Conquering Myriad Worlds from the Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 994 The Autumn Wind Sweeps the Fallen Leaves

Less than two years after the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, everything the Qing court had been drained dry by Xinghan.

The Qing dynasty nobles, hiding in the mountains, were still unable to wake up from their old dreams, but reality was far more cruel than they had imagined.

Everything they relied on had been deciphered by Xinghan.

But they knew nothing about it.

"General, another mountain stronghold has fallen. We can't go on like this!" Deep in the mountains, a group of Qing dynasty remnants were holding a meeting.

Yu Jin's plan to "stir up trouble" was very successful, especially Huang Cheng's swift and decisive destruction of the two mountain strongholds, which instilled fear in them.

They didn't understand why Xinghan would go to such lengths to deal with them.

"What's there to be afraid of? This mountain range is our territory. Even if it's 30,000 against 50,000, the advantage is still with us."

The Qing general, known as Xuan Yi, was from the Aisin Gioro clan. Even in his decline, he still maintained the so-called family glory.

They disregarded Yu Jin's 50,000-strong army.

"Report, General, 20,000 enemy troops have headed west of the mountains."

"Is this an attempt to block our way out?" Xuan Yi was very familiar with the terrain near the mountains and immediately understood Yu Jin's meaning.

"What an idiot!" Xuan Yi's face showed a sneer, which then turned into excitement.

"Such an idiot can be sent to the battlefield as a general? Xinghan is nothing more than this!"

"Go and gather the men in the mountains, give them a good beating, and steal all their supplies!"

Xuan Yi excitedly began making arrangements.

Yu Jin had only 50,000 troops. After dividing 20,000 of them, he would definitely have to send more men to those side roads.

He wasn't afraid of being outnumbered, but now that they have the advantage, he wants to teach Yu Jin a lesson.

This mountain range was his carefully planned territory, and he was confident that he could make the most of its advantages.

On the other side, Yu Jin was tinkering with warplanes, which were best suited for reconnaissance in the mountains and forests, and could clearly locate enemy troops from high altitude.

"Report, Marshal, the enemy in the mountains seems to be moving in groups!" the falconer hurriedly reported.

"Hahaha, good time!"

Yu Jin laughed loudly, not expecting the lure to come out of its hole to be so effective. The other side was quite bold, not only not running away, but also taking the initiative to attack them.

That saved him a lot of trouble.

"Pass down the order: double the number of night patrols for the next two days, and be on high alert for enemy ambushes."

"Send out all the falcons and keep a close watch on the enemy."

Yu Jin's gaze fell on a corner of the camp.

That was a flaw he had left when he set up camp, the perfect spot for the enemy to launch an attack.

Once the other party falls headlong into this trap, he guarantees they will never return.

Although the Qing army was already in decline, because they had not been in decline for long, they still possessed about 90% of their basic qualities.

In just three days, they had assembled their forces and launched a night raid on the forbidden camp.

Without probing or harassment, he confidently led his troops in a strong attack.

When Yu Jin received the intelligence, he was stunned for a moment and began to wonder if he had missed anything.

Seeing the opponent's all-out offensive, Yu Jin finally realized with great difficulty that the Qing general commanding these 30,000 remnants was a novice who had never commanded troops before.

If the Qing army hadn't been completely puppetized, making command easier, the enemy might not have even been able to organize an attack.

Yu Jin found this discovery incredible.

He had assumed that most of the remaining Qing troops under such circumstances were talented individuals.

But I never expected there to be such a good-for-nothing.

"All soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy! The annihilation of the enemy is today!" Xuan Yi unleashed a fierce legion attack, directly tearing open a large gap in the camp left by Yu Jin.

Amidst the swirling dust and mist, Xuan Yi radiated a purple light, dyeing all the soldiers behind him purple.

After being covered in purple, the speed of all the soldiers increased significantly.

"Kill!" Xuan Yi roared, leading his personal guards at the forefront as they charged toward the center of the camp.

Huang Cheng led his soldiers, the Son of Heaven, directly to meet them.

At this moment, Yu Jin didn't care what Xuan Yi was thinking. He directly used the Yellow Emperor's Son to block the gate from the bottom, and his army rushed out from both sides to directly attack the Qing army's rear.

Since they had already stepped into his trap, he would show no mercy and annihilate the enemy forces here.

The appearance of Huang Cheng and others did not move Xuan Yi in the slightest; he had great confidence in his own personal guards.

As a member of the Aisin Gioro clan, although he was just a leisurely prince, his personal guards were still the Eight Banners cavalry.

The Eight Banners Cavalry with three talents is undoubtedly a very good legion.

Although they were reduced to an infantry corps due to their hiding in the mountains and forests and the lack of warhorses, the Eight Banners cavalry were still quite formidable even as infantry.

For ordinary legions, the coordinated close, mid, and long-range offensive tactics would be completely ineffective, but for the Eight Banners cavalry, executing them was as natural as breathing.

Arrows, javelins, and spears rained down on the soldiers of the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group almost simultaneously.

Ordinary legions could not withstand this three-pronged tactic, but it was completely ineffective against these towering heavy infantry.

Heavy shields blocked spears, and sturdy armor deflected javelins and arrows.

"What a tough defense!" Xuan Yi's hands and feet were numb from the force of the recoil.

The collapse of the Qing court also led to the collapse of its intelligence network. The Imperial Guards performed exceptionally well in the war to destroy the Qing, but Xuan Yi had no idea about their intelligence.

Like a headless fly, it crashed directly into an impregnable city wall.

"Crush them!"

Huang Cheng licked his lips, then swung his shield backhand, smashing a Manchu Iron Cavalry soldier into a bloody pulp.

The Eight Banners cavalry, with their three talents, are not at their full potential, but they are still a formidable opponent.

They are a formidable adversary who helped their legion build its monument.

The soldiers of the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group were as fierce as wolves and tigers, their eyes filled with unparalleled greed as they looked at the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners cavalry were furious. When had anyone ever dared to treat them like this, to regard them as prey?

They were the Eight Banners cavalry, the strongest cavalry on this continent.

The Eight Banner soldiers' spears, like venomous snakes spitting their tongues, pierced towards the soldiers of the Son of Heaven, but were blocked by the heavy shields.

Seeing the spear tip sliced ​​open by the shield, leaving only a trail of sparks and a white mark, the Eight Banners soldiers felt a chill in their hearts; this defensive power was simply beyond belief.

"It's my turn!"

The soldiers of the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group, shields raised, charged directly at the faces of the Eight Banners soldiers, excitedly swinging their ring-pommel swords in their other hands. The strike failed to achieve anything; several spears parried the sword, while two more spears, following the direction of the sword, thrust towards the side of the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group soldier.

The soldiers of the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group hurriedly retreated, holding their shields in front of them to block the thrust of the spears.

An arrow shot out from the shadows, struck a soldier, and bounced off. The terrifying defensive ability caused the eyes of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry soldiers who witnessed this scene to twist slightly.

"Can't win?"

Huang Cheng's face twisted slightly; the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group couldn't even defeat the opposing Eight Banners cavalry.

Of course, the opposing side was also helpless against the Son of Heaven, and the two sides actually fought to a standstill.

The attacks of the Eight Banners cavalry could not break through the defenses of the Son of Heaven, and the attacks of the Son of Heaven could be parried by the technology of the Eight Banners cavalry.

The two sides were deadlocked, and it was impossible to determine a winner in a short period of time.

Huang Cheng was furious and wanted to fight his way out with his own strength, but he was forced back by a dense array of spears before he could take more than a few steps.

The spears thrusting out by the Eight Banners cavalry, using each other's strength, also posed a threat to him.

Unable to vent his anger, Huang Cheng could only patiently lead the soldiers of the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group to defend first.

The opposing legion's talent accelerated the soldiers' movements, so much so that the Eight Banners cavalry soldiers were always one step ahead of them.

If it weren't for their incredibly strong defenses, they would have been riddled with holes by the Eight Banners cavalry by now.

Huang Cheng's Legion talent is Muscle Defense, which is a pillar of the Yellow Heaven's Son's incredible defense, but it doesn't help in opening up the situation.

As a result, they were unable to gain any advantage and could only be suppressed and beaten by the Eight Banners cavalry.

But this frustrating situation had a different meaning in Yu Jin's eyes.

"Pretty much as expected!" Yu Jin said, looking at the soldiers on both sides locked in a stalemate.

He didn't care whether the Yellow Heaven's Son battle group could win or not; as long as the other side could complete the sniping mission he assigned, that was enough.

Regardless of Huang Cheng's own thoughts, they at least managed to hold off the Eight Banners cavalry and ensure the stability of the central army camp.

After glancing around and finding the defenses impregnable, Yu Jin turned his gaze toward the Shijun Army Corps.

Although they currently have no connection to time and space, and their only talent is the ability to fit will, they are, after all, the legion that Mu Yi and Han Xin specifically requested to train.

Yu Jin also went to great lengths, arranging this legion in the second wave of the encirclement and infiltration of the rear army, following the gap torn open by the vanguard.

The mission of the air force regiment was to guard the rear of the vanguard and ensure that the enemy forces on both sides would not converge.

“The basic skills have met the standard, but this talent…” Yu Jin looked at the performance of the Shikong Legion and fell silent for a while.

He simply couldn't think of a way to activate the will of the Time Legion, thereby achieving a unified will and completing the groundbreaking feat of a dual-talent will legion.

This was also a headache for Han Xin and Mu Yi.

Bai Qi offered a solution: participate in dozens of battles and win them all to perfectly extract the will.

Han Xin and Mu Yi thought Bai Qi was talking nonsense. After dozens of victories, they had already become a powerful army. What need was there for them to draw out the will?

However, the two still took Bai Qi's advice and let the Time Legion participate in the battle to gain experience, since the growth of the legion is inseparable from the tempering on the battlefield.

Seeing no signs of awakening, Yu Jin quickly abandoned his observation and instead mobilized his soldiers for a more precise encirclement and infiltration.

Because of Xuan Yi's command, the Qing army was almost top-heavy, crashing into the camp like a hammer.

With the Yellow Emperor's Son blocking the offensive, the pressure on the flanking troops was greatly reduced.

Yu Jin commanded his troops to launch an attack from both sides, cutting the Qing army's rear into several sections, disrupting the Qing army's formation, and directly blocking Xuan Yi in the camp.

"Unbelievable! How can someone like this be qualified to be a commander?" Yu Jin said, somewhat incredulously.

The tactics used during the previous chaotic wars in the Central Plains were more flexible than this.

Xuan Yi's assessment of him was that he was like a scholar who only knew how to talk about war on paper, not a normal general at all.

They even lacked the most basic knowledge of what it means to be a general.

Although military texts mention the importance of striking while the iron is hot, it also depends on the actual situation.

Without echelons and depth, the army was completely defeated.

With a few simple commands, Yu Jin scattered the Qing army into disarray.

They were then divided into a series of smaller pieces and eliminated one by one. The whole process was as smooth as flowing water, and no resistance was felt at all.

"Is that all?" Yu Jin felt somewhat bored.

I was really looking forward to this battle, but when it actually happened, there was no sense of accomplishment from victory, only the irony of feeling that the opponent's command was stupid.

“They are just remnants of the old regime, I shouldn’t have had too high expectations of them…” Yu Jin shook his head, his gaze returning to the Eight Banners cavalry.

These soldiers are actually more interesting, after all, they are soldiers standing at the top of the world. If it weren't for the difficulty in recruiting these Eight Banners soldiers, Xinghan might already have a dedicated Eight Banners organization.

The balance of power in the war was almost completely tilted in one direction.

Those demons and immortals were quite good at playing tricks, but they were almost useless in war.

The only useful thing was the Rat Fairy, who dug a tunnel directly to the camp, but Yu Jin had already discovered this.

The secret technique created by the Rat Fairy allows it to fully perceive changes underground and pinpoint the exit of the tunnel with great accuracy.

Yu Jin sent a thousand men to guard the exit, but those whose defenses were not strong enough were riddled with arrows the moment they poked their heads out.

Xuan Yi's plan to blossom both internally and externally has completely failed.

After the Qing army's central army was cut to pieces, even if the Eight Banners cavalry were still very capable, they would have to start to face the limitations imposed by the cloud formations.

The size of the two armies is no longer comparable.

A classic "closing the door and beating the dog" tactic plunged the Qing army into an abyss.

The Eight Banners cavalry were still struggling, but without the entanglement and suppression of cloud energy of equal scale, they were almost unilaterally suppressed and completely lost their previous glory.

Especially at the end, when the army completely surrounded the few hundred Manchu cavalrymen, the battlefield was eerily quiet.

"Surrender! You have no chance of winning!"

"As Marshal, I assure you that if you surrender, we will absolutely not mistreat you!"

Yu Jin shouted to the stubborn Eight Banners cavalrymen, saying that capturing prisoners was far more important than killing them at this time.

"There are only Eight Banners soldiers who died in battle, not Eight Banners soldiers who surrendered!" Xuan Yi roared, and the other Eight Banners soldiers echoed him.

Compared to the Qing army's hysteria, the surrounding Xinghan army was eerily quiet, awaiting Yu Jin's orders.

Yu Jin stared at the battlefield, hesitating to issue any new orders.

This silence filled these Manchu bannermen with fear.

There is a sense of dread, like having a knife held to your throat but not falling.

(End of this chapter)