Chapter 256: Crushing Victory
"Li Yan, Hong Niangzi, Li Jin, take the elite troops to attack!" Luo Shan ordered loudly.
He has already seen that for the opposing legion, it is useless if it is below a certain level. The right way is to use the lives of the miscellaneous soldiers as shields and then use the elite soldiers to consume them.
The three people felt their hearts sink immediately when they heard Luo Shan's order. They had seen how ferocious the Sun Riders were and how cruel Luo Shan was. Luo Shan asked them to go up, which was clearly to send them to their deaths.
"Let's go!" Li Jin gritted his teeth and rushed forward with his elite troops, launching a counterattack against the Sun Cavalry.
He was Li Zicheng's most trusted general and also Li Zicheng's nephew. He certainly understood that in a bad situation like this, the fastest way to turn the situation around was to sacrifice himself! He was willing to sacrifice for Li Zicheng!
The couple Li Yan and Hong Niangzi also gritted their teeth and followed Li Jin to launch a counterattack. They were also familiar with military tactics and naturally knew that sacrifice was inevitable.
Although Luoshan’s approach is chilling, it is indeed the most effective way.
"You still want to fight me?" Guo Hao glanced at the three elite troops that surrounded him with disdain. It seemed that they were only at the level of single talent. Even with the cloud suppression, they could not cause any damage to the Sun Knights.
The Sun Knights easily repelled the siege of the three troops. Even the elite troops of Dashun were far behind the Imperial Guards in terms of level.
In front of an elite force of the Sun Cavalry's strength, even if his internal energy leaves his body, he is at risk of being killed. Once his internal energy leaves his body and he loses his warhorse, he loses the ability , and it is not impossible for him to be killed on the spot by the Sun Cavalry.
The elite who have reached the level of the Sun Riders, under the suppression of the clouds, their attacks are enough to cause fatal damage to the masters of internal energy who are unable to use internal energy to strengthen themselves.
After all, apart from those who have practiced the technique of leaving the body with internal energy, under the suppression of the cloud energy, the bodies of other types of masters of leaving the body with internal energy are still no match for the weapons. It is not difficult for a soldier like the Sun Riders who has already stepped half a foot on the military soul to kill a master of leaving the body with internal energy.
The general named Li Jin was apparently full of confidence in his ability to have internal energy leave his body. After he rushed into the encirclement of the Sun Cavalry with his personal guards, he was hacked to death on the spot.
For someone like Li Jin, who has never seen the world, his internal energy leaving the body is just like that. If he really wanted to fight Hua Xiong in a duel, he probably wouldn't even be able to beat Hua Xiong. He actually dared to charge into the Sun Cavalry formation alone with a small team of soldiers, a place that even Lu Bu didn't dare to charge into. He was simply courting death.
Li Jin's death obviously stimulated Hong Niangzi and Li Yan. The two dared not rush forward again, but kept urging the soldiers to go up and die.
However, Guo Hao did not plan to continue to fight with them. The gift of the sun was not endless. If they continued like this, the Sun Knights would also suffer losses. There was no need to use the Sun Knights to exchange for pieces when fighting a group of miscellaneous soldiers.
"Hmph, I'll defeat you in one go!" Guo Hao swept away the soldiers around him with one blow and stood up from his horse. The personal guards around him also launched a fierce offensive and repelled all the Dashun soldiers who wanted to attack Guo Hao.
"Glory to the Sun!"
Guo Hao held the halberd in his right hand and raised his left hand, roaring and mobilizing the cloud energy of the army behind him, and launched a legion attack under the cloud energy. Unlike other people who had difficulty mobilizing the cloud energy, Guo Hao's destiny was carried by the destiny of the country, and mobilizing the cloud energy of the Han army was as easy as using one's own arm.
Along with Guo Hao's roar, the three-legged golden crow in the sky suddenly condensed and then fell down. Although the legion's attack, which was like a natural disaster, was offset a lot by Dashun's clouds the moment it appeared, it still maintained considerable power. With this move, Dashun's front line completely collapsed!
After all, the monarch's talent is just an amplifier. In the face of Guo Hao's devastating offensive, too many Dashun soldiers were frightened. After all, they were just ordinary people, not even regular soldiers, so how could they face the natural disaster head-on?
"Charge! Crush their center!" Guo Hao roared and rode his horse forward. The Sun Cavalry also charged forward. The chaotic Dashun troops could not stop them.
"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!" Luo Shan shouted in a trance. He couldn't remember how many times he had shouted such words. It seemed that he had suffered setbacks one after another since the imperial court began to attack Dashun. After this defeat, he didn't know how much strength he had left.
Li Zicheng was even more confused. Ever since he had awakened his talent as a monarch, his soldiers had fought to the death and defeated one enemy after another with their unchanging morale. However, everything changed after he was attacked by the imperial court.
This was the second time his monarch talent had failed. No matter how hard he tried to activate his talent, he could not restore the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting.
In an instant, the army was defeated and the Dashun army became a mess. Although it had a strength of more than 200,000, it was dispersed by Guo Hao and his 4,000 Sun Cavalry. It was like more than 200,000 headless flies running around.
"Order Jiang Wei, Hua Mulan, and all the officers at the level of captains to go all out to pursue the defeated army. Order Zhu Jun to take over the battlefield command authority and collect prisoners along the way. Those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy. After the surrender, the surrendered soldiers will be dealt with by the Prime Minister. It is allowed to kill the surrendered soldiers!"
Guo Hao simply determined the general guidelines and policies, and then threw the command to Zhu Jun, who took advantage of the chaos to lead the troops out of the city. He, Guo Hao, was not capable of commanding a large army, so it would be better to leave it to professionals. The rest would be left to Zhu Jun, Chen Xi and others to discuss. He had to cut the grass and root it out.
Jiang Wei, Hua Mulan and other generals led their troops to chase the Dashun soldiers. They did not give the Dashun soldiers any chance to breathe. The Dashun army had been completely defeated, and people kept falling behind.
Jiang Wei and his men were chasing them day and night, not giving the other side any chance to breathe. These people had all been traitors, and if most of them could not be captured, once they were allowed to roam around the counties, it was very likely that they would cause a devastating blow to the local counties.
In order to maintain stability in Yanzhou, we must capture at least 80 percent of the prisoners, if not all of them .
Guo Hao stared at Li Zicheng's position and chased him madly. He decided to kill Li Zicheng wave by wave. This ability to forcibly maintain morale was too annoying. If Li Zicheng was allowed to escape, who knows when the Dashun would make a comeback.
Even a commander of a large army like Zhu Jun fell into Li Zicheng's hands. If they cannot capture him alive this time, they will have to kill Li Zicheng.
Although commanders of large armies are rare, the court has many commanders of this level. It doesn't matter if they run away. Without the monarchical talent of Li Zicheng, it is impossible to organize rebels of the same scale.
By then, any brave general with a few guards can defeat them. Commanding a large army without the support of the empire is nothing but a castle in the air and cannot cause any big waves.
