The scene of thousands of people surrendering collectively was spectacular.
They lined up in a long queue and filed out of the camp. After handing in their equipment at the designated location, they were led to the other side and sat on the ground, anxiously awaiting their fate.
Will he die?
If the officers and soldiers want to kill prisoners, should they shoot them with random arrows or dig a hole and bury them alive?
Everyone can't help but think about these things, scare themselves, and then tremble uncontrollably.
"You're going out to fight with just this little ability?" Jin Zheng walked over, scanned it first, then picked up the riding crop, whipped the prisoner kneeling on the ground hard, and cursed.
The person who was beaten by him screamed in pain, but did not dare to make a loud noise.
"If you don't even know how to use a bow, how can you fight?" Jin Zheng let him go and started beating another person, saying, "Are you going to die?"
The prisoner cried twice, and after realizing that he was beaten even harder, he wisely closed his mouth.
Jin San whipped it twice more, then threw the riding crop to his subordinates and looked at the advancing queue in the distance.
"Let's go, it's not interesting to leave it to Li Chong." He got on the horse, clamped his legs under the horse's belly, and hurried out.
At the southern foot of Fangcheng Mountain, the large group of troops had already begun to march without any delay.
Wang Que'er, the deputy governor of the Silver Spear Army, led 1,200 soldiers, carrying five days' worth of food and water with him, and left first, acting as a vanguard.
Jin San accompanied Shao Xun, leading the remnants of the Silver Spear Army and 7,000 auxiliary troops, totaling more than 10,000 people, closely behind him.
This battle is fought quickly, without giving the enemy any chance.
After the large group of troops left, Li Chong ordered the battlefield to be cleaned and the prisoners to be screened.
In this battle, the casualties were relatively high.
The main force was Xiangcheng Dingzhuang, who was forced to attack three times by the strong bows and crossbows behind him, resulting in more than 1,300 casualties.
The casualties of the auxiliary troops were less, less than a thousand.
In the end, the Yamen Army made the final decision, with two to three hundred minor casualties, crushing the enemy's will in one fell swoop and winning a complete victory.
The stronghold was broken in half a day, which could be described as clean and tidy. Li Zhong became much more optimistic about the upcoming battle.
Perhaps, they really had time to return to the north and fight on two fronts.
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On the dilapidated post road, defeated soldiers piled up one after another with no end in sight.
Pang Shi frowned and looked carefully.
The enemy's pursuit was so fierce that they were not given any chance to recover and regroup. It would be very dangerous if this situation continued. The longer the rout lasted, the harder it would be to gather the rout.
In the end, those who are separated - are really separated.
Pang Shi did not participate in the day's battle, nor did he have the two thousand men under his command.
They had just escorted the supplies of food and grass over, when they heard the news that the camp had been breached and the entire army was in a rout.
The Nanyang servants escorting the car broke up on the spot and ran away.
Pang Shi met Hou Tuo and was entrusted with an important task: Duan Hou.
Pang Shi knew very well that this was not a good job. But Hou Tuo had saved his life and had never asked him for anything before, so he found it difficult to refuse.
The morale of the two thousand or so soldiers was low and they were panic-stricken. They set up the grain carts and blocked the road, trying to stop the pursuing troops.
Pang Shi led more than a hundred troops to the north, trying to contain more defeated troops and organize them as part of the army to break the rear.
But just after taking in hundreds of people, it had to be terminated because the enemy's forward appeared in the distance.
There were only fifty or sixty of them. When they saw Pang Shi and others, they did not panic. Instead, they sped up and rushed over at a small jog.
As they got closer, some people ran up the small slopes on both sides of the post road, then put down their spears, took off the strung bows from their waists, and picked up the bows to nock arrows.
About ten people took off the small round shields on their arms, holding shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands, and lined up in front.
Finally, there were twenty people, armed with spears, in groups of five, a few steps apart, following behind the sword and shield man.
The two sides soon started fighting.
But as soon as they fought, Pang Shi felt something was wrong, especially when an arrow flew over his head with a "thud" and landed on a tree trunk.
Pang Shi subconsciously looked at the feather arrow above his head.
The arrow penetrated the wood very deeply, and the arrow feathers trembled endlessly.
"Whoosh!" Another arrow shot out, hitting the throat of a soldier beside him.
Pang Shi couldn't help but hide for a moment.
On the way to the charge, more than ten people have been lying down one after another.
The arrows fired from the high ground on both sides were fast and urgent, biting the flesh, and their accuracy was frighteningly high.
On the frontal battlefield, the opponent was in a group of five. The sword and shield wielders stepped forward quickly and used their round shields to block the opponent's swords and spears. The people behind them thrust out their spears like lightning, killing two people in an instant.
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There was also a tall and strong man, wielding a long-handled ax with both hands, and relying on the iron armor on his body, he jumped into the crowd and swept away violently.
The last archer fell at the back, picking up his bow and arrows continuously, harvesting lives with his tricky and vicious archery skills.
There were only about fifty people, but in the face-to-face fight without tricks, they showed amazing skills and cooperation.
To be fair, it is not difficult to kill one of them alone. Even if their spear skills, sword skills, and archery skills are quite remarkable, when three or five people get together and execute group tactics, the difficulty of killing will be greatly increased.
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One-on-one, their advantage is not that big.
But three versus three, five versus five, the advantage is too great to behold.
More than a hundred people were beaten back by fifty or sixty people from the opposite side, and their bodies were scattered along the way.
"Retreat!" Pang Shi's scalp was numb. He saw the smoke and dust filling the sky behind him, and it seemed that more enemy troops were chasing him. He did not dare to fight anymore, so he shouted towards the battlefield and ran back.
The battlefield was extremely noisy, and not everyone could hear his voice.
Some people are still fighting, while others have fled and are in chaos.
The foot archers on the opposite side began to move forward to close the distance, trying to shoot arrows in a more effortless way. However, when they were halfway there, they were all broken up, and no one dared to stand and fight.
The silver spear soldiers were wearing iron armor and walking as fast as flying. They chased behind them with a roar, their bows and strings firing continuously, and they continued to reap human lives.
It wasn't until he saw that the post road was blocked by a large number of carriages and horses that he stopped and sent someone to report back.
After doing this, they did not stand still, but scattered to both sides, placing their spears, axes, swords and shields at their feet. Everyone took out their rifles and bows and shot arrows in the direction where the enemy troops gathered.
The enemy also mobilized some archers and spear-carrying infantry to try to drive them away.
These people's arrows are really annoying. They are not shooting randomly at all, but are aimed at the roll call. The threat is too great.
And the smoke from the north is getting closer and closer.
The leader of the team was Wang Queer. He first took a look at the enemy's position, and then made a prompt decision and ordered some vehicles to be transferred over.
The sergeants did not hesitate at all, and after much coordination, they mobilized more than ten push carts from the auxiliary soldiers in the rear formation.
The cart was full of firewood, and someone started pouring oil on it.
Hundreds of Silver Spear sergeants were guarding the car on the left and right sides, and they first used a wave of volleys to suppress the opponent's head.
The auxiliary soldier pushing the cart had a ferocious look on his face, roaring and rushing forward.
Someone held a torch and set the vehicles on fire one by one.
The "Chariot of Fire" roared forward and directly hit the enemy's baggage convoy blocking the road.
Under the strong north wind, thick smoke billowed, the fire became more and more intense, and there was a commotion in the enemy formation behind them.
"Dong dong dong..." The drum sounded.
"Kill!" the silver spear soldiers shouted in unison and rushed forward with their spears in hand.
The enemy troops at the rear were already in low morale and could not be beaten with normal attacks. What's more, they were so embarrassed by the fireworks that they turned around and ran away.
Pang Shi ordered arrows to be fired, killing dozens of the oncoming soldiers.
But there were so many people fleeing that he could not stop them. After assessing the situation, he could only sigh sadly and run away.
Cut off the queen, cut off the bird's queen, it can't stop it even for a moment!
The Silver Spear Army pursued them all the way without giving the opponent any chance to breathe.
On the 11th, the two sides fought in the northeast of Duyang, and Pang Shi, who was once again cut off from the rear, was defeated and retreated.
On the twelfth day, the Silver Spear Army passed through Duyang but did not enter, biting behind Hou Tuo's defeated army.
On the night of the 13th, he fought in the old city of Bowang, defeated the enemy again, and beheaded more than 400 people.
Bowang is a place name that often appears on the scene. Cao Hong attacked Jingzhou, fought in Wuyang, Yexian, Duyang, Bowang, and returned to Ye.
Liu Bei stationed in Xinye, marched into Bowang, and reached Ye County, where he set up an ambush and defeated Xia Houdun before returning.
On the evening of the 14th, they fought at Gualijin and killed more than 300 enemy generals and below, and captured Pang Shi.
Gualijin is located in the northeast of Nanyang and is one of the famous ferries.
Guangwu of the Han Dynasty personally conquered Deng Feng in Nanyang from Duyang, and fought in Gualijin and Xiaochang'an. This was the most glorious period of Gualijin.
Wang Queer and Hou Tuo chased and escaped. By this time, both sides were exhausted.
Hou Tuo was followed by no more than a thousand people, all of whom looked panicked and disheveled.
Wang Queer's team was also quite far away from the baggage team, and they only carried enough dry food for one day.
However, everyone is in good spirits and their morale is even higher.
This is not the first time that he has been chasing the enemy like this.
When they first conquered Wang Mi in Hebei, they pursued him in the snow. They did not give the enemy generals a chance to re-contain the defeated troops, nor did they give the enemy a chance to stop and reorganize.
Completely broken up and never brought back together again.
Ahead, Nanyang City (Wan County) is already in sight.
Chapter completed!