Chapter 58 A Crushing Defeat! Liu Fu Turns the Tide, Leaving the Rebels Stunned

"BOOM...!!!"

It was a sound like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting open.

All the rebel soldiers who were traveling down the mountain path, upon hearing this loud noise, instinctively looked up at the sky.

Most people only saw that as soon as it got dark above their heads, a bunch of dark objects fell from the sky.

Only a lucky few managed to glimpse the mud and sand falling from the sky through a sliver of light, along with those enormous, terrifying boulders!

"Boom boom boom boom boom...!!"

A boulder fell from the sky, smashing the rebels and splattering their brains.

A massive boulder, as large as a house, crashed down, crushing dozens of rebel soldiers into a bloody pulp with nowhere to hide.

The mud and sand poured down from the sky for the time it takes to burn half an incense stick, as if it were free.

As Liu Fu tilted, he moved quickly through the mountains. Wherever he stopped, large amounts of boulders and mud would fall, crushing or burying the rebels in the mountain path below.

After half an incense stick's time had passed, the mountain path, which was about six or seven hundred meters long, was completely blocked and filled in by these huge rocks.

The number of rebel soldiers killed by Liu Fu with huge stones and buried alive in mud and sand was as many as four or five thousand!

At this moment, the 130,000 rebels were cut in half from the middle, leaving them unable to defend themselves.

The vanguard, trapped at the very front, faced a dilemma: poisonous smoke from the Suanni beast in front and boulders and mud blocking their path from behind. They were caught between a rock and a hard place.

The remaining rebels hurriedly began to withdraw from the Qipanshan mountain path under Ouyang Fang's orders.

"There's an ambush! Retreat!"

"On my command, the rear guard is to become the front guard. Get out of here immediately!"

At this moment, Liu Fu used his points to redeem a megaphone, held it up in his hand, and shouted at Ouyang Fang:

"Traitor Ouyang, I am right here on this mountain. Didn't you claim that my military tactics were like those of a good-for-nothing, and that I was courting death?"

"Come, come, I've washed my neck clean today and I'll be waiting for you on this mountain. If you have the guts, come and take my head."

Ouyang Fang hadn't expected Liu Fu to be in the mountains as well. She felt that what she had said was as good as water spilled, and that Liu Fu would slap her in the face so quickly. She was furious.

But now that he's trapped in the mountain path, how can he capture Liu Fu?

Ouyang Fang had no choice but to utter a harsh remark:

"Liu Fu, I will repay this grudge tenfold in the future! Just you wait!"

When Liu Fu heard Ouyang Fang's angry remark, he was not angry at all; instead, he found it amusing.

Ouyang Fang's behavior—being able only to make threats while simultaneously displaying her helplessness, impotence, and rage—is truly ridiculous.

Liu Fu simply stopped arguing with Ouyang Fang and instead exposed his true colors:

“Ouyang Fang, you should stop calling yourself the King of Pacification. How about you change your name to the King of Defeat? That would sound better. Or you could call yourself the King of Incompetence.”

"Oh no, that's not right."

Liu Fu suddenly slapped his forehead, as if he had remembered something:

"I almost forgot, you've lost all your military rations. Now your 130,000 troops don't have a single grain of food. You're really just a useless gluttonous prince. Why don't you just change your name to Grain-Deficient Turtle from now on?"

"how?"

Ouyang Fang really didn't expect that Liu Fu would find out about the theft of his military rations so quickly.

He wanted to stop Liu Fu from continuing, because if he revealed this secret now, the morale of the 130,000-strong army would be completely ruined.

However, he was trapped in the mountain path and had no way to stop Liu Fu, so he could only let Liu Fu talk.

"Listen up, rebels! All your rations have been taken away by my Great Han Heavenly Army. Now you have no food or fodder. If you don't surrender, you will all starve to death!"

Upon seeing Liu Fu begin to persuade them to surrender, Ouyang Fang loudly rebuked him:

"Don't listen to his nonsense, he's undermining our morale!"

"We have plenty of provisions. I hereby decree that anyone who breaks through the encirclement will be rewarded with three catties of meat and three catties of white flour buns. Charge, everyone!"

In order to deal with Liu Fu's attempts to undermine morale, Ouyang Fang made empty promises.

The vast majority of these rebels were barbarians from the eastern mountains. Upon hearing that they would be rewarded with three catties of meat and white flour buns, they immediately began to follow the main force out of the mountain path.

But Liu Fu had already ordered three thousand gorillas to prepare and lie in ambush on another mountain wall.

As soon as Ouyang Fang's central army passed by, they immediately began to hurl axes, stones, logs, and other weapons at them as if they were free.

"ah……!"

Many rebels were smashed in the head, bleeding profusely and their brains splattered.

Ouyang Fang, the commander-in-chief, was protected by dozens of shields, but he was still hit by a large rock that rolled down and struck his right shoulder.

The stone knocked Ouyang Fang off his horse, leaving half of his shoulder a bloody mess, with the bone clearly broken.

With the help of the crowd, they barely managed to break through the encirclement.

Unexpectedly, the rebels, having finally broken through the mountain path, were immediately terrified by the deafening roars of tigers and lions.

The roar of thousands of tigers and thousands of lions together is terrifying!

The rebels' warhorses were now completely panicked, lying prostrate on the ground, trembling, and not daring to move an inch.

Seeing that his warhorses could not move forward, Ouyang Fang had no choice but to order the rebels to jog and escape the ambush first.

Liu Fu did not order the lions and tigers to chase after them.

The mountain path was already narrow, and even these ferocious beasts couldn't move freely inside, let alone the King Kong and Qiongqi, whose bodies were too large to easily enter or exit.

Although the rebels have now escaped the valley, their numbers are large, and they are already in dire straits, risking their lives to break through.

The saying "Don't pursue a cornered enemy" is particularly applicable at this moment.

Since they've run out of military rations anyway, they could win without a fight, so why waste energy chasing them down?

Liu Fu took away the Suanni and ordered Qiongqi and the three Vajras to quarry a large amount of rocks, and then had three thousand apes throw down the quarried rocks to finish off the remaining rocks.

The ambush lasted until evening. Of the 130,000 rebels, more than 90,000 escaped, while approximately 30,000 died on the Qipanling mountain road.

In this battle, the number of rebel soldiers killed by the Suanni's poisonous smoke was actually not large, only about three or four hundred.

However, the poisonous smoke from the Suanni (a mythical beast) caused the rebel vanguard to retreat repeatedly. Although the exit was right in front of them, they lost their will to fight and failed to work together to overthrow the boulder, thus driving themselves into a dead end.

The Suanni played a strategic role, but the real main force was actually the three thousand gorilla underlings, as well as the countless boulders and mud that Liu Fu had collected into the ranch space.

Afterwards, Liu Fu came to the mountain path again for a closer look and found that about half of the rebels had been crushed to death, while the other half had actually trampled each other and killed one another.

Those rebels who were trying to escape, especially the barbarians, could not escape and could only take their anger out on their comrades, which then turned into mutual hatred and eventually led to deadly attacks. This was something Liu Fu had not expected.

However, these barbarians are simple-minded and physically strong, and we will mainly rely on them to eliminate the rebels later.

Liu Fu pondered to himself, then summoned the beasts and rode out of Qipanling on only a dragon horse.

Shortly after Liu Fu emerged from Qipanling, the sounds of tigers roaring and lions howling, along with a cacophony of shouts of battle, alerted Zhou Zhenguo.

When Zhou Zhenguo led the Han army into the mountain path, he was immediately taken aback!

"How did so many rebel soldiers die here?"

Zhou Zhenguo was completely dumbfounded. Judging from the number of rebel soldiers killed, it was probably more than 30,000, but the 20,000 Han soldiers in the entire Dongjun hadn't even moved.

So who killed these rebels?

Ouyang Fang is in a bad mood. She thought her plan was foolproof, but Liu Fu used it to ambush her.

Now that the army has suffered a recent defeat and morale is low, and most importantly, they have run out of food supplies, the crisis has now reversed and the rebels are in control...