Chapter 286: The Confused General
Zhang Zhong was startled, and he didn't know how to answer, so he hurriedly shouted to a military general beside him: "Put a signal flare and let the army in the north also attack!"
He hoped that the attack on the northern gate would cause the two thousand black-armored soldiers in front of him to retreat.
"Obey!" the general hurriedly responded.
Who knows, before he could release the signal flare, someone in the palace actually released the signal first.
"Bang!"
There was a hard explosion in the sky.
The black-armored soldiers had already killed all the guards standing on the steps of the palace gate, but instead of moving on, they cautiously retreated back to the palace gate.
The rest of the former army and the middle army looked at the corpses of the guards on the steps, and the scarlet blood was like rain, covering the steps in front of the entire palace gate, and they were shocked and terrified!
The guards of the front army trembled a little, and their steps unconsciously retreated.
"Don't retreat, continue to rush! Those who are afraid of the battle will correct the law on the spot," Zhang Zhong found that the front army had retreated, so he immediately reprimanded. "Prison Army, Prison Army! Stand at the rear of the battle team, kill all those who retreat!"
Several prison guards immediately stood behind the front army, drew their swords, and looked ahead with fierce expressions.
The rest of the former army was immediately like ants on fire, neither before nor behind.
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The north gate.
"An Lushan, look!" Ji Ri Galang looked at the signal flare that exploded over the imperial capital, "It's the signal sent by the boss!"
An Lushan's eyes shot a scorching light, "Haha, brothers, our carnival is here, all get on the horse and rush with me!"
The five thousand northern soldiers were ready to go for a long time, and when they heard An Lushan's order, they neatly turned over their horses and rushed out with An Lushan.
In the barracks of the Forward Guards.
The sentry on the tower at the camp gate suddenly saw a large number of cavalry suddenly appearing in the mountains and forests in the distance, and his expression suddenly became stunned.
One of the sentries turned and ran towards the tent of the general, who had not yet gotten up in the camp.
"Report to the general, a large number of cavalry suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests to the west. ”
Soon, a general who had not even put on his armor came out of the camp tent, and he frowned, "Well, the cavalry that suddenly appeared in the middle of nowhere, what kind of army?"
The sentry shook his head, "I don't know, it just popped up out of nowhere, as if it appeared out of nowhere." ”
The general frowned and immediately walked towards the camp gate.
In fact, it was not the Fourth Army that suddenly appeared, but the Guards did not wait near the barracks, so An Lushan and they hid in the mountains and did not find out.
The general stood in front of the camp gate, and immediately saw a large number of cavalry all the way to the dust, kicking up clouds of dust, and hurrying towards the barracks on his side.
"It's not good, Bacheng is the city guard of Yunhai City! Immediately gather soldiers and prepare to meet the enemy!"
The Guards, who had been scattered around the barracks, immediately gathered into an army, formed a phalanx, and lined up in front of the camp gate.
And the general was also fully dressed at this time, standing at the front of the line, looking at the approaching enemy army with a grim face.
"General, those people don't seem to be from our empire, they seem to be from the lion empire. One of the adjutants wondered.
The general also saw the tall figures of these cavalrymen, and his face became more and more gloomy, "I know what kind of army these are, the lion army recruited by Yunhai City." ”
As soon as these words came out, the hearts of all the adjutant and soldiers around suddenly sank, like a thunderbolt from the sky...
They all knew that the famous An Lushan and tens of thousands of Lion Legion soldiers had taken refuge in Qitian in Yunhai City.
And these burly cavalrymen riding tall horses in front of them are the Fourth Legion led by An Lushan!
"General, we only have 30,000 soldiers now, and they have 5,000 soldiers, according to the ratio of facing the enemy before, we have at least 100,000 people to resist these troops!" The adjutant was a little alarmed.
The general's expression was cloudy, and he looked at the soldiers of the Fourth Legion of Yunhai City in front of him without speaking.
Previously, the Lion Legion only sent 15,000 soldiers, and the number of 200,000 troops in the imperial capital city was reduced to 150,000.
But he was single-handedly promoted by the prince, and he is considered the prince's real confidant, so he can't run away without a fight.
Seeing that the general didn't speak, the adjutant was so anxious that he was about to cry: "General, let's think of a way, our army is not the opponent of the Fourth Army at all, not to mention, these people are the army led by An Lushan himself." ”
The general's eyes became more and more gloomy, "Our guards are the prince's henchmen, if we escape, even if we pick up a life today, tomorrow will definitely be a dead end, and the prince will not let us go." ”
He looked at the adjutant, "I remember that you were just an ordinary five-man commander before, and now you can become a lieutenant, and you were also promoted by the crown prince, right?"
The meaning of this is obvious, do not forget the prince's kindness to them.
The adjutant became entangled, what the general said was not wrong, but right now, he knew that it was a dead end and had to move forward, and he always felt wronged.
"General, why don't we make peace with them?" suggested the adjutant.
"Can they make peace with us?" the general was a little unconvinced.
As the two were talking, the army ahead had arrived.
An Lushan was a burly man, riding on an incomparably majestic horse, and looked proudly at the guards in front of him.
"Ji Ri Galang, the boss said to talk about it first, and then fight if you can't talk about it. ”
When he said this, Tiger Eyes glanced at Ji Ri Garang with deep meaning.
Ji Ri Galang had followed An Lushan's side for many years and had long known what he meant, so he nodded and rode forward alone.
"Please come and speak!"
When the generals and adjutant of the Guards heard this, their mood immediately turned cloudy, and their faces seemed to bloom!
"General, they actually took the initiative to talk to us! It seems that they don't want to fight either!" the adjutant looked surprised.
The general was also overjoyed, "Haha, they are now from the Sunny Empire after all, and now that the crown prince is about to ascend the throne, they naturally have to be afraid of us!"
He turned to look behind him, "Brothers, the other party wants to make peace with us, and General Ben will have a meeting with them!"
Originally, the 30,000 army looked like northern soldiers, and their legs trembled with fright, they were the newly formed guards of the prince later, many of them had not been on the battlefield, and they were so frightened that they were about to pee their pants just by hearing the northern army.
The general held the horse's belly and walked forward slowly.
He stopped opposite Jiri Galang, tilted his head, and said a little arrogantly: "The general is General An Lushan, right?"
He had never seen An Lushan, nor had he seen Ji Ri Galang, and directly mistook Ji Ri Galang for An Lushan.
Ji Ri Galang didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, "The boss asked us to come and talk to you first, and then go to war if we can't get along." ”
The general said to himself, 'Sure enough!'
"I like peace talks very much, I don't know what the conditions of your peace talks are?"
Ji Ri Galang was stunned for a moment, turned his head and pretended to be angry: "An Lushan, they want to put forward peace talks conditions to us!"
The general immediately panicked and hurriedly said, "General, you misunderstood, I mean what conditions we need to provide to you. ”
Ji Ri Galang was taken aback, and turned his head again and shouted: "An Lushan, they want us to exchange our wives for them!"
The general was completely confused, when did I say that I wanted you to change your wife?
"Ahh
An Lushan looked at his frightened expression and almost laughed, this performance technique is too clumsy...
I saw the northern army of the 5,000 Fourth Army Corps, one by one, with a fierce face, they northerners, the most taboo others to joke with their wives, now Ji Ri Galang said this, right in the hands of the soldiers!
"Brothers, these guards are so hateful, they think they can bully us if they are more outnumbered than us, we have to tell them, what are the soldiers of the Fourth Legion!" An Lushan roared, holding two giant axes, and rushed forward directly.
And the five thousand behind him also roared and rushed over angrily.
In the center of the field, only the general looked at the angry Fourth Legion with a confused expression.
The 30,000 guards behind him were waiting for the results of the peace talks, but they didn't expect that this general seemed to have lost his mind and went crazy, and he actually asked the other party for a wife!
30,000 guards, everyone in their hearts scolded this still dazed general...
An Lushan moved quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed in front of the general, and with a swing of the giant axe in his hand, he went straight to the general's neck.
The general hadn't reacted from the shock yet, and his eye level had shifted straight down.
Until this moment, he still hadn't reacted from Ji Ri Galang's words, what was he talking about!
The 30,000 Guards were in an instant united with the 5,000 Fourth Legions.
It's just that one side is frightened and has no intention of fighting, and the other side is like a chicken blood, looking at the short guards is as excited as seeing a little daughter-in-law.
"Ahh
"Ahh
The five thousand guards formed a sharp arrow formation, and in an instant, the phalanx of the guards was torn apart from the middle, and countless screams of bullying rang out one after another.
An Lushan's eyes were crazy at the moment, like a person who had been thirsty for a long time, and he was as excited as finally jumping into the cold lake water!
He wielded two huge axes in his hand, and opened his bow from side to side, like a giant spinning top, and with each swing, seven or eight guards were cut in half.
It takes a lot of physical effort to cut the waist, but in the hands of An Lushan, the waist cut seems to be cutting wheat.
Soon, there was a river of blood around An Lushan, and the guards who died miserably fell around him in pieces, and their bloody intestines and internal organs flowed all over the ground.
Ji Ri Galang has long been holding his breath, since he was subdued by Qi Tian, he has not won a battle and established any merits.
His weapon was a huge machete, and he seemed to have a penchant for blood, slashing at the heads of the guards with each swing, from top to bottom.
The Guards were like maggots' brains, accompanied by blood and water, pouring all over the ground.
The guards behind watched the Fourth Legion slaughtering their brothers like harvesting wheat, and they did not have the slightest anger in their hearts, but looked frightened and terrified.
Some timid soldiers peed their pants directly, and even worse, they threw away their weapons and went crazy and skewered around the battlefield.
Never before had they experienced such bloody, brutal battles.
"Ji Ri Galang, don't let them run away! We have not yet made war exploits as the Fourth Legion, and we are going to beat our prestige out today! Roundabout to surround us!" An Lushan was covered in blood, like a person who had just come out of blood.
Ji Ri Galang laughed "haha", "Okay! Brothers, come with me, don't let any of them go today!"
The ranks of the Guards, which had been cut off from the middle, immediately divided into two teams and surrounded them in a roundabout way, dividing the Guards into two.
"Ahh
"Please, let me go, I'm still young..."
"I have an old mother and an unweaned child..."
Many of the Guards threw away their weapons and even took off their armor, crying out that the Fourth Legion would spare them.
But they mistook An Lushan and these Fourth Army Corps in the north.
These northern men were grateful and moved in their hearts, but that was only for the strong, and for the weak, they were meant to kill.
This is also the value they have cultivated since they were children in the environment of survival of the fittest in the grassland.
The Guards' pleas for mercy did not make the Fourth Legion lay down their butcher knives, but slaughtered them even more ferociously...
30,000 Guards, but there are already less than 10,000...
It took about another stick of incense.
The Guards had nothing left to breathe.
An Lushan and Ji Ri Galang stood in the center of the battlefield, looking at the scarlet battlefield with great satisfaction, this battlefield seemed to have just been watered with blood, and there was a sticky feeling when they stepped on it.
"Hehe, it seems that the fame of our Fourth Legion has been beaten. Ji Ri Galang looked excitedly at the shattered corpses on the ground.
An Lushan shook the blood on his axe, "This is just the first battle, we need a bigger victory in the future, I want to make the whole world fear our Fourth Legion." ”
In the past, he was the second-ranked tiger general, only behind Emperor Keree, and he had already developed a proud mentality.
It's just that he was completely subdued by Qi Tian, so the arrogance in his heart was also consumed.
Now that he has returned to Qi Tian, he naturally wants to regain his self-confidence and prestige, and he even has to tell Qi Tian and the people of Yunhai City that he will not only repair the city... It's also going to war!
It's just that everyone in the field didn't notice.
The city wall at the north gate of the imperial capital city was already full of soldiers defending the city.
One by one, they looked at the blood-stained battlefield not far away...
It stands to reason that if their brothers were slaughtered, they should immediately open the gates of the city to help.
But they wished they hadn't seen the misery of their brothers, let alone heard their screams.
They all know that if they go out of the city at this time, they will not answer, but the sheep will enter the tiger's mouth.
A soldier on the city wall whispered to the brother beside him, "Do we still have a chance to transfer to Yunhai City as a soldier?"
"Well... It stands to reason that the Guards are much higher in rank than the City Guards, and from the top down, there should be. The brother swallowed.