Volume 10 Chapter 264

Chapter 264

What a bullshit defection, it's just a pretense to surrender. Read the full text. Tang Yin sneered in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He praised: "General Gu is indeed a man of great reason. Your decision at this time is a blessing for more than 200,000 brothers in the Zhen Army!"

Hearing Tang Yin's praise, Gu Anmin's old face still blushed and he lowered his head in shame. The Zhen Kingdom has always advocated loyalty and righteousness, but he turned his back on the enemy. Although there was the factor of the king's treason, Gu Anmin still felt very uncomfortable and felt ashamed.

No matter how ashamed Gu Anmin was, he finally made the decision to defect. His decision shocked the Zhen Army, but people were secretly glad from the bottom of their hearts.

No one is really not afraid of death. The courage of the Zhen army is also directly related to its cruel military rules and discipline. Now that their commander has ordered surrender, they have no worries. If there is a problem in the future, the commander will naturally fight.

More than 200,000 Zhen troops gave up resistance, which saved the Fengyu coalition a lot of losses.

In fact, just as Gu Anmin said, if he really led his subordinates to fight the Fengyu coalition desperately, the Zhen army might die in the end, but the casualties of the Fengyu coalition were also immeasurable.

Hearing the news that the Zhen army had surrendered, Yue Ze and Li Xin hurried to find Tang Yin. After meeting, the two couldn't wait to ask Tang Yin what was going on.

It was incredible in their hearts that the Zhen Central Army would surrender.

Tang Yin did not hide it and roughly recounted how he persuaded Gu Anmin to surrender.

After hearing this, Yue Ze and Li Xin suddenly realized and said, "It turns out that the Zhen army did not surrender, but was deceived by the brother of the Tang king. They wanted to follow us to overthrow Li Hong. It was extremely stupid!"

You two are not very smart, otherwise how could you be beaten so badly by Gu Anmin? !

Tang Yin snorted in his heart, but he was still serious on the surface. He said seriously, "The two brothers must not mention the division of the Zhen Kingdom to Gu Anmin now. Once he knows, he will definitely be our enemy again."

Yue Ze and Li Xin thought about it, nodded, and replied, "What the brother of the Tang king said makes sense!" Since being rescued by Tang Yin, Yue Ze and Li Xin's attitude towards him can be said to have taken a 180-degree turn, and even felt that Tang Yin was more worthy of making friends than Xiao Xuan.

The national strength of Feng State is certainly not as strong as that of Chuan State, but at the critical moment of life and death, Tang Yin was able to arrive in time, while Xiao Xuan did not care. From the perspective of personality, Tang Yin is much more reliable than Xiao Xuan.

It was also because of this incident that Yue Ze and Li Xin's impression of Tang Yin changed greatly, and they also wanted to get closer to him. Now they both obeyed Tang Yin's words and followed his lead.

Tang Yin was not a wooden man, of course he could feel the change in their attitude towards him. He did not want to miss this great opportunity to divide the core position of Sichuan State, so he treated Yue Ze and Li Xin more politely, without the slightest attitude of a lifesaver.

Although he did not say a word about assisting the An-Huan coalition, every time he talked about it, he would deliberately downplay the role of the Feng-Yu coalition, and instead highlight the bravery of the An-Huan coalition in the battle.

This naturally made Yue and Li feel very touched, and they were more grateful to Tang Yin for his understanding.

Now, Yue Ze, Li Xin and Tang Yin have become closer and closer, which is also an unexpected change for Xiao Xuan.

Li Xin rolled his eyes and suggested to Tang Yin: "Brother Tang, I always feel that leaving Gu Anmin behind is a hidden danger. Should we get rid of him..." As he spoke, his palm made a horizontal motion in the air, meaning to get rid of Gu Anmin.

Tang Yin nodded with a smile and said: "In fact, I also had this idea, but later I thought about it carefully and felt it was a pity. Now it is still useful to keep Gu Anmin. He is determined to pull Li Hong off the throne and push the crown prince Li Dan to succeed him. Why don't we use Gu Anmin's reputation and status in the court of Zhen State to attract more Zhen troops to defect to our side. In this way, our advancement to Xitang will be twice as effective with half the effort, and it can also greatly reduce the casualties of our soldiers."

Ah! Yue Ze and Li Xin felt enlightened when they heard this. No wonder the Fengyu coalition was able to win successive victories in Zhen State. It was not only because of the bravery of the Feng Army, but also because of Tang Yin's foresight.

The two of them admired him from the bottom of their hearts and said in unison: "Let's follow the opinion of the brother of the Tang king!"

After the more than 200,000 Zhen troops led by Gu Anmin defected, they were not disarmed, nor were they incorporated or imprisoned by the Feng, Yu, An, and Huan coalition forces. Instead, they continued to fight with the original organization, but the target of the battle had changed from the six-nation coalition forces to the forces loyal to Li Hong.

With Gu Anmin's defection, Yue Ze and Li Xin suddenly found that fighting with Tang Yin did not seem as terrible as they imagined. The two discussed privately and decided not to stay in the rear to do logistics, but to fight side by side with the Feng Yu coalition forces.

If the two of them had made such a request before, Tang Yin would have suspected that the two had ulterior motives and would not have kept the An and Huan armies around him to get in the way, but now he wanted to win them over, so he followed the intentions of Yue Ze and Li Xin and agreed to their request.

Now Tang Yin's side has become a five-nation coalition, with Feng Army, An Army, Huan Army, Yu Army and the Zhen Army that had just defected. Such a weird and deformed combination can really be called incredible.

Even Lingshuang had to admire Tang Yin. Perhaps only he could bring so many enemy and friendly armies together for his own use.

The total strength of the five-nation coalition forces was close to one million, and logistics supply was a big problem. However, in the battle with the Zhen army, the An-Huan coalition suffered heavy casualties and needed to replenish troops. It was just right to use the new recruits from the country to escort the supplies.

As Tang Yin had expected before, with Gu Anmin as a living signboard on his side, the coalition's advancement was indeed more effective. After the five-nation coalition entered Guping County, it took little effort to occupy the entire territory of Guping County.

First, the number of defenders in Guping County was indeed limited, and the city defense was vulnerable. Second, Gu Anmin's persuasion played a crucial role.

For Zhenren, even if the Fengyu coalition army talked a lot, they were the enemy after all, and people rejected them from the bottom of their hearts. However, Gu Anmin was different. He was a dignified general and a hereditary noble Marquis of Guoxing. He accused Li Hong of treason and self-destruction in front of Zhenren, which not only did not arouse Zhenren's disgust, but also made Zhenren feel that what he said made sense. Although it was unpleasant to hear, it was also a good advice.

The reason why Gu Anmin strongly persuaded Zhenren to change sides was actually more or less to make up for his guilt. If only he changed sides, he would undoubtedly be a criminal of Zhenguo who was condemned by thousands of people. But if everyone changed sides and opposed Li Hong, then what he did was to follow the will of the people and was a just act of abandoning darkness and joining light. Not only was he not a criminal of Zhenguo, but he would also be a meritorious official of Zhenguo.

Tang Yin's progress was smooth. After taking Guping County, he would immediately advance to Xiangshan County and Longhu County. As long as he took these two counties, he could go straight to Xitang.

On the other side, the Chuan-Mo coalition took great pains to conquer Xinfeng County. After continuing to advance westward and entering Shima County, the Chuan-Mo coalition encountered a strong enemy, the second batch of the Zhen State Central Army that came from Xitang, led by General Tian Huaiyu, 400,000 Zhen Army.

The two sides fought a decisive battle in the Jitou Mountain area of ​​Shima County. This was a head-on collision without any tricks. It was also the first encounter between the regular central armies after the split between Chuan and Zhen.

The Chuan-Mo coalition fought deep into the enemy country, so this battle could only succeed, not fail. Once defeated, the entire army would be in a desperate situation and die without a burial place.

The Zhen army hated the treacherous Chuan State and wanted to defeat the Chuan army on the battlefield to avenge Chuan's betrayal.

It can be said that during the battle, both sides used 120% of their strength, and both wanted to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop and win a complete victory.

The battle was extremely fierce. The Chuanmo coalition brought out all the large-scale attack weapons that could be used, which made up for the lack of combat power of the two armies to the greatest extent. The soldiers of the Zhen army also showed their bravery and good fighting skills. They almost completely ignored the large-scale weapons of the enemy and rushed forward desperately.

The two sides fell one row and I died one row. In the fierce battle, countless casualties were killed and wounded, especially in the central area where the two sides fought. Neither the Chuanmo coalition nor the Zhen army could move forward half a step. It was like a giant meat grinder. The bodies of the soldiers on both sides were piled up and piled up into a mountain. People climbed up with difficulty on the corpses, and then fell down with blood sprayed. The soldiers behind repeated the footsteps of their brothers in front countless times.

The battle lasted a whole day. The final ceasefire was not because of the heavy casualties on both sides, but because there were too many corpses in the center of the battlefield. So many that the soldiers on both sides had difficulty moving, so they were forced to withdraw their troops and cease fire.

During the truce, both sides sent out corpse collection teams to collect the bodies of their fallen soldiers. Both sides were busy all night just collecting the bodies.

When the next day dawned, the soldiers on both sides took up their positions, lined up their battle formations, and continued to fight head-on.

This was almost exactly the same as the scene of the previous day. It was a war of attrition in which you died 800 and I lost 1,000. Such a battle was a competition of will to see who could persist longer, but no matter who won or lost in the end, there would be no real winner.

At this point in the battle, both sides were in a dilemma, and the arrows were on the string. Even though they knew that there was no benefit in consuming more, no one could retreat.

It was not the two sides themselves who changed the situation of the war, but a local army of Zhen State that suddenly arrived. This local army had a small number of troops, only close to 50,000, but it was a fatal blow to the Sichuan-Mo coalition forces that were fighting hard.