Chapter 154: A Sudden Bloody Battle
The army waited for another three days, until midnight on the seventh day, when the scouts arrived, and the men of the donkey came.
Xu Yinghyuk couldn't help but be depressed, these people were marching too slowly. The three- or four-day trip took seven or eight days, and these people were so scattered, what did they rely on to fight against the imperial army?
The question in Xu Yinghyuk's mind could not be answered for a while, because Zhang Da Donkey's team was getting closer and closer, and he needed to hurry up and arrange.
After squaaning here for three or four days, some of the soldiers were slacking off, and if there was a problem with the ambush, Zhang Da Donkey found out and let him run away, it would be very troublesome.
Zhang Dadonkey and his party walked for seven or eight days, plundered several market towns on the way, replenished food, and then rested for two days, walking slowly on the road.
Now that they have left the Shandong territory, it is said that the imperial army has just discovered that they are gone and is chasing them.
They've been gone for so many days, and they can't catch up if they want to. When they cross the river from Wuzui and enter the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it will be a smooth road.
"Dashuai, the front is Wuzuidu, this is the narrowest place of the big river, suitable for the army to cross the river." Lu Yongting rushed up from behind and said to Zhang Da Donkey.
"Hmm. Can you send someone to check it out? ”
"Look, everything is normal. There is no village near this Wuzuidu, just two families live on ferries, and now they have been controlled by my people. The subordinates also sent people downstream to look for ships, and it is estimated that they will be able to return at dawn. ”
"That's a good job. Let the army speed up the pace and rest while crossing the river at the ferry. Zhang Da Donkey commanded.
"Yes." Lu Yongting's attitude was very respectful, and after the salute, he hurriedly urged the horse forward.
Zhang Dadonkey's team of nearly 40,000 people came all the way to Wuzuidu, and soon filled the riverbed of Wuzuidu. The east and the west are oppressive, chaotic, and there is no appearance of an army at all.
Some people sit on the ground to rest, some people run to lie on the ground to sleep, and some people eat around and do everything.
Zhang Da Donkey came to the pier of the ferry under the support of a gang, where three boats were parked, barely able to carry about 100 people.
Relying on these three boats to allow the army to cross the river will be the year of the monkey, so it is better to wait for the return of the people who went to search for the boats.
Zhang's officers began to urge the minions to set up camp. However, after more than an hour of busy work, except for Zhang Dadonkey and a few high-ranking officers who set up camps, there was no other place, and 99 percent of the soldiers lit a bonfire to roast and eat, and by the way they slept by the campfire.
It was already the second half of the night, and the chaotic camp of the rogues did not fall silent until it was almost over.
The point is that these guys are all resting, but only a very few people are left on duty, and these very few people are all Lu Yongting's people.
So, when the imperial army slowly surrounded it, tens of thousands of rogues didn't notice it at all.
Xu Yinghe looked condescendingly at the pile of people lying on the riverbed, waved his hand silently, and tens of thousands of troops rushed up like tigers descending from the mountain.
The deafening shouts of killing sounded instantly, and suddenly woke up the sleeping rogues on the riverbed.
Before many people got up and figured out what was going on, someone suddenly wiped them with a knife. The people brought by Lu Yongting and the people who developed later took advantage of the chaos to riot from the inside, and kept sneaking up on those panicked rogues.
The imperial army also rushed to the riverbed, facing the rogues who had no defense, some had no clothes, and some had no weapons.
The whole camp was in a mess, no one organized a counterattack, no one came out to do anything, everyone fled in all directions.
But there were imperial armies on three sides, and there was nowhere to run, so some people jumped directly into the water, but they were greeted by bows and arrows like rain.
The door of Zhang Da Donkey's tent finally opened, and Lu Yongting walked out with a long knife in one hand and Zhang Da Donkey's head in the other. As for the soldiers who protected Zhang Da Donkey outside the camp tent, they had been eliminated by Lu Yongting's men.
Looking at the chaotic scene around him, Lu Xingting smiled very happily.
"Put a signal." Lu Yongting said to one of his subordinates.
The soldier immediately took out a cylindrical object in his arms, lit the line of fire, and lifted it.
The sharp sound and fiery red color immediately exploded in the air, and Xu Yinghyuk, who was standing in the distance, saw this signal and waved his hand again, leaving 10,000 soldiers to kill again, and Xu Yinghyuk himself also joined the battlefield with his own soldiers.
Lu Yongting led people to break through from the inside, and the imperial army crushed and killed step by step from the periphery, and the rogues had nowhere to run if they wanted to.
However, when there were only more than 10,000 people left to be strangled, these people burst out with tremendous energy. With the idea that the left and right are dead, these more than 10,000 people fought to the death of the imperial army, and for a while and a half, they actually blocked the continuous encroachment of the imperial army.
Xu Yinghyuk, who had already eliminated most of the rogues, did not expect to be blocked by more than 10,000 people in the end. The point is that these more than 10,000 people are not organized, but they are just improvised together because they don't want to die. The instinct to survive made these people fierce, and the momentum of the imperial army was suppressed for a while.
Xu Yinghyuk was very angry and ordered the archers to continue to suppress, but this time he came in a hurry, and most of the arrows carried by the archers were consumed in the battle just now, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, he faced a situation where there were no arrows to shoot.
There was no way, in order to reap this victory as soon as possible, Seo Young-hyuk personally led his own soldiers to charge.
But the remaining seven or eight thousand people not only did not surrender, but still fought with the army under Seo Young-hyuk. Originally, Xu Yinghyuk still wanted to rush and kill a few times, and then persuade him to surrender. But after two rounds of killing, Xu Yinghyuk's anger was also beaten, and he was not persuaded to surrender at all, and directly let the whole army charge against the remaining thousands of rogues.
In the end, when the remaining thousands of people in the riverbed all fell, Seo Young-hyuk's side also suffered heavy losses.
In the first round of charge, the loss was less than 2,000 people, but in the final battle, the loss of 5,000 people made Xu Yinghyuk depressed and almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
The sky has already brightened, and a large riverbed around Wuzuidu is full of dead bodies, and there are many in the river, and many have floated away along the river, and the whole scene looks extremely miserable and tragic.
Xu Yinghyuk didn't care about feeling the loss of his subordinates, so he ordered to quickly clean up the battlefield and rush back to Shandong as soon as possible.
In this battle, nearly 40,000 rogues were annihilated by Zhang Dadonkey, and his own side lost nearly 10,000 people, which was already a great victory.
But in Xu Yinghyuk's view, it is simply a loss to exterminate these rogues who do not have much combat effectiveness and lose so much.
The dead soldiers of the imperial court were collected and registered, and those with names and surnames would be given pensions in the future, and those who did not had to be buried on the spot. Only the corpses of the rogues were piled up and burned. It took three days to clean up the battlefield, and Xu Yinghyuk hurriedly returned to Shandong with his people.