Chapter 331

"I dare not; I didn't think that much at the time; I just wanted to atone for my sins." Hou Yuan's face showed shame.

Now that I think about it, those nobles are really not human.

Forcibly dragging farmers over to die just to maintain their own interests..

182. Wei Pao's anger

"What happened in the front? Why is there no news?" Wei Pao stood on a small hill and looked forward, finding no movement in the front.

Although there were two cannon sounds, there was no movement after the cannon sounds passed.

"Could it be that Hou Yuan and the others were wiped out by two shots?" Someone asked worriedly.

"Fart! It was only two shots; how could it kill twenty thousand people? If there were such a powerful weapon, we would all surrender!" Wei Pao said.

"Then could it be that there were not many enemy troops in the front, and General Hou Yuan wiped them out directly?" Another person said.

"Impossible! Zhuge Liang and the others are not that stupid!" Wei Pao shook his head: "Send scouts to take a look."

Soon, a few horses ran toward the front quickly.

These few scouts ran on the road for a while and didn't find anyone.

After passing a narrower road, several tripwires suddenly appeared on the ground.

These scouts couldn't react at all and fell to the ground with their horses.

"Don't move!"

A group of soldiers ran over from the side of the road, holding long spears and short swords to control the scouts.

On the other side, Wei Pao and the others waited for a long time without waiting for the scouts to return.

At this time, they also felt something was wrong.

"Could it be that Hou Yuan and the others were wiped out?" Wei Pao frowned.

"This is impossible; they have twenty thousand people. Even if they were all killed, we should be able to hear a sound, right?" Young Master Lu said.

"Could they have fled?" Someone asked.

"Where to flee? If they could flee, wouldn't we be able to flee too?" Another person said.

"Could it be... surrendered?" Someone in front said.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and all felt that the possibility of surrender was very high.

Because the troops brought by Hou Yuan were miscellaneous troops, and the soldiers inside were farmers who had just been captured not long ago.

These people had poor discipline and weak combat effectiveness; once not strictly guarded, they might flee in the face of battle!

"If they surrendered, that is a capital crime; I will not let a single one go!" Wei Pao's face turned blue.

Then, Wei Pao sent another reconnaissance team to scout.

This time, hundreds of people were sent, and they were asked to keep a certain distance.

If the people in front had an accident, the people in the back would immediately return to report.

Before long, scouts ran back, saying that enemy troops were found in the front, and the scouts who rushed to the front were either captured or killed.

Although they didn't see Hou Yuan's army, it could basically be concluded that Hou Yuan had surrendered!

Because only surrender would make it look so quiet.

If Hou Yuan and the others had all died in battle, not only would it have made a big noise, but there would also be a lot of corpses on the ground.

But according to the scouts' reconnaissance, there were no corpses or bloodstains on the road ahead, nor were there any traces of fighting.

"Hou Yuan, this bastard, actually surrendered!" Wei Pao was half-dead with anger: "I must tear him into pieces!"

"Hou Yuan's matter can be put aside for now; the key is what should we do now?" Young Master Lu asked.

"There is no way back; order General Zheng to charge forward!"

Wei Pao made up his mind; this time, no matter what, he had to charge out.

Soon, General Zheng brought one hundred thousand troops and charged forward.

These one hundred thousand troops were elites, and the soldiers among them were well-equipped and loyal, with very strong combat effectiveness.

Originally, they intended to let Hou Yuan's two thousand miscellaneous troops test the opponent's reality first before they took action.

But now that Hou Yuan had surrendered directly, they had no way back and could only charge forward.

One hundred thousand troops rushed out of the forest, and when they arrived at the main road, the cannon sounded.

Countless shells fell from the sky and exploded in the crowd.

When one hundred thousand troops were squeezed together, every shell exerted the greatest lethality.

One shell could kill or injure more than a dozen people.

For large-scale battles, there is not much difference between being injured and dead.

Unless it is a minor injury, there is still some combat effectiveness.

Once the injury is relatively heavy, combat effectiveness will be lost.

Soldiers without combat effectiveness are no different from dead people.

Only when they win can some wounded soldiers survive.

But once defeated, those wounded soldiers will not survive nine times out of ten.

There is no need for the enemy to make up a knife; as long as they are not taken care of, they will die from wound infection themselves.

"Charge, charge for me, don't stop, anyone who violates the order will be beheaded!" Zheng Guan, who led the team, ordered loudly.

Under strict orders, the soldiers rushed forward like crazy.

The sound of cannons kept ringing, soldiers kept falling, and the ground was soon covered with corpses.

There were also some wounded soldiers wailing loudly.

"General, we can't charge through; we've lost too many people!"

A deputy general said anxiously.

This was the first time he had seen such a tragic scene.

Before, when besieging the Xianyang Palace, they were also bombed by artillery, but the situation at that time was not as bad as this.

At that time, there was so much space outside the Xianyang Palace, and the soldiers were not too close to each other.

But now it's different; so many people were squeezed together almost shoulder to shoulder, and one shot killed a large area!

They wanted to let the soldiers disperse, but the terrain of this road was narrow, with hillsides on both sides, so they couldn't disperse even if they wanted to.

"..This battle can't be fought!" Zheng Guan stomped his feet in anger.

He had been leading troops to fight for so many years and had never encountered such a situation.

In the past, both sides would rush together to fight, so it was no problem for soldiers to be squeezed into a pile, and they would even deliberately stand together.

But now, they hadn't even seen the shadow of the other party, and their side had already suffered heavy losses.

Seeing that forcing a charge would only result in more casualties, Zheng Guan had no choice but to order a retreat.

It was not easy for them to retreat either; during the retreat, the opponent's shells kept falling, killing many more soldiers.

By the time Zheng Guan led the remaining people to a safe position, only sixty thousand of the one hundred thousand remained.

Half of the remaining forty thousand were not dead, but they were injured and couldn't move, so they could only lie on the ground in despair waiting for death. Soon, Wei Pao received the news from the front.

When he learned that forty thousand troops had been lost without even seeing the opponent, he couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

To charge out, they had to pass the artillery hurdle.

Unless the opponent's shells were used up, they shouldn't think about charging to the opponent's front.

It's just that no one knew how many shells Ying Su's army had.

They didn't dare to gamble.

"It seems that we can only place our hope on General Meng's side." Wei Pao sighed.

He had already lost tens of thousands of people and couldn't lose any more troops.

If Meng Tian could open a gap, then he was prepared to lead the main army to break out in the direction of Meng Tian.

Just as he was about to send someone to Meng Tian to inquire about the news, the messenger sent by Meng Tian arrived first.

"Lord Wei, General Meng ordered me to come and see how you are doing."

The messenger came to Wei Pao and bowed..

183. Working without effort

"You came just in time; tell me first, how are things on your side?" Wei Pao asked.

"When the end general left, General Meng was leading the troops to fight with the enemy; as for how it is now, the end general doesn't know." The person said.

"The result is unknown, but the battle situation should be known, right?" Wei Pao said.