Seeing this, the officers of the Golden Eagle Empire drew their swords and slashed at the deserters, and scolded the other soldiers who began to waver, trying to stop the rout of the army, after all, in this situation, once the army was broken, then all of them could not escape.

In the shouts of the officers, these officers and soldiers quickly realized this, and no longer thought about running away, but one by one they held weapons and tried to maintain the front, waiting for reinforcements to arrive, or the rebels on the opposite side could not hold on and took the initiative to retreat.

It seems unrealistic to wait for reinforcements to arrive, after all, there is no village in front of you, there is no store in the back, and it will take two or three days for the nearest reinforcements to arrive. Therefore, it is more likely that those rebels will not be able to bear the casualties and will retreat on their own initiative.

After all, although those rebels look well equipped, they are not long ago a group of untrained pariahs, and their will to fight is definitely not as firm as their well-trained elites, maybe if they hold on a little longer, kill and wound a few more enemies, and the other side will be scattered in a rush like other rebels in the past.

However, soon, these officers and soldiers found that they took it for granted, although these rebel soldiers did lack formal training in their eyes, and in the face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, it often took three or five people to be able to barely fight against an officer or soldier, but the will to fight was quite strong, even if they saw their comrades next to them being stabbed by spears and slashed by swords, there was no trend of declining morale, but as soon as the front fell, the rebel soldiers in the rear would immediately make up for it and continue to launch a fierce attack. Let the officers and soldiers have no respite at all.

As the two sides fought for longer and longer, the physical exertion of the officers and soldiers became extremely huge, while the rebel side, because of the more troops, had the opportunity to rotate to the rear to rest, so they were always able to maintain a certain degree of physical strength, so that their combat effectiveness could be fully exerted.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers, due to the repeated blows of the previous firearms, suffered a lot of losses, coupled with the continuous casualties in the hand-to-hand combat, there were only more than 10,000 troops left at this time, and the front was maintained more and more reluctantly, not to mention the rotation to the rear to rest like the rebels. Therefore, the officers and soldiers have been fighting hard for nearly an hour, all of them are panting, and the sweat that flows out of them has soaked their clothes and armor.

Because of the large amount of physical exertion, these officers and soldiers were not as brave as they were at the beginning, and the speed at which they stabbed out their spears became much slower, and some of them were shaking with their guns, because the muscles of their arms were too tired and they were silently protesting.

In this case, the gap between the individual combat effectiveness of the two sides was also quickly erased, and when another group of rebel soldiers relaunched the attack after repairing for a while, they found that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were directly crushed by their charge.

The stubborn defense of a small section of the line seemed inconspicuous, but it made those officers of the Golden Eagle Empire realize that something was wrong.

And the last straw that broke the camel's back was the death of coach Zhang Shulin.

To be honest, it is not easy for Zhang Shulin to lead more than 100 personal guard cavalry and fight with more than 500 rebel cavalry until now.

However, the difference in strength between the two sides is indeed too big, and the rebels still have firearms to help, and from time to time there are some cunning old thieves who shoot the personal guards cavalry under Zhang Shulin with muskets.

So as a result, the personal guard cavalry under Zhang Shulin was rapidly losing in the battle, and in the end, only Zhang Shulin and the most elite dozen personal guards beside him were struggling to support.

However, although Zhang Shulin is a master of the innate fivefold, his physical strength and internal strength are also limited, and under the continuous siege and consumption of a large number of rebels around him, he will still see the bottom.

In the end, after killing more than fifty elite cavalry of the rebel army with his own hands, Zhang Shulin finally reached the limit, and then was keenly seized by the stepping on the sky and cut off his head with a knife.

After that, he didn't have time to feel sorry for the elite cavalry who had died in battle, so he directly carried the head of the officer general, and came to the officers and soldiers who were still resisting, raised Zhang Shulin's blood-stained head high, and shouted loudly: "Your lord is dead, don't surrender quickly!" ”

Those officers and soldiers who were already so tired that they collapsed to the ground, after turning their heads to see the head of the main general who was held high by the sky, the last bit of morale finally completely dissipated, and one by one they dropped their weapons and turned to run.

The few officers who still wanted to continue to resist were soon coerced into joining the rout in the face of the surging rout.

The rebels, on the other hand, chanted "Victory!" "On the one hand, the whole army began to launch a great pursuit.

This chase lasted until the evening when the sky was about to completely darken. Most of them were killed and captured because their physical strength had been exhausted in the previous battles.

In the end, less than 1,000 people were able to escape, and it can be said that this officer and army unit was almost completely annihilated.

The rebels under the command of Tapo Tian also paid a lot of casualties, with more than 5,000 killed and more than 8,000 wounded. Most of these casualties occurred in white-knuckle combat, after all, the training level and cultivation of those officers and soldiers were stronger than those of the rebel soldiers, so in the hand-to-hand combat, the casualties of the rebel soldiers were much higher than those on the other side, and basically killing one officer and soldier would have to pay the price of three soldiers killed.

It can be said that if it weren't for the fact that the Tapo Heaven group had many firearms that had been captured before, in this kind of head-to-head battle, they would not have been able to defeat this elite army that was only half of them.

However, winning the battle is winning the war, and before that, except for a few national-level rebel organizations such as the Iron Bear Empire and the Feihe Empire, there were very few rebels who could defeat the elite of the official army in this kind of large-scale battle of tens of thousands.

It is really not easy for the rebel soldiers led by Tapotian to do this, and those original recruits, after the brutal baptism of war in this battle, have also quickly transformed into mature veterans, and the iron-blooded aura that can only appear in those real elite divisions has begun to appear on their bodies. As for the armor, weapons, grain and grass captured after the victory, they were all secondary.

Tapotian was very pleased with this, but he also felt very sorry for the soldiers who died in battle, after all, many of these soldiers were good seedlings that he personally selected at the beginning!

In order to quickly make up for the losses in this battle, Tapotian then set his sights on those captured officers and soldiers, after all, these officers and soldiers are stronger than most rebel soldiers in terms of training and cultivation strength, and once they are absorbed, they can immediately become extremely strong soldiers to supplement the losses caused by the fierce battles of his rebel army before.

And after some interrogation, he found that many of these officers and soldiers were actually born at the bottom, just because they had good cultivation talents, and their families were relatively wealthy in their generation, so they had some money to send them to learn martial arts.

In fact, in the process of learning art and enlisting in the army, these officers and soldiers have actually been oppressed a lot, and they also have some resentment against the nobles and bureaucrats at the upper level. Therefore, Tapo Tian believed that this part of the people could be absorbed by his troops.

So he sent some of his subordinates who could speak well, and began the process of remembering the bittersweet with these officers and soldiers. This operation was taught to him by the player Xiaosunzi.

The result was really effective, and it soon really impressed many of the officers and military prisoners.

However, in order to add another layer of insurance, when stepping through the sky to let these officers and soldiers join their own troops, they will pull out a few officer prisoners who were born in aristocratic families, and then let these officers and soldiers who want to join slowly torture and kill them by extremely cruel means, in the name of saying that they will completely break off with the days of being noble lackeys in the past.

In this way, those officers and prisoners who joined were stained with the blood of those Golden Eagle Empire officers, and they could no longer turn back, and they could only follow him all the way to the dark.

Although this practice is despicable and cruel, it is very effective, and completely eliminates the possibility of future betrayal by those officers and soldiers who join. In addition, the aristocratic officers who had a stubborn attitude and did not have the possibility of subduing them were put to good use, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Relying on absorbing those prisoners of the officers and soldiers, Tapotian quickly made up for the previous losses, and even increased the strength slightly.

On the side of Agukos, it was more than a week later that he got the news that the officer and army unit responsible for escorting grain and grass had been completely annihilated.

After all, at that time, this official army was almost wiped out by them, and the few officers and soldiers who escaped by luck were either eaten by the fierce beasts on the road, or they were completely frightened, and they didn't want to go back to be soldiers, so they took off their armor and fled back to their hometown.

As a result, the Golden Eagle Empire's military was unable to determine for a while whether this force had been wiped out by the rebels or had been forced to withdraw elsewhere.

In order to find out this, the Golden Eagle Empire military had to send a special reconnaissance team to conduct a careful investigation of the whereabouts of that force, and it took a few days to discover the ruins of the battlefield and determine the result that it had been annihilated, and then report the news.

Looking at the investigation report sent below, Agukos was very angry and found that this matter was very likely to be done by the rebels who broke the sky, after all, the rebels with firearms are almost the only ones now, judging from the many traces of firearms left at the scene, it is basically possible to lock on to the target.

But although he knew that it was the official army that was annihilated by the group of people who broke through the sky, Agukos couldn't draw enough troops to exterminate this group of guys for a while, because he was already leading various armies at this time and fought with the Feihe Empire. The two sides fought fiercely and anxiously for a while, so where could they draw enough troops to return to the rear to encircle and suppress the people who stepped on the sky!

"Just let this little worm stumble for a few more days!" As a veteran with extremely rich combat experience, Agukoth finally held back the anger in his heart, and prepared to go back to clean up the rebel army after destroying the real imperial disaster of the Feihe Empire.