Chapter 802: Sunrise in the East (27)

The stone chariot did not return to Helin. He passed through Helin without entering. He led his men directly, bypassing Helin, and headed towards Donghu's hometown, the vast expanse of black mountains and white waters. In other words, he was extremely helpless. Optimistic about Donghu's prospects in this decisive battle with the Zhengdong Army, he wants to escape, return to the mountains, or even run to the other side of the mountains. In short, as long as he has soldiers in his hands, he is not afraid of being unable to gain a foothold.

Thorpe, who was gathering troops in Yulin, heard the news. His face was livid, and he glanced at the many subordinates in the lobby. It seemed that he was about to choose someone to kill. If Agu Huaien's betrayal was a heavy slap in the face, , that Gao Che leaving like this was a stab in the back of his heart.

The high chariot ran away, leaving Yuwen Ke and nearly 20,000 Kirgiz cavalry behind. They were surrounded by the Eastern Expeditionary Army in a small area of ​​50 miles from Jie Toupu to Liaoning Guard. It really echoed Fei Qian's words, there is no way to the sky, With nowhere to go, as the Eastern Expeditionary Army continued to arrive, their hope of breaking out became increasingly slim.

The chief general on the Eastern battlefield has been replaced by the more famous Ye Zhong. He is not in a hurry to launch the final battle against Yu Wenke immediately. Instead, he orders Meng Chong of the Eastern Group Army, Yan Haibo's subordinates, and Southern Group Army Tie Xuan's subordinates. , slowly squeezing Yuwen Ke's activity space from all sides, and slowly narrowing the encirclement. This style of play is like a hedgehog covered with thorns, everything is stable, but there is no gap to take advantage of. Yu Wenke broke through several times, but was blocked The Zhengdong Army knocked back hard

As food and grass decreased day by day, and the number of casualties increased day by day, the Donghu people felt the fear of the impending doom. The Eastern Expeditionary Army also had reinforcements arriving. This time it was a brand-new army, the Fifth Division of the Young Guards.

The scouts would report to Yuwen Ke every day the activities of the Eastern Marching Army that surrounded them. Battle flags joined the battlefield one after another. Yuwen Ke basically gave up any hope. The two field armies of the Eastern Marching Army had already arrived here. Now, for him, it is already an ambush from all sides, and he is surrounded by wind and rain. All that's left for him is just a matter of time before he falls.

Thorpe and Yuwen Ke from Yulin were in similar moods at this time. However, he still has a little bit of confidence, because he still has the strength at hand to struggle. In Yulin, he assembled 10,000 palace guards and the 50,000 cavalry and 60,000 iron cavalry finally recruited by each tribe. On the battlefield, they are a decisive force, even if these 50,000 cavalry are no longer as elite as Yan Qi's 50,000 cavalry. But as long as you are a Donghu person, riding a horse and shooting arrows is as natural as eating and drinking.

Dongfang is not important, nor is He Lin. As long as he defeats Gao Yuan and kills Gao Yuan in this battle, then everything can start all over again.

"Give up all the peripheral wild cards, I want to fight Gao Yuan to the death in Yulin!" Thorpe roared. "The Donghu Cavalry is invincible, come on, Gao Yuan. Let us fight to the death!"

In Ningyuan and Jingyuan, more and more Eastern Expeditionary Forces have been assembled. Not only the army, but also more people in the settlements organized by the governor Sun Xiao also brought their own weapons and gathered here. Their main The task is to transport logistics,

Protect the road. Watch out along Ningyuanjingyuan toward Yulin. The strength of the Eastern Expeditionary Army began to spread toward Yulin like a spider web. Although these civilians are not regular soldiers, they are in a war-torn place like Hetao. The local administration of Zhengdong Prefecture has never relaxed their military training. A large number of retired soldiers are everywhere, and they are tense during the war. At this time, not only can these people go into battle again, but more importantly, they have dispersed among the people and brought out more new people who can go into battle.

Under the command of Xu Yuan of the Northern Group Army, Yan Peng's First Army now has nearly 30,000 people, Luo Weiran's Second Army has 25,000 people, and the independent cavalry division temporarily appointed by Gongsun Yi has more than 15,000 people. The troop strength has reached The arrival of 70,000 people from afar brought another 20,000 people from the four divisions of the Young Guards, as well as 6,000 cavalry belonging to the infantry of the Central Army Group. This enabled the entire Eastern Expedition Army to gather almost 100,000 regular troops in Hetao, as well as The number of civilians is almost the same as this number

Thorpe wants a decisive battle, why doesn't Gao Yuan not want a decisive battle? In one battle, he completely defeated Donghu's last strength, captured Helin, and finally took the Liaodong Peninsula into his own hands. After accomplishing this, the prototype of a country had been formed. Only at this time, Gao Yuan Be able to free up your hands and set your sights on the Central Plains region

Qin's offensive in Wei has become more and more fierce. The Wei people are tired of parrying and are retreating steadily. In Hanguan Valley, Li Xin's army began to attack frequently and fought against the Hedong camp of the Zhao army under the command of Jing Rufeng. The scale is getting bigger and bigger, and Zhao Guo can no longer take care of Daijun, nor the loss of the whole city and other places. After Zhou Changshou was released, he sadly returned to Handan. At this time, King Zhao could not care about dealing with this general. The country had Unfortunately, when there were people, King Zhao sent Zhou Changshou to the Kingdom of Wei, but only gave him a mere five thousand soldiers and horses. After returning to Handan, he went to jail. Zhou Changshou, who even lost his head, naturally burst into tears of gratitude. , he also regarded this time's aid to Wei as his last chance to make a comeback. Without saying a word, he rushed to Wei with five thousand soldiers and horses. This made Zhao Qi, who wanted to clean up Zhao Mu's remaining forces, I was very disappointed that there was still a Wu Zeng in the Hedong camp, but Wu Zeng was much more slippery. Once Zhao Mu died, this Wu Zeng became silent as if there was no such person, and he honestly served as a nominal deputy general under Jing Rufeng. , he would never say a word without asking, which really made Zhao Qi unable to do anything.

Gao Yuan felt that it was impossible for the Wei State to resist the Qin army's attack. The only thing that surprised him was the change in Lu Chao. The former scholar, a humble gentleman, has now transformed into a powerful and ruthless general. In order to frighten the Wei State, this scholar-turned-general actually issued an order to massacre a county town in the Wei State that had resisted decisively and caused great losses to the Qin army.

Is this still Lu Chao?

Gao Yuan didn't know if it was because he had provoked his eldest brother in Liao when he took Shannan County, making him seem like a different person. If that was the case, he would be even more sorry for Lu Teng, who treated him like a nephew.

The duel with the Qin people will eventually come, and maybe one day, he will face off against this elder brother on the battlefield. Gao Yuan really has some regrets in his heart. Even so, Gao Yuan has no regrets at all. Under the circumstances, he could only ensure the safety of the Eastern Expeditionary Army by doing that.

If it really turns out to be what you imagined. Come on then, maybe it will be a wonderful thing that will go down in history. It also happened to two little people in the western border of Liaoning. In the end, he became a figure who could change the history of this continent, and could also be talked about by future generations. Perhaps hundreds or thousands of years later, Fufeng would become a famous scenic spot because of himself and Lu Chao!

On August 15th, when various parts of the Central Plains were celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, toasting to the bright moon and dancing with beautiful shadows, the Eastern Group Army and the Southern Group Army led by Ye Zhong finally launched the final attack on Yuwen Ke

The poor Donghu army, who had been trapped for more than half a month, had long been cut off from food and grass. In the end, we could only rely on killing horses to satisfy our hunger. When the decisive battle came, the only ones who had horses to fight were the hundreds of remaining palace guards. The other Donghu cavalry had their horses already in their belly. , or because of the severe shortage of food, the war horses, which cannot even guarantee fodder, have no ability to fight at all.

Fei Qian's department and Yan Haibo's department. Tie Xuan's troops and Meng Chong's troops were surrounded on all sides. Slowly squeezing toward the center, the Donghu soldiers, who had lost their horses and were so hungry that they were weak, almost collapsed at the first touch. Except for a few hundred palace guards who caused a little splash, the others completely lost the will and courage to fight.

This battle was not so much a decisive battle as a one-sided massacre of nearly 20,000 Donghu soldiers. After this battle, as many as 10,000 people were captured, and the rest were all killed. On the battlefield.

Kirgiz, Yu Wenke, and Yu Wenming were all captured, and the situation in the eastern battlefield was successfully fought, facing Yulin, and the gate of Helin suddenly opened.

On August 18, the red sun was shining brightly, and tens of thousands of Eastern Expeditionary Forces gathered under the Liaoning Acropolis. Under the city, the piles of corpses had long been cleared away, but the soil dyed red with blood could not be recovered in a short time. The color changes inside. On the city wall, the pitted marks and the dense crossbow arrows inserted on it, as well as the strips and pieces of condensed purple-black blood stains, are still telling people the cruelty of this war.

Under the Acropolis of Liaoning, dozens of flagpoles were erected again. Under each flagpole, a Donghu general was forced to kneel on the ground. The noose hanging from the flagpole was blown by the wind and swayed. The swaying movement only flickered the faces of these people who were either pale, had their eyes closed and were silent, or were trembling unspeakably.

When He Lanmin was executed by Yuwen Ke, Meng Chong swore an oath in front of tens of thousands of people on both sides to exterminate the Yuwen clan, exterminate the Gaoche clan, and exterminate the Kirgiz clan. After Ye Zhong took over the command of the entire army, he Meng Chong still decided to implement this oath, which was not only related to the shock to the Donghu people, but also related to the morale of his own side, and related to the heroic souls of the nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Eastern Conquest Army who were injured or killed in this war.

In the Donghu army, all the people from these two clans were found. There were not many people from the Yuwen clan, and there were not many people from the Kirgiz clan in the army. After repeated interrogations and searches, only so many people were found.

Ye Chong thought this was enough.

He Dayou was carried up the city wall on a stretcher. As a civilian captain, he brought more than a thousand civilians, but only more than a hundred remained. The rest all died in the final battle. At that time, I saw the culprit being tied up and pressed under the flagpole. I was excited and sad at the same time, and my tears flowed down uncontrollably.

"General Meng, you swore a strong oath that day, and you will still order the execution today!" Ye Chong said with a smile as he looked at Meng Chong, whose head was covered with layers of bandages.

"Thank you, General Ye, for allowing me to fulfill this wish!" Meng Chong gave a military salute to Ye Chong, "If the governor is blamed for killing the prisoners in the future, I, Meng Chong, will bear the responsibility and will never implicate the general."

"What are you talking about?" Ye Chong laughed, "Now I am the supreme commander of the army. If anything happens, I will be responsible for it. Besides, there are only dozens of evildoers. If I kill one as a warning to a hundred, what will happen? Let’s talk about killing prisoners.”

Meng Chong nodded gratefully to Ye Dian, strode to the battlements, drew his sword, and raised it high: "Today, I will pay tribute to my brothers who died in the Eastern Army. One hundred and three of them died under the city." The hero of the Eastern Conquest Army shall be executed!”

Dozens of nooses were put around the necks of Yu Wenke and others. The ropes were pulled, and the people were gradually lifted up.

"Conquer the Eastern Army and win a thousand victories!"

Looking at the dozens of Donghu generals floating in the air, tens of thousands of Donghu troops below the city burst into shouts. (To be continued, vote for recommendations and monthly votes.)