Chapter 251: Remorse
When the embarrassed and disgraced Tao Hua saw Lin Haotian outside the camp, he was in tears, knelt on the ground far away, used his knees as his feet, and smoked his mouth while crawling forward, wailing: "My lord, the end will be incompetent...... The last general is incompetent......"
Lin Haotian looked at Tao Hua expressionlessly, in fact, his body was trembling with anger, his fists were clenched tightly, and he didn't even feel his nails digging deep into his flesh.
He let Tao Hua enter Wangfeng County and come back with a fraudulent defeat, but he never expected Tao Hua to defeat him so completely, 60,000 soldiers, only 10,000 people came back, just this one battle, it is equivalent to losing the number of the Third Army, and the morale of his entire army has also fallen into a trough.
Seeing Tao Hua crawl in front of him, without warning, Lin Haotian lifted his leg and kicked on Tao Hua's shoulder, and asked in a cold voice: "The soldiers of the whole army are almost dead, what are you doing when you come back......?" Why don't you die with your fallen brothers!"
"My lord......" Tao Hua couldn't even say the words to ask Tang Yin for mercy at this time, his head was on the ground, as if he weighed a thousand catties, and he couldn't lift it, so he watched the big beads of bean water dripping on the soil.
Looking at him more and feeling annoyed, Lin Haotian raised his head, pinched his waist with both hands, walked back a few steps in front of him, and then shouted left and right: "Come on! Drag Tao Hua out and behead him!"
Tao Hua had a premonition that there would be such a result on the way back, and he was not surprised at all, he slowly raised his head, looked at Lin Haotian, and arched his hand and said: "The last general is worthy of the trust of the adult, and he is willing to die to receive the punishment, I only ask the adult to treat the wife and children of the last general's family kindly, and the last general is also grateful to the adult's Longen under the nine springs......"
"Do you dare to tell me about the conditions?" Lin Haotian walked up to Tao Hua and wanted to kick him a few times, but he could see that he was crying with tears streaming down his face. Extremely pitiful, he put down his lifted foot again, waved his hand again and again in disappointment, and said, "Drag it down, drag it down!"
The guards on both sides don't care what your identity is, the boss has orders, and they have to carry them out.
The guard lifted Tao Hua's arm. With apologies in his tone, he said, "General Tao, offended!" As they spoke, the two of them walked down with Tao Hua on their feet, ready to behead him.
The generals around Lin Haotian, including Gu Liangyun and Shao Lin, all felt that Tao Hua's death was not a pity, and after suffering such a big defeat, resulting in such a big loss, only he was killed. Not implicating him in the Nine Clans was already cheap for him, but Chu Lianyu suddenly said at this time: "Wait!"
The two guards hurriedly stopped and turned to look at Chu Lianyu.
Chu Lianyu bowed to Lin Haotian and said, "My lord, although General Tao was defeated, according to the battle report, this battle was not all General Tao's fault, but the main general of the Mu army was too cunning. With the bitter trick of sacrificing 3,000 soldiers to cover Chu Feng's deception, he was replaced by others. I'm afraid it will be the same as General Tao. ”
Chu Lianyu's words moved Tao Hua to tears again, but he still didn't dare to say a word of begging for mercy at this time, so he could only look at Lin Haotian with his eyes and wait for his fate.
The anger and resentment in Lin Haotian's heart could be dispelled by Chu Lianyu's words? He glanced at Tao Hua and said angrily: "Defeat is defeat, why do you need those excuses? If this battle is replaced by Dou Bo." He will be able to see through the tricks of the wooden people!"
Chu Lianyu said with a straight face: "Yes! If General Dou Bo is allowed to go, our army will not have such a defeat, and it is precisely the adults who let General Dou Bo idle in the army, and it is also the adults who promote General Tao to the commander of the Third Army, and it is the adults who let the Third Army enter Wangfeng County to fight." Now, do you still think that General Tao is at fault?"
Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows, turned to look at Chu Lianyu, and asked in a condensed voice, "Lianyu, what do you mean?
Chu Lianyu lowered his head and said: "My lord has always been a master who dares to be a master and has the courage to take responsibility, because of this, even if the soldiers are hard and tired, they are willing to fight with the lord in the north and south." ”
After Lin Haotian heard this, he secretly took a breath, yes, if this defeat is Tao Hua's fault alone, he has indeed wronged him, at least he has to bear the fault of improper employment, and if he wants to punish Tao Hua, he should also be punished.
Thinking of this, his face softened a little, looked at Tao Hua, was silent for a long time, and said: "What Lian Yu said is reasonable, but Tao Hua's capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime is unforgivable, and he will be severely punished with eighty military sticks, and he will be recorded as a major demerit once, and his military rank will be reduced by two levels, and he will not be promoted within three years!"
As long as people are alive, it doesn't matter how they are punished. Tao Hua knelt down again excitedly, kowtowed to Lin Haotian again and again, and shouted loudly: "Thank you for your kindness, thank you for your grace not to kill!"
Lin Haotian ignored him, turned around, faced the soldiers behind him, and suddenly drew his sword and put it on his shoulder.
Seeing this, everyone was startled, instinctively approached forward, and exclaimed at the same time, "My lord?"
Lin Haotian grabbed a strand of hair, waved his sword, and the hair was cut off, he raised the broken hair, and said loudly: "The defeat of this battle, the commander is not the fault of the people, he is ashamed of the fallen soldiers, and he is even more ashamed of the high hopes of the whole army and the people of the whole country. Today, Ben Shuai hereby swears that he will wipe out all the wooden people in Wangfeng County, avenge the soldiers who died in Sifang City, and use a hundred times the blood of the wooden people to pay tribute to the souls of the soldiers in the sky!"
"Wow-"
Hearing this, all the generals and soldiers present knelt on the ground and shouted in unison: "Wipe out the thief, take revenge!"
The originally low morale of the Jin army was replaced by a raging fire in an instant, and Lin Haotian also used the long-standing hatred of the Jin people for the wooden people to boost the morale of the whole army.
Of course, if he does this, it will undoubtedly make the blood of Wangfeng County in the future, but he can't control it so much now, fighting a war depends on a hard work, if the morale is gone, how can he kill the enemy on the battlefield? Not to mention that Lin Haotian has never cared about the life or death of people who have nothing to do with him.
This defeat of Wangfeng County was a big lesson for Lin Haotian, it was not advisable to change the commander of the whole army, and it was even more undesirable to change the generals in battle.
The Third Army Corps, which only has more than 10,000 people left, has actually survived, how to reorganize in a short period of time, how to revitalize the Third Army Corps, Lin Haotian will not.
He asked Chu Lianyu for advice, and the latter smiled helplessly, and replied to Lin Haotian: It's okay for him Chu Lianyu to do copywriting and strategic strategies in terms of big, but as for how to reorganize a legion, he is a complete layman and doesn't have such great ability.
Hearing this reply, which was more like a cool remark, Lin Haotian's nose was almost crooked, Chu Lianyu can't do it, so who else can do it under his command now? Use Gu Liangyun? He, the nominal commander, doesn't have much real ability at all, and he uses Ling Wuya and Shao Lin...... That's even worse.
Seeing Lin Haotian glaring at himself and panting, Chu Lianyu smiled and said, "Reorganize the Third Legion, there is a ready-made person in our army, why bother about this matter?"
Lin Haotian asked, "Who?"
"Dou Bo!" Chu Lianyu said: "The Third Legion was originally created by General Dou Bo and led it to grow, but now it has been beaten back to its original form by the 'useless' Tao Hua, so the adults should naturally ask General Dou Bo to reorganize." ”
He deliberately accentuated the word 'useless', which was to satirize Lin Haotian.
Lin Haotian's face turned red, and he said with a wry smile: "Reactivate Dou Bo? It was me who removed him from his post in the first place......
Chu Lianyu shrugged his shoulders and said, "If the adults can't pull this face, then simply don't forget the Third Legion, if it's white, Dou Bo can never be hired." ”
Although his words were peaceful and calm, Lin Haotian could hear the anger in Chu Lianyu's words.
You don't need to ask to know that Chu Lianyu must be angry about her abandonment of Dou Bo.
Lin Haotian also regretted it now, regretting it so much that his intestines were almost green, he laughed dryly and said, "When did I pay attention to face?" Lian Yu, you go back to the camp on my behalf and invite General Dou Bo over!"
Chu Lianyu was happy and said: "At the beginning, Dou Bo was removed by the adult, and now if you want to invite General Dou Bo, naturally the adult should also come forward, so that it can be regarded as sincere." ”
Lin Haotian frowned and said: "Dou Bo's temper is too stubborn, let me come forward, I'm afraid he will not allow it!" (to be continued......)