Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 667 Cao Wenzhao's mentality collapsed

While the battalion commander was wondering, a soldier suddenly appeared in the battalion commander's field of vision.

The battalion commander squinted his eyes and looked forward. As Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses got closer, the battalion commander saw more and more clearly.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. After waiting for so many days, I finally got it today. The waiting these days is not in vain, not in vain."

The battalion commander put down the binoculars in his hand, walked to the back of the defense line, and shouted loudly, "Brothers, the enemy army is here and is about to attack. Once the enemy army launches an attack, hit me hard."

The battalion commander's voice kept echoing on the defense line, and the soldiers stationed here began to gear up.

Although this battalion repelled a lot of attacks before and made a lot of credits, but in this world, who would despise their own credits?

Cao Wenzhao stopped at a position about six miles in front of the defense line. He looked at the road leading to the front and kept sighing.

This line of defense has been a line of defense that Sun Chengzong has focused on assaulting these days, and the road leading to the line of defense is full of dried blood.

There is still an endless stench in the air, but the corpses on the road have been cleaned up by the defenders here.

Although there is no corpse, if a person who has not experienced such a thing, if he comes here, he will definitely vomit.

The soldiers and horses led by Cao Wenzhao stopped in batches and scattered in the forest behind Cao Wenzhao.

The front of the line of defense is relatively open, but it can accommodate so many soldiers.

Cao Wenzhao turned around, looked at the soldiers following behind him, and shouted: "Brothers, this is the decisive battle, no matter what price we pay this time, we must break through this line of defense. The future is now in our hands, if we can't break through, the court will have no future. Brothers, for the future of the court, we must work hard."

Cao Wenzhao's voice spread throughout the team under the transmission of the guards beside him.

At the end, Cao Wenzhao raised his arms and shouted, "Da Ming Wan Sheng, Da Ming Wan Sheng, Da Ming Wan Sheng, Da Ming Wan Sheng!!!"

Cao Wenzhao's personal guards also shouted loudly, and finally, even the soldiers and horses under Cao Wenzhao's command also cheered.

The momentum was overwhelming. At this moment, the adrenal hormones of these soldiers were continuously secreted, and their morale gradually reached its peak.

However, this morale will be completely consumed by steel and explosives during the charge.After the morale is exhausted, there is only this boundless fear left.

"Cross the line of defense and kill all the bandits. Kill one bandit and reward a hundred gold; kill two and reward a thousand gold; kill three and seal a thousand households; kill five and reward generals; kill more than [-] and reward the commander-in-chief directly." .The more you kill, the greater the credit, and the greater the reward you get."

Cao Wenzhao kept encouraging these soldiers.

"Now, the first echelon goes out!"

As soon as Cao Wenzhao's voice came out, the soldiers and horses of the first echelon came out under the leadership of their respective officers and came to the open space next to Cao Wenzhao.

This army is about 2000 people and consists of two thousand households.

In Cao Wenzhao's plan, he divided the soldiers and horses in his hands into five echelons.The number of soldiers and horses in each echelon increases successively, and the number of soldiers and horses in the first echelon is the least.

After the soldiers and horses of the first echelon came out, the general of the first echelon came to Cao Wenzhao, "My lord, it's over."

These two thousand households shouted at Cao Wenzhao in unison.

Cao Wenzhao nodded, "The first echelon, go out!"

"As ordered!"

The two thousand households bowed their hands in return, and then led their troops to the line of defense.

After the two thousand households led the soldiers and horses to leave, Cao Wenzhao said again: "The second and third echelons are ready."

The soldiers and horses of the second and third echelons began to prepare, and under the leadership of their respective generals, they moved to the open space next to them.

After doing all this, Cao Wenzhao came to the high place in the open space, quietly watching the soldiers and horses of the first echelon move forward.

At the same time, a smile appeared on the battalion commander's face.

"Here we come, here we come. Send me a military order. After these soldiers and horses enter two miles, the artillery will attack again. Wait until they enter one mile or even closer, and then use guns to attack.

But don't be like before, when we fired, these people ran away. "The battalion commander shouted loudly at the line of defense.

Although the soldiers on the defensive line did not answer, they kept these words in their hearts.

In front of each line of defense soldiers, several grenades were placed.

To be honest, these grenades are a bit redundant, after all, Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses can't rush through.However, just in case, a few grenades were placed.

Although the passage in front of the defense line is the widest passage out of Zhuolu Mountain, it is also compared with other passages.

If it is placed in a battle like a siege battle, this passage is still very narrow.It is for this reason that Cao Wenzhao had to use refueling tactics.

Refueling tactics are a taboo for military strategists, and Cao Wenzhao also deeply understands the shortcomings of this tactic, but now, he has no choice but to use this refueling tactic.

After the soldiers and horses of the first echelon walked into the passage, their formation spread out and they slowly pushed forward.

After about two quarters of an hour, these men and horses entered within two miles.

After entering two miles, these soldiers and horses suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the defense line.Hope to break through the defense line with this speed.

The battalion commander stood on a high platform behind the line of defense, holding up his binoculars and looking at the soldiers and horses approaching. "The artillery fires!"

The battalion commander's order was brought to the artillery position by the messenger standing beside him. After hearing the battalion commander's order, the artillerymen began to control the artillery and performed a series of operations.

After a dozen or so breaths, there was a roar from the artillery position.

The artillery position was located on the rear side of the line of defense, and the shells flew out of the barrel with a howling sound, and flew towards the first echelon of soldiers and horses.

The artillery on the artillery positions are basically mortars, and the power of mortars in mountain warfare is much greater than that of ordinary artillery.

"Bang bang bang!"

After a short flight, the shell landed in the formation of the first echelon.

The sound of rumbling guns rang out in the formation of the first echelon, and a large number of soldiers were killed on the spot.

The wailing sound followed closely behind. The worst thing was not being killed on the spot, but the half-mutilated one who couldn't die for a while.

If he was killed on the spot, he would die, at least there would be no pain.

These half-disabled people who were bombed could not die or live for a while. The pain spread all over their bodies, and they could only cry incessantly.

These wailing sounds have undoubtedly dealt a huge blow to the morale of the army.

Some soldiers saw the semi-disabled soldiers who were bombed, and their calves kept shaking.

After a long period of bombing before, almost all the trees in front of this passage were destroyed by shells. Therefore, the soldiers of the first echelon this time could not hide in the woods like before.

"Whoosh!"

A high-explosive bomb fell from the sky, landed in front of a soldier, and exploded instantly.

The soldier had no time to react and was shrouded in flames from the explosion.

Fragments flew around like a gust of wind and rain, knocking down the surrounding soldiers.

The defense line of this channel is only guarded by a battalion of guards, and the number of artillery is not very large, so the density of artillery is not very high.

Many soldiers in the first echelon escaped the bombing and came to the front of the line of defense.

Just when they thought they could break through the line, machine guns opened fire.

"Da da da!"

The muzzles of all kinds of firearms on the defense line were bursting with flames, bullets poured out of the muzzles continuously, and shell casings kept flying out of the ejection ports.

The soldiers of the Guards looked coldly at the first echelon of soldiers and horses rushing forward, without any expression on their faces.

The soldiers and horses of the Guards Army are all soldiers who have been with Zhao Wen for a long time. They are all soldiers and horses who have been carefully selected from various teams after hundreds of battles. It is impossible for them to sympathize with the enemy on the battlefield.

The bullets formed a line of crossfire, blocking the front.

The tracer bullets indicate the direction of the muzzle, and after the tracer bullets of the machine gun indicate the direction, the subsequent rifles will follow.

At this time, the direction pointed by the tracer bullets will usher in a more violent blow.

The smell of gunpowder became more and more intense, and more and more soldiers of the first echelon fell in front of the line of defense.

Under this level of blows, some soldiers began to collapse.

They threw away their weapons, shouted loudly, and fled back.

Cao Wenzhao, standing on a high place, saw all this in his eyes, "Come up to the second and third echelons, go up to me to replenish the troops in front, and at the same time, if you encounter deserters, block them back. If there are obsessed people, cut!"

Cao Wenzhao's order was transmitted to the second and third echelons that had already been prepared, and the captain rushed forward with the soldiers and horses.

After they rushed up, they blocked the fleeing soldiers back.

At this time, a new round of shelling began on the artillery position.

The sound of the cannon shook the sky, as if the whole earth was trembling, and the wild animals within a radius of seven or eight miles were frightened and fled in all directions.

After the soldiers and horses charging at the defense line were replenished, they launched a new round of charging.

However, the results of the new round of charges were no different from the previous ones.

Cao Wenzhao looked at the scene in front of him, his heart was bleeding. "This, this, this, what can we do even if we rush over? After rushing over, will we definitely be able to rush to the city of Xuanzhen? After rushing over, how many people will be left?"

Cao Wenzhao was afraid of affecting the morale of the army, so he didn't dare to say these words. He could only pray in his heart, hoping that the defense line could break through as soon as possible.

When a cold weapon faces a hot weapon, it is like a mortal fighting a god. Throwing away those unstable factors, a hot weapon is completely crushing a cold weapon.

The passage in front of the line of defense was bombed badly. The originally rugged mountain road was covered with all kinds of stones, but now it has been bombed to pieces.

Every inch of land in front of the defense line has withstood the baptism of artillery fire.

There were screams one after another, and soldiers fell every moment.

Blood flowed out from their bodies, forming small puddles of blood one after another on the ground.

"This is self-deception, this is self-deception!" Cao Wenzhao murmured blankly.

"Let the fourth and fifth echelons go!" Cao Wenzhao waved weakly at the guards beside him.

The men and horses who had just rushed up did not hold on for long before they began to decline. Cao Wenzhao had no choice but to send troops again.

"No, no, the general can no longer send troops, we can't fight, we can't fight. If we continue to fight like this, our soldiers and horses will be completely gone.

General, let the brothers go around the mountain, go around. "A personal guard hurriedly shouted at Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao glanced at the man weakly, with a dazed expression, "Go around? How do we go around? We have been here no less than ten times, and we can feel the surroundings clearly. This is the only way to get out of the mountain. How do we go around? The road on this mountain was either blown off by bandit soldiers, or it was a cliff, tell me how to get around it?"

"Tell me how to get around?" Cao Wenzhao suddenly screamed with scarlet eyes.

At this time, Cao Wenzhao, in the words of later generations, had a mental breakdown, and it was a complete collapse.

"You tell me how to go around? How to go around? Ah?!!!"

Cao Wenzhao had been under tremendous psychological pressure before.Originally, he could still carry it, but the collapse is often in an instant.

The current Cao Wenzhao finally couldn't bear the huge pressure, and his whole body collapsed.

Cao Wenzhao kept roaring and screaming at the guard.

The guard fell into silence, did not speak, and did not pass on Cao Wenzhao's order.

"This isn't a war, it's self-deception, it's self-deception." Cao Wenzhao sighed helplessly, and he shouted helplessly.

After a while, he waved at the guards, "Retreat, retreat, retreat to the capital, retreat to the capital."

"General? What about my lord?" A personal guard looked at Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao looked at him, "What else can I do? What can I do? I can only retreat, I can only retreat. We are now in a battle of trapped beasts, and we are at the end of our battle, what else can we do? It has become a dead end.

Bandit Zhao is invincible, my Ming Dynasty is gone, the situation is gone!Send someone to notify your lord, let him also withdraw his troops, we are not the opponent of Zhao thief, we are really not the opponent of Zhao thief. "

"Mingjin retreat!" After Cao Wenzhao said this, it was as if his body had been hollowed out, and his whole body wasted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It's not that Cao Wenzhao didn't want to rush through the defense line, but that he simply couldn't.

At this point in the war, Cao Wenzhao already understood that Daming's strength was gone.

Even if we break through the front line of defense now, so what?Could it be possible to rush to the city of Xuanzhen with the remnant soldiers and defeated generals in his hands?

Even if they can rush to the past, will they be able to break through the city wall of Xuan Town?
Cao Wenzhao felt that even if he still had a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands, he would not be able to break through Xuanzhen.

Not long after, the sound of the gong sounded.

Cao Wenzhao also sent troops to rush to the front of the line of defense and let the soldiers and horses in front withdraw their troops.

In just such a short period of time, the first echelon that rushed up was almost wiped out, and the second and third echelons were also crippled.

(End of this chapter)