He had been waiting for the good news, and finally when it arrived, he immediately grabbed the bamboo tube, couldn't wait to take out the letter inside, and then read it.
Take a look at the results!
His face suddenly turned from sunny to cloudy, then from cloudy to rainy day, and finally he sat down on the ground, completely stunned, and his face was even uglier than his dead parents.
The military advisor's heart skipped a beat.
Then, he immediately helped Gong Yangyu up and asked weakly: "General, is it possible that the battle was defeated?"
Gong Yangyu replied feebly: "More than just a defeat, it was simply the worst defeat in the history of Beiyi! All five hussar generals were beheaded, and there were 20 million casualties among the 50 million troops.
In the trap, millions were killed, more than 10 million surrendered, and less than 10 million escaped."
"And the enemy only paid a very small price, and probably less than 300,000 people died!"
"How did they achieve such a tragic defeat?"
Gong Yangyu felt a pain in his chest, coughed violently, and was so angry that he almost vomited blood!
Even if a fool led troops to fight, he wouldn't have suffered such a tragic defeat!
The military advisor didn't believe it, so he grabbed the letter and read it.
After watching it, he sighed with emotion: "No wonder he was defeated so miserably. This Xiao Zhan is so terrible, he can actually lay such a trap!"
"If it were us, we would not set up a trap like this and dig a hole in the ground. When a large army passes by, a small number of troops from the front army will fall into the trap. If they are unable to stop in time, a small number of large troops will fall in. There will be a stampede and individual casualties.
Tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands are enough to suffocate us to death!”
"And Xiao Zhan's trap was so vicious that if the army passed by, the trap would not collapse. When the whole army passed by, he would ambush the armies on both sides and pull down the support pillars below, leaving the ground without support and the earth collapsing, causing
A large number of troops fell into the trap."
"If the entire ground is hollowed out and 50 million troops fall into the pit, there will be chaos at most, but there will be no stampede, and the casualties will not be much."
"But they dug holes every few miles. Some fell in, some didn't fall in, and the ones that didn't fell in couldn't be stopped. They fell one after another, one layer after another, and there was a stampede, which greatly increased the casualties.
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"I have to say that my opponent is too terrifying and vicious!"
"Yes!" Gong Yangyu also sighed with emotion, and then he said with a melancholy look: "Military advisor, what should we do next? Should we report it to the court and let the court find a way, or should we find a way ourselves and defeat the enemy to save face?
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"If we reported it to the imperial court and asked the imperial court to find a solution, I would be afraid that the empress would take strict measures against my dismissal. Even if she does not take strict measures against our dismissal for the time being in order to stabilize the morale of the army, I am afraid that she will have to settle accounts in the future."
"After all, I allowed the enemy to grow stronger. This is a serious crime!"
Gong Yangyu pondered for a while and said: "Xiao Zhan now has less than 20 million troops capable of fighting. We have 140 million, which is seven times their number."
"The reason why we were defeated last time was that the five generals were too impatient and adopted a rapid march, which led to them falling into a trap."
"This time we gathered all the troops and advanced slowly in the air. We did not give them a chance to trap us. If they dared to face us head-on, we would destroy them. If they did not dare to face us head-on, we would keep driving them away. Then we would notify the court and let the court
Send a large army to form a flanking attack with us and destroy them!"
Gong Yangyu thought about it carefully and felt that the best way at the moment was what the military advisor said.
If he reported it directly to the court and asked the court to find a solution, the empress would definitely think that he was incompetent and it would be a matter of time before he was dismissed and dealt with severely.
If Xiao Zhan was killed or driven around, and then reported to the court, the empress would be angry, but she would not turn from anger to hatred towards him.
So, he issued an order: "Assemble the entire army! Send troops to Bei'an City!"
Three days later.
Bei'an City, Temporary Generalissimo's Mansion.
"Report!"
Someone came to report: "Generalissimo, the scout flying pigeon sent a message to report that General Tianshuo has assembled an army of 140 million and started to set off! This time they did not march in a hurry, but marched slowly through the air, threatening to crush our rebel army.