Chapter 236 Death is to save face and suffer sin
Cold, hard, and empty.
This land is like this, and the 3,000 officers and soldiers standing on this land are not the same as this land, and after a while they will lie on this empty field, their bodies slowly cold, and then they will become hard and sticky, and become a grain of dust on this land.
Suo Chao bore the brunt of the attack. He jumped on his horse and led 3,000 officers and soldiers to prepare to charge the Liangshanbo army.
These are all soldiers he personally brought out, and the soldiers who survived the Liao several battles, but now they are going to die under the swords and guns of the Song people!
He was reluctant, and turned his head to look at these brothers who had been born and died together, their faces were full of grief and indignation, and their indifferent faces were colder than this winter.
Suo Chao felt as if he was despising him, despising him for treating 3,000 lives as ghosts, and despising him for treating his former brothers as grass mustards. But what can be done, the military order is like a mountain, and the ego can only be sacrificed for the overall situation.
He looked behind him again, and behind the three thousand soldiers were the black and wounded. They were all injured for the country, they were heroes of the country, and now they should have stayed in the rear medical hall for treatment and enjoyed heroic treatment.
But now he has become an outcast, using his already weak body to block the Liangshanbo army armed to the teeth.
Can it not make them sad, can it not make their hearts ache?
This time it's really nine deaths!
Just as Suo Chao was about to charge, a horse in the Liangshan army suddenly rushed towards the officers and soldiers, stopped in front of the formation and arched his hand: "Brother Suo, Lu is polite!" ”
Suo Chao arched his hand and said: "Brother Lu, although you and I are brothers, but now that we are opponents in front of the battle, I will not talk about brotherhood, and I will definitely fight with my life!" Swords and guns have no eyes, Brother Lu is careful himself! ”
Lu Junyi said: "Brother Suo generously went to hardship, regarded death as home, and was a well-known man!" can lead thousands of brothers to calmly take justice, which is inevitably tragic and a little tragic. Just imagine, thousands of brothers will be buried here forever from now on, and their parents and wives will spend the rest of their lives alone, without a son, without a husband, without a father. Brother Suo, you can't bear to let the brothers who live together end up like this? Besides, even Li Cheng's tens of thousands of troops fled under the attack of the Liangshanbo army, leaving these thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people led by you as cannon fodder, how long can you stop the attack of the Liangshanbo army? It is not an exaggeration to describe you as a mantis arm and a mayfly shaking a tree. Brother Suo, the one who knows the times is Junjie, leaving the lives of thousands of brothers, and joining the Liangshan Bo Volunteer Army together, you and my brothers join forces to spell out a clear sky for the people of the Great Song Dynasty! ”
Suo Chao was speechless for a long time, he turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him, then turned back to the sky and sighed, closed his eyes and said to Lu Junyi: "Drunk and lying on the battlefield, don't smile, a few people have come back to fight in ancient times." Since you have chosen to be a soldier, you have chosen the horse leather shroud, dying on the battlefield is the glory of a soldier, and the blood spilled on the battlefield composes the true meaning of a soldier's life! Our death here may seem as light as a feather, but it will forever leave our name in history, and then our death will be as heavy as Mount Tai! Lu Junyi, don't bother talking, only Suo Chao who died in battle, Suo Chao who didn't surrender, you dodge, we will fight for life and death with the Liangshan army! ”
Lu Junyi sneered: "Suo Chao, you are too selfish! In order to leave an insignificant name in the history of the youth, for your own selfish interests, you actually took the lives of thousands of brothers in vain! Who has no parents, wife and children, you are so ruthless! Look at the thousands of wounded soldiers behind you, do they still have the ability to fight on the battlefield? You also let them come to the battlefield and use their already scarred flesh to block the iron hooves of Liangshanbo's war horses, how could you have been so cruel? Suo Chao, you let the wounded soldiers lay down their weapons and squat to the side and do not move, our Liangshanbo army will definitely not attack them, and will also treat their injuries! ”
This sentence was like a bombshell, and the officers and men immediately discussed it, and the morale of the army was already weakened. Suo Chao is also wandering in his heart, yes! So many lives in exchange for a name in history, how selfish! Everyone is a citizen of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are not Khitan and other foreigners, so they have to fight to the death, and surrender is also a decision to give the brothers a way to live.
Suo Chao was hesitating, and a fast horse in the Liangshan Bo formation came to Lu Junyi quickly, and the man reined in and said loudly: "General Suo, in Xia Lin Chong!" Presumably, the generals have also heard that I was the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, and I was also an official of the imperial court. Helplessly, the traitors of the court are in charge, slander the dictatorship, frame the loyal and good, bewitch the holy will, and the loyal have no place to live. I was ruined by Gao Yu, my family was ruined, I had no skills, and I had a national disaster to repay. Now living in the water is to seek justice for the thousands of toiling people who are oppressed by dog officials! General Suo, you and I are forced to meet each other, and it is this dark officialdom and unfair court that is full of corpses. General Suo also understands that the strength of a few people cannot change this bloodthirsty world. You died on the battlefield for a dog official like Liang Zhongshu, and it doesn't make any sense to die, it's just a joke after dinner! General Suo, where to go, please make a quick decision! ”
Suo Chao was speechless, he pondered for a little and said: "All the brothers lay down their weapons, surrender with their bare hands, and must not resist!" ”
Immediately, the weapons were thrown on the ground, and the soldiers stood on both sides in an orderly manner to surrender. The whole book
Suo Chao still didn't get off the horse, he lifted his axe and jumped on the horse and said: "The old Wenlin sect leader is strong in martial arts, Suo is willing to learn a thing or two, if he dies under the gun, there will be no complaints!" ”
Lin Chong smiled secretly in his heart: "This Suo Chao really wants to die to save face, and he will only be convinced if he is defeated, but the fighter plane is changing rapidly, if the pursuit time is delayed, let Li Cheng escape back to Beijing City smoothly, will it not be a big disaster for the Liangshan army!" ”
Lin Chong arched his hand and said: "General Suo's martial arts are superb, and the axe technique is even more unique, how many Liao people's heads fall under the rapid vanguard axe, Lin Chong is willing to bow down." If the general is interested, Lin Chong is willing to teach the general a high move under the city of Beijing! ”
After hearing this, Suo Chao could only get off the donkey, he abandoned the axe and dismounted, and arched his hand: "Suo Chao is determined to learn from the head of the sect under the city, and from then on Suo Chao is the vanguard of Liangshanbo!" ”
Suo Chao surrendered, and Song Jiang asked the infantry to accept the surrender and let the medical staff treat the wounded. Lin Chong personally led the light cavalry to pursue Li Cheng's defeated army, and could not let him bring his troops into the city safely.
Li Cheng hoped that the tough guy Suo Chao would be able to withstand Liang Shanbo's army for an hour, and he would be able to safely withdraw into Beijing. Now that the soldiers have no fighting spirit, it is impossible to organize effective resistance, if the Liangshan light cavalry pursues with the tail, it will become a plate of scattered sand, and there is only the share of birds and beasts scattered everywhere and slaughtered.
Who knows what they are afraid of, they retreated less than ten miles, the sentries reported, and the thieves and cavalry chased after them all over the mountains. Li Cheng understands that these teams are finished, and if they don't run quickly, they will become thieves. He ordered a quick retreat, and then galloped with his entourage.
When the soldiers saw that the commander had fled on horseback, they all threw away their weapons and fled in all directions, and immediately retreated and became routed.
But how could his two legs outrun the four legs of the cavalry, and soon the rout was overtaken, and a large part of the surrender, and the few resisters were trampled into pulp by the war horses.
In this battle, almost all the officers and soldiers on the periphery of Beijing were wiped out, only Li Cheng escaped with a few personal companions, and the army of Liangshan went down outside Beijing, only waiting for Song Jiang to give an order to attack the Daimyo's mansion.
Smell the big knife and be furious!
More than 10,000 officers and soldiers fought against the enemy outside the city, and you Li Chengcheng brought dozens of people?
Once faced with the Khitan Iron Cavalry, the army of the Daimyo Mansion did not lose a single cent, but today it was wiped out by the grass bandits, not to mention anything else, we can't afford to lose this person!
If there were other generals, Wen Da would definitely cut off his head with an order, but now that he is employed, he and Li Cheng are old friends, and he can't do it anyway.
After suppressing the anger in his heart, he suddenly thought: "Li Cheng is brave and strategic, dares to fight and fight, is a rare handsome talent, and there must be hidden secrets when he falls to this point." Now it is the right way to summarize the reasons for the failure, so as not to capsize twice in the same river. ”
This time Wenda was speechless, and after listening to Li Cheng's description of the battle scene, he was silent for a long time.
How can a thief have such a sharp firearm? The cavalry was also equipped with a repeating bow and crossbow? The infantry and cavalry are more orderly than the regular army.
He was a little confused, is there really such a thief? Or did Li become a shirk of responsibility and deliberately expand the strength of the thief? He looked at Li Cheng again as if he didn't believe it, and then resumed his contemplation, if so, how should he resist the enemy?