If the Tang Empire won, it would say to its opponents: "You damn well behave yourself in the future, or be careful that I wipe out your entire clan. Pay tribute obediently every year!"
<...This time, Chen Zhong and Li Liang, the two commanders of the Imperial Guards, ridiculed Qu Gaoyang severely, and then led their 50,000 rabble to their deaths.
As it turns out, idiots never know they are idiots. In their world, they are invincible until they meet someone who dares to ignore their identity and dares to stand up to them.
This time, Han Shizhong thoroughly taught the generals of Huaiyang Army how to behave.
Take their 50,000-strong army, for example. When they first charged, many of them had only made it halfway when they were shaken by the New Army's neat chants of "Long live the Emperor! Long live the Great Song!" Many of them turned around and ran away on the spot. Many of the Huaiyang soldiers were not killed by the New Army, but were knocked or trampled to death by their own people.
Even Chen Liang was nowhere to be found; they could not locate him. In the end, they could only conclude that he had been trampled into mincemeat, and Chen Zhong had been arrested.
In just a few days, Han Shizhong annihilated 75,000 new soldiers without stopping. When the news of the defeat reached Jizhou again, Cao Sheng and the other generals were stunned.
That's impossible!
We are the Imperial Guard, the most elite army of the Song Dynasty. Han Shizhong only has 10,000 men in total. How could we be defeated so quickly!
That's absolutely impossible! You stupid spy must have taken money from Han Shizhong to deliberately trick me! Go to hell! You son of a bitch!
This once again proves how bizarre the thought processes of idiots are. Their understanding of the world is so limited that they consider anything they cannot comprehend to be utter trash.
Even now, Cao Sheng still considers Han Shizhong to be a piece of trash. He wants to personally lead the elite Huaiyang Army to crush this piece of trash, then go to the capital to defend the emperor and take up a position in the Privy Council!