Chapter 294: Collective Suicide

Su Dongpo once wrote in "Remembering the Songfeng Pavilion": "Although the two formations are connected, the drums are like thunder, the enemy will die if you advance, and the way to die if you retreat. ”

This means that even if you are on the battlefield and the attack has already begun, you will die at the hands of the enemy if you advance, and you will be punished by military law if you retreat. However, as long as the mind is free and unrestrained, you can still rest as you want and don't have to care about anything.

As long as people who have been on the battlefield and have seen the rebellious army, they will not agree.

Anyone who has experienced battlefield battles knows that as long as they go to the battlefield or are in the midst of chaos, the free will of the individual will be unconditionally subordinated to the collective consciousness and lose the ability and power of self-domination.

This may seem ridiculous, but it is.

In the absence of a clear, unified command, crowds are always prone to confusion. Therefore, either they will charge into battle together and die, or they will run for their lives together, and it is absolutely impossible to rest anytime and anywhere, otherwise, they will be trampled to death.

The Chu soldiers were in a state of collapse, chaotic, like a swarm of headless flies running around, colliding and jostling each other, and if anyone unfortunately fell, they would immediately be trampled into meat sauce by the people rushing behind them.

The officers and soldiers galloped in on horseback, and the stagnant water splashed everywhere, making it more and more dazzling; Their majestic shouts of killing, in the dark night rain, accompanied by the sound of the rain, made the Chu soldiers even more frightened.

The Chu soldiers poured out like a flood, and even if Han Qingyong and several generals killed hundreds of people in a row and tried to stop the rout, it would be useless.

Just when the Chu soldiers were scrambling to escape, they found that they had obviously eaten dinner, but they were weak, their steps were vain, and many people ran and ran, and they fell to the ground one by one, and then they were annihilated by the sea of people.

The number of more than 300,000 Chu soldiers was drastically decreasing, but no one dared to stop and think carefully, they trampled on the corpses of their companions in a panic, when to fall, when to stop.

Chen Zhendong and his soldiers lay in the camp tent, looking through the open curtain at their "masterpiece" for several days. ”

Wang Yan said: "These Chu soldiers are tall and big, and the amount of medicine is really not good. After eating for so many days, they can still run so fast, I really underestimate them. ”

Chen Zhendong was silent, although the wound on his right leg was faintly painful, he no longer felt much consciousness.

I can't describe the ecstasy in his heart, he no longer has to endure the pain that eats his bones and heart, and he no longer has to hide alone in the dark and bite the quilt, sweating profusely and falling unconscious.

If it weren't for Yunhuang, how could he be redeemed? From body to soul.

Wang Yan didn't know what he was thinking, and when he saw him with a happy face, he said: "General Dingyuan won the first battle, congratulations." ”

Chen Zhendong nodded, "Congratulations to the same joy." ”

The rest of the soldiers rejoiced and hid in their tents to keep quiet.

On the other side, Han Qingyong saw that the defeat was decided, and he was powerless to return to the sky, so he wanted to go to Chen Xinyi, but he was surrounded by people and involuntarily became a deserter, and he was embarrassed for a while.

The officers and soldiers finally rushed into the Chu camp, they didn't even have to wield their swords, they just drove the Chu soldiers who were rushing for their lives, and watched them exhaust their poisonous strength one by one, falling to the ground and dying.

Song Zhiming, as previously agreed, took a team of war horses to find Chen Zhendong, Wang Yan and the rest of the soldiers, watched them turn over and return to the camp of officers and soldiers together, and slaughtered the Quartet.

Han Qingyong looked back and saw this scene, knowing that he had fallen for Chen Yunhuang's plan, and when he thought of the ins and outs, he understood everything at once.

Chen Yunhuang fought against him three times, and when he saw that the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, he took advantage of his shortage of reserves, first poisoned him and diarrhea, and could not lead his troops to battle. This delay was more than ten days, and then he was tempted to surrender, and it was delayed for another day, until the grain and grass in his camp were exhausted, and he could only kill war horses.

Chen Yunhuang still refused to give up, and sent Chen Zhendong to deceive and surrender, and gave the Chu army food mixed with chronic poison, which was more than ten days......

How can a person who is not in good health have the mood and ability to go to war?

The collective rout and escape of the soldiers of the Chu army is simply a man-made disaster!

Thinking of this, Han Qingyong's eyes turned black with anger, and his blood was churning.

But he couldn't figure it out, how could Chen Zhendong surrender to Chen Yunhuang?

Chen Yunhuang snatched Chen Zhendong's throne!

and Chen Xinyi, is she also lying to him?

Han Qingyong looked around, looking for Chen Xinyi's figure.

But the sea of people is vast, the rain and fog are misty, and there are crowds of people everywhere, how can you find Chen Xinyi?

The officers and soldiers had turned their horses and drove the Chu soldiers to flee in the direction of Xiangcheng.

Knowing that there was an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back, the Chu soldiers still fled without their lives, and they did not stop......

The Chu soldiers fled to the moat.

The pouring rain had already caused the water level of the wide moat to skyrocket, and the rolling waves were as violent as the ocean.

The Chu soldiers had no way to escape, and the only way to enter Xiangcheng was to jump into the river and swim over.

They didn't think about it at all, they had no chance of surviving such a large flood, and even if they crossed the river, the city gates were closed, and a tragic death awaited them.

No one was calm, no one was in the way, they jumped into the moat, the people in front were swept away by the raging waves, and the people behind always thought they could swim in luck, and jumped into the raging torrent one after another......

If he was standing alone by the rushing river, he would not even be forced to dive into the water. But now, these Chu soldiers have no hesitation, they regard death as home, and the entire moat is churning with a torrent of life, and from time to time the corpses of Chu soldiers are seen looming in the torrent.

In fact, the officers and soldiers led by Song Zhiming were only 100,000 horses, while the Chu soldiers were more than 300,000 people, if they worked together to fight against the officers and soldiers, this would not be the situation at all.

However, seeing that most of their companions were running away and jumping into the river, the soldiers had no time and energy to think and question, they instinctively followed the crowd and couldn't stop running towards the ghost gate.

The greatest fear in the world is often the fear itself.

If a person is unable to overcome fear, he or she will be stifled or led to death by the fear he or she generates.

On the way to escape, the Chu soldiers trampled on each other and suffered countless casualties, ran to the moat and jumped into the river to survive, and countless people were swept away by the torrent and drowned, but these did not stop the Chu soldiers behind from repeating the mistakes of the past.

It is not only people who collapse in fear, but also animals.

Thunderbolts, torrential rain and thunder, the tigers and leopards, jackals, elephants, rhinoceros and other large animals accompanying the Chu army were killed by the Chu army before, and the rest were some ferocious beasts.

They desperately broke free from the cage, ran wildly, and rushed and trampled on the soldiers of the Chu army......