Chapter 246: Wagang Inner Coaxing

"What General Wen Chao said is exactly what I want to say."

Another military general spoke:

"Mishan Gong is dead, and I don't want to see him in the eyes of Zhai Dalongtou, after today, in addition to self-reliance, there is only one way to defect to other forces, and self-reliance is not the ability to wait for us, only to defect to other forces, even so, it is better to defect to the general, and it is better to seek a good background in the future."

Everyone said a word, and I said a word about the future, and after a while, everyone's eyes fell on the lonely man behind him, and asked:

"Brother Shiji, we all want to defect to Chaoyan, I don't know what you think?"

Xu Shiji's eyelids raised and glanced at the generals, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Brothers, decide."

Seeing that he was extremely depressed, the generals all knew what the reason was, sighed, and patted him on the shoulder.

On the other side, Ye Chen rode a snatched war horse with Li Mi's bloody head in his hand and galloped wildly, shouting loudly:

"Li Mi is dead, the head is here, surrender and don't kill!"

The sound is like a Buddhist lion roaring, it can be heard thousands of miles away, and the Wagang army that is fighting fiercely with the Sui army around saw this scene, and the morale collapsed instantly, and some Sui officers took the opportunity to shout surrender and not kill, and immediately a large number of Wagang troops threw down their weapons and squatted on the ground to surrender.

The Wagang army was essentially a peasant uprising, and its fighting spirit was not as good as that of the regular army, and as soon as the leader Li Mi died, the morale would immediately collapse, except for Li Mi's personal guards who were still resisting, and the rest began to surrender one after another.

Ye Chen sent people to run around with Li Mi's head, and the Wagang army in the city looked at the wind and descended, like a fire in the prairie that quickly expanded to the whole city.

By dawn, the battle in the entire Biancheng was completely over, less than 20,000 of the more than 100,000 Wagang troops in Biancheng were killed, and the remaining nearly 130,000 troops all surrendered, which surprised Ye Chen greatly.

He had already made most of the preparations to escape from the city, but he didn't expect so many surrenders, and after careful inquiry, he learned that the Wagang army in the east of the city, south and north of the city had surrendered in formation, and they surrendered in large numbers under the leadership of the leading general.

And this is not the end, it didn't take long for Ye Chen to receive surrendered troops in the city, and Li Mi's seventy or eighty thousand troops distributed in several county towns outside Biancheng sent envoys to surrender and asked him to send people to receive them.

In less than three days, Li Mi's army of more than 200,000 troops was wiped out, Li Mi was killed in battle, and the remaining nearly 200,000 troops all surrendered.

Next, he did not continue to march, but stayed in Bianzhou City to reorganize the army, selected 20,000 strong men from the 200,000 troops and reorganized them into an army, and the remaining 100,000 were basically old, weak, sick and disabled, and their combat effectiveness was too poor, so they all sent him back to farming.

The army formed by the peasant uprising was basically everyone, even the elderly and children, even if Li Mi selected all men, there were too many unqualified soldiers in it, and Ye Chen picked out 20,000 relatively qualified soldiers, and the combat effectiveness was not comparable to the regular army, and it took a long time of training to catch up with the combat effectiveness of the regular army.

However, Ye Chen didn't train slowly for so long, and directly equipped with regular army standard weapons and armor to the battlefield, and basically became a veteran after following him to win a few battles.

When the preparation was completed, it took him more than half a month, leaving 20,000 troops to guard Biancheng, and he took 50,000 troops to the expedition, preparing to cross the Yellow River north and attack Wagang.

Wagangzhai is divided into two major forces, namely the local forces of Wagangzhai represented by the leader Zhai Rang, and the foreign forces led by Li Mi, the Duke of Mishan, among which Li Mi's forces occupy an absolute advantage, whether it is their own strength, or the generals under their command, and the territory forces, Li Mi is stronger than Zhai Rang, but Zhai Rang occupies the righteous name of a leader.

In history, Li Mi and Zhai Rang merged because of disagreement, Li Mi killed Zhai Rang and annexed the entire Wagangzhai force, but in this world, because of the influence of the Advent, the fire did not happen, but Zhai Rang and Li Mi had already parted ways and did their own thing.

But even so, after the news of the complete destruction of Li Mi's forces reached the Wagang army, it still caused a panic.

Everyone knew that Li Mi's strength was stronger than Zhai Rang, and even Li Mi was defeated and even gave his life, and everyone was not sure whether Zhai Rang could block the Sui army's soldiers, so that the people in the army were panicked.

On the other side, under the guidance of General Li Mijun, Ye Chen led the army to make a detour, and took advantage of the fact that Zhai Rang's army on the other side of the Yellow River did not find out, quickly crossed the Yellow River, and waved his army straight to Yangwu County, after which was Wagang.

The sudden appearance of the army under Yangwu City was completely unexpected by the Yangwu defenders, Yangwu is just a county seat, and the defenders in the city are only less than five thousand, all of them are righteous troops, and their combat effectiveness is not even comparable to Li Mibu's, Ye Chen picked up a boulder the size of a round table and smashed through the gate of Yangwu County, and the Yangwu defenders surrendered very cleanly.

After receiving Yangwu County, Ye Chen took Yangwu County as his base camp and sent troops to attack and take down the surrounding counties, forming a corner to form a siege of Wagang.

It's just that before he started to attack, he received the news of an internal commotion in the Wagang army, Zhai Rang and the first general under his command disagreed and quarreled, and then there was a fire and a merger, and finally the Wagang army was divided and confronted again.

After Ye Chen received the news, he immediately sent troops to attack Wagang County, and he personally rushed to Wagang with 5,000 cavalry, but when he arrived, he had already seen the gate of Wagang County open, and an army was lining up at the gate of the city to welcome, and a big man in silver armor rode out of the city alone.

"The Advent!"

Ye Chen greeted him, and at first glance he recognized that this general was an adventer, and his cultivation had actually reached the realm of a grandmaster, and when he saw Ye Chen, he immediately turned over and dismounted and hugged his fists:

"Wang Xuan has seen Ye Shuai!"

"Get up, please!"

Ye Chen stretched out his hand to signal him to get up, and said:

"Ming people don't say dark words, everyone is a descendant, you lead the army to surrender, I need to know the reason and your origin, otherwise I don't dare to take it in."

Wang Xuan nodded and said:

"Don't worry, we are not those people who are big forces, but randomly descended in this world, everyone gathered together to keep warm, Ye Shuai's cultivation is earth-shattering, how dare we not measure ourselves to block the car, we can only put into Ye Shuai's command, so as to survive better."

"Very well, I accept your surrender, but,"

Ye Chen stretched out a finger and emphasized:

"It's okay for you to surrender, but you have to hand over the power of the army and redistribute it, I don't like that I have independent forces under my command."

"No problem!"

Wang Xuan replied very simply.

Next, Ye Chen sent people to receive Wagang County, as well as tens of thousands of surrendered troops, although Wang Xuan defeated Zhai Rang, but Zhai Rang himself did not die, fled back to Wagang Village with the remaining soldiers and horses, plus some soldiers and horses fled, and now Wang Xuan's army also surrendered more than 30,000, but all of them are elite, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of the Sui army, which is also the main reason why Zhai Rang was not eliminated by Li Mi.