Chapter 69: A big victory
Chang Yong quickly retreated to the side with a thousand soldiers, making way for the 300,000 Qi troops who rushed over.
The Qi army was galloping, and under the leadership of the first general, General Wang, they rushed into the Canglan Valley with momentum.
"Don't let the thieves run away, brothers, come on and chase after you!" Chang Yong shouted there, and the other soldiers followed suit.
Almost half an hour, finally, almost eight or nine out of ten Qi troops rushed into the valley, at this time, Chu Chen appeared, ordered Chang Yong to blow the rallying call, and suddenly, the right army of Tianchen hidden in the woods rushed out of the mountains and forests, intercepted the more than 20,000 Qi troops who were backward outside the valley, and surrounded them instantly.
"Those who surrender live, and those who resist die!" Tianchen's right army drank together, the sound was like thunder, and the besieging Qi army was so shocked that they didn't know what to do.
"Arrows!" Seeing that the Qi army was still hesitating, Liu Xiangdong shouted, drew his sword, and ordered the archers to release the arrows.
"I'll surrender! Don't kill me!" When the Tianchen army released the arrows, finally a Qi soldier was frightened, discarded the weapon in his hand, held his head in both hands, and squatted on the ground.
And those Qi soldiers who were slow to react at the outermost level did not have such good luck, and they were immediately shot by random arrows, and thousands of people fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.
"We surrender!" After a rain of arrows, the surrounded Qi army finally threw away all the weapons in their hands, squatted on the ground, held their heads in their hands, their bodies trembled, and begged in their hearts to escape.
"Tie them up and take them into the woods!" Liu ordered to the east, and then ordered all the archers to stand at the mouth of the valley, and as soon as they saw an enemy coming out, they immediately shot them with arrows, and not let a single Qi army that entered the valley escape.
The nearly 300,000 troops of the Qi army chased into the valley, and the Tianchen army did not love to fight at all, running wildly all the way, and the Qi army chased wildly, but the generals who chased and chased the Qi army felt that the situation was wrong, why did they chase for several miles, and the anti-thief army had not been stopped by their people, why could they still run so smoothly?
As soon as the Qi army stopped, shouts of killing suddenly sounded on the top of both sides of the valley, and for a while, all kinds of big stones and logs fell from the cliff, covering the sky, and when I looked up, my eyes were full of stones and logs.
"Retreat!" General Wang shouted and ordered the army to retreat, but how could the nearly 300,000 troops withdraw in this narrow valley?
"General, we can't withdraw, our people have already been killed by the rebels, and we can only rush forward now!" said a general eagerly.
"This Canglan Valley is more than ten miles long, and we don't know how many traps are waiting for us in front, so we can only retreat, and we can't rush forward!" General Wang shook his head, now they ran into the valley three or four miles away at most, and there are still six or seven miles ahead, and they must not go any further, even if they rush out of the valley, there are still tens of thousands of anti-thieves waiting for them in front, so they can only retreat, and maybe there is still a glimmer of life.
So, General Wang turned his horse's head and retreated with the army, along the way, the mountains and rocks rolled, the logs were like rain, and the Qi army was killed all the time, and a large number of soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and in a blink of an eye, nearly 300,000 Qi troops had died more than a third.
In the end, General Wang led the army to finally rush to the entrance of the valley, but what awaited them was the Tianchen army's ten thousand arrows, and the thousands of Qi troops who rushed to the front were killed by arrows.
Rushing to the entrance, the Qi army had less than 100,000 people left, and for several miles in the valley, the corpses of the Qi army were piled up, and the blood turned into a river.
"The Qi army in the valley listened, the Emperor of Qi was brutal by nature, pro-ministers, far virtuous ministers, indiscriminately killing innocents, excessive lewdness, making the people of Qi miserable, back then, the great sage of Qi Lu Youzhi has been served as the emperor of my heavenly kingdom as the master, and assisted the emperor of my heavenly kingdom to rule the world! The emperor has a benevolent heart, the virtue of life, I don't want you to die under the arrows, buried in the valley, as long as you surrender sincerely, the emperor will let you live, otherwise, the Canglan Valley is the place where you are buried, I hope you will do it yourself!" Liu Xiangdong sent someone to stand at the mouth of the valley and shouted to the valley. "Put down your weapons, walk out with your head in your hands, don't resist, you are now surrounded by the army of heaven, and there is only one way to die if you resist!"
"Put down your weapons, or you die!" At this time, the Tianchen Left Army on the top of the valley was no longer hiding, and they all stood on the edge of the cliff and stared at the Qi army below, shouting.
"Give you a stick of incense time to think about it, otherwise my Heavenly Army will attack again, and when the time comes, you will only have one way to die!"
Chu Chen had already appeared at this time, sitting in the simple pergola not far from the valley mouth, crossing Erlang's legs, if he had enough troops in his hands, he would not be too lazy to talk nonsense with these Qi troops who had nowhere to escape, and directly kill more trouble, but he did not have 200,000 troops in his hands, and it was far from enough to conquer the troops of the nations, so if he could surrender some now, he would surrender some, not to mention, he was not a person who loved to kill, killing people was just a means to him, not an end.
The time for a stick of incense has almost passed, and the soldiers on the valley have also begun to hold stones, logs, etc., as long as they smash these things in their hands, the rest of the Qi army will be finished.
"We surrender!" Finally, someone in the valley threw away his weapons and walked out with his head in his hands.
With the first, naturally there is also the second, the third...... There were Qi soldiers in the valley one after another, and it didn't take long for the generals of the Qi army to give up the weapons in their hands and walk out, and in the end, only two or three thousand people who were loyal to the Qi country remained in the valley, for these people, Chu Chen directly ordered to kill them, the opportunity had been given, but they didn't know how to cherish it, and he couldn't be blamed for this.
After counting the numbers, Liu Xiangdong came to report that, together with the Qi soldiers who had begun to intercept them, they had captured a total of 116,353 prisoners in this battle.
"So many people?" Chu Chen frowned slightly, according to his calculations, the Qi army that rushed into the valley should have died at least eight or nine times out of ten, how could there be almost 100,000 people who had not been destroyed.
"It's still according to the rules, those who are willing to stay will stay, those who are not willing to stay will let them go, and in addition, quickly clean up the battlefield and leave. Chu Chen frowned and spoke.
"Yes, Emperor of Heaven!" Liu Xiangdong commanded,
At this time, the left army came down from the top of the valley and guarded the prisoners together with the right army.
This capture surprised Chu Chen, almost half of them stayed.
Liu Xiangdong told Chu Chen that these soldiers who were willing to stay wanted to overthrow the rule of the faint monarch.
"Then for the time being, organize them into a separate army, put them in front to engage the Qi army, test their sincerity, and at the same time send someone to keep an eye on them, if they have any misdeeds, you can cut them first. Chu Chen told Liu Xiangdong, after all, there were fifty or sixty thousand people, and he had to guard against it.
After the three armies converged, they rushed to the county seat of Lishan together.
Two days later, the three armies came to Lishan County, after Lishan County, there were Wanshi City, Shuiyun County and Qingjun, at this time, Chu Chen came here, it was to make a decisive battle with the main force of the Qi army, and then divided the troops into three routes, and went to Qing, Shui, and Wanshi County to fight to the death with the enemy.
When he arrived at Lishan County, Chu Chen received military reports from all over the country, the Qi army was "like a bamboo" all the way, attacking the city, and basically recaptured more than ten cities they had captured, but the military newspaper also reported that every time the Qi army attacked a city, they connived at their subordinates to burn and loot, saying that there were thieves and spies in the city, making the cities dark, the people were miserable, and the grievances were monstrous.
"Okay, Qi Bing actually did such a thing, it's really a death. "Chu Chen's horror of the people's grievances couldn't be clearer, in the previous life, the new monarch of the Chu State succeeded to the throne, and the Chu people were full of grievances, when the Qin army stepped on the iron horse, there were not many soldiers and people who resisted the Qin army, this is what he saw with his own eyes, and now the Qi army is doing this, what is it doing if it is not death?