Chapter 669: How Loyal Ministers Are Made Three
"Slash!"
Jia Rudao coldly looked at Ma Zheen, the general of the defeated army, whose face was covered with beads of sweat and his whole person was trembling, the corners of his mouth moved, and he spit out a word violently.
"Wronged!" Ma Zheen shouted, and his body struggled a few times, but he was held down by several Taiyong soldiers.
"Taishi, you are wronged! Xia Guan tried his best, but the thief's cannon was too powerful, too powerful......"
Ma Zheen shouted desperately, he felt that he was wronged, really wronged...... Although his Dinghai regiment lost three branch forts within one day of training, and more than 2,700 regiments trained soldiers, less than 700 people lost their armor and ran back to Lin'an, and most of the rest were taken prisoner! Before being captured, almost no one seriously resisted.
But Ma Zheen still felt very wronged, it was not his responsibility, but the artillery of the Ming army was too ferocious. Even the walls can collapse, the cannonballs will explode, and there will be a roar and then flesh and blood will fly! His regimental training army is all flesh and blood, and he has never really been on the battlefield before, and suddenly encountering such an artillery bombardment, it is like being in hell, where is the courage to resist? It's normal to collapse at the touch of a button, even if Chu Yong who changes to Li Tingzhi goes up, it's not much better!
"Taishi, the horse group trained him......"
On the Lin'an city wall, there were several group training leaders from Qingyuan Mansion who befriended Ma Zheen, and they wanted to come out to intercede at this time.
"Slash!"
Jia Rudao shouted: "Drag it out and cut it!" ”
"No!" Seeing that Jia Yidao was angry, several Taiyong regiment training soldiers did not dare to delay any longer, so they picked up Ma Zheen and went to the side, and did not go down to the city, so they found an open place with few people on the wall. With a knife in his hand, he cut off a head and brought it to Jia Yidao.
Jia Rudao glanced at a dead face that was not blinding, and shouted again: "Hang your head with a pole again to show the public!" ”
"No!" The subordinate answered again. I went down with my head in my hand.
Jia Rudao's eyes were gloomy, and he swept around. The surprised expressions of everyone were included in their eyes. Ma Zheen is a scholar! The rules of the Great Song Dynasty, there is nothing to kill the military generals before the formation, but to kill civilian officials...... Or is it that Ma Zheen has already been on the seventh rank and entered the middle and senior civil officials of the court, I am afraid that there are few since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, right?
Of course, there are still cases of assassination and death, or execution by the emperor's behesse. However, it was up to one side of the city to order the beheading of civilian officials who were unfavorable in battle......
"It's not the same time anymore!" Jia Rudao's tone was cold, and every word seemed to be an alarm bell. Ringing in everyone's ears. "Now it's not a national disaster coming, but the lives of all of us are in danger! The national disaster and family disaster have come together, and there is no room for tolerance and preferential treatment of scholars! If the thief is allowed to come in, then Chen Dexing may be tolerant and preferential treatment? ”
And they all bowed their heads and were silent. They are all knowledgeable, how can they not know that Jia Rudao has to kill people.
Ma Zheen's death was unjust, just like the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, it can't be carried by the Lin'an city wall! As soon as the city wall collapsed, thousands of steel-armored soldiers rushed in, who could stop them? Those regimental training soldiers have this ability, and the Great Song Dynasty will not fall to this.
But Marjen must die! Because. Jia Yidao is ready to fight hard! It is not possible to let the Ming army mount that I don't know what cannon is under the wall of Lin'an. Since ancient times, the city has been defended by two walls, and as soon as the city wall is broken, the morale of the defenders immediately collapses...... If you change to a Mongolian Tartar who likes to slaughter cities and kill people, the big guy may be able to fight in the streets. But now it is the Han people who are attacking the city. This battle is just a battle between the surname of Jiangshan and the battle between Confucius and Mencius and Tiandao. It still has something to do with a group of scholars, what is the price of training with the regiment below? People are just tenants, who is not farming? It seems that there are more chances to get out of the poor on Daming's side. You can also join the army as a military household, and you can also go to Mingzhou to dig gold and silver!
So the Lin'an city wall was broken. The regimental training also collapsed, and Jia Rudao could rely on it. That is, the gentleman's battalion and a small number of die-hard personal soldiers.
Therefore, now, he must fight, use Li Tingzhi's method, trench to trench, and contain the trench tactics of the Ming army!
Now to kill Ma Zheen is to make an example of a hundred!
"Slash!" Jia Rudao took a deep breath and burst out with the word "chop", "Take down the Dinghai group training that escaped from the battle to this official!" Anyone who is not injured will be beheaded for public display! ”
That's hundreds of heads at once!
The civil and military officials around him all breathed in the cool air. This Jia seems to be like a way, I really have to work hard!
It seems that in the battle outside Lin'an City, it is not good to fight well.
There was a scream, and I don't know how many people lost their heads. Jia Rudao's face was pale, as if he was about to drip water, and shouted: "Li Xiangfu is here? ”
"The lower official is here!" Li Tingzhi stepped forward and bowed.
"Tomorrow, the whole army will go out of the city and dig trenches to fight!" Jia Rudao's tone was solemn, and he said word by word, "All the armies inside and outside Lin'an City are all under the command of Er, they can't violate the order, they can't advance, and those who retreat from the battle will not be spared!" ”
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"What? More than 500 heads were cut off at once!? ”
The heads that were cut off by Jia Rudao's order were all hung high on the north wall of Lin'an City. Naturally, the Ming army who reconnoitred saw it and reported it to Chen Dexing.
At this time, Chen Dexing had already moved to the Jiazi Fort in the north of the town. The castle is square in shape, and with the exception of the northern wall, which has collapsed for the most part, the rest of the city remains intact. The buildings inside the fort are also somewhat intact, including an official office, which was used as a temporary command post for Chen Dexing's former enemy.
In the official office, a celebration banquet is being held. The chief officers and staff officers of the siege artillery division, as well as several officers of the 12th Brigade of the Army, which stormed the three forts north of the town today, were invited to dinner. In fact, there is nothing to eat, it is still the craftsmanship of Yang Po'er, because the conditions before the army are limited, and the cooking is a little rough. However, the rewards that should be given, such as granges, promotions, knighthoods, and bonuses, will not shrink. Zhang Jiu, the commander of the 12th Brigade, has now been promoted to the commander of the newly formed 15th Division, and his rank has also been mentioned as lieutenant general, and his title has also been promoted from viscount to earl. What a surprise!
"Saint!" Zhang Jiu, who was proud of the spring breeze, stood up and saluted, and said loudly, "Najia seems to be killing people and establishing authority, and the minister guesses that he is going to drive Lin'an's soldiers out of the city." ”
"Going out of the city for a decisive battle?" Chen Dexing smiled slightly, noncommittal, and turned his gaze to Ren Yijiang and Zhang Xizai. The two of them are now in charge of the Xingyuan Staff Division, and all the combat plans of the Liangzhejiang battlefield come from this staff department.
Ren Yijiang and Zhang Xizai glanced at each other, Ren Yijiang, who was born in a Taoist family, was about a technical man in the Song Dynasty, and he invented the siege method of "digging trenches and erecting mortars" - later generations called this method "Ren Wang siege method" (Ren Yijiang's later title was promoted to prince). Zhang Xizai is not good at technology, but he has a very good set of campaign organization, and many of the campaign organization methods and principles of the Ming army are from his handwriting. And Chen Dexing himself and Guo Kan are "geniuses" in tactics.
Zhang Xizai thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Sage, most of the Song army is going out of the city to dig trenches. ”
"Trench to trench?" Chen Dexing smiled, and said in his heart, why does this sound so much like World War I?
Ren Yijiang smiled, "This feeling is good, we can save effort, we don't have to dig the trench ourselves, just grab the trench of the Song army!" ”
Chen Dexing smiled and looked at Zhang Xizai. After the staff system of the Ming army gradually matured, Chen Dexing rarely personally intervened in command, and in most cases only signed the plan drawn up by the staff officers or selected one of several plans.
"Sage," Zhang Xizai said, "the minister suggested that the enemy trench be captured in a night battle. ”
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"Come on, bring the old man's bedding!"
At this time, Jia Rudao was sitting cross-legged on the city wall of Lin'an North City, chewing cooking cakes while raising his hand to point to a watchtower.
"The old man lives in that watchtower! From today on, the old man will be nailed to Lin'an North City! If the thief's blossom bullet hits, the old man will die with the soldiers! ”
As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officials who accompanied Jia Rudao on the city wall and shared weal and woe with the soldiers were stunned. This Jia Taishi...... I really want to be a loyal minister and go down in history.
Stick to the walls! Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, which civil official at the level of ruling can do it? Civilian officials and supervisors, it's good to be in battle, most of them are masters who don't move one or two hundred miles away from the front line! Like Jia Rudao, among them, the upper city tower and the defenders eat and live together, and the one who suffers the cannon together is probably really the only one of the scorpion tails!
"If the Great Song Dynasty has such a loyal soul, it will temporarily lose the country, and there may not be no days of revival in the future! If all the scholars in the world take Jia Gong as a model, this way of Confucius and Mencius will be dusty for a while, and there will be a day of revival. ”
Everyone was thinking so in their hearts, and the image of Jia Rudao in their hearts also rose sharply.
Li Tingzhi immediately arched his hand and said: "Master Tai, the lower officials will go out of the city with the soldiers tomorrow...... If you can't hold the trench, you will die with the soldiers! ”
Jia Rudao nodded with satisfaction, "Okay! This Taishi watched from the head of Lin'an City...... If the time is not for me, the old man will die with Xiangfu and you in the Great Song Dynasty! ”
He suddenly lowered his tone and said, "The martyrs of the old man and Xiangfu are not only the Great Song Jiangshan, but also the Confucian and Mencian Holy Dao!" This is a martyrdom and a well-deserved death! If I die, the country will have a day of rejuvenation, and the Tao will last forever in the world! ”
When the civil and military officials on the city wall heard this, they all stood up and saluted, "We are willing to die with the Taishi!" ”
Jia Rudao waved his hand violently and said in a deep voice: "Those who do not stay alive have no hope for the future, and there are no dead people, and there is no way to summon the future." If there are people who are revived in the holy road of Confucius and Mencius, there are few people who rise up and spill their blood, and the old man is just one step ahead of everyone! Don't follow the old man, just remember the old man's ambition, pass it on to future generations, and wait for the time to come, and the old man will die as he deserves! (To be continued......)