Chapter 432: Gao Yu is dead
If nothing else, let's just say that he can please Zhao Ji the most and become Zhao Ji's first favorite and trustworthy person, which is enough to prove his ability.
Another example is that Gao Yu is in charge of hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, and he pampered more than 100,000 and 200,000 forbidden troops into construction teams, it is said that it is really difficult to hide this from Zhao Ji, but Gao Yu just did it.
On the one hand, every year, Gao Yu presides over the Dragon Boat Festival Jinmingchi martial arts competition, first blowing, blowing, and then full of tricks; The soldiers of the forbidden army selected to participate in the martial arts exercise are all tall and mighty, and the spears and sticks in the performance are all neat and beautiful, and they can always coax Zhao Ji very happy and satisfied every time, and even exaggerate that he governs the army in a good way.
On the other hand, Gao Yu also paid great attention to establishing good relations with Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others, but he remained neutral in Cai Jing's party and Tong Guan's party, and the two did not help each other.
In this way, Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng and others knew that Gao Yu used the army to engage in corruption, but none of them explained the truth to Zhao Ji.
Of course, it was also that they didn't realize the seriousness of this matter, after all, Bianjing City had not experienced a war for more than a hundred years, and there were still 100,000 elites in the imperial camp?
So in general, although Gao Yu is actually a layman in training and governing the army, and he is indeed a big traitor and a corrupt official, it does not mean that he is stupid.
When the "signal flare" exploded in mid-air and the Liangshan army had just launched a surprise attack, Gao Yu immediately woke up and rushed out of the Chinese army's tent without taking off his armor.
And immediately strictly ordered the whole army not to be chaotic, and at the same time quickly dispatched enough manpower to reinforce the outer wall, and instructed not to go out of the village to pursue, only use a strong bow and crossbow to meet the enemy, and guard the camp until dawn.
In all fairness, Gao Yu's response and disposal couldn't be more correct, and he couldn't have changed Lin Chong, and even Sun Wu, Wu Qi, and Zhuge Liang to deal with it in the same way.
However, the crux of the problem lies in the quality of the army.
An army has no military spirit, morale is low, military discipline is slack, and the morale of the army is shaken and panicked, even if Gao Yu gives the most correct order, what is the use of the sergeants and soldiers who cannot carry it out?
And if you want to talk about the ability to govern the army and lead the troops, which of the Captain He Guan and the small breed division is not ten times and a hundred times stronger than Gao Yu?
But in the original history, the army under the command of the two was not the former, and they fled without even seeing the enemy; The latter was very angry because he didn't get the reward after repelling the golden soldiers, so he abandoned the boss and dispersed?
The seed division is still led by the Western Army, or the army for generations, and the generations have served as soldiers and food under the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren of the seed family (seed Shiheng, seed master, seed master Dao, seed master), and is known as the most capable seed army in the Western Army.
The family army is still like this, not to mention the more than 80,000 soldiers and horses under Gao Yu's command.
Not to mention that they have been harassed by the Liangshan army all the way, and before that, they were beaten by the Liangshan army by three thousand to one thousand, and their morale and military morale have been low.
Not to mention that the officers and men of the special operations battalion of the Liangshan Army's Wu Song Department had already lurked in the Song army's camp, and as soon as the Liangshan Army launched a night attack, these people took the opportunity to shout "Run, defeated, the Liangshan Army has come in" and the like, creating chaos and panic and shaking the morale of the army.
The final result was that even though Gao Yu, Mei Zhan, Qiu Yue, Duan Pengju and others all made the right response, the military spirit fell to the bottom unstoppably.
There was a sudden chaos in the camp, but it didn't cause the camp to roar, let alone carry out Gao Yu's order to support the wall.
Waiting for the archers on the wall to abandon the wall, the wolf rushed and seemed to start screaming and fleeing, and the army's heart suddenly collapsed, and panic and chaos spread like an avalanche.
Rao is Mei Zhan, Qiu Yue and others immediately killed more than a dozen soldiers who screamed and fled, but the situation was still irreparable.
These frightened Great Song Forbidden Army didn't have the courage to turn around and fight with the "Liangshan Rebels", but they were also red-eyed, and even used knives against the generals who blocked their escape, killing several commanders on the spot!
Seeing such a situation, listening to the cheers and shouts of "only punish Gao Yu, surrender and not kill" from a distance, Gao Yu's whole person was immediately stunned, completely frightened.
It was Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Hu Chun who reacted faster, seeing that the situation was irretrievable, they hurriedly pulled the reins of Gao Yu's horse, and said eagerly: "Taiwei (Enxiang), the general trend is gone!" The thieves are about to be killed, so let's hurry up and break through! Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood! ”
Gao Yu reacted at this time, glanced at the thousands of elites of the imperial camp gathered around him, and said loudly: "Everyone break through with me, as long as you protect this captain and rush out, there will be a lot of rewards in front of the officials!" ”
In fact, there is no need for him to say that these elite family members of the imperial camp are all in Bianjing, and the treatment is also very high on weekdays, so they are naturally reluctant to live a good life.
Gao Yu is also the first favorite of the official family, if Gao Yu is allowed to be captured alive by Liang Shanjun, even if they can escape back to the capital, they will be punished by the official family.
At the moment, these elite of the imperial camp hurriedly escorted Gao Yu to break through in the direction of due east where the shouts of killing were the least, and at this time, the camps and villages were in a mess along the way, and from time to time there were chaotic soldiers blocking the road.
Gao Yu, who had already been anxious, did not hesitate to order to directly use swords, guns, bows and arrows to open the way, and forcibly killed a bloody road and fled eastward quickly.
The boss is like this, how can the soldiers still work for him, Gao Yu is surrounded by the elite of the imperial camp, and there are dozens of fierce generals such as Qiu Yue and Zhou Ang to escort him, and the soldiers and horses along the way cannot be stopped, so they all shouted loudly after Gao Yu left: "Gao Yu fled east......"
Outside the camp, seeing countless Liangshan cavalry rushing into the Song army camp, Lin Chong also sat back on the saddle, turned to Xiang Yuanzhen and Hao Siwen beside him and said: "The victory has been decided, Gao Yu must escape, I will chase it personally, this place will be handed over to the old general and Brother Hao, be sure to quell the riot as soon as possible, and die less!" ”
"Don't worry, the military master!"
"Brother, don't worry!"
The two hurriedly surrendered their orders.
Speaking of which, there are few talents in the Liangshan Army, although there are many generals, most of them only have personal courage, and Hao Siwen is from a serious official and military background, and the second is from a young age and Guan Sheng read military books together, and he is proficient in all eighteen kinds of martial arts, and his ability to lead troops is also stronger than that of ordinary generals, so he quickly stood out and was promoted by Lin Chong from Guan Sheng's deputy general to the position of the chief general of the first army.
Seeing Lin Chong handing over such a task to himself this time, Hao Siwen was also inexplicably grateful in his heart, and secretly said that the monarch treated me as a national soldier, and I would repay it as a national soldier, and even if I sold my blood to the military master.
And Xiang Yuanzhen has a complicated mind.
Is this still the Da Song he is familiar with?
Before this, like all the people in the world, although Xiang Yuanzhen saw many problems in the Great Song Dynasty, in their eyes, the Great Song Dynasty was still very strong, the government was still stable, and this "peaceful day" could last for at least a few decades or hundreds of years.
But who would have thought that since Lin Chong's rebellion, in just one year, the Huanghuang Great Song Dynasty has suddenly become so vain and vulnerable!
Although after surrendering to the Liangshan Army, Xiang Yuanzhen and Wang Huan also discussed this, the two were not incomprehensible.
After all, wasn't Da Liao, who was originally extremely powerful in the hearts of all Song people, also defeated the main army of 700,000 by 20,000 Jurchen troops in less than a year of the Jurchen rebellion?
So now that Lin Junzhu has been rebelling for nearly a year, what is the impossibility of defeating about 200,000 Song troops together?
Understanding is understanding, but when such a fact is placed in front of him, Xiang Yuanzhen still can't accept it, and only feels incredible.
And more importantly, as early as more than a year ago, when the Great Song Dynasty was still singing and dancing, Lin Junzhu decided to go out of the imperial court, how did he see the true face of the "Huanghuang Great Song Dynasty" that was actually vulnerable?
Is it really a man of destiny?
In addition to these doubts, Xiang Yuanzhen couldn't help but feel sad about Gao Yu's fate, the heart of the Dao army master had ordered Xu Ning and Shi Jin to wait for Gao Yu in the east early in the morning, and then he went to chase it in person, but he was afraid that Gao Yu would die this time.