396 Leizhou Ruler (1/2)
However, this confidence did not last for long.
In less than half an hour, a messenger ran over in a panic. His face was ashen white, as he said, ”General, it’s bad. The enemy reinforcements are in the city!”
”What?”
Caogui freaked out; his body trembled, and he nearly lost his footing.
He instantly dashed up and grabbed the collar of the messenger. He scolded, ”Bullsh*t. The city gate has two thousand troops defending it, how could it fall so fast? I’ll kill you for faking military intel!” As he spoke, he wanted to pull out the sword at his waist.
Caogui’s actions left the poor messenger petrified. His neck was restrained, so he could not breathe. He felt a shiver run down his spine; this time, he was dead.
”General, general!”
Luckily, a guard rushed over and saved the messenger.
These words alerted Caogui, and he came to his senses. He tried to calm himself down. With a slightly shivering voice, he asked, ”How was the city gate broken?”
The messenger took two quick gulps of air, and his red face slowly returned to normal. He looked guiltily at Caogui. Then, he carefully said, ”The enemy hid a small force that the defence force could not adapt to. Under the attack of both forces, inside and outside, the gate quickly fell.”
The one that hid inside the city were naturally Zhaoyan and the five hundred elites.
Last night, Zhaoyan had led his troops to infiltrate the civilians near the city gate. The moment Luo Shixin's forces arrived, they immediately charged out.
”Hidden troops?”
Caogui was really smart; he managed to figure out what had happened.
”We were careless!”
Caogui did not expect the enemy to still hide a unit in such a desperate situation. This battle, Caogui had lost; he had totally lost.
A huge sense of failure overwhelmed him; he felt like his soul had left his body.
”General, what should we do now?”
”How?” Caogui muttered.
After a long while, he finally managed to force out the words—let's surrender.
Caogui did not want the soldiers to die for nothing. Fighting on no longer held any meaning.
There was a moment of silence.
Like jumping from heaven and right into hell, this kind of feeling was really uncomfortable.
”Let's surrender!”
Caogui repeated his words once more. This time, his tone was a lot more resolute.
_Lord, I've failed you._
In his eyes, a desire for death flashed out.
The rumbling of horses sounded out on the streets. It was a total nightmare for the alliance army that were attacking.
The iron cavalry charged in from afar, knocking people from the back and sending them flying forward.
In just a moment, the alliance army suffered heavy casualties.
Luckily. this nightmare arrived fast and ended fast too.
In less than ten minutes, white flags hung from the city wall. The alliance army soldiers immediately threw down the weapons in their hand. They were afraid of being slaughtered by accident.
Compared to the sad and terrible state of the alliance army, the south side troops were naturally celebrating.
They had accomplished it. They had held on under the attacks of fifty thousand men.
As expected of the 1st division of the Tiger Legion.
After celebrating, a huge sense of tiredness and lethargy overcame them. In order to prevent night assaults from the enemy, the soldiers had not experience a good night sleep for a full two days.
Some of them did not care about the blood and gore on the battlefield. They just directly fell asleep.
The soldiers used the corpses on the battlefield as pillows.
When Luo Shixin led his troops and arrived, this weird scene greeted him.
As the alliance army had surrendered, the battle of Tanmu County ended in Shanhai City’s complete victory.
Fan Lihua stood on the broken battlefield; her face lacked even a tinge of happiness.
This victory was simply too hard fought.
During this battle, the 1st division of the Tiger Legion had lost three thousand soldiers, including one colonel and six majors. If you added in the injured, they had a casualty count of close to a third.
This was the first time since the formation of the Shanhai City army that a colonel died.
The list was heavy.
The dead colonel was the 1st division cavalry regiment colonel, Li Mingliang.
Li Mingliang was also a long serving general. Since the establishment of Shanhai Village, Ouyang Shuo had utillized him, all the way from sergeant to captain to major, and now, to colonel.
No one expected him to fall in the battle of Tanmu County.
The atmosphere of the battlefield was really depressing.
When she saw the situation, Luo Shixin led the troops to lock up the prisoners.
Of the fifty thousand alliance army men, only thirty thousand were left. Amongst them, some were injured and needed to retire. In the final parts of the battle, the monitoring squad had executed thousands.