Chapter 839

The North City was captured, and the South City where Yingbu was located was also in a state of chaos and impetuous people. The 20,000 defenders were already unable to resist the attack of more than 600,000 troops, but now they were defeated even faster.

Soon, Feng Jun was forced off the city wall and retreated into the city. The Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces took advantage of the situation to attack the city and chased Feng Jun behind him. The difference in military strength between the two sides was too great. No matter how strong the fighting power of the Baguan garrison was, if one could fight ten, they could not stop the more than 700,000 enemy troops in front and behind. The offensive battle ended with the defeat of the Feng army, and what followed was an even bloody street battle. . Yingbu led a group of elite soldiers under his command and wandered around Baguan City. When they encountered small groups of enemy troops, they rushed to kill them. When they encountered large groups of enemy troops, they ran away, causing considerable casualties to the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces. .

However, as more and more Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces entered the city, Yingbu's room for maneuver became smaller and smaller. In the end, the number of soldiers around him was reduced to a few hundred, and he was trapped in a house by tens of thousands of enemy troops. middle. Yingbu would rather die than surrender and defended the house. There were only a few hundred of them, but they fought back several attacks by tens of thousands of enemy troops. Finally, the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces became anxious and used fire attack and a big fire to set the house on fire. Yingbu, the general of the Feng Kingdom, and all his soldiers were killed in the sea of ​​​​fire.

This fire seemed to be the prelude to the Sichuan-Zhenzhen coalition's arms attack. The Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces locked all the Feng Army soldiers who were infected with the plague in their barracks, and then the soldiers of the two armies began to add dry firewood around the barracks and set them on fire. Unfortunately, the more than 30,000 Feng Army soldiers did not die from the plague virus. All were burned alive.

The fire started out of control and spread in all directions. The Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces did not want to control it at all, and set fires everywhere. At noon that day, Baguan, the southern gateway of Feng Kingdom, known as the natural danger, was engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

The order to set Ba Pass on fire was not given by Nie Ze, but by Ren Fang's military order.

Let Fang do this because he has his own ideas. In his opinion, plague tactics are too inhumane. Now, the plague is spreading in Baguan City. If it is ignored, who knows whether it will spread to the people of Feng and Mo. Once the plague spreads among the people, , then one's own sin is too great.

No plague can stop the fire. Burning it out will eliminate future troubles forever. At the same time, the evidence will be destroyed, so as not to bring shame to your country and monarch.

In addition, he has a deeper intention. He is now unable to divide his troops to garrison Ba Pass. He is very worried that Ba Pass will be seized by Mo State and become the northern natural danger of Mo State. After his own side destroys the wind, the next target of annexation is likely to be Mo State. country, so Baguan must not fall into the hands of Mo State. Burning down Baguan would be equivalent to dispelling his worries on this level.

The Battle of Baguan can be said to be the worst battle that Tang Yin fought since he became the Wind King, and he also suffered the most miserable defeat. Not only did Yingbu and the 70,000 Baguan garrison be wiped out, he was removed from the Feng Army, and even Baguan was eliminated. Guan was also completely burned by the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces, leaving only two bare and scarred walls.

The defeat of Baguan also made the ambitious Feng Kingdom once again taste the bitterness of the enemy's invasion of its homeland.

After burning Baguan, the Sichuan-Zhen coalition took a short rest and then headed north to pursue the main force of the Feng army.

Let us say that the 200,000 Zhenjun led by Li Cheng launched a rapid march towards Chongcheng. This 200,000-strong army marched almost non-stop, day and night, and its speed was so fast that it was no slower than a normal cavalry march. On the way, Sergeant Youzhen was so tired that he couldn't run anymore. He fainted and fell to the ground while running.

No one paid attention to them. The people dragged the unconscious soldiers to the roadside and continued marching. In Zhenjun, there is no concept of killing those who do not save them. If you stay to take care of the unconscious wounded, you may be disconnected from the main force, and the result will be a dead end. Therefore, people can only grit their teeth and persevere. No matter how hard and tiring it is, their legs are about to break, they still have to keep up with the main force.

The generals in the Zhen army rode war horses back and forth among the crowd, shouting constantly to encourage their soldiers. Their slogans did not have any high-sounding words, and they were very practical.

"Run! Don't let anyone fall behind. Those who fall behind will only have to wait to be killed by the wind!"

"If we can't rush to the city within two days, we will starve to death. If you don't want to die, run as fast as you can! Fast, fast, fast!"

The difference between the Feng and Zhen armies can also be seen from the speeches of the generals of the Zhen army. The Feng army's retreat was just a retreat, while the Zhen army's urgent march was a march for survival. Under the desire for survival, people can often burst out their own potential.

It is hard to imagine that the 200,000 Zhen Army ran all the way from Shangxing Mountain to Chongcheng in only two days, which was a full day earlier than the Feng Army who took a shortcut.

Chongcheng was completely unprepared for the sudden attack of the Zhen army. People never dreamed that the enemy troops would appear under Chongcheng.

When the Zhen army was less than one mile away from charging the city, the city gate was still wide open, and the people and caravans were still coming in and out as usual. It was peaceful. The officers and soldiers on the top of the city noticed this army rushing towards them. However, because the Zhenjun did not raise a flag, they did not regard the Zhenjun as an enemy army. They only regarded the Zhenjun as their own army retreating back.

Seeing an opportunity, Li Cheng, the leader of the Zhen army, sent the order and the whole army advanced at full speed and rushed into the city at one go.

The Zhen Army led by Li Cheng hardly encountered any obstruction and rushed to the city gate in one breath. The Zhen Army soldiers waved their weapons and slashed and killed crazily, regardless of whether the people in front were civilians or officers and soldiers.

At this moment, there was chaos at the city gate, and the officers and soldiers on the top of the city finally realized that it was not their own army, but the enemy army. People sounded the alarm and wanted to raise the drawbridge and close the city gate, but it was too late.

Countless Zhen army soldiers swarmed into the city. Seeing such a prosperous city, they were like locusts seeing crops. Their eyes were shining blue. They chopped people and robbed things. When they saw snacks on the street, the hungry Zhen army rushed up to a large group of people and stuffed the food into their mouths.

At this time, the whole Chongcheng fell into chaos. There were fleeing people everywhere, and Zhen soldiers were chasing unarmed people everywhere. For a time, the prosperous Chongcheng became a lawless slaughterhouse for the Zhen army.

When Yu Hao, the lord of Chongcheng, heard that the enemy had entered the city, he immediately summoned the defenders in the city and personally went to the battlefield to meet the enemy.

As a result, their Feng army ran into the Zhen army that suddenly attacked on the main street of Chongcheng, and the two sides fought a life-and-death battle in the city.

In a hurry to fight, Yu Hao only summoned more than a thousand local troops. How could he resist the beast-like Zhen army?

Zheng Guo General Gao Jun took the lead and rushed into the crowd of Feng army, slashing left and right, and screamed wherever he passed. He forced a bloody path and killed Yu Hao in front of him. With a knife in his hand, he knocked Yu Hao off his horse with just one move.

He originally used the Flying Dragon Thunder Axe, but in the battle with Jiang Fan, the axe was taken away by Jiang Fan. Now he has no weapon that suits him, so he can only use a knife instead. But even with a knife, Gao Jun's force was not weakened much, and he was not comparable to the civil official Yu Hao.

As Yu Hao was killed, the Feng army was defeated and chased by the Zhen army all the way. People had no way to go up to the sky or enter the earth. In the end, few people really escaped.

The Feng Kingdom's defenders were so vulnerable that the Zhen Army became even crazier and more unscrupulous. Two hundred thousand Zhen Army soldiers ran all over the streets. As long as they saw pedestrians on the street, they would kill them regardless of gender, age or status.

The military discipline of the Feng Army was already loose enough, and the military discipline of the Zhen Army was even more corrupted. They took the three words of beating, smashing and looting to the extreme. When there was no one on the street, the people were scared and huddled at home, and the Zhen Army's crazy looting began.

No shop in the city was spared. Even if the shop was closed, the Zhen Army would break in. They would not let go of gold, silver, jewelry, silk clothes, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and even rouge and powder used by women. They would take everything they could.

This was no longer a regular army of a country, but a robber who was more barbaric than a robber.

When Li Cheng ordered the whole army to gather on the main street, every soldier of the Zhen army had a bulging waist filled with valuables. Many people robbed too much, and strings of pearl necklaces emerged from the gaps in their breastplates.

Li Cheng didn't care about his subordinates' behavior at all. The soldiers worked hard for him, and he didn't have much military pay to give his subordinates, so it was normal for his subordinates to rob what they liked on the battlefield. This was also Li Cheng's consistent principle and concept of military management.

He looked up at the sun above his head, calculated the time, and then said to the generals around him: "The whole army will rest for two hours in Chongcheng! After two hours, come back here to gather! Remember, don't let the brothers just focus on robbing things, get more rations, it's not certain whether we can grab the next meal!"

"Understood, General!" The generals of the Zhen army bowed their hands and accepted the order.

The two hours of rest for the Zhen army were a real disaster for the people in Chongcheng. The 200,000 Zhen troops were in full swing, scattered throughout the city, and broke into the homes of the people. They took away valuables, killed men, and dragged women into their houses.

The once bustling Chongcheng was devastated by the Zhen troops, and people cried and screamed.

The Zhen troops had lax military discipline, but they were highly obedient to the orders of their superiors. Two hours later, none of the 200,000 people dared to be late, and all of them gathered on the main street of Chongcheng.

The corps commanders and centurions of each corps did not call out their names at all. When all the corps were assembled, Li Cheng gave an order and the entire army left Chongcheng and headed straight for the next target - Fangcheng.

The Zhen troops came quickly and left even faster, like a whirlwind, and ran out of Chongcheng in the blink of an eye and headed north.

The Zhen army left, but the damage they left to Chongcheng would take a long time to heal. In less than three hours, almost every household in Chongcheng was filled with cries, and almost every family had someone die under the swords of the Zhen army...