Chapter 60: The Capture of the City
"I will choose the same as you." Lu Yi's answer stunned Jiang Jie and Jiang Xi, and Jiang Xi said: "Since you will make the same choice, you should understand your father's difficulties back then." ”
Lu Yi shook his head and said: "Even so, I still can't forgive you, I will do this, but it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do." Those who achieve great things must cut off their seven emotions and six desires, but I can't forgive you for not treating me as a family member and abandoning me. ”
"Would you rather let me bear the people of the world than let one bear me?" Jiang Bin asked: "Ruthless and cold-hearted, like my Jiang family's son, valuing love and righteousness is the good of Lu Bing's education, but you are so contradictory and contradictory." ”
"I'm going to oversee the war now, are you going or not?" Lu Yi asked.
"What will happen to you if we don't go?" Jiang Jie pulled out his knife and shouted.
Lu Yi flicked the Dragon Yin Sword, and the Dragon Yin Sword made a dragon groan again, and Lu Yi said: "I have given you the opportunity to escape for your life just now, but you yourself did not cherish it, and now you will blame me for being ruthless." ”
After saying that, Lu Yi didn't talk nonsense, and rushed straight to the three of them, and suddenly the cold in the house was pressing, but it was not as feminine as Duan Qingfeng in the cold, with a cold masculinity. Jiang Bin and the three of them did not sit still, they all pulled out their blades to resist, and the four of them fought as a group, you are dead and alive, and the swords are full of killing moves.
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Qi Jingtong was completely defeated, and there were only thirty or forty thousand people left under his command, and these thirty or forty thousand people were the last elite of Qi Jingtong's troops in the imperial court. Now these people have created no threat to the Lu Jiajun and Xu Yangbu. But Qi Jingtong was not sad, because he had completed his mission and firmly dragged down the main force in the Lu family's army, Xu Yangbu, the Lu family's army.
Qi Jingtong's defeat was not due to his incompetence. can face the most elite elite soldiers and main forces of the Lu Family's army, and still fight this battle for so long, Qi Jingtong can already be regarded as a famous general in the world. It's just that what he met was the Lu family, a different army, an army equipped with weapons that shouldn't belong to this era at all. It's just that the general on the opposite side is something he didn't pay attention to before, but he has been fighting for the longest time, and finally enough to pay enough attention to the old enemy with whom he has been fighting for several years. Xu Yang.
When Xu Yang no longer rushed to Shandong for rescue, when the two sides withdrew from the final battle of the gongs and drums in front of each other after the ambush, the final result was already doomed. This result may not be known to ordinary soldiers. They still fantasized about any possibility on the battlefield and pinned their hopes on the resourcefulness of the commander, but Qi Jingtong knew deeply that after all, the troops of the two sides were too different. It's not easy to get to where you are today.
But he still chose to fight this battle. The time of this battle can buy more time for Yu Dayou's department, and after this battle, the Shuntianfu garrison can be inserted into the heart of the Lu family's foundation as soon as possible, and after this battle, maybe the Ming Dynasty will win, of course, this may just be a beautiful fantasy, but this is very likely, at least there is still a chance. However, Qi Jingtong did not expect that Lu Bing would be able to attack the capital by air, because this was beyond his cognition. Therefore, he thought that no matter whether the attack on Shandong was successful or not, it would form a blow to the Lu family that could not be ignored. However, if he knew that this withdrawal of troops was giving Lu Bing the courage and opportunity to attack the capital, it was estimated that Qi Jingtong would spew a mouthful of evil blood in his heart. This can't be blamed on Qi Jingtong. Because he didn't know that this style of play was ahead of this era.
In the eyes of the outside world, Lu Jiajun, the main force in Shandong, is good at two ways of playing, one is field wave warfare, and the other is defense. If it is about city defense, maybe they can't, because they don't bother to fight like this, but digging trenches and traps to intercept in the field is their forte, which stems from the fact that their first best skill is field warfare. Relying on the support of various advanced weapons and large-area artillery fire, as well as the mastery of individual soldiers, the Lu Jiajun could crush all the armies of his contemporaries in this world. They believe that the best meal is to attack, and they also live by the slogan that the landing army can crush an obstacle. Therefore, in a head-on conflict, no matter how many people there are, unless they are more than 100 times the number of troops, few people can defeat the invincible Lu Jiajun in a face-to-face war.
Different from the previous breakthrough, the Lu Jiajun's various long-range weapons were fully coordinated, and without the comfort of the city wall, instead of increasing the casualty rate, they were more free to fight. Everyone is playing with their lives, no matter whether they win or lose, whether it is the Lu family army or the imperial court soldiers, they all want to end this long-lasting tug-of-war between the two sides as soon as possible.
Both sides fought to the death, and in the end it ended in hand-to-hand combat. There is no suspense that the Lu family army won a big victory, Qi Jingtong was defeated, Qi Jingtong wanted to die on the battlefield like this, but how did he know that his subordinates desperately pulled him and rushed out. gathered the scattered troops and found that most of the main elite were still left, which made Qi Jingtong feel a little relieved.
After this battle, these soldiers, whether they are high-ranking generals or ordinary sergeants, have become rare talents, they will be more resolute and calmer, their actual combat experience will increase, and the methods of dealing with Lu Jiajun will also increase with their understanding of Lu Jiajun in the war. After this war, the lifeblood of the imperial court is still there, and the talents are still there.
Suddenly, the scout came to report that Xu Yang's army had been reorganized a little and then followed behind, stalking like a bone appendage. Qi Jingtong was shocked when he heard this, and everyone didn't know why, but they didn't want to believe that the main general Qi Jingtong was scared. In the face of a more severe result than now, Qi Jingtong has survived, he is the backbone of the army, and he has erected an unshakable prestige among the people, if Qi Jingtong is afraid, if he falls, the army will fall like a building, and it will fall apart in an instant.
Qi Jingtong suddenly laughed, and two lines of tears flowed: "Let's not run away anymore, this may be the last battle between you and me, let's be a righteous man of the Ming Dynasty, and keep Dan in mind!" ”
Everyone was puzzled, but Qi Jingtong understood that Shandong must not be in such a critical situation, otherwise why would Xu Yang give up such a good opportunity to come back to help, but instead stalk himself? He was not born with a different mind. It's not to kill them all, and it's not to fight to the point of madness. But Shandong has its own clever plan, so the troops of Yu Dayou and Shuntianfu will be in a worrying situation.
If you can't take the old nest of the Lu family in Shandong this time. The opportunity was completely lost. The Ming Dynasty is going to be defeated, and the Ming Dynasty is going to die, but Qi Jingtong is now suffering words, and he is afraid that after he says this, the soldiers and horses will lose their fighting spirit and immediately collapse. Let yourself be selfish once, let yourself set foot on the battlefield again as a Ming soldier, and die on the battlefield!
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Air raids over the Forbidden City in Beijing continued, with large quantities of explosives and oil pouring down from the air exploding and burning on the ground. This leaves the troops on the ground with no room to parry at all. As soon as the high-altitude throw ended, someone immediately exclaimed that there was a birdman.
Everyone looked up at the sky, and sure enough, some people flew by. The people of the court guarding the palace were all frightened when they saw it. I thought that the thief had the help of God. But they soon discovered that they were ordinary people, just flying around the sky like kites, and shooting the troops on the ground with their small crossbows.
There were only one or two people at first, and it wasn't a big deal. It's not the crossbow that's scary. Rather, it was some grenades that they threw down, and these grenades exploded when they landed, and they were extremely good at the time, because they were not so high-altitude throws, so they were relatively accurate, and they exploded one after another in the troops of the defending side. The two seemed to have come to explore the way, and then a dozen more people flew down, causing more turmoil, but because they flew low. There were still capable men who guarded the palace, and they shot down the winged men with bows and arrows and even throwing spears.
For each person shot down. There were bursts of cheers from the crowd, because this kind of high-altitude combat was too advantageous. Although the explosives and flammable liquids could not be extinguished with water, and some casualties were caused by the fire, after all, there was still time to hide. It is often thrown into the open field due to the wind speed, but it covers a large area so that it can be effective.
But the winged people are different, they fly fast but fly at low altitudes to see clearly, and the natural threat is also greater, and an average winged man will lose more than 20 officers and soldiers of the imperial court. Just now, only a dozen winged people had already killed more than 200 people, so if you can shoot them down, you can't help but cheer. But at this time, someone exclaimed again, and hundreds of nearly a thousand winged people fell from the sky, and the battle situation was reversed in an instant, the imperial court soldiers and horses hugged their heads and scurried, and some people surrendered in a hurry, and most of the Lu family surrendered without killing, so the sound of surrender was even a piece, and everyone lost their armor and lost their fighting spirit.
From the beginning of the war, Chen Hong and the emperor disappeared, and at that time, some people in the army shouted that Chen Gonggong died in battle, and the emperor died, so everyone had no courage to fight again. Needless to say, these people are the spies that the Lu family has been mixed in for a long time, and Wei He has indeed done enough in this regard.
The wingmen landed, collected their weapons, and imprisoned the discouraged court soldiers in batches. The battle lasted for an hour and a half, and the heavily defended Forbidden City was breached, and Chen Hong and Zhu Houxi did not know where to go. In order to worry about harassing the harem, Lu Bing personally led a team to search, but it was unsuccessful. This battle was actually thrilling, although Lu Bing had an overwhelming advantage, but if it weren't for Zhu Houxi's foreshadowing, he would never have won it so smoothly.
Why do you say this, because Lu Bing's infiltration of the Ming officialdom was too strict before, and Zhu Houxi was very worried that the generals in the army were Lu Bing's people, so Zhu Houxi did not dare to entrust a single person to a single person, and wanted to divide power and check and balance. Of course, even if there is no matter of Lu Bing, Zhu Houxi's suspicious personality will be divided into checks and balances. So this is facing the problem of mutual restraint and lack of close cooperation, so if the soldiers outside the palace pour into the palace, or jointly defend Lu Bing, there is no way to take the palace so quickly, but the problem is that the soldiers outside the palace have not received orders, so they dare not enter the palace without permission.
Unauthorized entry into the palace will be punished even if you save the driver, this is a capital offense to transfer troops without authorization, even a high-ranking person will lose his power because of this, not to mention ordinary generals, such things have happened since ancient times, let alone facing Zhu Houxi, a suspicious monarch.
Therefore, until the end of the war, after the palace gate was opened, the troops stationed outside the imperial city outside the city still stood outside the palace, and Lu Bing did not make much effort to recruit him. As soon as they came, they saw Lu Bing's power outside the palace just now, and now that there is less cooperation between inside and outside, and in the face of the elite of the Lu family's army, it is useless to rush in. The emperor has run away, who is willing to die, at least it is said that Lu Bing is a master, so the soldiers surrendered one after another, and Lu Bing, who was a few people who would rather die than surrender, did not kill but drove out of the capital.
The garrison of the capital has been stunned by the air raid, and the army is discouraged, frightened, and powerless to resist, so they do not resist, Lu Bing knows this, the soldiers on both sides know it, and the smart Zhu Houxi also knows it. At first, he wanted to go around the palace and lead the army outside to storm into the Forbidden City, so as to carry out a ground raid on the soldiers who landed on Lu Bing. But later I saw that this was not the case, there were a lot of people who came to Lu Bing, and it was difficult to win even if he fought with high-altitude cooperation, and it would be too late to run again, so Zhu Houxi took Chen Hong and forty or fifty imperial horse supervisors and the masters of Dongchang to escape from the capital by taking advantage of the chaos to pass through the secret passage. (To be continued......)