106 Massacre on the hillside (2/2)
Maybe the enemy retreated for some reason.
Just as such thoughts were entering the minds of those who were running, everyone began smelling oil but before they could see where it was coming from, a huge explosion occurred from below the ground.
Boom!
In a single explosion which filled the surroundings with a lot of smoke and dust, the generals despite not being able to see through it guessed that they had lost around 6,000 men.
6,000 men from a single attack!
What made it worse was that no one could see or guess where the next explosion would occur at.
After all, the explosions seemed to be coming from under the ground. And the previous scent of oil had most likely appeared due to the explosion about to go off.
”Everyone! Run to the cliff!”
Along with Tao Xiang's shout, an explosion sounded not too far behind him which other than killing around 5,000 more soldiers, destroyed the hopes of running up the mountain and escaping from the hidden explosives.
”Come and fight head-on you cowards from the Bai Kingdom!”
”Don't you have any honour?!”
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Ignoring all screams of mercy, and curses which tried to bait the enemy into fighting them head-on, more and more explosions happened by the second which kept on killing a lot of soldiers.
In the span of less than a few minutes, a part of the mountain was covered in flames and screams of death, along with the burnt up corpses of all the dead soldiers.
If it continued like this, it wouldn't be long before all of them were covered in flames and turned into ashes.
Realizing this, the generals decided that one way or the other they had to get away from this spot which seemed to be covered in explosions.
”EVERYONE! CHARGE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN WITH ME!!!”
Taking the lead since he didn't want to die, Tao Xiang began charging through the flames and inspired the other soldiers to follow him.
Right behind Tao Xiang who was the strongest among the generals, and had the highest status, the other generals also leapt which made the other soldiers even more confident and followed.
Still, the damage that needed to be done, had already been done.
Out of the 400,000 soldiers who got caught in the multiple massive explosions, less than 40% of them managed to come out alive.
And even in them, many were injured and not in any situation to fight.
Therefore, seeing the huge army of 250,000 men looking at them with greedy wolf-like smiles, not a single one had any hopes of winning. Or, even thoughts of fighting and throwing their lives away for nothing.
Even before any of the generals could give any order, the soldiers themselves took the initiative to disarm themselves and shout out words of surrender.
Unfortunately, even if all 400,000 of them had chosen to surrender, Bai Long wouldn't have accepted it.
So why would he bother just cause a little more than 150,000 soldiers wanted to surrender?
”Kill!!!”