751 Famous in One Battle (1/2)
Chapter 751 - Famous in One Battle
Yan Liang chose two scapegoats to continue defending Xuanwu Pass while the army quietly retreated towards Weiwu Pass. Under the heavy cannon fire, Xuanwu Pass was devoid of all forms of life and was filled with death.
The unusual situation with the Alliance Army was quickly noticed by the 2nd legion.
”General, the situation is not right, is the enemy falling back?”
Zhang Han also had such doubts, thinking about it, he ordered decisively, ”Shoot the city gates and get ready to enter!”
”Yes commander!”
Amongst the rumbling of the cannons, the city gates broke apart.
The army was like a black flood as they swarmed into Xuanwu Pass, but only five thousand defending soldiers met them.
These two scapegoats lacked courage and righteousness. When they saw the enemy fight into the pass, they cleanly chose to surrender. They answered all the questions of Zhang Han willingly.
After learning that the main force of the Alliance Army had already retreated, Zhang Han immediately ordered, ”Chen Yucheng!”
”Present!”
A young general answered and stepped out; this was one of the two great cavalry generals of the Taiping Country - Chen Yucheng.
Chen Yucheng was fearless in battle; and his comprehension ability was extremely high, obtaining the trust and recognition of Zhang Han. This general had grown into a pillar of the 2nd legion.
Ouyang Shuo had instructed long ago that be it Chen Yucheng or Li Xiucheng who was under the charge of Di Qing, the various legion generals needed to focus on developing these kids with potential and help grow them into true talents.
Especially generals such as Li Xiucheng, who was born in the Qing Dynasty, and Chen Yucheng from the Taiping Country. They were familiar with firearms and were the best choices for leading the future firearm forces.
”I order you to lead five thousand cavalry and chase them. Remember this: do not be greedy for credit. Before you reach Weiwu Pass, immediately stop.” Zhang Han ordered.
”Yes commander!”
Chen Yucheng cupped his fists and went to follow the order.
After a short while, five thousand elite cavalry charged out of Xuanwu Pass and chased after the enemy.
Zhang Han led his troops to take over Xuanwu Pass and take charge of the fallen soldiers and clean up the battlefield. At the same time, he needed to write the battle map to the Leopard Legion Corps Marshal Han Xin and wait for orders regarding the next course of action to take.
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Chen Yucheng led the troops to chase. Just as he entered the middle portion, he found the retreating Alliance Army.
”Kill!”
Chen Yucheng did not hesitate at all and directly charged toward them.
Between the two passes, there was only a narrow connecting mountain pass. This narrow path and was only three to four meters wide, so the 40 thousand Alliance Army troops formed a long dragon. The front troops had entered the Wuwei Pass while the back troops were still halfway there.
Facing the attacks of Zhang Han's forces from behind, Yan Liang was prepared.
Apart from the five thousand soldiers that were left back at the Xuanwu Pass, Yan Liang arranged forces to be in charge of defending the backlines. However, he had made one mistake; he had underestimated the decisiveness of Zhang Han.
The moment he noticed that the situation was not right, Zhang Han immediately ordered troops to enter the pass. Furthermore, when he received the intel that the enemy had backed off, he arranged an elite cavalry force to chase them.
With that, he had caught the back troops totally off guard.
On the narrow mountain path, the sword-shield soldiers in charge of covering their retreat were stabbed into by the cavalry Chen Yucheng that led before they could even form up.
If someone looked down from the skies, they would see the five thousand elite cavalry act like a sharp arrow stabbing right into the enemy lineup. Then, they were like a skewer stabbing through meat, penetrating all the way through.
The cavalry passed anything they charged through, be it sword-shield soldiers or spearmen. They were either crushed to death or pierced through by the spears of the cavalry. Even more of them were pushed off the mountain path and down the valley.
The situation was complete chaos.
Chen Yucheng was extremely smart, and he did not intend to kill all the enemies. His mind was only filled with one thought – to charge, charge and charge; he aimed to split the enemy troops apart and crush their mental strength.
On the narrow mountain path, the field of sight seemed really small.
The troops at the back felt terrified when they faced such a charge by the cavalry. They totally did not know how many enemy troops there were, and they were only occupied with running to the front.
”Run, the enemy is here!”
The soldiers threw down the heavy resources and items that they were carrying and squeezed forwards like rabbits.
”How many are there?” The sergeant asked.
Another soldier replied, ”At least five thousand!”
”What, five thousand? At least ten thousand!” Another one retorted.
The sergeant's face turned ashen white from fear as he threw down the stuff that he was carrying and tried to escape as well.
The soldiers were like a group of terrified rabbits as they hobbled forward.
Their emotions were like dominos as the fear spread toward the front.
During this entire process, the enemy numbers they reported seemingly snowballed. First, it was five thousand, then ten thousand, and then 20 thousand. At the very end, the numbers had reached 100 thousand.
”100 thousand? The enemy legion only has 70 thousand men, where did 100 thousand come from?” The sergeant felt doubtful.
Another soldier once again said confidently, ”You do not know this, but the enemy sent more than one legion.”
”Brother your words make sense.”
When the sergeant heard these words, he did not care whether or not the words made sense. In fact, he just wanted to quickly escape into Weiwu Pass.
The troops that had not entered the Weiwu Pass were in chaos. During this period of time, stepping on comrades, brother betraying brother, and similar incidents were numerous. Solely soldiers being stepped on by their own men numbered no less than 500.
At this point, Yan Liang who had entered the pass realized that the situation was not right, ”What's happening?”
”General, the enemy has chased over.” the deputy general replied.
”How many people came? Why have you all panicked?”
”100 thousand!”
The deputy general stammered; it was obvious that he was uncertain, and he did not know whether he should trust this intel. The problem was that all the soldiers who escaped into the pass all claimed that the enemy numbered 100 thousand.
Each of them swore on their lives, and they looked really honest about it.
Such sincerity; if their officer said they did not trust them, the soldiers would reply that they would rather just jump down the city wall to prove their innocence.