Chapter 806: Stealing Chickens and Shedding Rice

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In the dark of night, Shizu Army soldiers stepped on landmines one after another.

A loud explosion accompanied by flames soared into the air, swallowing the darkness for a hundred meters around.

In the light, the figures of the Shizu Army soldiers were revealed in every detail, exposed to the eyes of the Prince's Personal Army soldiers.

They raised their rifled muskets, aimed at the Shizu Army soldiers, and pulled the triggers.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Dense gunfire rang out, and Shizu Army soldiers fell in rows along their path of charge.

The artillerymen aimed their rifled cannons at the Shizu Army soldiers and loaded them with explosive shells.

"Boom!"

The muzzle flashed with flame, and the cone-shaped explosive shell flew out of the barrel, flying straight toward the Shizu Army soldiers.

The immense force directly pierced through the first soldier it struck; the cannonball, its momentum undiminished, continued to fly, skewering over a dozen soldiers before finally stopping.

Just then, the fuse of the explosive shell burned out, and with a "boom," it exploded.

Shizu Army soldiers within a twenty-meter radius fell into pools of blood amidst screams.

"Charge, charge! Keep charging, we'll win soon!" the Shizu Army general shouted.

They did not realize that something was buried under the ground, thinking only that the enemy's explosive shells had fallen into their ranks.

After all, he had never seen such a thing as a landmine before.

The Shizu Army soldiers were equally confused, believing only that they had gotten too close and were suddenly discovered by the enemy.

If they could charge through these two hundred meters and break into the Yan King Army's camp, they would win.

Thus, under the clamor of their general, they continued to charge forward.

Yet, with every step they took, some of their soldiers would step on a landmine.

They, along with the soldiers around them, were blown to pieces, leaving nothing behind.

"Boom!", "Boom!", "Boom!"

Landmines exploded one after another.

Zhao Xu and generals like Chang Wei naturally woke up as well; they arrived at the edge of the camp to observe the battlefield.

"His Highness truly predicts things like a god; they really took the bait." Chang Wei's eyes shone as he looked toward the area lit up by the explosions.

Because it was a sneak attack, the Shizu Army soldiers were gathered together in dense crowds.

Each landmine explosion could kill or injure hundreds of people.

Their landmines were not small; they were as big as a person's head and filled with yellow gunpowder, belonging to the heavy landmine category.

When the landmines exploded, the earth even trembled continuously.

"A wolf on the verge of starvation will try to eat the meat inside even if it knows there is a trap ahead, let alone when they cannot judge whether it is a trap or not," Zhao Xu sneered.

Then, he said to Chang Wei, "Seize this opportunity, launch a counter-raid, take out the second trench, and it would be best to take Jinling City as well."

"Yes, Your Highness," Chang Wei said loudly, giving Zhao Xu a military salute.

Zhao Xu nodded and continued to look at the perimeter of the camp.

After suffering from the landmine traps, the Shizu Army did not retreat immediately but continued to struggle to charge toward the camp.

This scene made the corners of Zhao Xu's mouth lift slightly.

I fear that even now, they still believe their surprise attack has succeeded.

Being discovered within two hundred meters on the battlefield does not count as a failure.

For Zhao Xu, he was naturally happy to see such a situation.

In this way, they could take the opportunity to eliminate more of their effective strength.

If they had realized they were being tricked from the start, his plan would have been a failure instead.

"Bang, bang, bang... boom, boom, boom..." In the camp, the rifled muskets and artillery of the Wangfu Army continuously spat tongues of flame.

Shizu Army soldiers kept falling like moths to a flame.

Because they were numerous, despite facing the landmine traps and the attacks of the Prince's Personal Army, they were still advancing overall.

The two-hundred-meter minefield was being continuously breached by them.

One hundred ninety meters, one hundred eighty meters, one hundred sixty meters, one hundred fifty meters, one hundred forty meters.

Shizu Army soldiers roared as they kept advancing, but their casualties were also growing larger.

Gradually, the eastern sky turned a pale white.

The sky changed from deep darkness to becoming transparent.

And then, from transparent mixed with darkness, it gradually became completely transparent.

The morning glow rose, and the whole world brightened; at this time, the Shizu Army had charged to a position fifty meters in front of the camp.

The one hundred fifty meters they had crossed were covered with dense piles of corpses.

"Boom!"

The landmines were still exploding, but only the last row of landmines remained at the fifty-meter mark.

When the landmines exploded, in the bright light, they finally saw clearly that the explosions were coming from underground.

But the soldiers in front had only just realized this before they perished in the explosion of the landmines.

"Fix bayonets!"

Seeing that the Shizu Army was still charging, the generals of the Prince's Personal Army shouted one after another.

Once the Shizu Army soldiers crossed these fifty meters, the next stage would be hand-to-hand combat.

Under the orders of the generals, the soldiers successively fixed their bayonets onto the gun barrels, their expressions solemn.

"How did this bunch of bastards suddenly become so fearless of death?" Chang Wei was somewhat alarmed.

After fighting bitterly for nearly an hour, they had killed a large number of Shizu Army soldiers, yet now they still had not collapsed; this simply defied reason.

Zhao Xu was calmer than Chang Wei, and he said, "In the dead of night, you can't even see your own hand in front of your face; is it more terrifying to have people killed, or to witness a killing with your own eyes in broad daylight?"

Upon hearing this, Chang Wei suddenly realized, "Your Highness is absolutely right; at night, they are in such chaos that they don't even know how many people have died, but they will come to their senses soon."

It was just as Zhao Xu had judged.

In the dark of night, the powerful clan soldiers did not know how many people were around them, nor could they see the casualties clearly.

The powerful clan commanders were the same; they just blindly ordered their soldiers to charge.

Because they did not know this was a trap.

Moreover, as they charged, the soldiers behind kept pushing forward, forcing them to continue the charge.

At this moment, many commanders and soldiers came to their senses.

Right now, beneath their feet were dense piles of soldier corpses, and blood flowed like a stream.

More importantly, some of the taller soldiers looked back and discovered that there were hardly any soldiers left behind them.

In this hour of charging, they had suffered heavy casualties.

Yet the opposing soldiers had basically suffered almost no losses.

Facing the gleaming bayonets, they were finally afraid.

To continue charging forward would be a dead end.

Thus, their charging pace gradually slowed, the soldiers looked at each other, and gradually some began to retreat.

First it was one person, then two, and immediately after, a hundred, a thousand.

Once the rout began, it could not be mended.

The powerful clan commanders and soldiers finally realized that the surprise attack had failed completely.

"Kill!"

Just as the powerful clan soldiers and commanders were fleeing in panic, the Prince's Personal Army soldiers let out a roar that shook the sky.

They leveled their bayonets and charged toward the routed powerful clan soldiers.

Of course, their charge had a purpose.

Most of the soldiers killed their way toward the direction of the second trench.

There were also more than ten soldiers carrying small boats, running behind the soldiers in front.

At the same time.

Xie Duan, Luse, and the others in the second trench looked ashen.

After dawn, they surveyed the battlefield.

In this hour of slaughter, not only had they failed to break into the opponent's camp, but they had also lost forty percent of their soldiers.

Now, the remaining soldiers were like pigs being chased, fleeing in a panic.

What was even more desperate was that the Yuntai River stood between them and these soldiers.

In such chaos, how were they to cross the river?

This time, they had tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice!

No, it was not just losing the rice, but losing their very lifeblood.