Chapter 735: Life and Death
"What are we going to do?"
The appearance of the elbows and armpits, although the appearance of the official army interrupted the heads-up between Li Zicheng and Lu Shi, but it gave Li Zicheng more hope of escaping.
Li Zicheng's troops looked at the officers and troops spreading over the mountain, and everyone looked at Li Zicheng and asked what everyone should do at this time.
Mrs. Gao stepped forward nervously and excitedly and asked the question in everyone's minds.
Yes, what should we do at this time, this is also what Li Zicheng is thinking in his heart. Looking at Lu Shichuang's army, who decisively gave up encircling and suppressing himself and wanted to fight for the ridge of the mountain, Li Zicheng kept asking himself.
The official army was originally the common enemy of everyone, especially this morning, it blocked his way to flee south, and his 100,000 troops completely collapsed.
However, at this time, the appearance of the officers and soldiers in this direction actually saved themselves, and this really saved themselves.
Li Zicheng knew that in this era, in this troubled era, among hundreds of poles, Lu Shi had become a big problem for the government.
Lu Shi is different from his own poles, his own poles are just rogues, wandering in all directions, in fact, it is just for a bite of food, in order to survive, as long as the imperial court releases even a bucket of food, they can immediately let them put down the swords and guns in their hands and be obedient to the people again, and they can't shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty at all.
And Lu Shi is different, what he did was definitely to fight against the imperial court, and there was a follow-up, that is, to overthrow this imperial court, which was recognized by those people of insight in the imperial court, especially Hong Chengchou and other officials who were outside, and they could see it clearly.
At this time, although Hong Chengchou blocked his way to flee south, he took advantage of the reality that he and Lu Shi could not coexist, and when he and Lu Shi were both defeated, he caught Lu Shi off guard.
Lu Shi, the imperial court will not surrender, because the imperial court can't tolerate Lu Shi's concept, let alone Lu Shi's outlier, and what about himself?
He will definitely be surrendered by the imperial court, Li Zicheng has this confidence, because, that Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and all the poles that rose later have now been surrendered by the imperial court, and in the officers and soldiers waving flags and shouting on the mountains on all sides, there are their former comrades-in-arms in robes, not to mention themselves?
So, now is the time to decide what path you should take.
Helping Lu Shi break through the enemy formation, this is morality, after all, they are the same people who planted flags and rebelled, although everyone has different visions, but they are all for survival.
However, if you help Lu Shi escape, what will you get? All you get is a dead end.
Li Zicheng deeply knows that he and Lu Shi can no longer see each other in the same world, I don't know why, Lu Shi's jealousy of himself is so great, so strong, is it really because Lu Shi knows himself better than himself? Just because of Lu Shi's sentence, in the late Ming Dynasty, will he really become a generation of heroes?
And what would be the result of helping the official army kill Lu Shi? Committing meritorious work, being promoted to become rich, and glorifying the ancestors is the biggest benefit you can get.
"Brothers." Li Zicheng shouted loudly to the subordinates behind him.
All the people were in good spirits, and all of them were waiting for Li Zicheng's decision to break into the king's decision, as long as he gave an order, it would be in the fire and water, and everyone would have no hesitation.
"Towards Lu Shi's rear, kill." Lee's self-determination of the order.
No one doubts whether Li Zicheng's military order is reasonable, at this time, everyone knows that this is everyone's way of life, in order to survive, what is his fate?
Cavalry and infantry have a natural disadvantage in the role of siege and fortification, especially charging from low to high, which is not the strong point of cavalry.
But snatching the highest point of the mountain range is related to the life and death of the breaking army, and it doesn't care whether it is the length of the army.
Da Lang took his brother at the first time, gave up Li Zicheng's men, and rushed to the front line of the mountain with a shout.
Capturing the mountain ridge and seizing a way out of life in the extremely short time that the brothers of the firearms battalion fought for everyone is the top priority.
Li Zicheng's remnants of the defeated army are no longer something that everyone can consider, especially in the thinking of any normal person, no matter how everyone merges with each other, how they fight to the death, they are all the same spirits and branches, and in the face of a common enemy, the official army, everyone should have the same hatred and hatred.
Lü Shi was naïve, and Da Lang and his brothers were even more naïve, they naively believed that Li Zicheng would follow this principle.
However, Li Zicheng is not naïve, Li Zicheng is very realistic. So, when Da Lang gave up Li Zicheng to charge with all his might, Li Zicheng was behind him and launched a charge against Lu Shi's breaking army.
There is no threat to the charge of a group of women and a group of children, at least, there should be no threat to the strong Lu Shichuang army.
However, everything depends on the environment, depending on the conditions.
Now, in the face of the official army that had already covered the mountains, Li Zicheng's attack was fatal due to the unfavorable Lu Shi cavalry attacking from the back.
"What? Lee Zicheng launched an attack on our back? Lu Shi received a report from the sergeant brother, and the whole person felt like falling into an ice cellar.
He looked up to Li Zicheng too much, he was misled by the history of later generations, and he suddenly remembered that Li Zicheng had not surrendered to the official army in his life, but in the carriage gorge.
At this time, although Li Zicheng had no combat power, at this time, in fact, he didn't need combat power, as long as he dragged his hind legs, as long as he didn't let himself go all out to attack the mountain ridge, everything would be fine, which was a great achievement of Li Zicheng in front of the official army.
"Chunlan." Lu Shi shouted loudly.
"Yes." Chunlan appeared heroically in front of Lu Shi.
"You immediately take a squad of cavalry brothers to block the attack of Li Zicheng's gang."
There is only so much to the people, Lu Shi doesn't expect his brother to be able to kill Li Zicheng's troops under the leadership of Chunlan, as long as he stops them for a moment, so that he can concentrate on forcibly capturing the mountain.
Lu Shi firmly believed that as long as there was a quarter of an hour, his brothers could rush up the mountain and open a way of life with the cooperation of the brothers of the firearms battalion who were still fighting desperately.
Chunlan didn't hesitate, waved her sword, and shouted: "The third cavalry team, follow me, kill Li Zicheng's bird." ”
Chunlan was also really anxious, she was in control of everything, but she didn't expect that the officers and soldiers who were originally led by Zheng Hongda's brother to cooperate stabbed themselves in the back at this most critical time, and this knife was not a skin injury, but a stab in the heart.
And at this critical time, Li Zicheng stabbed himself in the neck, this is a tacit understanding that the two sides are not tacit, this is a tacit understanding that he is waiting for death. Li Zicheng must be killed for the fourth brother, so that the fourth brother has no worries.
When the brothers of the third team heard the greeting, they did not hesitate to circle the war horses, followed closely with their master mother Chunlan, and killed Li Zicheng's troops, they all knew that life and death were at this moment.
A thousand Li Zicheng's female soldiers and child soldiers are not the opponents of the three teams at all, not to mention, all the brothers of the three teams now know that this is the moment of life and death, do not kill women, women and children, at this time, it is definitely not a creed, now, if you don't kill them, it is the king who dies, and once the king is lost, the millions of fathers and elders in the base area will become displaced people again, or even more will die without a place to be buried.
However, at this time, Li Zicheng's subordinates, of course, also saw the future results, either to drag Lu Shi's footsteps, or to die, there is no second choice, now, no one believes in the agreement between the two kings after defeating the official army. Now, fighting to the death and helping the official army destroy Lu Shi, this is what we have to do now.
Chunlan and his brother know that they don't have to abide by any covenants now, and in the moment of life and death, there can no longer be a woman's kindness.
But the truth is this truth, but, under Lu Shi's long teaching, Chunlan still can't bear to face a child or a sister wielding a sword.
Chunlan's sword swung over, the sword blade was aimed at a young face, Chunlan couldn't bear it, the sword blade paused slightly, but a cold wind rushed to his neck.
It was a young woman who wielded the big knife that pounced on her, and when she slashed at Chunlan, she didn't hesitate at all, just stared at her blood-red eyes, and slashed at Chunlan fiercely.
At this moment, a saber flew across the woman's neck, and without the slightest hesitation, a beautiful head flew into the air, and the big knife that slashed at Chunlan was also weak, and fell half a foot away from Chunlan.
Now, there is no need for a little mercy, now, it is a critical time for life and death, the brothers who are attacking the mountain ridge need to attack without distractions, and they need to help these brothers to take out their hands for reinforcements, and everything cannot allow Chunlan and her brothers to hesitate at all.
"Kill—" Chunlan shouted hoarsely as she rushed towards the women and children.
But no matter how hard he tried, Li Zicheng's blow in the back played an absolute role, not only allowing Lu Shi to divide his troops, but also slowing down when scheduling.
And at this time of rapid change, this inconspicuous slowness completely ruined Lu Shi's opportunity to seize the mountain edge and open up a retreat.
Just when Da Lang rushed to the top of the mountain with red eyes, an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the top of the mountain, and when the fire and gunpowder smoke rolled down, and the torrential rain of dirt and gravel, as well as countless knives, guns and corpses, directly smashed into the charging team, so that Da Lang's cavalry was immediately killed and wounded, and those war horses were even more dispersed by this huge explosion, and instinctively fled in the opposite direction of danger, the opposite direction - down the mountain.
"It's a failure." While Lu Shi watched the explosion in amazement, he sighed in his heart.