Chapter 106: No escape, die with regret
"Whoosh!"
After Zhang Xianzhong caught up with the enemy, he still did not stop.
He circulated his true energy, jumped off his spirit beast horse, leaped up, and swayed several times. He had already flown to the front of the dense forest, just in time to block Wang Wenbo and his small group of enemies.
"Escape!"
"Why don't you run away?"
Zhang Xianzhong looked at the dozen or so core members of the Wang family headed by Wang Wenbo in front of him, and then looked at Bai Wenxuan and others who had already arrived behind the Wang family. He was furious and said grimly.
Earlier, when he received the information that Bai Wenxuan had sent people to ask for help, he could hardly believe that the team of soldiers from the old camp led by Bai Wenxuan would suffer such heavy losses!
Those are dozens of soldiers from the old camp!
This old camp was formed by Zhang Xianzhong, who carefully selected nearly 10,000 soldiers from the logistics camp and spent a lot of resources!
The entire old camp has only about 800 soldiers in total.
In the battle of Tianjiazhuang in the morning, except for a few unlucky guys who died in battle, our side won the victory with almost no losses.
But tonight, in the night battle with Wangjiazhuang, the soldiers of the old camp suffered heavy losses!
After receiving this bad news, Zhang Xianzhong was furious and personally took several magical horses to reinforce Bai Wenxuan.
Those empty spirit beast war horses were prepared for Bai Wen to select several rebel leaders, so that they could ride on the spirit beast war horses and chase the enemy with him to ensure that the enemy would not escape.
Zhang Xianzhong found Bai Wenxuan and his men relatively smoothly. He discovered that of the one hundred soldiers from the old camp under his command, except for the ten who were guarding the horses on the river bank, there were only thirty soldiers from the old camp who had followed Bai Wenxuan to carry out the interception and blocking mission!
A total of sixty soldiers from the old camp were lost, which was nearly 10% of all the soldiers from the old camp of the rebel army, and had already hurt the vitality of this rebel army.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it.
You should know that the strength of Wangjiazhuang is much weaker than that of Tianjiazhuang, and it doesn't even have one Qi Refining Realm master.
As a result, after this battle, the casualties of the rebel soldiers were far greater than the previous battle in Tianjiazhuang.
Although this cannot be blamed on Bai Wenxuan, he has already tried his best.
The main reason was that Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Kewang made serious mistakes in the tactical arrangements they hastily discussed.
If Zhang Kewang or Zhang Xianzhong himself had led the team to intercept this fleeing group composed of core members of the Wang family, the result would have been completely different.
Unfortunately, there is no if, because of their momentary lack of consideration, the rebel army suffered heavy casualties this time.
The main reason why this plan had such a big flaw was that both Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Kewang wanted to capture Wangjiazhuang Fort as soon as possible.
Try to put out the fires that were ignited everywhere when Wangjiazhuang launched the breakout operation as quickly as possible, and try to preserve the spoils that already belong to them to the greatest extent possible.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to have the best of both worlds.
Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Kewang focused their battle efforts on obtaining as much spoils as possible, but ignored the lack of combat effectiveness of the old camp led by Bai Wenxuan.
The escape team led by Wang Wenbo included more core members of the Wang family, elite servants and guards than Bai Wenxuan's team.
If it weren't for their large numbers and the advantage in their military formation, Bai Wenxuan's army of a hundred men would have been defeated long ago, and it is not impossible that they would have been completely wiped out.
Due to their lack of consideration, both Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Kewang missed the key points in the night battle with Wangjiazhuang, which led to this tragedy.
Zhang Xianzhong is now extremely distressed, angry and furious.
Fortunately, he had received good news earlier, and learned that the two teams of the Youth Camp that had acted separately from Bai Wenxuan and his men had successfully completed the task of capturing the two treasure ships with a complete victory, with only an ordinary young warrior killed in the battle.
The good news alleviated Zhang Xianzhong's regret.
If the two orphan boy camp teams led by Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi also suffered heavy casualties like Bai Wenxuan, Zhang Xianzhong would really be so angry that he would vomit blood!
He put a lot of effort into carefully training that young battalion, which was different from the soldiers in the old battalion.
Even though the soldiers in the old camp suffered heavy casualties, the rebel army had tens of thousands of reserve troops in the logistics camp, and they could select some qualified candidates at any time to quickly replenish the casualties of the old camp.
But that camp of orphaned boys was different.
It was specially created by Zhang Xianzhong in order to fully control the rebel army in the future, and it served as a incubator for the backbone of the rebel generals in the future.
In the future, as this youth camp continues to expand, a large number of officers, generals and other backbone members of the rebel army will continue to come out of the youth camp, rapidly expanding and strengthening the rebel army!
The loyalty and learning ability of the young warriors in the Youth Camp are completely incomparable to those in the Old Camp.
"Zhang Xianzhong!"
Wang Wenbo saw that his side had no way out and there was no chance of survival.
In despair, his eyes were red, and he shouted at Zhang Xianzhong unwillingly, "We, the Wang family, have never offended you to death, and we don't want to be enemies with your rebel army. Why do you have to kill us all?"
"There are so many noble families and wealthy people in the world. Can your small army of volunteers kill them all?"
"Since you can't do that, why don't you leave a way out for us, the wealthy families who choose to live in disgrace?"
"Tianjiazhuang chose to be the enemy of your righteous army, and they deserved to be exterminated. However, our Wang family and Ma family did not specifically target you. Why did you do such a ruthless thing, Zhang Xianzhong?"
This was a question that Wang Wenbo had been unable to figure out for the past two months. Now that his death was imminent, he wanted to get to the bottom of it.
"Ha ha……"
After hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help laughing out loud.
Since the other party was already dead this time, he might as well let him know the truth. He said, "Wang Wenbo, you old fool, you have lived for so many years, but you have become more and more naive as you age."
"You officials, gentry, and aristocratic families have monopolized every aspect of the Ming Dynasty. The bureaucratic capital is pervasive and getting worse. You have completely cut off the hope and future of us ordinary people!"
"You spend your days in debauchery, are greedy, talk nonsense, and are two-faced. You are eroding the vitality of our Chinese race and ruining the fortune of our Chinese people!"
"You keep saying that you are working for the country and the people, but secretly you are committing all kinds of evil! Your actions are inhumane and without any bottom line. You are worse than animals!"
"In the eyes of you so-called upper class people, we, the common people, are just pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered."
"Don't tell me that you don't think this way in your heart! This is what you have been doing all along!"
"In this era when social classes have become completely solidified, if we, the common people, want to survive and live like human beings, we must eradicate you so-called elites and take charge of our own affairs!"
"You, the Wang family, don't come to provoke our rebel army, not because you don't want to, but because you are not strong enough now!"
Zhang Xianzhong became more and more angry as he spoke, and shouted, "If you had enough power, you would have jumped out long ago, under the slogan of eliminating harm for the people, and completely killed us all, to warn the world!"
"Tell me, should you officials, noble families, and wealthy clans die? Should you kill them?"
"Well, having said so much, it's time to send you, the remnants of the Wang family, on your way!"
"Don't worry, I will do my best to make your people go to hell with you!"
"Die!"
Zhang Xianzhong poured out his grievances and cursed loudly, which helped him to dissipate some of his pent-up anger.
He shouted loudly, and the top-grade spiritual weapon sword in his hand flashed with a cold light, passing across Wang Wenbo's neck at lightning speed, and chopped off his white-haired head to the ground with great efficiency!
"All of you, go to hell!"
His body moved quickly and with the sword flashing, he began to kill the enemies ruthlessly.
These members of the Wang family had been fleeing for so long and had long since exhausted their physical strength. How could they have the strength to resist Zhang Xianzhong, a master of the Qi Refining Realm who was as ferocious as a wolf or a tiger?
In just a few blinks of an eye, more than a dozen core members of the Wang family were beheaded on the spot by Zhang Xianzhong, leaving no intact bodies!
"Bai Wenxuan, my plan was wrong this time, so you are not guilty!"
Zhang Xianzhong was not just an ordinary rebel leader, but a complete and ruthless hero.
This unexpected situation caused heavy losses to the soldiers in the old camp, so of course they would not vent their anger on Bai Wenxuan.
He said to Bai Wenxuan, who was standing in front of him in silence, "You are responsible for cleaning up the scene here, and then return to Dingbian City to select personnel from the logistics camp and replenish the missing personnel of the old camp as soon as possible."
"This time, we destroyed two wealthy families and our rebel army gained a huge amount of wealth and training resources. You can relax the conditions for selecting warriors and recruit a few hundred more people to train them into warriors."
"You will train these people yourself and form a separate battalion of soldiers. From now on, this battalion of soldiers will be led by you!"
Although Bai Wenxuan performed poorly in this mission, he also proved his loyalty and ability.
Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong not only did not punish him, but also allowed him to go a step further and gave him the important task of commanding an entire battalion of troops.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"From now on, I will do my utmost to repay the king's great kindness!"
Even though Bai Wenxuan, an old soldier and a shrewd scoundrel, was stunned by Zhang Xianzhong's magnanimity!
He was immediately deeply moved and fell to the ground with tears streaming down his face. He was completely devoted to Zhang Xianzhong and had no regrets in his life.
"Bai Wenxuan, I'm going back to Wangjiazhuang first."
Zhang Xianzhong helped Bai Wenxuan up and said to him, "Although my plan was wrong in this night interception battle, which caused serious casualties among the soldiers in the old camp, your command and combat capabilities, Bai Wenxuan, need to be improved."
"You, Ma Yuanli, Feng Shuangli and others are already inferior to the talented young men like Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu. You have been surpassed by them in many aspects."
"If you don't work hard, the three of you may not be able to keep up with the rapid development and expansion of our rebel army in the future, and then be eliminated."
"In a nutshell: We in the rebel army employ only the talented!"
"From now on, this righteous army will be based on military merit. Those who are capable will be promoted, and those who are not will be demoted!"
"I hope that you, the core generals of the rebel army, can work hard and make progress, so that you can help me a lot in the future."
After Zhang Xianzhong said a few words from his heart to Bai Wenxuan, he turned around and jumped onto the back of the spiritual beast warhorse next to him, turned the horse's head, and rode away quickly.
(End of this chapter)
