Chapter 162: Ying and Mo States, Great Victory on Two Fronts (Part 2)
The soldiers of the Hu Ben New Army of the Great Xin Dynasty are generally equipped with cotton armor with red as the main color, and a small number of elite soldiers are equipped with heavy armor;
On the other hand, the soldiers of the Longcheng Army are generally equipped with black armor, and the elite soldiers can even have a set of bright armor, and their equipment is far better than that of the Hu Ben New Army.
All this is due to the fact that the Longcheng Army has a lord named Chen Huaian who is born to be an emperor.
Although the weapons and equipment of the Hu Ben New Army soldiers on the battlefield are not as good as those of the Longcheng Army.
However, their ferocity and fighting willpower are not inferior to those of the Longcheng Army.
This is all because of the generous and strict military reward system in the Hu Ben New Army.
Even before this battle, Zhao Kui, the commander of the troops in Mozhou City, offered a sky-high military reward of 100 taels of silver to the Hu Ben New Army soldiers who beheaded the enemy.
Therefore, as soon as the two armies came together, the soldiers of the new Tiger Army rushed up and fought hand-to-hand with the soldiers of the Dragon City Army.
Those numb faces flashed with greed and desire.
They did not notice that the gate of Mozhou City behind them had been quietly closed by the defenders inside.
They also did not notice that the suspension bridge that originally spanned the two sides of the moat was quietly retracted by the comrades who stayed in the city with a winch and hung high above the moat.
In the fierce battle, the soldiers of the two armies fought desperately, and people fell every moment, and lives were harvested every minute and every second.
On the battlefield, human lives were like grass.
Broken limbs and arms were everywhere.
Mountains of corpses and seas of blood were everywhere.
King Jin Chen Huaian sat steadily on the central army observation tower and witnessed the battle of the army outside Mozhou City with his own eyes.
When he found that the distant Mozhou City suddenly closed the gate and retracted the drawbridge, he immediately realized that the new Tiger Army in the city had no intention of breaking out.
Instead, they used the lives of more than 100,000 troops outside the city to exchange for a glimmer of hope for the small group of officers and soldiers in the city.
In all dynasties, the first to be abandoned were these low-level cannon fodder.
Chen Huaian shook his head and called Xiao Po, who had just returned to the position of Jinwu Guard from the status of a groom, and ordered: "Xiao Po, you personally take the Jinwu Guard to the battlefield to shout-"
"Tell the new Tiger Army soldiers who went out of the city to fight that their general Wu Sanjia and deputy general Zhao Kui have abandoned them;"
"Let them lay down their weapons and surrender to the king, and they can be spared from death!"
"I have received the order!"
Soon, Xiao Po hurriedly took the order and left.
At the same time
On the wall of Mozhou City, Zhao Kui, deputy general of the new Tiger Guard Army, wearing Mingguang armor and a ring-handled sword on his waist, did not even look at his soldiers who were fighting bloody battles outside the city.
He directly ordered: "Pass the order down, 20,000 personal soldiers will leave the city in an orderly manner from the south gate of Mozhou City and retreat to Yingzhou at the fastest marching speed!"
"I have received the order!"
Soon, 20,000 trusted personal soldiers under Zhao Kui, who had been ready to go, left the city from the south gate of Mozhou City in a long snake formation and headed straight for Yingzhou.
Zhao Kui and hundreds of personal soldiers rode their horses to the front, pulling the 20,000 infantry behind them far away.
Gradually, the so-called orderly evacuation turned into a great rout with armor and armor thrown away.
The official road leading to Yingzhou City was full of discarded weapons and baggage.
These 20,000 fleeing Tiger Guard New Army soldiers only regretted that their parents did not give them two more legs.
Back on the battlefield, the Longcheng army, which had an absolute advantage in manpower, had gradually taken control of the battlefield and divided and surrounded the 100,000 new Hu Ben troops who went out of the city to fight.
At this time, a team of cavalrymen in golden armor suddenly appeared on the battlefield, waving scarlet flags of the King of Jin, and shouted in unison to the new Hu Ben troops in the battle zone:
"Brothers of the new Hu Ben army--"
"You have been abandoned by Wu Sanjia. Letting you go out of the city to fight is to ask you to die!"
"If you don't believe it, turn around and see if there are still your troops on the Mozhou city?"
"Put down your weapons, surrender to His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and you will be spared--"
"Brothers of the new Hu Ben army--"
"You have already..."
The Jinwu Guard team of a few hundred people did seem a little small on the battlefield of hundreds of thousands.
But their roars in unison over and over again were enough to spread to every corner of the battlefield.
On the battlefield, the rest of the Dragon City army also understood immediately, waving their swords and spears and fighting hard;
At the same time, they shouted to the soldiers of the new Tiger Army who were fighting against them, asking them to lay down their weapons and surrender to King Jin.
At first, these soldiers of the new Tiger Army who wanted to cut off the heads of the Dragon City soldiers in exchange for huge military rewards did not believe it, thinking that this was a psychological attack by the Dragon City army.
But as the battle deepened, as the team of golden armored cavalrymen kept shuttling around the periphery of the battlefield, roaring in unison, they repeated their shouts over and over again.
Finally, some of the new Tiger Army soldiers who had not yet killed could not help but look back in the direction of Mozhou City.
With just one glance, morale and faith collapsed instantly!
Because, the walls of Mozhou City were already empty.
Not only that, before evacuating, the guys guarding the city also retracted the drawbridge across the moat and closed the city gates.
This would completely cut off the last retreat route for those who went out of the city to fight.
Apart from laying down their weapons and surrendering, there was only one way left: death!
"No——"
Suddenly, a captain of the new Tiger Army who was in the middle of a fierce battle shouted to the sky: "I was about to fight to the death, kill the enemy and serve the country, why did the general abandon the city and flee?"
"Why is this!!!"
On the battlefield, the collapse of morale and faith often happens in an instant.
As more and more Tiger Army soldiers found that they had long been abandoned by the deputy general Zhao Kui in the city and the general Wu Sanjia whom they admired;
the faith and military rewards that originally supported them to fight bravely were like a broken dam, rushing thousands of miles away at this moment.
Countless soldiers of the new Tiger Guards army, who were determined to serve their country, either roared to the sky or knelt on the ground and sighed, shouting out at the top of their lungs:
"I was about to fight to the death for my country, why did the general abandon me and flee?"
"I was about to fight to the death for my country, why did the general abandon me and flee?"
"I was about to fight to the death for my country, why did the general abandon me and flee?"
Instantly, the huge battlefield outside the city of Mozhou was left with the wailing of countless Tiger Guards army leaders.
Then, the surviving Tiger Guards army soldiers put down their weapons, knelt on the ground and surrendered to the soldiers of the Dragon City Army around them.
Seeing this, Liu Ziyu, the deputy general of the Dragon City Southern Expedition Army, who personally went into battle to kill the enemy, also hurriedly ordered his soldiers to stop killing and spare the lives of these captives.
It can be considered as a way to repay Liu Ziyu's loyalty as he was once a member of the Tiger Guards of the Great Xin Dynasty!