Chapter 163 escape
Besides, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun and others killed the 200,000 troops of Gu Dingfeng on the southern front and did not stop. They divided thousands of soldiers to escort the tens of thousands of prisoners back to Tianqingzhou from the other way. They took the remaining main force and galloped straight to Lieyan City. Finally, they arrived outside Lieyan City a few days later. At this time, there were already three days left Xinghe Jingchou's defeat. During these three days, Xinghe Jingchou, who was completely angry, launched several siege battles. However, each time they were stubbornly blocked by Lieyan City, and they left thousands of corpses and retreated in a mess.
By the time Zhang Liao and the others arrived, there were less than 250,000 troops left in Xinghe Jingchou, and many wounded soldiers were among them. Most of these soldiers were exhausted, their morale was extremely low, and they had completely lost their will to fight. If it weren't for Xinghe Jingchou's high-pressure methods, deserters would have long appeared.
As soon as Zhang Liao's 100,000 troops arrived, he directly sent a message to inform the city. After receiving the message, Xiao Tianci was overjoyed. Now that the reinforcements have arrived, it is the time for a decisive battle, he hurriedly sent another message to Zhang Liao to send a large army to raid the Xinghe Jingchou camp, and Xiao Tianci and others would also send all the 100,000 troops in the Lieyan City, and attack the coalition forces with the inside and outside.
On that day, Zhang Liao's 100,000 infantry, led by three generals, raided the camp of Jingchou of Xinghe. Under the suppression of countless long bows and arrows, one side was low in morale and had no intention of fighting, while the other side was high in morale and sharpened the knife. Although Zhang Liao's army was more than half less than the other side, it still made the coalition forces have no power to fight back. In addition, Pang De and Dian Wei in the Flame City also directly led the army to attack, attacking the coalition forces one by one and the other. Under the enemy from both sides, Xinghe Jingchou had to shrink the large army together and defend desperately. Finally, he was surrounded by nearly 200,000 armies of Xiao Tianci.
The two troops in Tianqingzhou will also be in division together. Xiao Tianci and Zhang Liao and others met. Several generals sat together to discuss the current situation. Zhang Liao and others' opinions were that they had surrounded the enemy army and were isolated and helpless, so there was no need to attack desperately, for fear that the enemy would jump over the wall. If they fought to the death, they would kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred themselves, and the gain would not be worth the loss. It would be better to trap the enemy. When the ammunition and food were exhausted, the enemy's more than 200,000 troops would be defeated without attacking. Xiao Tianci expressed his affirmation and agreement on this opinion, and finally arranged several generals to lead their troops to one side, and be sure to beware of the enemy's breakthrough.
There were actually people around Xinghe Jingchou who knew that the other party was not attacking, but just surrounded him on the hillside, and immediately guessed the intention of Xiao Tianci and others, so he quickly told Xinghe Jingchou. Although Xinghe Jingchou was simple and easy to get angry, he could still see the situation now. At this moment, he had no idea what he had done except ordering the soldiers to charge and break through. However, the soldiers were already timid and did not dare to attack. After being cut down by more than ten people by Xinghe Jingchou, he mustered up the courage to launch several waves of charges. However, he was blocked by Xiao Tianci's army.
After a day and a night, the entire hillside was already covered with a sea of corpses and blood. In order to escape from the sky, Xinghe Jingchou was not sympathetic to his soldiers at all and constantly drove them to attack the enemy's defense line below. However, four super generals, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun, and Pang De, were there, and directly built the surrounding defense line to a solidity, resisting the enemy's life-demanding charges again and again, and directly strangling the hopes of these enemies.
"It's over, it's over. We can't break through. Damn it, what should we do?" Xinghe Jingchou was already anxious. Seeing his army's charges several times, he had no result. He was afraid that he would be captured by the enemy this time. He was the dignified prince of the Tianxing Kingdom. If he was captured like this by the enemy, he might be afraid that his position as the prince would be lost immediately. You must know that there is more than one prince in their Tianxing Kingdom. The brothers below him have long been eyeing his position as the prince. If he is really captured, he will be attacked immediately. His father would not be able to lose this face and remove his position as the prince.
"Your Highness, don't be impatient." Several generals of the Central Army comforted each other. Although they were extremely anxious now, they also knew that no matter how anxious they were, they were useless. They had to calm down and think about countermeasures. If even the chief general was anxious, what would the soldiers below think? They were afraid they would fail faster.
Among the few people, he was the grandson of the elder of the Divine Sword Sect. Junior Brother Chen from Xinghe Jingchou has been watching coldly without saying a word. He was not worried about anything. Even if the army of Xinghe Jingchou will be destroyed by the entire army and everyone will be captured, he was not afraid. After all, he is from the Divine Sword Sect. His grandfather's elder is the elder of the Divine Sword Sect. He believed that Xiao Tianci would not have the courage to deal with him, but he was afraid that he would obediently send him back to the Divine Sword Sect. Therefore, Junior Brother Chen is a team sitting firmly on Diaoyutai, neither anxious nor panic, nor expressing any opinions.
"Can I not be anxious? How can my dignified prince of the Tianxing Kingdom be a prisoner? How can he be captured by Xiao Tianci, a lowly person." Xinghe Jingchou's face was ferocious and he shouted loudly: "No, you can think of a way, how to break through, think about it quickly."
"Your Highness, the last general has a solution, but..." At this time, a general of the central officer hesitated and spoke.
"What's the solution?" Xinghe Jingchou's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard his words, and he quickly grabbed his hands and asked.
"Your Highness, if you want to break through, you can take advantage of the chaos. You can let all the soldiers swarm in all directions and create chaos. At that time, a person of similar figure to you, will be arranged to put on your battle robe and ride your horse to attract the attention of the enemy. Your Highness, you will change into the clothes of ordinary soldiers and mix in the crowd, following the large army, and I believe it will not be difficult to rush out with our skills." The general of the sergeant explained: "But if you break through this method, you may be completely destroyed by the time we will be left with very few."
"Okay, that's it. As for those soldiers, I can't take care of so many. As long as I can escape, they will be buried with me at that time." Xinghe Jingchou hesitated for a while, and gritted his teeth and said fiercely.
Soon the General of the Central Army organized all the remaining soldiers and asked the Fire Head Army to prepare a sumptuous meal to let the soldiers eat and drink. After all, this might be their last dinner. When these people were well prepared, they waited until the time when the people were most tired in the early morning, the remaining 200,000 coalition forces began to act. They rushed down from all directions on the hillside, like a tide, densely packed and continuous.
Among the crowd, Xinghe Jingchou and his junior brother surnamed Chen were wearing soldier clothes, with some dust on his face, covering up his original appearance. They held the long swords in their hands tightly and followed the soldiers in front to the outside of the encirclement arranged by Xiao Tianci.
These two people were originally powerful, and they chose the direction of breaking through in the darkest place. After several clean and neat moves, they easily killed all the soldiers blocking them.
"Go away." Seeing the soldiers under his command rushing towards the entire hole they broke, Xinghe Jingchou quickly pulled Junior Brother Chen. The two of them accelerated their speed again, rushed out like a flying, and finally disappeared into the vast darkness.
On this side, when Xiao Tianci found that all the enemy troops broke down like crazy, he shouted in secret that he was not good. He immediately realized the intention of Prince Jingchou. He must have wanted to escape in the chaos. After all, with so many people fighting, he would definitely not be able to stop him. It is normal for some people to be taken out.
Xiao Tianci didn't want to fire the Prince Jingchou like this, so he rode his horse and rushed directly to the place where the battle was fought. In the dark night, he looked around the battlefield. Finally, he finally found the Xinghe Jingchou riding on the war horse and wearing silver-white armor in the crowd.
Xiao Tianci sneered, slammed the horse and rushed over, and a silver spear in his hand was snatched, and the silver spear streaked through the space and appeared directly in front of Xinghe Jingchou with a sharp tearing sound. However, Xinghe Jingchou was extremely strange and he was just there in a daze, without even blocking it. Finally, Xiao Tianci's silver spear was directly drunk.
Xiao Tianci was shocked and frowned and frowned, landed on the place where Xinghe Jingchou fell off the horse's back. He used a spear to lift the helmet on his head and looked at it. Only then did he realize that this person was not Xinghe Jingchou at all, but an ordinary soldier.
"Damn it!" Xiao Tianci realized that he had been fooled. He was so angry that he picked up the man's body and threw him away.
Standing in the crowd, Xiao Tianci raised his head and looked at the people fighting around him coldly, but could no longer see any abnormalities. It seemed that he had miscalculated this time, so that Prince Jingchou, who escaped in the chaos.
Half an hour later, the battle gradually came to an end, and the people fighting on both sides suffered great losses. Although the teams under Xiao Tianci were all highly morale and strong in combat, the soldiers of the coalition also wanted to break through the siege and escape. Therefore, from the beginning of the battle, both sides fought with their lives. In the end, with the outbreak of several super generals on Xiao Tianci's side, the confidence of these coalition soldiers to escape was completely shattered. In the end, the remaining more than 100,000 people finally put down their weapons and chose to surrender.
This battle can be said to be corpses everywhere and blood flows into a river. On this small hillside, it can be said that it has been completely dyed red by the blood flowing out of the soldiers killed on both sides. The piled up corpses are several meters high. Xiao Tianci's 200,000 troops survived in the end. This battle caused him to lose more than 100,000 people, which can be said to be the battle that Xiao Tianci has lost the most since he became the lord. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!