not thin to the people of the original Daliang, but he didn't expect that the royal family of Daliang and Dong Zhongshu raised their arms and shouted, and they really gathered to respond, And Dali's station, in addition to the geographical advantage, Tianshi and people all gave up to the so-called Liang "Righteous Army", I have to say that this Xiao Li's means are extremely old-fashioned, no, in Duan Zhong's view, Xiao Li will not have such a means, the person who can come up with this method may be Wang Haitang Wang Queen, or ...... own enemies.

Duan Chong has been thinking about a question along the way, his real enemy in this world, Duan Chong has been extremely high-profile since he came to this world, and his "enemy" may have known his existence for a long time, but this person has been hiding the news, so that Duan Chong can't touch it at all, this is a terrible thing, and at this time, some clues have appeared at such a critical juncture, which is enough to make Duan Chong fearful. Duan Chonglai did not dare to forget his mission in this world, and if he wanted to live well, he had to ...... Kill the other party, otherwise the fate of his wife and children will be very tragic, so at this point, Duan Chong didn't dare to be careless, knowing that Duan Chong's martial arts cultivation had recently reached the pinnacle of this world, he finally put his mind at ease, after all, the person who wanted to kill himself in this world was not Duan Zhengzheng, nor was he the Great Grandmaster of Dongyi, so that there was no one in this world who could threaten him, but the appearance of hot weapons made Duan Chong's heart tighten, maybe he only needed a sniper rifle, You can easily take your own life.

Two days later, Duan Chong rushed to the marching army of the beam, Duan Chong didn't know how to start for a while, so he first asked Zongzi and his party to wait in the distance, and he went to investigate the situation in the barracks first. This is an extremely terrible thing, and the army of Daliang is constantly on the way, and it is still receiving new people who have defected to the army, and it is really not delayed at all, and it is roughly estimated that the army of Daliang has a terrible number of 1120,000.

However, these Duan Zhong can't stop it, the only thing that makes Duan Chong pay some attention is a very tightly guarded team of the Liang army, these soldiers guarding hundreds of taels of tightly sealed carriages are far higher than other troops in terms of elite level and sophistication of weapons and equipment, and even enough to be comparable to the "poison dagger", and even some soldiers are even equipped with ...... "fire guns", so this section weight is enough to judge that these goods are extremely important, And Duan Zhong did not hesitate to set his goal on this batch of goods.

At night, after waiting for the army of Daliang to stop camping, Duan Zhong finally led the zongzi and a hundred "poison daggers" quietly towards the barracks of Daliang, the target was the batch of heavily guarded goods, if Duan Chong's guess was right, this batch of goods should be the firearms of the Daliang army, otherwise there would definitely not be such a strict guard.

Duan Zhong took the lead in sneaking into the camp tent, and directly stunned the three Liang soldiers next to a carriage, without making a sound, but quietly opened the carriage to take a look, this look doesn't matter, but it surprised Duan Da to see the goods loaded in this carriage, it turned out to be the most important weapon that Dali has, cannons, and no matter in terms of size or power, it seems to be slightly better than Liang's, and hurriedly checked several carriages, all loaded with cannons.

Duan Chong's heart sank, knowing that if these cannons were really allowed to work, the soldiers with Dali would really ...... It's dangerous.

So I don't care where this batch of cannons came from, it just sounded a whistle and started tonight's operation, we must destroy these hundreds of cannons,