Chapter 443: Defection
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Chapter 443 Defection
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Knowing that the rear army was frequently attacked by the central army and suffered heavy casualties, Li Jia was also anxious at this time, and asked people to go to the Zhenjun army again, and asked the Zhenjun army to turn around immediately, coordinate the battle, and encircle and annihilate the central army.
This time, the Zhenjun army that ran in front really stopped, but the place where the Zhenjun army stopped was full of barriers, and I don't know when the ground was built, one after another earthen walls were built, some of the earthen walls were only a few meters long, and some of the earthen walls were dozens of meters long, intricately intertwined, stretching out horizontally for dozens of miles, forming a huge semi-circular encirclement.
After the Zhenjun army occupied the earthen wall, the soldiers immediately moved out from behind the earthen wall to block the front of the earthen wall, and while the fortifications were done, one artillery after another was also pushed out from between the earthen walls and erected.
The rebels who followed behind the Jungjun army did not know what to do, and continued to run forward. Suddenly, the camp of the Zhenjun army sounded the sound of orders.
"Arrows-" "Arrows on the whole army-"
"Gun battalion loaded, ready to shoot-" "Artillery charge, ready to shoot-"
When the rebels ran to a distance of 100 paces from the earthen wall in the front row, they heard shouts and cheers in the camp of the Zhenjun army. "Shoot the arrows-" "Shoot-"
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The first sound of the firing guns rang out, and a layer of green smoke rose from behind the earthen wall, and then looked at the rebels rushing forward, and a large number of people were knocked down in an instant.
Before the people could react to what was going on, the arrow array of the Zhenjun army flew out from behind the earthen wall.
Dense clusters of arrows flew over the heads of the rebels like a dark cloud, and then fell from mid-air with a piercing whistling sound.
Arrows rained down on the rebels, and in an instant, the screams were all in one piece, and thousands of rebels were drowned in a rain of arrows.
As soon as the arrow array passed, the second round of fire attacks of the Zhenjun army began. Layers of green smoke rose from the back of the earthen wall, and the projectiles could not be seen flying in the air, and as soon as the green smoke rose from this side, the rebel soldiers on the opposite side fell to the ground in unison.
People lay in pools of blood, some died instantly, and some wounded soldiers with arrow and gunshot wounds were still squirming and wailing on the ground.
The rebels' front army was caught off guard by the sudden attack of the Zhenjun army for a while, and suffered heavy casualties, and many soldiers were waving their arms while rushing forward, shouting in a loud voice: "Don't fight! It's your own people! Don't fight, we are all our own people......
They claim to be their own people, but the Zhenjun Army does not admit that they are their own people. The firecrackers continued to fire outward, and when the first platoon finished fighting, they immediately retreated, and the second platoon stepped forward to fill in and continue to shoot, while at the same time, round after round of arrows flew out from the heads of the Zhenjun army and smashed into the crowd of rebels.
The shouting rebel soldiers, covered with feathers and projectiles, fell one after another, and many of them were desperately stretching their arms forward even though they were lying on the ground, groaning intermittently: "Our own people......! Own people ......"
All of a sudden, the front army of the rebels was beaten into chaos by the Zhenjun army, and the people behind continued to run forward, while the people in front were beaten and turned around and fled.
The Zhenjun army suddenly turned the spearhead and attacked the rebels, and unbelievably built a perfect fortification in an instant, and the news soon spread to Li Jia and others in the Chinese army.
Hearing the report of the soldiers, Li Jia was dumbfounded, and the rebel leaders present were also dumbfounded, and the people stayed in place and didn't react for a long time.
Li Jia shivered coldly, grabbed the arm of the soldier who reported the news, and shouted: "You don't want to talk nonsense here and disturb the morale of the army, how can the Zhenjun army suddenly attack us? How can you build fortifications in an instant, it's just nonsense!"
The soldier who reported the news turned pale and stammered, "General...... General, what the villain said, every sentence is true, Zhenjun Army...... The Zhenjun army is really attacking our army with all its strength now, and the brothers of the former army have already suffered more than 10,000 casualties!"
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Xue Yuan blinked, and after a while, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed, and muttered: "Fooled! We were fooled! We all fell for Shangguan Xiu's tricks! No wonder the Zhenjun army wanted to run so far, it turned out that they had already secretly built fortifications here outside the scope of our horse exploration patrol, no wonder the Zhenjun army refused to use artillery and firecrackers to attack the empty camp we had prepared, it turned out that their artillery and firecrackers had already been secretly transported here to set up an ambush, waiting to attack us!"
Now Xue Yuan has figured out all kinds of abnormalities in the Zhenjun army, but now he understands that it is too late, the Zhenjun army has set up perfect fortifications in front of the rebels, like an insurmountable barrier, blocking the road in front of the rebels.
Zhong Zishan looked at everyone dumbfounded, shook his head again and again, and said in a trembling voice: "Impossible, Shangguan Xiu and we have already negotiated, to join forces to eliminate the Central Army, to support the enthronement of King Yu, he is ...... now How can he go back on his word and unite with the Central Army to attack us?"
Xue Yuan smiled, smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "Shangguan Xiu's words, how can you take them seriously? I have already said that this person's temperament is changeable and capricious, but ......, "You haven't listened! It's useless to complain about these things now."
"Impossible, this can't be ......" Zhong Zishan still refused to believe that they had fallen for Shangguan Xiu's tricks.
Xiao Bei suddenly laughed, he raised his hand and pointed at Zhong Zishan, and said: "Shangguan Xiu only relied on a musket, and bought you Zhong Zishan, until now, you are still speaking for Shangguan Xiu, I think, you have already had an affair with Shangguan Xiu......
"What did you say?" Zhong Zishan screamed without warning, rushed towards Xiao Bei, and grabbed him by the collar. Xiao Bei did not show weakness, and grabbed Zhong Zishan's collar with his backhand, and the two of them each grabbed each other, their faces were red and their necks were thick, their eyes were as wide as copper bells, and their eyes were bloodshot and glaring at each other.
"When is it now, are you still messing around here?!" Li Jia stepped forward, pushed the two of them away, and shouted: "For the sake of today's plan, we should unite and find a way to break out as soon as possible......
Before he finished speaking, Xue Yuan shook his head again and again, and said with a gloomy face: "There is no chance! We have no chance to break through! Shangguan Xiu is thoughtful and does things well, since we have fallen for his tricks now, how can he give us another chance to break out?"
"You fucking don't recite the funeral scriptures here!" Xiao Bei roared, pulled his neck and shouted: "Listen to the rebel brothers of Mojun, follow me to break through!" While speaking, Xiao Bei didn't care about Zhong Zishan, turned over and got on his horse, lifted a spear from the victory hook of the war horse, and ran forward with a group of generals.
The arrival of Xiao Bei's troops stabilized the chaotic situation of the rebel front army to a large extent. The rebels, who originally had no formation to speak of, regrouped into a phalanx, and then advanced under the command of Xiao Bei, intending to forcibly break out from the side of the Zhenjun army.
For the breakthrough of the rebel group's phalanx, the Zhenjun army had long been in strict formation, and seeing that the rebel phalanx was approaching step by step, the artillery prepared in advance finally had a place to use.
With the roar of artillery, the heavy shields in the front row of the rebel phalanx were shattered, and one after another, the attack of Zhenjun's arms and arrows followed.
There was a blow of fire in the front, and there was also a blow from the arrow array of the wind army overhead, and the rebels advanced up in a phalanx, and within twenty steps, the shield array in the front row was wiped out, and after walking less than fifty steps, there were few soldiers in the entire phalanx who could still stand. On the ground in front of the earthen wall, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, layer after layer, and the blood stained the ground blood-red.
Seeing his own phalanx rushing towards the Zhenjun army one by one, and then being annihilated by the Zhenjun army one by one, Xiao Bei, who was in command in the rear, could only be described as scratching his intestines and liver and gallbladder. He roared angrily and personally led his generals and spiritual cultivators into battle.
It's just that the attacks of the cultivators in the artillery guns and arrow formations can only hold on for a short time longer than ordinary soldiers. When the rebels were less than twenty paces away from the earthen wall, Guangfang led a group of Zhenjun army warriors to rush out from behind the earthen wall and fight with the rebels first.
At the same time that Guangfang led the warriors to disrupt the rebel formation, the phalanx of the Zhenjun army also counterattacked from behind the earthen wall, killing the approaching rebels and retreating, and then the Zhenjun army retreated back to the earthen wall, and the battle returned to the previous beginning, and the rebels had to re-advance against the artillery fire and arrow array of the Zhenjun army.
However, the rebels led by Xiao Bei were no longer able to make a second breakthrough, and the rebels were defeated on all fronts.
With Xiao Bei's experience, the rebel leaders also saw that it was impossible to break out from the Zhenjun army, so the rebels had to turn around and want to break through from the central army behind them.
Although the Central Army did not have such perfect fortifications as the Zhenjun Army, the Central Army had a Tiger Army, and when the rebels broke through, the Tiger Army constantly interspersed and rushed in the rebel camp, which not only disrupted the rebel formation, but also cut the rebels into pieces.
The rebels who had been cut apart fought on their own, and were soon annihilated one by one by the infantry of the Central Army.
The rebel army of 600,000 people, with the Zhenjun army in front and the central army in the rear, was blocked at both ends, and was trapped in the plain area fifty miles north of Shangjing.
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