Chapter 310: Both Wings Lost

The main force of the Jin army lined up in a combat formation, surrounded the rebels in a half-moon shape, and the sound of fighting and howling filled the right flank camp of the rebels, because the formation of the rebels had been broken by the cavalry of the Thunderstorm Legion, therefore, the attack troops of the Jin army occupied a great advantage, while the rebels were reluctantly resisting, dying and struggling.

Just when the fierce battle between the two armies was in full swing, Deng Yue's legion, which was responsible for containing the rebels, also began to dispatch, and Deng Yue ordered the soldiers to stick their cross-shaped torches on the ground and raise their weapons to attack the rebels.

Soon, the 5,000 men led by Deng Yue killed the rebel battalion, and once again stabbed the rebels in the back, this fatal blow completely destroyed the rebels' will to resist, and the rebels began to scatter in all directions, and the echo of the rebel generals was completely ineffective.

"Soldiers, the rebels have been dispersed, kill all the rebels, and leave no one behind." Deng Yue rushed into the rebel camp and yelled.

"Soldiers, put down the rebellion here, give me all my strength to attack and kill, kill all these traitors." Hua An yelled and echoed Deng Yue.

Encouraged by the two main generals of the Jin army, the main force of the Jin army was more demoralized and killed, while the rebels were like castrated eggplants, completely losing the will to resist.

"Withdraw, retreat, retreat into the woods." A general of the rebel army, seeing that the advantage of the Jin army was becoming more and more obvious, ordered a retreat in a panic.

"Withdraw, run!" The rebel soldiers' hearts had already broken down, and when they heard the order to retreat, they shouted and fled in all directions.

Seeing that the rebels were about to run, the morale of the main force of the Jin army rose again, and the generals of all armies led their troops to chase after them in order to kill as many rebels as possible.

The fleeing rebels did not have much combat effectiveness, and under the pursuit of the main force of the Jin army, the casualties were even heavier, but there were still thousands of rebels who broke out of the encirclement and entered the depths of the dense forest.

This time, Hua'an sent 10,000 infantry into the dense forest to pursue, in order to destroy a large number of enemies, so as to completely destroy the living force of the rebels and lay the foundation for future pacification.

Under the strangulation of the main force of the Jin army, the living force of the rebel right wing battalion has been basically annihilated, and the few rebel soldiers who fled into the dense forest are also very few left under the strangulation of the pursuit force of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the entire rebel right wing battalion will not exceed 1,000 rebel soldiers who escaped alive.

After annihilating the living forces of the rebels' right flank battalion, the main force of the Jin army began to clean up the battlefield and let the soldiers who had been tired all night rest on the spot to recuperate.

At the same time, Hua'an also sent a large number of scouts to the surroundings of Xupu City to monitor the movements of the rebels' defenders in order to keep abreast of the rebels' situation and make themselves invincible.

The 60,000 main forces on the left and right flanks of the rebels have been broken by the Jin army, but the rebel generals defending Xupu City have not yet fully understood the situation.

He stood on the city wall of the north gate of Xupu City, looking at the huge fires burning in the direction of the left and right wings of the camp, and secretly guessed in his heart, whether the Jin army broke his own men and horses, or his own men and horses broke through the Jin army, he couldn't know, after all, the two wings of the camp were several miles away from Xupu City, he stood on the city wall and only saw the fire, but he didn't know what happened, and a few miles ahead. '20,000 horses' and made him dare not act rashly, and none of the scouts sent out secretly have yet returned, which makes him feel a little worried.

"General, it seems that the left and right wings are fighting fiercely, and I don't know how the battle is going!" Said a rebel general.

"Who knows? None of the scouts sent out have yet to come back, but you don't have to worry too much, I have 60,000 soldiers and horses on both wings, and no matter how powerful the Jin army is, I can't eat it in one bite. The rebel commander suggested that the generals should not worry too much.

"General, the left and right flanks are fighting, why is the Jin army in front of us not moving at all, will there be fraud." The general had a slight suspicion about the movements of the Jin army.

"Hmph, my Xupu City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the Jin army wants to attack the city, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, they are hoarding outside the north gate, they want our army to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle, Lao Tzu will not be so stupid?" The rebel commander said hatefully.

"Just doing this and waiting, it's really urgent, general, or the last general will lead a hundred personal soldiers out of the city to find out the situation and see what the Jin army is doing." The ministry pleaded again.

The rebel general looked back at his confidant and beloved general, and said, "It's not difficult to let you out of the city, but if you are chased and killed by the Jin army and flee to the city, will Lao Tzu open the door?" Or not? If you open the door, the main force of the Jin army will definitely enter the city, if not, you and your hundred subordinate soldiers will all be killed, how can the old man bear it. After speaking, he put on a distressed subordinate appearance.

The rebel general was grateful, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the general is familiar with the nearby terrain, as long as he is entangled by the Jin army, the general will definitely not bring the Jin army to the city, making it difficult for the general." ”

"Alright! Since you insist on this, Lao Tzu will fulfill you. The rebel commander held the general's arm and said loudly: "Come on, prepare a rope." ”

Soon, the rebel soldiers brought dozens of ropes and tied them to the female wall of the city wall, and the rebel troops would lead a hundred soldiers to fall outside the city along the ropes.

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In the large camp on the right flank of the rebels, the main force of the Jin army is resting, the baggage soldiers are busy cooking, and a few soldiers are busy cleaning up the battlefield.

Hua'an, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, leaned on a big tree, looked at the bright moon in the sky, missed his hometown, especially missed his parents, wife and children, and now, his child is five years old, and he has reached the age of practicing martial arts.

"Big brother, the battlefield has been cleaned up, our army has suffered more than 3,000 casualties, including more than 1,000 killed, and the casualties of the Guangzhou Army are even greater, more than 6,000 people, more than 2,000 killed, but the rebels have abandoned more than 20,000 corpses, this is not counting some of the rebels who died in the depths of the jungle, our army has achieved brilliant results!" Wang San walked to Hua An's side and reported the results.

Wang San's report disrupted Hua An's thoughts, Hua An came back to his senses, frowned and said: "The results of the battle are not false, but the casualties of our army are not small!" After the two battles, our army was killed and seriously wounded by almost 2,000, and the casualties of the Guangzhou Army were as high as 5,000! ”

"Hmm." Wang San nodded and said, "Big brother, what should we do next, whether to take Xupu City directly, or bypass Xupu City, and completely cut off the rebels' escape route." ”

Hua An pointed to the soldiers beside him and said, "The soldiers are very tired, rest for a few hours, and then think about how to deal with the rebels in Xupu City after dawn!" ”

"Yes, big brother." Wang San answered, leaned on the trunk of the tree next to him, and took a nap.

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More than 100 rebels came out at night, such a large-scale action was naturally discovered by the scouts of the Jin army, and the rebel generals also knew that their actions would definitely be discovered by the Jin army scouts outside the city, so they dispersed as soon as they left the city, and divided the team into ten groups, each group of ten people, and the ten groups reconnoitred in three directions, and the rebel general personally led ten personal soldiers to reconnoiter in the direction of the left wing battalion.

After learning that the rebels were out of the city, the Jiaozhou Legion immediately sent 500 soldiers to strangle, first of all, several rebels who reconnoitred to the north were completely annihilated by the Jiaozhou Legion, while the soldiers who reconnoitred to the left and right flanks escaped.

A moment later, the rebel general arrived at the periphery of the left flank camp with ten personal soldiers, and more and more corpses appeared at his feet, and these corpses were all their comrades, these comrades who died in the depths of the dense forest looked extremely painful, which made more than ten rebel soldiers a little creepy.

"General, main camp scout." A pro-soldier spotted a scout from the main camp.

The rebel generals walked in and saw that the corpses lying on the ground were the scouts who had just been sent out of Xupu City tonight, no wonder they didn't go back, they were already dead.

What does it mean that so many bodies were found on the periphery of the left battalion? Could it be that the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the left wing battalion were completely annihilated by the Jin army, and the more the rebel soldiers thought about it, the more frightened they felt.

But since they have already come, then they must enter the left flank camp to see what is going on, and the rebel general with ten soldiers boldly walked in the direction of the camp.

When they walked into the left wing camp, they couldn't help but gasp, the camp was full of corpses, as they expected, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the left wing army were indeed wiped out by the Jin army.

"General, the 30,000-strong army on the left flank has been wiped out."

"Dead, they're all dead."

The rebel soldiers looked at the corpses of their comrades with extreme fear.

The rebel general immediately thought of the situation of the right-wing battalion from the tragic situation of the left-wing battalion, and he had a terrible premonition, that is, the main force of the right-wing battalion was also completely annihilated by the Jin army.

"Don't panic, let's return to the city immediately and tell General SΓΉ about the situation here." The rebel general forced his composure, and said that he led ten personal soldiers to run in the direction of Xupu City along the road they came.

When the rebel general led ten personal soldiers back to Xupu City, the people who were in charge of reconnoitring in the northeast direction also discovered the main force of the Jin army that was resting, and the rebel soldiers were shocked and hurriedly retreated in the direction of Xupu City.

In the direction of the north gate of Xupu City, the rebel general is still waiting anxiously, and the right-hand general has been out of the city for a long time but has not returned, which makes him very worried.

"General, the last general is back." Just when the rebel commander was anxious, the rebel general had already rushed to the city.

"Put the hanging ladder, put the hanging ladder quickly." The rebel commander hurriedly ordered the soldiers to lower the ladder.

Soon, the rebel general and some of his own soldiers climbed up the hanging ladder.

"How's that, what's going on?" As soon as the general climbed the city wall, the rebel general asked.

The rebel general shook his head and said bitterly: "General, the entire left wing battalion has been wiped out, and the entire battalion is full of corpses. After speaking, he knelt in front of the rebel general, and the soldiers behind him also lowered their heads with a sad face.