Chapter Ninety-Six: Finding an Excuse to Live
The battle of Jinan was far easier than Zhu Huan expected.
Originally, he thought that the army of King Qi's Mansion would have to leave tens of thousands of soldiers in Jinan, but in fact, the loss was less than 5,000.
From the beginning of the siege to the end of the corridor, it took less than six hours. Whether from the perspective of war damage or wartime, this is an unexpected result for Zhu Huan.
The iron strings of the pillar stone of the southern army fell with a bang, followed by tens of thousands of Jinan defenders, in the face of such a huge Jinan defenders, if left unchecked, they may mutin at any time.
The way Zhu Huan took was - kill!
Of course, this killing could not have killed all the tens of thousands of Jinan troops, but adopted a consistent method, killing all the generals above 100 households.
Kill the officer, and the lower ranks of the soldiers will be leaderless, like a plate of scattered sand. For lower-level soldiers, their information channels are pitiful, and they will fight wherever they want to fight when they give an order from their superiors, and sometimes they don't know when they are involved in the rebellion, and they lose their lives for no reason.
After all, not all armies are like Kyokei, the elite of Kyokei, you can defeat them, but it is impossible to conquer them.
If you kill the commander of the Jingying Palace, another chief military officer will come out. Kill a chief soldier, and a deputy chief soldier comes up, even if you kill all these heads of the Beijing camp, there will be thousands of officials standing up. Thousands of officials were killed, and there were also deputy thousands, hundreds, and vice-hundreds. Even if you kill all the deputy hundred households in the capital camp, the general banner and the small banner will stand up and wait with the army to stab you in the back when you are the weakest.
Zhu Huan likes to kill, but except for Jingying, he really hasn't tried to slaughter all of an army.
Because there was no need for that, at that time, the Beijing camp was forced to rebel, if it weren't for the musketeer Tianke cavalry led by Qi Jiguang, I'm afraid Zhu Huan's losses would not be less.
The best way to defeat an army is to shatter their souls.
The military soul of Jinan City is a man named Tiexian.
Zhu Huan's way of dealing with the iron strings was very clean and neat, and he was directly beheaded to show the public.
If there is an iron string, then some people in Jinan City will not die, who knows if there will be any more trouble.
But if Tie Xian dies too miserably, such as slashing alive, cannon branding, etc., and then raiding the family and exterminating the family, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the hearts of the people in Jinan. This person's reputation in Jinan is so high that some people will even paste the portrait of the iron string on the door to suppress evil spirits.
Beheaded for public display, clean and neat.
Although some people were still angry about this, there was no big movement. And Zhu Huan's goal was also achieved, the military soul of the Jinan army was beheaded, and the high-level generals were killed, which made the Jinan army panic and a little overwhelmed.
Zhu Huan ordered the gate of Jinan to be opened, and many Jinan soldiers fled out of the city, once again causing the morale of the Jinan army to plummet, and there was no longer the ability to gather.
……
The mansion that originally belonged to Tiexian had been occupied by Zhu Huan at this time, and the tigers and leopards in the mansion were patrolling non-stop.
"Lord Wang, I am afraid that the Jinan army is still less than 30,000 people in the city now." Wu Qi said.
"It works well."
Zhu Huan bowed slightly, and said: "Tell the Jinan army that our army is difficult to be appeased by heaven, and if there are people with lofty ideals who are willing to transfer to our army's account, how it was in the past, the past is not to blame, and from now on I will be a part of my Qi Palace." ”
Wu Qi hesitated a little: "Lord Wang, the Jinan army has no morale now, what's the use of recruiting it?" ”
"Of course it works." Zhu Huan said with a smile: "Although the Jinan Army that has been incorporated in is useless, it is also a regular army, and it is still the power of the First World War, and our army will be able to use it sooner or later when it goes north this time." ”
Wu Qi understood Zhu Huan's thoughts and nodded.
The Battle of Jinan was not the last battle.
They also have to go north to Liaodong, and that is the real enemy.
The 100,000 Liaodong Army, which are all elites who fought in the wilderness, if only the army of the Qi Wangfu wants to fight, I don't know how heavy the losses are. What Zhu Huan is doing now is to prepare for the battle of Liaodong during his reign.
No matter how low the morale of the Jinan army is, it is also a regular army, and when it attacks Liaodong, it can be used as cannon fodder, so as to reduce the losses of these main forces of Qiwangfu.
The army of King Qi's mansion is all Zhu Huan's family, and one less one dies. The Jinan Army is not his own henchman, no matter how he dies, Zhu Huan will not feel distressed.
"The minister understands, so let's go down and make arrangements."
……
In the Jinan barracks, the soldiers did not have the pride of the past, they were lifeless, their morale was low, and they couldn't beat a fart.
No anti-theft
"Look, there is Wei Wushu, who is King Qi's person!"
"Oh."
"What are they doing again, are they trying to make trouble?"
"Oh."
"They seem to be holding some paperwork, hell."
"Oh."
In the Jinan army, there are still many people who are hostile to the Qi division, but more people have begun to "mess up", indifferent to everything, and just want to lie down.
The hundred households are gone, the thousands are gone, and even Tie Shangshu is dead, what kind of energy are they still alive with?
They were soldiers, but their superiors were dead, and they really didn't know what to do next.
Wei Wushu scattered large stacks of papers in the camp, and the papers were scattered like snowflakes.
After scattering the paperwork, Wei Wushu fought where he came from, if it weren't for the pages all over the floor, maybe no one would remember that they had been here.
Someone who had nothing to do picked up a piece of paperwork, just glanced at it, and couldn't help but stand up.
"What does it say?" The bystander asked.
The man was silent for a while, and then said, "King Qi's Mansion has expanded its army and wants to recruit us in." ”
"Phew, I thought something was there!" The bystander took a sip, but found that the man was walking outside the camp, and couldn't help but be stunned: "What are you going to do?" ”
The man said, "Go and join the army of King Qi." ”
Others shouted angrily: "You are crazy! We're at this point, it's all his work, and you're going to fight for him? ”
The man paused for a moment and said, "What can we do if we stay here?" ”
With that, the man walked away on his own.
yes, stay here, what are they waiting for?
The generals are all dead, do they want to stay here and wait for death?
They are soldiers, and they are good for nothing but fighting.
And now some people tell them that following me, there are battles, and following me is the only way to live.
That person was their former enemy, King Qi.
Those who remained were silent for a long time, and then got up and wanted to walk outside the camp.
He didn't say where he was going, but everyone knew where he was.
Qi Wangjun.
More and more people got up in the barracks, and they walked outside the camp in pieces, their target was the Qi Wang Army.
Yesterday they were enemies, and after today, they will fight for the enemies they once were.
They have already come up with an excuse: anyway, they are all working for the Zhu family, is there any difference between working for one Zhu family member and another Zhu family?
This excuse can't even fool dogs, but it can fool themselves.
Find an excuse to live.