klisemfg Chapter 824: The dream is shattered, the entire army retreats
Chapter 824: The dream is shattered, the entire army retreats
Shen Changgong went to the tent at the back and picked up the child.
After receiving the order, Zhang Han led the Zhennan Army directly eastward, found Liang Kai who was escorting the prisoners back, asked him for a few prisoners who knew the way, and then plunged into the valley to block the enemy's retreat.
On the front battlefield, the Yan army has already advanced into the enemy's line.
The enemy army was in a mess. The battle line was twenty miles long and fighting was taking place everywhere.
Although these Qian troops were tenacious, their formation was too chaotic, which led to them being constantly divided, surrounded, and eventually annihilated by the Yan army.
The most fierce fighting was carried out by the Yuying Army in Dongyingzhai. After holding back for a whole year, the Yuying Army launched a brutal attack on the tens of thousands of enemy troops inside. In addition, they were attacking a camp. After the wall of the camp was pushed down, they all rushed in without any hindrance, and their military advantage was brought to the extreme.
The most embarrassed ones were the Zhige Army from Xiyingzhai.
The Zhige Army originally came from the Qian Army, and what they are attacking now is the Qian Kingdom and the Qian Army.
This act of betraying the country and turning the gun against their own people made them feel very embarrassed.
Of course, once on the battlefield, they have no choice but to fight hard, the enemy will force them to fight hard.
When the enemy's spears thrust towards them, could they not block them? Could they not fight back?
Moreover, the Qian army on the opposite side also knew that their Zhige army were all Qian people. They thought they would resist the Yan army this time, but they didn't expect that in the end they would be fighting against their own people, which made them even more angry.
The stronger their attack, the stronger the counterattack of the Zhige Army. Coupled with Gongyang Ge's excellent command, they were quickly divided into small pieces.
Gongyang Ge knew that fighting against Qian State would probably be the last battle of the main army of Dayan, and there would be no major wars afterwards.
If the Zhige Army is still lazy and unwilling to contribute at this time, then when the world is unified and the accounts are settled, their contribution will be the smallest and they will be the first legion to be disbanded.
Don't be fooled by the emperor's nice words when he first tried to persuade them to surrender. If they don't fight on the battlefield and don't make any contribution, who will need them after the world is unified? They will definitely be liquidated at that time.
If you want to prove your status, you have to show your achievements.
Of course, Gongyang Ge was also a Qian person, and he was unwilling to kill too many Qian people, so this battle was mainly based on encirclement and surrender.
Gongyang Ge had a relatively high prestige in the Qian army. He personally went into the encirclement and persuaded the Qian army to surrender.
"Everyone, listen up! I'm Gongyang Ge. Daqian is doomed and on the verge of collapse. Our commander is incompetent and has a limited force to begin with, yet we're splitting it up. Using 400,000 men to resist Dayan's 1.5 million-man army is like sending you to your deaths!"
"Enough people have died in Daqian. Dayan's momentum to unify the world is unstoppable. Only when the world is unified and there is no more war can the people live a good life!"
"Dayan treats prisoners well and does not kill them. When we defeat Yugui one day, you can be sent home. I, Gongyang Ge, swear on the honor of the Gongyang family that as long as you surrender, you will not die and you can all go home!"
"You still have fields at home, and your wife, children, and elderly mother are all waiting for you to return home and cultivate the land. Living a good life is more important than anything else!"
"Only by unifying the world can war be eliminated!"
Gongyang Ge and his generals shouted at them to surrender.
More than an hour later, after more than 10,000 of the 50,000 people in the West Camp died, the rest gradually surrendered.
Their main approach here is to persuade people to surrender, but it is not like that in other places, where they just fight fiercely.
Each legion is competing with each other, trying to see who is better.
Especially the fortress in the west, which is next to the Zhige Army, is the Longxiang Army led by Bai Wuan and the Wushuang Army led by Su Wuan.
The two are old partners, and each one is more fierce than the other in fighting, especially Bai Wuan, who is known as the man-killer.
There is no suspense at all when 200,000 people attack a fortress garrisoned by 50,000 people.
In half a day, more than half of the people were killed.
The other small half did not want to kill, but they all ran south.
On the easternmost side, there were two groups of Southern Army infantry, the Pingnan Army and the Zhengnan Army, who attacked the fort in the east. Their fighting was quite standard and they took it down easily.
Yu Ziling's Yuying Army was like wild horses that had broken free from their reins, howling and hacking at people. In the end, the enemy army could not hold on any longer and turned around and ran away.
The most stalemate in the battle was actually the Lingling City attacked by the main trump cards in the middle, the Tianyu Army and the Weihu Army.
Excluding the 100,000 men who attacked the Yan army camp, there were a total of 300,000 men in the defense line, 50,000 in the forts and camps on both sides, and the main Lingling City had 100,000 troops.
In addition, the city had numerous streets and alleys and the city gates were narrow, so the Yan army entered slowly. Therefore, Yu Huatian and Guan Shouchang's advancement speed was not very fast.
But even so, the Qian army could no longer hold on.
Jin Haoqian led a large group of troops to fight with the Yan army on the main street, and at the same time commanded the Qian army on each street to resist and retreat in an orderly manner.
A general covered in blood rushed to Jin Haoqian and said,
"General! We can't hold on any longer. Let's retreat. The Emperor's order to us is to retreat if we can't win. We need to preserve our manpower. Almost half of the 100,000 people in this city are dead."
Jin Haoqian's face was gloomy, his eyes were bitter and difficult, and he said,
"Wait a little longer. Zhou Tai is still fighting in the north. He's gone to attack the Emperor of Yan. We still have hope. This is our only hope of turning the tables."
"Oh, Marshal, the scouts from the various armies have already reported that there are eight legions attacking us, and the Yan army has twelve legions. This means that there are at least 400,000 people guarding the Emperor of Yan.
How powerful do you think Zhou Tai was, that he could defeat 400,000 people with only 100,000 men and capture the enemy emperor alive?
Even the invincible Yan army had never achieved such an outrageous record, right?
You really dare to think so! "
The other generals around also advised,
"Marshal, let's retreat. If we don't, we'll all die. How are we going to explain this to His Majesty?"
"The three passes of Guilin are still waiting for us to withdraw and replenish our troops. Don't let these 400,000 people die here!"
"General, don't count on Zhou Tai. He's alone and deep in the enemy's territory, so his entire army would have been wiped out long ago.
Whether he is dead or alive, we can’t help them here! Let’s go!”
"If he succeeds, he will also come to us with the Emperor of Dayan held hostage."
Everyone said so, and Jin Haoqian's dream of capturing the Emperor of Dayan alive was completely shattered.
He gritted his teeth and said,
"The rear team will become the front team, and we will evacuate in an orderly manner. After evacuating, we will go directly into the mountains. We must not give the enemy cavalry a chance to catch up with us!"
"As ordered!"
"Sound the horn to call back the troops! The commander-in-chief has ordered the entire army to retreat. Retreat quickly!"
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"