Chapter 1331 Attack

This group of people was temporarily united because of Sun Yuantai's dispatch. Indeed, the court has a deputy commander, but in such a major event, it is impossible to bypass Sun Yuantai to make dispatches.

In addition, if the deputy commander makes dispatches in the name of emergency, even if the matter is handled well later, it may not be a good thing. If he exceeds his authority, the best result will be offset, and if he fails, he will not be able to escape the blame afterwards.

From ancient times to the present, all imperial power relies on the army, but at the same time, he is also afraid of the generals in the army. The most feared thing is undoubtedly to dispatch troops without the superiors.

Unless there is an order from the superior, otherwise, even if the superior dies suddenly, he cannot act rashly.

These are the bloody lessons left in history books.

If there is no such rule, the deputy general will secretly harm the main general, and the deputy general will plot against the main general to seize power. At that time, the entire military system will be in chaos.

What's more, there was a time when the deputy commander of the Yulin Army guarding the imperial city defected to the prince. At that time, the old emperor was ill for a period of time and did not attend the morning court. At the critical moment, the other party directly killed the commander-in-chief and used the forged imperial order given by the prince to mobilize troops, under the name of the eunuchs imprisoning the emperor, and entered the palace with the prince to purge the emperor.

Later, many officials were indeed killed, and the old emperor became the emperor, depressed for more than half a year, and then died of illness.

After the prince ascended the throne and became the new emperor, he blocked this loophole.

If there is a problem with the commander-in-chief, he can only defend, but not attack, and must wait for the higher-ups to make a decision.

Although such a system will greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the army, compared with the stability of the imperial power, it is just a few more soldiers who die, which is insignificant.

Therefore, when Sun Yuantai fainted, the whole situation became worse.

As for the Great Yan Ancient Road, it was built by the Yan Dynasty thousands of years ago. The section of the road that just left Tianjue Pass and headed towards the South Wasteland was dug out by the Great Yan Dynasty. It is said that it took hundreds of years and mobilized more than a million civilians.

This section of the ancient road is nearly ten feet wide, and the entire road was dug out on the cliffs, not just a hole to make a plank road.

As for the length, according to historical records, in the earliest times, this road went straight to the South Wasteland, but due to the long years, geological changes, and earthquakes, only a small section of the ancient road remained.

Even such a section is the result of frequent repairs by subsequent dynasties.

Of course, Sun Yuantai’s defenses were not just limited to this small section of the Great Yan Ancient Road. His defensive fortifications stretched for more than a hundred miles. Although there was not a fortress every three or five steps, there was at least one fortress every three or five miles, or even several fortresses. In some important places, there were even nearly ten fortresses in a row.

The length of the Great Yan Ancient Road is only more than ten miles, which is only one tenth of the entire road.

But if this section is lost, the biggest problem is that the fortresses in front have become isolated troops and lost reinforcements and supplies.

In this situation of being attacked from both sides, it is not optimistic how much morale this isolated army can have in the future.

After all, the corruption of the court's army has not been a day or two, even if Liu Guangzheng made a decision that violated his ancestors and sold everything to make a military expenditure and train a new army.

But this new army, on the one hand, has too short a training time, and on the other hand, has not experienced any war at all. With backup, supplies, and command, this team naturally has combat effectiveness. However, once these are gone, then there is nothing.

It is impossible to train out any faith, spirit, military soul, etc. in a short period of training.

People in the late dynasty suffered a lot, but most of them didn't know where the suffering came from.

Even if they join the army, they will just go with the flow. If there is no military supervisor, they may surrender directly after meeting a powerful opponent.

After all, there is no place for them in this world, but now, the survival of the court requires them to die. Glory has nothing to do with them, but they have to bear the price. In this case, anyone who is a little sober will not fight to the death.

The reason why Sun Yuantai fainted was that he thought of this in a short time just now. Once the Great Yan Ancient Road was lost, it would be the same as losing it all.

If it was at the beginning of the founding of the country, it would not be like this. At that time, military merit was hard currency, and everyone competed for merit. If they died in battle for the country, the pension would be extremely heavy, and the descendants would be blessed for generations.

But now, whether it is land or title, they have already been divided up. In this case, how can the army have the heart to fight to the death? !

Even in this situation, we should not be too harsh on soldiers who are afraid of fighting. If their families are harmed by this, it is possible that as long as the enemy offers the condition that they can protect their descendants as long as they surrender, the subordinates will even dare to directly tie up their superiors and surrender...

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Boom!

Thunder and fire continued to explode on the Dayan Ancient Road.

This time, Liu Guangzheng built these fortresses very high and thick in order to deal with Zhao Cheng. Even many of the fortresses were equipped with cannons.

Although the lethality of these cannons is not as good as the rocket launcher made by Zhao Cheng, the range is also more than 300 meters, and the effective killing range is about 10x10.

This kind of cannon, when placed on a large battlefield, naturally has limited lethality, but on the small road out of the southern wilderness, it is a sure kill.

After all, there are very few places on the entire road out of the Southern Wilderness that can exceed ten meters in width, and most of them are large naturally formed platforms.

Normally, if you want to break through these cannons, you can only use human lives to pile them up. After all, it takes time to change the cannonballs.

As long as you seize this gap and keep pushing forward, you can drown it with the sea of ​​people.

And the problem lies here.

These cannons are not easy to transport, and each one is very heavy. When they were first transported, they never thought that they would fire towards their rear. Therefore, the positions of the cannons were almost always fixed, at most, upward, Or downward, adjust the muzzle.

Furthermore, when I saw the fortresses, in order to meet the construction deadline and save time, these fortresses were thick at the front, enough to withstand the bombing of high explosives in a short period of time, but they were much thinner at the back, and even Even the door is just a wooden door covered with a layer of iron.

Because according to normal thinking, when the enemy comes to this portal, it undoubtedly means that the fortress has fallen.

In this case, Zhao Cheng led a man and horse to attack from behind. It can be said that he was unstoppable all the way.

Of course, Zhao Cheng did not rush all the way. Instead, after capturing half of the Dayan Ancient Road, he divided half of his men and horses, carrying heavy firepower, to station at the entrance of the Dayan Ancient Road to prevent Sun Yuantai from sending troops to attack.

By the time the sky was dim, Zhao Cheng had advanced twenty miles and reached the one-fifth mark.