Chapter 970: Post-War Matters

After killing a few rows of archers, the cavalry team rushed to another group of archers who were about to come in time, and it was another round of fierce charge.

The archers took the cavalry as their target in a hurry, but the crossbow horses were running too fast for many to react to, and not many of the cavalry were shot.

When the remaining cavalry rushed into the array of Rao's archers, the archers became the object of their anger, and a massacre began, and one by one Rao's troops fell to the ground amid screams. Against the menacing cavalry, those archers simply had no ability to fight back.

When one cavalry was dealing with the archers, the other cavalry was still dealing with the heavy shield soldiers, first using fire oil to break the defense and disrupt the formation of the Rao army as before, and then rush in, killing the Rao army without leaving a piece of armor. The effect of using fire attack to deal with shield soldiers is surprisingly good, and tens of thousands of shield soldiers are beaten without the power to fight back.

After more cavalry rushed into the enemy's rear defensive circle, the blow of those archers to the cavalry was no longer worth mentioning. In the chaos, those Rao generals kept shouting for the soldiers below to stay in formation. But the reorganized rows of shield walls were scattered by the Blue Army's fire oil in an instant, and in the midst of the ongoing chaos, many of the Rao troops were only concerned about staying away from the fire source to save their lives, unable to obey the command of their general.

While those men fled in all directions, some cavalry bravely navigated through the gaps left by those men, constantly killing the Rao army who had lost their positions and were at a loss. After the shield of the heavy shield soldier is no longer effective, its own combat power is no longer worth mentioning, and the current situation is no different from that of ordinary infantry against cavalry.

Rao's wails and screams were mixed together, fear permeated their faces, in order to prevent the blue army from taking advantage of the chaos to attack them, from time to time there were some Rao troops surrounding them for all-round defense, but some cavalry liked to throw things on fire in those places, and the scene was extremely tragic.

After Ruan Yi rushed in from the side with 20,000 Blue Army, the rear of the Rao Army caught fire, and those archers and shield soldiers were not enough for the Blue Army to slaughter. Not long after, a cavalry led by Zhang Jiutian rushed directly to Leng Yi's location.

"Protect the marshal," the thousands of guards around Leng Yi shouted when they saw that the situation was wrong.

In the next moment, thousands of men with golden scale arrows stepped forward, trying to block the blue army with golden scale arrows, but the distance was too close, and those people did not have much chance to attack.

"Kill!" Not to mention that some of the Blues didn't even realize that the other party was holding a golden scale arrow, and just rushed towards it like an ordinary bow and arrow. A distance of several tens of meters, for the cavalry is close at hand. Even if the power of the golden scale arrow is amazing, the damage is limited after all, not to mention that the arrow does not mean death. Speaking of which, the deterrent effect of the Golden Scale Arrow is often greater than the offensive effect, but those Blue Army have no fear in their hearts, so the Rao Army Golden Scale Arrow has not changed anything.

"Protect the marshal," the captains of the guard shouted again after seeing that the Blues' momentum had not waned because of their blocking. Immediately afterwards, some foot soldiers rushed out with weapons and confronted the Blues.

It's a pity that even if those guards are elite cavalry, there is still no advantage, and the bravery of the blue army quickly puts Leng Yi in a predicament.

Behind those guards, Leng Yi had no fear on his face, just endless anger, as if he wanted to go up and fight the Blues, but he knew very well in his heart that no matter how weak the Blues were that rushed over, it was not a wise move for the coach to go into battle. Therefore, under the persuasion of those guard commanders, Leng Yi finally leaned towards the main force of the Rao army in the east.

"Protect the marshal," those guards shouted as they fought and retreated, and the frightened two wings of the Rao army who had not yet joined the battlefield hurriedly came over to help in the battle. Although it didn't have much effect, fortunately, there were many people who could hold out for a while, but the fire in the rear of the Rao army quickly affected the battle situation in front.

When the shouts of the Blue Army came from behind, the Rao Army who was charging in front was all frightened, and was killed by the Blue Army in a panic.

"Kill," on the other side, when the Blues echoed back and forth, the morale of the Blues was unprecedentedly strong, and the real slaughter began.

At the same time, the general trend of the Rao army has gone, and no amount of war drums can save the battle situation, and the original offensive formation was indeed used, but it failed to play a role at the critical moment!

"Retreat," Leng Yi, who retreated again and again, experienced a drastic change in a very short period of time, and the whole person had long lost his calmness, under the persuasion of some retreating generals, Leng Yi, who was powerless to return to the sky, angrily scolded those generals for being useless, and finally could only accept the suggestions of those generals and order a retreat.

At the sound of the order, the remaining Rao army retreated straight to the south by the cavalry path, hoping to find a glimmer of life on the battlefield in the south. After losing two battles, the victory was decided, and today's Rao army lost very completely, even if the battlefield in the south had some advantages, they did not have any room for maneuver.

"The enemy has lost," as soon as the Rao army fled, the blue army shouted directly, and the morale of the army rose again in an instant.

Under the fierce attack of the Blue Army, those Rao soldiers who were surrounded and fled in all directions died one after another under the swords and guns of the Blue Army, and the casualties of the Rao Army increased rapidly.

The overall situation has been decided, and Bai Shuilian, who is under Shuai, can think about Lin Xuanzhong with peace of mind, just now some people came from the north, and Bai Shuilian has learned that Yang Shifeng is looking for Lin Xuanzhong along the river with two thousand men, and there is no definite news for the time being. As for Lin Xuanzhong's life and death, it can only be determined by Yang Shifeng, because the person who originally said that Lin Xuanzhong died was Yang Shifeng.

Anyway, if Lin Xuanzhong really had an accident, Bai Shuilian thought that it would not be easy to explain to Lan Ce, Zhao Xu and others, so Bai Shuilian hoped that Lin Xuanzhong would be safe.

On the southern battlefield, Zhang Yu almost led the army and Rao's army to stage a battle in which the enemy lost 1,000 and we lost 800, and due to the difference in numbers between the two sides, if it wasn't for the exhaustion of both sides in the end, the battle might have been finished by now.

Neither Zhang Yu nor the enemy's commander knew about the battle situation in the north, but judging from the current situation, both sides understood that they could no longer support the duel in the middle.

Putting aside the battle situation on the battlefield in the south, Leng Yi led his troops to retreat to the south and actually wanted to borrow the strength from there, but the blue army saw their plan and kept chasing after them, leaving corpses in one place, and the confrontation between the main forces of the two sides was not over.

Time passed little by little, and there were corpses floating in the river to the north, all of which were puppet soldiers who had been forced to jump into the river or killed on the bank.

After killing all the puppet soldiers who fled to the river, Ruan Ming led people to search downstream along the riverbank, one by one with the attitude of seeing people alive and seeing corpses in death, just to find Lin Xuanzhong, and those who could swim even spontaneously went down to the river to find Lin Xuanzhong's traces.

Shouting while looking for it, there were figures everywhere beside the long river, and finally according to the speed of the water, Yang Shifeng also sent people to ride horses to a farther place to find it, and they worked very hard from top to bottom.

In order to find Lin Xuanzhong, they salvaged all the corpses of the puppet soldiers in the river, and even in the process of searching for Lin Xuanzhong, they fought with the fierce beasts in the water a few times, sacrificing some personnel, but in the end they found nothing. Regardless of whether Lin Xuanzhong was alive or dead, except for the broken sword, there was no trace.

From day to night, everyone didn't gain anything except guessing that Lin Xuanzhong might be buried in the belly of the fish. Not surprisingly, today's decisive battle was a complete victory for the Blue Army, Leng Yi led the remnants of the defeated generals all the way, and was finally chased to only tens of thousands of troops.

And from the beginning of the battlefield, the road to the evacuation of the Rao army was full of corpses. Today's battle, with the addition of the puppet army, the number of casualties on both sides exceeded 600,000.

According to preliminary statistics, the casualties of the Blue Army were close to half of the total strength, which can be described as heavy casualties, but the results were satisfactory compared to the casualties of the Rao Army.

Because there were too many wounded, the first thing after the war was to heal the wounded soldiers, so Bai Shuilian directly ordered to find a place by the river to set up a camp tent specifically for the treatment of wounded soldiers. After dealing with the problem of wounded soldiers, Bai Shuilian established contact with Zhao Wu and informed Lan Ce of the results of the battle with Rao's army, thus waiting for further instructions from Lan Ce.

After that, there was the problem of collecting the loot, and the Rao army fled all the way, and none of the three camps could be returned, and the things in the three camps naturally belonged to the Blue Army. After ensuring the safety of the materials in the three camps, some of the main generals were busy cleaning up the battlefield, and the armor and weapons were their trophies, and there were more things to do after the war than the preparations before the station. Unlike before the war, the soldiers were in a relaxed state, but the corpses of the Blues reduced this ease.

Compared with the busyness outside the barracks, the barracks is much quieter, but the atmosphere is heavier, many generals gathered at the door of Xue Yin's tent, and the people standing at the front were Lin Xuanzhong's former direct subordinates, one by one, covered in blood, and even the wounds were cleaned up, while they had time, they came over to Xue Yin as soon as possible to ask for guilt, because they did not fulfill their promise to Xue Yin and failed to protect Lin Xuanzhong.

In the face of these people who were scarred and even had a broken arm like Yang Shifeng, despite the thousands of dissatisfaction in his heart, how could Xue Yin blame them.

"You all go back," it was long ago that there would be an ending now, in addition to self-blame, Xue Yin actually only had hatred for Rao and Tianyu in her heart. If it weren't for the rebellion of the puppet army, Lin Xuanzhong might not have died, so Xue Yin turned all his pain into hatred for his enemies. Not long ago, Xue Yin had already said to Zhang Jiutian that she would make the people of Tianyu Kingdom and Rao Kingdom slaves forever.

If Lin Xuanzhong was still alive, Xue Yin's request might not come true, but Zhang Jiutian could only agree.

When Zhang Jiutian conveyed the meaning of Xue Yin, no one in the following generals objected. After the army enters the Tianyu Kingdom, those civilians and local forces will not have a good time.

"Yes," the group agreed, and then turned to leave, knowing that staying would not change anything.

Speaking of which, except for the disappearance of Lin Xuanzhong, everything in the army is normal, all personnel are performing their duties, and all affairs are being carried out in an orderly manner.

Obviously, everything is improving, but some people's anger is difficult to calm, Feng Yiyang led people to flee too fast earlier, Yang Shifeng finally failed to catch up, and finally escaped tens of thousands of Rao troops. After learning about the reason for Lin Xuanzhong's assassination from the captured people, many people felt that if they didn't kill Leng Yi and Rao's remnants, Lin Xuanzhong's revenge would not be avenged.

In any case, the search for Lin Xuanzhong continues, and if Lin Xuanzhong's body is not found, he will not stop for a day, this is the insistence of all the personnel of the Blue Army from top to bottom, and this time Lin Xuanzhong's disappearance not only has a huge impact on Xue Yin and Ruan Ming, but all those who are familiar with Lin Xuanzhong have been affected to a certain extent.

It is worth mentioning that after everyone decided that Lin Xuanzhong was dead, Zhang Jiutian's status in the army completely changed, and more than half of the people in the blue army who were still alive had to be loyal to Zhang Jiutian, but Zhang Jiutian's ability was not commensurate with the change in identity, so Lin Xuanzhong's death put Zhang Jiutian in an embarrassing situation.

At the beginning, he only thought that Lin Xuanzhong would leave the army, but he didn't think that Lin Xuanzhong would die, and now Zhang Jiutian doesn't know how to take over the forces that originally belonged to Lin Xuanzhong.

Compared with Zhang Jiutian's identity change, Ruan Yi and the others were deeply shocked, and they had not yet taken a step closer to the Qingyuan Great Power, the people who promised them had already taken a step ahead, and Lin Xuanzhong's death made them very painful. In addition, without Lin Xuanzhong's protection, their status in the army is difficult to guarantee. The decisive battle with Rao's army was indeed won, but the cost was too great for them.

After a day of searching to no avail, the next day, Bai Shuilian reported Lin Xuanzhong's unfortunate death to Lan Ce, and at the same time secretly informed Zhao Wu, in order to avoid causing turmoil, Bai Shuilian did not spread the matter to the outside world, and had restricted personnel from discussing it privately, of course, this matter could not be hidden.

And last night, Bai Shuilian received news from Zhao Wu's side, there were many casualties there, and it took almost half of the price of his troops to get a victory. This result has a lot to do with some tricks used by Rao Jun and his tactics against Zhao Wu.

Halfway through the battle, Rao's army surrendered to the Blues, and then launched a counterattack against Zhao Wu when the Blues were about to collect their weapons. First use some of the items that soldiers carry that can cast smoke and dust to create chaos, and then shout that the enemy commander is dead when Zhao Wu is trapped by his own men, thus weakening the Blues' momentum. Rao's all-out counterattack inflicted heavy casualties on the Blues, but the situation gradually returned to normal under the leadership of those Blue generals, and the Blues finally won when Zhao Wu escaped.

In fact, according to the tactics of the Blue Army, even if Zhao Wu really had an accident, the Blue Army would still not be defeated, but Zhao Wu's escape made their losses smaller, and now there are tens of thousands of real soldiers imprisoned there. The battle in the north and south went smoothly and almost destroyed the military strength of the Rao Kingdom, and under the influence of the Tianyu Kingdom and the weather, the armies on both sides will enter a truce period in the future.

It is worth mentioning that Bai Shuilian originally planned to reward the three armies after the war, but because of Lin Xuanzhong's death, there was no active atmosphere in the army, and it was lifeless, as if a lost battle had been defeated. This situation made Bai Shuilian's direct subordinates somewhat dissatisfied, after all, they had no special relationship with Lin Xuanzhong, but for the time being, it could only be like this, after all, most of the personnel were busy mourning Lin Xuanzhong.

After all, the joy brought by a big victory can't withstand the blow brought by Lin Xuanzhong's death, after a busy day of military affairs, everyone is busy adjusting their mood the next day, and the army is not calm, but Lin Xuanzhong doesn't have to worry about all of this anymore!