Xiao Yue led his men and horses slowly towards the Annan Kingdom's camp. In front of Xiao Yue's army were various crossbows and ballistae arranged by Jia Ke.
When the army was four to five hundred steps closer to the Ananguo camp, the crossbows and ballistae began to fire.
Annan Kingdom was originally relatively backward and had never heard of these advanced weapons. Now that it was hit, it immediately fell into chaos.
When Li Guangren saw this situation, he immediately ordered his own soldiers to come forward and maintain their formation. If anyone was running around and bumping into each other, he would immediately kill them.
With Li Guangren's continuous maintenance, Annan's army reluctantly calmed down.
But at this time, Xiao Yue's army was getting closer and closer. When Li Guangren saw it, he hurriedly ordered to release arrows.
But the archers of Annan State didn't even dare to raise their heads, let alone fire arrows. It turned out that Jia Ke not only arranged crossbows and nipples to suppress them, but also ordered the Eight Banners cavalry to roam around. They were facing the inside of Dazhai.
They kept firing arrows, and the archers of Annan Kingdom were suppressed and had no power to fight back.
Li Guangren jumped anxiously when he saw this situation, but there was nothing he could do. In the face of absolute strength, his little tricks were not worth mentioning.
In this way, Xiao Yue's army quickly approached the Annan Kingdom's camp. At this time, Li Guangren had no other choice and immediately ordered his soldiers to prepare for close combat.
First, the gate of the Annan State Camp was broken down by a catapult, and then the big wall of the camp was also knocked down.
By this time, almost all the obstacles in front of Xiao Yue's army had been leveled.
Xiao Yue cheered up and commanded the army to quickly rush into the Annan Kingdom camp.
Seeing this situation, Li Guangren immediately ordered his deputy general to take over his command. However, Li Guangren himself took his soldiers to the rear of the camp, where he had already prepared dozens of horses, including the horse Liang Liang.
foal.
Just like that, Li Guangren and his men ran away from the back camp without caring about anything else.
Huang Chen, the deputy general of Annan State who blocked Xiao Yue from the front, was not a fool. When he saw Li Guangren leaving, he knew that this guy was going to escape. In this case, it was more important for everyone to save their lives.
So Huang Chen immediately ordered his soldiers to raise the white flag, and at the same time ordered his soldiers to stop resisting.
Xiao Yue and his army had just engaged the enemy and were about to wipe them all out. Suddenly, he saw white flags raised in the enemy's formation, and the enemy's soldiers began to drop their weapons in droves.
Seeing this situation, Xiao Yue knew that the other party had surrendered, so he ordered his Fenwu Camp to surround these people, and immediately sent a message to Jia Ke in the rear, waiting for Jia Ke's order.
Jia Ke was overjoyed after receiving the order. The other party's surrender saved him a lot of time.
Originally, Jia Ke thought that this stop would take several hours. After cleaning up the battlefield, there would be no hope for at least today. Unexpectedly, the opponent surrendered just after the battle. In this way, he would still have a lot of time to pursue the enemy.
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So Jia Ke immediately ordered the Eight Banners cavalry to pursue Annan's army along the road, and also ordered the Guangxi wolf soldiers to follow immediately.
After receiving Jia Ke's order, the eight commanders of the Eight Banners of the Manchus immediately led their cavalry to pursue them all the way along the mainland.
The eight of them were fighting bravely this time. You should know that the eight of them had not made any achievements since they came to the south. This time, Jia Ke asked them to take the lead in catching up, which naturally complied with their wishes.
Unexpectedly, at this time, one of the prisoners in Annan Kingdom was looking around vigilantly. When he saw countless cavalry heading south, he had an idea in his mind.
Jia Ke had just relaxed his vigilance, thinking that the war was over. Suddenly, in Annan Kingdom, there was a loud shout among the prisoners, and thousands of men and horses immediately took out their weapons from the surrounding haystacks.
These people took weapons and immediately attacked the soldiers guarding them.
At this time, the men and horses under the command of the General Soldier of Yunnan, who were looking after their affairs, originally thought that the situation was settled, so they were all lazy and not very serious. At this time, they were suddenly attacked and were naturally killed by surprise.
Jia Ke was outside the Annan Kingdom camp at this time, discussing with the generals the matter of marching into the army. Suddenly, a detective under his command came to report that the prisoners of Annan Kingdom had bombed the camp.
When Jia Ke heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows, threw the riding whip to the ground, and then shouted angrily at the generals: "Stop standing here, rectify your troops immediately, I want this Annan rebel to know
I'm awesome."
After listening to Jia Ke's words, the generals immediately went back to rectify their troops. After a while, Jia Ke's soldiers re-surrounded Annan's camp.
When Jia Ke and his generals arrived outside the camp, they saw that the big camp of Annan State was now filled with shouts of killing, and they actually started fighting with their own people.
Jia Ke was a little confused when he saw this situation. Is this the opposite or not?
It turned out that the person who started the rebellion in the Annan Kingdom was one of the six guards in front of the palace, the vanguard general Ruan Xing'an, who was from the Ruan Shi royal family.
This time I saw that the deputy general who commanded the army surrendered without a fight, and I was very angry. But at that time, Jia Ke's army had already surrounded the place, and there were countless cavalry roaming nearby, and the deputy general opened the camp door again.
He had no choice but to follow him and surrender.
But he was careful and hid the weapons in the haystacks that were originally intended to set the camp ablaze. Now that he saw the Central Plains soldiers slacking off, he suddenly launched an attack and wanted to drive out the An Zhongyuan soldiers who occupied the camp.
, to buy time for Ruan Zhengyu to escape.
But the surrendered lieutenant general didn't think so. He thought Ruan Xing'an was having trouble with him, so he took the remaining troops and fought with Ruan Xing'an.
Jia Ke happened to see this scene when he came, and at this time, the deputy general had sent a messenger to contact Jia Ke and explained the cause and effect to Jia Ke.
After Jia Ke understood this, he immediately ordered his soldiers to help the deputy general.
It didn't take long for Ruan Xing'an, the leader of the rebellion, to be tied up in front of Jia Ke.
But this person is still full of stubbornness and will not kneel down when he sees Jia Ke.
Jia Ke looked at the man without saying anything, waved his hand and asked the soldiers to pull him out. Immediately there was a scream outside the tent, and soon there were soldiers dragging a tray with Ruan Xing'an's head on it.
Come and reply to Jia Ke.
After Jia Ke dealt with this matter, he immediately ordered a new search of the surrendered troops of Annan State to prevent them from hiding any weapons. Finally, he drove them out of the Annan State camp and gave them security in the rear.
A prisoner camp was sent to guard it, and that was the end of the matter.
But for the lieutenant Huang Chen who devoted himself to him and participated in countering the rebellion, Jia Ke heavily rewarded him and promised him that once Annan was captured, his family would be saved and he would be rewarded heavily.
Besides, Ruan Zhengyu, the king of Annan Kingdom, after retreating for dozens of miles to the south, saw that it was already bright and the soldiers were very tired from traveling all night, so he thought of letting the soldiers rest for a while, bury pots and make rice, and then move forward.
But his Prime Minister Li Guangqing immediately felt something bad when he saw that the king wanted the soldiers to rest.
When Li Guangqing went to see Li Guangren yesterday, he saw that Li Guangren's morale was not high and knew that he could not resist desperately. If he did not persist for five days, his army might be overtaken by the enemy within a short time.
So Li Guangqing hurriedly came to the king and said, "Your Majesty, now is not the time to rest. Please urge your Majesty to move the army forward. It won't be too late when the army reaches Longcheng Pass and rests."
This Longcheng Pass is a dangerous pass in the southern territory of Nan'an. It was built when Ruan Zhengyu's father was around to guard against the Central Plains Empire.
This Longcheng Pass is built on the mountain, right on the main road, and the wall is three feet high. It can be said that one man can guard the pass, and no one can open it.
Since the completion of Longcheng Pass, heavy troops have been deployed here, making it the most important city to defend the Celestial Empire.
However, this time Ruan Zhengyu went north and had transferred most of the defenders at Longcheng Pass. Currently, the defense at Longcheng Pass only had more than 3,000 troops, so it can be said that the defense was very weak.
After hearing what Li Guangqing said, Ruan Zhengyu wanted to agree, but when he looked up again, he saw that the soldiers below were all listless and did not have much strength anymore. If he continued to urge them to go on the road, he was afraid that there was a risk of mutiny, so he helplessly pointed out to Li Guangqing.
He pointed at the soldiers around him and stopped talking.
Li Guangqing looked around and immediately understood what Ruan Zhengyu meant. During this period of time, the soldiers had not had enough to eat, and now they were not allowed to rest. The fire in their stomachs might not be suppressed anymore. As long as there was one
An individual's instigation can lead to catastrophe in no time.
Li Guangqing could only reluctantly agree to the king's order, and then the Annan army began to chop wood and make a fire nearby, and used up the remaining food to start cooking.
However, Ruan Zhengyu was also a battle-hardened man, so he naturally had to be on guard against him. He ordered his general Zhang Jun to take 10,000 troops to take strict precautions behind the army.
These Annan soldiers had been walking all night without eating, and now they could finally rest, so they just lay on the ground one by one, not wanting to move at all.
Ruan Zhengyu saw that military discipline was so lax, and it would be troublesome for someone to attack them. He originally wanted to go up and scold them, but in the end he endured it.
Soon, smoke began to rise, and the meal here was ready immediately. First, Ruan Zhengyu's soldiers sent Ruan Zhengyu a meal. This meal only had a few more pieces of pork than other soldiers.
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Ruan Zhengyu and the others had just finished their meal and were thinking of rushing on their way immediately when suddenly there was a commotion in front of them, and then a soldier came to report it.
It turned out that Li Guangren had already escaped with his soldiers.
When Li Guangqing saw this situation, he was so angry that he turned blue. He left the BMW for the other party, originally hoping that he could use it to resist him until he could escape. Unexpectedly, this Li Guangren didn't have the slightest bit of vigor of his father, so he didn't have much energy.
It took a long time to escape, but it seems that they left tens of thousands of people behind.
Ruan Zhengyu saw Li Guangren's face turned livid. He pointed at him and asked, "Why did you come to me when I told you to cut off the queen?"
Li Guangren said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, the barbarians from the Central Plains are really powerful. Their ballistae had already destroyed the wall as soon as we engaged with them. We have no place to defend ourselves. I can only come and report to your Majesty first, so that your Majesty will be informed as soon as possible."
prepare for."
Ruan Zhengyu heard that this Li Guangren was so shameless. He originally escaped and told him to report the news to him. Now that this Li Guangren had put himself in danger, there was no need to keep him anymore.
"Here comes someone. Li Guangren escaped from the battle and he must be killed according to the law. Push him out and behead him as retribution."
Li Guangqing saw that the king wanted to kill Li Guangren and hurriedly came to dissuade him.
"Your Majesty, Li Guangren's father has made great contributions. For his father's sake, please spare him this time."
After hearing this, Ruan Zhengyu immediately threw the bowl in his hand to the ground, and then stared at Li Guangqing fiercely, "Now hundreds of thousands of troops are at stake. For such a serious crime, you are still being begged for mercy. What do you mean?"
When Li Guangqing saw the king's eyes almost bulging out of his sockets, he knew that he was really furious this time. He didn't dare to say anything more, so he hurriedly stepped aside and acted like a mute.