Chapter 265: Surrender of
"Brothers, we are all going to die anyway, kill Song Jun and surrender to the Huaxia tribe!"

"We are all Han Chinese. The Huaxia Department will accept us."

"There is no death penalty in the Huaxia Department!"

"Kill Song Jun and surrender to China!"

"Kill Song Jun and surrender to China!"

No one wants to die. Unless one's life is worse than death, or one is faced with a choice between blood ties, family ties, or national justice, no one can face the threat of death.

The Green Camp soldiers did not want to die either. They were forced to stay behind to cover their retreat, and were already in a life-and-death situation. Now they had to be suppressed by the law enforcement team, which finally aroused their last desire to survive.

The explosive power of the hysterical struggle was terrifying. Dozens of law enforcement guards were instantly overwhelmed. The artillery turned their guns and fired continuously at the place where Song Jun's flag was.

Yunhua happened to see this scene when he arrived at the battlefield. He couldn't help but sigh at the unpopularity of the Qing court. He then arranged for people to surrender the Green Camp Army and at the same time formed an elite force of 5,000 people, which he personally led to pursue the fleeing Woshubu.

Yunhua and Woshibu are old rivals. They have fought each other several times since they met in Fengjie two years ago.

In terms of military talent alone, Woshibu is definitely superior to Yunhua. Yunhua even learned a lot from Woshibu during the fight. In terms of fighting, Woshibu can be regarded as Yunhua's teacher.

However, no matter how powerful a commander is, he cannot make up for the huge gap between soldiers and armaments. After all, although Woshubu has good military talents, he is still far from being a great man.

Although Yunhua lacked military talent, the soldiers and armaments under his command were powerful. Once, even when he was ambushed by Woshubu, he still turned the tables by relying on the powerful armaments and the soldiers' sacrifice.

Therefore, every time the two of them fought, it would end with Woshibu's embarrassing escape, and Yunhua would also grow. Especially a hardworking young man like Yunhua, who grows very fast and basically will not make the same mistakes again.

This time, it was Yunhua who was chasing, and Woshibu continued to flee. However, this time, Yunhua did not want to let Woshibu escape again, so he chased him extra hard. After all, he was not afraid of being ambushed on the flat land.

Whenever Yunhua encountered a retreating army on the road, he would choose to fire at them without counting the ammunition, and then leave a small number of troops to clean up the battlefield while the main force continued to pursue without stopping.

An hour later, it was almost dusk and Yunhua finally saw the large Qing army.

Seeing that Yunhua had caught up with them, it was impossible to escape, so Woshibu had to order his troops to defend on the spot.

"Woshibu, surrender. The Qing court is finished. You should understand that after this battle, it will be difficult for you to organize such a large-scale counterattack. What awaits you is only destruction. Good birds choose trees to roost in. In my Huaxia tribe, there is no death penalty, and we are even more lenient towards those who abandon darkness and join the light." Yunhua came to the front of the battle and personally persuaded them to surrender.

As a pure Manchu born in the Zhenghong Banner of the Qing Dynasty, it was naturally impossible for Guwalgiya Wushubu to surrender. Not to mention Wushubu, even the 5,000 Eight Banners soldiers from the two Manchu cities of Hangzhou and Nanjing would not surrender.

Yunhua was not really trying to persuade Woshibu to surrender. It was impossible for the 5,000 Eight Banners soldiers and Woshibu to surrender, but there were still more than 10,000 Green Camp soldiers.

Hearing Yunhua's voice of persuading him to surrender, Woshibu gritted his teeth in anger. He naturally understood that Yunhua was not really persuading him to surrender, but in the current situation, it was hard to say whether the more than 10,000 Green Camp soldiers could withstand the temptation.

Seeing that Yunhua was only thirty or forty feet away from him after he came out of the battle formation, Woshibu narrowed his eyes, then went out of the battle formation to talk to him, and asked his guards to prepare to raise their guns and focus fire on Yunhua.

One was chasing the other, and both armies were lightly armed. They had no cannons, and ordinary bird guns did not have such a long attack range, but the raised guns could hit that far. And the rifles of the Huaxia army could naturally hit that far.

"Yunhua, you traitors are only proud for a moment, how can you be a match for the imperial army? There will always be a time for our imperial court to put order out of chaos!"

“BOOM BOOM BOOM~!”

"Bah bang bang~!"

Just as Woshibu was speaking, the sound of a rifle and a gun being raised rang out almost simultaneously.

Yunhua let out a strange cry, lowered his head and rolled to the ground, because his warhorse was shot dead by the opponent's gun as expected.

Although Woshubu on the opposite side was clever enough to hide in the crowd, he was still hit by rifle fire. A large number of Green Camp soldiers in front of him, including his personal guards, were killed.

The soldiers on both sides were in an uproar, they never expected that the two commanders would start fighting while they were talking to each other, and they started fighting at the same time. It was not easy to accuse the other side of disregarding morality, anyway, both sides were untrustworthy, so no one needed to say anything.

Now that the fighting has begun, there is no reason to stop and talk.

Yunhua got up from the ground, shouting that those who surrender will not be killed, while firing his gun and shouting, "Charge!"

Woshibu also shouted to charge, but unfortunately the firepower of the Huaxia tribe was too strong.

Although a rifle needs to be loaded with one bullet each time it is fired, once the soldiers become proficient, they can fire a shot in just three to five seconds. The Green Camp soldiers in front fell down in large numbers, and the smart ones were already lying on the ground pretending to be dead, which made the Green Camp soldiers' casualties seem even more terrifying.

However, there was indeed a group of people who were inspired and shouted and launched a charge. Unfortunately, there were only a few such people after all, and counter-charging would only lead to their faster death.

However, those who launched the counterattack bought Woshibu some time. Seeing that the situation was not right, Woshibu ran away with the Eight Banners soldiers.

Yunhua looked at the fleeing Eight Banners soldiers, turned around, rode his horse and chased them for a while, but as it was getting darker, he finally had to give up the pursuit.

However, there were only two or three thousand Eight Banners soldiers who escaped, and some of them would scatter in the darkness. In the end, not many people would be able to return to Wuhan, so there was no need to continue chasing them.

Yunhua ordered his troops to separate from the Green Camp Army and station there separately. He formally accepted the surrender the next day. After counting the number of people, there were still over 10,000 Green Camp Army soldiers who surrendered. Afterwards, he cleared out more than 2,000 people who were pretending to be dead from the pile of dead bodies, so a total of about 13,000 Green Camp Army soldiers surrendered.

After returning to Jingzhou, the results of the battle were counted. In this battle, more than 30,000 Green Camp soldiers and more than 30,000 Eight Banners soldiers surrendered, plus more than 20,000 people were killed in the battle. In addition to the several thousand people taken away by Woshibu, there should have been quite a few who escaped.

In a word, the 100,000-strong army of the imperial court was completely destroyed. The casualties and prisoners of war were secondary. The key point was that the camp was breached, and the loss of food and armaments was the biggest blow to the Qing court.

In particular, the thousand-jin cannons and sub-munitions cannons and other military equipment seized by the Huaxia tribe dealt a heavy blow to the Qing court.

What surprised Yunhua was that Song Jun actually survived the bombing.

(End of this chapter)