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Chapter 652: Remnant

After Zheng Zhiqiang and several selected marines dressed up in disguise, in the middle of the night, mixed into the crowd of fleeing, after the Dingzhou Navy Division marines went ashore, they broke into the interior for about 50 miles and set up camp, and the people in the coastal area saw the defeat of their own army, panicked, rolled up the soft at home, and began a great escape to the inland with their children and daughters. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The road leading inland is full of refugees carrying large bags and small bags, pushing wheelbarrows, or driving ox carts.

Zheng Zhiqiang and these marines all know Luoyang official dialect, and they have lived on the water for a long time, and their skin looks no different from those who live on the beach, and they are not conspicuous when they are mixed in the crowd.

The mighty crowd went all the way to the east, walked for most of the day, Zheng Zhiqiang suddenly saw a group of soldiers standing on the side of the road, the leader was the young general who had fought before the harbor, and the name engraved on the arrow he shot should be called Wei Zhihua, at this moment, he was sitting on a boulder on the side of the road with a gloomy face, silently watching the fleeing crowd pass by him.

"General Wei!" An well-dressed old man sitting on an ox cart saw Wei Zhihua on the side of the road, hurriedly stopped the ox cart, and walked off the ox cart with the help of others.

"Old Master Lu!" It seems that the two know each other. Wei Zhihua stood up and arched his hand.

"General Wei, what the hell is going on, where did these troops who came to fight us come from, they are so fierce, they don't say a word, they come up and fight!" Old Master Lu held his waist and said with a little pain.

Wei Zhihua couldn't help but be speechless, he knew some inside information, but how could he say it to the person in front of him, he could only be silent.

His silence made the people around him even more panicked, seeing Wei Zhihua's expression, Old Master Lu's face was very heavy, "General Wei, can we win?" ”

Wei Zhihua continued to be silent.

Old Master Lu understood, looked at Wei Zhihua, and said, "General Wei, the old man was also an official in the court, can you tell me, where are these people from?" ”

Wei Zhihua swallowed with difficulty, "Old Master Lu, you are well-read, when you know where we come from, what are we most afraid of?" ”

Old Master Lu's face changed drastically, "How come, how come, it's been hundreds of years, and you're still looking for us, still don't you let it go?" Turning around, he walked tremblingly towards the ox cart, raised one foot, and suddenly turned around again, "General Wei, your Wei family is the minister of my Great Zhou Humerus, you, do you know what your father is going to do?" What is the monarch going to do? ”

Wei Zhihua smiled bitterly, "Old Master Lu, I just sent a message back from Pegasus, the whole army of the Navy Division was wiped out, and most of my troops were lost, I believe that at this time, the DPRK and the Central Government already know, what countermeasures do the adults have, and when Old Master Lu arrives in Luoyang, maybe it will be understood." I think we're probably going to fight to the death, and we've got no way back. ”

"Fight to the death!" Old Master Lu stumbled and climbed into the carriage with difficulty, "In this way, General Wei, I will leave first, old man." ”

Wei Zhihua hugged his fists and said: "Okay, Old Master Lu, let's see you in Luoyang!" ”

After Zheng Zhiqiang, who was mixed in the crowd, heard this conversation, he had basically confirmed that Zhong Jing and his brother's guess was accurate, and listening to their tone, this history should only be known clearly to people with a certain status in this Great Zhou Dynasty, and most of the other ordinary people have gradually forgotten them in the dust of history for hundreds of years.

Late at night, Zheng Zhiqiang curled up on the side of the road with his clothes folded, and around him, several sailors and marines were also huddled together.

"We will break up tonight, and you will divide into three roads to reconnoiter the general topography of this broken island, draw a sketch, and pay attention to marking the roads, cities, and dangerous passes and strategic points."

"Yes, General, what about you, where are you going?" Several people replied in a low voice.

"I'll follow these people to that so-called Luoyang to have a look!" Zheng Zhiqiang chuckled and said: "See and see, open your eyes, by the way, how many military horses are there on this broken island?" If this emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not brainless, after getting the news, he should concentrate his forces and transfer most of the army to defend his capital. ”

Three days later, Zheng Zhiqiang appeared outside the city of "Luoyang" with the fleeing crowd.

Wei Zhihua stepped into the Wei Mansion located on East Street with a heavy heart, their family is the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, with a high and powerful position, and the mansion accounts for almost half of this street.

"The young master is back!" A servant saluted, and Wei Zhihua asked with a calm face, "Where is the boss?" ”

The servant glanced at Wei Zhihua carefully, "Young master, the master has just come back from the court, and he seems to be in a very bad mood, and he is in the study right now!" ”

Wei Zhihua nodded and strode away.

"Daddy!" Wei Zhihua stepped into the door of the study, put the helmet on the table, untied the long knife in his waist, and sat down silently. In the study, a middle-aged man with three long beards was writing something, and when he saw Wei Zhihua, he put down the wolf in his hand. This person is Wei Zhihua's father, Wei Gang.

"Coming back? Have all the soldiers who came with you returned? ”

Wei Zhihua nodded, "More than a thousand soldiers only escaped back with more than four hundred people. ”

"Do you know what the adults in the court were talking about when they went to court today?" Wei Gang said.

"Are you deliberating how to resist?" Wei Zhihua asked.

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Wei Gang's mouth, "They want to discuss the guilt of you and the general of the water division, Zuo Gui, and say that you have lost your teacher and humiliated the country." ”

Wei Zhihua jumped up suddenly, "This group of bastards, Lao Tzu fought bloodily, they actually talked nonsense in the rear, General Zuo Gui did not retreat in a bloody battle, and the whole division was folded in the sea, why, do they still want to fish General Zuo's body out of the sea to punish the crime?" ”

"There are a lot of unscrupulous people in the DPRK!" Wei Gang waved his hand, "Don't pay attention to them, there are still many sober people, you tell me carefully how these two battles happened." ”

Wei Zhihua said dejectedly: "Dad, I didn't see how General Zuo's sailors were defeated, but when I saw these ships of the Dingzhou sailors, hum!" Wei Zhihua smiled sourly: "Then being undefeated is called a monster!" ”

"Wait!" Wei Gang raised his hand, "What did you say?" Dingzhou Sailor, Dingzhou is on the verge of wilderness, it is an inland state, how can there be a sailor, you are not mistaken? ”

"Dad, my son is also a general, this will also be wrong, the flag fluttering on the ship of the other sailor is indeed the Dingzhou flag, and those soldiers who landed and fought were shouting the Dingzhou army, Wan Sheng, obviously, they are the army of Dingzhou!"

Wei Gang took out a yellowed map from the bookcase in confusion, and he didn't know how many years old, and looked at it carefully, it was obvious that this map was found after the incident.

"Dingzhou Army, Dingzhou Water Division, what happened to Da Chu?" Wei Gang said in confusion.

"Dad, for a long time, our Great Zhou *** channel, as long as the ships close to this sea area, no matter what they do, they will be detained or sunk by us, we have successfully hidden for so many years, but in the same way, we have not received foreign news, and we have become deaf and blind." Wei Zhihua was dissatisfied.

"What is the result, the Great Chu army is still coming to the door!"

"Don't complain, that's the iron rule left by His Majesty Yingzong back then. Didn't you tell me how powerful the other side's military power really is, you can't stop it even for a day! ”

Wei Gang glared and roared.

"Dad, you say, how big is General Zuo's naval division battleship? How many ships does General Left have? ”

"Do you still need to ask Lao Tzu, don't you know!"

"Yes, I know, General Zuo has a total of thirty warships, and there are six warships of three thousand, I only know that ten years ago, when I was just an adult, General Zuo's sailors were like this, ten years, or like this, what have we been doing in the past ten years?"

"You're off topic again!" Wei Gang shouted. "You are vague in the battle report, now give me a bit of clarity."

"Our largest battleship is only 3,000 materials, and the other party, the Dingzhou Navy Division, the 3,000 materials battleship is just a frigate, and it is not their main combat ship at all."

Wei Gang was shocked, "Could it be that their main combat ship is only a five-thousand-material battleship?" ”

Wei Zhihua smiled bitterly and nodded, "Yes, five thousand warships, the sea is densely packed with their warships, there are five or six five thousand warships, three thousand warships, hehe, as many as twenty." And farther out on the sea, there is a huge ship, Dad, his ship is the size of several 5,000 warships. ”

Wei Gang stood up and sat down softly, "How is it possible, how is it possible?" ”

"Why can't it be?" Wei Zhihua asked rhetorically: "This is what I have seen with my own eyes, the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchets on their warships are dense, like rain, and the range is much farther than our trebuchets, and our trebuchets have not yet been launched, they have been basically destroyed, and we have been killed and wounded by one or two hundred brothers without engaging the enemy." ”

Wei Gang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Then, what about the troops they landed to fight?" ”

Wei Zhihua closed his eyes, as if recalling the battle scene a few days ago: "Dad, each of their soldiers wears solid iron helmets, and their armor is much better than ours. ”

"He's dead?"

"It's good to be dead, he's only slightly wounded, and he's still fighting vigorously, and their fighting skills are obviously a few notches higher than our soldiers, and I can smell that this is an old fighting force. They taste different. ”

"How many soldiers do they have that can land and fight?"

"I don't know, it's just that when we fought the day before yesterday, there were about 2,000 people ashore."

"With so many ships, I'm afraid that they are carrying a lot of troops, including sailors, at least tens of thousands of people." Wei Gang muttered, "We don't suffer a loss in terms of troops, if the whole country is mobilized, we can gather more than 100,000 troops." ”

"You want those farmers to take up arms and fight?" Wei Zhihua asked.

"At the last moment, they have to fight." Wei Gang said categorically: "Zhihua, in the past hundreds of years, the aborigines on the island have long been assimilated by us, interacted with us, and reproduced, you have me, I have you, and we are not separated from each other, and our ancestors were brought from the mainland by Emperor Yingzong back then, whether it was the officials of the year or the Praetorian Guards of the year, they were all traitors in the eyes of these Great Chu people, and they were remnants, this is the crime of punishing the nine clans. So, in order to survive, these people have to fight. ”

"Tomorrow in the court, I will tell Your Majesty that the whole country is mobilized, all old and young are soldiers, and in order to survive, we must win this battle."

"What if you win this battle, if you defeat this batch, the next batch will come more!" Wei Zhihua looked up to the sky and sighed, "We're finished!" ”

"Shut up!" Wei Gang shouted angrily: "Is this what a soldier should say? Only by winning the war, and beating the opponent painfully and fearfully, can we have the capital to survive. ”

Wei Zhihua's eyes lit up, "Father, do you want to fight first and then talk?" Only when you defeat your opponent can you have the capital to negotiate, right? ”

Wei Feng said: "Are these what you should be in charge of?" Rest today, go back to the barracks tomorrow, regroup, and prepare to fight to the death against the invading enemy! ”