The fluttering battle flags led the whole army forward, and the long knives were unsheathed, and the blades reflected the blinding sunlight, indicating the direction of the soldiers' attacks.

Overlooking from the sky, the 80,000-strong army of Xiqi attacked, and the huge infantry phalanx, like huge squares, pushed out horizontally with majestic force, to crush and crush the enemy until it was completely destroyed.

The whole army attacked.

The two sides fought first, and then each faction vanguarded, all of which were temptations, in order to know themselves and know their opponents, and not to be defeated in a hundred battles.

But the successive defeats in the battle situation made Ji Chang have to come up with the determination to give up everything.

Because Xiqi's biggest reliance at the moment is his determination to see death as home, and his unstoppable morale must not retreat!

Morale is indeed a wonderful factor in war, according to strict calculations, it is not as important as the strength of the military formation, not as good as the performance of the generals, but often in actual confrontations, morale can create miracles.

An army with a rainbow of momentum can defeat an army whose comprehensive strength is completely above it, and an army with declining morale can also be defeated by an army that is far weaker than it.

The current Xiqi is the former.

Obviously, he saw that in the battlefield ahead, his comrades had suffered heavy casualties, but most of the soldiers had flames in their eyes, and there was a kind of horror that burned everything.

As a result, the three armies advanced, and the overwhelming momentum was like a heavy hammer, even if it was facing an indestructible iron wall, it had to be completely smashed with heavy blows again and again.

At the same time, the cavalry made a detour, avoiding Jiacheng from both sides, and rounded the rear flank of the Su Protector's army.

Su Hu's eyes sank, and the secret path was not good.

He was not afraid, but there were several princes and nobles on the left and right, but they changed color, and they stepped forward one after another to admonish: "General, Xiqi is going to lose both, it's not worth it!"

Is it worth it to lose both?

Of course it's worth it!

Xiqi is only a place of one side, and the upper limit of strength is there, but Su Hu has the support of the imperial dynasty, and there is the supply of money and food from the major slave owners and small princes.

The same loss, Xiqi hurt the muscles and bones, but the big business is just a piece of cake.

But the point is, who wants to lose?

Su Hu is only the nominal commander of this army, and its composition is very complicated, with 50,000 Wang Shi basically under the command of Zhang Guifang, and the remaining 100,000 troops are composed of various slave owners and minor nobles.

They formed an alliance to regress the princes of the Quartet and restore slavery in order to maintain their dominance.

But large-scale sacrifice, that no one wants.

After all, the team is gone, even if there are slaves under him, he will rebel.

The ass decides the head, and the idea of the slave owner is correct, but to form an army, it is undoubtedly a standard rabble.

Therefore, at this moment, when Xiqi put on the posture that you and I will die together, they are from their hearts, and they have to let Su Hu follow their hearts together.

If Su Hu insists on going his own way, the Avengers are afraid that it will be a direct civil war.

Su Hu sighed and spit out a word: "Retreat!"

Jiacheng re-transformed the formation into the Great Wall, and slowly retreated to avoid its edge.

After the Xiqi army attacked several times and destroyed several armored vehicles, they did not gain an inch, and the pace was slow, and Mingjin withdrew his troops.

Ji Chang played a beautiful psychological tactic, a coward game, and forced the Su Hu army back for several miles.

The first battle is over.

The Su Hu army killed nearly 3,000 enemies and suffered hundreds of injuries, which could have been called a victory, but the killer weapon of the armor car was dispatched, which exposed the internal discord, and it was actually a complete defeat in a strategic sense.

On the other hand, Xiqi, when the overall strength was inferior to the Su Hu army, advanced the battle line for several miles, the morale was even higher, and internal stability was restored, and even the upper doctor San Yisheng no longer mentioned the disbandment of the slave army.

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Morning song.

The early dynasty of the Longde Palace.

Gu Cheng looked at the battle report in his hand and suddenly threw it out.

With a snap, the bamboo slip smashed on the ground, as if it had smashed into the hearts of the ministers, and the two classes of civil and military were shocked, and knelt down together: "Your Majesty forgives you!"

Gu Cheng asked, "Forgiveness, what are your sins?"

The ministers did not dare to respond.

"When Su Hu asked for war, I didn't want to use troops in vain, it was you who kept saying that they would win, and now the two armies have been fighting for more than a month, and there are more than a dozen times, and our army not only can't win, but retreats again and again, and loses face!"

Gu Cheng looked down at the ministers: "These days, every time I think about the reform of the princes of the four towns, I can't say that I have to follow suit!"

"Your Majesty, by all means!"

As soon as this remark came out, the reactions of the ministers were mixed, the reformers were in high spirits, and the conservatives were crying as if the whole family had died.

Gu Cheng waited for them to cry out of breath before he said leisurely: "Then what do you say?"

The crying suddenly stopped, and these courtiers wanted to propose that they should send Wen Taishi and Huang Feihu to completely sweep Xiqi with a thunderous force, or send an army of 200,000 to crush the past with absolute superiority.

However, these words, they only dare to think about them but do not actually put forward them, because they do not make sense.

Wen Zhong and Huang Feihu are the pillars of civil and military affairs, once they are dispatched, it will be life and death, and there is no room for turnaround.

What's more, the dog Rong has not been destroyed, and the ghost side that has already surrendered in the north seems to have twists and turns, although the Great Shang is thriving, if all the troops are dispatched to the princes of the four towns who defend the Quartet, resulting in the invasion of foreign enemies, who will bear the responsibility for this crime?

But it was impossible not to answer, and their eyes immediately looked at the two backs in front of them.

The head of the conservative faction is none other than Prime Minister Shang Rong and Abigan.

Shang Rong represented the interests of the eunuch class, and Bigan represented the regulations of the Yin Shang ancestral system, both of whom firmly defended the ruling class.

At this moment, Shang Rong had to speak: "Your Majesty cultivates its virtues, loves its people, cherishes its financial expenses, and values its decrees, although Yao Shun is nothing more than that, why bother with temporary success or failure, although Su Hu is temporarily frustrated, he will definitely achieve the final victory, please wait for good news!"

Gu Cheng's face sank: "I don't want to listen to such nonsense, the army is fighting in Jinjiling, and the daily military salary is so huge, do you have to wait for the victory of Su Hu, the treasury is empty, the country is shaken, and it is too late to regret it?"

These words are already extremely serious, and Shang Rong can only make the final preparations: "Your Majesty once said, there is a lot of help for the righteous, and little help for the unjust, and now the good people of the Quartet all have the intention of self-financing for the army, so that the king will no longer have to worry about the future, I hope Your Majesty will approve it!"

Conservatives perked up when they heard this.

The good people in Shang Rong's mouth, in fact, everyone knows that they are slave owners.

But what they didn't expect was that this time the slave owners actually made such a big determination to work together to supply the army's salary, food and grass!

In fact, before the army set out on the expedition, various slave owners and minor princes had already contributed their efforts, and of the 150,000 soldiers and horses, 100,000 were provided by them, and now they simply contracted directly.

Until now, the dead and wounded are all under the command of slave owners, and the supply of grain and grass is on top of the slave owners.

What kind of spirit is this?

This is the spirit of tap water with your own dry food!

Seeing that the other party had achieved this level, the reformers who originally wanted to come out closed their mouths one after another, and Gu Cheng also bowed his head and said: "In this case, I will wait and see!"

The conservative ministers were overjoyed: "Your Majesty Shengming!"