funbook-pk Chapter 150: The Brutal Chao State Army
Chapter 150: The Brutal Chao State Army
At the same time, on another battlefield.
The rebels fought fiercely with the puppet troops. They did not stop fighting because they were gradually losing strength. Instead, they fought even more fiercely.
The rebels wanted to draw the attention of the puppet army and the North Korean army towards themselves so as to buy more time for the fleeing civilians.
The puppet troops wanted to wipe out these rebels as much as possible so that they could gain some status in the North Korean army instead of being scapegoats without dignity.
Therefore, even if the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, they would roar and slash at each other with their weapons.
This battle can be said to be the last bit of strength the rebels gathered. As long as they can repel the puppet troops before them, they can gain extremely precious time.
Even if they die in battle, they feel it is worth it as long as their loved ones can survive!
Zhang Ye chopped off the enemy's head with one knife, then stuck the knife into the ground and gasped heavily. His hair was disheveled and his forehead was covered with sweat. He was a little slumped and was supported by the knife.
He was too tired and his physical strength had been completely drained. What kept him going was the belief in his heart.
Even though his left arm was injured and his vision was a little blurry, he could not retreat! He had to kill more enemies before he collapsed completely!
"Brothers! Grit your teeth and hold on a little longer! It's almost dark!" Zhang Ye roared and tried hard to stand up.
"We're almost successful!" Zhang Ye wiped his eyes with his hands, and his vision gradually recovered.
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked around and saw that the brothers around him were all trying hard to kill the enemy.
But the gap in strength between the two sides was so great that the rebels had to pay the price of two or even three people to kill one puppet soldier.
If the puppet soldiers were not exhausted, they would not have even made it to the evening.
Zhang Ye gritted his teeth. He felt that he should do something to see if he could temporarily slow down the retreat of the rebels. He looked around again and found a general of the puppet army after a moment.
"Zhang Xu? It's him?" Zhang Ye was shocked when he saw the general's appearance.
Zhang Xu was his uncle's son. He remembered that his uncle was brutally murdered because he would rather die than surrender to the Chao State. He never expected that his son would surrender to the enemy who killed his father.
Thinking of this, he became furious. He took a few deep breaths to regain a little strength, and then pulled the knife from the ground.
"Uncle, please protect Zhang Ye from the spirit of heaven. Even though you don't like me that much... I will never let a scum like Zhang Xu continue to live in this world."
"For bringing shame to your family, I, Zhang Ye, must send him to hell!" After saying that, Zhang Ye began to quietly move towards Zhang Xu's position.
"Kill! Kill them hard for me! There will be rewards if we win the battle!" Zhang Xu commanded his subordinates while waving his sword.
Unlike other exhausted puppet soldiers, Zhang Xu's physical strength was well preserved. He was more afraid of death than anyone else and only dared to hide on the side and command his subordinates.
If any rebel targeted him, he would hide behind his subordinates, and only come out and pretend after his subordinates had dealt with the rebels.
In his opinion, this is what a general should do. Fighting and killing should be left to his subordinates, and everyone can get the reward if they win.
If he died, not only would morale be low, but if the war was lost, everyone would be doomed, and those Korean people would not let the loser go.
"Yes! Kill him for me! Follow me to get the reward after the battle!" Zhang Xu shouted to his subordinates in front.
Suddenly he heard some movement coming towards him, he turned his head sharply and saw a rebel walking towards him with a knife in hand.
He was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately hid behind his subordinates and pointed at the rebels and shouted, "Go and kill him! Go!"
The three subordinates were panting. They followed Zhang Xu's order and immediately surrounded the rebel soldier. After walking a few steps, they found that this seemed to be a general in the rebel army.
The three men stopped at the same time. If the opponent was an ordinary soldier, they would go ahead, but if it was a general, they would have to consider whether they could come back alive.
There are rewards for being alive, what rewards are there for being dead? Can the Chinese burn the rewards for them?
"Why are you standing there? Go kill him!" Zhang Xu was so anxious that he jumped up and down, but when he took a closer look, he found that the man looked very familiar.
"Huh? Zhang Ye? Are you Zhang Ye?" Zhang Xu walked out from behind his subordinate. After being surprised, he sneered:
"So you're still alive? I thought you died out there, but I didn't expect you to become a general of the resistance army."
Zhang Ye also stopped. He was not in a hurry to move forward but took this opportunity to recover his strength.
"Does my survival disappoint you? But Zhang Xu, if your father knew that you defected to the Chao Kingdom, do you think he would forgive you in his grave?"
Zhang Xu laughed loudly and said with disdain: "I have already advised my father, but who told him to be so stubborn?"
"If Daying had not been incompetent, how could Yandong have fallen into the hands of Chao? During the years when Chao ruled us, we didn't live too badly, did we?"
"Father has no idea how good the country is. They have advanced ironmaking technology, charming and beautiful women, and an absolutely fair promotion mechanism."
"What's so good about Daying? My father dedicated his whole life to this damn Daying, but in the end, he is still just a small county magistrate, right?"
"Look at the noble children in the capital. With their family background, they can easily become sixth-rank or even fifth-rank officials!"
Zhang Xu then pointed at himself and said with a smug smile: "Now I am the leader of this puppet army. With a wave of my hand, tens of thousands of people will obey my orders."
"Isn't this a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times better than my father? But it doesn't matter. I will burn paper for my father every year and let him live a rich life in the underworld."
"As for you, Zhang Ye, you are still the same waste as always. It is like this in the Zhang family and it is still like this in the resistance army!"
"Look at your men. They are armed with a bunch of scrap metal and you still want to defeat us? We have advanced weapons and armor provided by the Kingdom of Chao, but what do you have?"
"Relying on that sickle, hammer, shovel and fork? It's so funny!" Zhang Xu kept laughing loudly, and even several subordinates around him laughed along.
"How about this, Zhang Ye, since you and I are cousins, I will give you a chance to lay down your weapons and surrender."
"How about you let all your men surrender and join the puppet army? I will make you a deputy general."
"What's the point of resisting? Isn't it better to live a good life? When we take over the whole of Yandong, Chaoguo will give us enough benefits."
"Whether it's women or money, they will all be ours! I think your father will be happy to see you succeed."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Ye spat on the ground. He stared at Zhang Xu with a cold face and said in a deep voice:
"Fuck your success! I am a Daying man in life and a Daying ghost in death! Even if I die in battle today, I will never let my father down after my death!"
After saying that, Zhang Ye continued to move forward. Zhang Xu suddenly became furious. He saw the wounds all over Zhang Ye's body and his wet hair and realized that this guy was already in a state of exhaustion.
He felt that given Zhang Ye's current condition, he could kill him without any pressure, so he ordered the three subordinates to withdraw.
"Zhang Ye, Zhang Ye, you are obviously a concubine's child, and our Zhang family doesn't treat you as one of our own, but why are you so persistent?"
Zhang Xu said as he drew his sword: "Well, since you want to die so badly, I will send you to meet your servant mother. It will be considered a good deed, right?"
Hearing this, Zhang Ye's pupils suddenly shrank. He gripped the hilt of the knife tightly while his murderous intent was quietly released.
"I will get rid of you for my uncle. You are the biggest shame for the Zhang family!" Zhang Ye swung his knife fiercely, and an invisible sword energy gave Zhang Xu a sense of oppression.
Zhang Xu pretended to be calm and laughed softly, "Haha, with your current state? Can you run away? Do you believe that I can kill you at will?"
"Then give it a try." Zhang Ye raised the knife and made an attacking gesture.
Zhang Xu was instantly furious when he saw Zhang Ye's fearless look. When he and his servants bullied Zhang Ye in Zhang's house, this kid still had this fearless expression even when he was beaten black and blue.
He has always had this expression since he was a child. It's disgusting! It's disgusting!
"Zhang Ye! Go to hell!" Zhang Xu rushed forward with a sword in his hand. When he got close to Zhang Ye, he swung the sword at the latter frantically.
But Zhang Ye nimbly avoided all his attacks. Zhang Xu's attacks failed one after another, and the expression on his face became even more ferocious!
"Why are you looking at me like that, you bastard? Why! Die! Die for me!" Zhang Xu thrust out his sword fiercely, and the sword pierced Zhang Ye's left arm.
Zhang Xu was overjoyed. Just as he was about to draw his sword, he was horrified to see Zhang Ye raised his left arm and held down his sword-holding hand.
"You!? How is it possible! How can you still raise your hand?" Zhang Xu was so anxious that his face turned red. The next second he saw Zhang Ye staring at him coldly.
"You're a disgrace to our family. After all these years, you haven't changed." Zhang Ye held the knife and turned it to one side.
"Without the help of others, you are still such a loser! Do you think you can kill me just because you see me like this?"
After saying that, Zhang Ye raised his hand and slashed at Zhang Xu's left arm with a knife, which directly cut off his entire arm.
Zhang Xu's face was distorted in pain. Zhang Ye loosened his left arm and let it fall limply. Seeing this, Zhang Xu endured the pain and raised his sword to chop Zhang Ye.
But Zhang Ye blocked them with his knife. Zhang Xu's strength gradually ran out, and Zhang Ye found the right moment to chop Zhang Xu again.
Zhang Xu fell to the ground, and his subordinates realized that their leader was going to be hacked to death, so they rushed up in a swarm.
But Zhang Ye's knife was faster than theirs, and he used almost all his strength to chop it out.
"puff!"
A head flew up into the sky! Zhang Xu's body fell to the ground on its side, and the puppet soldiers stopped in fear.
Zhang Ye looked at them fiercely, and several people retreated in fear, shouting as they retreated:
"The general is dead! General Zhang is dead!"
These shouts completely ignited the puppet soldiers' cowardice. They were already physically exhausted and were fighting purely on willpower.
Now that even the general was dead, what reason did they have to continue to hold on? So some puppet soldiers began to retreat, and then more soldiers retreated.
The puppet troops retreated one after another, and the resistance soldiers who had already planned to fight to the death finally reacted and shouted in cheers.
Zhang Ye completely collapsed on the ground. The pain from his left arm caused the muscles on his face to twist, but being able to kill Zhang Xu was enough.
However, the cheers of the rebels did not last long, as a sharp sound of breaking air suddenly appeared in the air.
That is the sound of an arrow cutting through the air at a rapid speed!
A large number of arrows were shot from a distance, killing the fleeing puppet soldiers one after another.
The North Korean government would not accept the defeat of the puppet army. In the eyes of the commander-in-chief, the puppet army should massacre the rebels at will just because they received their military assistance.
But this puppet army not only failed to destroy the rebels, but was also defeated step by step. So there was no need for them to keep this group of trash.
Therefore, the general of the Korean army behind the puppet army ordered the archers to shoot and kill all the puppet soldiers retreating along the way, and eliminate the rebels at the same time.
"Quick! Retreat! The Chao country is shooting arrows! They don't even spare their own people!" Zhang Ye stood up while enduring the pain and gave orders to the rebels on the battlefield.
However, the rebels who had experienced a long battle were fighting with their wills. How could they have the energy to escape?
These soldiers could only watch as arrows fell from the sky and devoured their own people mercilessly...
After several waves of arrows rained down, there were only less than a thousand rebel soldiers left on the battlefield. They only managed to survive because the arrows did not have enough range.
In a pile of corpses, a body was pushed out, followed by a hand reaching out.
The owner of the arm held the corpse tightly so that he could get out. The person who came out was Zhang Ye. He grabbed several corpses of puppet soldiers and pressed them on himself to avoid the attack.
Zhang Ye felt dry mouth and tongue, but he had no intention of drinking water now. Instead, he turned back to look for his subordinates.
He was relieved when he saw that there were still resistance troops on the battlefield. He didn't expect that the North Koreans would even kill the puppet troops. They were simply a bunch of lunatics.
But this also bought some time. It was almost dark and the Koreans didn't like fighting in the dark, so this time they managed to hold on.
However, before Zhang Ye could be happy for long, he felt the ground shaking. He looked up in horror and saw the Chao cavalry rushing towards them.
This cavalry seemed to have several thousand men. Not to mention that they could not be stopped with their existing strength, it would be difficult to resist even if the rebels were in their heyday.
Those were cavalry, and it was a one-sided massacre for them, the infantry.
The Koreans don't want to end their battle with these rebels. Three quarters of the entire Yandong region already belongs to them, and they want to take away the last quarter.
Every soldier of the rebel army had a look of despair on their face. They were not desperate because they were about to die, but because they were unable to even put up a single resistance in the face of such a huge disparity in strength.
If the ones coming to fight were infantry from the Chao Kingdom, they might be able to fight back with all their might.
But facing the cavalry, they had no chance of winning, and the resistance couldn't even cause a splash.
In the resistance army, a man smiled bitterly and said, "Yaya, I hope you can leave Yandong alive. I will be your father in the next life..."
At this moment, the ground shook suddenly intensified and the man turned around in surprise.
I saw a cavalry group running quickly from behind them, and their number was greater than that of the Chao State cavalry!