This group of them was temporarily condensed because of Sun Yuantai's scheduling, and it is true that the imperial court has a deputy marshal, but in this kind of major event, it is impossible to cross Sun Yuantai to make scheduling.

In addition, if at this moment, the deputy marshal dispatches in the name of urgency and authority, even if the matter is done in the future, it may not be a good thing.

Throughout the ages, all imperial power has relied on the army, but at the same time, it is also afraid of the generals in the army, and the most feared of them is undoubtedly the transfer of troops beyond their superiors.

Unless there is an order from the superior, otherwise, even if the superior dies violently, he cannot act rashly.

These are the lessons of blood left in the history books.

If there is no such rule, the adjutant general will assassinate the commander-in-chief, and the deputy marshal will plot against the commander-in-chief in order to seize power, and then the entire military system will be chaotic.

What's more, there was a time, the deputy commander of the Yulin Army guarding the imperial city took refuge in the prince, at that time, the old emperor was sick for a while, not to the early dynasty, at the critical moment, the other party directly killed the commander-in-chief, and used the forged emperor's order given by the prince to transfer troops, under the name of the eunuch house arrest emperor, with the prince into the palace, the Qing monarch side.

Subsequently, the eunuchs did kill a lot, and the old emperor also became the emperor, depressed for more than half a year, and then died of illness.

Later, after the crown prince ascended the throne and became the new emperor, he blocked this flaw.

If the manager has a problem, he can only hold on, not attack, and have to wait until his superiors make a decision.

Of course, such a system will greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the army, but compared with the stability of the imperial power, it is just the death of more soldiers, which is irrelevant.

Yes, Sun Yuantai was dizzy, but it directly made the whole situation worse.

As for the Great Yan Ancient Road, it was once a flame thousands of years ago, and this section of the road that had just come out of the sky and walked in the direction of the Southern Wilderness was dug out by the Great Yan, and it is said that it took hundreds of years to mobilize more than one million people.

This section of the ancient road, with a width of nearly a zhang, is all carved out of the cliff, not just a hypothetical plank road.

As for the length, in the historical records, in the earliest time, this road was directly to the Southern Wilderness, but the following years are long, geological changes, and the cause of earthquakes makes the ancient road only such a small section left.

Even such a section is the result of frequent repairs by subsequent dynasties.

Of course, Sun Yuantai's fortification, naturally not only in this small section of the Dayan Ancient Road, its fortifications, all the way to more than 100 miles, although not as far as three or five steps, is a fortress, but also three or five miles at least one, or even several fortresses, some critical places, even nearly ten in a row.

The length of the Great Yan Ancient Road is only more than ten miles, and compared to the whole, it is only one-tenth.

But this section was lost, and the biggest problem was that the fortresses in front of them were all lonely, without reinforcements and supplies.

In this situation of being flanked by the front and back, it is very unoptimistic that this lone soldier will have more morale in the future.

After all, it is not a day or two that the army of the imperial court is rotten, even if Liu Guangzheng relied on making a decision against his ancestors to sell everything, he made a military expenditure and trained a new army.

But this new army, on the one hand, the training time is too short, on the other hand, it has not experienced any war at all, and in the case of backup, supplies, and command, this team naturally still has combat effectiveness, however, once these are gone, then there is nothing.

In a short period of training, it is impossible to train any faith, spirit, and military spirit.

The people in the last years of the dynasty can be said to have suffered a lot, but most of them don't know where the suffering comes from.

Even if you join the army, it is a situation of going with the flow, if you don't have a supervising army, you may not meet a powerful opponent, you may not be able to, and you will surrender directly.

After all, there is no place for them in this world, but now, the survival of the imperial court has to let them die, the glory has nothing to do with them, but the price has to be borne by them, in this case, it is impossible for anyone who is sober to fight to the death.

The reason why Sun Yuantai fainted was that he thought of this in a short period of time just now, once the Great Yan Ancient Road was lost, it would be no different from losing it all.

If it was at the beginning of the founding of the country, it would naturally not be like this, at that time, military merit was hard currency, everyone fought for merit, if you died fighting for the country, the pension was even heavier to the extreme, and the subsequent generations of children and grandchildren had grace.

But now, whether it is land or title, it has already been carved up, in this case, how can the army have the heart to fight to the death?!

Even, in this case, for the cowardly soldiers, it is not too strict, if this will cause trouble to the family, can not be guaranteed, as long as the enemy offers the condition that as long as they surrender, they can shadow their descendants, and the people below even dare to directly tie up their superiors and open the door to surrender......

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Thundered!

On the Great Yan Ancient Road, the thunder and fire exploded non-stop.

This time, in order to deal with Zhao Cheng, Liu Guangzheng built these forts extremely high and thick, and even many forts were equipped with cannons.

Although the lethality of these cannons is not as good as the bazooka that Zhao Cheng rubbed out, the firing range is also more than 300 meters, and the effective killing range is about 10x10.

This kind of cannon, placed on a large battlefield, naturally has limited lethality, but on the trail out of the Southern Wilderness, it is a lore.

After all, there are only a few places where the width of the entire road out of the Southern Wilderness can exceed ten meters, and most of them are naturally formed large platforms.

Normally, if you want to break through these cannons, you can only pile them with human lives, after all, it takes time to change shells.

As long as you grasp this gap and keep advancing, you can use the sea of people to drown it.

And here's the problem.

These cannons are not easy to transport, each one is very heavy, when it was first transported, I did not think that it would fire at its own rear, yes, the position of the cannons, almost always fixed, at most, up, or down, adjust the muzzle.

Moreover, when I saw the fortresses, in order to catch up with the construction deadline and save time, these fortresses were very thick in front of them, enough to withstand the bombardment of high explosives in a short time, but in the back, they were much thinner, and even the doors were just wooden doors covered with a layer of iron.

Because according to normal thinking, when the enemy comes to the place of this portal, it undoubtedly means that the fortress has fallen.

In this case, Zhao Cheng took a man and a horse to attack from behind, which can be said to be like a bamboo.

Of course, Zhao Cheng did not rush all the way, but after seizing half of the Great Yan Ancient Road, he divided half of his men and horses, carried heavy firepower, and stationed at the entrance of the Great Yan Ancient Road to prevent Sun Yuantai from sending troops to fight.

By the time the sky was light, Zhao Cheng had already advanced twenty miles and laid a fifth of the pass.