Chapter 168: A Heart-wrenching Loss

Fang Xuanling shook his head and smiled bitterly, and Du Ruhui also smiled bitterly. I have thought of all the ways I can think of, but it is still difficult to prevent the rout, from Qu Tutong was raided by Zheng Jun's fire bull array at the Jianguomen Gate in the south of Luoyang City, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui realized that something was wrong, Fang Xuanling in the name of joining the army, restrained the tens of thousands of people left behind and the old, weak, sick and disabled, and reluctantly organized three lines of defense, in a vain attempt to collect the rout and regroup.

It's just a pity that the three lines of defense organized with all their might were broken down by the enemy three times, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain, Wang Shiyun's iron cavalry chased and killed behind, and the defeated soldiers of the Tang army were like hornets that had blown up their nests, running around, and finally pulled up a team, and before the enemy could make a move, they were rushed by their own defeated soldiers.

Those who remained in the camp in the northern mountains were either the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, or the peasants who had just put down their hoes and picked up arms. If the Tang army won a great victory, these tens of thousands of people could rush forward and rush the enemy with the courage of blood and blood. However, after all, they have not been tempered by the battle formation, once they encounter the rout of the whole army and are impacted by the enemy's iron cavalry, it is difficult for them to withstand such a huge blow as the defeat of the whole army, so they have no backbone, their ears are full of the enemy's shouts, their eyes are full of the enemy's demonic description, and their consciousness becomes a blank, so the originally organized response soon turns into a chaotic rout.

This is exactly Wang Shiyun's trick, when he found that the battlefield was no longer the Tang army into a formed resistance army, he changed his strategy, divided his five thousand cavalry into five thousand troops, each attack is based on a thousand people as a unit, a thousand people team does not impact for a long time, just a short half an hour, as long as it is half an hour, immediately change to another thousand cavalry to rush forward.

This is like a triple attack in a cavalry battle, the cavalry of the Zheng army rushed up in turn, either a rain of arrows or a white-bladed impact, constantly harvesting the lives of the defeated soldiers of the Tang army from behind. It's like a few tigers, driving a large herd of sheep, rushing up from time to time to bite one or two to death, but they don't fit together, so that the sheep run like this, until they all run into the gates of hell.

The dense Tang army captives were driven by the cavalry of the Zheng army, and the camp of the Tang army's northern mountain camp was crumbling. The first camp wall was washed down, and the second camp wall held out for half an hour, and then it was declared lost. Now that the last wall of the camp is crumbling, where else can they retreat?

As the so-called one goes away and the other rises, the cavalry under Wang Shiyun's command was stimulated by the imminent victory at this moment, and their eyes were blood-red, surging up like a wave, and the iron cavalry rumbled on the earth, rushed behind the Tang army prisoners, and shot the wolf tooth arrow fiercely at the back of the Tang army prisoners at a close distance of more than ten or twenty steps.

"Listen to the fuck, rush, hurry up, or you'll be dead!"

The captured soldiers of the Tang Army have long been without masters, and under the stimulation of life-saving instincts, they just need to subconsciously run forward.

When the cries and shouts of the officers and men of the Tang Army rushed to the camp of the Tang Army, the North Camp of the Tang Army was even more dangerous.

Listening to the screams of killing in his ears, the pungent smell of blood filled his nerves, looking at the severed limbs and blood flying in the air, Du Ruhui coughed, clutching his chest with a painful expression: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!" ”

Fang Xuanling's gaze and Du Ruhui's gaze touched in the air, and a thought invariably arose in his heart, could it be that Li Tang really didn't have the mandate of heaven?

One by one, the barracks were caught in flames, and the flames rose into the sky, marking the end of the barracks' armed resistance and the occupation of the barracks. There were more and more camps burning and catching fire, and they gradually approached Li Shimin's Shangshuling Festival Hall in eastern Shaanxi, and the shouts of killing around him could be clearly heard.

Fang Xuanling gritted his teeth and walked in front of Du Ruhui: "Keming, your married wife is still waiting for you in Chang'an, you are surrendered, and His Royal Highness King Qin will understand your hardships......"

Without waiting for Fang Xuanling to finish speaking, Du Ruhui shook his head and said, "Then let's see you in the next life!" ”

Du Ruhui staggered and walked slowly towards the burning sea of fire, the sea of fire formed by forage and grain seemed not to be a dead place, but a paradise for Du Ruhui. There was no fear, no worry, and no panic on Du Ruhui's face. Some are only calm, and some are only calm.

Fang Xuanling whispered, "Keming, wait for me!" ”

Just when Du Ruhui was nearly ten steps away from the fire, the scorching flames burned Du Ruhui's hair to a scorching and pungent smell, and suddenly all the surviving generals in the northern camp cheered.

Du Ruhui raised his eyes and saw that the cavalry at the foot of the mountain was swarming, and the cavalry array erected four large flags of the Chinese army, which were eight feet high.

"The right servant of the Shangshu of the East Shaanxi Road shoots Chen"

"Deputy Marshal Chen, the Right Capital of the Eastern Shaanxi Army"

"Henan appeases Chen"

"Champion General Chen".

Hearing the shouts of resistance in the northern camp, Chen Ying and Li Shimin were relieved. After meeting the eldest grandson Wuji on the bank of the Luoshui River, Chen Ying and Li Shimin learned that when Qu Tutong learned that Li Shimin was in ambush in Longmen, they led the remaining 100,000 troops to set off from the camp in Beipi to rescue Li Shimin.

However, Qu Tutong did not expect that Wang Shiyun would actually use the method of fire bull array against him, in a hurry, Qu Tutong's whole army was defeated, and Shi Wanbao, the head of the march, was killed by Wang Shiyun, and Huang Junhan, the head of Huaizhou, and the whole army suffered a catastrophe.

So far, the eldest grandson Wuji can't tell where Qu Tutong is, at that time he and Qu Tutong were separated, he was soaked in the cold Luoshui, pretending to be a dead body, and only then did he escape, but the Zheng soldiers were cleaning the battlefield in the direction of Luoshui, and sooner or later they would find that the eldest grandson Wuji had cheated to death.

Chen Ying heard that the camp in the north had not yet fallen, but fortunately he did not give up, otherwise he would be full of regret. So Chen Ying ignored the horse's efforts and adopted the method of bloodletting to stimulate the war horse, squeezing out the last trace of the horse's potential.

Finally, at the most critical moment, Chen Ying rushed to the foot of Daying Mountain in the north.

However, at this time, the hook and sickle lancers who followed Chen Ying to the northern camp were less than 2,000 people, and the horses of the other cavalry were really unable to run. These exhausted hook and sickle lancers shouted in unison at the same time: "Champion general, Henan appeases Ambassador Chen's warning to the soldiers left behind in the battalion, please hold on for a moment......"

The cavalry general of the Zheng army besieging the camp in Beibi Mountain at this time was named An Shoujing, and it was precisely this An Shoujing who was friendly with Wang Renze, and learned from Wang Renze's mouth that Chen Ying was powerful, and after seeing Chen Ying's banner, he was timid. Wang Renze's 30,000-strong army occupies the geographical advantage of Hangu Pass, so why can't Chen Ying, let alone at this time?

"Retreat ......"

Chen Ying looked at the Zheng cavalry who were retreating towards Luoyang City with dust and smoke raised, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The current hook and sickle cavalry can no longer be regarded as the end of the crossbow, but has run out of oil. The hook-scythe lancers on these horses didn't even have the strength to lift the hook-sickle. Don't look at the Zheng cavalry on the opposite side, there are only more than 1,000 horses, and the hook and sickle lancers have more than 2,000 people, but Chen Ying really doesn't have any confidence in defeating the Zheng army's cavalry.

At this time, the hook and sickle cavalry are not armored, if they charge against the Zheng cavalry, they will definitely suffer huge casualties, once the battle is stalemate, the consequences are unimaginable, Wang Shichong will definitely not let go of this opportunity to completely annihilate the elite of Chen Yingjun's department.

Seeing the cavalry of the Zheng army looking at Chen Ying's banner, turning around and fleeing without even taking a look, Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief, he won the bet this time. In fact, Chen Ying was most afraid of encountering a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers Zheng Jun, once that happened, Chen Ying's wisdom would probably be ruined.

Looking at the retreat of the Zheng army, Li Xiuning breathed a sigh of relief, Li Shimin also breathed a sigh of relief, and the soldiers of Chen Yingsuo's department also breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm sleepy, I'll sleep first!" Luo Shixin got off his warhorse and lay on the ground with a helmet over his face.

At this time, the Tang army prisoners smoothly became Tang army soldiers, Chen Ying found that the hook and sickle lancer soldiers were crumbling, so he had to give an order to let the Tang army soldiers who stayed in the camp clean up the battlefield and collect the prisoners.

Chen Ying slowly got off the warhorse, and then lay on the ground regardless of the cold and image, reciting a big character.

Chen Ying was really tired, and after this battle, he was not easy, and soon Chen Ying lay on the cold ground and fell asleep.

……

When Chen Ying woke up, he found that he was already lying in a small tent, still covered with a quilt. Chen Ying listened to the gurgling protest in his stomach and prepared to get up to find something to eat. Just when Chen Ying lifted the quilt, he felt the bones in his arms ache like pins and needles.

"Oops......" Chen Ying exclaimed.

Li Xiuning ran from outside the tent like a gust of wind: "Chen Lang, how are you?" ”

Chen Ying shook his head: "Hard, now my arms can't use their strength." Hungry again......"

Li Xiuning instructed the guards to find some food for Chen Ying.

After a while, the guards delivered the food to the tent, and Chen Ying struggled to get up, while gritting his teeth and holding chopsticks, he endured the pain like drilling his heart to eat, while enjoying the torture of pain. It's pain and happiness.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's pained appearance, silently picked up the bowl, and picked up a spoon.

"What?" Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning suspiciously and asked.

"To eat, or not to eat!" Li Xiuning didn't have a waiter in the first place, so it was already embarrassing to make an exception for Chen Ying, but seeing Chen Ying pretending to be confused, he was so angry that he was itching at all. Seeing that Chen Ying was unmoved, Li Xiuning said angrily: "Don't eat and pull down." ”

"I eat, can't I eat?" While enjoying Li Xiuning feeding him this wounded number to eat, Chen Ying asked Li Xiuning about the defeat and the losses of the Tang army.

A look of worry appeared on Li Xiuning's face: "It's so miserable!" ”

"Half of the soldiers lost?" Chen Ying tried to ask, "The general loses a third?" ”

"More than that!" Li Xiuning shook his head and said: "There are more than 30,000 corpses and tens of thousands of wounded corpses alone, and the whole army is less than 40,000 at this time!" ”

"Ahh Rao is Chen Ying was strong in his heart, and he couldn't help but be surprised at this moment.

Li Shimin was defeated in shallow water, losing nearly 100,000 horses. This was a very large-scale defeat in the early Tang Dynasty, but this time Li Shimin's losses exceeded 100,000 horses, and even Liu Dewei and Qu Tutong, the marching commanders, were not found.

This time, not only did more than 30,000 soldiers be lost, but a large number of materials were burned, and such a loss would already make the Li Tang court feel heartbroken.

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