Chapter 461 Destruction of the Country in Ten Days 4
The once rich and noble families left in a hurry to flee for their lives, but their mansions remained, and some of the mansions' underground treasure houses, etc., still survived. The Shang Kingdom's army did not destroy this place, but stayed behind to become bait. As a result, the people who returned to the capital went crazy!
When they were deported, they were penniless; now, of course, they are mad. Soon there were battles, and in the end, the emperor of Qi formed a war among the people in just one night! The weapons and armor left by the Shang Kingdom have become weapons in the hands of the common people to conquer each other!
This was the scene Qian Guangyao and others saw when they returned. It could no longer be described as a 'mess', it was simply appalling.
After arresting a few people and asking about the situation, Qian Guangyao sighed fiercely, "What a good Yan Zhengqing, you have mastered and manipulated people's hearts. First drive out the people, and then leave the wealth to make people happy." Looting, hey!
After such chaos, the people of Qi State could not organize any power at all.
It caused huge killings and destroyed the determination of the people to resist; and their only consumption was the wealth that once belonged to Qi State! There were heavy casualties among the people, yet the Kingdom of Shang was able to gain a good reputation of 'not killing common people and treating others generously'! "
Looking at the chaotic scene in front of him, Ma Zheng was at a loss for a while: "Marshal, shall we stabilize the imperial capital and cut off the retreat of the Shang Kingdom?"
Qian Guangyao pointed to the imperial capital ahead: "Do you think such a city is still necessary to be stable? Can such an imperial capital still serve as our rear?"
Many generals were silent.
"Select the most elite part of the army, speed up the pursuit to the west, and join forces with Qiu Wenming's army as soon as possible.
For the rest, disband on the spot... No, let them attack the army of Shang Kingdom! "
"Ah..." Ma Zheng suddenly reacted violently, "Marshal, take away the elite and let the remaining soldiers fight against the elite of the Shang Kingdom, there is no chance at all!"
"This is an order!" Qian Guangyao's tone was so sharp for the first time, "For the sake of the overall situation and for the country of Qi, someone must make sacrifices! Given the choice, we can only choose the weak and preserve the strong.
Look at the moment, if we can't save Qi, this situation will continue. At that time, not two to three million people will die, but two to three million, four to five million!
Ma Zheng, you lead the rest of the people to attack the army of the Kingdom of Shang, and hold them back no matter the cost! "
Ma Zheng was silent for a while, and finally took the order. With the current state of Qi, a choice must be made.
In the end, Qian Guangyao led the most elite 200,000 soldiers to attack to the west; they did not follow in the footsteps of the Shang Kingdom's army, but planned to go directly northward, making a big circle, and going around to the west of Qi State.
But when Qian Guangyao led the army to the north for a hundred miles, the banners in front were unfurled, and at least 300,000 troops mightily blocked Qian Guangyao's front.
A general flew over, "Shen Jianfei from the Lower Shang Kingdom, come and report your name!"
"Qian Guangyao!" Qian Guangyao's face was gloomy, but he didn't expect to plunge into the enemy's ambush.
"It turned out to be the young marshal of the Qi State. Marshal Qian, I have been waiting here for a long time under the orders of my marshal Yan Zhengqing. There is no need to explain the situation. Marshal Qian should surrender, you always have to think about the 200,000 lives behind you. "
"Impossible! I, Qian Guangyao, will not compromise with you invaders! The whole army obeys orders, forms a surprise formation, and cuts through the enemy's formation."
The generals under Qian Guangyao quickly organized. The soldiers began to form groups of a dozen or so small arrows. The entire army quickly formed more than 10,000 such arrows, and they were about to launch an attack.
Arrays and spells began to confront each other; the arms of both sides also began to shoot at each other, and the war broke out like this.
But after a while, the Shang Kingdom's army began to erupt, and hundreds of thousands of talismans were thrown out, wave after wave, and machine guns began to gain the upper hand. In less than two hours of fighting, Qi's attacks were repulsed four times, leaving behind a lot of corpses.
Of course, the soldiers of the Shang Kingdom also paid the price, at least 3,000 soldiers fell forever. There are also masters and death squads in the army of Qi State!
But Qi's decline is irreversible! The long journey, fast pursuit, and the sudden outbreak of war have also exhausted the soldiers of Qi State. Compared with the soldiers of the Shang Kingdom who were in full swing, the soldiers of the Qi Kingdom lacked confidence.
Moreover, the soldiers of the Shang Kingdom generally had high cultivation bases; you must know that the most important thing in the Shang Kingdom was liquid aura, and almost every soldier was fed with liquid aura!
Soon the fifth wave of attack began; but this time it was the soldiers of the Shang Kingdom who launched the attack.
"Great formation of ten thousand swords, get ready!" Shen Jianfei gave an order, and immediately 50,000 soldiers moved into action, forming five large formations of ten thousand swords.
In the next moment, under the terrified eyes of the Qi soldiers, the Wanjian array was launched, and the five sword dragons rolled between the sky and the earth, and everything they passed was wiped out.
"Ah..." Qian Guangyao roared angrily, and led his masters to block it, but was swallowed by the formation of Wanjian, and finally turned into blood mist without even screaming.
It is inevitable that the mouth of the earthen jar will be broken, and the general will inevitably die in battle.
Shen Jianfei saw the deaths of Qian Guangyao and a large number of masters in Qi State, but suddenly fell silent. Perhaps, this kind of general who would rather die than surrender is worthy of respect, and perhaps this will make Shen Jianfei feel a little bit emotional, but... the war must continue!
"Those who surrender will not be killed..." Along with the formation of Wanjian, the voice of persuading surrender also came.
Witnessing the killing of the commander-in-chief, a large number of Qi soldiers and young generals finally put down their resistance slowly. Under the attack of the Great Array of Thousand Swords, these people prostrated themselves on the ground, begging for the mercy of the enemy.
"Seal your cultivation base, let it go." Shen Jianfei made such a decision. Now the army of the Shang Kingdom is simply not capable of guarding so many prisoners. Moreover, these people have been frightened out of their courage, and there is not much threat to let them go.
Of course, generals, military advisers and so on cannot be let go. These people must be detained with the army.
After disposing of all the captives, Shen Jianfei immediately commanded the army to divide out one hundred thousand elites to pursue the army of one million led by Ma Zheng of Qi State, and to flank these soldiers back and forth with Marshal Yan Zhengqing. As long as the millions of troops are dispersed again, Qi will lose its last chance.
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Ahead, the emperor of Qi State is still running for his life, and countless military disasters continue to be brought about by the places he passes. He knows that this is drinking poison to quench his thirst and is consuming the last vitality of Qi State, but the current Emperor of Qi State has nothing to do.
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In the west, Shao State has stopped attacking. Qi State Lieutenant Li Hui and Marshal Qiu Wenming led Qi State's most elite army of 500,000 troops and millions of ordinary border guards and other soldiers to retreat; but their retreat was not smooth.
In the sky, more than 30 supersonic planes suddenly appeared and strafed. These supersonic aircraft are completely killing machines. After throwing the bombs, play with machine guns; after firing machine gun bullets, run away. Then, at most an hour and a half later, the killing machines would return.
Even, sometimes it takes less than half an hour to return—these planes went to Jinshan County nearby. It was the Jinshan County where Huang Guo was sold to Shang Kingdom and Yuan Yong was in charge.
More than 30 planes confronted an army of 1.5 million. To be honest, it was more of a tickling nature; but this tickling touched the heart, and the confidence of the soldiers of Qi continued to drop, and they were constantly approaching collapse.
This kind of war that can only be beaten and cannot resist makes the soldiers very aggrieved.
Li Hui roared angrily, wanting to send the masters formed by the Nascent Soul Stage to form a group to fight monsters, but he didn't want the plane to fly too high, these Nascent Soul Stage masters could only roar in vain.
Of course, Li Hui is not an idiot, and also uses spells to intercept bombs; but what if the bombs are incendiary bombs or cloud bombs?
One unheard-of bomb after another appeared. Cloud bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, incendiary bombs... All kinds of bombs made Li Hui helpless.
Also, the army of 1.5 million almost covered a radius of more than 50 miles. This range is so wide that planes can attack randomly, which makes Qi's Nascent Soul stage masters exhausted.
"Or, divide the troops!" Qiu Wenming made this suggestion, "Let the soldiers rush forward in units of 10,000 people, or even thousands of people, to rescue His Majesty. And seal off Ashan County to preserve the last vitality of Qi State."
"That's the only way!" Li Hui had no choice but to do so. In this way, the effect is indeed good, the forward speed has increased a lot, and the casualties have been reduced to the limit.
However, after the division of troops, conditions were also created for deserters!