Steel Dynasty - Chapter 658

[Chapter 657 The Destruction of the Yan Kingdom (Fifth Update)]

Night fell, and King Huainan and Cui Shangan stopped their attack.

After King Yan was killed in the rebellion, the Yan army fell into chaos. They took the opportunity to attack the city, but they never thought that the smooth war would be reversed because of Cui Cheng’s appearance.

This time King Yan recruited many strong men to deal with them. There were actually 250,000 people in the small Yingzhou.

After a fierce battle, they were driven out of the city.

“This Cui Guo is indeed quite capable. It’s just that most of the Yan army has fled during the day. I’m afraid there will be more soldiers fleeing tonight. Because of this, the Yan army will definitely spend their energy on stopping the deserters. They don’t think that we will take advantage of this.” Night attack.”

Cui Shangan nodded. He had prepared 10,000 elites to attack the Yingzhou camp at night. At midnight, he led his soldiers to quietly enter Yingzhou City through the damaged city wall.

Just as King Huainan had guessed, more and more soldiers entered the Yan Army camp and fled in the dark night. The patrolling soldiers were constantly attracted by the fleeing soldiers.

In the darkness, the patrols could not patrol the deserters or the enemy. In this case, Cui Shangan quickly led the soldiers to the Yingzhou camp.

“Light the arrows.” At this time, the lights in the Yingzhou camp were brightly lit, and Cui Shangan gave the order.

After receiving the order, more than a dozen torches were lit. The soldiers took out arrows with oilcloth wrapped at the front, lit them one by one on the torches, and unstringed the bows.

“Let go!”

Following Cui Shangan’s order, flaming arrows flew towards the Yan Army’s camp. Those arrows accurately landed on the leader of the Yan Army’s tents. These tents were all made of cotton. Once the fire was ignited, the fire spread instantly, lighting up the Yan Army camp.

When the soldiers lit the arrows, the Yan Army’s sentries had already discovered them and immediately shouted loudly, but they were too late to stop them. The flaming arrows flew towards the Yan Army camp one by one. In just a few minutes, The Yan army’s camp turned into a sea of fire.

The soaring fire illuminated the night sky. At this time, King Huainan led the soldiers outside the city and immediately rushed into the city.

Cui Shangan’s purpose was just to disrupt the Yingzhou camp and create chaos. The Yan army camp fell into chaos. At this time

, King

Huainan stood up and shouted: “Kill!”

Inside Yingzhou City.

A Yan Army soldier woke up from his sleep. In the flames that filled the sky, he was so frightened that he rushed out of the tent without even having time to put on his clothes. However, he was met by soldiers from the Huainan Army. Before he could even shout, he felt His chest felt cold, and then he watched his blood spurt out from his chest. Before he died, extreme fear made him scream one last time.

The Huainan Army rushed into the camp like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep. Those Yan Army soldiers died under their swords as soon as they rushed out of the camp, and some even had their hearts pierced in their sleep.

Chaos quickly spread in the Yan Army camp, and the entire camp was filled with the smell of death. Cui Cheng summoned the soldiers under the protection of his personal guards. He looked at the camp in a sea of fire, and his body was colder than the sword in the cold winter. Three minutes later, a voice told him that the Yan Army was completely finished this time. Those Huainan Army soldiers wearing armor were like slaughtering cattle and sheep, leaving only cold corpses wherever they went. He had organized several attacks, but was shocked The frightened soldiers showed no resistance at all and were quickly disintegrated.

He was able to repel the Huainan Army during the day because his troops did not know about King Yan’s death in battle. Now that all the soldiers knew about it, the morale of the Yan Army fell to the bottom.

“Your Majesty, let’s go. If you don’t leave, it will be too late!” A general said, covering his arm. At this time, his arm was dripping with blood. It was scratched by a soldier. If not for several Yan army soldiers in time, If you help him resist, his life will probably be lost.

Cui Cheng looked at the camp in a sea of fire, stamped his feet, got on his horse, and fled towards the west gate under the protection of dozens of horsemen.

When Cui Shangan attacked, King Huainan led the soldiers to seize the west gate of the Yan army according to the plan. They still used artillery in the dark night. Although King Huainan had seen the power of firearms, he did not expect that such weapons could produce huge weapons in the war. The destructive power was that there were at least three to four thousand Yan soldiers guarding the gate, but a few rounds of artillery fire defeated all these Yan soldiers.

After capturing the west gate, King Huainan said to a cavalry general beside him: “General Qi, I leave it to you to pursue the defeated troops.”

“Yes, Your Highness,” he then shouted, “soldiers, the time has come to harvest the enemy’s heads. Charge.” !”

“Kill!” The soldiers were high in spirit.

The rumbling sound of horse hooves was beating like a war drum. Hearing this sound, the Yan army soldiers completely lost their will to fight and fled one after another. More often than not, they put down their weapons and surrendered to the Huainan army.

When King Huainan and Cui Shangan entered the camp, they encountered little resistance along the way. Yan soldiers were everywhere kneeling on the ground.

Led the cavalry to disintegrate the last resistance force of the Yan army. The soldiers of the Huainan army did not stop but lit torches and chased westward. They had learned that Cui Cheng had fled westward.

However, King Huainan was not in a hurry, because the west city gate had been captured by them, and other city gates had also been captured one after another. Now Cui Cheng had nowhere to escape.

Therefore, he simply ordered the soldiers to clean the battlefield. Because of the surprise attack, most of the Yan army soldiers did not mount their horses, and a large number of war horses were tied in the stables, allowing him to get a big advantage.

In addition to war horses, he also captured many civilians of the Yan army. He ordered that civilians who did not resist not be killed. More than 50,000 civilians were captured this time. In addition, nearly 80,000 soldiers surrendered and captured, a total of One hundred and thirty thousand Yan people became prisoners.

The operation to clear the battlefield continued until the next morning, when the Huainan Army’s cavalry returned, led by General Qi, who held Cui Cheng’s head in his hands.

When he arrived in front of King Huainan, General Qi got off his horse and threw Cui Cheng’s head on the ground. He said: “Your Highness, Cui Cheng refused to surrender and was killed by the last general.”

King Huainan nodded, and the Yan State continued to oppress him. Huainan Kingdom, so he hated King Yan very much. This attack on Yan Kingdom also complied with the popular sentiment.

Now King Yan is dead, Cui Cheng is also dead, but he suddenly thought of a question and said: “I remember Cui Cheng also has a younger brother Cui Hao, where is he?”

Cui Shangan said at this time: “Father, Cui Hao After Cheng learned about Cui Hao’s rebellion, he led his troops to massacre all the wealthy families who participated in the rebellion. Cui Hao was killed by him. “

In this way, the line of King Yan was completely cut off.” King Huainan sighed. , “This country of Yan is destroyed.”

(End of this chapter)