Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 188, Great Victory on the Grassland

"what!"

Gong Yulie was shocked!
He didn't even see clearly, he only heard the sound of bowstrings vibrating, and he instinctively tilted his head to avoid it. The next moment, a sharp arrow shot towards him, penetrated his cheek, and went out from his ear. The special arrow head directly tore off half of his face skin.

Gong Yulie's expression instantly twisted, and he felt great pain on his face.

He was extremely frightened. If he had not tilted his head instinctively, the arrow would have shot straight through his head.

Before Gong Yulie could recover from the shock, the second arrow arrived!

Gong Yulie was so frightened that he rolled off his horse, which allowed him to avoid the arrow.

Gong Yulie, who survived the disaster, ran quickly towards the crowd.

Fang Yong was already very close to him at this time, the distance between them was less than a hundred meters, and the third arrow was shot out instantly.

"Whoosh!"

A scream came.

Gong Yulie used a grassland soldier as a shield, but the arrow actually pierced the soldier and pierced Gong Yulie's chest.

Gong Yulie fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.

He's not dead.

The arrow had lost its force when it passed through the first man and was now lodged in his ribs.

However, Gong Yulie did not dare to stand up. He knew that if he stood up now, he would surely die. Only by pretending to be dead could he have a chance of survival.

On the other side, Fang Yong saw Gong Yulie fall down and thought he was dead, so he didn't care anymore.

Fang Yong led the Huaiyin army into the grassland troops and killed them indiscriminately.

Those grassland soldiers were only busy fighting for gold on the ground. When Fang Yong came to kill them, they couldn't even find their horses. At this time, they could not put up any effective resistance.

Fang Yong picked up a spear and stabbed it at a grassland soldier, piercing him easily. Then he picked up the corpse and swung it with one hand, swinging it more than ten meters away, knocking a grassland soldier who had just climbed onto a horse away.

The rest of the grassland soldiers had expressions of fear on their faces and had no desire to fight.

Fang Yong led his troops to throw the grassland soldiers into chaos. Especially since Fang Yong himself was extremely powerful, no one could be his match. With the troops fighting back and forth, the grassland soldiers were unable to organize an effective resistance.

Soon, a large number of grassland soldiers began to flee.

Among the many fleeing soldiers, Gong Yulie carried the body that served as his substitute and crawled out carefully like a snail.

A grassland soldier happened to step on him, and Gong Yulie spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Damn you, wait till I get back..."

On the other side, Wei Xing led his troops to rush out of the camp again, blocking the escape route of the grassland soldiers.

Seeing that they could not escape and could not defeat the enemy, the grassland soldiers could only kneel down and surrender.

The leader Batu Xiong roared angrily in the crowd,

"How can we, the dignified men of the grassland, surrender to the little Han people? Let's get up and fight. For all the cowards who surrender, I will execute your families!"

When the grassland soldiers heard this, hesitation flashed in their eyes.

However, before they could hesitate for long, Fang Yong rushed towards Batu Xiong with his gun in hand.

Batu Xiong is not afraid at all. As a descendant of the Golden Family, he is not afraid of any challenges. The Gray Wolf Totem is protecting him, and he will be invincible!
Batu Xiong brandished his sword and slashed towards Fang Yong with full confidence.

With a clang, Batu Xiong's sword was twisted by Fang Yong's gunshot, and his wrist was broken because he could not withstand the huge reaction force. The back of the sword hit Batu Xiong's shoulder and was deeply embedded in the shoulder blade. Batu Xiong himself was knocked off his horse and flew more than ten meters away, falling on a grassland soldier.

"Where is my knife? Where is my knife? Where is it?" Batu Xiong asked in a trance, spitting blood while asking, and was already somewhat unconscious.

The soldier replied: "Your sword is on your shoulder, and you are lying on the centurion's body!"

Upon hearing this, Batu Xiong looked at his shoulder. The back of the knife was embedded in it. The slightest touch caused pain in his bones. He was afraid that the knife had hit his bone.

Looking at the captain below, he had been dead for a long time.

At this time, Batu Xiong felt a little dizzy and his whole body was in pain. His legs went weak and he fell to the ground again.

The soldiers rushed to support him, and Batu Xiong staggered to his feet, spitting out sticky blood from his mouth.

The soldier warned: "General, you are vomiting blood!"

However, Batu Xiong was in pain all over at this time and was no longer aware that he was vomiting blood.

On the other side, Fang Yong knocked Batu Xiong away with one move and thought he was dead, so he ignored him. However, when he looked back by chance, he found that the guy was not dead and stood up, so he led his troops to rush over again!

Batu Xiong was terrified when he saw this, and hurriedly said to the soldiers:
"Quick, run away!"

The soldiers fled with Batu Xiong on their backs, and Fang Yong led his troops to chase after them.

Several grassland soldiers stepped forward to stop them, but were shot away by Fang Yong. One of them happened to hit Batu Xiong who was fleeing, and knocked Batu Xiong and the soldier who was carrying him to the ground.

The blow caused blood to flow out of Batu Xiong's mouth and nose uncontrollably, including some broken organ fragments.

Batu Xiong was about to die after being shot by Fang Yong, but he was lucky enough to hit someone else, which alleviated the impact and he was able to live a little longer. However, his internal organs had already been shattered by Fang Yong's enormous force, and he could not live for long.

Batu Xiong's vision gradually blurred, and vaguely he seemed to see a corpse crawling on the ground not far away.

Hallucination?
The gray wolf totem on the grassland seems to be dying.

Darkness came, and Batu Xiong closed his eyes forever.

By this time, Fang Yong had already killed the grassland soldiers who were blocking his way and rushed over on horseback. Looking at Batu Xiong who had his eyes closed on the ground, he could not help but sneer.

"You still dare to pretend to be dead?"

After saying this, he chopped off Batu Xiong's head with a knife, strung it up with a rope, and ordered the soldiers to raise it in demonstration to undermine the fighting will of the grassland soldiers.

Gong Yulie, who was pretending to be dead, witnessed the whole process. He didn't dare to move, not even to breathe, just like a real corpse. He didn't dare to breathe until Fang Yong left.

At this moment, Gong Yulie memorized Fang Yong's face deeply in his mind.

After Batu Xiong's death, the fighting gradually subsided.

The grassland soldiers lost the courage to resist and knelt on the ground in surrender.

At dawn the next day, rows of grassland people with their hands tied were lined up outside the camp like mountain goods hunted by hunters.

In terms of casualties, in yesterday's battle, Fang Yong's side suffered more than 2,800 casualties, killed more than 4,000 enemies, captured 18,922 people, and had 20,387 war horses.

According to the captured grassland officers, the total number of soldiers in their team was about 26,000, which means that excluding the prisoners and the dead, there were 2,000 to 3,000 people who escaped in the chaos.

There is nothing we can do about it. No matter how tight the encirclement is, there will be omissions. What's more, the encirclement yesterday was not tight.

Most of the gold and silver used to carry out the strategy were successfully recovered after the war, and only a small amount of gold and silver was lost. It may have been taken away by the fleeing grassland people, or it may have been for other reasons.

However, compared with the huge results achieved, these are insignificant.

After the victory, the first problem facing Fang Yong was how to deal with these grassland captives.

With nearly 20,000 prisoners and a language barrier, both management and guarding were a huge hassle.

(End of this chapter)