Chapter 698: The Battalion Collapses and the Soldiers Flee

Camp roar is a very terrible thing in the army, commonly known as bombing the camp, of course, the bombing camp is the name of the common people, but it is more intuitive.

In the ancient army, because ordinary soldiers, especially the lowest soldiers, always lived under various extremely cruel systems, and on the eve of battle, due to the great pressure of death, the army camp was always filled with a kind of horror before death, which made the soldiers' feelings extremely unstable.

In order to soothe the terror of the soldiers, the generals often promised that after the victory, the soldiers could be killed for several days, robbed and bullied the people of the defeated side, and so on.

But even so, if a soldier suddenly screams hysterically at night, then the whole army will do the same, and the hysterical soldiers will often take up arms in the dark and kill indiscriminately, especially the officers who usually have a grudge against them and oppress them, they will often be killed at the first time, and the army itself will collapse without waiting for the enemy to come.

Don't say that the ancient army, even the modern army often has this situation, however, this situation will generally appear in the army where the recruits account for the main body, and the veterans who have fought and seen blood are often not so, of course, if the enemy is too strong, knowing that they will be defeated, the veteran wants to escape, so he deliberately causes chaos, so as to take advantage of the chaos to escape, except for this case.

But Yang Ze's army is obviously not an army dominated by new recruits, the main body of the vanguard army is the left and right Shenwu armies, which are all long-trained Chang'an Janissary Guards, and a small number of people are warriors brought back by Yang Ze from the Bohai Sea, for such an army, it is almost impossible to bomb the camp.

As for the strength of the enemy, it is even more nonsense, the vanguard army did not regard the Taiyuan soldiers as enemies. Now it's still a friendly army, although the superior is intrigued, but ordinary soldiers who will care about these, they are all the troops of the Dafang Empire, that is, friendly troops, and with the strength of the vanguard army, even if the Taiyuan soldiers attack, they will not be afraid, in this case, there is no reason to bomb the camp.

Listen to Wu Youren's question. The soldier who reported the news had no choice but to say: "Back to this adult's words, except for bombing the camp, the little prince really can't think of any other reason, and the vanguard army of King Yan is suddenly in chaos!" ”

Li Chongjiu was pleasantly surprised, and then asked, "Du Da Jaw and they went into the camp?" There are so few of them, even if they can kill into the camp, they will be surrounded! ”

Prince Cheng suddenly said: "Is it that General Du killed the general to capture the flag, killed the enemy general by mistake, and killed the vanguard general." When the enemy soldiers saw that the general was dead, they naturally became in chaos, could it be that this was the reason? ”

Li Chongjiu and Wu Youren glanced at each other, and both laughed at the same time. It can't be such a coincidence, Du Da chin killed the other party's vanguard general? If this is really the case, then Du's big chin can really be regarded as a blessing!

Wu Youren waved his hand and said, "Probe again and bring back the specific news." He paused. He said: "Also, if the little prince can't attack, it's nothing." But he must bring General Du back safely, as well as the soldiers of the Jinwu Army, if he can take it back, he must not give up, even if it is a corpse, he must find it and bring it back, which is very important. ”

The soldier who reported the news agreed, returned to his horse and ran to Li Bowen again.

Li Chongjiu suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, turned around and said to everyone: "Lone still thinks that Yang Ze is such a powerful person, and the army under him is one of the strongest in the world, but tonight, it seems that it is nothing more than that!" ”

Everyone nodded hurriedly, they didn't expect Yang Ze's army to be so inexorable, but a hundred or so drunk people could rush into their camp and make a mess of the camp, did such a vanguard army go to fight in a sudden war, or did they come to Taiyuan to be funny?

The atmosphere on the city wall relaxed suddenly, not only Li Chongjiu was in a happy mood, but Wu Youren was also the same, and the royal families of Taiyuan also began to talk about it.

This time, they no longer talked about how powerful Yang Ze's army was, but began to study what kind of big battles Yang Ze fought, so he got the title of famous general?

After studying it, King Jingde said: "This king found that King Yan has not fought any hard battles, at most, he took hundreds of people to mess around in the west of the town, and then took the right Shenwu army to Bohai and destroyed the so-called King of Bohai County. ”

Prince Cheng frowned and said, "I really haven't heard of it, who of you have heard of it, what kind of merit did King Yan rely on to tear the earth and seal the king?" ”

None of the big and small lords in Taiyuan can answer this question, they don't know much about Yang Ze, and they only know Yang Ze's name when the new dynasty is established recently, and they didn't know it before.

Wu Youren snorted and said: "This person was originally just a guy in a pharmacy, who knew how to catch medicine with two hands and three legs, and then climbed the path of the eldest princess, and then entered Beijing, in fact, this person is just a scoundrel in the market." ”

Li Chongjiu nodded again and again, and said: "He's just a bastard, just because his appearance is quite passable, and he has no other skills except for fascinating his lonely sister." ”

He deliberately slandered Yang Ze, of course, he didn't have a good impression of Caicai, even if it was his own sister, what could he do, who let this sister marry his enemy, so he didn't care about this sister's reputation.

Listening to Li Chongjiu talk about the long-lived princess Li Caicai, Prince Cheng and King Jingdejun immediately stopped squeaking, they didn't have the courage to say bad things about Caicai, even if they said it behind their backs, they didn't dare, if it was spread out, it would be a fatal thing, illness came from the mouth, disaster came from the mouth, and everyone who was the king and grandson of these former nests understood this truth.

Wu Youren didn't care, he smiled: "That Yang Ze is the best at patting on the back and pulling the imperial family, when he angered the empress and the first emperor, he was demoted to Zhenxi, where he stammered to the current emperor, and then he ran back to the capital, and then he stammered with the eldest princess, and also called the son of King Xiang Linzi a brother, so he was able to lead the troops out, relying on lying about military exploits, and then returned to Chang'an, and happened to catch up with the great changes in Beijing, he was the first to rush into the palace. The former benefactor eldest princess was harmed, and the king of Linzi was harmed, so he was crowned king, if it weren't for the new emperor who had just ascended the throne, there was no one available around him, where would it be his turn to be majestic. ”

Everyone exclaimed in unison, it turned out that Yang Ze was such a despicable and shameless person, he could only climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and in the end, he killed the eldest princess of the benefactor. This is simply a scumbag, compared with Yang Ze, they are young and old, they are as pure as saints.

Wu Youren said again: "Yang Ze is the most disgusting, and now even the current emperor is disgusted with him, otherwise he can be sent to conquer Sudden Jue, and he will not give his army food and grass, this is actually weakening his power, this person is not far from betraying his relatives!" ”

Everyone just listens to what else they say. They don't care if it's true or not, anyway, what kind of person Yang Ze is, and it doesn't have much to do with them, but what Wu Youren just said is the most important thing. The meaning of this is that Yang Ze has lost his sacred heart, and now he is just a strong outsider, since this is the case, then what is there to fear. Just kill him, this is a great achievement, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will definitely remember this credit.

Prince Makoto reacted the fastest. He suddenly realized: "I see, presumably those vanguard generals also saw this, so they refused to give Yang Ze their lives, and they dispersed in a hurry by taking advantage of General Du's robbery of the camp!" ”

Everyone laughed, thinking that it must be so, Yang Ze lost his sacred heart, and it will be finished soon, so who is willing to follow him again, the tree is falling and scattered, not to mention that Yang Ze's tree is not a towering tree, just a small sapling.

Wu Youren shook his head and said: "No, no, the Jinwu army went out of the city to defeat Yang Ze's vanguard, it was all because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince commanded well, and the soldiers of the Jinwu army were brave and invincible, and Yang Ze lost his military heart, which was just one of the insignificant reasons." ”

Shoot the sycophant, of course you have to shoot like this, the credit is all the prince's, without the prince, Yang Ze would not be so weak!

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly admitted their mistakes, yes, it was His Royal Highness the Prince's strategy to win the battle in Taiyuan City more than ten miles away, if it weren't for His Royal Highness the Prince's drunken use of soldiers like a god, how could there be tonight's victory!

The sycophants were another wild shot, and for a full two quarters of an hour, in the midst of the flattery of the big and small lords, the soldiers outside the city who reported the news returned.

The soldier who reported the news still did not enter the city gate, raised his head and shouted at the top: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, General Du burned the Yanwang Pioneer Camp, the Yanwang Pioneer Camp collapsed and fled, General Du has already chased out, and he will return triumphantly soon!" ”

Although Li Chongjiu had known that this would be the result, he was still excited when he heard it with his own ears, and he rushed down and shouted: "General Du is the general who killed the enemy?" ”

The soldier who reported the news shook his head and said: "I don't know, our army has not yet come out of the stake formation, has not gone to clean the battlefield, I don't know the number of casualties of the Yanwang vanguard, and the news of the enemy's general killing has not come back!" ”

Li Chongjiu snorted, and he said, "I'll go out of the city and go to the outside of the stake formation to see in person!" ”

Prince Cheng's mouth opened, and he wanted to persuade him, after all, it was a battlefield outside, and the battle had just ended, if the prince went out of the city like this, maybe there would be danger, in case any of the soldiers in the vanguard army pretended to be dead, hid in the pile of dead, saw the prince, put a hidden arrow, or burst out and hurt people or something, wouldn't it be bad.

But without waiting for him to speak, Wu Youren preemptively said: "That's right, maybe there are still some remnants in the enemy camp outside the city, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will personally lead the troops to fight the thieves, which can protect the safety of the people outside the city." ”

Prince Cheng swallowed his saliva, didn't squeak, lowered his head, followed Li Chongjiu, and went out of the city together.

Li Chongjiu didn't think too much about it, he hadn't even fought a battle, and he had seen it from books as to what it was like on the battlefield, but in fact he hadn't even read a few books, so it was still a big question whether he could read all the words in the books! Therefore, since the messenger said that the battle was over and Du Da chin chased after the enemy, he thought that the battle was over and everything was safe.

Everyone rode their horses and trotted all the way, and when they arrived in front of the stake formation, Li Bowen and the entire Taiyuan army were still waiting here!

Li Bowen was riding on a horse, looking at the burning camp in the distance, just now when the battle was going on, he didn't dare to go over, he found that he was not as brave as he usually imagined when he was fine, when he heard the shouting of killing, and when he saw the fire that rushed to the sky, his legs were weak, he didn't dare to urge the horse to go over to see, he could only send small soldiers to check the news, even if he heard that the Yanwang vanguard had escaped, he didn't dare to go over, he was still afraid, this kind of timid fact, even he felt ashamed!

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves coming from behind, Li Bowen looked back and saw that it was Li Chongjiu and his grandfather coming, he hurriedly dismounted and saluted, and said loudly: "Minister Li Bowen see His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Chongjiu waved his hand casually, pointed to the distance and said, "The battle is over?" Let's go over and see, you've been waiting here too long! ”

Li Bowen's face turned red, he really didn't go over because he was afraid, even if he was with thousands of troops, but that didn't mean that he wasn't afraid of death, besides, the original order was to let him answer Du Da's chin, but he didn't say that he would help fight the war.

But Li Bowen wanted to explain, but Li Chongjiu didn't have the patience to listen, he urged the mount to go forward, but when he arrived at the stake array, he found that he couldn't pass by riding a horse at all, and the dense stakes could only get off the horse, bypass through the gap in the middle, or step on the stake, and walk over from above, as long as you are careful, don't fall off the stake.

Prince Cheng saw his eldest grandson standing behind him stupidly, and he hurriedly said: "Bowen, why don't you go to the big camp to have a look, if there are still defeated soldiers who have not fled, arrest them to see His Royal Highness the Prince, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince interrogate, and ask Yang Ze about his next plan." ”

Li Bowen sighed, he understood his grandfather's words, this was to let him hurry up to see the battlefield and do the safety work, so as not to let Li Chongjiu be in danger. He hurriedly rushed ahead of Li Chongjiu, led the horse around the stake array, and ran towards the camp.

Li Chongjiu finally bypassed the stake formation, and he had his own soldiers behind him to lead his horse, but it was much slower than him, Li Chongjiu waited patiently for a while, and the soldiers led his mount over.

Li Chongjiu thought to himself: "How did you do it, let's see if Li Bowen is still leading the horse by himself, it didn't take long to get out of the battle, why did this little soldier lead the horse out of the battle for so long a day!" ”

He glared at the little soldier, turned on his horse, and ran towards the big camp, completely ignoring the fact that the little soldier was just to delay time, so that Li Bowen could quickly clean up the battlefield, so that he would not be in danger when he passed.

By the time Li Chongjiu ran to the camp, the east was already white, the sky was almost dawn, and the fire in the vanguard camp had stopped, after all, it was just a big camp, and there were not so many things to burn.

When Li Chongjiu saw the camp that was still smoking, he shouted: "Bowen, have you found any corpses, such as the corpse of the general who led the troops?" ”

Li Bowen was not far away, he turned his head, hesitated slightly, and said, "If you go back to His Royal Highness the Prince, there are no corpses, they may all be burned by fire!" (To be continued......)