Chapter 1016.

The morale of the Yan army’s vanguard battalion, collapsed.

The soldiers who served as the vanguard were the most valiant and warlike amongst the Yan army, and they were also the ones who most trusted and worshipped Yan Xiaoyun.

In everyone’s mind, this Great Commander was invincible in battle and would definitely be able to lead them to level Hanhai Pass.

As a result, the real duel had only just begun when Yan Xiaoyun died.

No one was willing to believe this fact, yet with Yan Xiaoyun’s corpse hanging and swaying on the wall of the pass, his iconic Qilin silver armor gleaming in the sunlight, how could he deceive himself any longer?

“Ah~”

Many soldiers dropped the weapons in their hands, some of them kneeled down and cried out, some pounded their hands on the ground in pain.

There were also people who roared and rushed towards the city wall.

As a result, they were shot into a sieve!

And the shockwave caused by the fall of the commander-in-chief quickly rippled from the front to the center and rear armies, the morale of the hundreds of thousands of Yan troops fell extremely fast, countless people looked at each other not knowing what to do.

“Wang Taibao, should we let people go out of the city to charge a wave?”

Shangguan Wuji was experienced and knew that sending out a cavalry to charge at this time would definitely yield good results.

“Forget it.”

As a result, Wang Chen shook his head and said, “There’s no need.”

Yan’s three great martial honors had all been wiped out in one battle, and Yan Xiaoyun’s hanging corpse on top of the city wall had already dealt a great blow to the Yan army.

However, the Yan army’s main force had not been damaged at all, and its strength was more than ten times that of the Hanhai army, so once the generals in their army organized their soldiers to avenge Yan Xiaoyun, the Hanhai cavalry that went to war would definitely have no way to return.

Adding Wang Duan wouldn’t work either.

The Yan army was no match for the White Wolf horse thieves!

Most importantly, Wang Dust needed a complete Hanhai army to realize his plan.

So he allowed the Yan army’s vanguard to retreat.

The Yan army retreated all the way to ten miles away, from regaining their footing and setting up a new camp.

But this huge army no longer had a soul or morale.

That night, the entire Hanhai City was in a state of victory revelry.

Earlier, when the Yan army had attacked in force, the city was in a state of sadness, and many people were ready to flee.

However, the Hanhai army closed the inner and outer city gates, and went on a rampage to search for spies, leading to panic and fear.

Now, the Yan army commander and the two Wu Zuns were killed at the same time at Hanhai Pass, so the Yan army had their spine broken, and there was no longer any possibility of threatening Hanhai City.

How could everyone not be surprised?

The happiest of all was undoubtedly Princess Qing Yun, who, in the name of the Great Liang royal family, bestowed on Wang Chen the title of Imperial Master, the title of Great General of the Pillar State, and the title of Hankai County, to reward Wang Chen for his unparalleled achievements.

In fact, with Princess Qing Yun’s identity, is not qualified to make such a bestowal.

However, in the case of ShaoWu Emperor’s death and King Jing’s usurpation of the throne, Princess QingYun’s move to set up a flag is not too sudden, but also formally put out her own flag, making it clear that she is going to fight for the kingdom of DaLiang.

Due to the support of Shangguan Wuji and the 50,000 Hanhai Army, coupled with Wang Duan, the undead God of War, the entire Hanhai City did not have any opposing voices.

Even if there was, it would be suppressed immediately!

The following day, Hanhai City announced that it was changing its flag and breaking away from Da Liang under Emperor Yuan Jing’s rule.

At the same time, the Yan army outside the pass sent a negotiating squad.

They wanted to ransom Yan Xiaoyun’s corpse.

“Yes.”

After listening to the report of the sergeant on duty, Wang Chen’s mind turned and immediately understood: “General Shangguan, I’ll leave the negotiation to you.”

He said meaningfully, “I heard that Yan is very rich, so we can’t cheapen them.”

Shangguan Wuji understood, “Understood.”

Although Yan Xiaoyun was dead, his prestige in the Yan army was simply too high, taking back the corpse would be able to rally hundreds of thousands of mourners and keep the entire army from falling apart.

If the successor commander of the Yan army wanted to bring this army back in one piece and retain its soul, then he could no longer allow Yan Xiaoyun’s body to continue to hang above the Hanhai Pass wall.

This was a good opportunity to knock on the door!

How could Shangguan Wuji not understand this, and immediately received the Yan Army’s emissary with fists and palms.

Wang Duan had watched the entire negotiation.

Then he witnessed the Yan Army emissary’s change in demeanor, which could simply be included in the North Shadow textbook.

As for the final outcome of the negotiation, Wang Dust had to shed a tear of sympathy for the faceless Yan Army emissary.

It was too miserable.

But sympathy to sympathy, what should be left behind could not be left behind at all!

After the end of the negotiations, Yan Xiaoyun’s body was put down, along with the Qilin armor together into the rosewood coffin.

Although the unicorn armor is the Great Yan’s weapon of state, but for Wang Chen, this pair of armor that is said to be worth a lot of money has no significance, and it is better to use it to exchange for munitions.

Of course, Yan Xiaoyun’s corpse could not be sent back immediately.

In the afternoon of that day, accompanied by the low sound of horns, hundreds of thousands of Yan troops pulled out of camp.

They left behind 30,000 warhorses as well as mountains of grain and ordnance, as well as all of the stone throwers and siege wagons.

Great Yan’s war horses were of a very fine breed, rarely exported in the past, and very expensive.

These 30,000 war horses were undoubtedly an extremely rich fortune, comparable to the value of ten million taels of silver!

The Yan army had lost both face and face this time.

Shangguan Wu Ji estimated that within at least twenty years, they would no longer dare to invade Hanhai Pass.

And after the external danger was lifted, the Hanhai Army, which had already been included under Princess Qing Yun’s banner, pointed its forces inland towards Da Liang.

Interestingly, the day after the Yan Army retreated, a cavalry of 5,000 men arrived at Hanhai City.

This cavalry was sent by the West Sea County side to reinforce them.

As a result, there were no surprises and it was directly swallowed by the Hanhai Army, not even spitting out the dregs.

West Sea County was in the bag anyway.

After discussing with Shangguan Wuji, Wang Chen and Shangguan Wuji decided not to attack the West Sea County for the time being, and instead began to comprehensively reorganize their armaments.

The first step is to expand the number of Hanhai army to 100,000 people, that is to say, from the hundreds of thousands of people in Hanhai City to recruit 50,000 soldiers, all the required ordnance is from the spoils of war.

At the same time, the Hanhai army manufacturing camp also expanded its scale, and recruited a large number of craftsmen and apprentices in the city to cast better quality and lighter weight cannons and cannons.

The manufacturing drawings for the cannons, of course, were also taken out by Wang Chen.

These newly created weapons would fully arm the newly recruited soldiers.

In order to obtain enough raw materials for gunpowder manufacturing, Wang Chuan sent out another team to find and purchase sulfur.

The entire Hanhai City, or Hanhai County, was under his baton, like a giant war machine starting to run in full swing, revealing its hideous fangs little by little.

And Wang Chen’s fortune value was also increasing little by little!

His goal for himself was already very clear.

Aiming for the world!