Emperor Zhengde closed his eyes in despair, while Li Xuan, who was opposite, showed a smile!

The Guards did not waste so much effort on his part, and at this critical moment, he finally played the role of the mainstay, successfully blocking the attack of the Tatar cavalry, and even inflicting heavy casualties on the Tatar cavalry, thus forcing the Tatar cavalry to retreat!

"Good!"

This time, Li Xuan did not suppress his joy, but directly shouted hello, with a smile on his face, and then looked around, and said loudly: "The Tatars have fled from the wind, and now, only the Puppet Ming thief army is left to resist, and the whole army is ordered to continue to fight bravely and completely defeat the Puppet Ming thief army!" ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and then continued: "All soldiers who participate in the war today will be paid double salary, and those who have made meritorious service will be doubled!" ”

At this last moment, Li Xuan did not skimp on his reward at all, for ordinary soldiers, taking real money is the best reward, and for officers, double merit is the best reward!

There is nothing more than being promoted to get rich and boosting the morale of the soldiers, especially with such a victory in sight, the soldiers know very well that as long as they work harder, then victory is within reach!

Li Xuan's words, along with the flag language, and with the heralds, spread to every corner of the battlefield!

Those ordinary soldiers, hearing that they can get double the salary, suddenly increased their morale, the situation in front of them even ordinary soldiers are already roughly able to guess the coarse grain, victory is in sight, now is the time to beat the water dogs, immediately fight is more courageous.

And the officers were also stimulated by the double merit one by one!

Today's Datang Army, although it is still expanding, there is a lot of room for promotion, but today's Datang Army has gradually stabilized, and the promotion system is very stable.

What's more, today's big war, which can be said to be the last large-scale battle in the Northern Expedition, missed the opportunity to make meritorious service today, even if there are other combat opportunities in the future, but if you miss it, you miss it.

Whether you can go further in the future, whether you can be knighted in the future, it depends on today!

Therefore, now both officers and soldiers are extremely excited!

Under the leadership of the officers, the officers and soldiers burst out with stronger combat effectiveness than before, and the Tang army launched a tidal attack on the Chinese army of the Ming army!

Countless soldiers held muskets and spears, and continued to advance with firm steps, further compressing the defensive space of the Ming army!

As a large number of infantry continued to press, they never made a move, used as a reserve, and prepared to flee with Li Xuan at a critical time, the only cavalry of the Tang Army in this battle, more than 1,000 cavalry composed of the cavalry of the Guards Army and the independent cavalry battalion of the army directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, also launched a charge.

The target of their charge was the artillery position behind the flank of the Ming army, this artillery position of the Ming army brought a lot of casualties to the advancing Tang army, and now taking advantage of the rout of the infantry of the Ming army, this thousand cavalry finally shot!

The cavalry roared away!

Even though the number is not much, but the number of people is also small, and the action is decisive and resolute, of course, what is more important is that the Chinese infantry of the Ming army is already too busy to take care of themselves, and they are completely suppressed by the infantry of the Tang army, and they cannot support the artillery positions at all.

As a result, on the battlefield, thousands of cavalry can be seen crossing hundreds of meters in one fell swoop, and then rushed to the artillery position of the Ming army, directly using the most powerful cavalry wall to charge and tear apart the last infantry defense line of the Ming artillery position, and then smashed into the artillery position.

The sabers of the cavalry swung at the artillery of the Ming army, and everywhere they passed, flesh and blood flew everywhere!

The artillery positions of the Chinese army of the Ming army are also finished, and they can no longer support the infantry of the Chinese army!

At this time, Emperor Zhengde looked up at the front again, even if the artillery position was finished, even if the defensive line was continuously compressed, and there were heavy casualties, but the officers and men of the Chinese army were still struggling to resist the advance of the Tang army.

However, the soldiers of Rao is Chinese army fought bravely, but they still couldn't stop the continuous advancement of the Tang army!

If it continues like this, maybe a quarter of an hour, maybe two quarters of an hour, maybe the next second, the Chinese army will completely collapse!

They did their best!

Zhengde knows very well that in today's battle, his soldiers have done their best, and they have fully exerted the combat effectiveness that Zhengde himself expected, and in the face of the fierce attack of the Tang Army, although they are defeated, they have always been struggling to support.

They really tried their best!

"The defeat in this battle is not the fault of the soldiers, but the fault of me, and the fault of waiting!" Emperor Zhengde withdrew his gaze from the front, and then turned to look at the large group of ministers and nobles behind him!

Naturally, the civil officials and nobles immediately shouted that the ministers and other crimes deserve death, and His Majesty is angry and other nonsense.

The ministers and nobles of the Ming Dynasty present, even those who do not understand military affairs, can already see that today's situation is very bad, and the army is almost finished!

Their Ming army was not the opponent of the Tang army at all, and they originally hoped that the Tatars would kill them, but now the Tatars were beaten by the Tang army and retreated, so how could they fight left?

Can't fight!

The rout of the whole army is already imminent

The faces of many nobles are extremely pale, the army is finished, the Ming Dynasty is also finished, and they are also finished!

Their titles, their glory and wealth, all come from the Ming Dynasty, as the so-called rest with the country, but the premise is that there must be a country, the country is finished, and these nobles must also be finished, is it possible that they can still hope to run to the Tang Dynasty as soon as they turn around and continue to be nobles?

Even if Li Xuan is willing, many civil and military ministers in the Tang Dynasty are not willing, what are they born and died for, isn't it just to be a founding hero and win glory and wealth!

The nobles of the Ming Dynasty wanted to surrender and run over to continue to be nobles, which was impossible!

And the Ming Dynasty is finished, are they still noble?

No!

Compared with the panicked expressions of a group of nobles, although most of the civil officials did not look good, their demeanor was much better than that of those nobles, and some even showed thoughtful expressions.

The Ming army was defeated in this battle, and the Ming Dynasty was about to end, but will they sink with the Ming Dynasty?

This question is debatable!

It is undeniable that there will be people who will sit firmly on the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty and then sink together, but it is also undeniable that more people will pick up the ship in time, and then swim to and climb onto another big ship to sink the big ship of the Ming Dynasty: the Tang Dynasty!

Emperor Zhengde looked at everyone, and took in the performances of the dozens of civil servants and nobles behind him, although his expression was flat, but he was extremely angry in his heart!

If it weren't for these misguided thieves in front of him, he would be virtuous, how could his Zhu family dynasty fall to this point?

Officials are corrupt, he knows it, and he has been cracking down, but he has colluded up and down, even if he, the Zhengde Emperor, is tough, but he can't change too much, if he really wants to kill them all, his emperor throne will not be stable.

So many times, he can only turn a blind eye, but what he didn't expect is that they are corrupt, they don't pay taxes, they don't say anything, and they even dare to deduct the military expenses of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, and the deduction is not a little bit, but half and half of it!

In the past few years, Emperor Zhengde took out a total of more than 10 million taels of silver from the treasury and the inner treasury to quell the thieves, but in the end, less than half of them fell to the army.

And in the past two years, Emperor Zhengde has strongly opened a flat thief's salary, but Dongchang and Jinyiwei's fans have reported that the officials below are ostensibly opposed to the flat thief's salary, but on the other hand, they are using the flat thief's salary to make money, forcing countless people to die, and then these ministers put all the blame on him, the emperor!

Emperor Zhengde saw these in his eyes!

He knows, he knows it!

But in the past, for the sake of the overall situation, he endured it!

As an emperor, as long as his rule can be maintained, then he doesn't care about these things, thinking about pacifying the Tang thieves first, and then going back and slowly cleaning up these insatiable civil officials and nobles.

But now, the puppet Tang Li thief can't be destroyed, and even his Ming Dynasty is going to be finished.

The ship of the Ming Dynasty is about to sink, and how many of these people in front of them want to jump ship and run to the puppet Tang Dynasty opposite?

Emperor Zhengde didn't know how many there would be, but he was sure that there would definitely be no less!

And he, Zhengde, will not allow this to happen!

Now that your harm is over, and I am the king of the dead country, then you don't expect to be able to live alone, let's all bury me together!

Therefore, Emperor Zhengde no longer looked at the battle in front of him, but looked at these ministers and nobles in front of him, and then took a deep breath and said, "Where are the guards!" ”

As soon as Emperor Zhengde's words fell, a large group of guards walked in, these guards were carefully selected by Emperor Zhengde, as an emperor immediately, even if it is to the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted now, but there are still many henchmen who are willing to serve him, and these guards in front of him are one of them!

After hundreds of guards surrounded the crowd!

Without waiting for everyone to ask or reflect, Emperor Zhengde said: "Give wine!" ”

As soon as they heard the word "wine", a group of low-level civil and military ministers immediately became in a commotion, they were not stupid, they all knew what was hidden behind the word "wine".

In the early years of the Battle of Hengyang, Cheng Hongan, the former commander of the Biao Army, when he was defeated, poisoned most of the generals under his command and the civilian officials who escaped together in Hengyang City, and finally committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine!

Not many people know about this, and ordinary people outside don't know the inside story at all, but most of the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty in front of them know it.

Immediately, someone immediately knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy, saying things like Your Majesty's spare life!

There are also people who don't make any movements, just sigh!

And some people shouted instantly!

There is even a self-proclaimed Wenchen who stands up and scolds angrily: "Faint monarch, if it weren't for you, the faint monarch, who has been in the dynasty for decades and harmed the world, how could I end up like today!" ”

At this time, there was even more humanity: "I knew that after you fell into the water, I should have been ruthless directly, but unfortunately, the difference in thought led to today's bitter fruit!" ”