Volume 2 General Orders Chapter 116 The Battle of Hasegawa
Cui Changde urged the giant rhino forward while picking up the wine bag in his hand and drinking bitterly.
Suddenly, a soldier from the front rushed to report quickly: "General Qiqi, news has come from the inside: Li Pofeng and his confidant and beloved general Sun Changxing had a quarrel, and Sun Changxing led most of the generals and 80,000 soldiers to part ways with Li Pofeng. At this time, Li Pofeng's troops are less than 50,000, and the army's morale is unstable, I am afraid that it is already vulnerable!"
"Hehe, as I expected! Li Pofeng's prestige in the Jin army has plummeted, and they have begun to split within themselves. In this way, as long as we defeat them individually, then we are really close to victory!" Cui Changde smiled with satisfaction.
"The Great General is really a genius! What you expected before has now come true. Now the hundreds of thousands of troops on the Daikin side have been scattered and turned into several forces, and they are no longer as united as before. Even Li Pofeng, who had become famous before, was now just a small force with less than 50,000 people, and he was just a clown in front of our fierce beast regiment and hundreds of thousands of troops!
Cui Changde nodded, but also said: "Until the critical moment, it is still unknown who will kill the deer." We had better act cautiously! Our task at hand is to first annihilate Li Pofeng's force and get rid of this biggest hidden danger!"
He looked at the generals around him, and said with a straight face: "Pass my order: The fierce beast regiment will continue to pursue the remnants of Li Pofeng with me! All walks of life have sent spies to explore the way, and they must find out Li Pofeng's recent situation. Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated!"
"The last general obeys!" replied the generals, bowing their heads.
Li Pofeng rode the Red Dragon Horse and led more than 30,000 remnants of soldiers through the mountains and forests, and only two unknown generals were left behind him.
They have been running for nearly ten days in a row, and they have already run more than a thousand miles. However, the Liang pursuers behind him are still pursuing relentlessly, and there will be a chase battle every day or two. These days, the original 50,000 people have died, captured and disappeared, and now there are only more than 30,000 people left. Even the rest of these people are exhausted and on the verge of collapse. I can't see a bit of Daikin elite anymore.
And very importantly, they seem to be lost!
After so many days and nights of running, they had long since moved away from the planned retreat route and plunged into the reckless jungle. They couldn't see where the way out was, they only knew that they were advancing towards the hinterland of the Great Jin Dynasty with all their strength, while avoiding the attacks of the chasing soldiers of the Great Liang behind them. Most of the time along the way, Li Pofeng took the lead, driving away the fierce beasts and birds of prey that stood in the way, while the soldiers blindly followed behind. Everyone's hearts were full of confusion, and as for what Li Pofeng was thinking, no one knew.
"General Li, we now have only more than 31,400 people left, and more than 4,700 people are missing again......! I'm afraid I've already acted as a deserter!" a partial general reported to Li Pofeng.
The two generals who followed Li Pofeng's side looked at each other and did not speak.
Li Pofeng's face turned pale, and he said coldly: "Hmph! There is no need to report this matter again in the future! It's just some cowardly rats, and if they escape, they will flee, and even if they stay, they will only drag us back! When this battle is over, we will naturally settle accounts with these deserters slowly! Okay, don't worry about them anymore, let's continue on our way!"
Everyone was silent, lifted their tired bodies again, and followed Li Pofeng with difficulty.
And more than ten miles behind them, the fierce beast regiment of Daliang was also closing the distance step by step.
"General Qiqi, news has come from the inside again: Li Pofeng's remnants have lost their way, and the army's morale is on the verge of collapse. The number of deserters is increasing dramatically, and there are less than 30,000 soldiers left. β
"General Qiyu, the spies report: Following the direction of Li Pofeng's remnants fleeing, the spies found a large number of scattered armor and weapons in the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and there should be a large number of Dajin soldiers acting as deserters!"
Cui Changde slowly listened to the news from all walks of life, and the current situation of Li Pofeng's remnants roughly appeared in his heart, and he couldn't help laughing: "Okay, good! Finally, this moment has come, it's time for us to pick the fruits of victory!"
A general next to him was puzzled: "General, we just chased all the way, and we broke up Li Pofeng's army without much effort, so why don't we continue to keep chasing, so that we can win without a fight!"
Cui Changde shook his head and said, "Now is the best time for a decisive battle. If we continue to chase, we will go deep into the Dajin Dynasty, and maybe it will really make him Li Pofeng encounter Dajin's reinforcements, and make him become a tiger again, and it will be too late for us to regret it at that time!"
"Pass my order: The Fierce Beast Corps is advancing at full speed to pursue Li Pofeng, and the generals will lead their headquarters to follow closely behind, and the time for our decisive battle has arrived!"
"The last general obeys!" replied the generals in unison.
Li Pofeng and the others, who were hurrying in front, soon knew about the abnormal movement of the chasing soldiers in the rear.
"Forward, full speed ahead! Our life and death are in the last fight! Full speed forward, as long as we dodge this last pursuit, we will be able to survive!" Li Pofeng opened his throat and shouted at the whole army.
His words had some effect, and many soldiers had a sense of hope in their hearts, and the speed under their feet increased a lot. But these words were scoffed at by a certain two people.
Li Pofeng led 30,000 people to run wildly in the mountains and forests, and the fierce beast corps led by Cui Changde and more than 100,000 Liang elites in the rear were also accelerating their pursuit. The distance between the two is slowly narrowing, and when the two finally meet, it will be the end of this long chase, and this time is fast approaching.
30,000 people followed Li Pofeng and ran wildly in the mountains and forests without brains, and fled for most of the day before finally stopping. It's not because they don't want to run, but because everyone has unknowingly run into a long valley.
When everyone looked at the cliffs on three sides and the only way out had raised dust, everyone was desperate!
They have struggled to run for their lives until now, just in exchange for a chance to survive, but they have escaped into a dead end by mistake! Everyone collapsed to the ground, and many even fainted. Only a few people looked at the back of the dragon horse and were confused.
Li Pofeng turned around and saw that the raised smoke and dust had chased into the valley, there was no anxiety, no resentment, no anger, no expression on his face, and he said to himself: "I have done everything I should do, and the rest depends on you!"
The two generals standing not far away looked at each other, not knowing what he meant.
The dust raised in the valley gradually came from afar, and when it came to everyone, it was clear that it was a legion of all kinds of fierce beasts and giant beasts.
There are lions, tigers, cheetahs, black bears, gray wolves, rhinoceros, and many mutated beasts that cannot be named, and a small number of powerful spirit beasts. Some are so brutal that they are covered in bloodstains and look like anyone is a prey, and some are so large that their bodies can be used as a siege weapon or a meat grinder!
And behind this fierce beast legion, there are more than 100,000 Liang troops ready to go, ready to exterminate any fish that slips through the net.
The 30,000 remnants of the soldiers looked at this invincible enemy and were completely desperate. Some staggered to their feet, ready to fight with their weapons, while many more lay on the ground without looking, waiting for the arrival of death.
Cui Changde rode out of the huge rhinoceros platoon, came to the general's formation, and looked at the appearance of Li Pofeng's 30,000 men with a smile.
"Li Pofengββ! I advise you to surrender! Look at what you have become now, you are completely a lost dog. Where are all the 400,000 troops that could have rivaled me? If you hadn't gone your own way to attack my fierce beast camp, how could you have lost your prestige and lost the morale of your army? The remaining 30,000 people you have now are not as effective as the 30,000 dogs!hahahaha......"
Li Pofeng looked at him expressionlessly and was silent.
"Li Pofeng, I actually still admire your talent, if you surrender to me, I will never kill you, and how about giving you a general?" Cui Changde said tentatively.
"General Cui, do you know what this place is?" Li Pofeng asked suddenly.
Cui Changde was stunned, not knowing why he suddenly asked like this. He looked up at the terrain and scenery around him, and his heart sank, praying that his guess would not come true.
Li Pofeng smiled: "This place is called Hasegawa, and it's just a small place with a little-known name. But from this day on, it will be famous all over the world. Because this is your burial place!"
Li Pofeng's last sentence was loud and sound, hitting Cui Changde's heart like a giant hammer.
A soldier from Daliang suddenly rushed forward to report: "General Qiyu, something is not good! Our back road has been cut off!"
"Who is it, how many people are there?" Cui Changde exclaimed.
"It seems to be Dajin's Sun Changxing, who has more than 100,000 soldiers!"
Before the words fell, the cries of mountains and tsunamis were heard from the cliffs on both sides of the Hase River.
"Ha ββ!" "Ha ββ!"
As far as the eye can see, the long cliffs on both sides are already full of people, and it is roughly estimated that there are no less than 100,000 people. These people are full of fighting spirit and spirit, and they are all surrounded by large-scale war weapons, ready to attack at any time. And the people who led the troops were Zhang Ze and Zhu Chao'an, who had already been driven back to the rear to defend the city by Li Pofeng!
It's a trap at all!
"Retreat! Retreat!" Cui Changde roared and shook the valley!
"Attack!" "Attack!" "Attack!"
Three parties ordered in a row, and when Zhang Ze and Zhu Chaoan waved their hands on the cliff, arrows and spears were thrown down one after another, and barrels of burning fire oil were pushed down the valley; Sun Changxing led more than 100,000 elite troops to block the exit of the valley, and there was a momentum that was too much for a man to open!
The thinner beasts in the beast army were quickly nailed to death by spears, some birds could not escape the blockade of the rain of arrows, and some huge beasts were stabbed to blood, and then their bodies were ignited by the fire oil poured by the cliffs, and the severe pain in their hearts made them completely lose their nature and crash around. Cui Changde's more than 100,000 elite army had already been in disarray, but before he could organize a breakthrough, he was ravaged and trampled by the flaming beasts, and suffered heavy casualties!
Li Pofeng looked at all this coldly. The two generals behind him glanced at each other, and at the same time pulled out the treasure knife at their waist and slashed at Li Pofeng. But in the blink of an eye, one of them was pierced through the heart by a spear in the chest, and the other was directly pinched by a pair of large hands by the neck, and in horror 'clicked', and another died without looking at it.
"Sure enough, it's a spy!" Li Pofeng threw down the corpse in his hand, withdrew his spear, and said lightly.
Cui Changde watched the defeat like a mountain, his head and blood surged, and he felt dizzy in his mind, and it took him a long time to settle down.
He stared at him with dead eyes and asked, "So all of this is in your calculations?"
"At the beginning, you deliberately showed more and more temper, and killed people at will just to confuse me and make me mistakenly think that you had lost your sense of proportion because of great pressure; you drove Zhang Ze and Zhu Chao'an away and let the two of them come to the rear to defend the city because you wanted them to get out of the public's sight and secretly lay out here; you insisted on sneaking up on my fierce beast camp to further confuse me, so that I felt that you were not afraid of losing your inch, and let me take the initiative to hunt you down and fall into your trap; you once again deliberately drove away Sun Changxing and the generals, so that they could attract part of the strength of my army, and use the terrain you are familiar with to get rid of them and return to cut off my back roadIn order to be afraid that I will not be deceived, you sent your cronies and subordinates to pretend to be deserters and throw armor and weapons everywhere, creating the illusion that you have lost your armor and abandoned your armor and your military morale is discouraged!"
"All this is within your plan, and I was led into this trap by you step by step! Li Pofeng, Li Pofeng, you really took great pains to kill me! As long as I die, the Great Liang army will inevitably be defeated. Sure enough, it is worthy of the style of a famous general, my Cui Changde is too light on the enemy, and I am not unjustly defeated!"
Li Pofeng looked at it and said calmly: "If it weren't for you planting too many spies in me, how could I take the trouble to direct such a big drama to lure you into the urn?"
Cui Changde's mouth was full of bitterness, and then he laughed madly: "Hehehehehe, hahahaha...... I, Cui Changde, have been plotting all my life, but in the end I was calculated and died, what a retribution for evil! Li Pofeng, I am convinced! Then let me fulfill your reputation for a lifetime!"
After Cui Changde finished speaking, a big knife crossed his neck and killed himself!