"In order to shock the prestige of our army this time and give full play to the combat effectiveness of our Celestial Empire soldiers, I have set the military regulations here to kill ten kills! Everyone, whether it is a soldier or a soldier, must abide by the laws and discipline of war, if there is a violator, even if he is the commander of the legion, he will be severely punished, and will not be tolerated, now please Lord Guo announce this ten killing regulations. After speaking, Zhang Chao faced Guo Jia and nodded slightly.

Guo Jia, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately took out a will and read it out in front of everyone.

Ten Kills:

Cowering, kill!

Escapees, kill!

If you don't save the dead, kill!

Greedy for life and afraid of the dead, kill!

Defectors, kill!

Delay the fighters, kill!

Those who disobey military orders, kill!

Leak the military aircraft, kill!

Whoever lies about the military will be killed!

Those who shake the hearts of the army, kill!

Ten powerful killing words came into the ears of all the people in the tent, causing a murderous aura. And everyone was resolute after hearing the ten killing orders, they knew that this time the emperor attached great importance to the battle of the Rus' Kingdom, and no matter how he behaved in peacetime, if he really violated the military regulations, he would drop the chain at a critical time, and he was afraid that no one would be able to protect himself at that time. The only thing that can be done is to do your duty and strive for victory in the First World War.

Zhang Chao'er heard Guo Jia's announcement of the Ten Killings Order there, and his face did not change in the slightest. He remembered that these ten killings were first proposed by an iron-blooded general of the Republic, who had terrified the enemy. Now he is going to borrow this Ten Kills Order to deal with Rose, who is also of another race.

Zhang Chao knew that the Celestial Empire was established late, and it was still too weak compared to its comprehensive strength. And now Rose's civil strife is his best chance, if he can't grasp this opportunity, I'm afraid he won't find a second time in this life.

Even if there is only one chance, of course Zhang Chao will cherish it doubly, what he has to do is to enter the territory of Rus with lightning speed, and then sweep the entire battlefield like a whirlwind at the fastest speed, to end the battle in the shortest possible time, only in this way can there be a chance of victory.

The appearance of the Ten Killings Order is precisely to unify the hearts of the military and to be able to better cooperate with the war.

Zhang Chao attaches so much importance to Ross, and the commanders below naturally know the weight of the burden on their shoulders, when Guo Jia announced the ten killings order, the four commanders in the tent all expressed their support and support, and at the same time began to ask for battle.

"Our opponent in this battle is the powerful Rus' country, the war is cruel and hard, it will only be more serious than you think, so you don't need to ask for war now, I just want to say that you have fought in the battle, I am afraid that you will not have that strength at that time. Therefore, forget about the matter of the war, everything is subject to my arrangement, and the order: The dragoon army will take the lead, set out to Haibaolan early tomorrow morning, first relieve the danger of the siege of the city, and attack Peter's army together with the six legions, order the first and second legions to be the central army, enter Haibaolan City with me, order the vanguard corps to be the rearguard, and escort the grain and grass as the final echelon. ”

Let Zhao Yun take the lead, it is indeed to let himself be in charge of the guard, Lu Bu looked anxious when he heard it, and he wanted to stand up immediately to express his opposition, but at this time, Zhang Chao did not give him a chance at all, but waved his hand directly: "Okay, the meeting is dismissed, everyone will go and prepare." ”

dismissed the meeting and blocked Lu Bu's words. Seeing that the other generals were leaving one by one with their fists clenched, he still wanted to step forward and say something to Zhang Chao, but Pang Tong, the military advisor on the side, had already grabbed his arm and walked out of the tent.

"Strategist, what are you doing? Didn't you see that I was looking for the emperor? Why should we be put in the last place, compared to the combat power, we are fearless. As soon as he got out of the big tent, Lu Bu's dissatisfied voice rang out. If it weren't for seeing Pang Tong and him cooperating for many years, I was afraid that he would have broken free of it with all his strength just now.

"Legion Commander, I just knew you were going to do this, so I deliberately stopped you." Pang Tong, who was thrown aside by Lu Bu, didn't mind. In terms of strength, he is indeed far inferior to Lu Bu.

"You know you want to stop me, why is that?" Seeing that Pang Tong knew his intentions and wanted to do this, Lu Bu was even more puzzled.

"I'm talking about the Legion Commander. Do you think the emperor doesn't know the combat effectiveness of our vanguard legion? But why do you still put us at the end, you don't think about it, is there any implication in this? Pang Tongyi asked rhetorically with hatred that iron is not made of steel.

"This... What is the implication? Lu Bu at this meeting was also much sober, and more importantly, he knew himself too well as a military advisor, and when he was usually so calm, that is, he had already made judgments and thoughts.

Lu Bu's tone was obviously a little softer, and Pang Tong knew that this was the other party who was going to give in, just to save face, he still explained: "Commander, the emperor is doing this, it is clear that he is showing weakness to the enemy." Let General Zhao Yun take the lead, it is because General Zhao's ability Ross already knows, and he can't hide it if he wants to. And our vanguard army is different, there is very little contact with the Rus' country, they don't know us, so the emperor chose to put us last, also in order to play a greater role at a critical time. ”

Pang Tong did guess Zhang Chao's meaning, so he didn't let Lu Bu go to defend himself. And after hearing this, especially hearing that the emperor intended to do this, in order to give the vanguard legion more room to play, at this moment Lu Bu finally became happy, "Haha, I'll just say, how can the emperor not know the power of our vanguard legion, with such a good thing, how could he forget us." That's fine, keep it for a long time, well, that's what I think too. ”

Lu Bu has now become a person who understands, and he seems to know everything, which makes Pang Tong not know what to say, he has seen a thick-skinned person, but he has never seen a person with such a thick skin.

Where is the current Lu Bu who has the angry look just now, it is clearly a happy face, a look like a reused. But no matter what, he didn't go to the emperor to make a clear argument, which also reassured Pang Tong a lot.

Saying that, in the tent, Zhang Chao was still wondering why Lu Bu didn't come to find him. According to his understanding, a Hun person like Lu Bu would definitely not be easily thought of when he was put to escort grain and grass at the end. However, the head of the guard, Xu Chu, approached and said that Pang Tong pulled the leader of the Lu Bu army out of the big tent, this Zhang Chaocai smiled, "This Pang Shiyuan is smart, he knows what I mean, it seems that Feng Xian will not come to reason with me, haha." ”

Zhang Chao left the most capable vanguard army at the end, and it was indeed meant to paralyze the Rus country, although he decided to make a move with the momentum of thunder, but for the sake of safety, he still kept the hole card, and Lu Bu was this hole card that could be attacked and retreated.

All the legions received their tasks, and early the next morning, Zhao Yun took 700,000 Dragon and Tiger Legion soldiers to Haibaolan, and he only left 100,000 people to be responsible for the safety and defense of Goryeo.

On the third day after Zhao Yun left, Zhang Chao also personally led the 1st and 2nd Army Corps out of Goryeo and headed straight for the Rus' Kingdom. At this point, the Celestial Empire's plan to annex Rus began to unfold thoroughly.

At the beginning of November 210, that is, in the eighth year of the Celestial Empire, Zhang Chao, the first emperor of the heavens, led four legions, with a total of 2.1 million people, to the border city of Haibaolan, the border city of Rus, and went to join the headquarters of the six legions of Dian Wei who had already been there.

Haybalan City.

Peter and his army had been besieging the city for eight days.

In eight days, the Sixth Army held the city at the cost of losing nearly 100,000 men, which was the reason for relying on explosives at a critical time.

Explosives can be used to siege cities, and it is advisable to defend cities. For example, if the opponent's attack is too fierce and all the people in the city are gathered together, at this time, throwing the ignited explosives into the city can blow up a large area, causing heavy losses to the Rus' army.

But in fact, explosives are still limited in their ability to hurt people, and the main thing is that they are more intimidating. Often after a bang, the fighting spirit of the Rus army retreats a point, and at this moment, the soldiers of the Sixth Army are fiercely counterattacking, which can often have a good suppressive effect.

But the repetitive action is not so obvious in the later stage. When Peter saw that explosives could only injure dozens of soldiers at a time, and that they did not hinder the overall attack, he gave a death order, that is, the explosives sounded to attack the city.

After the change of order, it became much more difficult for the Sixth Legion to defend. After several days of siege and the fall of catapults, the western wall of Haipaolan has already been riddled with holes, and the defensive role it can play at this moment has become lower and lower, so it seems that the castle tower has become precarious.

What's even worse is that as more and more sleepers are thrown down under the city tower, they are piled up like a slope under the city, and the siege Rus soldiers can take this opportunity to directly rush up to half of the city tower, and then climb a few meters of limited ladders to go straight to the city tower.

The environment seems to be getting worse and worse, and the task of defending the city is getting more and more difficult.

Under the city tower, Dian Wei, who was dressed in heavy armor, was holding a pair of iron halberds and commanding the soldiers of the Sixth Legion to defend. "Quick, the ninth regiment will rush forward, the tenth regiment will follow, and the eleventh regiment will prepare." Seeing that the 1st to 8th regiments of the formation were all wiped out, the iron-blooded general Dian Wei, who had killed countless enemies at this moment, also became extremely dark.

It's not that he hasn't fought a bad battle, but like now, it's the first time that he has been beaten passively while defending the city. According to his intentions, he was beaten to the doorstep, and the most important thing he should do was to lead the army to a counter-charge. According to what Emperor Zhang Chao said, surprises on the battlefield often have unexpected effects, and he is eager to try.

However, Li Ru, the military advisor, did not agree with it, he said, what to do now is to attract enough troops from the other side and show weakness, everything is just waiting for the emperor's army to counterattack as soon as it arrives, and the effect at that time is the best.