473 Battle of Zhaoqing Ends (1/2)

Shanhai regaining control of Tianshuang County signified the upcoming end of the Battle of Zhaoqing.

The same day that they took down the county, Lin Yi led the 1st and 2nd regiments of the Guards Division to continued down south.

8th month, 25th day, the 2nd and 4th division of the Dragon Legion suddenly attacked from the east and west, blocking off the retreat path of the alliance army up north.

This course of action confused the alliance army, who were still locked in their arguments.

8th month, 26th day, Zhang Han led a temporarily established division to meet up with Baiqi. Baiqi immediately ordered the troops to rush up and surround Yun An County.

During that day, the alliance army tried many times to break out, but they were unsuccessful.

8th month, 27th day, Lin Yi led his troops and gathered up with the two divisions of the Dragon Legion.

The escape route up north for the alliance army was completely blocked.

8th month, 29th day, Sun Bin’s 2nd and 4th legion of the Tiger Legion rushed day and night to arrived on the battlefield a day earlier.

With that, they had gathered the Guards Division, two divisions from both the Dragon and Tiger legion, one from the Leopard Legion, one Garrison Division, and one temporarily formed division in Zhaoqing Prefecture. In total, they had eight divisions and 110 thousand people.

Meanwhile, they had trapped the 110 thousand alliance army troops inside Yun An with no reinforcements. Moreover, these troops did not have grain inside.

Surrender became the only choice of the alliance army.

Some of the members of South Alliance remained stubborn, and they refused to surrender even in death.

When Ouyang Shuo learned of the frontline news, he immediately ordered the Guards Division to coordinate with Luo Shixin's division to sweep the north of Zhaoqing and clear every territory.

The current north region of Zhaoqing Prefecture only had a small amounts of troops left in the territories.

In less than a week, they totally cleared the north out. Gaia teleported out the Lords of Zhaoqing Prefecture to the Quanzhou imperial City.

9th month, 5th day, Xiao He led a number of officials and teleported over to Wulong County to start running Zhaoqing Prefecture.

The last hope of reinforcements was destroyed, and South Alliance fell into despair. Yuan Ping and the others knew that there was no chance to escape, but they did not want to be kept as hostages. As a result, all of them committed suicide within the city and returned to their territories.

The moment they returned to the territory, the South Alliance members all announced that they were expanding their military to ten thousand men in preparation of the threat of Shanhai City. Yuan Ping also officially replaced Hefu as the alliance leader of South Alliance.

9th month, 10th day, the only Lord left, Hefu, led his forces out of the city to surrender. Along with him was the famous general, Di Qing, as well as one hundred thousand alliance army forces.

At this point, the Battle of Zhaoqing, which had lasted for one and a half months, officially ended.

Along with the end of the battle, Gaia removed the lock on the channels and the forums. All the rumors and news about the war instantly flew onto the forums.

Everyone knew that Shanhai City had once again obtained an important victory.

_9th month, 14th day, Wulong County._

Baiqi, Han Xin, and all the other generals left their troops and rushed to Wulong County to meet their Lord. Along with Baiqi and the generals were Song Wen, Hefu, and Di Qing.

Ouyang Shuo held a military and administrative meeting in Wulong County.

The people attending this meeting, apart from the generals, included Xiao He and the four directors.

In this battle, apart from the Tianshuang County city protection division that were wiped out, the other divisions had all suffered casualties. In total, the death count exceeded twenty thousand.

Of course, they also captured a sky high number of soldiers.

In the south region battle, they had captured forty thousand prisoners, which they formed into a temporary division under Zhang Han.

Outside Wulong County, of the fifty thousand Qu Yi forces, they captured thirty-five thousand.

Outside Genglou County, of the eighty thousand troops, they captured forty thousand.

Inside Tianshuang County, of the thirty thousand alliance army troops, they captured twenty thousand.

Of the one hundred thousand troops in Yun An County, all of them surrendered.

They needed to organize a total of two hundred thousand prisoners, much higher than the total number of troops in the Shanhai City Army.

How to organize and arrange such a huge army also posed great issues.

The Battle of Zhaoqing exposed the lacking numbers of the Shanhai City Army. Hence, Ouyang Shuo was determined to undergo a large-scale expansion.

Although reorganizing the troops laid in the scope of the Military Affairs Department, everyone knew that above them, the Lord made the decision.

Even Du Ruhui would not make a sound now and kept his his silent.

After Hefu surrendered, Ouyang Shuo started to set and plan the reorganization matters.

During this meeting, Ouyang Shuo officially tossed out his proposal.

First, they would disband the Tianshuang County city protection division, reassigning the two thousand remaining forces.

This decision also ended Song Wu's role as a major general.

The Tianshuang County city protection division was run too deeply by the Song Family. In this military group, many generals were members of the family. Even if they were his future-in-laws, he would not allow such a situation to occur.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to make use of this chance to completely remove this cancer.