"General Wenchao said exactly what I wanted to say."
Another general spoke:
"Mishan Gong is dead, and we are not welcome in the eyes of Zhai Dalongtou. After today, apart from self-reliance, we have no other choice but to defect to other forces, and since we are self-reliant, we do not have the ability, so we have no choice but to defect to other forces. Even so,
It is better to join the general and find a good career in the future."
Everyone said something about the future. After a while, everyone's eyes fell on the lonely man behind them and asked:
"Brother Shiji, we all want to defect to Chaoyan, what do you think?"
Xu Shiji raised his eyelids, glanced at the generals, and said in a hoarse voice:
"Brothers decide."
The generals saw that he was in extremely low mood and knew the reason. They sighed and patted him on the shoulder.
On the other side, Ye Chen held Li Mi's bloody head and rode on a stolen war horse while galloping, shouting loudly:
"Li Mi is dead. His head is here. Surrender without killing him!"
The sound was like the roar of a Buddhist lion, which could be heard thousands of meters away. When the surrounding Wagang army, who was fighting fiercely with the Sui army, saw this scene, their morale collapsed instantly. A Sui officer took the opportunity to shout surrender without killing, and immediately a large area of people was killed.
The Wagang army dropped their weapons and squatted on the ground, holding their heads and surrendering.
The Wagang Army was essentially a peasant uprising, and its fighting spirit was not as good as that of the regular army. As soon as the leader Li Mi died, morale would immediately collapse. Except for some of Li Mi's personal guards who were still resisting, the rest began to surrender one after another.
Ye Chen sent people to run around with Li Mi's head. The Wagang army in the city descended upon the wind and spread quickly to the whole city like a prairie fire.
By daybreak, the entire battle in Bian City was completely over. Less than 20,000 of the hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops in Bian City were killed, and the remaining nearly 130,000 troops all surrendered, which surprised Ye Chen.
He had already made most of the preparations to escape from the city, but he did not expect that there would be so many surrenders. After careful questioning, he found out that the Wagang army in the east, south, and north of the city had surrendered in an organized manner. They surrendered in large numbers under the leadership of the leading general.
And this was not the end. Not long after, Ye Chen was still in the city to receive the surrendered troops. Li Mi's 70,000 to 80,000 troops distributed in several counties outside Bian City sent envoys to surrender, asking him to send people to receive them.
In less than three days, Li Mi's army of more than 200,000 men was wiped out. Li Mi died in battle, and the remaining nearly 200,000 men surrendered. The news spread, and the world was shocked.
Next, he did not continue to march, but stayed in Bianzhou City to reorganize the army. He selected 20,000 strong men from the 200,000 surrendered troops to reorganize into an army. The remaining 100,000 were basically old, weak, sick and disabled, and their combat effectiveness was too high.
If they fail, they will all be sent back to farm.
The army formed by the peasant uprising basically wanted everyone, including the elderly and children. Even if Li Mi selected all men, there were too many unqualified soldiers among them. Ye Chen then selected 20,000 relatively qualified soldiers with combat effectiveness.
It is not as good as the regular army, and it takes a long time of training to catch up with the combat effectiveness of the regular army.
However, Ye Chen didn't take that long to train slowly, and directly equipped himself with regular army weapons and armor and sent them to the battlefield. After fighting a few victorious battles with him, he basically became a veteran.
After the preparations were completed, it took him more than half a month, leaving 20,000 troops to guard Bian City. He took 50,000 troops to go out, preparing to cross the Yellow River north and attack Wagang.
Wagang Village is divided into two major forces, the local forces of Wagang Village represented by Zhai Rang, the great leader, and the external forces headed by Li Mi, the Duke of Mishang. Among them, Li Mi's force has an absolute advantage, both in terms of its own strength and the soldiers under his command.
, and territorial power, Li Mi was stronger than Zhai Rang, but Zhai Rang occupied the righteous status of a leader.
In history, Li Mi and Zhai Rang had a fight due to disagreements. Li Mi killed Zhai Rang and annexed the entire Wagangzhai power. However, in this world, due to the influence of the Adventer, the fire did not happen, but Zhai Rang and Li Mizhi
They have already parted ways, each doing his or her own thing.
But even so, when the news of Li Mi's complete destruction reached the Wagang Army, it still caused a panic.
Everyone knew that Li Mi was stronger than Zhai Rang. Even Li Mi was defeated and lost his life. No one was sure whether Zhai Rang could block the Sui army's front, which caused people in the army to panic.
On the other side, under the guidance of Lieutenant General Li Mi, Ye Chen led his army to take a detour and quickly crossed the Yellow River without being noticed by Zhai Rang's army on the other side of the Yellow River. He led his army straight to Yangwu County. After Yangwu, Wagang is located.
The sudden appearance of the army at the foot of Yangwu City was completely unexpected by the Yangwu defenders. Yangwu was just a county town. There were only less than 5,000 defenders in the city. They were all rebels. Their combat effectiveness was not even comparable to that of Li Mi's troops. Ye Chen picked up a piece of
After a boulder as big as a round table smashed through the gate of Yangwu County, the Yangwu defenders surrendered neatly.
After taking over Yangwu County, Ye Chen used Yangwu County as his base camp and sent troops to attack and capture the surrounding counties, forming a leaning force to encircle Wagang.
However, before he could start the attack, he received news that there was internal strife in the Wagang army. Zhai Rang had a disagreement with his first general and had a quarrel, which then led to a fight. Finally, the Wagang army split and faced off again.
After Ye Chen received the news, he immediately sent troops to attack Wagang County. He personally led five thousand cavalry to Wagang. When he arrived, he saw the gate of Wagang County open, and an army was lining up at the gate to welcome him.
The big man in silver armor rode his horse out of the city alone.
"Adventor!"
Ye Chen walked up to him and recognized the general at first sight as a descendant. His cultivation had actually reached the level of a master. When he saw Ye Chen, he immediately got off his horse and clasped his fists, saying:
"Wang Xuan has met Ye Shuai!"
"Please get up!"
Ye Chen stretched out his hand to signal him to stand up and said:
"People in the Ming Dynasty don't tell secrets. We are all descendants. You led the army to surrender. I need to know the reason and your origins, otherwise I will not dare to take you in."
Wang Xuan nodded and said:
"Don't worry, we are not those powerful people, but randomly descended into this world. We gather together to keep warm. Ye Shuai's cultivation is earth-shattering. How dare we overestimate our capabilities and try to block the car, so we have no choice but to join Ye Shuai's command.
It’s better to survive better.”
"Very well, I accept your surrender, but,"
Ye Chen stretched out a finger and emphasized:
"You can surrender, but you have to hand over your military power and redistribute it. I don't like independent forces under my command."
"no problem!"
Wang Xuan answered simply.
Next, Ye Chen sent people to take over Wagang County and tens of thousands of surrendered troops. Although Wang Xuan defeated Zhai Rang, Zhai Rang himself did not die. He fled back to Wagang Village with the remaining troops and horses, plus some troops.
The horse fled, and now there are more than 30,000 troops under Wang Xuan's command who have surrendered. However, they are all elites, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of the Sui army. This is the main reason why Zhai Rang was not eliminated by Li Mi. With this elite army, Li Mi wanted to defeat him.
Zhai Rang is bound to pay a huge price, which Li Mi cannot accept.
