Chapter 675: Discharge and surrender(1/2)
In front of Tai Chi Hall, the two armies confronted each other. With Li Siye's order, the soldiers of the three thousand Modao camp waved the Modao in their hands, and a war inevitably happened.
"Modao Camp, come in--!" Li Siye raised his sword and roared.
At dusk and sunset, the blood-red setting sun shines on the snow-white blade, refracting a horrifying blood light, like the pulp of hell.
The soldiers of Shuofang Army were frightened and retreated step by step, and riots appeared in the array.
They were also elite border troops, and for many years they had the important task of resisting the northern Turkic tribes going south to attack the border. The vast grasslands and deserts in the north were also the battlefield for them to leap horses and sling their swords to defend their country.
However, today, in front of the Tai Chi Hall, the Shuofang Army and the Anxi Army fought each other, but they were frightened.
The momentum of the army is something that is indescribable but does exist. Many experienced veterans of the hundred battles can tell the outcome of the battle just by just glance at the enemy in the distance on the battlefield.
The veterans are just looking at the momentum of both sides. When the aura surges into the sky, it is not a legend, but an inevitable result. Over the past thousands of years, dozens of people have often raised their swords and rode their horses to chase thousands of people, which is also momentum. The momentum of an army often represents the victory or defeat of a war. When the most ordinary sergeant in the army also has the will to fight to the death, the outcome is basically no longer suspense.
This is the case with the soldiers of the Anxi Army in front of you.
As the commander of the first army, Gu Qing never told them the future of the Anxi Army, nor did he instill any belief in ordinary soldiers. Gu Qing only told them that what the Anxi Army should do was to make no more war in the world. Where the Anxi Army was there, he would exchange for peace with absolute crushing strength.
"Peace" is the blood-stained sword slowly returning to the sheath, and the enemy stands in front of him but doesn't even have the courage to draw the sword.
The soldiers remembered Gu Qing's words.
Every bloody battle treats it as the last charge in this life. If there is no war in the world, it will be a peaceful situation.
"Taiping" became the belief of all the soldiers of the Anxi Army.
At this moment, Shuofang Army really lost the courage to draw its sword.
Is the Anxi Army's horrific fighting spirit shocked them, or is it that Yu Chaoen falsely issued an imperial edict to threaten the soldiers and thus disrupted the morale of the army.
There are many reasons. At this moment, the Modao camp of the Anxi Army waved Modao, which was close to them. The soldiers of Shuofang Army only felt that they were facing a towering and majestic mountain, and they lost the strength to hold weapons.
Li Siye stood in the front of the team with murderous aura on his face, and the flags on both sides kept falling, and every time he waved the Modao Camp, he pushed forward further.
Step by step, step by step, like a wall, invincible.
The soldiers of Shuofang Army retreated, one step after another, and the morale of the army was declining.
Gu Qing rode on the horse and stood quietly behind the Modao Camp formation. Looking at the Modao Camp step by step and the retreating Shuofang Army, Gu Qing frowned and tightened.
They are all in the army, and they are all the Tang Dynasty royal troops who have fought against foreign aggression. The Shuofang Army did nothing wrong. If possible, Gu Qing would not want to hurt more lives.
How can this knot be solved in front of you in a way that avoids harming people as much as possible?
After thinking for a long time, Gu Qing turned his head and said to Han Jie: "Transfer an order to allocate 10,000 troops, each divided 5,000 troops, intersected from the Fanglin Gate and Danfeng Gate of the Imperial Palace, forming a four-sided encirclement of the Shuofang Army. The two soldiers and horses used shields as the front line and refused slowly, trying not to hurt lives. If the enemy resisted, they could be killed."
Han Jie took the order and hurriedly retreated.
The two soldiers quickly walked around the sides of the Tai Chi Hall and successfully solved the defenders of Fanglin Gate and Danfeng Gate. They appeared behind the Shuofang Army Formation in an incense stick.
When the soldiers of the Shuofang Army suddenly realized that they had been surrounded on all sides, the dispersed morale of the army became increasingly declining, the military formation was in chaos, and deserters even appeared in the flanking square formation.
Gu Qing stood in the formation and suddenly shouted loudly: "I sent an order to beat the drum, and shouted in the front line, and ordered the soldiers of Shuofang Army to put down their weapons, so that those who surrendered could not die."
The military order was quickly passed to the front, and neat roars echoed from all directions.
"Put down your weapons, and those who surrender will be spared from death!"
"Those who surrender are exempt from death!"
Amid the rumbling drums, the loud roars made the Shuofang army even more and more frightened. No matter how the generals urged to promote the attack, no one dared to move. They had completely lost their fighting spirit.
Gu Qing stared at several generals of Shuofang Army who were shouting at the attack on the battlefield in the distance, frowned and pointed at the generals: "Send the order to mobilize the archers of various battalions to shoot those generals."
More than a hundred sharpshooters were quickly transferred to the front line. The soldiers set their bows to aim at the generals of Shuofang Army. After a few whizzes, the generals fell down.
The general was shot and killed, and the soldiers of Shuofang Army suddenly became increasingly reluctant to fight again.
As the Anxi Army surrounded on all sides approached, the Anxi Army in all directions approached the Shuofang Army with shields in hand, and the Shuofang Army had to retreat again and again. Their array was already in chaos, and even the standing space was pushed and squeezed by shields from all directions.
The shield array was like an unstoppable iron wall, advancing step by step, squeezing the space of the Shuofang army soldiers. Until then, some people in the Shuofang army could not stand it anymore, and suddenly shouted in the crowded crowd: "Who do we fight for?"
Gu Qing, who was far away in the central army of Anxi Army, heard this and Yang ordered the soldiers to suspend the attack and rode their horses toward Shuofang Army alone. Han Jie was waiting to stop him, but Gu Qing was already far away.
When they arrived in front, the soldiers consciously made a way out. Han Jie and his personal guards surrounded Gu Qing, staring around vigilantly, ready to block the cold arrow for Gu Qing at any time.
But Gu Qing didn't care, just stared at the soldiers of Shuofang Army several meters apart, and slowly said, "The one you need to sacrifice your life and fight for is not the emperor, not me, Gu Qing, but the people of the world. Today, stop fighting and stopping the war, and the world is peaceful."
"I still regard you as brothers in robes and never harm any one. The swords of the Tang Dynasty's heroes can only point outside the border, rather than fighting against each other in the same family and fighting against each other."
The soldiers of Shuofang Army hesitated and hesitated, looking at each other, but no one was willing to put down their weapons.
Gu Qing waited for a while, and thought for a moment when he saw this, and suddenly shouted loudly: "The soldiers of the Anxi Army obeyed the order, took three steps back, and put away their weapons."
With a loud bang, the soldiers obeyed orders, put away their weapons, and took three steps back.
Then everyone looked at the soldiers of Shuofang Army quietly.
A war without any suspense was that when the Anxi Army's sword was about to fall from the necks of the Shuofang Army soldiers, they chose to retreat.
This is the greatest sincerity and kindness of the Anxi Army to the Shuofang Army.
Both of them are military robes, the Tang Dynasty's athletes should not die in battle on the battlefield where they fight against each other.
The two armies were still in confrontation, but there was no tension in the air, and the suffocating murderous aura disappeared without realizing it.
After confronting silently for a long time, a soldier from Shuofang Army suddenly threw the weapon in his hand and shouted: "I surrender!"
Some people take the lead, but other soldiers are naturally busy following the imitation.
After a crisp sound of gold and iron rapping, the soldiers of Shuofang Army threw their weapons to the ground. Even the generals who had made up their minds to die for the emperor to fight to see this situation, they couldn't help but sigh in sorrow, and then threw their swords to the ground.
Gu Qing looked at it quietly, and breathed a sigh of relief deep in his heart.
He was unwilling to slaughter the robe until he had no choice but to kill the robe. Every life of the robe's kid should not die under the knife.
There is a knife in your hand and a Buddha in your heart.
Fortunately, the heavens have lived up to their own lives. They have earned a sense of goodness for themselves.
"Those who do not hold weapons are lined up outside the palace gate, waiting for incorporation." Gu Qing ordered.
The soldiers of Shuofang Army walked towards the palace gate with their heads down and their bare hands.
There are also a very small number of people who are unwilling to put down their weapons. Most of these people are generals in the Shuofang Army. Although the soldiers under their command have surrendered one after another, they are still unwilling to give up. They have never put down the sword in their hands and stare at Gu Qing with hatred.
"The traitor usurped the throne! Let's see how long you will be rampant!" A general of Shuofang Army roared with anger.
Gu Qing smiled: "I have never been rampant before, I am just doing what I should do."
Gu Qing no longer has to persuade those who are unwilling to surrender. It is too complicated to distinguish between right and wrong, loyalty, treacherous, good and evil. Since he is determined to be an enemy of himself, Gu Qing will not be the Virgin of White Lotus.
"Kill them all."
After saying that, Gu Qing turned around and left. Behind him, countless swords and halberds rushed towards the generals.
With screams, Gu Qing walked towards Chengxiang Palace step by step, step by step, with blood all over the ground.
The sound of rapid footsteps came, and a eunuch shouted in a trembling voice: "His Majesty the Supreme Emperor is here--"
After the words were finished, the eunuch saw the corpses and blood all over the ground, and his legs became weak and he collapsed uncontrollably to the ground, his face trembling as if it were earth.
Behind the eunuch, Gao Lishi supported Li Longji and staggered.
Li Longji naturally had seen big scenes and turned a blind eye to the corpses and blood on the ground. However, when he saw the soldiers of Shuofang Army walking out of the palace gate with bare hands, Li Longji's expression finally changed.
Stopped, Li Longji closed his eyes in despair, sighed to the sky, and tears continued to flow.
"It's over, everything is over! I'm sorry to my ancestors!" Li Longji collapsed on the ground and cried loudly.
Gu Qing turned around and stared at him calmly.
This emperor with mixed reputations and criticisms cried like a child at this time. The scheming and plot that had turned his hands into clouds and rain in those glorious years was completely gone at this moment, with only despair and sorrow from the bottom of his heart.
Gu Qing tidied up his clothes and slowly stepped forward, and still treated him with courtesy.
"My memory, Gu Qing, pay homage to His Majesty the Supreme Emperor."
Gu Qing saluted, and the soldiers of the Anxi army around him saluted Li Longji one after another.
Li Longji ignored him and still burst into tears.
Gu Qing was not in a hurry, and stood patiently waiting for him to vent his emotions.
After a long time, Li Longji calmed down and looked at Gu Qing and his eyes were filled with hatred.
"Gu Qing, from now on, the Tang Dynasty will belong to you. Are you satisfied?"
Gu Qing shook his head: "I have no intention of usurping the throne. The Supreme Emperor is still the Supreme Emperor, and the Emperor is still the Emperor."
Li Longji sneered: "And you are Huo Guang and Dong Zhuo of the Han Dynasty. Can you do anything to abolish the emperor? What a hypocritical hypocrite."
Gu Qing sighed: "The Supreme Emperor doesn't have to think so badly. Whether you believe it or not, power is just a tool to realize your ambitions. It is not attractive to me. I just want to hold power and do something down-to-earth."
Li Longji said coldly: "Do you believe this by saying it?"
Gu Qing smiled bitterly and sighed.
Yes, except for the relatives around him, no one believed Gu Qing's idea. They all thought that Gu Qing was doing something that all ambitious people have been repeating throughout the ages, supporting troops, usurping the throne, winning the country, and changing the dynasty.
Thousands of years of history have probably been like this. The just reason for seeking good fortune to the people of the world sounds like a half-closed prostitute pretending to be shy to cover their faces. Those who are planning to usurp the throne shout slogans of justice, but their true ultimate goal is to sit on that chair.
Gu Qing is not an ambitious man. If he really wanted to usurp the throne, he would have the strength to compete for the throne after Kucha City had completely mastered the Anxi Army, so he would not have to wait until today.
To be continued...