Chapter 56: Fierce Battle
Kangle people are indeed a superpower, after such a catastrophe, in just a few months, the economic chain of foreign trade and internal circulation has been restored. The market is also gradually showing a thriving trend. Small workshops in various places have flourished again, farmers have settled down, and everything is developing in a good direction. There was also a relatively clear political scene, and since the leaders of the royalist and opposition parties had died, the internal struggle was suppressed to a minimum. It was precisely for these reasons that Chu Yuxing decided to reopen his original plan: he wanted to unify the Kyushu Continent.
However, the scale of this dispatch of troops can be said to be nothing compared with the time when there were hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands at every turn. He used only 15,000 men and twenty warships led by Wu Shixun. And without passing through the capital, let them set off on the spot, and many important ministers in the court did not know about this operation. His purpose, as Lu Xinghe expected, was to carry out a small-scale sneak attack.
It took Wu Shixun only three days to arrive at Dayan Port. To be on the safe side, he did not land at the port, but chose a small dock in the middle of nowhere. As he had predicted in advance, there was not even a single shadow of a defender in Dayan Harbor, let alone a village, and it was simply a barren place.
Wu Shixun was overjoyed, but for the sake of safety, he still set up the camp in a relatively hidden place first, and then sent several scouts to listen to the news of the four ports of Shangshan, Chaotou, Daimyo, and Qingliu, as well as the road ahead.
Soon the horse returned that no one was found on the five roads, so he was relieved to move forward. It was also his bad luck, when he walked to Qujiayu, it was just dusk, and it was just the time to set up camp. I didn't know that he had a whim, so he had to go another trip and rest after Qujiayu.
Hearing this order, all the people were dissatisfied, for them, aggression itself is a shameful act, repeatedly aggressive against different countries, psychologically speaking, they are disgusted and resistant, although their soldiers, must obey orders, but as a person, they have the ability to think independently.
Many of the decisions made by rulers for the sake of their rule conflict with the personal interests of the people at the bottom. The so-called patriotism and gratuitous sacrifice are mostly just a slogan and the wishful thinking of certain groups, and when it comes to individuals, this kind of great love is very difficult to achieve, and most people will not sacrifice their lives or give up their own interests because of these noble names.
In the war of invasion of Mingsha Mountain, it can be said that the Kangle people suffered heavy losses, many people lost their brothers, many people lost their sons, many people lost their fathers, and most of what they got were insignificant pensions, and they did not even see the bodies of their relatives. This is also the reason why there were rebellions in many areas after the war, and the reason why Chu Yuxing's rule was not threatened was entirely because of his dictatorship, power and brutality.
He used the alliance of assassins to eliminate political opponents, slaughtered the rebels with mercenaries of Shuying, and at the same time, strengthened the absolute power of the crown and the privileges of the nobility, this approach to the extreme quickly had a rapid effect in a short period of time, and if it were not for the appearance of Li Youlan, they would have risen rapidly.
But fierce medicine must have residual poison, and under high pressure, submission always contains resistance. This kind of rebellion cannot explode, and it will continue to accumulate until a breakthrough is found.
The motivation for the Kangle people to send their troops this time was hatred, because the plague they suffered was brought by the Dondoriters. However, Chu Yuxing still thought about things simply, for most people, fear is more powerful than hatred, they have just seen the virus attack that the Dongduo people cannot prevent, and they don't know if they will use more lethal weapons, plus the mystery of the Demon God Academy, and the prestige of Lu Xinghe, all make these people who have just broken free from death fearful. To put it simply, they don't want to come, they just have to come.
Of course, Wei Daxun knew about this negative emotion in the army, but he didn't care, for a person like him who was born in a military family, personal emotions were almost negligible, and everything was for the service of the war. This also doomed him to this big defeat.
More than 10,000 troops were squeezed onto the narrow road, like a long wriggling snake, and its weaknesses were exposed.
Lu Xinghe, who was ambushed on the mountain, quietly looked at the enemy under his feet, his eyes were full of contempt, he didn't expect that Chu Yuxing would use such a person to do such an important thing. After he watched the Chinese army pass, he gave an order, and the people who had laid the ambush quickly pushed down the wood and stones on the mountain, blocking the connection between the rear army and the Chinese army.
"Now, go and cut off their tails." He smiled and said to the Rain Dao Sect. The Rain Dao Sect immediately led more than a thousand horses and rushed down the mountain.
The troops of Zhu Bishi, the commander of the rear army, were not combat troops, and their task was to escort grain and grass, and provide logistical support. In this way, a team has no resistance at all, and as soon as it was rushed by the army of the Rain Dao Sect, they scattered one after another.
When this news was transmitted to the former army, Wu Shixun had already entered Lu Xinghe's encirclement. Countless rockets fell from the sky, and the trees on both sides also burned, and in an instant, the fire engulfed thousands of troops, screams, shouts, neighing, all kinds of sounds mixed together, which made people can't help but feel creepy.
Wu Shixun is a battle-hardened veteran in the end, and he still remains calm in the face of such an unfavorable situation.
The enemy first broke through the rear army, then attacked the front army, and at the same time spared the front army, which showed that they did not have enough troops to attack at the same time. It is only with the help of terrain advantages and ambushes that the advantage is obtained, as long as you can take the army out, you can exchange advantages. But this is also the biggest problem now, the rear army has been broken, the Chinese army has been cut off, and the front army is under attack. He had to make a quick choice, whether to move forward or go backward. There will inevitably be an ambush in the advance, and the retreat may damage the Chinese army. This shows his bravery and courage as a professional soldier. He first sent orders to the Chinese army to slowly retreat. Then the whole army defended, and only after the Chinese army withdrew some distance, then the order to retreat was given. In this way, although the front army suffered heavy losses, the total annihilation of the army was avoided. But he didn't know that Lu Xinghe's plan had just begun, and a more fierce attack had not yet come.
After receiving the order, Jiang Jinfu, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, quickly retreated. By the time they cleared the road and left Qujiayu, it was already four o'clock in the morning. He immediately ordered to set up camp, but how could Lu Xinghe let him tie up Dazhai? The Shangshan Port Guard, who received the order, had already ambushed Dongyue Feng there, and as soon as he saw them messing up the formation, he immediately launched an attack.
In the dark night, I don't know how many enemy troops there are, I can only hear the shouts and killings all over the mountains, where do the Kangle people still have the confidence to resist? The two sides have not yet been in contact, and they are in chaos first. Jiang Jinfu couldn't restrain himself, and he was defeated.
Dong Yuefeng chased after him for a while, collected the centaurs, and went to join Lu Xinghe.
Jiang Jinfu was defeated for a while, and seeing that the chasing troops were far away, he had to clean up the remnants of the defeated army, first set up his position, and then send out a sentry horse, on the one hand, to hear the news of Wu Shixun, on the other hand, to figure out where he is now. This battle made them dizzy and frightened. However, in the end, he still got rid of the pursuers, and Wu Shixun was not so lucky. After he rushed out of Qujiayu, he wanted to return to Dayan Harbor quickly, planning to return to the ship first, and then use the advantage of artillery to stabilize his position, and after the rest of the men and horses gathered, he would change the port and land, he knew very well that the enemy's strength was not as strong as his own, as long as he changed his strategy, his side still had a greater chance of winning.
Lu Xinghe is naturally very clear about this, not only now, but he had already expected this before Kang Le Ren came. Therefore, when Wu Shixun was defeated in Dayan Harbor, Qu Biaou, the defender of Qingliu Harbor, had already defeated the defending sergeants and captured eighteen of the twenty warships, and the other two were not because they didn't want to get them, but before they came here, they were already gone, and one of them was still the command ship that Wu Shixun had ridden. Of course, Qubiawu didn't know this, he thought he had captured all of it.