On the top of the city, Zhu Zhihai looked at the wall in front of the city where soldiers from both sides were fighting. The look on his face was no longer as simple as a frown. Instead, his whole body was trembling slightly, and he murmured: "How is that possible!"
How can this be?
Zhu Zhihai still couldn't believe what he was seeing!
How long has it been? If we count from yesterday, then twelve hours have not yet arrived, but our army of more than 30,000 has already been defeated.
If it starts from the official launch of the general offensive by the puppet Tang rebel army, it will only take half an hour!
In such a short period of time, his army of more than 30,000 people was completely defeated!
Yes, a complete rout!
Even though Zhu Zhihai could still see his own soldiers resisting on the top of the city, he could still clearly know that he had lost this battle without any suspense and simply!
Now at least 3,000 puppet Tang rebels have climbed to the top of the city, and the occupied city is no longer limited to the first section of the city, and there are already many sections of the city where puppet troops have climbed to the top of the city.
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The soldiers of both sides were crowded on the small city wall and fighting each other. Every second, someone fell down. However, the reality that made Zhu Zhihai think that the battle was defeated was that most of the people who fell were Ming army soldiers!
Even though he had dispatched the most elite Fubiao soldiers under his command, he still blocked the advance of the pseudo-Tang rebels on the city, let alone drove them off the city!
And the most important thing is that the tens of thousands of puppet Tang rebels outside the city have already rushed to the top of the city, but our own side can no longer separate enough troops to stop their advance!
Now some of the elites of the Ming army, especially the Fubiao soldiers directly under Zhu Zhihai, have gone to many sections of the city wall and are fighting hand-to-hand with the puppet Tang rebels who have rushed to the top of the city!
Needless to say, among the remaining Ming army, young men and civilians, it would be unreliable for them to come forward to fight in hand-to-hand combat. Even the soldiers at the guard station could not muster up the courage to rush towards the dense crowds of pseudo-Tang thieves ahead.
Military crowd!
On the contrary, at this time, many soldiers of the Ming Army, whether generals or ordinary soldiers, saw that the situation was not good and began to flee on a large scale. Several ramps under the city wall were already crowded with soldiers of the Ming Army. They were scrambling to think of something to do.
He wanted to escape down the city wall to avoid the pursuit of the puppet Tang bandits.
During the crowding process, people were pushed and fell from the city wall from time to time!
The whole scene was almost chaos!
A small number of Ming troops were still resisting on the top of the city. Some of the Ming troops were in great confusion, running around, and some of the Ming troops had already begun to rush to escape down the city!
The war situation has developed to this point, and Zhu Zhihai is actually completely out of control!
There were already people looking at Zhu Zhihai all the time. They were waiting for Zhu Zhihai to give an order!
What is the order?
Nothing more than a retreat!
The defensive battle for Liping City has reached this point. It can no longer be defended at all. The next thing is to preserve our strength for the future war!
What is the vital force that needs to be preserved? Naturally, it is their own lives, and perhaps the lives of their own soldiers and direct troops!
As for the ordinary soldiers, young men and civilians, they naturally need to stay and fight to the death to cover their escape.
But Zhu Zhihai hesitated to give the order!
This made them all very anxious!
"Sir!" Someone finally couldn't help but shouted "Sir". Although the following words were not spoken, looking at his expression, you can tell what he did not say next. It was nothing more than that if he didn't leave, it would be too late.
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But at this time, Zhu Zhihai still looked at them and did not give any orders!
At this time, a loud sound that was almost earth-shattering suddenly came from the northeast. The sound was so loud that it far exceeded the sound of the heavy artillery shelling by the puppet Tang rebel army!
When everyone heard the sound and looked around, they saw that a section of the city wall in the northeast had set off a cloud of smoke and dust that was more than ten meters high. The entire city wall was shrouded in smoke and dust!
After the smoke and dust dissipated a little, everyone saw that the originally tall city wall had completely collapsed, and the pseudo-Tang traitor troops were rushing in despite the smoke that had not yet dissipated!
It’s over!
It’s all over!
All is lost!
If the puppet Tang rebels had only climbed part of the city before, theoretically we could still rely on a large number of soldiers to fight hand-to-hand and drive them off the city regardless of sacrifice!
Then after this section of the city wall is blown down, the influx of puppet Tang rebels will not be so easy to stop, because they will enter thousands or even more, and they will be concentrated together, not with the city head.
Just like the puppet Tang bandits who came up, although many people came up, they were all scattered on various sections of the city wall.
At this time, everyone had the idea that it was completely over!
Zhu Zhihai finally sighed as he looked at the large number of pseudo-Tang traitor troops pouring in from the gap!
He looked up to the sky and sighed: "Today's defeat is all due to your incompetence!"
As soon as these words came out, the group of generals next to them were extremely embarrassed. We are incompetent?
You damn bastard, if you hadn't been hesitant yesterday and wanted to annihilate the vanguard of the puppet Tang rebel army, cut off the rear, abandon tens of thousands of troops and march into the city, what would have resulted in today's situation!
They shouldn't have been in Liping Prefecture before. Wouldn't it be better to station troops dozens of miles away and slowly confront the puppet Tang rebels? What's so good about Liping Prefecture? You must come here!
Forget it if you come here. After arriving outside Liping Mansion City, you should have fought to the death with the puppet Tang rebel army under the city. At that time, there were more than 30,000 people in our army. If we had rushed up with more than 30,000 people, we would have been defeated.
If you don’t believe it, you can’t defeat those fake Tang bandits!
Well now, tens of thousands of horses were lost yesterday!
Last night, we knew clearly that the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army had arrived, and we knew that we couldn't defeat them, so why did we still defend Liping City? Don't you know that there is no need to worry about having no firewood to burn the green hills?
Yesterday, how many people suggested giving up Liping Fucheng and taking a step back to enjoy a brighter future!
As long as they exit Liping Fucheng, the puppet Tang rebel army will not be able to catch up even if they want to. When the time comes, if we gather more troops and even ask the province to send troops to assist in the battle, this mere puppet Tang rebel army will not be able to stay alive for long!
But why should we defend Lipingfu City?
Just for the ridiculous reason of not giving up any ground? Just for your Zhu Zhihai’s reputation for loyalty?
You Zhu Zhihai seems to be unwilling to retreat even if he wants to gain fame. Now, the traitors from the Tang Dynasty have broken through the city one after another. Who is to blame for all this?
Do you blame us, the soldiers who fought so hard to kill the enemy?
Bastard, blame yourself!
At this time, Zhu Zhihai glanced at the many generals around him, then glared angrily and said: "You can all be killed!"
"Left and right, kill these traitors who are harming the country!"
"Kill them all. Kill them all for me. If you don't die on the battlefield, you will die by my sword!"
"I will personally lead the army to defend Liping City!"
Zhu Zhihai yelled, his expression was already a little desperate, and people would have the illusion that this person is crazy!"
However, after hearing this, the soldiers around him did not take direct action, and followed his orders and began to kill these generals.
This was not the time when I killed the commander of the Xinglong Guard before. At that time, I just killed one commander of the Xinglong Guard. There was no pressure on the soldiers at all.
But what I saw in front of me was a group of generals, all senior generals such as commanders, commanders, commanders, etc. The last one was Qianhu!
Do you really want to kill them all?
They hesitated!
The hesitation of these soldiers gave many Ming army generals present enough time to react!
Immediately everyone shouted: Personal soldiers!
They were all senior generals, and they also had many soldiers around them. Seeing that Zhu Zhihai had gone crazy and wanted to kill them all, they would be able to catch them without any help, so everyone immediately shouted for soldiers!
At the same time, they themselves drew out their swords one by one!
A brave conductor even scolded Zhu Zhihai: "I've been putting up with you for a long time!"
Then he took two steps forward and put the knife directly on Zhu Zhihai's neck. At the same time, he coldly snorted to more than a dozen of Zhu Zhihai's soldiers: "Don't come here, otherwise I will lose my grip on the knife!"
Several of Zhu Zhihai's soldiers immediately ran over and pointed their knives at him. One of them, a member of the Qianhu family, shouted: "Bold, let go of the master. You are committing rebellion, so don't worry about your family being confiscated and your family exterminated!"
"What the heck are you afraid of? My parents have ascended to heaven a long time ago. If my wife is gone, I can remarry. If my son is gone, I can have another child. I'm afraid of you!" This commander is obviously not a fool. He said these words.
It seems rude, but when others think about it, if this person really thinks this way, there is really nothing they can do about him!
At this time, I heard this man say again: "A man, a wife, a daughter, and a son are nothing. As long as I live, I can marry as many wives as I like, and have as many sons as I want!"
After saying that, the commander looked around and immediately said: "Comrades, this bastard Zhu Zhihai doesn't regard the life of this guy as his life. Yesterday Mr. Li of Xinglongwei just told a few truths.
It's just a difficulty. He killed him when he said he wanted to. What's even more annoying is that the tens of thousands of brothers who were outside the city yesterday gave up when they said they wanted to. Those were tens of thousands of brothers. He killed them when he said they would. He didn't even think about it.
Let’s treat it as human beings!”
"I, Qian Dafei, have finally understood that the imperial court is nothing. If you work hard for them, you might be killed by the imperial court that day. Now I, Qian Dafei, will surrender. Then I will make the same profit as that Zeng Ziwen."
A great general must be regarded as one of the founding heroes of the country."
Seeing this man saying that he wanted to surrender to the thieves, Zhu Zhihai showed a scornful smile: "To surrender to the thieves? Our Ming Dynasty has a territory of thousands of miles and millions of soldiers. Although I, Zhu Zhihai, am defeated today, within a few months, the millions of troops of the imperial court will be defeated.
Facing Liping and Xingquan, millions of troops swept past, and they were all wiped out in smoke!"
When Zhu Zhihai spoke, his face was full of confidence, and he could not see the fear of being held hostage at all!
Qian Dafei did not care about Zhu Zhihai's reaction, but looked at the many Ming army generals who were humbled, and then asked: "You guys, can you come with me anyway?"
As soon as these words came out, many lowly Ming army generals showed thoughtful expressions!