Many ancient armies, unless they are elite troops that are extremely rare in history, many armies are not opposed to surrender.
Not to mention the ancient armies, even some modern armies, surrender is a matter of no psychological pressure for them!
From ancient times to the present, regardless of China or foreign countries, many armies have fought against the wind and surrendered!
These Ming troops in the Tonggu Guard City are naturally not elite troops capable of resisting a deadly battle. They are just a group of ordinary guardsmen!
If the battle is going downwind, then it is an evenly matched battle. Naturally, they will not surrender, and they may even show extraordinary courage and fighting will.
However, if they encounter a strong enemy or the situation is bad, when they know that nothing can be done, morale will inevitably be lost, which will eventually lead to the rebellious psychology of the troops resisting fighting and even wanting to surrender.
Nowadays, many Ming army officers in the city think like this. Qiu Yu wants to take them out to fight. In their view, leaving the city means going to die.
Why do you want to risk your life? They don’t understand!
Why should you go out of the city to die? Wouldn't it be nice to watch a show in the city, eat melon seeds and watch the friendly troops and the puppet Tang rebels fighting to death?
The friendly forces won, and they were also meritorious soldiers, because they contained and attracted tens of thousands of puppet Tang rebels to the Tonggu Guard City, and finally gave the main force of the friendly forces a chance to annihilate them.
If the friendly forces are defeated, then they surrender!
Anyway, I heard that there were thousands of officers and soldiers who had surrendered to the puppet Tang traitor army. There were not many more of them!
They all eat rations when serving as soldiers. They can eat the military rations of the Zhu family dynasty, but why can’t they eat the military rations of the Li family dynasty?
And I heard that if you serve as a soldier in the Tang Army, you can get a share of the land for free. It is your own land, and you can get a share of it as long as you join the army.
This is not much better than being a tenant or a serf to thousands or hundreds of households now.
There are actually quite a few defenders in the city who hold this idea, and not only the lowest serf soldiers, but even some middle and low-level officers have this idea!
Why do they think so?
Don't you see Zeng Ziwen? He used to be a member of the imperial court, but now he is not in the puppet Tang army. Oh, no, I should say he is doing well with the Tang army. I heard that he has been made a marquis.
Zeng Ziwen can surrender to the thieves, why can't they?
No one is worse than the other. If I vote here, I might be able to get a duke or earl title. Even if there is no duke or earl, a viscount, baron or something like that is not bad. After all, he is still a noble lord.
Of course, for some middle and low-level officers, they only think about it occasionally. To be honest, it is quite difficult to get them to surrender to the puppet Tang rebels.
Because these officers of the Ming Army, even if they are only mid-level and low-level officers, have more knowledge than ordinary soldiers, and can be exposed to and understand some things that ordinary soldiers do not know, such as the nature of the puppet Tang rebel army, and
The huge crisis that the puppet Tang rebel army will face in the future.
Ordinary villagers and soldiers may think that the world is only as big as Liping Prefecture and Guizhou Province, but for knowledgeable people, they know that the world is far bigger than their imagination, and this world,
They are all from the Zhu family.
Nowadays, the Puppet Tang thief army only occupies two mansions. For the Ming Dynasty, which is thousands of miles away, the Puppet Tang Dynasty is just a mosquito bite. It is a little itchy, but it will be fine if you scratch it.
He will also slap the mosquito to death.
Therefore, although it seems that you will gain glory and wealth by surrendering to the puppet Tang thief army, what is behind it is actually an abyss. If you fall into it, you will be dead, completely dead, and even harm your family.
But then again, if you are forced to a desperate situation by the puppet Tang rebel army, for example, if the puppet Tang rebel army broke through the Tonggu Acropolis a few days ago, surrendering to the puppet Tang rebel army does not seem to be unacceptable.
Whether they surrender depends on whether there are other options, not whether they are willing!
Of course, this is only the choice of those middle and low-ranking officers and soldiers. For the senior generals and officials in the Ming Dynasty, even when they are desperate, they will not easily choose to surrender, even if they are captured.
All are unacceptable.
The higher the position, the more they look down on and even despise the traitors of the Tang Dynasty. How can you make a Jinshi official or a Ming army general with more than a thousand households willingly surrender to the traitors? That is almost impossible.
Even if they are captured, few people will give in, at least not for now.
If the Tang Dynasty wanted to truly win the recognition of the upper echelons of society, especially those officials with scholarly backgrounds and hereditary high-ranking generals, it could only continue to develop, and one day it would really occupy several provinces and have tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of troops.
Only when they have 100,000 yuan, these high-level people in society who think highly of themselves will seriously consider surrendering to the puppet Tang thief army. Oh, no, they should be called the Tang Dynasty at that time!
Because at that time, the Tang Dynasty had already shown that it could sweep the world and even truly overthrow the Ming Dynasty to dominate the world. At that time, considering the future of themselves and their families, they would all consider surrendering to the puppet Tang rebels.
Even if the entire family does not surrender, they will send direct or collateral descendants to surrender secretly in order to put eggs in more baskets. In the end, whether the Tang Dynasty overthrew the Ming Dynasty or the dynasty successfully overthrew the Tang Dynasty,
If the suppression continues, the family will remain prosperous.
Qiu Yu rushed out with the defenders in the city. The Ming army officers and soldiers, including Qiu Yu, had their own ideas, and these ideas would be directly reflected in their battles.
After the soldiers and mid-level and low-level officers left the city, they dragged their feet and refused to move forward, while Qiu Yu and other senior generals kept shouting and trying to get the soldiers to speed up and organize formations to launch an attack.
As a result, the formation of the Ming army leaving the city became even more scattered, and it was impossible to form a perfect breakout formation in accordance with Qiu Yu's tactical intentions.
In the end, the only ones who rushed to the front were Qiu Yu and other senior generals and more than 300 of their own soldiers. As for the ordinary soldiers, they lagged behind, and their progress was always slow. In the end, Qiu Yu and others
More than 300 soldiers led by others got out of touch.
However, under this situation, Qiu Yu and the others still did not stop. Instead, they and other senior generals continued to charge forward with their soldiers.
Qiu Yu knew very well that most of the three thousand people he led were frightened by the puppet Tang rebels. It was possible for them to mutiny and surrender on the spot. What's more, these ordinary soldiers did not
What kind of combat power do they have? The only ones who can really fight are these three hundred soldiers. If the three hundred soldiers he personally leads cannot pose a real threat to the puppet Tang rebel army, then the three thousand people behind him will also be of little use.
And he couldn't stop, because he had already received an order from Lord Long, the commander-in-chief of the main force, last night. Lord Long asked him to lead his army to attack when the war started, and cooperate with the main force to attack the puppet Tang thief army.
One battle.
If it succeeds, then this is a huge feat. If it fails, it will not be better than staying in the city. Because staying in the city means disobeying orders, and the Ming army will be defeated by a weak force. Lord Long will give it to him when he comes back.
Put on a label of disobedience, and then shout: Pull him out and chop him!
If the Ming army is defeated, the end will be even more tragic. When the time comes, would it be better for him, who is trapped in the isolated city, to surrender or commit suicide?
The military orders and the concern for his entire family and personal future forced him to lead his troops to rush out and cooperate with the main force in the battle.
The best result is naturally to cooperate with the main force to annihilate the micro-munition bandit army. If he cannot achieve this goal, he must die on the battlefield. He will definitely not survive, let alone be captured.
In that case, his entire family will be implicated, and his family may be confiscated and exterminated.
A general with his status often does things based on his own preferences and even his own life safety.
He has too many things to take care of!
The hereditary capital is in charge of everything. The Qiu family, which has a history of more than a hundred years of prosperity and wealth, cannot be defeated in his hands!
Absolutely not!
After he dies, he still has two sons who can inherit the family business. His eldest son will inherit his military position and become the new commander of the Qiu family.
Even because of his death in battle, the family will receive awards from the court. Perhaps his son's future career will be smoother, and the family will continue to enjoy glory and wealth.
Qiu Yu had this idea, and most of the other senior generals who followed him in the charge also had the same idea, but they did not have the courage like Qiu Yu to accept death.
Although they charged with Qiu Yu with a determined expression, they were still afraid!
The people on the opposite side were the Pseudo-Tang rebels, the same Pseudo-Tang rebels who had frightened them so much that they collapsed on their own even a hundred meters away!
Now, these pseudo-Tang rebels have formed the tightest formation in front of them!
In this case, they felt as if they were a wave of waves, and the formation of the new army of the Tang Dynasty was a dam, and it was an indestructible steel dam.
After they rush over, they may create some waves, but in the end they will still dissipate without leaving even a trace.
When the wind calmed down and the waves calmed down, the dike was still there, but the waves hitting the dike had disappeared without a trace.
Such thoughts inevitably make them feel a kind of despair!
But even in despair, they had to rush forward because they had no other choice. Lord Long gave orders to Qiu Yu, and Qiu Yu also gave orders to his subordinates. Who dared to say anything?
Qiu Yu dared to kill this man on the spot.
As a result, a rather strange scene occurred on the battlefield. The Ming army in the city rushed out, but gradually divided into one after another. The group in front only had more than 300 people, but they were well-equipped. Among them,
Half of the people fought in armor, and many of them rode horses.
The three thousand people at the back were much worse equipped. Most of their equipment were rusty iron knives and spears. There were very few people wearing armor, and their formation was chaotic. If they weren't wearing military uniforms and holding weapons, they probably wouldn't have any.
People will think of them as an army.
Li Chunjing, who didn't know the inside story, couldn't help but frowned when he saw this scene, and then said: "Send a message to the First Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Infantry Regiment, requesting friendly forces to provide tactical cover!"
After giving the order, he murmured: "I'm afraid these Ming troops may be a little weird, so it's better to be more cautious!"