Chapter 438: Remembering Two or Three Things in Two or Three Years—17

The high-level people within the Liangzhou system did not realize how serious the worries of their own lords were, and even the group of young soldiers who were setting up on the battlefield and preparing to meet the enemy at any time did not realize how much their fate would change after this war.

Liu Yan on the opposite side personally commanded a main army, although not all 100,000 people, but the total number of people also exceeded 40,000, more than 20 times the number of the army on the opposite side. The purpose of their entry into the palace this time was not to live in the unity of the two systems, near the mouth of the Baoxi. But their looting of the surrounding rich merchants had a serious adverse impact, after all, those rich merchants were the grassroots forces carefully cultivated by the Liangzhou system.

Safeguarding the basic safety of the masses is an important responsibility of the two systems of the army, and as a well-educated young guard, it is all the more to implement this article as an iron rule. Therefore, it is impossible for them to sit in the city, stand by and watch the grassroots forces carefully cultivated by their own families be devoured little by little by that insatiable Liu Yan.

So they prepared to go out of the city to meet the battle, yes, despite the resolute opposition of the other three armies, their army, which was the smallest in number and the youngest in general, decided to go out of the city to meet the battle, although the commanders of the other three armies knew that they were the most well-equipped of the four, but they still thought that they should wait a few more days, and wait for more reinforcements to arrive, and then go and fight each other.

I heard that they were worried that these generals were too young and prone to make some mistakes on the battlefield. Although logically speaking, they can't find the possible reason for the mistake, but this situation is too much in their life history and historical record, so they don't dare to take this risk, even with the blessing of a powerful weapon, they don't think it's a wise thing to do.

But their dissuasion didn't help. The unfamiliarity with thermal weapons made their dissuasion not so firm, and it was this unresolute tone and demeanor that made the young generals think that even they were just in case.

Out of optimism about Tao Zemei, they thought that this group of veteran generals was just worried about them.

So, all they put on was a reassuring expression, and then they stepped onto the battlefield with the weapons that made them so confident, you know, they were a group of well-trained professional soldiers, and there was nothing to worry about dealing with the enemies in front of them.

Yes, they had been in the castle for so long that they did not fully reconnoitre, and they did not find that behind the vanguard troops, they were still following Liu Yan's army.

So, after the first battle, their optimism was quickly climbing to the top, and when the other side rushed at them with their horns, they calmly raised their rifles and pulled the trigger. The miscellaneous voices quickly drowned out all the noise around them, and the other party had obviously never seen such a weapon, and they immediately went forward and fell into one after another, howling in a pool of blood.

Seeing the enemy's tragic death, the young soldiers who calmly changed their ammunition were very excited, this was the first time they had put their weapons into actual combat, and before that, they were not fully prepared for this result.

Of course, they also lacked a basic understanding of the enemy's death, so some soldiers who were not very good in psychological quality began to vomit constantly, maybe one or two people fell in a pool of blood, not enough for them to become such a mess, but when thousands of people appeared opposite them fell in their pool of blood, the situation became a little unbearable for them.

The comrades hiding in the castle quickly noticed this change in the young soldiers, and although they knew that this was not a strange thing, they also knew that a similar phenomenon would have a subtle effect on the psychology of the soldiers.

So some people began to propose that they should rush out to support them, but at this time the young soldiers had not shown any disadvantages on the battlefield, and the experienced old generals certainly knew that if they rushed out at this time, it would only make them feel that their faces had suffered losses, for a group of young people, competitiveness was one of the important advances in their steady progress on the battlefield, although this was not a scientific and reasonable thing, and even something that some Taoists were unwilling to advocate, But they still hope that the young people will hold on a little longer, and that's what a soldier should do.

So the initiative to go out of the city to rescue did not get too many people to respond, but many of them immediately began to regret this incident, because someone sent them the information of the fifth column. It turned out that Liu Yan had gathered more than 40,000 troops in this vicinity, and they sent more than 2,000 forwards, although their mission was to plunder the wealth of the wealthy merchants, but when they encountered stubborn resistance, it was believed that those troops would quickly rush over to support.

Indeed, just as they feared, several thick clouds of dust soon rose on the distant horizon. So someone immediately decided to go out of the city and tell the young people to withdraw immediately, but just as they opened the city gate, the number of troops on the opposite side suddenly startled the young soldiers.

The despicable Liu Yan began to order the soldiers to hold the bodies of their comrades in front to cover the flintlock pistols on the opposite side. Although the young soldiers were still able to penetrate the cover of the corpses and hit the Yizhou soldiers hiding behind them, it was undeniable that this cost more ammunition.

And the battle of these soldiers has been going on, and for a while the charge they carry with them is no longer enough to hold out for another half an hour. But at this very moment, the number of enemies suddenly more than tripled. And rushed at full speed towards them.

At this moment, the young soldiers were a little panicked, and some of them didn't even have time to change their ammunition, and hurriedly fired a shot that could have taken the enemy's life. As a result, the tide of the battle quickly turned against them. The three armies hiding in the fortress had rushed out to rescue them as fast as they could, but they could only barely cover their retreat with the bows and crossbows in their hands, and this group of young people did not seem to fully realize the seriousness of the situation, and they still had to resist the attack from the opposite side with their blood.

Seeing this, the three veteran generals didn't care about the faces of these young people, so they rushed directly to the other commander, ordering him to withdraw the army immediately, otherwise he would directly use military law. They even call it a gray area and are ready to confront it. Of course, it was in the county court or in the newspapers, and on the battlefield, they should still follow orders, which was required by their military qualities, so the order to withdraw the troops was well executed, but even so, the army in charge of the palace was still dealt a strong blow by the week, and paid a huge price in casualties.