Yang Guozhu stared at the wilderness to the east and was in a daze for a while.
Can he defeat Li Zhi? Defeat Li Zhi who swept across the Ming Dynasty and beyond?
Yang Guozhu suddenly felt that this matter was a bit impossible. That was Li Zhi.
The number of 400,000 troops and the plan carefully prepared for several months did not give Yang Guozhu any confidence.
Yang Guozhu swallowed his saliva, his aging face twitching.
However, Yang Guozhu is a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles. Countless times, even in a losing battle with no chance of winning, Yang Guozhu gritted his teeth and prepared carefully to do his best. So at this time, even if he lost the victory over Li Zhi
Despite his confidence, he still did not lose the composure of a handsome man.
Slowly, he suppressed the fear in his heart.
Looking around at the generals and soldiers around him, Yang Guozhu shouted: "My 400,000-strong army is besieging Tianjin with thunderous momentum. Complete victory can only be achieved in a few repetitions. The time when the traitor Li Zhi will take the lead is just around the corner. At the moment of the war, the only choice is
What’s worrying is just spreading rumors and creating chaos.”
Yang Guozhu pointed his hand at the three soldiers in front and shouted loudly: "These three people are whispering to each other in the trench, confusing the morale of the army, behead them!"
When the officers and soldiers around him heard Yang Guozhu's categorical words, their faces froze.
Only then did the three whispering soldiers realize that the rebellious general Yang Guozhu was beside them. When they heard Yang Guozhu's words, their faces turned pale with fear. The three of them fell to their knees on the ground, kowtowing desperately.
The soldiers beside Yang Guozhu did not give the three soldiers a chance to beg for mercy, but rushed forward and dragged the three of them down.
Just behind the trench, three unlucky soldiers were beheaded by officers on the spot. Of course, the three severed heads would not be discarded, but were held high by Yang Guozhu's soldiers. The soldiers mounted their horses and held up the heads.
The heads of "criminal soldiers" screamed loudly in the north and south directions of the trench, warning the soldiers of the consequences of private discussions.
Seeing the fate of these three soldiers, the other soldiers all turned pale. They all secretly thought that they were lucky because they were not caught by Yang Guozhu during the discussion. With the lessons learned from these three people, how could others dare to do it again?
A sound in the trench?
The atmosphere in the trench, which had been increasingly chaotic, suddenly calmed down and stabilized.
Yang Guozhu took a breath and knew that he had the situation under control.
He tossed his cloak and walked towards the Chinese army behind the trench in the autumn wind. The battle was probably going to start soon, and Yang Guozhu was going to the Chinese army to command the battle.
But as soon as Yang Guozhu took a step forward, he suddenly saw a huge roar coming from the opposite side.
At this time, the distance between the Beijing New Army and the Huben Army was only ten miles. Originally, the Huben Army was on the defensive, and the Beijing New Army might launch an attack at any time. However, after Li Zhi arrived at the front line in person, the momentum of the Huben Army was completely different, and the Huben Army might also cross the trench.
The new army in the Beijing camp attacked Yang Guozhu, so all changes on the battlefield were very sensitive.
The rumbling roar did not sound like a human being, but more like a huge machine, a machine that neither the Beijing New Army nor Yang Guozhu had ever seen.
When Yang Guozhu heard those roars, a look of panic flashed across his face. He forced himself to calm down, raised his telescope and began to observe the battlefield on the opposite side.
However, Yang Guozhu was too low and he saw nothing in the telescope.
When the soldiers in the trenches heard the huge roar coming from a few miles away, their calm faces began to panic again.
The characteristic of the Huben Army is not only that it is victorious in every battle, but also that it relies on advanced weapons to win every battle. The legend that the Huben Army used steam tanks to destroy the trenches of the Jiangbei Army has spread throughout the country. Everyone knows that the Huben Army has weapons that other armies cannot match.
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Could this huge roar be the sound made by the weapons of the Tiger Army? Is it a steam tank?
The long trenches of the New Army in Beijing gradually began to become chaotic again. Although the soldiers did not dare to talk, they could not help but look at each other and communicate their uneasiness with each other through their eyes.
Yang Guozhu's face was ashen but there was nothing he could do. Soldiers always turned around to take bullets, rest, and go to the toilet in the trenches. It was impossible for him to behead every soldier who turned his head more than thirty degrees.
He could only stare at the battlefield opposite, trying to search for the source of the huge roar. After thinking about it, he strode towards a higher hill behind him and walked to the highest point of the hill to observe the battlefield.
From a high place, Yang Guozhu vaguely saw the trench system of the Tiger Army on the opposite side. In order to deal with the Beijing camp, which had seven or eight times the number of people as he did, the trench of the Huben Army was dug very long, and the density of soldiers in the trench was very low. It was the same as the trench of the Beijing camp.
, the trenches of the Huben Army are also divided into four or five layers, including combat trenches, reserve trenches, logistics trenches, command trenches, etc.
Through a high-magnification telescope, Yang Guozhu saw some huge steel chariots crossing over from behind the trench.
Seeing those chariots, Yang Guozhu's face turned pale.
Yang Guozhu has prepared a large number of bombs to deal with Li Zhi's steam tanks. These bombs are similar to the explosive bombs in Jingying. They use an open flame to ignite the fuse and throw them out to blow up the Tiger Soldiers behind the steam tank.
But the steel chariot that Yang Guozhu saw at this time seemed completely different from the steam tank. There seemed to be some tubes sticking out of the chariot, and he didn't know if they were gun barrels.
Obviously, Li Zhi's tank has been upgraded again.
Yang Guozhu's heart sank.
But these tanks were not enough to make Yang Guozhu tremble.
Behind the trench on the opposite side, following the steel chariots, a gorgeous team of soldiers suddenly appeared. Each of the soldiers were riding tall horses, wearing gorgeous military uniforms, with red flags on their backs. The flag was on
The birds are flying in the wind, and from a distance it looks like a red cloud pressing over them.
The team was galloping and moving very fast. Yang Guozhu looked at it for a while and saw the huge dragon banner symbolizing Li Zhi's royal power, as well as a tall flag mounted on the chariot. The flag was ten feet long.
High, with a huge word "Qi" written on it.
Under the flag, Li Zhi, dressed in a gorgeous new marshal's uniform, rode on a horse and drove toward the battlefield with an expressionless face.
As soon as the King of Qi's banner and the dragon's flag were close to the trench on the front line, cheers resounded throughout the sky from the Huben Army's position.
"King Qi!"
"Long live King Qi!"
"Long live!"
When the soldiers of the Huben Army saw Li Zhi coming to the front line, they seemed to see victory. Although the number was only a fraction of the number on the opposite side, Li Zhi symbolized invincibility. The soldiers of the Huben Army held their rifles high in the trench,
Let out deafening cheers.
King Li Zhi of Qi personally marched to the front line, what else could he not defeat?
The huge cheers of the Huben Army spread for more than ten miles, causing a deathly silence in the trenches of the New Army in Beijing.
The new army in the Beijing camp, which should have been fully confident of victory, actually completely lost confidence under Li Zhi's reputation.
Yang Guozhu suddenly felt that he could no longer control his fear, and his body began to tremble slightly.
