Chapter Seventy-Two: Total Annihilation
"The tide is gone......
Seeing the chaotic scene in front of him, Mo Guohao, who was scorched with his hair and the back of his hand with several blisters, chattered in a daze. The way of life has been blocked, morale is low, and now even the establishment has been completely disrupted, the officers cannot find soldiers, and everyone is scurrying around like headless flies.
Once an army falls to this point, even if Sun Wu is alive, it will be irretrievable.
In the end, the fatal blow to the officers and soldiers was the re-launch of the trebuchet.
Even with the parameters preset, the only two torsion trebuchets were small and relatively easy to adjust, and it took a long time for the scrambling rebels to get the trebuchets back in action. When the twenty terrible stone bullets fell from the air again, although most of them were missed due to the accuracy problem, the morale of the officers and soldiers fell to the bottom, and there was no longer any fighting spirit.
"Lord Mo, this gang of thieves is too strong!"
In the chaos, Jiang Hongwen, who was lucky not to die and didn't even hurt a single hair, slipped over like a loach and looked at Mo Guohao with hopeful eyes, the meaning was already obvious.
If you keep going, everyone will be wiped out.
"Jiang Hongwen, do you know what you're talking about?" Being persuaded to surrender by his officers, Mo Guohao couldn't help but be furious, swung his knife to his neck, and snorted coldly: "The empire has raised troops for a thousand days, so it is at this time. My generation of soldiers, serving the emperor's favor is nothing more than death, how can I speak lightly of being a thief? â
"Master Mo must not be angry, his subordinates will be merciful......"
Jiang Hongwen's face was sweaty, and he didn't know whether he was smoked or anxious, and he swore to the sky: "The lowly duty to the empire can be seen by the sun and the moon, and he naturally does not want to be in the same stream with the thieves." But the general always has to think about his hard-working brothers, as well as their family, right? It's a pity that hundreds of lives were killed in vain. â
"How can it be said that you will die in vain if you are loyal to your country?"
The knife in Mo Guohao's hand was pressed, but there was really a little hesitation on his face.
Jiang Hongwen knew Mo Guohao's temperament very well, and when he saw this, he immediately knew that there was a play, and his face was a little more righteous and awe-inspiring. Just as he was about to continue the persuasion, he didn't want the thief's drum to suddenly stop, and then the cheers, clamour, and shouts of killing quickly weakened. Not only that, but the stone throwers and arrows have also stopped one after another.
The surviving officers and soldiers did not know what was happening, and gathered together in fear, looking in horror at the rebels who surrounded them, waiting for the verdict of fate.
A loud shout seemed to come from the dark sky: "General Tiangong has an order, those who descend will not be killed!" â
"General Tiangong has an order, and those who descend will not be killed!"
One after another, the leaders of the rebel army followed the shouts. I don't know which side of the rebels spontaneously shouted, and the Taiping camp that surrounded them, and even the surrounding volunteer battalions, all responded with a bang and shouted one after another.
"Those who descend will not be killed!"
"Those who descend will not be killed!"
The voices became louder and louder, more and more neat, and at last, the voices of the rebels became one, like thunder in the sky in this dark night. After Chen Wu led them to defeat the officers and troops of Longshan Mansion to such a miserable state, the military spirit and morale of these rebel soldiers and Chen Wu's prestige in the army had reached an unprecedented level.
"I'm waiting for ......"
The desperation that seemed to be surrounded by enemies on all sides was like the siege of the wall before the crossing, which crushed the remaining officers and troops.
I don't know who made a loud noise, and the first to throw down the knife, the other officers and soldiers dropped their weapons one after another and chose to surrender!
"Six hundred officers and soldiers, they were defeated so easily!"
On the top of the city, Xu Shizhong, who witnessed the whole process, was shocked and a little unbelievable. Although after seeing Chen Wu's various arrangements, he was already full of confidence that the rebels would win the final victory, the whole process was so easy that it still greatly exceeded his expectations. From the beginning to the end, the officers and troops barely made a threatening counterattack!
The blow of the trebuchet was one wave, the cavalry on the other side of the pit was another wave, and finally the smoke of fire and a short battle.
After three waves, the officers and troops surrendered.
After several minutes of cheering, the surviving officers and soldiers threw down their weapons and armor under the orders of the rebels, and gathered in the middle. A group of soldiers from the Taiping Battalion jumped off the stone wall in full armor and marched forward in a neat queue to capture the men and begin to count the harvest.
Among them, there is the highest military attache of the official army and the lost soul of Mo Guohao!
As for Ji Ning, the other cavalry commander, when he dragged his men and horses out of the pit, he had already died of excessive blood loss.
Master Rong, who was bent on finding revenge on the righteous army, accompanied Ji Ning and died miserably in the pit. His expression was crazy and distorted, and he couldn't close his eyes until he died.
Chen Wu's Taiping Righteous Army won a brilliant victory that was enough to determine fate and future!
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After all the surviving officers and soldiers were captured, the rebels began to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded, and count the harvest.
Shi Xianqian, who was in charge of the overall arrangement, was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, but his expression was very excited. It took most of the night to finally take out a preliminary report and submit it to Chen Wu, who also didn't close his eyes.
If the above statistics are spread, it will be enough to trigger a storm that shocks the Qianyuan Empire.
Of the 500 infantry troops in Long Son Province, more than 100 people were killed or seriously wounded in battle, and the remaining 300 or so people who could still move freely all surrendered. The cavalry was relatively miserable, first the ones with bows and arrows were cleared, and then a group of people were killed in the pits, and in the end less than sixty people survived.
As for the results, out of a total of 600 sets of leather armor, at least 400 were still almost intact, and half of the remaining 200 sets were usable after simple repairs. Almost all weapons such as swords were recovered, more than 30 bows and arrows, and nearly 70 intact war horses!
Compared with so many captures, the price paid by the rebels was only more than two dozen dead and wounded.
In the past, the ratio of exchange between the official army and the thief army was at least five to one or even ten to one. In this battle, Chen Wu first designed to trap the officials and soldiers, and then had all kinds of back-ups, and finally played a diametrically opposite exchange ratio, and captured all the remaining officers and soldiers.
Six hundred people, all who entered the city, not a single one escaped!
What a real annihilation! No one will be able to bring out accurate news of this battle!
The Longshan Mansion would only know that the 600 officers and troops sent to quell the rebellion had been destroyed, but they didn't know the details at all, they didn't know the preservation of the stone thrower, and they wouldn't know the reality of the power in Chen Wu's hands.
Finally, in an ecstatic atmosphere, the sky will be bright!
After the iron gate was re-opened, Chen Wu's horse team couldn't wait to go out of the city and began to take over the camp of the official army, and hunted down nearly 100 recruits in the camp.
These people who were left behind to guard the camp felt that something was wrong when they saw that the retreat route of the officers and soldiers was blocked by the iron gate shortly after they entered the city yesterday, and then shouted and killed. After a few moments, there was silence in the city, which made the people realize the danger. However, after all, it was a 600 officer army, and there was also a cavalry brigade among them, and these recruits who accompanied the army still had a little luck in their hearts, and they were also afraid of the punishment of desertion. But this morning, when the gates were wide open, they saw a caravan of thieves leaving the city, and they knew that there was no escape.
Some of them saw the opportunity quickly and their legs and feet were sharp, so they immediately carried the small bags that had been packed overnight, turned around and fled to Longshan Mansion.
But how can you outrun a horse with just manpower?
Soon, these recruits were captured one by one by Chen Wu's horse team, and only a few were lucky enough to escape. But with these few fish that slipped through the net, even if he returned to Longshan Mansion smoothly, he would not be able to bring back any useful news, and it would not affect Chen Wu's plan in the slightest.
As these recruits were recaptured, the grain, grass, and baggage in the official army camp also fell into the hands of Chen Wu's rebels and were pulled back by the brigade of rebels.
Seeing a large number of captured officers and soldiers, truckloads of grain, grass and armor, and even broken flags, the people of Yicheng in the city were shocked like never before.
Last night, the movement at the East Gate was so loud that almost half of the city could hear it. Who could not have known that the counterinsurgency officers and rebels were at war with the rebels occupying Yicheng. It's just that the fierce battle was quickly quelled, leaving them scratching their heads. Even if someone wanted to go out, they would be forced back by the rebels who occupied the place. Everyone only knew that the fighting had stopped, but they didn't know who had won. Now seeing that group of wolf bèi unbearable officers and military prisoners being escorted through the streets, although it is hard to believe, the facts are in front of them, and these Yicheng people cannot be questioned.
The counterinsurgency officers and soldiers who came from Longshan Mansion a hundred miles away only stayed outside the city for two days, and they were completely wiped out in one night!