Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 202 Temporarily stabilizing military morale

There is a saying in the art of war that anyone who is killed is the reason why he is wise in martial arts. If you kill one person and the three armies are shaken, kill him.

Soldiers will not fear both the enemy and their own general.

If you are afraid of your own general, you will despise the enemy; if you are afraid of the enemy, you will despise your own general; if the general is despised by the soldiers, the battle will fail; if the general has prestige among the soldiers, the battle will be successful.

During this period, Chen Mo learned a lot.

In addition, Zhao Ye's five thousand people were transferred to him by Lu Yonggang, so Chen Mo can also be regarded as Zhao Ye's superior officer.

Now that Zhao Ye wants to escape from the battlefield, Chen Mo naturally has the right to kill him.

There is another saying in the art of war: If you cannot make your soldiers obey with love, they will not be used by me.

If I cannot use my prestige to make my soldiers fear success, they will not listen to my command.

Chen Mo did not have so much love to convince the soldiers, but he was able to kill Zhao Ye to establish his prestige.

Sure enough, seeing Zhao Ye split in half by Chen Mo's sword, the whole army was shocked.

In addition, Chen Mo, who succeeded Yang Minggui, was one of the four deputy generals in the army. Now that Lu Yonggang is dead, he also has the right to mobilize the entire army.

Looking at the three guards sharpening their knives, everyone could only obey Chen Mo's orders with fear and nervousness.

"Now that Commander Lu is dead, Commander Li Qu and Commander Song are dead in battle, and Commander Huang's life or death is uncertain. The country cannot be without a master for a day, and the army cannot be without a commander for a day. Chen Mo, the deputy general of the Yutian Division, is now temporarily serving as the commander-in-chief of the army.

Now, the whole army listens to my order and goes up to the city wall. "Chen Mo was categorical.

The fleeing troops didn't know whether they were infected by Chen Mo's momentum or threatened by the soldiers and horses of the three guards, so they had no choice but to obey orders and board the city wall.

"Han Wu, Su Wu."

"The end is here."

"I have specially ordered you two to mobilize one hundred divine warriors, two hundred divine warriors, and two hundred trap guards to form a supervising team. Those who stay behind and retreat will be killed directly without reporting."

"promise."

"Sun Meng."

"The end is here."

"Bring the personal troops to the city cave, listen to my orders, and be ready to close the Xuanmen and lower the Qianjin Gate at any time without any mistakes."

"promise."

……

The whole army acted in accordance with Chen Mo's order. Chen Mo led Xia Zhining and others to the top of the rear city gate, erected a large banner, and everyone looked into the distance.

The golden crow is setting in the west, and the sky is getting dark.

The personal camp led by Huang Da, which was also the last main force among the deserters, also fell under the sword of the Yuzhou army, and Liang Song's golden banner began to move forward slowly again.

It was impossible for Liang Song to let these thieves go, and he killed every one of them personally.

The three major canal commanders and one major commander who were chasing them were all killed in the battle. A large number of Tianshi soldiers who felt that they could not escape had no choice but to surrender.

The Yuzhou Army would naturally not let go of the remaining ones who did not surrender and were still on the run, and began to kill them with all their strength.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow fell from the sky, and the sharp arrow had already penetrated the back of a fleeing Celestial Master soldier. The man fell down on the escape road without saying a word.

The Xuanbao Cavalry began to shoot and kill the fleeing rebels in the distance. After getting closer, they drew their swords and killed the slower running rebels.

It's like a hunting spree.

The Xuanbao Cavalry is the hunter, while the Tianshi Army is the prey. They only know how to escape but not to resist.

"mighty!"

Countless Yuzhou troops crushed the fleeing rebels with overwhelming force, and bursts of miserable screams rang out on the not-so-wide official road.

The thieves fell down one after another. Shi Meng mechanically waved the pumpkin copper hammer in his hands, killing an unknown number of enemies and splashing an unknown amount of blood on his face. He only knew that he was getting more and more excited.

In his eyes, these thieves were just like the wheat in the field, harvested by him crazily.

Until a sound of breaking wind came, and a scream of "be careful" came from behind. Shi Meng just reacted and looked up, when an arrow flew past his face.

Because of the surge of adrenaline, it took a while for Shi Meng to feel the pain coming from his right ear. He raised his hand and touched it. Instead of touching his right ear, he felt warm blood.

"Ahhh." Shi Meng's scream resounded.

On the top of the city, Chen Mo sighed. The distance where Shi Meng was located was not within the locking range of the cloud-chasing arrow. Chen Mo could only rely on his own strength to shoot the feather arrow four hundred steps away. Of course, the accuracy was much worse, and he only missed the target. One of Shi Meng's right ears.

He looked at the strong bow with several cracks in his hand, and sighed again. As the strength increased, the twelve-stone strong bow was no longer suitable for him. Once it exceeded a certain strength, it would not be able to support it. .

"Close the city gate." Chen Mo shouted.

"Close the city gate."

The command flag was waving, and the order was passed on by the soldiers. When Sun Meng heard about it, he no longer cared about the deserters of the Tianshi Army who were still outside and had not entered the city. He immediately gave a sharp shout and closed the heavy Xuanmen together with Liu Ze. door, and then lower the Qianjin gate.

"boom"

Xuanmen was hit by deserters and remained motionless.

"Quickly, bring the logs." Sun Meng directed his soldiers to bring the logs and put them up behind the thousand-jin gate.

On the city wall, Chen Mo waved his hand: "Fire the arrow."

"Fire arrows!"

"Fire the arrows!" The order spread, causing the flags to fall one by one, and a hail of arrows shot up toward the Black Leopard Cavalry chasing after them outside the city.

When Xuanbao Cavalry saw the rain of arrows coming from the sky, his expression suddenly changed. He quickly raised his buckler, but under such a dense rain of arrows, there were still arrows passing by the edge of the buckler, hitting the cavalry behind him. Thigh or war horse.

The locust-like feather arrows were shot into the Black Leopard Cavalry's army along with the whistling wind. There were also some crossbow arrows from the divine arm crossbows, which could penetrate even the round shields.

The Xuanbao cavalry behind and the Yuzhou Army infantry who were catching up stopped one after another and stepped back out of the shooting range of the arrows.

Seeing that Yuzhou's army was no longer pursuing them, the soldiers of the Celestial Master at the bottom of the city thought they were safe, so they beat the Xuanmen gate one after another and asked the Celestial Master army inside to open the city gate.

But Chen Mo obviously won't open it at this time. The whole process of opening the Xuanmen and raising the Thousand Jin Gate will take some time.

And the Yuzhou Army could take advantage of this moment to rush into Chuima City.

Of course, Chen Mo would not ignore death and ask people to put down the basket and pull the person up.

But at this point, humanity comes through.

The basket is so big that no more than two people can be brought in at a time.

There were hundreds of deserters from the Tianshi Army under the city. Naturally, they would not line up one by one, but instead looted.

This resulted in Luokung being fought over by them.

In addition, although the Yuzhou army did not dare to approach the involved area, they still had ways to attack the Tianshi army under the city.

For a moment, there were screams outside the city gate.

In this regard, Chen Mo did not let anyone put down the basket anymore.

No matter how many fleeing troops there are under the city, it's useless even if you put down the baskets, especially at a life-or-death moment when the Yuzhou army is closing in on you step by step. They won't line up with you, and it's useless even if you shout. In this case, No one will listen.

"Forget it, respect other people's fate."

Chen Mo turned around and faced the Tianshi Army's fugitives who had just escaped from the city, and said loudly: "My name is Chen Mo, the deputy general of the army. Lu Shuai died in the battle. Now I will temporarily take over the position of commander. I don't want to die." , listen to my orders."

The frightened escapees of the Heavenly Master Army looked at each other, but when they looked at the supervising team who stared at them with eager eyes, they could only be forced to submit.

When they fled just now, they threw away all their weapons.

"Sun Meng, you will take the personal troops and select hundreds of people from them to go to the front city and bring in all the hammers and kerosene that are left on the city wall." Chen Mo ordered.

"No." Sun Meng responded, and immediately took his people to pick out deserters.

Chen Mo actually did not intend to defend Chuima City. After all, the main force of the Tianshi Army was wiped out by the enemy.

The reason why we still have to defend is to temporarily stabilize the morale of the troops.

Second, if he flees with this group of deserters, his three guards will also be affected. When they escape, they will lose their organization and will be overtaken by the enemy soon.

Third, it was getting dark soon. They, outsiders, were certainly not as familiar with the roads as the enemy. Now that they were so tightly entangled, it would be too risky to escape at night.

When he was escaping in Luoqing Mountain, he repelled the enemy first.

Step on.

The sound of neat and orderly footsteps resounded.

The army of Yuzhou Army has arrived.

All around were Yuzhou soldiers holding their swords high, and their cold swords were stained with blood. Even in the dusk, they exuded a cold light, and their strong armors made a sound as they ran.

Large shields decorated with beast patterns came in like a tide, and waves of higher and higher shouts of killing crazily attacked the Heavenly Master army on the city wall.

When the Heavenly Master Army on the city wall saw the huge momentum of the enemy army, their bodies quickly tightened and they were shaking like chaff.

When Chen Mo saw this, his brows furrowed. It was hard to be of great use in such a mob.

"Bang the drum." Chen Mo shouted.

"dong dong dong"

The sound of the drums was like thunder, one after another, thick and long, covering up the Yuzhou Army's shouts of killing. In this way, the panic in the Tianshi Army's heart was reduced a little.

Looking at the rebel army that was almost swarming on the city wall, Liang Song stood on the chariot and frowned, knowing that the ambush in the city was probably wiped out.

In his plan, if it goes well, once the city gate is closed, he will drive the defeated army over, and then he will catch the turtle in the urn and completely eliminate this bandit army.

But it didn't turn out according to his plan.

But again, how could every aspect of the plan go so smoothly?

At least at this point, he has already won a big victory.

"My lord, my lord, he is the traitor who killed General Xu."

At this moment, the soldiers who originally belonged to Xu Jie trotted forward and pointed at the young man on the city wall in the distance.

Although he was too far away, his face could not be seen clearly.

But the beautiful "Mingguang Armor" still made the soldiers recognize him at a glance.

"Sir, the general's right ear was shot by him." Shi Meng covered the bandaged wound and said with a stern expression.

The whole army was shocked when they heard this.

Liang Song narrowed his eyes slightly and looked towards the city. For ordinary soldiers, it was difficult to see clearly from too far away, but for mid-level warriors whose facial perception had been greatly improved, they could still see clearly.

He ordered Shi Meng several times, and then with one order, the chariot and more than ten soldiers poured out from the central army, came to the front army, and stopped outside the shooting range of the divine arm crossbow.

Liang Song got off the chariot alone, took three steps forward, then raised his hands and said loudly: "I am Liang Song of the Liang family in Hedong, and I am the current magistrate of Yuzhou. Who is my subordinate? Can you tell me your name?"

(End of this chapter)