roccoschili Chapter 205 The Duke of Dingguo in Trouble
Chapter 205 The Duke of Dingguo in Trouble
"I won't go with my own people."
Ning Yi continued to look at the battlefield. The rebels were beaten without any chance to fight back, and two of their camps had already been breached.
"The reason why the Beijing Camp was able to fight was because the main force of the rebels had already left. These coerced troops were not very willing to fight. It was natural for the Beijing Camp to be excited to beat the enemy when they were down."
Who wouldn't like to fight a favorable battle? They are just a bunch of vassal troops who have no intention of fighting.
In just half a day, 30,000 rebels surrendered, and the rest fled in disorder, resulting in few casualties.
The commanders of the Beijing camp were extremely excited, feeling that the rebels were nothing special.
Ning Yi looked at Qin Haifeng: "What's the news about Hushan Pass?"
Qin Haifeng immediately said, "I just received news from the Third Army that the First Army successfully left yesterday. After ambushing the Fang family cavalry, the Third Army also packed up and retreated westward."
Ning Yi thought for a moment and said, "Don't let the Third Army retreat in a hurry."
"Hmm?" Qin Haifeng was surprised: "Your Highness, what do you mean?"
Ning Yi looked at the two guards of the Beijing Camp behind him and said: "Move our own 10,000 soldiers and horses to the west to cooperate with the Third Army to ambush the Duke of Ding."
"Still setting an ambush?" Qin Haifeng disagreed.
"Your Highness, this ambush of the Duke's cavalry was a surprise attack. The cavalry didn't expect that there would be infantry ambushing them."
"But Duke Dingguo is heading for Hushan Pass. He won't stop until he takes it. It's not a good idea to ambush in the west."
Even the veteran Qin Haifeng was surprised to see the cavalry of Duke Dingguo being defeated.
I didn't expect that cavalry could be ambushed on this plain, and it was infantry ambushing cavalry. It was simply incredible.
The key point is that the Fang family army's cavalry was almost wiped out.
You should know that the Fang family army is quite famous in the Dawu Kingdom and has strong combat effectiveness.
He had made great military achievements under Emperor Wu, and that was why Hushan Pass was handed over to him.
As a result, the 8,000 cavalrymen were almost completely annihilated by the newly formed Third Army. Who would dare to believe this if they told others about it?
But after an ambush, it can be said that the Fang family army was careless.
But if Your Highness still wants to set up an ambush, that is unreasonable. With the current strength of Duke Dingguo, he still has tens of thousands of elite troops.
How could he go west without taking down Hushan Pass?
Ning Yi smiled and said, "What if he loses the battle?"
Qin Haifeng was even more surprised. No matter how he looked at it, he didn't think that Dingguo Guild would be defeated.
"Your Highness, do you mean to ask the First Army to join the battle?"
If the First Army joins the battle, there is still a chance to defeat the elite army of Duke Dingguo, which only has more than 40,000 people left.
After all, the First Army's combat effectiveness is indeed strong. During the military exercise, all kinds of firearms were fired randomly, making Qin Haifeng feel dazzled.
Ning Yi shook his head: "The First Army's mission has been completed. They just need to transport the supplies back to the base."
"But the other troops are more than enough to deal with Duke Dingguo. Give the order. Our two guards of the Beijing Camp will march west and north, and wait with the Third Army near Huwei Forest to ambush Duke Dingguo."
Qin Haifeng saw that Ning Yi had made up his mind, so there was no need to persuade him anymore.
No matter what, no matter how powerful Duke Dingguo is, he has no chance of winning.
This is also the reason why Duke Dingguo was too careless, looked down on the arrogant Ning Yi, and led a group of useless Beijing troops.
The two guards of the Beijing camp, upon receiving the order, also broke camp and headed northwest.
The other generals who had just returned from the battlefield were all extremely excited.
Ning Yi laughed heartily: "Well, well, well, everyone has performed very well today. Keep up the good work. Once we eliminate the traitor Duke Dingguo, everyone will be rewarded handsomely."
"Thank you, Your Highness." The generals cheered.
Only Feng Zhong's old face twitched. He felt that although the troops left behind by the rebels were small in number, they should still have combat effectiveness.
Just let the Beijing Camp deal with it, and the Imperial Guards just need to preserve their strength.
Who knew that the 30,000 soldiers on the opposite side were so useless and a large number of them surrendered easily.
If I had known this earlier, I would have ordered the Royal Guards to attack. It is still a credit no matter how great the achievement is.
Feng Zhong was unwilling to give up, and said with a folded hand: "Your Highness, should we quickly pursue Duke Dingguo?"
"Of course." Ning Yi said, "Except for a portion of the troops who will stay behind to guard the prisoners and supplies, the rest will pursue tomorrow morning."
Today's battle has lasted until the afternoon. Everyone is in high spirits and feels that the rebels are nothing special and will be wiped out sooner or later.
On the second day, except for Ning Yi's own 10,000 direct subordinates who left for the northwest, the other 50,000 troops marched north in a mighty manner.
Because Duke Dingguo was worried about Hushan Pass, he did not dare to waste time along the way. He marched quickly for a whole day and only rested at a place more than 160 miles away from Hushan Pass when it got dark.
Later, news came that the 30,000 remaining troops had been defeated, which made him so angry that his teeth ached.
But I can’t worry about so many things now, let’s take down Hushan Pass first.
As long as Hushan Pass is there, they can continue to recruit soldiers.
But on the second day, news came from behind that the Beijing camp had also arrived, more than a hundred miles behind them, and was lightly equipped.
Duke Dingguo was depressed and wanted to send some elite troops to stop them, but when he saw that he only had more than 40,000 soldiers, he did not dare to divide his troops at will, otherwise he would really commit a big taboo in military strategy.
It was eaten bite by bite by bite by that young boy, the Sixth Prince.
And the cavalry is gone, otherwise the cavalry alone would be enough to harass those useless people in the Beijing camp.
Finally they arrived at Hushan Pass. Duke Dingguo was puzzled as there was no ambush at all along the way.
But seeing that the flags on the top of Hushan Pass had been changed, he turned pale and ordered people to shout to open the city gate.
The result was a wave of arrows driving them away.
There was no other choice but to let the soldiers rest for half a day before attacking the city.
Unfortunately, the defenders on Hushan Pass also did not take other miscellaneous soldiers seriously.
However, several generals controlled by the Intelligence Department are now desperately trying to get their soldiers to stop them.
Anyone who dares to disobey will have their entire family killed.
This group of miscellaneous soldiers actually put up a very strong resistance. Duke Dingguo lost more than 2,000 elite soldiers in succession, which made him very sad. He still failed to take down Hushan Pass.
Instead, the group of flies behind came to the front in a mighty force.
Fang Chengyu never thought that he would end up like this.
I originally thought that Hushan Pass would be easy to capture, and it could be easily breached with the help of that group of miscellaneous soldiers.
Unexpectedly, this group of miscellaneous soldiers was so tough that they did not give Fang's army any chance to break through the city.
Hushan Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is too difficult to take it down by force.
Fang Chengyu knew that he had to make a quick decision, so he ordered 10,000 elite troops to stop the Beijing camp.
As soon as the sun rises, everyone else must attack the city at full speed. They must capture Hushan Pass as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no way to retreat.
Especially since he didn't even have any reinforcements and he was a rebel.
Ning Yi, on the other hand, had rested enough and began to give orders: "Feng Zhong, those ahead are the true direct troops of the old thief Duke Dingguo. The Imperial Guards should lead the attack, and the other Beijing troops should fully cooperate. We will definitely defeat them."