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Chapter 177: The Battle of the Trapped Beasts

The vanguard, who had just left the camp, pushed many harnesses as their cover, but as soon as the Xingtian Army's cannons fired, the harnesses were beaten to pieces and shattered. Many officers and soldiers, who had not seen the Xingtian Army's people, were killed on the spot.

The landing points of Xingtian Army's artillery shells can be seen everywhere on the battlefield. Although the land here is soft and not conducive to the huge role of the shells, He Nao has a large number! There are dozens of heavy artillery and dozens of light artillery, which together are nearly a hundred. The Xingtian Army fires cannons in a volley. Every time the shells fall, they fall into the crowd of officials and soldiers. The psychological pressure caused is even more unbearable.

Therefore, in this breakthrough operation, which they had high hopes, the soldiers and generals who acted as vanguards broke down just a few dozen steps away from the front of the Xingtian Army's position. The frightened officers and soldiers threw their vans away, and turned around and ran back like headless flies. Then they were knocked over to the ground by the gun bullets chasing their butts. The remaining officers and soldiers were even more unbearable. When the vanguards in front collapsed, they collapsed faster and were defeated in a flash.

Wu Sangui closed his eyes in pain and had to admit that the breakthrough had failed, so he quickly asked for orders to withdraw the troops. Sun Chuanting also lamented, and had to nod and agreed to withdraw the troops. He quickly gathered the troops that had already left the camp back into the camp, and closed the camp again, hugged his head and waited for the beating.

After the officers and soldiers retreated, hundreds of corpses of officers and soldiers were left on the battlefield, and many of them were not dead. They were lying on the battlefield and wailing. Their situation can be said to be terrible.

After Xing Tian's army repelled the official army, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue them. They watched the official army flee back to the camp, and immediately sent people out to start cleaning the battlefield, dragging some lords that had not yet been destroyed and abandoned by the official army. Then they dragged the bodies of the officers and soldiers back in batches and pulled them to a distance and buried them.

As for the seriously injured officers and soldiers, they must be helpless, so Xiao Tianjian ordered their pain to be relieved and they were sent to the road. For the slightly injured, they were bandaged and treated well by the battalion.

The official army could only watch the Xingtian army clean the battlefield outside the camp. Some generals who were blinded could not help but order the firecrackers to kill the Xingtian army soldiers who entered the battlefield to try to clean the battlefield. However, it immediately attracted fierce revenge from the Xingtian army's cannons. In a short time, groups of artillery shells roared into the position where they fired the cannons, and soon overturned the fired general cannons to the ground. The remaining official army was so scared that they did not dare to fire the cannons anymore, so they could only hide in the camp and stare at them.

This time, the morale of the government army was even worse. The entire government army camp was like a dead zone. No one spoke, and they stood or sat so blankly, looking at each other in a daze.

After a while, someone scolded that this job was impossible. They were dead and they could no longer escape. When one person scolded him like this, more people followed him. The morale that had already fallen to the bottom of the valley was even more unrecognizable. For this reason, Sun Chuanting had to ask the Shangfang Sword and killed a group of soldiers and generals in succession. This was how much suppressed the morale of the army.

However, everyone no longer had any hope of breaking through. They were all lying in the camp, looking at the sky, with a dull look on their faces, and they were waiting for death.

Besides, although Bai Guangen was willing to lead his troops to rescue Sun Chuanting, after arriving at Daming Mansion, he found that this was not working at all. Not to mention that after his men met Ma Ke's men, their morale was greatly affected. The soldiers and generals complained about this, thinking that they were seeking death this time. There must be a large army of Xingtian thieves waiting for them to come, so their morale was very low. Even the night before arriving at Daming Mansion, there was a large number of deserters, which made Bai Guangen quite helpless.

However, when Sun Chuanting asked for help from him, Bai Guangen still gritted his teeth and led his troops forward. However, after arriving at Daming Mansion, he was blocked by Xing Tian's soldiers.

This time, Luo Li and Li Xin did not play any conspiracy with Bai Guangen. As soon as the troops arrived, they set off to fight. Bai Guangen personally led his troops to attack Luo Li's troops, but the result was very simple. He was beaten up and retreated in the wilderness. Then Luo Li personally led his troops to launch a counterattack against Bai Guangen's troops. After one day of a battle between the two armies, Bai Guangen's troops fled and fled. When he fled back to Shunde Mansion, there were only more than 4,000 soldiers left. Most of the soldiers and generals mutinized and surrendered to Xingtian's army, causing Bai Guangen's rescue operations to come to an end miserably. At this point, the reinforcements that Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui were expected were completely lost.

Shortly after Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui were defeated and surrounded, someone quickly sent the news back to the capital. After hearing this, Chongzhen burst into tears on the spot. It can be said that all his hopes were smashed by Xiao Tianjian at this moment.

Originally, he risked the world's ruthlessness to propose peace with Jiannu, just to draw the Northern Army to go south to deal with Xingtian Army, in order to restrain Xingtian Army and save the Ming Dynasty that was about to collapse. However, now first, the news of Wang Pu's defeat came, followed by the news of Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui's defeat and besieged. At this time, is the world really helpless?

Chen Xinjia, as the auxiliary minister of Chongzhen, had already completely caught the blind at this time. He had already transferred all the troops and horses that could be transferred outside the pass into the pass. However, these Guanning troops, Xuan Dajian, and Liaodong soldiers were still inferior to each other. When Xingtian troops met, there was only one word defeat, and they were defeated again and again. Now Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui were surrounded by Xingtian troops in Yanggu County, and his life and death were unknown. He could only ask Chongzhen to ask him to send Bai Guangen and Ma Ke to rescue him immediately.

After hearing this, Chongzhen had no choice but to agree, and personally drafted a copy of the order, and sent people out of the capital to Shunde Mansion overnight, ordering Ma Ke and Bai Guangen to rescue Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui's troops. At this time, Wu Sangui's old man Wu Xiang was also anxious and kept sending people to Beijing to lobby the court officials, asking them to find a way to dispatch reinforcements to rescue his precious son Wu Sangui. However, even if the court officials in the court collected money, there were no soldiers to adjust. No one could understand how many soldiers and horses the Xingtian army now had, and they could use troops in several directions at the same time. From the news, it seemed that there were a lot of troops in each place. It was estimated that if they were combined, it would have at least hundreds of thousands of troops. The court had a full battle to calculate that the country's troops were only hundreds of thousands, and it was scattered on the huge territory. Who could be transferred to rescue Wu Sangui and Sun Chuanting?

However, news came from Ma Ke and Bai Guangen's troops who were highly anticipated by Chongzhen soon, and both of them suffered losses at the hands of Xing Tian Army. First, Ma Ke was defeated in Daming Mansion and withdrew back to Shunde Mansion, and then Bai Guangen failed to rescue and retreated back to Shunde Mansion.

After Bai Guangen returned to Shunde Prefecture, he immediately initiated the court, impeaching Ma Ke to avoid war and refuse to go, and refused to save him when he was dead. Ma Ke also expected that Bai Guangen would definitely impeach him after he returned from defeat, so he sent someone to report to the court one step ahead, saying that Bai Guangen was alone and did not listen to the advice, resulting in a great defeat, and refused to cooperate with him to send troops together.

So the lawsuit was to be fought. The court officials who had nothing to do after eating and had nothing to do began to argue about who was wrong. In the end, Chen Xinjia could not determine who was true, so he sent someone to Shunde Prefecture to find out the situation and went back to convict him separately, but he first convicted Wang Pu, who was defeated in Shuozhou. He removed Wang Pu from his position as the general of Datong for the unfavorable battle, demoted him to a general, and removed Wang Pu from his position as a general.

But at this moment, Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui were not allowed to save anyone, including Chongzhen, the government and the people, so they had to let Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui ask for more blessings.

The news that Bai Guangen was repelled was ordered by Xiao Tianjian to send someone to the outside of the official army camp and shouted to the official army with a loud voice. It can be said that the trapped officials and soldiers were well known to them. At the same time, they also informed them of Ma Ke's refusal to support him. Now they have become lonely and advised them not to resist in unnecessary resistance. The court can no longer bring out the officers and soldiers to rescue them again. They advised Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui and other officials to give up their fantasies quickly and not to bury the court for their lives. They should go out of the camp to surrender, so as not to let the officers and soldiers die or suffer any more casualties.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also asked his subordinates to shout to the official army camp, telling them that as long as they surrender, they could ensure their safety. The Xingtian Army would never kill prisoners. No matter what they had done before, as long as they had changed their minds and become good people in the future, they would not blame everything before. This was also the formal announcement of the Xingtian Army's prisoner-of-war policy.

In addition to doing these things, Xiao Tianjian also sent out the injured officers and soldiers who were sheltered in the army and asked them to go outside the official army camp to tell the officers and soldiers in the camp that after these people were injured, Xing Tian’s army not only did not kill them, but also treated them, and kept them full, so as to enhance the effect of persuading surrender. After all, everyone is Han, and they do not have to fight with their lives like this. In the future, they can still deal with Jiannu together.

As a result, when they learned that the reinforcements had no hope, the officers and soldiers in the camp were even more panicked, and their morale became floating. They even ran to some brave Xingtian Army troops to yell in the ground with an arrow, and were too lazy to shoot them again. Groups of officers and soldiers stared at the camp, sitting at the edge of the camp, looking outside, some people's hearts were already alive.

Many officers and soldiers actually have families and families. Some of them come to join the army because they are originally military households and cannot do anything except for being a soldier. They have very low status, some people have committed crimes and are charged into the army. Some people have fun in the army, and some people have food and salary, and have hope of winning a battle. This job is still possible for them, but once they are desperate, the soldiers will not have much courage to fight their lives.

Sun Chuanting was also frowning in the camp, but sometimes he had to smile and make a relaxed expression to comfort his soldiers and generals. At this time, he also knew that the possibility of them breaking through was not high, and that the morale of the army was not long, and even if the food and fodder they carried this time could last for a while, the morale of the army had dispersed, and the possibility of this battle was basically not high.

However, he had never thought about surrender. In his opinion, he was a capable minister, and should also be a famous minister and a loyal minister. Surrendering to the Xingtian thief is unimaginable. Since he could not eliminate such disasters for the court in his life, he would also be a minister who sacrificed his life for his country.

Therefore, he asked Wu Sangui for a secret discussion, and Wu Sangui also expressed that he would never surrender to Xing Tianjun. After all, their Wu family's property is in the Guanning area and the capital, and surrender is not a choice for him. Moreover, if he surrenders, his family will definitely be implicated and may be hated by the emperor in the future. Therefore, he expressed his willingness to protect Sun Chuanting and break out.

After the two of them had a long secret talk, they finally made up their minds to break through again. After cleaning up a little, Sun Chuanting secretly ordered his battalion to prepare for breaking through. In addition, Wu Sangui also brought his Liaodong army together, and they were the main force in this breakthrough.
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