Chapter 1014: A Complete Victory

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The Jiaozhi soldiers were running, and the Azure Dragon Army soldiers were chasing, firing continuously during the pursuit.

Looking down from high above, the area north of Zhiling County was filled with the figures of Azure Dragon Army soldiers, while the Jiaozhi soldiers to the south were like wild boars scurrying about in disorder, rushing aimlessly toward the Nanmen.

Because there were too many people, the small Nanmen was blocked.

Those in front were squeezed into the gate passage and could not get out, while those behind were desperate to save their lives and kept pushing forward.

The Jiaozhi soldiers caught in the middle could not catch their breath; in their anxious rage, they cursed while swinging their fists to beat the other soldiers around them.

The other soldiers, unable to move, were also in a fit of rage and immediately swung back, hitting each other.

Soldiers who were knocked unconscious fell down and were trampled by others, dying instantly from suffocation.

Other Jiaozhi soldiers grabbed onto the bodies of their comrades, stepping on their heads to climb toward the gate passage.

Other soldiers followed suit; soldiers kept climbing onto the heads of others, only to be dragged down by angry soldiers to be used as stepping stones to climb up.

The trampling became increasingly severe, and soldiers died miserably one after another.

The Jiaozhi generals were also in great distress; soldiers who only wanted to save their own lives would not obey any military orders.

Some generals, accustomed to being imposing in daily life, were pushed by the soldiers and, in their annoyance, drew their blades and slashed wildly at those around them.

How could the terrified and enraged Jiaozhi soldiers tolerate this? Three or five of them snatched the blades and hacked the generals to death.

"Da-da-da..."

While the Jiaozhi soldiers and generals at the Nanmen were plunged into chaos, the Azure Dragon Army closed in steadily.

When they arrived near the Nanmen and saw the large number of Jiaozhi soldiers crowded together, they did not hesitate to have the Machine Gun Team open fire.

Ever since Shang Yi, that big-mouthed fellow, spread the term "Jingguan" (monument of heads) throughout the Azure Dragon Army.

From the soldiers to the generals, everyone hated the Jiaozhi people to the bone.

Early in the founding of Da Song, because it remembered that Jiaozhi had once belonged to the Central Plains dynasties, it had once attempted to restore normal relations with Jiaozhi.

But Jiaozhi not only failed to appreciate this, it also repeatedly raided the borders, plundering Da Song villages near the frontier and slaughtering Da Song commoners.

This was what triggered the war between Da Song and Jiaozhi in the early days of the dynasty.

At that time, Da Song was strong and prosperous, so Jiaozhi naturally did not gain any advantage.

However, because the main threat to Da Song was in the North Territory, it could not station a large army in Jiaozhou permanently.

The Da Song army withdrew, and Jiaozhi kept harassing Jiaozhou, but fearing another punitive expedition from Da Song, they did not dare to send a large army to invade Jiaozhou.

Yet the harassment continued incessantly.

Afterward, the situation remained one of Jiaozhi soldiers harassing and Jiaozhou troops suppressing them.

Now, these wolf-hearted thieves were using the momentum of the Westerners to raid the borders again.

They were truly like mice poking a cat's backside, tired of living too late.

"Give it to them hard, make them cry for their fathers and mothers, make them wet their pants whenever they hear the name of the Azure Dragon Army in the future!" Guo Yong also entered the city while the Azure Dragon Army soldiers were charging.

At this moment, he stood behind the Machine Gun Team, pacing back and forth with his hands on his hips.

"And the hand grenades, are they hanging on your waists to hatch eggs, damn it? Throw them out! If anyone still has a hand grenade on them after the battle, I'll kick them to death!" Seeing a soldier in front with three hand grenades hanging from his waist, Guo Yong cursed.

The order was passed on through his loud voice, and the soldiers relayed it among themselves.

In an instant, hand grenades flew through the air like raindrops toward the Jiaozhi soldiers crowded at the Nanmen.

Under the successive attacks of Qin-series rifles, machine guns, and hand grenades, the Jiaozhi soldiers fell like wheat, row after row.

The Jiaozhi soldiers could not charge out, and the Azure Dragon Army was slaughtering them madly.

Some Jiaozhi soldiers finally broke down; they suddenly knelt on the ground, defecating and urinating in fear, and kept kowtowing to the Da Song soldiers to beg for mercy.

When the Azure Dragon Army soldiers saw this, they stopped firing at these soldiers and continued to shoot the other Jiaozhi soldiers.

When the other Jiaozhi soldiers saw that they could avoid death by surrendering, their resolve instantly collapsed, and they surrendered one after another.

The number of Jiaozhi soldiers kneeling and begging for mercy grew from hundreds to thousands, and from thousands to tens of thousands.

"Surrender your weapons, squat on both sides of the road, and put your hands behind your heads!"

Under Guo Yong's order, a guide shouted to the Jiaozhi soldiers.

This guide was a man from Jiaozhou.

He understood the Jiaozhi language.

Hearing the guide's order, the Jiaozhi soldiers threw their firearms onto the ground in front of them and squatted on both sides of the main road leading to the Nanmen.

These surrendering Jiaozhi soldiers cleared the road, gradually revealing the Jiaozhi soldiers and generals who were still blocked near the Nanmen gate passage.

Seeing one general with magnificent armor, it seemed his status was not low.

Guo Yong's eyes lit up; he took a Qin-series rifle from a soldier and fired a shot at the general's leg.

With a "Bang!", it hit the knee exactly.

The Jiaozhi general immediately knelt down and lay on the ground wailing.

This person was none other than Ruan Youjin, who was preparing to flee.

Now, he no longer had any of his initial imposing manner.

He was only able to be this great general because he was the younger brother of the Jiaozhi Emperor, Ruan Chushan.

Borrowing the momentum given by the Westerners, he had acted like a fox assuming the tiger's might, which gave him the courage to fight the Da Song army.

Never had he imagined that the Da Song army would be even more terrifying than the Frankish people of the past.

Therefore, as soon as the Da Song army charged into the city, his courage shattered instantly, and he fled in a panic.

But because Zhiling County had no east or west gates, only north and south gates, everyone was crowded here, so he naturally did not manage to escape.

"Da-da-da..."

After Ruan Youjin fell, the machine guns opened fire again at the Jiaozhi soldiers near the gate passage.

A quarter of an hour later, the Jiaozhi soldiers at the Nanmen had either surrendered or fallen in pools of blood.

Only the Jiaozhi soldiers who rushed to Nanmen first managed to escape from Zhiling County.

"It is truly overestimating you for our sixty-thousand-strong Azure Dragon Army to march south; the First Army of my Azure Dragon Army is more than enough to annihilate you Jiaozhi!"

Stepping over the corpses of Jiaozhi soldiers, Guo Yong arrived before Ruan Youjin.

In the time it took to shoot the Jiaozhi soldiers just now, he had already confirmed Ruan Youjin's identity.

Unexpectedly, he had caught a big fish.

Ruan Youjin was still rolling on the ground; his knees had been shattered by bullets, and the unbearable pain caused him to scream incessantly.

Guo Yong couldn't be bothered to pay him any mind; he waved his hand at the soldiers, signaling them to take him away to await the disposal of their General Qin Shan.

Immediately afterward, he ordered the soldiers to search the entire Zhiling County and take complete control of this county seat.

Half an hour later, the center and rear armies of Mu An and Shang Yi entered one after another through the city gate.

Qin Shan arrived with the army, and Guo Yong immediately stepped forward to report the battle situation.

"Hmph, a state that is small yet does not humble itself, weak yet does not fear the strong, impolite yet insults a great neighbor, and is greedy and obstinate while clumsy in diplomacy—such a state can be destroyed. Jiaozhi is courting its own destruction," Qin Shan said indifferently after hearing Guo Yong's report.

Through this battle, he had also gauged the weight of the Jiaozhi soldiers; they were about the same as the Shizu Army, or perhaps even inferior to the North Territory troops.

The reason successive Central Plains dynasties suffered losses against Jiaozhi was merely because Jiaozhi was too far from the North Territory, making long-distance expeditions costly in both wealth and effort.

Once the Railway of Great Song extends here in the future, Jiaozhi will never be able to stir up any trouble again.

Of course, they would not give Jiaozhi another chance to stir up trouble.

According to the orders given to him by Yan Wang, even if it means keeping the land but not the people, Jiaozhi must be completely annexed into the territory of Great Song.

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