As the number of people surged, Gu Mo had to consider more issues, not only the food, clothing and survival of a group of people, but more importantly, discipline, ideological and moral issues.
When they are refugees and ordinary people, they are the weak and the targets of bullying and suppression by bandits and officers and soldiers. They can only helplessly bear everything imposed on them by the strong.
But humans are complex animals. People who have been suppressed for a long time have strength and swords in their hands, if they are not restrained in time, they will become officers, soldiers and bandits who bully the weak, and become the evil wolf they once feared the most, and bully those weak people who are as weak as they used to be.
At that time, they were just a group of mobs without moral bottom line, and their destructive power was immeasurable.
Since Gu Mo accepted them, he must be responsible for them and not let them commit suicide. At the same time, he must be responsible for the safety of others' lives and cannot let them bully the weak.
Therefore, Gu Mo and Li Yanxiu discussed and formulated a series of strict disciplines. Li Yanxiu played a gentle supervisor, tempting everyone and giving ideological education from time to time.
Gu Mo is a strict executor, using the most harsh means to punish those who violate discipline, so that they know that strength is not only a means of self-protection, but also shoulders more responsibilities.
With such kindness and power as well as strict discipline, this team is becoming more and more like a regular army.
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The temperature during the day is too high, and there are too many people rushing to go on the road, and the temperature is cooler at night, so Gu Mo puts the time to travel until the night, and finds a place to sleep during the day.
At noon, when the sun was the hottest, everyone was resting, and there were people taking turns to be on duty outside, but Gu Mo couldn't sleep and felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart.
She simply stood up and prepared to go ahead and see the road.
We are about to get to the gate of Shijicheng. After passing Shijicheng, we will arrive at Huairen Mansion.
Gu Mo couldn't help but walk up the mountain. Among the refugees, there were people from Shijicheng. Gu Mo heard them say that if you go up this kind of mountain and bypass a cave, you can see the gate of Shijicheng.
At this moment, a fierce battle was going on under Shiji City.
Thousands of soldiers of the Zhen Army surrounded an army wearing black armor. This Xuanjia Army is the most elite unit in the entire Yu country. It was trained by the Gu family. It was once invincible on the battlefield, which made the Zhen Army very scared.
However, now, there are not many people left in the Xuanjia Army. Their Xuanjia has been dyed red with blood, but they are still strong and firm. They hold the gun in their hands tightly, surround the main general Gu Yan, and fight to the death with the enemy.
Batches of real soldiers rushed forward, and then batches of real soldiers fell down. The only few remaining people in the Xuanjia Army were extremely fierce.
The Zhenjun began to shoot arrows, but even after being hit, they did not fall down but broke the arrow shaft to continue fighting. This spirit of not fearing death made the Zhenjun tremble all over.
In the middle of the real army, a man sitting on a tall horse with gold earrings staring at Gu Yan and narrowed his eyes.
He is Zhen Fengshu, the fourth prince of the Zhen Kingdom. He ordered the attack to stop, "Tell him that as long as he is willing to surrender to my Zhen Kingdom and serve my Zhen Kingdom, he will spare him and never die!"
Immediately someone passed the message.
Gu Yan sneered and inserted the plum blossom gun on the ground to support his shaky body. "Yuanguo only had the Xuanjia Army that died on the battlefield, and there were no Xuanjia Army that surrendered to the enemy and sold his country! Even if we die today, we will still be killed on the battlefield, and we will still be glorious even if we die!"
The iron-armored soldiers, covered in wounds, stood straight beside Gu Yan. There were only a few of them, and there were still thousands of them on the other side. They were wiped out today, which was certain, but none of them were afraid of the impending death.
Zhen Fengshu admires Gu Yan's backbone very much. In fact, he admires the four men of the Gu family, the father and son.
Because of this, he never tires about it and advised the four men of the Gu family to surrender to the Zhen Kingdom over and over again. Even though he knew that they would fail, he would still solemnly advise the other party before killing each other.
However, Gu Cong had never been in a desire to surrender. Gu Cong's eldest son and second son died in battle until the last moment, and did not bend their knees to Zhenjun.
Zhen Fengshu was shocked and admired. He also restrained the bodies of the two brothers and returned them to Gu Yan.
Now three of the Gu family's father and son have died, and only one of them is left. He still holds hope and hopes to convince Gu Yan. After all, it is really rare.
"General Gu, look at your emperor, who is addicted to luxury and enjoyment, devotes himself to elixirs and seeks immortality, and believes that treacherous ministers kill your father. He feels sorry for your father's loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but he is guilty of treason for tyranny. In such a country, such an emperor, what is worthy of your loyalty? It is better to submit to my true country, my true country's high officials are waiting for you!"
Hearing these words, Gu Yan's expression was very complicated. It was not because he was moved by Zhen Fengshu's words, but Zhen Fengshu mentioned his father.
When he remembered his father was escorted back to Beijing, he repeatedly told him that the Xuanjia Army was the hope of the Yuguo country, and he must take the Xuanjia Army to defend Huairen City, and must not be dissatisfied with the matter of being questioned and resisted the enemy passively.
However, his father probably did not expect that his trip to the capital would be a dead end, and he was the only official in the history of the country to be executed by the imperial court.
He even did not expect that the eunuchs and Taoist priests sent by the court, regardless of whether the enemy was in front of him, only regarded Xuanjia as a major concern, and tried to eliminate it quickly, so that the Xuanjia army could leave the city to meet the enemy.
Originally, the gate of Huairen Mansion was extremely strong, and the real army could not fight in at all. They guarded it, saving some food, and could also consume the real army.
However, once you take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy, the situation will be different, and Huairen's Mansion is at a disadvantage.
The Xuanjia Army was forced to leave the city to meet the enemy again and again, with fewer and fewer people...
Until two days ago, they were forced out of the city to meet the enemy again, and once again fought the real army backwards with extremely heavy casualties.
But he couldn't find it, but Huairen's mansion refused to open the city gate again, saying that his father was a crime of colluding with the enemy, and he was also suspected of colluding with the enemy. It was better to die on the battlefield first than to be executed when he returned to Beijing, he would not open the city gate for them anyway.
Seeing this, the real army, who had withdrawn, made a counterattack, and the Xuanjia Army suffered heavy casualties.
Gu Yan had no choice but to retreat with the Xuanjia Army, and fought while retreating, and he fought until the gate of Shi Jicheng, hoping that Shi Jicheng could open the gate and let them in.
As a result, when Shi Jicheng saw that there were so many real soldiers behind them, he was afraid that the real soldiers would take advantage of the situation to attack the city, so he pretended to be dead and refused to respond.
So, they fought a final decisive battle with the real army at Shiji City.