Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2270 Song general betrays Zhao and surrenders to Wang Han; Lan Yu captures Chen County in ten days.

After Zhong Shidao gave the order to retreat, Gao Chong and Xia Luqi, despite their superior strength, managed to withdraw from the battlefield after some effort.

However, Yue Neng and his son Yue Xiaofei did not have this ability.

In fact, Jiu Chong, who used his trump card, suffered considerable losses afterward.

However, they are still no match for Yue Neng and Yue Xiaofei, two top-tier generals.

These two individuals, the former with a base combat strength of 103 points and the latter with a base combat strength of 102 points, are actually not bad.

With the combined skills of the father and son, plus the boost from Yue Xiaoliang's previous death, if they were to face a god-level general like Zheng Zishan, even if they ultimately couldn't defeat him, they could still hold out for a while.

However, when facing a master like Jiu Chong, losing Zhao Changling as their main force would make things very difficult for them.

Even though Jiu Chong was quite exhausted at this point, it wouldn't be easy for the two of them to just leave like that.

At the critical moment, it was Yue Neng, as a father, who risked his life to buy his son a chance to break through.

However, he himself was brutally killed by Jiu Chong after only five rounds.

Although Yue Xiaofei was heartbroken, he was unwilling to let his father sacrifice himself in vain. He could only save his life so that he could avenge his father and his brother later.

But in the end, heaven did not show him any mercy!
Yue Neng risked his life to buy him a chance to break through.

However, during his breakout, he happened to run into Wu Zhiqi, who had failed to kill Gao Chong.

Wu Zhiqi originally intended to gain fame by killing a well-known general of the Zhao Song dynasty.

However, Gao Chong's strength was simply too formidable, no less than his own. Therefore, he couldn't defeat him single-handedly.

At this moment, Wu Zhiqi was feeling depressed, and he just happened to run into Yue Xiaofei, who was about to escape.

Although Yue Xiaofei was a minor figure in the entire Song Dynasty compared to Gao Chong, Wu Zhiqi was certainly not going to let him go now that he had fallen into his hands.

After five rounds, they killed him with a single blow.

Yu Hualong, a fierce general of the Song Dynasty, has a base martial prowess of 100 points, which puts him in the ranks of top-tier generals.

However, during the retreat, he was blocked by the old general Bi Jin. Although he successfully shot and killed the old general Bi Jin with a dart.

However, Bi Jin's obstruction delayed Yu Hualong's escape.

So much so that in that very short moment, Han generals Fu Youde and Gan Ning joined forces and pounced on them.

With the two working together, Yu Hualong was already at a disadvantage in less than five rounds.

Yu Hualong originally wanted to use the same trick again, using his hidden darts.

However, during the process, Gan Ning preemptively chained his wrists, giving Fu Youde the opportunity to kill him with a single blow. Although Chang Yuchun did not inflict a significant number of casualties on the Zhao Song forces during the Battle of Lingyang Ferry, his overall performance was still commendable.

However, he successfully killed a number of Zhao Song generals, including Zhao Changling, Xia Shuyan, Yue Neng, and Yue Xiaofei, which greatly dampened the morale of the Zhao Song army.

In addition, Yao Mian and Yang Da, the two military commanders who guarded the ferry crossing during the Song Dynasty, were originally scholars. However, during the retreat, in such a chaotic environment, no one could take care of them, and they died in the chaos of the army.

They didn't even know who killed them.

After Lingyang Ferry, Chang Yuchun divided his troops into three routes to attack the three county towns closest to them.

After all, having only one ferry crossing is not enough; only after capturing the city can they establish a stable foothold on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Only after capturing a sufficient number of cities can the subsequent grain supplies be transported over and have a stable place to be stored.

Only then could their army use this as a base to continue advancing southward.

Zhao Wuji, who was Zhao Kuangyin's chief military commander stationed in Hexi, clearly understood this principle very well.

Therefore, Zhao Wuji appointed Gao Huaide, Zhong Yi, and Li Jilong as generals, with each of them leading 15,000 troops to garrison the area.

It wasn't that Zhao Wuji was unwilling to give them more troops, but rather that the cities closest to the ferry crossing were all small towns, and having too many troops would actually make them difficult to defend.

However, just ten days later, an incident occurred that infuriated Zhao Wuji: Tong Guan, Zhong Yi's deputy general, colluded with Cai Jing, the magistrate of Chen County, to seduce the Han.

As a result, in just ten days, Chen County, the central city of the three cities, had already been captured by Lan Yu.

The 15,000-strong garrison in Chen County was almost completely wiped out. The garrison commander, Zhong Yi, and his two brothers, Zhong Gu and Zhong Zhen, all died in battle after the city fell. Only Zhong E led a thousand or so remaining troops to successfully break through the siege.

Cai Jing was originally a high-ranking official in the Song Dynasty, but he was demoted to a county magistrate due to corruption.

People like them, even if they are not completely devoted to the Song Dynasty, are actually quite rare to surrender right away, since the great war between the two sides has only just begun.

The reason these two surrendered to the Han Dynasty right away was actually because they were forced to.

Many years before the Han-Song War, a group of officials in the Zhao Song dynasty had already been corrupted and won over by secret agents using gold and silver.

Cai Jing and Tong Guan were just two of many people in this large group.

In fact, Cai Jing and Tong Guan had no idea that those people were members of the Luo Wang organization. For them, the most important thing was to successfully amass wealth.

However, over the years, Cai Jing and a large group of people, including Tong Guan, had unknowingly engaged in a great deal of gold and silver transactions with the Luo Wang (Net of Heaven).

Now, at this critical moment in wartime, Yan Ruohai, the pacification commissioner of Luo Wang Da Cang Town, directly exposed all the transactions they had made over the years to Cai Jing and Tong Guan.

Under these circumstances, what could Cai Jing and Tong Guan possibly do?
Once these transaction records are leaked to the higher-ups, even if the two of them claim they don't know those people are from the Luo Wang organization, will Zhao Kuangyin believe them?
Therefore, when Yan Ruohai and the people from Luowang threw those transaction records in their faces, they had no other choice.

In this situation, they could only cooperate with the people of Luo Wang to help the Han general Lan Yu outside the city easily take over the city and sell out all the Song generals and soldiers in the city.