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Chapter 196 Wang Xuance
The battle lasted from dawn to sunset, with countless corpses lying on the battlefield and blood staining the entire land red. The Sand People's coalition gradually retreated in the fierce battle and finally retreated to the village of Waterdam, where they used the houses and roads in the village to put up a tenacious resistance.
As night fell, seeing the battle was getting stalemate, Ban Chao wanted to order his troops to withdraw, but his soldiers, fearing they would be accused of not doing their best, resolutely set fire to the village. The raging fire instantly shot up into the sky, illuminating the dark night sky. Seeing this, Ban Chao realized that the soldiers were full of fighting spirit, and immediately decided to go with the flow. He ordered the magicians to concentrate their efforts to cast lighting magic to further increase the fire and light.
The Sand People's coalition army was shocked to see that Ban Chao's army not only continued to fight at night, but also set fire and consumed precious magic power to keep the lights on at night. They could not help but feel fear in their hearts. As a result, the coalition army's already low morale completely collapsed, and they abandoned their armor and fled in panic. In this tragic battle, Ban Chao's side also paid a heavy price, with nearly 2,000 casualties, and only exchanged for a nearly deserted Waterdan village.
As for the Sand People's coalition, more than a thousand corpses were left behind.
Zhang Wei's military campaign to conquer the Desert Scimitars is nearing its end, and now only Laupa Town and Crescent Fort have not been conquered. During this period, the Western Legion of the Northern Empire frequently sent envoys to Crescent Fort to persuade them to surrender. The purpose is obvious: Crescent Fort is located on the border between the two sides. If the Empire successfully controls this place, it will be able to effectively resist the military threat from the West; on the contrary, if Crescent Fort falls into Zhang Wei's hands, then he will replace the original position of the Sand People, thereby gaining a favorable situation in which he can advance or retreat, and have both offensive and defensive capabilities in the western part of the Empire.
However, there are nearly 10,000 extremists of the Desert Scimitar gathered in Crescent Fort, including men, women, and children of all ages. If it goes to war, Crescent Fort can still gather nearly 4,000 troops; but if it adopts a defense strategy, it can expand its forces to 6,000. Therefore, although Ban Chao's troops have already arrived at the gates of Laupa Town, Crescent Fort is still unwilling to surrender to the Northern Empire easily. After all, the condition offered by the Northern Empire is to split them up and settle them in various towns of the empire.
On the issue of the ownership of Crescent Fort, there are insurmountable differences between the Sand People extremists and the Western Empire Legion, which makes Ban Chao see the opportunity to seize Crescent Fort. At this time, the third batch of reinforcements sent by Zhang Wei, led by the newly summoned Heroic King Xuan Ce, successfully arrived at Shanghai Port.
In order to delay Zhang Wei's conquest of the Desert Scimitar, the Western Empire Legion used all its strength and made full use of its political influence to win the support of the Empire's secret forces and activated many chess pieces lurking in the villages and towns of the Desert Scimitar. Suddenly, the Desert Scimitar villages that had already surrendered once again set off a wave of rebellion.
When Wang Xuance's army was marching from Shanghai Port to Jushang Town, Malun Village and Calcutta Town took the lead in raising the banner of rebellion. Then, on the way to Chad Village, Chad Village, Costa Rica Village, Cook Town, Anya Village and Misian Village also rebelled one after another.
Within just two days, the towns of Sebulin, Grila, Buha, Musadi and Amli followed the example of other regions, executed pro-goodwill officials and joined the rebellion.
Finally, something unexpected happened - the lord of Thunburg was assassinated! This incident caused the situation to get out of control in an instant. At this point, all those conquered by Ban Chao and Zhang He rose up and launched a rebellion.
After learning about this, Ban Chao showed extraordinary calmness and decisiveness. He knew that it was crucial to stabilize the morale of the army at this moment, so he immediately set about calming the emotions of the Sha people soldiers in the army. Faced with such a dilemma, in order to prevent being trapped from the front and back by the enemy, Ban Chao made a wise decision: leaving Zhang He to continue besieging Laopa Town, while he personally led his own troops and the Sha people soldiers to retreat to Waterdan Village to recuperate and wait for the opportunity.
At this time, Wang Xuance's troops also arrived at Chad Village. When he found that the villagers had surrendered but rebelled again, he did not hesitate to suppress them with cruel and bloody means. In contrast, if Zhang He was skeptical about the Sha people and did not dare to employ them easily, and Ban Chao adopted a strategy of combining kindness and severity and dividing them; then Wang Xuance adopted an extremely tough iron-fisted policy against these capricious Sha people.
After carrying out the brutal massacre in Chad Village, Wang Xuanzhe marched forward rapidly without stopping to attack the nearest village of Misian, and repeated the same act, launching another bloody massacre.
Wang Xuance deliberately let some survivors go when he massacred the village. As expected, his horrific act of slaughtering two villages in a row quickly spread to the surrounding areas, including Anya Town, Costa Village, and Cook Town, where people were terrified.
Among them, Kuk Town could not help but recall the fierce internal struggle that took place at that time for surrender. The scene was chaotic, and people attacked each other just to surrender to Zhang He. So, the people of Kuk Town decisively chose to surrender, and they presented the heads of the rebels to Wang Xuance.
The next town to surrender was Anya, seeing that the situation was unfavorable.
In sharp contrast, Costa Village was extremely stubborn and even boasted that Wang Xuance would never dare to kill them and that they had nothing to fear. Therefore, on the third day after the massacre of Mixian Village, Costa Village finally paid a painful price in blood.
At this point, the terrifying name "Wang Xieshen" quickly spread everywhere, and other villages and towns surrendered again after hearing about this. In order to avoid being killed, they could not wait to present the head of the rebel leader to Wang Xuance to show their loyalty and obedience.
As for Fort Thun, it relied on its tall and solid walls to try to resist to the end. But Wang Xuance came to the city alone and sent a message to the rebels in the city: "The fleet led by Liu Rengui will arrive soon. When that time comes, I will let you experience for yourself what it means to live a life worse than death and be in purgatory on earth!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the citizens of Thunburg launched an attack without hesitation that night, killed the rebel generals, and opened the city gates to surrender to Wang Xuance.
This rebellion, which was originally secretly instigated by the empire's secret forces and swept across the country, was eventually quelled by Wang Xuance's ruthless massacre.
Ban Chao wrote a letter to Wang Xuance, praising Wang Xuance for his decisiveness in killing and also for rescuing him and Zhang He.
Wang Xuance humbly replied that he was good at suppressing rebellion, but Ban Chao was better at governing for a long time and making them loyal to their lord.