Chapter 2148 Defeat
If the two sides had not had such a huge disparity in military strength, it is possible that Sun Pu's entire army would have been wiped out.
Even so, because the incident happened suddenly and it was the middle of the night, everyone in Sun Pu’s camp was fast asleep and they were completely unprepared, the losses were devastating enough.
Although there are night patrol teams and sentry posts, Zheng Sangge, Wu Guan and others are all veterans of the battlefield. Even though they have not been on the battlefield for more than ten years, they have actually fought countless wars in the northwest in the past.
Moreover, the opponents were the extremely brutal and fierce northern barbarians and the grassland tribes outside the Great Wall. How could a mere Sun Pu compare to them?
Even though there was a huge disparity in numbers, they could deal with Sun Pu as easily as chopping melons and vegetables! It was no problem at all!
The sentries were all killed silently one by one, creating a perfect time difference with the patrol team. By the time the patrol team reacted, a thousand elite soldiers had already arrived at the military camp.
Fires broke out on all sides, people roared and horses neighed, Sun Pu's people were in chaos, like headless flies, with no time to react. Someone took the lead in running away, and a large group of flies seemed to have found their leader and all followed suit and ran away.
People were scrambling, pushing and trampling, and for a while all kinds of exclamations and screams were heard.
Hearing this, his fear intensified, and he ran even more desperately.
In this way, Sun Pu's 10,000 troops were beaten miserably by a thousand elite soldiers. They fled in a panic, traveling hundreds of miles overnight.
At that time, he had no idea that there were only a thousand people chasing him, and he thought there were at least six or seven thousand.
After daybreak, Zheng Sangge and Wu Guan ordered all their troops to retreat, giving the enemy a chance to catch their breath.
A thousand men against ten thousand, even if they attack unexpectedly, they cannot completely defeat the enemy. Once at daybreak the enemy finds out that they are short of men and horses and prepares for a counterattack on the spot, then they will be in trouble!
Furthermore, Shao Yunduan did not want to become a mortal enemy with the Second Prince at this time and attract the Second Prince's army.
Sun Pu led his troops to attack, which indirectly confirmed that Shao Yunduan's resistance was forced. Shao Yunduan actually had no other intentions and was forced by Sun Pu, and the same was true when he sent troops to resist.
Therefore, the Second Prince was unable to say a word about this level of counterattack.
But if Sun Pu and his men were all annihilated and their entire army was wiped out, that would be a provocation!
Even if it is just to save face, the Second Prince will definitely send his army back to take revenge.
In this battle, Shao Yunduan fought with great discretion and controlled the situation firmly.
Even if Sun Pu was defeated miserably, it was his own fault...
In this battle, when Sun Pu regrouped and counted his troops, he had lost a full 7,000 men!
Among these 7,000 people, the vast majority were trampled into pieces after the chaos broke out in their own homes.
Sun Pu was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood!
He hated Shao Yunduan to the core and swore that he would not be the son of General Sun until he got the payback!
However, with only 3,000 troops left intact, it was impossible to take revenge immediately, so Sun Pu had no choice but to ask for help.
He was too embarrassed to lead 3,000 defeated soldiers back, so he ordered them to set up camp on the spot, and he himself took dozens of his personal soldiers back to ask for reinforcements.
Originally, he didn't even want to go back to ask for help, because it was too embarrassing! Before, he scolded Governor Liu and called him stupid, but who knew that he would suffer the same loss when he faced Shao Yunduan.
The slap in the face came too quickly, making people feel ashamed...
However, if he didn't go back in person to get reinforcements, and only sent a deputy general back, who knows when they would arrive? He didn't want to wait, and he couldn't wait!
(End of this chapter)
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