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Chapter 656: The Cruelty Between Ideals and Reality

As Zheng Zhiyuan predicted, the enthusiasm and blood of the people are the easiest to be stirred up, but when the beautiful ideals collide with blood in the face of the cruel reality, this enthusiasm and blood are also very easy to dissipate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first round of attack did not even touch the edge of the defensive line, and then collapsed. The flying stumps, the fallen neighbors, the flowing blood, the terrifying roar of arrows, and the desperate stone bullets falling from the sky constantly consumed the courage that these farmers and fishermen had accumulated, and finally, when the first man fell to his knees with his legs weakened, and put his hands on the ground, and vomited heavily, the attacker hesitated, and some began to cry out in despair, and some began to throw away the sword in his hand, and turned and ran back.

These people may not even be able to fight, they may even be terrified of killing a chicken, and when they go into battle with their weapons, can you expect them to plunge their knives and guns into the chests of their opponents?

This is a battlefield, not the storyteller in the roadside teahouse, not to mention the history of the countryside, the wonderful pen in the miscellaneous notes, although every man has a dream, dreaming that he is brave and invincible, holding a knife and gun, sweeping the wilderness and being admired by the world, but when the real face of the bloody battlefield, the dripping blood will make the vast majority of people give up their dream, and look forward to never encounter this cruelty, sunrise, sunset, and leisure, a cup of bitter tea, a bowl of sake, On the side of the road, under the tree, loudly pulling melons, the proprietor Li Jiaxiao, when he said that he was happy, he raised his neck and drank it all, and then returned home satisfied, and fell asleep with his wife in his arms.

Ninety-nine out of a hundred people will eventually choose this simple life, and sometimes, simplicity is also a kind of happiness.

Wei Zhihua looked at the people who retreated like a tide, looked at the hundreds of corpses that died between the two armies, his face was full of pain, and he turned around and looked at a general beside him: "General He, General He, this is for them to die, they are just ordinary people, they don't know how to fight at all, let the last general rush it!" ”

He Aimin, the oldest general on Taiwan Island, did not have the slightest expression on his face, staring at the defense line opposite, it was still quiet, standing here, he couldn't even see whether there were soldiers in the defense line, only when the enemy entered a certain distance, the poisonous snake lying still would raise its head and spit out his poisonous tongue.

This is a hundred battles! He Aimin thought bitterly, living on Taiwan Island, the sailor can occasionally go out to fight pirates, rob some transit caravans to practice hands, like Zuo Fu, Zuo Gui, is already the most experienced general on the island, but two battles and two losses, Zuo Gui died in battle, Zuo Fu almost died in the sea, on the other hand, the land troops, the Great Zhou Dynasty on the island for hundreds of years, has already killed those who dare to resist, the so-called elite soldiers, that is, walking down on the training ground, most of the generals on the island have only learned the art of war, but for the rest of their lives, But there is no place for practice, and it is really on paper. When they faced such an enemy in front of them, the end was already predestined.

Do your best, just obey the destiny of heaven! He Aimin thought that his He family would receive the grace of the Great Zhou State, and he could only repay him with death.

"Under the nest, there are no eggs!" He Aimin said quietly, "General Wei, then you will lead the regular troops to attack one blow, come here, and bring me the leaders of the township soldiers, I have something to say to them!" ”

Wei Zhihua clenched his fists, "General, I'm going!" ”

The villagers retreated, and the regular army finally appeared. On the defensive line, Tang Hu stood up straight and pulled out his twin knives from the sheath, "This time, I probably can use him!" ”

Tang Hu's estimation is very correct, although the sea is still sparing no effort to strike, but after all, it is a formally trained army, and their generals may not have actual combat experience, but the Great Zhou Dynasty, which sailed far away, still retains enough military books and retains enough combat experience of countless previous generations, and often these experiences are exchanged for blood and lives, and this time, they have to use blood to verify these experiences, but this is enough for them to avoid unwarranted losses like the villagers.

After paying the price of less than 100 lives, nearly 2,000 regular troops led by Wei Zhihua rushed to the defensive line.

On the defensive line, Huo Di stood up in rows of soldiers, with spears in their hands, and a forest of spears appeared in front of the attackers, like a thorn, up and down with sharp blades shining with cold light.

"Thorn!" With a command, like a poisonous tongue spitting out a letter, a spear with a handle stabbed like lightning, retracted, and stabbed again, and the movements were uniform, as if these thousands of spears were used by one person, whether they stabbed anything or not, these spears were all withdrawn together in the sound of the trumpet, and stabbed out together.

In addition to the faces of the first row of the other party, Wei Zhihua couldn't even see their figures in the back, and all that caught his eye was Sen Sen's spear.

And behind these spearmen, there are constantly long arrows being thrown out, and there are more ballistas, those pounds of stone projectiles are fired by ballistas, which hurt the soldiers more, and the long arrows and shields can be blocked, and this kind of ballista, when the stone projectiles fall, the impact is extremely great, and you must be very careful to deal with it, even if the soldiers have shields, sometimes the soldiers' arms will be broken.

Wielding a shield in one hand to block the spear that stabbed him, and the spear he held in the other hand drove straight in, Wei Zhihua, who had practiced martial arts since he was a child, had a strong arm, and this shot immediately entered the chest of an enemy in front of him, seeing the blood spurting out with the spear being pulled out, the soldier's body fell softly, but what made Wei Zhihua's heart palpitate was that the fallen soldier was still expressionless.

Shouting to take a step forward, swing his gun again, and stab at another person next to this person, just stab the last few people, you can break the guy in front of you who is covered with thorns, open a gap, and rush into the enemy formation, only in this way can the opponent's crossbowmen and stone artillerymen have scruples and dare not fire bows and crossbows unscrupulously.

Stabbed down another person, Wei Zhihua was overjoyed, and when he was about to attack the third person, his face changed abruptly, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that there was one more person in the position of the Dingzhou soldier who had just fallen, and that person was the same as his previous companion, his face was expressionless, and a pair of feet even stepped on the body of the dead companion, holding a spear, and stabbed at him viciously.

Wei Zhihua could only take a step back, but he took a step back, and there was one more person in the position of the soldier who had just been stabbed to death, and the small gap that had just opened was instantly closed again.

Tang Hu raised his knife several times and wanted to rush forward, but Song Ming blocked him, and Song Ming even called a few soldiers with big waists and thick shoulders to stand on a wall and block Tang Hu's face.

"Turtle son, if you dare not let Lao Tzu kill the enemy, I will beat you flat!" Tang Hu jumped like thunder.

Song Ming pointed to the front and said loudly: "Master Tiger, you see, now our army is in a strict formation, and it is much more effective to resist the enemy with the strength of everyone, and it is much safer than going it alone, and the brothers are much safer, this is the iron wall tactics that Dingzhou relied on, Lord Hu, you rushed up alone, and fell into the encirclement of the enemy, you are an iron man, how many nails can you hit!" At that time, in order to save you, the brothers will inevitably disperse, and then it will become chaos, Master Hu, and many brothers will die. You should have pity on me, I just made a big mistake a few days ago, come and make it once, General Zheng has to cut off my head, even if you beat me after the war, it's better than no head! ”

"A few of you, block the tiger master for me, if the tiger master rushes up alone, I will cut off your heads first!" Song Ming shouted loudly at several military men.

"Yes, General!" A few military men shouted violently. The people who were fighting in front of them were their brothers in life and death, no matter how high Tang Hu's status was, they didn't want this master to rush up and stir up the military formation, so the brothers died in a mess, so they stared at Tang Hu with big eyes and stared at Tang Hu, Tang Hu went to the left, they went to the left, Tang Hu went to the right, they went to the right.

"Song Ming, you turtle son!" Tang Hu jumped to his feet and scolded, but at this time, Song Ming had disappeared from his eyes and ran to the front line to command the battle, and Tang Hu's position, except for the surrounding crossbowmen, crossbow artillery, and the buttocks of the soldiers in the front row, he couldn't see anything, not even the shadow of the enemy. Only the earth-shattering shouts of killing could be heard. Occasionally, an enemy was picked up by a spear, flew over the formation, and landed in front of them.

"Warriors!" He Aimin pointed to the bloody battlefield in front of him, "There are your soldiers, they are fighting to the death, throwing their blood for the continuation of our Great Zhou!" ”

"Someone is asking where these people are coming from and why are they coming to beat us? Some people will question why we don't negotiate with our opponents, well, today, I'll tell you where these people came from and why they have to come to fight us! He Aimin said slowly.

More than a dozen township soldier leaders looked at He Aimin with a heavy face, and they all had a bad feeling.

"These people come from a huge empire thousands of miles away from here, this army in front of us is called the Dingzhou Army, just a state of this huge empire, of course, you are very confused, why this army is called the Dingzhou Army, and we also have a town here called Dingzhou, right? Because we come from the same place! ”

Everyone was amazed!

"There are fifty-six states in the Great Zhou, and the huge empire thousands of miles away also has fifty-six states, we have them here, and they also have them there, but they are only one state, and they are several times larger than our whole country!"

The faces of the people changed.

"Because that empire defeated our ancestors of the Great Zhou and drove us here. And your ancestors are the Imperial Forest Army who followed the crown prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty back then! ”

He Aimin slowly told the secret that had been hidden on Taiwan Island for hundreds of years, and now only those big families that have been inherited for hundreds of years or in the vast history books.

The flesh and blood are flying in front, and He Aimin is impassioned in the back.

"Under the nest, there are no eggs, in the eyes of the other party, we are all descendants of sinners, we must be cut down and eradicated, for hundreds of years, they are still chasing us, warriors, do we have to give up resistance, give up fighting, stretch our necks and be killed by them like pigs and sheep?"

"If we die, our family will not be spared, your wives, your children, and your parents will all be killed by them, because in their eyes, we are the first to be punished, and we will inevitably be punished by the nine clans!"

"So, hold your chests up, and in order to protect our families from surviving, we must defeat them!" He Aimin said sharply.