Chapter 218: Siege of the City (19)
Since ancient times, loyal and good have been short-lived. Muttering these words repeatedly, Lin Feng fell into deep contemplation after returning to the big tent. No matter what kind of camp Gongsun Yun is in, Gongsun Yun is at least a rare loyal and good general, while General Wang is a complete hypocrite who will do anything behind his back for personal gain! A complete servant!
But who is right and who is wrong? If Gongsun Yun is right, then why did Gongsun Yun die earlier than General Wang? But if Gongsun Yun is wrong, then what is a loyal general? Who is still a loyal general?
Yourself? Are you a loyal and good general? The corners of Lin Feng's mouth twitched, and he smiled contemptuously.
Asking himself, Lin Feng definitely didn't believe that if he put himself in Gongsun Yun's position today, he would make the same decision.
Foolish? Lin Feng shook his head slowly again, he didn't think Gongsun Yun could be called foolish. But there is a hint of foolish loyalty, because there is an extremely obvious manifestation of foolish loyalty, that is, a capable person is loyal to an incapable person or force.
Perhaps, it is completely what Gongsun Yun said, if you don't know Entu, how can the eldest husband gain a foothold between heaven and earth?!
But thinking of this, Lin Feng slowly shook his head again, and chuckled disdainfully, who should he know and repay his kindness? It seems that everything right now is fought out step by step by himself and the brothers who Feng killed. If you really want to repay your kindness, it is also for the brothers who killed Feng. Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, and then destroy the puppet Qi regime, exterminate the yellow thieves, and avenge the dead Feng brothers and the Feng family soldiers who died on the battlefield.
But Gongsun Yun's last sentence stirred the subconscious in Lin Feng's heart. What is the purpose of besieging and not attacking for a long time? In fact, Lin Feng's heart was very clear that his thoughts were not only that he didn't want the Feng family's army to suffer too many casualties, but also that he didn't want to kill the rebels too much. Because, no matter what the outcome of the war is, as long as there is a war, there will be casualties, and in the end, it is the dead who suffer the most. After all, a family is no longer complete, and if there is no complete home, a nation is about to fall apart.
In the siege of the city for half a year, Lin Feng has always had such concerns in his heart, so he has always wanted to coerce the rebels out of the city, suppress the other party with the complete advantage of his own field battle, try to minimize the losses, and try to let a few families in Datang be destroyed in the war.
And now, more than half of this goal has actually been achieved, but Lin Feng felt extremely depressed and heavy, his body slumped on the chair, and he even had a sense of powerlessness when he twisted and changed his position. Even though Lin Feng knew that this was already the best result, just now, he still saw thousands of people killed and injured in the war, and still saw thousands of unsupported souls floating from the scarred corpses in the war, reluctantly floating into the sky.
Moreover, Lin Feng also knew that just now, not only were there thousands of casualties among the rebels who came to Mengshan to sneak attack, but also thousands of heroic souls died in the Feng family army camp outside Mengshan Trail and outside Yazhou City.
It is true that when the war in the Mengshan area was fierce, the 2,000 rebels left by Gongsun Yun to garrison outside the Mengshan Trail were ambushed and attacked by General Meng Hongmeng and the 4,000 Feng family soldiers led by Bian Hao and Chen Yang, with hundreds of three-shot crossbow carts, and all the troops were wiped out, and none of them were spared.
The rebel general Feng Guo, who led nearly 20,000 troops, because of his eagerness to make meritorious contributions, was ambushed by a horse trap outside the pioneer camp, and still brutally ordered the whole army to continue the assault.
But unfortunately, the result made General Feng Guo extremely disappointed. When he personally rushed to the outside of a camp tent, stabbed into the camp tent with the silver gun in his hand, and flipped it to one side, he found that the figures he saw were actually scarecrows in various postures or scarecrows with wooden sticks and disguised in rags!
But at this time, Feng Guo's order could not be conveyed, and the scene of more than 10,000 subordinates who had just died in the horse pit completely aroused the anger in their hearts, especially after breaking through the fence of the pioneer camp, the shouts of killing covered the entire military camp, and even the birds perched in the woods not far away were shocked, not to mention the shouting orders of Feng Guo and his own soldiers who were completely covered.
Nearly 10,000 people poured into the barracks one after another, and only the rebels who had rushed to the camp knew that they had been tricked, but the companions in the rear continued to push their horses hard, as if they were eager to trample their comrades who were blocking the front to prevent them from fighting for their exploits.
In fact, the results were similar, the rebels who saw the scarecrow in the tent for the first time would almost always be stunned for an instant, and the next moment, they would be bumped into by their companions rushing up from behind, and the fate after falling off their horses was almost the same, that is, they were trampled into a puddle of flesh with iron hooves by a steady stream of war horses.
In a short period of time, there were no less than a thousand rebels who were trampled to death because of the collision and falling off the horse, and then, after everyone reacted one after another, they found that it was almost impossible to withdraw from the ambush in time, and the entire camp was crowded, and even outside the collapsed fence, there were thousands of rebels rushing forward one by one, lest they enter one second later, and there would be no soup left.
Immediately afterwards, from around the camp, the roaring sound of ghosts and gods began to sound, and then I saw a large fireball with smoke falling from the sky, falling into the crowd one after another, like a "scorching sun" falling from the sky, the dazzling fireball stimulated everyone's eyes, and the scorching flames burned everyone's body and heart.
Some of the more hidden corners of the barracks have long been ordered by Li Xiaofeng to place flammable materials, and the camp is full of military tents and scarecrows, all of which are on fire. Almost after the first large fireball with a diameter of nearly two meters landed, under the guidance of the sparks flying everywhere, a fire area with a diameter of more than ten or twenty meters was suddenly created. In just a few seconds, no less than 30 "scorching suns" fell to the ground, and puffs of black smoke suddenly rose over the entire barracks, and the wails of the rebels rose straight into the sky through the thick smoke.
One of the biggest threats is the war horse, even after rigorous training, but still can't get rid of the fear of fire nature, those who are surrounded by the hot flames of the war horse is almost completely out of the control of the cavalry, have rushed back and forth, both want to escape from the sea of fire, but in the face of the "natural enemy" and dare not bravely rush forward, in the place of confused anger after a moment, in the end only slowly fell to the ground, twitching the huge body, waiting for the flame to come to end their lives.
Even if they are not in the fire, but in the face of the flames, the horses are still full of fear, do not listen to the master's command at all, just rely on instinct to flee in all directions, many cavalry are because of this purposeless running, after the collision by the war horses fell to the ground, and then surrounded by the rapidly spreading flames, becoming victims in the sea of fire.