Episode 10 Chapter 461
Chapter 461
In fact, the Mo Kingdom envoy did not expect that Feng Wang Tang Yin had already crossed Zhenjiang and was in the navy camp in Jiangnan. -
It turned out that they had been fighting with the Feng Kingdom elite led by Feng Wang. No wonder the Zhenjiang Navy Camp was indestructible and their 200,000 troops could not do anything about it.
The Mo Kingdom envoy was very excited to get the promise from Feng Wang directly. He nodded and agreed, then left the Zhenjiang Navy Camp and returned to his temporary camp.
Hearing the envoy's report, Feng Wang Tang Yin was in the Zhenjiang Navy Camp, and he gladly accepted his defection and promised to use him in the future. Li Jin and Zhang Rong were ecstatic.
After confirming that his family had been safely transferred by Feng Guo's spies, Li Jin had no more worries and led his 100,000 or so remnants to the Zhenjiang Navy Camp. The flags of the Mo Kingdom were thrown away by them, and the whole army changed to white flags.
When the army arrived in front of the Zhenjiang Navy camp, Li Jin and Zhang Rong were tied with ropes and pulled by a carriage with a small white flag, and went directly to the gate of the camp.
As soon as they arrived, the gate was opened and a large number of Feng Army soldiers rushed out. Li Jin and Zhang Rong were supported by their subordinates and quickly got off the carriage. Then, they both knelt on the ground, with a completely guilty attitude.
Not long after, Tang Yin walked out of the camp surrounded by many Feng generals. Seeing Zhang and Li kneeling on the ground, he walked forward slowly, lowered his head and looked at the two for a moment, then smiled, stretched out his hand, and helped them up one by one.
"General Li and Lord Zhang can take the initiative to surrender, which is a blessing for our Feng country. Please stand up quickly!" As he spoke, Tang Yin turned his head and shouted: "Come on, untie General Li and Lord Zhang!"
As he spoke, Ah San and Ah Si stepped forward and untied the ropes for Li Jin and Zhang Rong respectively. In the past, Feng and Mo had a close relationship and often visited each other. Tang Yin was familiar with Zhang and Li, and the latter was naturally familiar with Tang Yin.
After the ropes on their bodies were untied, they knelt on the ground again, squeezed out a few tears without tears, and said with a trembling voice: "The guilty ministers Li Jin and Zhang Rong are ashamed to see His Majesty the King of Feng..."
As they spoke, the two of them lay on the ground and cried.
Tang Yin helped them up again, smiling and said: "It is inevitable that the masters of the army confronted each other on the battlefield. What crime did General Li and Lord Zhang commit? Get up quickly!"
"The guilty ministers, thank His Majesty the King of Feng for not blaming you!" After Li Jin and Zhang Rong stood up, they handed their respective general seals and imperial seals to Tang Yin in a proper manner, and at the same time told the attendants around them to go back and pass the order, asking all the soldiers to lay down their weapons and accept the surrender of the Feng army.
Li Jin and Zhang Rong surrendered sincerely. The soldiers under their command had long been disheartened and had no fighting spirit. The surrender went smoothly. The Mo army of more than 100,000 people took the initiative to surrender to the Feng army.
With the defection of Zhang and Li, the blow to the Mo Kingdom was too great. Now, the Mo court did not even dare to send troops to attack.
Li Jin was a general. The soldiers in the Mo army were originally his subordinates. If they were to send troops to go there at this time, they would probably be recruited by Li Jin to surrender to the Feng Kingdom before the battle.
The current war situation has become very interesting. The north and south banks of Zhenjiang are firmly controlled by the Feng army, while the river side of Zhenjiang is controlled by the Mo navy. The north and south banks of the Feng army are across the river, but they have no way to deal with the Mo navy.
However, the Mo navy cannot hold on for too long. Losing control of the two banks means that the Mo navy will lose the dock and cannot be supplied. The soldiers of the whole army cannot cruise the river without food and water every day.
As the Feng army extended its control over both sides of Zhenjiang, the Mo Kingdom navy had to retreat eastward, away from the capital. In this way, the Fengyu coalition could use rafts to cross the river openly and transport troops and supplies to the south bank.
After all, the navy must rely on the land for support. If it loses the support of the land, no matter how powerful the navy is, it will have no place to use its power. This is the case with the Mo Kingdom navy now.
The Fengyu coalition crossed Zhenjiang one after another, and then the army went straight to the capital of Mo.
At this time, the Mo capital Zhenjiang was already in turmoil, and a large number of people fled the capital every day to seek refuge elsewhere. Even the ministers in the court were persuading Shao Fang to give up Zhenjiang, move the capital to the south, and temporarily avoid the edge of the Fengyu coalition.
But Shao Fang insisted on not moving the capital, and did not want to leave Zhenjiang and flee to other places for refuge.
First, he could not be an exiled monarch with his character. Second, since the establishment of the Mo Kingdom, it has been the capital in Zhenjiang. If God really wants to destroy Mo, then he must let the Mo Kingdom perish in Zhenjiang. Where you are born, you will die!
Shao Fang refused to leave, and with him, all the officials in the court could not escape either. People could only bite the bullet and accompany Shao Fang to defend Zhenjiang.
But now the ministers of the Mo Kingdom have no hope of defending Zhenjiang. Forcing them to stay will only add to the panic and instability, and will be useless for defending Zhenjiang.
Especially after people saw that Li Jin and Zhang Rong defected to the Feng Kingdom, not only were they not punished by the King of Feng, but they were both reused. One was named a general and the other was named the Southeast Inspector, and the resistance in people's hearts became weaker.
It was under this situation of internal and external troubles that the last battle of the Mo Kingdom, the Battle of Zhenjiang, officially kicked off.
Now the Mo Kingdom has more than 400,000 troops stationed in Zhenjiang, including more than 100,000 cavalry, 100,000 capital guards, and 200,000 central troops.
As for the Fengyu coalition, the number of troops has increased to one million. Among them, the Feng army has more than 700,000, mainly the Pingyuan army, the direct army, the Feilong army, the Ninth army, and the Baizhan army. The Yu army has more than 300,000, most of which are central troops, and some are local troops temporarily transferred to help.
In terms of troops and combat power, the Fengyu coalition currently has an overwhelming advantage, and what is more disadvantageous to the Mo army is that the city defense of Zhenjiang is not stable.
The reason why the capital of the Mo Kingdom is known as a natural barrier is because Zhenjiang serves as a barrier. Now that Zhenjiang is gone, the capital is completely exposed, and the pitiful city defense seems too insignificant.
At this point in the battle, the Fengyu coalition is no longer in a hurry to attack the city, but first launched a psychological warfare tactic, and persuaded the defenders in the city to voluntarily abandon the city and surrender in the name of the emperor's edict.
At this time, the soldiers of the Mo army in Zhenjiang City had already been panicked and had no fighting spirit. The rumors of the country's demise could be heard every day. In addition to the propaganda of the Fengyu coalition outside the city, a large number of deserters climbed down the city wall almost every night and joined the Fengyu coalition.
The Fengyu coalition had only besieged the city for three days, and there were no less than 20,000 soldiers of the Mo army who defected. Zhenjiang is now trapped internally and externally, and its survival is only a matter of time.
In this situation, there are still generals who are loyal to Shao Fang and are willing to lead the troops to fight. The most active one among them is Xu Hua, the middle general of the Mo Kingdom.
He is an authentic military general, without any great talent or command ability, but he is strong in spiritual martial arts, brave and good at fighting, and is a good hand at charging into battle.
He proposed to Shao Fang that he was willing to lead the cavalry out of the city in person to fight a decisive battle with the Fengyu coalition. If they can win, it would be the best. If they cannot win, even if the whole army is annihilated and they die on the battlefield, they must show the majesty of the Mo Kingdom.
At this point, Xu Hua still dared to go out of the city to fight the enemy, and Shao Fang was deeply moved. He approved Xu Hua's request and personally climbed the city gate tower to cheer for the cavalry corps led by Xu Hua.
At this time, Shao Fang did not think that Xu Hua could turn the tide and defeat the Fengyu coalition, but Xu Hua's words touched his heart. Even if he had to die, he had to die with dignity. He could not sit and wait for death. He had to fight head-on to show the majesty of the Mo Kingdom.
The 100,000 Mo cavalrymen faced the Fengyu coalition of one million. The strength of the two sides was completely not at the same level.
For the Mo cavalry who took the initiative to go out of the city to fight, the Fengyu coalition did not shrink in the camp and defend. The Pingyuan Army, the Baizhan Army and the Ninth Army successively went out of the camp to fight.
The two sides deployed their troops and launched a large-scale confrontation in front of Zhenjiang City.
Cavalry has an advantage over infantry, but that is also relative. If the difference in the strength of the two sides is too great, the advantage of cavalry will disappear. Moreover, the Feng Army also had the Ninth Army to restrain the cavalry.
As the drums of both sides beat and the trumpets sounded, a fierce battle was about to break out. At this time, the cavalry led by Xu Hua really had a sense of tragedy and grandeur, as if the wind was whistling and the Yishui River was cold, and the warriors would never return once they left. Looking at the dense and endless battle formation of the Feng Army in front of them, the Mo cavalry led by Xu Hua not only did not retreat, but rushed straight forward, and launched a cavalry charge against the Feng Army.
Soon, the soldiers of both sides came into contact with each other, and in just an instant, the battlefield was filled with the sound of collisions. The galloping warhorses hit the shields of the infantry, and the infantry was crushed and smashed, and the cavalry was also thrown off their horses.
In an instant, the soldiers who came into direct contact with both sides fell down. The Feng Army used their flesh and blood to resist the charge of the Mo cavalry. Next, the shield soldiers retreated, and the spear soldiers pushed forward, stabbing the Mo cavalry in front of them with their spears.
The Mo cavalrymen were not to be outdone. They waved their swords and spears from their high positions and chopped down the soldiers of the Feng army below. The battle between the two sides was a life-and-death hand-to-hand fight from the very beginning, and shouts and screams spread throughout the battlefield.
When the Mo cavalrymen were completely entangled by the infantry of the Feng Kingdom and their mobility was reduced to the lowest, the heavy cavalrymen of the Feng Kingdom joined the battle.
After the heavy cavalrymen entered the battlefield, the situation of the two sides being evenly matched immediately changed.
The Mo cavalrymen could not stop the advance of the heavy cavalrymen at all. The latter was like a meat grinder when advancing. Although the speed was slow, it could strangle everything and tear everything apart. Groups of Mo cavalrymen fell under the hooves of the heavy cavalrymen.
Xu Hua was very brave and Lingwu was also very fierce, but how could two fists defeat four hands? Soon, he was entangled by several Feng generals and was in a dilemma. At this time, Qi Heng, holding the Nine-Turn Soul-Breaking Sword, rushed towards him at full speed.