Chapter 296: The Battle of Shinshu, Sudden Changes
In mid-July, Wang Shuo led 100,000 Yuanzhou troops from Yuanzhou to Xinzhou, intending to eliminate the last part of the Bright Sect.
The Shinshu Bright Army was led by Yuan Chang, the Holy Son of the Bright Sect, and had a total of 100,000 Bright Army under his command.
When Yuan Chang learned that Wang Shuo had assembled 100,000 Yuanzhou troops in the north of Yuanzhou, he knew that Wang Shuo's target was the Xinzhou Guangming Army.
100,000 Guangming Army against 100,000 Yuanzhou Army, 100,000 Guangming Army can be called elite, Yuanzhou Army is not too bad, and there is more God of War Wang Shuo and his 10,000 Tiger Cavalry, the Guangming Army and Yuanzhou Army are evenly matched.
However, Yuan Chang was unable to transfer all the 100,000 Guangming Army to fight against the Yuan Zhou Army, and the Guangming Army did not fully control Xinzhou, as well as Wuwei Pass, one of the two major heavenly passes of the Dali Empire.
In Wuwei Pass, in addition to the original 50,000 elite defenders, there were also 20,000 remnants of the Shinshu family, totaling more than 70,000 people.
Before, because of the Guangming Sect, the situation in the Dali Empire was in chaos, the Dayue Empire in the north of the Dali Empire and the Tang Empire in the east were ready to move, and even the army of the Dayue Empire sent troops to test Wuwei Pass many times.
Yuan Chang also knew that Wuwei Pass could not afford to lose, otherwise the enemy of the Xinzhou Guangming Army would have one more Dayue Empire, knowing that Wuwei Pass would contain part of the strength of the Guangming Army, Yuan Chang did not have the idea of capturing Wuwei Pass, you must know that it is easier to capture Wuwei Pass from inside the pass than from outside the pass.
Yuan Chang convened a group of high-level leaders of the Guangming Army to discuss how to deal with the upcoming 100,000 Yuanzhou army, and after some discussion, Yuan Chang finally decided to arrange 20,000 Guangming Army in the north of Xinzhou to guard against the defenders of Wuwei Pass, and 10,000 Guangming Army in the west of Xinzhou to guard against the Qinzhou family, Yuan Chang personally commanded 70,000 Guangming Army and fought against 100,000 Yuanzhou Army in the south of Xinzhou.
The defeat of the Guangming Army in various states and the death of his father, all kinds of news made Yuan Chang fall into deep thought, thinking about whether the road his father took was right or wrong, and after thinking for several days, Yuan Chang became more and more determined, and decided that the road his father took was not wrong.
The family defeated the Bright Army, and now only Shinshu remains, but this is more indicative of the evil of the family, the family has accumulated a huge amount of wealth by squeezing ordinary people for thousands of years, so that each family has a deep heritage, and the family defeated the Bright Sect.
Think about Tongzhou, which was the first to be completely controlled by the Illuminati Sect, the common people there soon fully turned to the Illuminati and supported the Illuminati, because the Illuminati brought great changes to their lives, and they were no longer oppressed by the family and landlords, and when the army of the family and the imperial court attacked Tongzhou twice in a row, the people of Tongzhou had joined the army and wanted to defeat these enemies who destroyed their happy life.
On 14 July, the 70,000 Guangming Army led by Yuan Chang and the 100,000 Yuan Zhou Army led by Wang Shuo met at a place called Chichi (County) in the south of Shinshu.
In the Guangming Army, the brave and fierce Xinzhou soldiers are the main combat force, under the armed of faith, the Xinzhou Hans fanatically shouted slogans and fought with the Yuan Zhou soldiers, and the Yuan Zhou Army fought against the Guangming Army with the infantry army, and Wang Shuo, the god of war, personally led 10,000 tiger cavalry to attack the Guangming Army array, but Yuan Chang led two high-level Bright Army leaders who were at least the fourth order of the innate realm, and thousands of the most elite part of the Bright Army came to block the tiger cavalry that rushed into the Bright Army array.
Under the personal leadership of Yuan Chang, the tiger cavalry had no momentum, and it was still surrounded by the bright army, and its own losses gradually increased.
In this battle, the Guangming Army and the Yuan Zhou Army lost between Bo Zhong, Yuan Chang and Wang Shuo were not willing to suffer too serious losses on their side, and they were even more unwilling to accept the result of losing both, seeing that neither side could gain an advantage, the Guangming Army and the Yuan Zhou Army temporarily truce, Yuan Chang and Wang Shuo convened people one after another to discuss what strategies could gain an advantage in this battle.
There is no idea on the side of the Guangming Army, they only have the territory of Xinzhou left, if Xinzhou is gone, the Guangming Sect will be completely defeated in the Dali Empire, they can only fight hard with the Yuanzhou Army, and only after defeating the Guangming Army can they consider the next step.
And the Yuan Zhou army, in fact, before the Yuan Zhou army went out to conquer Xinzhou, there was already a countermeasure, that is, let the Xinzhou family hiding in Wuwei Pass make a move, Wang Shuo sent a messenger to secretly arrive at Wuwei Pass, and get in touch with the Xinzhou family, and finally the two sides reached an agreement, the Xinzhou family will contain a part of the Guangming army, and when Wang Shuo defeats the Guangming army to control the entire Xinzhou, the Xinzhou family will also join Wang Shuo's camp and support Wang Shuo to dominate the world, and at the same time, Wang Shuo will also give the Xinzhou family certain benefits.
Although the Xinzhou family of Wuwei Pass has not yet sent troops, it has already contained 20,000 Guangming Army, and Yuan Chang is also worried that Wuwei Pass will intervene, so he left 20,000 horses to guard Wuwei Pass.
However, during the battle between the Guangming Army and the Yuanzhou Army, the Xinzhou family abided by the agreement, and the 20,000 Xinzhou family coalition troops in Wuwei Pass and 10,000 Wuwei Pass defenders left Wuwei Pass, and then fought with the 20,000 Guangming Army in the north of Xinzhou.
It's just that the two sides are also evenly matched on the battlefield in the north of Shinshu, and they can't provide assistance to the Yuan Zhou army on the battlefield in the south of Shinshu.
Wang Shuo consulted with his ministers and generals, but in the end he did not find any good strategy, only a war of attrition remained, relying on the Yuanzhou army to have 30,000 more troops than the Guangming army in front of him, and the Guangming army was consumed to death.
In the blink of an eye, the war has been going on for more than half a month, on the battlefield in the south of Shinshu, there are only more than 43,000 people left in the 70,000 Guangming Army, and only more than 76,000 people are left in the 100,000 Yuanzhou Army.
In desperation, Yuan Chang could only lead the Guangming army to retreat temporarily, relying on the city to resist the Yuan Zhou army, Wang Shuo did not let the Yuan Zhou army storm the city, but ordered the archers to continue to fire arrows at the city wall, consuming the vitality of the Guangming army, and at the same time mobilizing a large number of siege equipment from the rear, or mobilizing craftsmen to make siege equipment from local materials.
Under the rain of arrows from the Yuan Zhou army, the bright soldiers on the city wall did not dare to rise to the top.
More than half a month later, the Yuanzhou army, which was equipped with all kinds of siege equipment, launched an attack on the city garrisoned by the Guangming Army, and with the addition of various siege equipment, the battle losses of the Guangming Army and the Yuanzhou Army turned out to be almost equal to one to one, which was already a good result for the Yuanzhou Army.
On the battlefield in the north of Shinshu, the two sides of the battle have always maintained a state of parity, and the strength of the Shinshu family is only left with this, and they dare not consume them all, the army (force) is their capital, if the army is exhausted, they will not have much say in Wang Shuo's camp in the future.
Just when the two battlefields in the north and south of Shinshu continued to fight, something happened outside Wuwei Pass......