Chapter 364: The End of Jingying
On the official road from Datong to Yulin, because of the drought for several consecutive years, wherever the 2,000 Beijing battalions went, a thick layer of dust was directly rolled up on the official road, covering the entire marching army.
The two thousand Beijing camps, which Sun Chengzong had high hopes for, ate ash for two days in a row, and the iron armor and leather wallets used to show off their might were covered with a thick layer of ash, and the original color could no longer be seen. They finally walked out of Shanxi and entered the Shaanxi Plateau, where the ravines are deep.
Just as they began to endure the increasingly excruciating heat and lack of water, they continued to move on. They didn't know that from the moment they entered Shaanxi, they were under the surveillance of the Haw Par Army.
At the same time, they were exhausted from the continuous march, completely unaware that they were walking step by step towards the headquarters of Zhou Yuhong of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and carefully prepared a pocket formation for them.
Completely unaware that danger would befall him so quickly. The two thousand well-equipped soldiers of the Beijing camp did not even prepare, so they crashed into the ambush circle in a daze.
Three flares representing the attack, the moment they flew into the sky with a whistling sound. Thousands of white smoke grenades, like rain, fell on these soldiers of the Beijing camp.
Almost no one has participated in a battle, and only two thousand well-trained soldiers have never seen such a tragic battle......
The grenade exploded, and the soldier standing next to the grenade, as if it were papier-mâché, was directly overturned to the ground, and his life and death were uncertain. What's more, the entire body was directly blown to pieces in the explosion of a small iron ball......
Facing the battlefield where bullets are raining in front of you, and facing the stumps and broken arms that keep falling around you.
The more than 1,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion, who were lucky enough to dodge the grenade attack, have not yet reacted from the sudden shock. He had lost the courage to continue fighting. Immediate battlefield collapse.
A well-armed soldier. It's like a frightened rabbit that drops its weapon and starts scurrying around the exploding battlefield.
Compared with the panic of his subordinates, the garrison general who led the team, although he did not run around. However, walking at the front of the team, he was also shocked by the tragic picture full of blood behind him, and he was speechless for a long time.
Just as he was still standing in place, stunned. A smoked grenade flew right towards his location.
"General, be careful..."The guard, who had already tasted the great power of the grenade, subconsciously let out an exclamation after looking at the whistling grenade. Then, like a pack of wolves, he pounced on the garrison general, intending to protect the general with his own body.
However, no matter how fast they are, they can't fly faster than a grenade.
More importantly. The grenade did not explode when it landed, but exploded directly in the air.
When several of the guards were about to knock the garrison general to the ground. A deafening explosion. Already above their heads. Then, more than a dozen fragments of grenades with the breath of death flew towards them with a whistling voice.
A sound of shrapnel into the flesh sounded on the battlefield, and the garrison general standing in the middle of the guards, ready to pounce on the general's several guards, without exception, were all hit by lead bullets. Then, like a kite with a broken string, it fell directly to the ground.
"The general is dead..."Faced with this unexpected result, the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion became even more panicked.
At this moment, they have no choice but to run around and give themselves some psychological comfort. Some soldiers who could not bear this bloody pressure had already knelt on the ground with a face full of despair, praying to the heavens that these iron balls falling from the sky would not fall beside them...
I saw the two thousand Beijing battalions that were instantly routed by grenades on the battlefield. Zhou Yuhong directly showed a smile full of contempt on his face. Said to himself.
He also claimed to be the most powerful and well-equipped officer in the Ming Dynasty. Now it seems, it's not very good...."
"A grenade goes down, and the ghost who is still blown up cries wolf..."
"The marshal said, if you can kill less, you will kill less... Immediately send a signal and order the brothers not to throw any more grenades ...."
"Shout down together: Surrender on your knees....or continue to throw grenades and blow them all up......"
As the grenades falling from the sky slowly disappeared, the explosions gradually stopped. A deafening shout of killing sounded directly on the mountain beams on both sides of the valley.
"Surrender on your knees and avoid death-... Surrender on your knees to avoid death..."
One after another, the shouts were heard in the eyes of the desperate soldiers in the valley, like a talisman, and they hit their hearts that were already close to despair.
Although they didn't know who attacked them, in order to survive, these leaderless soldiers of the Beijing camp fell to their knees as if they had suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw...
Of course, there are also some backbone officers who still stand in place and refuse to kneel, and reprimand their subordinates to continue to resist.
However, in order to survive, these officers were either forcibly pulled to their knees by their subordinates, or hacked to death on the battlefield by their subordinates.
Because they all know that under the attack of the enemy, an iron ball that can explode, there is only one way to continue to resist. And they, not enough to live, don't want to die yet......
In the blink of an eye, the remaining more than 1,400 soldiers of the Beijing camp in the valley all knelt on the ground.
As for their sophisticated equipment, it has long been unknown where it was thrown.
Seeing this, the smile full of contempt on Zhou Yuhong's face, lying on the mountain beam, became even stronger.
shouted an order to the subordinates behind him who were also smiling: "What are you still doing in a daze, rush down immediately, receive prisoners, and clean up the battlefield..."
"Remember, no trace of our Hawpan-Par Army can be left behind......"
Located in the Governor's Mansion of Shanxi in Datong City, Governor Sun Chengzong regained his confidence again and began to wait for the good news from Beijing. An urgent document from the prefect of Yulin was sent to Sun Chengzong again.
"The two thousand Beijing battalions have not yet arrived in Yulin....how is it possible, the two thousand Beijing battalion soldiers have been off for four days, and each soldier is equipped with a war horse, even if they move, they have also moved to Yulin, what is going on at this time?" After reading the urgent paperwork, Sun Chengzong shouted loudly with a face full of puzzlement and anger.
The guard standing in front of him shook his head and replied: "My lord, the small one doesn't know....according to the marching speed of the Beijing camp, he should have arrived in Yulin two days ago....otherwise, the small one will immediately send a few cavalrymen to catch up along the official road and take a look..."
"Then what are you still doing in a daze, go to -... right away" (to be continued......