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The door of the tent was open, and the candlelight in the tent was extremely dim, and the only light only illuminated the space around the big case, and Qiu Zhi curled up and sat in the darkness. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe battle during the day hit him hugely, and it was not that he had not seen the situation of Dingzhou using Shenwei cannon in the naval battle that the staff division had obtained through various investigations, and its depiction was like a huge thunder, and it could be attacked without hindrance from a distance of several miles, and after landing, it was beyond the human power to stop, and I didn't feel how powerful it was at that time, but today I was there, and I really realized what hell was.

Where the shells landed, dozens or hundreds of soldiers were killed or wounded in an instant, and the 5,000 vanguard troops were completely routed and almost completely annihilated when they were still a mile away from the other side.

Qiu Zhi has experienced countless battles in his life, but in the face of the enemy, he is helpless and sits idly by, this is really the first time. Shrinking in the dark, the body that was still standing tall in front of his subordinates during the day was very stiff at this time, and he thought that the whole person was shrunk together in order to resist the cold in his heart.

Was Da Chu's fate really decided? If Dingzhou throws in such weapons in large quantities, what is the use of the Luoyang army, no matter how large the number of troops in Luoyang is?

"Old General!" There was a call outside the tent door, and a heavy footstep sounded, and Bao Mian, who was full of stupid faces, walked in.

"Old general, I have captured dozens of deserters, including one of the generals, and I have taken them all out of the big tent! How to deal with these cowards, cut them off with a knife, and put their heads on the flagpole and send them to the battalions to show the public? Bao Mian said angrily.

"Deserters?" Qiu Zhi raised his head a little dazedly, "Is there a deserter?" ”

"yes, there's also a Samseng!" Bao Mian found that Qiu Zhi's expression was a little wrong.

Qiu Zhi shrunk his shoulders, "Deserter, there are finally deserters under my command!" ”

"Yes, under the command of the old general, when has there ever been such a cowardice?" Bao Mian dragged a chair and sat down, patted his thigh and said, "They are frightened." ”

Qiu Zhi stared at the lights on the case intently, and said faintly for a while: "Let it go, let it go, tell them, if you want to go, you can go!" ”

Bao Mian was taken aback, looking at Qiu Zhi in the dark, the general's strict management of the army is famous, but how can this be today?

"Let them go?" Bao Mian said: "This, isn't this conniving at the soldiers to escape? Old general, this, this will be a great blow to our morale! ”

Qiu Zhi leaned forward and signaled to Bao Mian, "Shhh, don't make a sound, listen!" ”

Bao Mian stopped his mouth inexplicably, pricked up his ears, and there was a faint cry outside the big tent.

"Do you hear that? This is the soldier in my personal guard battalion! Bao Mian, even they are scared, you say, do we still have morale at all? Qiu Zhi said.

Bao Mian gritted his teeth, "Old general, we can still come up with some solutions." The opponent's Shenwei cannon is indeed powerful, but if we loosen the formation, use the cavalry to attack, and pile it up with the tactics of the sea of people, I took a closer look during the day today, and the firing gap of each row of their cannons is relatively long, and it takes twenty breaths to shoot the second cannon.

"You're careful!" Qiu Zhi said: "I also read it, and I also calculated." The enemy's commander was clever enough to line up the Kamui cannon in six rows, and the last row was finished, just as the first row was ready again, and there was no rest in between. ”

"Today we mainly suffer because we don't understand this kind of weapon, the formation is too concentrated, tomorrow we will open the formation, rush forward with a straggler lineup, even if we pay the price of tens of thousands of people, we can rush to them after all." Bao Mian said.

"Rushed past the range of the cannon, and there are eight bull crossbows, scorpion cannons, Yipin bows, Bao Mian, even if our soldiers are not afraid of death and rush forward, can you tell me, how much combat power we still have?" Qiu Zhidao.

Bao Mian lowered his head.

"What's more, after witnessing today's tragic situation, do our soldiers still have the courage to charge?"

"The soldiers are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of this hopeless battle, there is no trace of hope, how do you let the soldiers ignite the courage to fight?"

"Old general, then you say, what should we do, we can't sit here and wait for the enemy to come and cut off our heads!" Bao Mian clenched his fists tightly.

Qiu Zhi smiled, walked out of the darkness, pulled over the chair, and sat opposite Bao Mian, "Bao Mian, how many years have you followed me?" ”

Bao Mian raised his head, "Old general, if you count from the time when you were guarding Dingyuan, it will be thirty years!" ”

"yes, thirty years!" Qiu Zhi said with a sigh: "Thirty years, back then, you, Zu Yan, He Dong, and Yan Zhang were all my personal guards, and slowly became generals step by step, in the blink of an eye, I am old, and you are also old." ”

Bao Mian smiled bitterly.

"A few years ago, Yan Zhang died of illness in his hometown, Zu Yan died in Qingtan, He Dong died today, and the four tiger generals under my command in the past are only you-people." Qiu Zhi thumped his thigh in pain, "If I knew that there was today, I shouldn't have brought you out to fight with me again, if it weren't for me, you would have been able to spend your old age in peace." ”

Qiu Zhi was in tears.

Bao Mian stretched out his hand to support Qiu Zhi, and tears flowed down his face, "Old general, the general will inevitably die before the battle, Zu Yan He Dong can die on the battlefield, that is their glory, under the Yellow Spring, Yan Zhang saw them, maybe how envious he was!" ”

"You don't have to comfort me!" Qiu Zhi calmed down his emotions, "I only have one daughter, usually the four of you, I treat you as a son, and in the blink of an eye, you are the only one left." Bao Mian, there are only two of us here today, you talk about your heart, if you fight this way, does Da Chu still have any hope? ”

Bao Mian was shocked, and suddenly remembered the inextricable connection between Qiu Zhi and the Li family in Dingzhou, and suddenly had a hint of realization in his heart, "Old general, if you want me to tell the truth, then I will say it bluntly, General Qu, General Zhou, hundreds of thousands of horses and horses fought Qinzhou, and they couldn't beat the more than 40,000 men and horses of Xinglong in Qinzhou City, and now Laihe has been lost again, if the Qinzhou army is a little slower, it will be wrapped in dumplings, but even if it is returned, it is just a remnant of Qiyan, and the loss of Bozhou, Xingzhou, and the Central Plains has no danger to defend, The portal is open. Youyan Yang's 100,000 army can come out of the valley at any time, Mianzhou Zhang Aimin faced Chen Zeyue, there was no way, Donglin was in danger, the situation was like this, even if the gods descended to earth, it would be difficult to recover the defeat. ”

"yes, it's hard to undo it." Qiu Zhi said in a low voice: "There is no way! I just can't figure it out, why did the powerful Da Chu fall to this point in a short period of time? When the first emperor was there, the ** Guogong of Qi, and me, were dominant, whether it was against the barbarians or the domestic rebellion, there was no disadvantage, why in the blink of an eye, it didn't work, the Duke of Qi rebelled, the Duke of An Guo rebelled, and the old guy was left with me. Now, not anymore! ”

Qiu Zhi stood up, looked for a few turns in the big tent, and suddenly laughed like a madman, and before the laughter fell, he suddenly cried bitterly: "The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, and the warriors are guarding the Quartet?" Ande warriors guarding the Quartet? ”

"Old general, old general!" Bao Mian was startled, stood up, grabbed his hand and danced on Qiu Zhi.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Qiu Zhi staggered, "Don't fight, don't fight, Bao Mian, inform the Dingzhou Army early tomorrow morning that we have surrendered!" ”

"Surrender?" Bao Mian suddenly froze there like a stone statue.

"Yes, surrendered, the soldiers have parents and brothers, and all have relatives alive, this kind of battle, don't fight. Surrender, surrender! Qiu Zhi seemed to have been drained of the spirit of his whole body, and slowly walked back to the chair behind the big case, leaning back on the chair, "You go, you go and arrange, surrender." Let the brethren go back alive! ”

"Yes!" Bao Mian didn't know why, his body suddenly felt a lot lighter, and he looked at Qiu Zhi sitting there with his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep, bowed and bowed, and retreated without a word.

Watching Bao Mian come out of the tent, two cloudy old tears oozed from Qiu Zhi's closed eyes.

The position of the Dingzhou army, Zheng Zhiqiang sat there with a war knife, although the battle during the day ended quickly, the opponent did not launch a second round of impact after the destruction of the vanguard army, but retreated and set up camp, there was no movement at all, but the more this is the case, the more uneasy Zheng Zhiqiang is in his heart, Qiu Zhi is a veteran of a hundred battles, how can his combat experience be comparable to that of a rising star, he is not at ease He sat on the position, did not dare to be sloppy at all, and at night, he was even more vigilant, Maybe the other party wants to sneak attack at night.

The rows of Shenwei cannons had already been loaded with ammunition, and the gunners sat on the ground, while behind them, 16,000 officers and men of the Dingzhou Navy Division were unclothed and unarmed, and their hands were not off their blades, half of them were waiting for the rest of their lives, and the other half were lying in their clothes, ready to meet the enemy's attack at any time. As long as Zheng Zhiqiang holds on for one to two days, the Lu Tian Corps behind Qiu Zhi will roll in.

When the sky was slightly bright, Zheng Zhiqiang finally couldn't help but take a nap, and in a daze, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and Zheng Zhiqiang jumped up all of a sudden, "Prepare for battle!" He opened his throat and shouted, and as soon as he finished shouting, he was stunned to find that there were only three horsemen galloping on the opposite side.

Bao Mian arranged all the matters, and went to the Dingzhou army to inform the other party that the envoy of his army had surrendered, and the generals above the rank of general in the battalion were all summoned by Bao Mian, after hearing Qiu Zhi's decision to surrender, Bao Mian saw everyone's relieved expressions and relaxed breathing, and couldn't help but feel gloomy, as General Qiu said, this battle is indeed impossible to fight.

"Let's go, let's go see the old general!" Bao Mian said.

"Old general, the generals are here!" Bao Mian opened the big tent and walked in, but when he raised his eyes, he was taken aback.

Qiu Zhi was dressed in military uniform, wearing a golden helmet and armor, holding his usual spear in one hand and pressing his saber with the other, and what made Bao Mian panic was that a few wisps of purple-black blood on Qiu Zhi's nostrils and the corners of his mouth were so eye-catching.

"Old General!" Bao Mian pounced all of a sudden, and outside the tent, all the generals rushed to the top.

Qiu Zhi's body was already cold, and on the big case in front of him, there were two letters, one was written by Bao Mianqi, and the other was a notebook, which was a testament to Luoyang Tianqi.

There was a mourning in the big tent. (To be continued.)