Chapter 302: A Crushing Victory
"General!"
"Big brother!"
"Uncle!"
Hearing Gao Jie's words, many of his guards were suddenly shocked. However, more people were silent and lowered their swords and guns.
"Uncle, you can't!" Gao Jie's nephew Li Benshen shouted, "We can kill it!" ”
"Don't be stupid, you can't kill it!" Gao Jie glanced at Li Benshen desolately, turned his head, and looked at the looks of many pro-guards.
His nephew Li Benshen and his nephew Gao Jinku were full of anger, while other generals he had always valued, such as Li Chengdong, Guo Hu, Hu Maozhen, etc., avoided his gaze. As a result, he knew that if he really broke through desperately, most of these last hundreds of subordinates would no longer obey his orders.
Gao Jie didn't say much, just stared at Lu Zhenfei with dead eyes, but there was more wordless expectation and prayer in his eyes.
Lu Zhenfei was silent for a while, and Fang said: "You are also deceived by King Fu, so you can do such a thing without a king and a father, Nian Er and others are ignorant, I can make a statement to Your Majesty, only punish the evil, and never ask!" ”
Listening to Lu Zhenfei's words, Gao Jie's expression suddenly relaxed.
"Lord Xie Lu!" With the words, Gao Jie raised the steel knife in his hand horizontally.
"Uncle!" Li Benshen exclaimed, stretched out his arm to stop him, but he was a beat slower, and he saw a flash of cold light, and a stream of blood rushed out and splashed into the river.
Gao Jie stood still for a moment, and fell on his back on the surface of the boat.
"Uncle!" Li Benshen hugged Gao Jie's corpse, tears rolling down his face.
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On the west bank of the canal, 15,000 rebels have collapsed.
Liu Liangzuo fled south with hundreds of personal guard cavalry, leaving the army behind.
Under the impact of the cavalry led by Chen Yue himself, the rebel array had long been scattered, and there was no formation to speak of.
Yang Zhengping led a battalion of 2,500 infantry to kill from the west, with strong crossbows and firearms, and sharp spear arrays, so that the rebels did not dare to resist at all.
If they can't resist, they can only flee, and the Pingnan army infantry battalion is killing from the west, and the east is a wide canal, so they can only flee to the south or north.
Many soldiers fled south with Liu Liangzuo, many fled north, and even many soldiers jumped into the canal in a panic, completely ignoring their unaccustomed nature.
Of course, more soldiers chose to surrender on their knees, all of them were Ming troops, all of them were their own people, and they knew that as long as they surrendered, the other party would never kill prisoners.
Chen Yue left Yang Zhengping to clean up the battlefield, and he led the cavalry straight south to pursue.
Liu Liangzuo is the culprit of this battle, and he can't be allowed to escape no matter what.
The 1,200 cavalry was divided into two teams by Chen Yue, and half of them were led by Yu Feng to pursue them north. He took the remaining six hundred horsemen and pursued them south.
However, there were too many fleeing rebel infantry in front, although Chen Yue didn't want to pay attention to them, they just rammed into the past, and did not entangle and fight, but because of this, the speed was seriously delayed. In the end, he could only watch Liu Liangzuo flee away with hundreds of cavalry.
Damn, this guy is running away so fast! Chen Yue secretly scolded and grabbed the war horse, and returned to the river bank with the cavalry.
In this battle, at the dawn of the day, relying on the sudden attack of the cavalry, the main force of the rebels was defeated in a short time, and the two sides did not fall into an entanglement at all, and the battle went smoothly beyond imagination.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that there are more than 20,000 people in the Gao-Liu coalition army, but the main force of Gao Jie's army and a part of Liu Liangzuo's main force were taken by Gao Jie to attack the fleet in the canal.
Although there were as many as 15,000 soldiers on the shore, most of them were ordinary soldiers. As we all know, in the Ming army, the most effective is the main general personally guarding the family, an army of more than 10,000 people, the number of the main general will definitely not exceed 1,000, and most of the remaining people are ordinary soldiers, belonging to the soy sauce fighter.
In this battle, the most combat-effective ones followed Gao Jie to attack the fleet in the river, and the remaining ordinary soldiers couldn't count on them at all, so it was conceivable that the battle went so smoothly.
Of the more than 15,000 people, less than 3,000 fled, those who were killed fell into the river and drowned, and the remaining 10,000 or so all dropped their weapons and surrendered.
On the battlefield, there was a mess, and swords, guns, weapons, and all kinds of materials were thrown everywhere.
Some of the infantry watched over the surrendering rebels, while the rest were tidying up the battlefield.
Chen Yue led the cavalry back to the battlefield, leaving the cavalry to crush the surrendering rebels, and he jumped into the boat, and the two soldiers operated the oars and rowed towards the convoy in the canal.
The closer he got to the middle of the river, the more frightened Chen became, the battle in the river was more tragic than he had imagined, dozens of boats were still burning, and green smoke filled the air over the canal.
The river was littered with floating corpses, and half of the river was stained red with blood.
Almost all of the soldiers on the boat were wounded, and they were bandaging each other's wounds.
When they saw Chen Yue's boat, the water battalion of the Pingnan Army let out bursts of cheers, and the regimental training soldiers who were not familiar with Chen Yue looked over in surprise, and carefully looked at this well-known Pingnan Hou.
The morning sun shone from the eastern sky and shone on Chen Yue's face armor, Yingting's figure was so upright, and the bright armor reflected the golden light, at this moment, Chen Yue came to the world like a god!
All the soldiers stared blankly at the small boat in the river, and the hundreds of boats on the river suddenly became silent and could be heard of needles dropping.
"Master Hou!" A boat suddenly greeted him, and a person stood on the boat shouting, Chen Yue heard the sound and looked, but it was his own family Ding Chen Ping, the current deputy general of the water battalion.
Chen Yue nodded at Chen Ping and got on Jin Shenghuan's command ship.
"Master Hou defeated the main force of the rebels in one fell swoop with his bravery, which really made his subordinates admire." Jin Shenghuan greeted him, smiling at the not-so-skilled sycophant.
"Hehe, Vice Admiral Jin fought bloodily with the rebels, tried his best to keep the fleet intact, and protected His Majesty's safety, which is the real hard work."
Chen Yue smiled at Jin Shenghuan. With the average combat power of the water battalion and the regimental training force that has just formed the army to block Gao Jie's fierce attack, although Jin Shenghuan's command is not brilliant, but it is also decent, this person can be useful!
"Alas, the losses are heavy, and the Hou Ye's praise will not be ashamed." Listening to Chen Yue's praise, Jin Shenghuan's heart was full of joy, but his face was gloomy.
The losses were really heavy, and during the fierce battle, more than 10 boats were burned by the rebels, and more than 30 boats were taken, and none of the soldiers on these ships survived. Nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed and nearly 2,000 wounded, and more than half of the casualties were inflicted on this fleet, which numbered less than 5,000 men.
"Fortunately, on the ship, the north-south passage was blocked by the rebels with a shipwreck, and everyone had no way to escape, so they had to fight to the death. If it is a land war, the consequences will be unimaginable. Jin Shenghuan sighed, the thrill of the battle made him still have palpitations in his heart.