Chapter 290: Advance is death, retreat is death (10.5)
On the city tower, Gao Jia frowned.
The chaotic army was slowly approaching, and the city was not only without food and grass, but also without arrows and mulberry. The morale was already low to the bottom. If this continued, there was only one result left, that was defeat.
Seeing the chaos army gathering down the city tower again, this time unlike before, the chaos army seemed to be serious.
At this time, Gao Jia was also deeply frustrated. He was a second-rank commander, and his commander was a regular Ming soldiers. He was beaten by such a group of refugees and was so scared in the city that he did not dare to go out.
Gao Jia pulled out the long sword around his waist, and he spat out a saliva on the ground hatefully, and said angrily: "Damn, I can't bear it anymore. It's a death to hide in this city where there is not a single grass, and it's a death to go out. Instead of starving to death, it's better to kill a fight quickly. Come! Go and ask the general immediately, and say that the enemy's troops are siegeing the city. Gao Jia is willing to lead troops out of the city to fight to the death with the enemy!"
"General, General!" Before Gao Jia could leave, a message soldier ran up the city tower.
"What is it? Tell me quickly if you have something to say, and let me freely if you have nothing to say!" Gao Jia was in a bad mood, and his words were inevitably filled with gunpowder.
The message soldier knelt on one knee in front of Gao Jia and presented a letter with both hands: "Oh no, General, the general of the country has disappeared, and the two people who usually follow him have disappeared. This is the letter he left to you."
"What?" Gao Jia took the letter from the messenger, pulled out the letter paper and quickly glanced at Gao Jia and was furious. "Bastard, how dare he abandon the city and escape? Such a serious crime should be divided by the military law!"
Gao Jia scolded a few times, "Damn it." "Bastard!" "A soft guy with no eggs, coward!"
After scolding Gao Jia calmed down. After all, he was a good person in the ranks. However, it would be useless to scold him now. How to overcome the current crisis is the top priority.
Gao Jia took a deep breath and said, "Come on, please send someone to call all the commanders of the entire army to the city tower."
"Yes!" The soldiers around Gaojia immediately responded to the order.
Under the city tower, the chaos army was gradually approaching. The Ming soldiers on the city tower could only watch, without arrows, no wood, no tincture, and no tincture. Except for watching the chaos army, who did not even have a ladder, approached the city tower with a large piece of wood, and then waited for them to break through the city gate and come in.
On the city tower, the commanders who had high armored ships quickly gathered several commanders together.
There was a sound of "dongdongdongdongdongdong" hitting the door under the city tower. Fortunately, the city gate was thick enough, otherwise the city gate might have been broken by this time.
Gao Jia glanced at several commanders, shook the letter in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone is here to tell you a bad news. Our general of the State-State has abandoned the city and fled. Before leaving, he handed over the power of commander to me."
"Abandon...the city escape?" The commanders from Shenji Camp, Yulin Guard, Jinwu Guard and other Beijing Camp were shocked. Others didn't know them, but they knew very well. Then what was the "General of the State-controlled State"? It was clearly the current emperor.
Several commanders were immediately panicked. The commander of the Yulin Guard shook his head and said, "No, we must not let the general of Zhenguo act alone. I want to find him and protect him."
"Stop!" Gao Jiachen shouted: "It is a death sentence for the general of Zhenguo to abandon the city and escape. Our current mission is to defeat the enemy and take the 100,000 troops out of the city. You are still planning to take people to find the general of Zhenguo to abandon the city. Could it be that you also want to abandon the city and escape as a deserter?"
"What are you? It's just a commander of the small local guard commander. Can I still obey your orders?"
"Warning the order on the battlefield should be executed if the crime is judged!"
As soon as Gao Jia finished speaking, a sarcastic smile appeared on the Yulin Guard's commander's face. A white light flashed. Gao Jia actually drew out his long sword and cut off the Yulin Guard's commander's neck with lightning speed.
Blood spurted out from the neck of the commander of the Yulin Guard, like a blood column.
Everyone was shocked. Who was that? The commander of the Yulin Guard, the dignified official in the Beijing camp. He was still talking a moment ago, but he was killed now?
"You...you dare to kill the general without any chance. Do you want to live?" The commander of the Jinwu Guard pointed at Gao Jia and said angrily and shocked.
Gao Jia looked up and looked at the commander of the Jinwu Guard in front of him with a cold armor, and said lightly: "I have said before that the general of Zhenguo handed over the power of command to me, and there was a general of Zhenguo as evidence. He should naturally kill the order of the battlefield resistance, so what? Do you want to resist the order too?"
"I...you..." Gao Jia's tone was plain, but after hearing his words, the guards beside him silently pulled the knife out of the scabbard.
The murderous aura suddenly filled the field, and everyone was silent for a moment. The sound of breaking the door under the city tower was getting louder and louder. The scramblers who bumped into the city gate even shouted trumpets: "Hey! Swhoo! Hey! Swhoo!" Cough cough, how can this trumpets make people feel a little ambiguous when they hear it.
Gao Jia said: "There is no food and grass in the city, and the morale of the soldiers is low. Every day, one person dies. It is better to die quickly than starve to death. Anyway, I, Gao Jia, are not ready to live anymore, and I cannot kill anyone at the moment. Now you have only two choices, one is to beheaded and killed by me, and the other is to fight the death of the group of mobs under the city tower, and I will not let down the reputation of the Ming soldiers."
Gao Jia's words were straightforward and plain, with a strong sense of excitement in his murderous intent. A local commander immediately said, "Okay, I'll listen to General Gao and fight to the death with the rioters downstairs."
"Okay, fight to the end!" The other commanders also shouted.
Gao Jia glanced at the commander of the Jinwu Guard. He was the only one who had not yet expressed his opinion. Gao Jia's eyes flashed with a strong murderous intent. The commander of the Jinwu Guard looked at the body of the commander of the Yulin Guard on the ground, gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay, fight, fight, generals die in hundreds of battles, and heroes return for ten years. At worst, they will die in the battlefield. The people in my Beijing camp are not cowardly."
"Okay! The one who fights bloody with me today is my brother of life and death." After saying that, Gao Jia raised the long sword that was still dripping blood and shouted loudly: "Send the order, everyone gathers at the city gate and opens the city gate to fight the riots. Advance is death, retreat is death. If you are lucky, we will fight a bloody path today. If you are unlucky, then we can walk together on the road to the underworld and will not be lonely!"
"Yes!" For a moment, the soldiers who were already hungry and weak cheered up as if they were injected with chicken blood. All the soldiers on the city tower retreated to spread the orders of the high armor. Soon the Ming soldiers quickly assembled at the city gate.
PS: I wish all readers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. This is why the poor tiger has lost power at home and is now typing in the Internet cafe alone. Last night, I spent all night doing fine placards and typing in Henan. I was able to go to bed at 9 o'clock in the morning, and then get up at 1 o'clock in the afternoon to wash and eat and start typing. The tiger will definitely fulfill its promise of ten updates, and I hope it can get the great support of all readers.
Chapter completed!