readx;? Chapter 1176 Morality

Shangguan Xiu's order was conveyed, and each corps selected 3,000 elites, and Cai Huang commanded these 30,000 elites to cross the river first. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Sand River is only 100 meters wide, and when you walk from the bank to the middle of the river, the water is barely knee-deep, but when you continue to walk, the depth of the river surges, and when you reach the center of the river, the depth of the river here is almost two meters.

The Zhenjun army consists of more than 100 soldiers with the best water nature, with ropes, first cross the river, one end of the rope is fixed on the east bank, and after the soldiers swim to the opposite bank, the other end of the rope is fixed on the west bank, so that more than 100 ropes are across the surface of the Sand River, and the soldiers can cross the river even if they only grasp the rope without the help of external force.

Seeing that his soldiers had arranged all the ropes, Cai Huang ordered all of them to cross the river. Thirty thousand elites, holding on to the ropes, walked into the water of the Sand River one after another.

Long story short. The river of the Sand River is slow, and it is not very deep, the crossing of the 30,000 elites is very smooth, it only takes more than two hours, and the 30,000 people have all crossed the Sand River and come to the west bank.

As soon as Cai Huang arrived on the west bank, a spy came to report that the rebels were less than ten miles away from the Sand River, and they would arrive immediately.

So fast! Cai Huang frowned, and shouted to the generals around him: "Generals lead all units to deploy defenses two miles away, ready to meet the enemy! Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

At Cai Huang's urging, 30,000 soldiers of the Zhenjun Army, who had crossed the river first, began to deploy two miles away from the west bank. People took off their wet uniforms and went into battle shirtless, digging trenches in the ground.

The 30,000 soldiers tried their best to dig only half of the trenches, and they saw the dust in front of them, and the rebel flags appeared on the horizon.

The rebels have arrived! Cai Huang put down his binoculars and saw that the soldiers nearby were all looking ahead, and he shouted sharply: "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and set up defenses!"

30,000 against 200,000, even if you use firearms and the other party only uses swords, 30,000 people can't win against 200,000.

At this time, a layer of cold sweat has broken out on Cai Huang's forehead, his main army is crossing the river with all his strength in the back, there is no defense at all, and he is not able to fight with the enemy, if the main force of the rebels is killed on the west bank of the Sand River, the consequences are unimaginable, this battle, even if all the 30,000 soldiers on his side are killed, they must not take a step back.

Cai Huang drew out the saber under his ribs and said to the generals on the left and right: "In this battle, our troops have no way to retreat, they can only fight to the death, either to repel the enemy army and help the main force of our army cross the river smoothly, or to die with the enemy." In today's battle, I have made up my mind to die, what about you?"

When the generals present heard this, they knelt down on one knee, intervened in the salute, and said in unison: "The last general swears to follow the general to the death, fight to the death with the enemy, and never retreat!"

"Okay! Get ready for battle!"

The Zhenjun army was ready for battle and opened a posture of preparing for battle. People looked ahead, and the phalanx of the rebels had emerged from the horizon little by little.

Looking to the left, there is no end to the rebel phalanx, and to the right, there is still no end to the rebel phalanx, and as far as the eye can see, the entire horizon is full of rebels.

There were more than 100,000 people, and the 200,000 rebels couldn't see where the end of the camp was.

Even if the officers and soldiers of the Zhenjun Army have experienced a hundred battles, in the case of such a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, people's hearts have risen to their throats.

The rebel phalanx was constantly advancing, and the distance between the two sides changed from five miles to four miles, and from four miles to three miles.

The artillery is all east of the river and has not yet been delivered, so they can only rely on the fire guns in their hands to fight the rebels to the death.

Just as the battle between the two sides was about to break out, the camp where the rebels were advancing suddenly stopped.

This sudden change made the soldiers on the side of the Zhenjun army all dazed, full of inexplicability, even Cai Huang, who was so smart, didn't understand what the rebels' sudden stop to attack meant at this time?

Inside the rebel camp.

There is only one person who can order all the rebels to stop advancing, Tang Jing.

Regarding Tang Jing's order, not to mention that the soldiers of the Zhenjun Army on the opposite side could not understand it, the soldiers of the rebel army could not understand it either. The commanders of the First and Second Legions ran to Tang Jing and asked him why he had suddenly ordered the attack to be stopped.

You must know that now is the best time to attack, only 30,000 people of the Zhenjun army crossed the river first, and the main force of the Zhenjun army is either on the east bank or is crossing the river.

Looking at the two army commanders with eager faces, Tang Jing said: "Now opposite us, it is only the remnants of the Zhenjun army, not the whole of the Zhenjun army, of course our army can attack immediately and annihilate the remnants of the Zhenjun army in one fell swoop, but such a victory is a victory that takes advantage of the danger of others, and it is a victory without force, there is no virtue and no way, and this king disdains it!"

Hearing this, the cold sweat of the two legion commanders, Xin Yi and Peng Zheng, dripped down. 【ㄨ】

Now you are in a war, the purpose of the war is to win, whether it is to win or not, whether it is to take advantage of the danger of others, as long as you can win, what kind of benevolence and morality do you talk about at this time?

Xin Yi and Peng Zheng glanced at each other, and the former said urgently: "Lord Wang, now that I have many enemies, it is a good opportunity for us to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"Yes, Lord Wang!" Peng Zheng continued: "The current fighter plane is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, don't miss the opportunity!"

Tang Jing glanced at the two of them, and said with a sinking face: "A gentleman should have a so-called and do something! The gentleman of the ancients, do not seriously injure, do not capture Ermao, do not obstruct the narrow, we are not as good as the ancients?" (do not seriously injure, do not hurt the people who have already been injured; do not capture the Ermao, do not capture the people with black and white hair; do not use the obstruction, do not rely on dangerous places to win, do not take advantage of geographical advantages. ）

After listening to Tang Jing's words, Xin Yi and Peng Zheng stopped talking.

They couldn't accuse Tang Jing of saying something wrong, but they couldn't agree with him either. Not seriously injured, not captured, not blocked, that is the moral standard of the ancients, but also the moral model of the ancients, of course, it is true, but it is no longer applicable to the present.

In the eyes of the two of them, Tang Jing is the kind of person who was born at the wrong time, he should not be born now, but should have been born in the early days of the Haotian Empire, at this time, it is the time to pay the most attention to morality, and now, who still pays attention to these?

If you talk about morality, but the enemy doesn't talk to you about morality, who will suffer in the end?

The 200,000-strong rebel army stood still for three hours in front of the 30,000-strong Zhenjun army, during which not a single shot was fired or a single cannon fired, and it dragged on from morning to afternoon, until the main force of the Zhenjun army had all crossed the Sand River and all the artillery had been arranged, and the battle between the two sides officially began.

When the two sides officially started the war, it was already late in the evening, and both sides only made tentative attacks, and did not start a full-scale confrontation. The battle did not last long, and the two sides died down and returned to their camps, preparing to fight again tomorrow.

However, that night, the Zhenjun army suddenly attacked the rebel camp, although the rebels finally repelled the attacking Zhenjun army, but the rebels' grain and grass were seriously damaged, and more than half of them were burned by a fire of the Zhenjun army.

The damage to the grain and grass was a big blow to the morale of the rebels. Xin Yi and Peng Zheng were even more angry and stomped their feet again and again, complaining in their hearts, the benevolence of women, the style of acting of King Ren, is simply the benevolence of women!

You talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality to the Zhenjun army, but how did the Zhenjun army treat you? That night, they used conspiracy and trickery to destroy half of their own grain and grass.

Tang Jing didn't regret it in the slightest, you don't talk about morality, that's your business, it has nothing to do with me, in short, I want to erect my moral standards. Tang Jing is such a person, Tang Yu named him the king of benevolence, which is too appropriate.

The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Tang Jing commanded the army, all of them out of the camp, and launched an attack on the Zhenjun army.

The Zhenjun army was not afraid to fight, and the whole army also went out of the camp to meet the battle. On the west bank of the Sand River, the two sides launched a needle-to-needle battle against Maimang.

In this battle, the strength of the Tang Yu court was 200,000, and the strength of the Tang Ling court was 100,000, and the total number of troops invested by both sides was 300,000.

The battle was heated from the start, with the artillery on both sides blaring like beans. On the battlefield, explosions were everywhere, and there were screams of people everywhere.

The tactics of the rebels were very direct, and the formation did not change much, that is, a phalanx with a long platoon, advancing in an all-round way. On the side of the Zhenjun army, the tactics of dividing troops into battles were adopted.

The enemy's artillery fire was too fierce, and if you pushed along all fronts like the rebels, the casualties would be too heavy. Shangguan Xiu took the army as a unit and discharged a trident formation.

The 1st Army, as the center, was located in the center, withstanding the main forces of the rebels, and the 2nd and 3rd armies, as the left and right armies, flanked the two flanks of the enemy, leaving a corps directly under the corps, which remained in the rear and protected the artillery positions.

In the case of fighting more with less, it is necessary to divide the troops to fight, and I am afraid that only the Zhenjun army has such courage.

The First Army was subordinate to three corps, namely the Second, Third, and Fourth Corps. The pressure on these three corps was undoubtedly the greatest, to confront the main forces of the rebels head-on.

During the battle, the camps of both sides erected heavy shields in the front row, and the soldiers hid behind the heavy shields and marched forward. In the fierce battle, the mortar artillery of the Zhenjun army once again played an important role, taking the lead in breaking the shield formation of the rebels.

Without the protection of the shield array, the rebels in the battle array were knocked to the ground in rows by oncoming projectiles.

Of course, the rebels would not sit idly by and wait to be beaten, and the soldiers who reported the news kept running to the artillery positions in the rear, asking the artillery to quickly blow up the heavy shields in the front row of the Zhenjun army.

By the time the artillery had adjusted the angle of the artillery and was finally able to blow up the shield array of the Zhenjun army, two quarters of an hour had passed. In the course of these two quarters of an hour, the rebels suffered at least tens of thousands more casualties than the Zhenjun army.

It can fully reflect the flexibility and advanced nature of the mortar on the battlefield.

After the shield array in the front row was blown up, the Zhenjun military array in the back immediately stopped advancing, and all the soldiers from top to bottom hulala fell to the ground.

This situation made the rebels on the opposite side dumbfounded, is the Zhenjun army going to surrender? Otherwise, why did all the soldiers fall?

Before anyone could figure out what was going on, the fallen Jeongjun soldiers fired a volley. The explosion of the firecrackers was continuous, and the rebel soldiers in the front row, with clouds of blood mist on their bodies, were shot and fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the generals of the rebel army were not shocked, but one by one they showed joy and shouted: "The enemy army is no longer good, brothers, rush forward with all your strength to kill-"

The rebel generals were not untargeted, and at that time, the ammunition was loaded with a strip, and the paper shell bullet was stuffed through the muzzle, and the paper shell bullet was stabbed to the bottom with the bullet, and then the gun was fired. Therefore, in the case of lying down, the original projectile in the firearm can only be shot, and then it is impossible to reload.

Now the Zhenjun army is all lying on the ground, although it can temporarily reduce casualties, but then it will become a group of meat to be slaughtered.

However, the rebel generals obviously forgot that the guns currently used by the Zhenjun army are different from the ones they use, and their guns are still breech loading, while the guns of the Zhenjun army have already evolved to breech loading, and there is no need to use the whole strip anymore, even if they are lying down, they can still be loaded and fired.

At the beginning, the forge mass-produced breech-loading firearms, and Shangguan Xiu gave such a high evaluation, which is the reason.

Under the command of the rebel generals, the rebel phalanx rushed forward and slammed into the south wall. The soldiers of the Zhenjun Army, who were lying on the ground, soon launched a second volley. The rebels who rushed forward to kill were knocked to the ground one after another by the overwhelming projectiles that flew into the sky.