"Boom!" Outside, there was the explosion of cannonballs, which shook off the dust overhead, and fell on the table with a clattering sound. In the hastily dug underground bunker www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion, Ye Hehao Lian stared at the officers and attendants beside him with a pair of gloomy eyes through the light from the dim horse lamp. Since he fled the city of Mukden, there have been fewer and fewer acquaintances around him, and the battle situation he has to face has become worse and worse.

"Boom!" The loud sound of another cannonball explosion seemed to hit everyone's chest, making it even more and more dull. The sound of this kind of explosion is becoming more and more frequent near the small county town of Xinbin, which also reflects from the side that the encirclement of the Ming army is gradually shrinking, and the artillery fire of the Ming army to keep up with the battle is gradually increasing.

Either way, it was obviously unfavorable to the Jin army in the encirclement, and the counterattack forces that could be mobilized were becoming fewer and fewer, and the breakthrough was becoming more and more slim. Several failures in the breakout made the atmosphere in the headquarters even heavier, and everyone knew that their end was near.

In fact, the breakout had already been confirmed a few days ago that it was impossible to work. Yehehao even knew that in the direction of Changchun, Jilin, Yehehaozhe had rebelled, and there was no so-called reinforcement at all, and there would be no troops to respond. Even if they break through, they can only be real bandits in the mountain col like they can survive, and there is no possibility of a real turnaround.

But as the de facto commander of this force, Todd Trentet must give his troops a hope, even if it is false, but it must also give such a hope! Because once the soldiers at the grassroots level are put into despair, then the entire army will fall into a state of collapse in an instant.

Who would dare to tell the real situation to these soldiers, who are already on the verge of collapse? Tell them that their homeland has been occupied by a rebellious enemy, and that Japan has reached a peace agreement with the Ming Empire? Tell them that an encirclement has been formed, that their ammunition reserves have been exhausted?

"I've lost...... This war was launched too late...... If we had been able to prepare well two years ago, while the new army of the Ming Dynasty had not yet entered the battlefield, we might still have a chance of victory. Ye Hehao leaned back on the back of the chair and looked at Todel Tai, who knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty because of the failure of the breakthrough: "There is nothing wrong with you, get up and speak." In any case, you have accompanied me all the way to the end, you are a loyal minister, and I am ashamed of you. ”

"Don't dare!" Todeltay lowered his head deeper, an unwritten convention in the Jin Kingdom, that is, the emperor said that he was wrong, but in fact he was modest, so don't take it seriously as a subordinate, you must blame yourself more and be more humble: "The minister has a heavy trust, and he failed to break through the enemy's encirclement, and the minister is guilty!" ”

Todeltay lowered his head, recalling Ye Hehaolian's words in his mind, he didn't know if the Jin State would have won the war if he had launched the war two years earlier, but one thing he knew very well in his heart was that even if Panjin Jinzhou was under the occupation of the Jin State, as long as the Ming army invested tanks to launch a counterattack, the Jin State would also lose these areas.

The result of some things is the inevitable answer that has been cruelly doomed by objective facts, and there will be no essential change because of some changes. Although Todeltay could not accurately describe this feeling, he rejected Yehhaolian's words with the intuition of a mature general.

He knew that under the influence of the national strength of both sides, as long as the Ming Empire ended its internal friction and began to cheer up and based the war on a war of attrition with roughly equal national strength, it would be impossible for the Jin State to win the war.

"You really are not guilty! I was wrong. I should have endured and not listened to the instigation of the Japanese and Ceylonese, and started this untimely war. When Ye Hehao Lian said this, the explosion almost drowned out his voice. Not far away, a cannonball fell, and part of the air wave poured into the underground bunker, bringing up a cloud of smoke and dust.

Everyone couldn't help but cough, trying to cough out the turbid gas they had inhaled into their lungs. After a long period of chaos, the place was barely quiet again, but everyone's faces were covered with dust, as if they were terracotta warriors dug out of the dirt, and they looked very depressed and happy.

Todeltay looked at the embarrassed Yehehaolian, and there were too many complaints in his heart that he didn't say. He wanted to pat Ye Hehaolian on the shoulder and said to him hatefully: "If you can hold out in Mukden for 2 more days, we won't end up like this now!" If you can make a quick decision in Liaoyang, we can avoid the Korean Peninsula now, and even if we die, we can eat a meal with a severed head. ”

But he didn't say these complaints that couldn't change the current situation at all, but still knelt on the ground, waiting for Ye Hehao Lian to feel sorry for himself there. Since the day of his birth, the Jin Kingdom has only been a few decades old, and he can't imagine that the emperor he thought he had done his best to assist was now destined to become the king of the country.

"But every time I think about it, I always think that I am definitely not the king of the lost country! Throughout the ages, among the kings of the dead country, who is as diligent as me? Who is as brave as me? Why do I want to" Ye Hehao couldn't even see the expression of Todeltai who was kneeling on the ground, and complained to himself: "I am not convinced! I don't feel convinced! ”

Hearing Ye Hehaolian's question, Todeltai couldn't help but feel a kind of sadness in his heart. He asked himself that he was also a calm and calm general with troops, although he was slightly lacking in progress, he still had seven points of certainty in defending it, but he lost the national fortune in this war, and he lost a little inexplicably.

Originally, he attacked Mukden, captured Panjin to cut off the connection between the Liaodong Peninsula and the Ming mainland, and then marched west to Jinzhou, and obtained the expected results along the way. Just when everyone thought that they had won a decisive victory, defeating the Ming Empire and holding Guanwai firmly in their hands, there was a sudden reversal of changes.

First of all, Todeltai was defeated under Jinzhou City, then Yehehao was defeated in the Battle of Panjin City, followed by the defeat of Yehehao in the Battle of Liuhe, and then the collapse of the Liaohe defense line Yehehaolan surrendered to the enemy...... This series of fiascos directly ruined the good situation of the Jin country, which had won and not lost, and also lost all the future national fortunes of the Jin country.

It stands to reason that after decades of accumulation and development, the Jin State has undertaken more than ten small victories against the Ming Empire, and the morale of the army is rising to the limit, and the national strength has also reached the highest point in history when it captured Fengtian. In such a situation, how can you lose?

However, they lost, inexplicably! After their most glorious moments, they ushered in their darkest moments. When the tanks of the Ming Empire appeared on the battlefield, when this weapon destroyed and changed the tactical system of trench warfare, the weak local advantage over the Ming Empire accumulated by the Jin State was wiped out in an instant.

"Boom!" Just as Todeltay was kneeling on the ground and reflecting on the mistakes he had made in this war, just as Yehehaolian was complaining that his luck was too bad, another shelling of the Ming Empire began, and the sound of explosions continued to be heard, knocking on the hearts of everyone in the room.

"Report!" An untidy officer, who would have been punished on weekdays, hurriedly broke into Ye Hehaolian's underground bunker, and he didn't have time to tidy up his clothes and appearance, so he quickly knelt down and shouted: "Oh no! The emperor is not good! The makeshift ammunition depot in the east is running out of ammunition! ”

"What?" When Todeltay heard the news, he didn't care about playing the role of a shrinking turtle on the ground, so he hurriedly raised his head, looked at the officer who had just knelt beside him, and asked sharply: "There is the most ammunition reserve over there, and when I looked at it in the morning, there were still a lot of ...... How can it be all sold out in one afternoon? ”

The officer turned his head sideways to see that it was the newly promoted prince Todeltai who was kneeling, and hurriedly kowtowed again: "Lord...... According to your breakout order, the other side organized several charges, and consumed too much ammunition......"

When Todeltay heard this, his face turned green, and he ignored the courtesy of the king, stood up and took the officer's collar, and shouted angrily: "How can the charge consume so much ammunition? After consuming so much ammunition, you didn't even hit a breakthrough? What face do you have to mourn? Where did you get the guts to report? ”

While saying that, he wanted to draw his command knife, but found that the war knife on his waist had been confiscated by the royal guards because he met Ye Hehaolian. He had no choice but to throw the guy who was already frightened to his feet, and said to Emperor Ye Hehao: "Your Majesty! It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, the ammunition is about to run out, I am willing to be the vanguard, break a way for Your Majesty, and send Your Majesty to escape! ”

Ye Hehao smiled bitterly, and then asked with a crying voice: "The general told me, where is the place where I stand under this world?" Even if I wanted to leave, I couldn't leave! ”

"Boom!" Not far away, another Ming artillery shell fell, as if it was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and directly crushed Ye Hehaolian's last illusion. He sat down in his chair in a gloomy manner, waved his hand at Todeltay, and commanded in despair: "Pass the order, I wish to surrender ......"

"Your Majesty!" Todd Del Tay had always felt that Yehe Haolian would end his life by suicide or death in the end, but he did not expect, or no one expected, that most of the Yeh family was unwilling to choose to face death. Prime Minister Yehehaolan is like this, and Emperor Yehehaolian is now, too. (To be continued.) )