Chapter 43: The Flag Comes
"This is really a trap set by the Ming army for us, General Hao, this Ming army's internal response, we have to bring it back to the capital, otherwise we won't be able to give Your Majesty an explanation!" Gu Kecheng turned his head to look at Hao Shaoqidao.
This is the difference between the two, Hao Shaoqi is still thinking about how to interrogate Pang Lun, and Gu Kecheng has already found a scapegoat for his military defeat this time.
Of course, if Gu Kecheng only had this ability, he would not be able to mix with the position of the general of the forward battalion of the Shun army.
In fact, just a short time after leaving the camp, Gu Kecheng, who had been fighting with Li Zicheng for more than ten years, already had a basic understanding of the situation: there were surprise attacks by the Ming army in the west, east, and south, and his own camp was already in chaos, and other soldiers and horses could not be collected except for the guards around him.
Under such a situation, there is no way to know the situation of the Ming army, and it is impossible to turn defeat into victory.
If it was before, Gu Kecheng might still fight, when he is now the founding father of the Great Shun Dynasty, and Li Zicheng is not here, where will it be so easy to fight?
Therefore, when Gu Kecheng saw Pang Lun, he suddenly had a plan, forcing the other party to admit that he was an internal response in front of Hao Shaoqi, and at the same time exaggerating the strength of the Ming army, then his crime of underestimating the enemy and losing his troops would be much lighter.
As Li Zicheng's henchman, as long as there is proof from Hao Shaoqi, the other party has a step down, and in the end it is just an innocuous punishment to serve the public.
This is not a military issue, but a political one. To a certain extent, success or failure is not the most important thing, but who is on the team is often the most critical.
Moreover, after exaggerating the strength of the Ming army, he was able to persuade Hao Shaoqi to withdraw together, and then the two of them would be grasshoppers on a rope.
Seeing that Hao Shaoqi hadn't reacted yet, Gu Kecheng hurriedly said: "General Hao, now that the situation is urgent, we have to break through quickly, otherwise it will be too late." ”
After that, Gu Kecheng made a look, and his personal soldiers immediately took Pang Lun, and Pang Lun's two personal soldiers were directly killed outside the camp.
Things were progressing too fast, which made Hao Shaoqi a little confused for a while, but he couldn't care so much, and immediately followed out of the camp.
Outside the barracks tent of the Shun army, a group of men and horses have gathered together, nearly 100 heavily armed soldiers are waiting in battle, and there are constantly lone soldiers and war horses galloping by, and the Ming army has not rushed over at this time.
These are Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi's personal soldiers, in the Chinese army camp, the impact is not great, but some of the war horses are still very manic, and after being held by these elite soldiers, they are still neighing and stomping on the ground.
Not to mention anything else, fleeing for their lives after the collapse of the camp, Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi are very experienced, when they first started the incident, they were often chased and beaten by the Ming army, and the attacked camp was even more commonplace, and the collapse of the camp was naturally countless.
And the way to escape for your life in this situation is also very simple: gather a group of men and horses, and rush towards a place where there are no officers and soldiers or the strength of officers and soldiers is weak.
After all, they are chaotic, and the officers and soldiers are also chaotic, as long as there are dozens of horses, and some homeless soldiers are coerced, they will not be able to rush out.
"Let's go, go north!" Gu Kecheng turned over and got on his horse and shouted, and the other generals followed.
More than a dozen cavalry rode in front, constantly shouting and shouting, Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi were surrounded by their own soldiers in the middle, and after the nearby Shun army stragglers found out, they also joined one after another, and soon formed a rout of hundreds of people, breaking through to the north.
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Zhou Shixian was wearing a silver-white chain mail, and had just entered the camp of the Shun army at this time, and more than a dozen heavily armed brocade guards were tightly guarded by his side.
He followed behind Wu Xingye's cavalry, and the two hundred cavalry in front had already divided into more than a dozen units, broke into the camp of the Shun army, and drove the remnants of the Shun army soldiers to the north.
The camp was littered with blood-stained corpses, and several tents were burning like torches, and the air smelled of burnt meat. There were still a lot of wounds on the ground, and the dying horses were neighing, and some were still struggling with their hooves, and there was already a pool of black blood under them.
Occasionally, a few Shun army routs on horseback appeared around the camp, but they didn't dare to approach Zhou Shixian, so they fled towards a place where no one was around.
It was the first time Zhou Shixian had seen such a tragic war scene, but I don't know if it was because of his previous experience as an officer, or because he was born insensitive to these blood stains. Seeing the corpses of people and horses all over the ground, he didn't have the disgusting reaction of ordinary people, and he didn't even have any waves in his heart.
"Da Da Da..."
A cavalryman with several pennants on his back rushed towards Zhou Shixian, and when he got closer, he immediately turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, clasped his fists, and panted:
"Report, donkey, General Wu is fighting with a group of dozens of thieves in front, and please hide for the time being."
After the panic of the attack at the beginning, in the depths of the Shun army camp, many officers organized a counterattack, but because of mutual disharmony, they were defeated by these elite generals under the command of Zhou Shixian.
"Has the Chinese army tent of the Shun army broken through?" Zhou Shixian looked up at the messy Shunjun camp in front of him, as if he hadn't heard the other party's words, and asked himself.
"General Wu has reached the edge of the big tent, as long as he defeats this Shun army, he can rush in. General Xue's soldiers and horses should also be nearby. The herald replied immediately.
At this time, the sky was close to dawn, and the view from the plain was not bad, but the fireworks from the burning of the tent clothes made it impossible for Zhou Shixian to observe the battle situation ahead through the telescope.
"Let's go, take this horse over, we must break through the resistance of the Shun army as quickly as possible, and directly cut through the Chinese army camp of Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi. If the Shun army reacts and gathers hundreds of soldiers and horses, the situation will be difficult to control, and it must be resolved quickly at any cost. Zhou Shixian said, and was about to hit the horse forward.
He didn't know that Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi had broken through to the north at this time, and the one who stayed to stop Wu Xingye was just a henchman general under Gu Kecheng's command.
"Pony, danger ahead!" A brocade-clothed guard beside Zhou Shixian immediately stretched out his hand to block it.
"It's not dangerous, this horse won't go!" Zhou Shixian listened to the shouting and killing sound from the depths of the camp, pushed away the Jinyi guard who was blocking him, and shouted: "Flag come!" ”
Before another Jinyi guard who was holding the big flag with the word "Zhou" on his side could react, Zhou Shixian had already snatched the big flag in his hand, and then waved it forward, pointing the shining head of the flag gun obliquely to the north.
As soon as his dozen or so heavily armed guards reacted, Zhou Shixian had already ridden out, as if he wanted to personally charge into battle and boost morale.
Seeing this scene, the dozen or so guards suddenly became enthusiastic, rode their horses to catch up, and once again protected Zhou Shixian in the center!