At this point in the battle, the more than 10,000 Wagang troops that Wang Xuan originally brought from Fengyang City had almost been killed and wounded, and the 8,000 reinforcements from Huangshi Village were left with more than 6,000 troops. At this time, all of them were exhausted and looked like
Terrified, I temporarily retreated to Huangshipo to seize the time to rest.
To be honest, if they hadn't seen Cheng Yaojin arriving with 20,000 reinforcements, 10,000 of whom were elites from the inner camp of Wagang Village, the soldiers would have fled just now.
There are only beacon fires on Huangshi Slope, which is much smaller than Huangshi Village not far away. The capacity of 3,000 people is already the limit, and there is no way for the remaining 8,000-plus Wagang Army to escape into it. They can only form formations according to the mountains.
The team defends, but the defensive intensity is also very limited.
Wang Xuan stood on the beacon wall on the top of the mountain with a pale face. He could see the 20,000 reinforcements brought by Cheng Yaojin on the other side. He thought to himself that it was fortunate that the deputy general manager had personally led the troops, otherwise he would have rashly joined the reinforcements before he was replaced.
, must be trapped in this Fenghuosui area with them at this time.
After being unable to capture the short mountain on the other side, Cheng Yaojin also personally led his troops to launch multiple charges, trying to rescue the more than 8,000 remaining soldiers led by Wang Xuan. However, the Far Eastern Army's formation around Huangshi Slope was very clever.
There seemed to be a lot of loopholes, but every time he led his troops to charge, he felt like he was rushing into a huge spider web. Not only could he not break through the web, but he might also be stuck and unable to escape.
In fact, this was indeed the case. Every time Cheng Yaojin led people to attack, he would lose some men inexplicably.
After several times, Cheng Yaojin discovered that the 20,000 people he brought had unknowingly lost more than a thousand people.
What chilled Cheng Yaojin the most was that the ten thousand people of the Far East Army fought with them for most of the day. The losses were so small that he could never imagine before. He had never thought that there was such a powerful army in the world, especially the Far East Army.
The indifferent expressions of these soldiers from the beginning to the end chilled him even more.
He finally understood why the Far East Army dared to send 10,000 people to fight with so many of them, and he also understood why the 10,000 people brought by Wang Xuan were defeated by the opponent in less than an hour.
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"So what, the worst is to use up all these people, but as long as we can use up the 10,000 people in the Far East Army, it is worth it. The most important thing our Wagang Army does not lack is people." Cheng Yaojin's face showed a ruthless look.
Spicy and decisive.
In any case, he brought 20,000 troops, plus Wang Xuan's 8,000 troops. Now the strength is nearly three times that of the Far East Army. He does not believe that he can't defeat the opponent with casualties of three to one, and the Far East Army
People are also human beings, and they are not iron-clad monsters, so won’t they be exhausted?
Thinking of this, Cheng Yaojin didn't want to wait any longer. He was about to redeploy and take the initiative to provoke a fight with the tens of thousands of men from the Storm Bear Camp, when he unexpectedly heard the sound of ten thousand horses galloping in the distance.
Soon the scouts he had sent out before came galloping over. Before he could get off his horse, Laoyuan shouted loudly: "Report to the deputy general manager, another 10,000 people from the Far East Army came out of Xiaohe Town Mountain."
Cheng Yaojin's expression suddenly changed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The Far East Army has such a huge appetite. Could it be that they want to consume all of us in Fengyang City?"
But Cheng Yaojin knew that he had no choice, and he had to take action immediately, otherwise it would be too late.
"Send an order to Fengyang City and send another 20,000 people over." Cheng Yaojin's heart was bleeding when he issued this order. He vaguely felt that he was trapped in an infinite network and it was impossible to break free.
The fighting on the battlefield began again. Seeing the burly soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, like killing machines, constantly killing their people in neat battle formations, while not suffering many casualties, Cheng Yaojin's heart gradually sank to the bottom.
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When the sky completely darkened, another stage of fighting stopped. Wang Xuan's troops of the Wagang Army and the reinforcements from Fengyang City added up and lost more than 6,000 people. Cheng Yaojin fought with his life to win.
Not all Fengyang City's reinforcements were trapped on Huangshi Slope.
What makes Cheng Yaojin depressed is that their number on Huangshi Slope has always remained at about 8,000.
This does not mean that there were no losses among these eight thousand men, but the number of people Wang Xuan lost on the Huangshi Slope was roughly the same as the number of people who were driven to the Loess Slope by the Far Eastern Army during the fighting.
Cheng Yaojin didn't know if this was a coincidence or if it was intentional by the Far East Army.
If it was a coincidence, it would be fine. If all this was done intentionally by the Far Eastern Army, then the problems behind this incident would be terrifying.
With fear in his heart, Cheng Yaojin gritted his teeth and launched several raids at night, but they all failed. Apart from losing some more men, he gained nothing.
In the middle of the night, Cheng Yaojin almost broke his teeth and finally made a decision. He decided to abandon the 8,000 people led by Wang Xuan who were always surrounded in the middle, and led nearly 30,000 people to retreat to Huangshi Village.
The reason why he still has so many people is because after he learned in the afternoon that the Far Eastern Army had sent another 10,000 people, he decisively sent the messenger sent to Fengyang City to bring back another 20,000 people.
As a result, including the 8,000 people in Huangshi Village itself, 58,000 people have come to the Huangshi Village area.
But now he could only retreat to Huangshi Village with nearly 30,000 people. In addition to the 8,000 people who were still surrounded on Huangshi Slope, they had already lost 20,000 people in just one day and one night, and Huangshi
The eight thousand people on the slope were no different from dead.
As for the loss of the 20,000 people that the Far East Army had invested successively, Cheng Yaojin did not have an accurate figure, but he made a rough estimate, at most 3,000 people.
Cheng Yaojin would not have believed such a large casualty ratio if he had not experienced it personally. You must know that among the 58,000 people who came to Huangshipo, 10,000 were from the Wagang inner camp.
In fact, if it were not for the elite support of the Wanwa Gang inner camp, their casualties would definitely have been more than these, and they might even have been killed and completely defeated.
In order to successfully retreat to Huangshi Village, Cheng Yaojin sent two thousand dead soldiers. The final result was not bad. He successfully retreated to Huangshi Village with 27,000 people, but the two thousand dead soldiers became dead.
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"I didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin would be so courageous and decisive. I underestimated him." Sitting in the tent on the top of the mountain, Li Jing was warming himself by the fire while looking at the heavy rain outside the tent, with some surprise on his face and a slight frown on his face.
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Because he knew that Huangshi Village was easy to defend but difficult to attack and was not that easy to defeat.
But based on the current situation, especially the geographical location of Huangshi Village, he had to defeat it. If he could do it without attacking Huangshi Village, then he would have to attack Fengyang City.
However, not to mention that the walls of Fengyang City are high and strong. Today, reinforcements from Wagang Village have been stationed in Fengyang City. According to the latest intelligence from the Military Intelligence Office, there are now 60,000 Wagang soldiers in Fengyang City.
Twenty thousand of them were elites from the Wagang Inner Camp, and Xu Shiji, the general manager of the Wagang Inner Camp, came in person.
Xu Shiji has a good reputation. Even Li Jing has heard of the name of commanding and training troops. In today's troubled times, no one's reputation can be faked. People without real talent and learning dare to participate in the game of competing in the world. It would have been long ago
He died countless times.
Therefore, although Li Jing was proud of himself, he did not dare to despise Xu Shiji in the slightest, not to mention the example of Cheng Yaojin before him.
In short, Huangshi Village must be attacked, but how to attack it to reduce losses, or to capture Huangshi Village with minimal losses, depends on Li Jing's ability.