This group of people was temporarily united by Sun Yuantai's arrangements. It is true that the imperial court has a deputy commander, but on such a major matter, it is impossible to go beyond Sun Yuantai to make arrangements.
In addition, if at this moment, the deputy commander makes arrangements in the name of following urgent matters, even if the matter is handled later, it may not be a good thing. If he oversteps his authority, it is best to offset the effect. But if If you do something wrong, you will not be able to escape the blame afterwards.
Throughout the ages, imperial power has always relied on the army, but at the same time it was also wary of military generals. The most feared of them all was undoubtedly the ability to mobilize troops beyond their superiors.
Unless there is an order from a superior, you cannot act rashly even if the superior dies suddenly.
These are the bloody lessons left in the history books.
If there were no such rules, and the deputy general assassinated the commander, and the deputy commander plotted against the commander, to seize power, the entire military system would 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. He also used the forged emperor's order given by the prince to mobilize his troops, under the guise of the eunuch putting the emperor under house arrest, and followed the prince into the palace to Qingjun's side.
Later, officials did kill many people, and the old emperor became the Supreme Emperor. He was depressed for more than half a year, and then died of illness.
After the prince ascended the throne and became the new emperor, he closed this loophole.
If something goes wrong with the coach, he can only defend and not attack, and he has to wait until a higher-up makes a decision.
Although such a system will greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the army, compared to the stability of the imperial power, it is just the death of a few more soldiers, which is inconsequential.
Therefore, when Sun Yuantai fainted, it directly made the entire situation worse.
As for the Great Yan Ancient Road, it was built by Yan once upon a time, eons ago. The section of road that just left Tianjueguan and headed towards the Southern Wilderness was dug out by Great Yan. It is said that it took hundreds of years to launch He has killed more than a million civilians.
This section of the ancient road is nearly ten feet wide, and it is entirely carved out of the cliff, rather than just opening holes to act as a plank road.
As for the length, according to historical records, in the earliest days, this road led directly to the Southern Wilderness. However, due to the long years, geological changes, and earthquakes, only such a small section of the ancient road remained.
The fact that it even exists like this is the result of frequent repairs by subsequent dynasties.
Of course, Sun Yuantai's fortifications were not just limited to this small section of the Dayan Ancient Road. His fortifications stretched for more than a hundred miles. Although it was not a fortress for only three to five steps, there was at least one within three to five miles. There are even several forts, in some important places, even nearly ten in a row.
The length of the Dayan Ancient Road is only more than ten miles, which is only one-tenth of the entire length.
But if this section is lost, the biggest problem is that the fortresses in front have become isolated armies and have lost reinforcements and supplies.
In this situation of being flanked from both sides, it is not optimistic how much morale this lone army will have in the future.
After all, the imperial army has been decaying for more than a day or two, even if Liu Guangzheng made a decision that went against his ancestors, sold everything, and forcibly raised a military expenditure to train a new army.
But this new army, on the one hand, the training time is too short, on the other hand, it has not experienced any war at all. With backup, supplies, and command, this team will naturally still have combat effectiveness. However, once these are all
If it is gone, then there is nothing.
It is impossible to train such things as faith, spirit, and military spirit in a short period of training.
People in the last years of the dynasty could be said to have suffered a lot, but most of them didn't know where the suffering came from.
Even joining the army is a situation of drifting with the crowd. If there is no supervision of the army, you may not be able to defeat a powerful opponent as soon as you meet him.
After all, there is no place for them in this world, but now, the survival of the imperial court depends on their death. The glory has nothing to do with them, but they have to bear the price. In this case, anyone who is sober can't
Fight to the end.
The reason why Sun Yuantai fainted was because he thought of this in a short period of time. Once the Great Yan Ancient Road is lost, it will be no different than losing it all.
If it was at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this would naturally not be the case. At that time, military merit was hard currency and everyone competed for credit. If someone died fighting for the country, the pension would be extremely heavy, and subsequent generations of descendants would be blessed.
But now, both the land and the title have been divided among people. Under such circumstances, how can the army be willing to fight to the death?!
Even in this case, we should not be too harsh on the timid soldiers. If this harms their families and makes them unable to protect themselves, as long as the enemy offers conditions such as surrender, they can hide their descendants. The people below will even dare to directly
He tied up his superior officer and opened the door to surrender...
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Rumble!
On the Great Yan Ancient Road, thunder and fire exploded non-stop.
In order to deal with Zhao Cheng this time, Liu Guangzheng built these fortresses extremely high and thick, and many of them were even equipped with cannons.
Although these cannons are not as lethal as the rocket launchers developed by Zhao Cheng, they still have a range of more than 300 meters, and the effective killing range is about 10x10.
This kind of cannon has limited lethality when placed on a large battlefield, but on the trail out of the southern wilderness, it is absolutely lethal.
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 move it downward to 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 gateway, it undoubtedly means that the fortress has fallen.
In this case, Zhao Cheng led a group of men and horses to attack from behind. It can be said that he was unstoppable along the way.
Of course, Zhao Cheng did not advance 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 dimming, Zhao Cheng had advanced twenty miles and reached the one-fifth mark.
This chapter has been completed!