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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 1053

    The army was defeated like a mountain, and the defeated generals led by Liu Yan faced the Qinghe Army's siege and interception.

    Especially when he heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes behind him, the 10,000 cavalry of the Qinghe Army swept in like waves, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard's Personal Guard Battalion gathered around Liu Yan also dispersed.

    After all, they care more about their own lives than their loyalty. After all, if their lives are gone, everything is gone.

    Seeing his subordinates fleeing in all directions, Liu Yan, General Zhengdong, also looked ashen, pulled out the saber from his waist, and screamed to the sky.

    Liu Yan knew very well in his heart that he had lost the battle, and if he fled back, his life would be in danger and his family would be dragged down.

    If he was killed on the battlefield, even if Hu Ziyang, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, shirked his responsibility, considering that he had already died on the battlefield, he might be able to forgive him.

    The rushing cavalry of the Qinghe Army rushed over with torches, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard who fled in all directions were like ducks being driven away, panicking all day long.

    Amidst the noise of people and horses neighing, Liu Yan, the general who once commanded 100,000 troops, put his knife on his neck and committed suicide on the battlefield.

    Following the death of the great general Liu Yan, those imperial guards who fled in all directions were chased and intercepted by the Qinghe Army, and soon all became prisoners of the Qinghe Army.

    The next morning, the Qinghe army stopped the search and arrest operation and began to clean up the battlefield.

    The Qinghe army also discovered the body of Liu Yan, the general of the imperial guards Zhengdong who was wearing armor.

    Tan Feng, the deputy commander of the Qinghe Army's Guards Corps, did not expect that Liu Yan, the general who conquered the East, was so spineless that instead of kneeling and surrendering, he ended his life by committing suicide.

    In a short period of time, the Qinghe Army conquered Qingcheng Mansion in Hexi Province and wiped out Liu Yan's troops.

    However, Hu Ziyang, Marshal of the Imperial Guard in Long'an Mansion, did not know the actual situation of the battlefield at all because the Qinghe Army's scout cavalry blocked the battlefield.

    Hu Ziyang felt that Liu Yan had tens of thousands of troops under his command, and with a strong city as a barrier, he could hold out for ten and a half months no matter what.

    As long as the Qinghe army fails to attack Qingcheng Mansion, when the time comes when they are exhausted, they will definitely hit the Qinghe army hard if they fight back aggressively.

    The imperial guards of Xixiang Mansion and Tianjin Mansion knew that Qingcheng Mansion was in danger, so they sent troops to help immediately.

    It's just that Chen Zi'ang had already made arrangements. The two troops defending the southwest and northeast repelled the reinforcements of the imperial guards in these two directions, and gained a lot.

    Seeing that the Qinghe army was so tough, the imperial guards in these two directions did not dare to go to Qingcheng mansion anymore, but retreated back, and urgently reported the situation on the front line to Hu Ziyang.

    The Qinghe Army led by Chen Ziang is not a field elite, but a newly formed new army.

    They forcibly tore a gap in the defense line of the imperial guards, pulled out their teeth, ate Liu Yan's troops, and captured Qingcheng Mansion.

    It's just that Chen Ziang has no intention of occupying Qingcheng Mansion for a long time, because this is a salient part, with Tianjin Mansion and Xixiang Mansion on its two wings, and Long'an Mansion further ahead.

    Although they pulled out their teeth and ate Liu Yan's troops, their three directions were all under the control of the Imperial Guards, and they were likely to be surrounded by the Imperial Guards.

    Chen Ziang didn't want to fight a protracted war of attrition with the imperial guards here, but he liked to fight a short war of annihilation.

    ?With the current strength of their Qinghe army, if they take advantage of the victory and pursue it, they may not be able to defeat Hu Ziyang's army at a certain price.

    However, Chen Ziang's purpose was to put pressure on the Far Eastern court and buy time for Zhou Ba and others behind the enemy lines, so he gave the order to retreat the day after he captured Qingcheng Mansion.

    They occupied Qingcheng Mansion, and once Hu Ziyang found out, they would counterattack, and another fierce battle would be inevitable.

    Although the Guards Corps fought well this time, they also suffered a lot of casualties, and they needed to be withdrawn in time to make up for repairs and sum up their experience, so they were not suitable for continuous combat.

    "Marshal, what about the prisoners of the Imperial Guard?"

    Chen Ziang and the others annihilated Liu Yan's troops this time, and captured as many as 20,000 guards.

    Among the 20,000 Imperial Guard prisoners, 50% were young and strong, and the other 50% were old, weak, sick and disabled, which was enough to show the weakness of the Far Eastern court.

    "All the young and strong will be detained by me to go back to build roads, and the old, weak, sick and disabled will be released. Let themwe go back.  "

    Chen Ziang now has to support his own army, and he doesn't have so much food to feed so many captives.

    However, if the young and strong captives were released, they might soon be armed by the Imperial Guards and continue to fight against them.

    So after thinking about it for a while, Chen Ziang just let go of the old and weak soldiers, while the young and strong soldiers were going to be detained and go to Luyang Province to build roads.

    Now Luyang Province, under the administration of Chief Minister Miao Cai, has also begun to replicate the successful experience of Yunxi Mansion, and farming and production are being resumed everywhere, which also requires labor.

    "Marshal, even if they are old and weak, there are nearly ten thousand people. What if they go back and continue to pick up weapons and fight us?"

    When Tan Feng heard that Chen Ziang was going to let go of the people who had been captured with great difficulty on the battlefield, he also felt that it was too cheap for them.

    "Then what do you want to do?"

    "Marshal, I think it's better not to do one thing, but to kill them all. After all, many of our brothers died at their hands, to avenge the dead brothers."

    "I think you are short-sighted." Chen Ziang said to Tan Feng angrily.

    "These old and weak people are weak in fighting power. If we put them back, even if we take up arms, we can still easily defeat them."

    "More importantly, after they have lost the battle, they will definitely publicize the strength of our army to excuse themselves from their own responsibilities."

    "If the troops of the Imperial Guard heard what they said, they would definitely fear us, and if they confronted us in the future, they would definitely weaken us in momentum."

    "Besides, my Qinghe Army has always been a prisoner and does not kill. It is precisely because of this that those imperial guards will drop their weapons and surrender to us when they are at the end of the road."

    "If we start the killing ring, even if these enemies can be eliminated in a short period of time, once the other guards know that they will surrender, they will be killed. Even if they lose to us in the future, they will fight desperately to the last soldier.  It will undoubtedly greatly increase our casualties."

    After hearing Chen Ziang's explanation, Tan Feng also realized that he was indeed too short-sighted, so he also confessed his mistake.

    Under Chen Ziang's order, more than ten thousand old and weak prisoners carried the body of Liu Yan, General Zhengdong, back to Long'an Mansion.

    Hu Ziyang, Marshal of the Imperial Guard of Long'an Mansion, was also very surprised when he received the report from Tianjin Mansion and Xixiang Mansion that Qingcheng Mansion might fall, and personally led the army to reinforce it.

    But on the way, he met the captives sent back by the Qinghe army, and saw Liu Yan's body.

    Seeing that the Qinghe Army restrained Liu Yan with a coffin and sent the captives back, the generals of the Imperial Guard couldn't help but give Qinghe Army a high look.

    Hu Ziyang searched for a few officers who were sent back to inquire about the situation of Qingcheng Mansion. The soldiers under his command all came to those captives one after another to inquire about the situation of the battle.

    For the sake of face, those captives naturally exaggerated the combat effectiveness of the Qinghe Army.

    "The thieves were able to practice demons, and the east gate collapsed suddenly, and the bones of hundreds of brothers were gone."

    "The thieves will fly over the eaves and walls. We guard the south gate, and we can't stop them at all

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