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Chapter 366
Su Dingfang brought 500,000 troops, but less than 10,000 actually entered the forest, and the rest of the troops were on the periphery.
Setting fire does not require so many people, and it can also avoid accidental injuries.
In order to prevent being discovered by the enemy, Su Dingfang decided to burn the entire forest, so that it would be foolproof. The use of kerosene can also be done on the periphery, reducing the risk of being discovered.
The Jingguo Army had no idea that danger was about to come, and was still rushing on the road.
"Prepare, and act immediately after the enemy has marched halfway."
"Order the outer corps to immediately destroy the enemy's 50,000 vanguard troops as soon as they see a fire."
Su Dingfang did not have time to arrange troops on the enemy's way, and could only wait until the enemy passed most of the forest before taking action.
"General, you can take action."
In the depths of the forest, a figure dressed in black appeared. It was the master sent by Yeyu.
"Action."
Su Dingfang gave the order without hesitation, and then led his men out of the forest.
In the depths of the forest, the Jingguo Corps did not notice the danger.
But this situation did not last long. Soon someone found something wrong and immediately found the commander.
"General, it's bad. There is thick smoke around our army. Someone must have set the fire. We are in big trouble."
The man said with a crying voice.
With so many people in the deep forest, if there is a fire, there is nowhere to run.
There are not many masters following in the army, and only they have a chance to escape. The rest of the people can only wait for death in the face of natural disasters.
"Impossible, come and check immediately."
The commander was also confused and lacked confidence.
Although he didn't believe that the Zhenbei Army reacted so quickly, if it was true, they would never be able to escape.
"Quick, notify the army to move forward quickly at all costs, don't worry about anything else, leave this forest first."
Time waits for no one, and the commander doesn't care whether someone set the fire or not. The most urgent thing is to take people away first.
Someone in the army has already found something wrong, and the atmosphere began to become tense. Everyone ran and didn't care about the formation.
But soon, the people in front stopped, and the people behind who didn't know why were still urging and even crowded.
"Oh no, there's a fire ahead."
This shout startled many people, and the soldiers who realized something was wrong began to retreat, but soon, news came from behind that there was also a fire in the rear.
"Quick, order the army to disperse."
The people who went out to explore have returned, and the news they brought back was despairing. The entire forest was on fire, and the fire was extremely fierce. It was obvious that someone had set the fire.
The commander immediately issued an order to disperse the army to break out, so that there would be a chance for some people to escape. If they were concentrated together, they would really have to wait for death.
Moreover, the commander was very sure that the Zhenbei Army could not just let one person go and be done with it. There must be other arrangements outside. Only by dispersing the army could it be possible to avoid being hunted down.
"General, there was no army on the way here. It is better to retreat the whole army to reduce losses."
Someone quickly made a suggestion. No activity of the Zhenbei Army was found on the way here, which only meant that the other party had sent a small number of people to set the fire.
At the risk of sacrifice, the army retreated to avoid being attacked by the Zhenbei Army.
But it was not easy to do it at this moment, mainly because the fire had started and the Jingguo Corps was in chaos. At this time, let alone the commander, other generals could hardly find their own subordinates.
"No matter what, immediately issue an order to retreat and take as many people as possible."
Time was tight and there was really no time to waste. After the commander gave the order, he was the first to retreat. When he moved, the general flag moved, and many panicked soldiers followed him.
As for the others, they could only find a way out on their own.
But what the commander didn't know was that Su Dingfang had already thought of this possibility.
It was indeed inconvenient to mobilize the army, but it was still easy for the generals in the army and the people in the night prison to hide.
When the fire started, these masters began to arrange in the back of the forest. As long as someone got out by chance, they could not escape their attack.
The probability of ordinary soldiers running out was extremely low, and these people were mainly prepared for the masters in the Jingguo Army.
Sure enough, everything went as planned. The Jingguo army cooperated very well and followed Su Dingfang's plan.
The fire burned for three days, and the vast forest turned into a scorched earth. The 2 million Jingguo troops who rushed to support were directly buried in it.
Except for a few lucky ones who escaped, everyone else died, especially those masters who managed to escape, all of whom were ambushed.
The 50,000 vanguard corps was not spared. After seeing the fire, the 50,000 troops knew that it was not good. They had no intention of putting out the fire and wanted to run away directly, but they were tightly surrounded by the Zhenbei Army and had no time to escape.The 2 million troops mobilized by Yasukuni Shrine were burned to ashes by Su Dingfang before they even arrived at the battlefield. Ueno almost fainted when he heard the news. Are they here to support him? They are just here to give themselves up. They were destroyed by the Zhenbei Army without any effect. How can this be justified? There are only two million troops in Yasukuni Shrine. This is even worse than before. "Order the city guards to attack the Zhenbei Army positions for me. They must break through the Zhenbei Army's defense as soon as possible." Ueno was furious. He had lost the 2 million main forces and didn't care about the death of millions of ordinary city guards. He had to be ruthless at this time. There were too many civilians killed and injured in the past few days. Ueno had to make up his mind. The following war was relatively simple. Shangye ordered the main army to be ready for battle at any time, and then constantly mobilized the city guards to attack the Zhenbei Army positions, using their lives to consume the Zhenbei Army's arrows.
During this period, Chen Qingzhi was not idle either. The mobilization of the Jingguo City Guards could not come from one place. They were distributed throughout the Jingguo territory and were divided into troops. This gave Chen Qingzhi the opportunity to defeat them one by one.
Killing ordinary people was not what Chen Qingzhi wanted. Now that these troops have come out, Chen Qingzhi just hit them. As for how those people will be settled in the end, it depends on Long Tian's intention.
If Long Tian is determined to destroy Jingguo, then Chen Qingzhi has nothing to say, just firmly execute it.
Chen Qingzhi used the mobility of the cavalry to attack the city guards who came to help from all over Jingguo, and achieved good results.
But after all, the White Robe Army only had 100,000 people. Facing the huge number of Jingguo City Guards, they could only eliminate a small part of them, and most of them rushed to the front line smoothly.
Just waiting for their fate, but it did not change at all.
Faced with such a situation, Jia Xu was not in a hurry at all. He just wanted to attract all the troops that could fight in Jingguo, so that it would be much easier to deal with the entire Jingguo later.
Therefore, the continuous war of attrition continued like this and could not be ended in the short term. After all, Jingguo had a lot of troops.