Text Chapter 131: The Great War Begins
On the cruel battlefield, the weak cannot survive, only the strongest and resolute strong can survive and win in the end.
This meeting set the tone for the war, which was to take the initiative.
It looks like the meeting has reached this point, and the deployment has been completed, and the next step is to wait for the arrival of the enemy. It seemed that the meeting should have been dismissed, and everyone had just been freed from Yu Ziqian's suffocating military order, and Yu Ziqian issued another order.
Yu Ziqian pointed his hand at Zhu Jinwen, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and issued the last order of the meeting: "On the day when the army starts the battle, after the army leaves the city, immediately close the nine gates, and those who dare to open the city without authorization and enter the city will be immediately killed! The head of the Jinyi Acropolis to which you belong is on standby, dare to be cowardly in battle, and shoot immediately if you retreat!"
Hearing this order, even Luo Jin and Zhu Jinwen, the commanders of the forbidden army who had been on the battlefield for a long time, were accustomed to seeing blood, and killed people without blinking. This order means that whoever goes out of the city can only fight to the death and retreat from the enemy to survive, and if he does not win, he will definitely die.
This is really out of the way, there is no way out, and the way back is the way to die!
Everyone looked at Yu Ziqian in surprise, and they didn't realize until this moment that Yu Ziqian was preparing to play with his life. Not only do you have to play with your own life, but also everyone's life. He staked everyone's lives in this war, the enemy retreats to my life, and if the enemy does not retreat, I die!
"Hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought bloody battles at the border, life and death are unknown, and now the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil, and there are no reinforcements to rescue. Now is the time for us to be loyal to the country, and now that the rebels have come to the city, and the country has reached such a situation, do you still have any concerns? The ambition of the wolf son of the ghost country, I have been spying on my Central Plains for a long time, if this battle fails, the Ming Dynasty will repeat the mistakes of the previous dynasty and fall into the hands of foreign races.
"Fight to the death, only at this time!"
Now everyone knows that Yu Ziqian is right, their enemy is not only King Ning's rebels, but the greater disaster is the ambitious ghost country. This is a war that cannot be lost, if it fails, the Ming Dynasty will be reduced to the enslavement of foreign races, and tens of thousands of people in the Central Plains will be in dire straits.
In this war, Daming can't afford to lose, and no one can afford to lose!
So Yu Ziqian left the only choice for the people who guarded the city and himself!
If you don't win, you die!
Finally, the last meeting before the war ended, and Yu Ziqian also returned to his post to make final preparations. The passionate words before have become a thing of the past, and now what he has to do is to fulfill the promise he made with practical actions.
Since ancient times, it has been easier said than done. It's easy to know, but it's incredibly difficult to do. Countless well-educated people and experts talk about the big truths one by one, and they are full of emotion, and their heads are the way, but they really make him useless and timid.
From ancient times to the present, how many eloquent scholars, well-read scholars, they are extremely eloquent, and they often criticize current politics. even refers to the east and the west, which is very majestic. However, when the iron hooves of the alien race stepped into the Central Plains, the spear was beaten crookedly at the finger of the spear, and there was no power to resist.
It is easiest to give orders, and it is also easiest to talk on paper. But now it's not just a quick tongue, his ultimate goal is to defeat the enemy, and if he can't achieve this goal, no matter what he says, no matter how imposing he is, it's useless.
So the order is given, and wait for his challenge to really begin!
Yu Ziqian wore neat armor, walked in front of his family, and kowtowed to Yu Mian and his parents one by one. Under the encouraging eyes of his grandfather Yu Mian and the crying of his mother, Yu Ziqian stepped on the war horse and walked out without looking back.
Yu Ziqian's eyes were very firm, but he had to admit that he was also afraid, but this was only once. His ambition since he was a child was to govern the world and benefit the people, and his dream was just to be a civil official who benefited the people of the world.
And it has never been his dream to lead a military general to fight. Today, however, he has no choice. Although he has never fought a war, he can only face the enemy's swords and guns now, and if he wants to govern the country, only the peace of the world can achieve it.
So before he can realize his ambitions, the first thing he has to do is to settle the world. And there is only one way to stabilize the world, and that is to stop the war with war.
Now that he is ready and has thought about the worst, he has nothing to fear!
After besieging the imperial capital for three days, Zhu Yuzhen's army finally took action. In the 34th year of Shenzong, on October 17, the forward battle of the defense of the capital officially began.
Yu Ziqian and Zhu Youzhu rode side by side on a high-headed horse, and they had already set up a position in front of Desheng Gate, waiting for Zhu Yuzhen's rebels to attack.
Zhu Yuzhen was a little incredulous when he saw the Ming soldiers who were waiting for him. In his cognition, the capital is already an empty shell, although there are still 150,000 soldiers and horses, but it is not worth mentioning in front of his million-strong division.
In his imagination, it should be Emperor Shenzong holding the jade seal of the country and opening the door to surrender. However, dreams are just dreams after all, and he didn't see the imaginary picture, all he saw was the bright swords and guns and the morale of the Ming army.
As Zhu Yuzhen's allies, the army of the Ghost Kingdom did not participate in this battle. Zhu Yuzhen believes that the current Emperor Ming is already in his pocket, and he can easily defeat it by himself, without the help of the ghost country.
Then there is what Zhu Yuzhen wants to show his military might in front of the ghost country, which is vanity to put it bluntly. In fact, what he didn't know was that all this of his happened to fall into the hands of Mayu Hideyoshi, and he was waiting for Zhu Yuzhen's army and the defenders of the capital to fight to the death.
Although he also thought that the defenders of the Ming Dynasty were completely vulnerable, why not let himself make a move and be able to preserve his strength.
Seeing the Ming defenders who were waiting for him, Zhu Yuzhen was extremely annoyed. But Zhu Yuzhen is also a person who knows the soldiers, and he can be regarded as a general with rich military experience. From the momentum, he could also see that these people guarding the door were not sheep waiting to be punished at all, they were here to fight hard, and they were really not easy to mess with.
But the army has arrived, and it is ready to be sent. So he gave the order, and those who are good at using their troops will be the first to attack the enemy's weak points. However, Zhu Yuzhen relied on his own strength, and the first choice was Deshengmen, which had the largest number of troops.
He ordered his subordinate Li Rong to lead 5,000 soldiers to launch a tentative attack on Desheng Gate.
Looking at the roaring enemy army, whether it was Yu Ziqian, Zhu Youjiao, or every soldier, there was not the slightest fear in their eyes. Because they had already held a belief that if they were not victorious, they would die, and when the enemy was halfway through the attack, Yu Ziqian gave the order to attack.
The soldiers of Zhu Yuzhen were still fantasizing about the gold and silver treasures and stunning beauties in the city, and in their opinion, these people in front of them were just fighting the trapped beasts. They think that only by killing these stumbling blocks will there be all the gold and silver beauties.
The Ming army, which was vulnerable in their eyes, let them die this time. As soon as the war began, they discovered that this was not a pack of sheep, but a pack of vicious wolves, bloodthirsty wolves.
They drew their swords, swung their spears, and rushed into the enemy line with red eyes and a roar. The shouts of killing shook Amano, and he rushed into the enemy formation with a thousand undue momentum.
The rebels were stunned, in their imagination the first attack was actually a beautiful difference, it was a chance to kill the head and add an official to the knighthood. But what awaited them was a frantic counterattack, and the murderous Ming soldiers inflicted heavy losses on the enemy army in one fell swoop.
Zhu Yuzhen's army was almost immediately defeated, and the 5,000 soldiers suffered heavy casualties in an instant, and immediately fled in all directions, so far more than 2,000 were beheaded in the first battle.
The vanguard of the rebels returned with a great defeat, and they were extremely embarrassed!