Chapter 42: Let's Make Peace
King Zhao couldn't understand, but he couldn't stop the rout of the Zhao army, captured the thief and the king, he was controlled, and the Zhao army was finished.
King Zhao, who saw the collapse of the situation with the naked eye, smashed his neck towards the knife, wanting to use his death to stimulate the morale of the army, Luo Yuecheng hurriedly turned the knife, which prevented the fierce monarch from committing suicide.
To prevent him from resisting and committing suicide, Luo Yuecheng mastered the strength to knock King Zhao unconscious, dragged him in his hand and shouted: "King Zhao has surrendered, you should quickly put down your weapons and surrender." ”
This move hastened the rout of the army.
In the face of the Xia army, which was not afraid of death, it had a tendency to rout, and now it was in the hands of its head, and the will to resist was like a landslide.
Unstoppable, resisting, fleeing and surrendering, thinking disordered, but the Xia army was united in destroying the Zhao army.
The capture of hundreds of officials is also a miracle.
He Heng didn't understand why he won, but he commanded quickly, closed the siege in a panic, and placed these prisoners well
At this time, the hundred officials realized that they regretted why they had given their soldiers an order to avoid the battle.
Let the Tiance army, which is like a tiger and wolf, rush all the way to the front and surround them, and finally the overall battle situation is eroded and defeated.
Under the avalanche, no snowflake is innocent, when the first person said to the army belonging to his family to avoid when encountering the Tiance army, don't lose your life.
Or the soldiers discussed, or the personnel speculated, other families had the same idea, this is a winning game, why consume my strength, so there is a second, a third, until the balance of power tilts.
That's right, in a stable game, the Xuanjia Army is not a heavy cavalry in the general sense, they are more like the exoskeleton warriors of Zhuang Xun's hometown, and they are close to the existence of magic.
The family knows best how strong its army is, and how expensive it is, and the people who drive such armor are not ordinary people, they have to learn martial arts and have to do specialized training, so the family without the power of the state apparatus will feel distressed every time a Xuanjia army dies and every set of armor is lost.
Perhaps in a desperate situation, these families will order these loyal troops to fight bravely against the enemy, because it will really threaten their lives, which is why King Zhao brought them to oversee the army, thinking that it threatens their lives, how can they help.
Then these families gave him this humiliating defeat, they all thought that they would win, how to lose, how to lose, how to win, how to win, as for the other 50,000 soldiers, even if they have armor and horses, they are just ordinary things, and they can't touch the Xuanjia to ride a little.
The most feared thing by the family is the Tiance Army, which is not a mundane thing like the Xuanjia Cavalry, and it is a class of troops that can hurt the Xuanjia Cavalry.
The situation of winning steadily, why should my soldiers win the Tiance army, the emperor's soldiers are behind the battle, as long as my soldiers are dull, the soldiers of other families will be on top.
As long as this idea arises, it takes root and sprouts like a seed, I take a step back, it doesn't matter, give the straw to the camel's back, and it can't be crushed.
In the end, it became the last straw that broke the camel's back, many people knew that the family gave the army an order to avoid the war, but they all thought that they gave the order and I didn't give it, I suffered too much, and I was not the last straw, and I followed the trend but didn't report it.
The continuous victories along the way, while praising King Zhao, the ministers of these families were also proud, and they didn't think it was a big deal to deal with the Xia Kingdom.
The second family is a gang, and it is better to learn a little more to report other families and avoid wars and reduce losses.
As soon as the Tiance army charged, the charge was as if it were death, and the army that received the order to avoid the battle made a short contact, and immediately avoided it, and it was impossible to fight with the madman.
Therefore, King Zhao has calculated thousands of calculations, learned countless experience summaries, calculated from before the expedition to before the war, fought steadily, did not give any loopholes, and always had an advantage, even if he divided his troops, he lost when he had an advantage in supplementing the troops of Xia State.
The training level of the soldiers is higher than that of Xia Guo, the command level of the generals is higher than that of Xia Guo, and the recovery operation is steady and steady all the way, and there is no fault in it, and the suggestions of the officials are also the best of the best, everything is so beautiful, it is the key decisive battle, the crotch is pulled, and the crotch is pulled as a whole.
He underestimated human nature, underestimated the greed of people who seek advantage and avoid disadvantage, and underestimated the greed of people.
When he woke up, he looked at the sergeants guarding around him, as well as the ministers of Zhao State, and saw their sad expressions, and immediately understood his situation.
The fire of shame suddenly ignited, he couldn't stand this shame, this shame of being captured, he was the king of Zhao State, he was captured, how could he still have the face to live.
found the nearest pillar, and King Zhao, who was tied hand and foot, bumped his head into it, and Tianzhan, the imperial historian on the side, hurriedly hugged King Zhao and stopped him.
"Your Majesty can't do this, Your Majesty thinks twice......"
The surrounding ministers rushed up to stop him, so that he could stop King Zhao, from the emperor who was about to unify the world, to the embarrassment of being captured, King Zhao couldn't accept it, and the whole person sprouted a will to die.
"Your Majesty, don't be discouraged, we still have two route armies, we still have 150,000 Xuanjia elite cavalry, and the Xia Kingdom doesn't have to kill us."
Tian Zhan, the imperial historian, comforted and said that the most valuable among them is King Zhao, King Zhao is dead, Zhao Guoguan really doesn't know whether they live or die, King Zhao wants to die, they still want to live.
also saw that they didn't want to die, so they didn't shackle them, but just tied up King Zhao.
"What kind of face do I have, how can I be like this, how can I lose, I am ashamed to see my mother, the national teacher, and the prime minister......"
I'm sorry for my mother who is still working the front line of Jingguo, I'm sorry for the Xuannu who is still in Zhao State's overall planning, and I'm sorry for Prime Minister Xu Hongwen and Taiwei Ren Xusheng who are dividing troops at this moment.
In order to better command the army, the Xu family and the Ren family's army let them command, so the two were not captured.
King Zhao has no face to live, the superior forces are battalion step by step, and finally he was overturned by the weak and the strong, sluggish with disbelief, and a sense of sadness is all over his body.
There is obviously nothing wrong with the decisions he made, and the rear military janissaries are also to prevent the two thousand suspected Tiance army of the Xia Kingdom from bypassing the rear, and use the forbidden army with the strongest fighting will as a backing, at the beginning, as he expected, no matter what kind of peasant army is not afraid of death, it can only be defeated in the face of the Xuanjia army.
But the final result was that in the end, the invincible Xuanjia Army was broken through head-on, leaving a group of ministers captured, shame, shame, infinite desolation and pain.
"That's why we have to leave a useful body to wait for revenge, if Your Majesty seeks death, the prince is young and difficult to govern the country."
Tian Zhan persuaded that he himself understood why he was captured, and he was also quite weak-minded, deliberately ignoring the Empress Dowager Jiang, who could listen to the government, in order to bring back some of King Zhao's ideas.
"With the queen mother here, the prince doesn't have to worry, since I have been captured, I must not become a pawn of the Xia State against the Zhao State."
King Zhao was excited, and he was about to hit the pillar again, but the ministers hurriedly held it down.
"Let's see what the conditions of Xia Guo are, the Queen Mother has not controlled the overall situation of Zhao State for a long time, and there are various clan challenges, Your Majesty thinks twice, thinks twice, if Your Majesty seeks death now, you will be pointed out by Qianfu, only by crossing this hurdle can you have a chance to save your reputation, Your Majesty."
Doctor Yu Shi tried his best to dissuade him, and finally dispelled King Zhao's idea of seeking death a little, and King Zhao thought of what his mother said to him, not to give up easily, and to insist on the desperate situation, and was silent for a while.
"My army! My army! Before he fell unconscious, he had faintly seen the rout of the army, and now tears could not stop pouring out.
The ministers lowered their heads a little ashamedly, more of a superficial composure, they understood why the Tiance Army was able to drive straight into the army and tear apart the ranks of nearly 10,000 with 4,000 people, including 6,000 Xuanjia Army.
In the sad moment of the ministers, He Heng was not idle, and fled a thousand Xuanjia troops (family army), chased down three thousand on the battlefield (most of the palace guards), and surrendered four thousand (almost the family army).
The speed changed the equipment, and the reorganization directly blocked the retreat of the Zhao army, but fortunately, when Li Ruxi was training at that time, he was trained in tens of thousands, and they were all essences, and He Heng stayed in Taiyun Pass.
Now that he has new equipment, although he is not proficient, it is better than not, and now it is the turn of Xia Jun to block the mouth of Zhao Guo.
At the same time, the news of King Zhao's capture also caused a sensation in Yuzhou and even the world, and the first to receive the news was Xuannu, who almost fainted when she saw the news.
Then she immediately realized that the two Zhao armies in the eastern region were in danger, and asked the monk to give the order to retreat.
Empress Dowager Jiang, who attacked Jingguo and planned to start a war against the eldest prince of Jingguo, received the news and fainted directly.
Stir up a wedge between the princes of Jingguo, make sure that they will not aid the eldest prince, and start a war against the eldest prince, and eat the territory of the eldest prince of Jingguo in one bite, this war report appeared.
Empress Dowager Jiang fainted, the impact was too strong, and the defeat of the eight thousand Xuanjia army represented that the strength of the Xia Kingdom had become the climate, which meant that they had to draw personnel from Jingguo to return to China for rescue, otherwise they would not be able to hold Jinyang next.
Give her another two years, no, one year, you can take Jingguo, the flying dragon is in the sky, but now the soaring flying dragon is beheaded.
Seeing that her exquisite situation was destroyed, Empress Dowager Jiang couldn't stand it, even a cultivator could not be happy with things, not sad for herself, and put so much effort into it, just like a castle in the air, it was about to come to naught.
Empress Dowager Jiang knew that King Zhao was personally on the expedition, and she had a slight complaint, but the reason and plan for King Zhao's expedition gave her a copy in writing, and she reluctantly agreed.
She has also been paying attention to the battlefield in the east, watching the victories of Zhao State in the battle report, as if she is going to strangle the Xia army and recover the whole territory in the next moment.
Originally, it should have been like this, the gap between the strength of Zhao and Xia should be like this, the ordinary peasant army and the Xuanjia army fight, just like the feudal cavalry and the rifle modern army fighting, without any chance of winning.
No matter what the people support and support, the suppression can be suppressed, and it is also the Zhao family who has brought the army to Jinyang to prevent the royal family, otherwise it is one thing whether the eastern uprising can be carried out.
After all, these families could not have imagined that the people who had been docile for hundreds of years would one day rebel and rebel against the rule of the family.
Similarly, when Empress Dowager Jiang saw the loss, she was really hit, as if she had been hit on the head with a hammer, and her brain was cold and hot.
Empress Dowager Jiang, who woke up after a long time, didn't care about her dizzy brain and colic's heart, and flew back to Jinyang directly, there was an even more urgent information that she needed to verify, and she almost rushed into the residence of the Xuannu.
"What about the two route armies, the two route armies that divided the troops, have they withdrawn? Let them withdraw quickly. ”
As long as the troops are united, there is still the strength of a battle, and there is still any remaining hope, even if it is just a stubborn hold, it is okay to delay it, and drag it until Jingguo is solved.
If the east is given up, in exchange for Zhao to continue to use troops in Jingguo, then Empress Dowager Jiang will not hesitate to give up the east.
What is the family in the east, she wants Jingguo, she wants to smash the chains that trap Zhao Guo, she wants to let Zhao Guo Feilong in the sky.
"I'm also waiting for news from them, I've informed them of the retreat, but their position is too deep."
It's a pity that even if the information is transmitted quite timely, whether the monk sent it over day and night, or was one step ahead of Xia Guo, He Heng had already sent someone to cut off the retreat of the Zhao army, and the army of Zhao State was replicating the situation of the Xia State army before at this moment, and the back road was blocked.
After receiving the news of King Zhao's capture and retreat, Prime Minister Xu Hongwen and Taiwei Ren Xusheng both thought of retreating first, but they chased too deeply, and the retreat was bitten by the Xia army.
They abandoned the car to protect the commander, listened to the general's advice, abandoned the county soldiers, and directly chose to escape with the elite, but they were still a step too late, and they also walked the road, Xia Guo was faster, and they didn't bring the county soldiers at the beginning, and the newly reorganized 10,000-day army traveled day and night, blocking the mouth in advance.
Xia Guo blocked Danyang, where the galloping roads converged, blocked the back road of retreat, attacked and defended aliens, and could only listen to the advice of the generals and finally chose to hold on.
After fighting for a while, some people may be able to escape, but the officials of the family can't escape, they can't give up themselves and sacrifice themselves to let Zhao Jun escape back, even if Xu Hongwen and Ren Xusheng both intentionally sacrificed their lives for the country, they were also stopped by them.
Three thousand of them are the emperor's arms, and they desperately send their own troops to break through, even if they sacrifice themselves to send the emperor's arms back, they don't have such noble sentiments, and their own armies are almost gone, so they thought of sitting and waiting for peace.
So they let the rebel army and the Xia army, which were originally forced to retreat, come back to surround them, and now the two did not dare to fight, because the two and their generals could not afford to bury the elite.
Xuannu's order is better than nothing, it's not that she doesn't want to withdraw, it's that she can't withdraw, nearly 10,000 Xuanjia Army, plus more than 100,000 or 200,000 county soldiers (peasant army), how to retreat from the layers of defense lines.
They didn't know that these elites of the Xia Kingdom were all fakes, and it was unpredictable to win or lose a regular battle with the two of them, but to be scared was to be frightened.
After all, the elite of the Zhao State under the command of King Zhao had just been defeated in the hands of the Xia State, and they had also heard of the Tiance Army's fearlessness of death, which was a wonderful misunderstanding.
They are like turtles in an urn, the encirclement is tightened, they dare not fight, waiting for Xia Guo to take the initiative.
"Retreat from Jingguo and negotiate peace." When she knew that Xia Jun rushed to Danyang first, Xuannu understood that she had no skills to return to heaven, and said helplessly to the silent Empress Dowager Jiang.
(End of chapter)