Chapter 654: The Fall of the Yan Kingdom (5th Watch)

As night fell, King Huainan and Cui Shangan stopped their attack. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After King Yan was killed in the chaos, the Yan army fell into chaos, and they took the opportunity to attack the city, but they never thought that the originally smooth war would be reversed because of the appearance of Cui Cheng.

This time, in order to deal with them, King Yan forcibly recruited many strong men, and there were 250,000 people in the small Yingzhou.

After a fierce battle, they were driven out of the city.

"This Cui Cheng has some ability, but most of the Yan army has fled during the day today, and I am afraid that more soldiers will flee tonight, just thinking that this is the case, the Yan army will inevitably spend its energy on blocking the deserters, and I would not have thought that we would take advantage of this night attack."

Cui Shangan nodded, he had prepared 10,000 elites to attack the Yingzhou camp at night, and until midnight, he led the soldiers to quietly enter Yingzhou City from the broken city wall.

As King Huainan had guessed, more and more soldiers fled into the camp of the Yan Army in the dark night, and the soldiers on patrol were constantly attracted by the fleeing soldiers.

In the dark, the patrol could not patrol the deserters or the enemy, and in this case, Cui Shangan quickly led the soldiers to the Yingzhou camp.

"Light the arrows." At this time, the Yingzhou camp was brightly lit, and Cui Shangan gave an order at this time.

After receiving the order, a dozen torches were lit, and the soldiers took out arrows wrapped in oilcloth at the front and lit them one by one, and the bows and arrows were wound.

"Put!"

With Cui Shang'an's order, the arrows with flames flew to the Yan army's camp, and those arrows accurately landed on the Yan army's tent chief, these tents were sewn from cotton, and when the fire was burned, the fire spread instantly, and the Yan army's camp was bright.

When the soldiers ignited the arrows, the sentry of the Yan army had already discovered them, and immediately shouted loudly, but they had no time to stop them, and the flaming arrows flew towards the Yan army camp one by one, and in just a few minutes, the Yan army's camp turned into a sea of fire.

The sky-high fire illuminated the night sky, and at this time, the king of Huainan led the soldiers outside the city to immediately rush to the city.

Cui Shang'an's purpose was just to disrupt the Yingzhou camp and create chaos.

The camp of the Yan army fell into chaos, and at this time the king of Huainan stood up and shouted, "Kill! ”

"Kill!" He was responded to by the angry shouts of the Huainan soldiers, who rushed into the city of Yingzhou like evil tigers descending from the mountain.

A soldier of the Yan Army woke up from his sleep, and in the flames of the sky, he was so frightened that he didn't even have time to put on his clothes and rushed out of the tent, but he was greeted by the soldiers of the Huainan Army all over his body, and before he had time to make any shouts, he felt a chill in his chest, and then he watched his blood gush out of his chest, and before he died, extreme fear made him let out a final scream.

The Huainan army rushed into the camp like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and as soon as the Yan soldiers rushed out of the camp, they died under their swords, and some were even pierced through the heart in their sleep.

The chaos quickly spread in the Yan army camp, the whole camp was filled with the breath of death, Cui Cheng gathered the soldiers under the escort of his personal guards, he looked at the camp with a sea of fire, his body was three points colder than the sword of the cold winter, a voice was telling him that the Yan army was all over this time, those Huainan army soldiers in armor were like slaughtering cattle and sheep, leaving only cold corpses everywhere they went, he had organized several attacks, but the frightened soldiers did not have any resistance at all, and they were quickly disintegrated.

During the day, he was able to repel the Huainan army, because his subordinates did not know about the death of King Yan in battle, and now all the soldiers knew about it, and the morale of the Yan army fell to the bottom.

"Shizi, let's go, if you don't leave, it's too late!" A general covered his arm and said, at this time his arm was leaving blood, which was scratched by a soldier, if it wasn't for a few Yan soldiers to help him resist in time, his life would be lost.

Cui Cheng looked at the camp in a sea of fire, stomped his feet fiercely, turned over his horse, and fled to the west gate under the escort of dozens of horsemen.

When Cui Shang'an attacked, the king of Huainan led the soldiers to seize the west gate of the Yan army according to the plan, and they still used artillery in the dark night, although the king of Huainan had seen the power of firearms, but he did not expect that this weapon could produce huge destructive power in the war, and the soldiers of the Yan army guarding the gate were three or four thousand people, but a few rounds of artillery firing all these Yan soldiers were defeated.

After capturing the West Gate, the King of Huainan said to a cavalry general beside him: "General Qi, the pursuit of the defeated army will be handed over to you." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, and then he shouted, soldiers, the time has come to harvest the heads of the enemy, rush!"

"Kill!" The soldiers were in high spirits.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves was beating again and again like war drums, and when they heard this sound, the soldiers of the Yan army completely lost the will to fight, and fled one after another, more often putting down their weapons and surrendering to the Huainan army.

When King Huainan and Cui Shangan entered the barracks, they encountered little resistance along the way, and there were Yan soldiers kneeling everywhere.

Leading the cavalry to break up the last resistance of the Yan army, the soldiers of the Huainan army did not stop but lit torches and chased directly west, and they had learned that Cui Cheng had fled westward.

However, the king of Huainan was not in a hurry, because the west city gate had been taken by them, and at the same time, other city gates had also been taken down one after another, and now Cui Cheng had nowhere to escape.

Therefore, he simply ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, because of the surprise attack, most of the Yan soldiers did not get on their horses, and a large number of war horses were tied to the stable, allowing him to pick up a big bargain.

In addition to the war horse, he also captured a lot of Yan people, he ordered the people who did not resist not to kill, this time the captured people were as high as more than 50,000 people, plus the surrender and captured soldiers nearly 80,000, a total of 130,000 Yan people became prisoners.

The operation to clear the battlefield continued until the next morning, when the cavalry of the Huainan Army returned, led by General Qi with Cui Cheng's head in his hands.

When he arrived in front of the King of Huainan, General Qi got off his horse and threw Cui Cheng's head on the ground, and he said, "Your Highness, Cui Cheng refused to surrender and has been killed by the last general. ”

King Huainan nodded, Yan Guo has always bullied Huainan Kingdom, so he hates King Yan very much, and this attack on Yan Kingdom is also in line with the people's will.

Now that King Yan is dead, Cui Cheng is also dead, but he suddenly thought of a question and said: "This king remembers that Cui Cheng also has a younger brother Cui Hao, where is he?" ”

Cui Shangan said at this time: "Father, after Cui Cheng learned that Cui Hao was plotting rebellion, he took soldiers and horses to slaughter all the Hao clans who participated in the rebellion, and Cui Hao was killed by him. ”

"Really? In this way, the line of King Yan was completely severed. King Huainan sighed, "This Yan Kingdom is destroyed." ”