Chapter 689: Escape (Ask for Subscription)
With elite cavalry, bed crossbows, trap camps, and crossbowmen, the outcome of this war seems to have been predestined when LĂź Bu entered Youbeiping.
Gongsun Kang is not willing, if this battle is lost, he doesn't know how to explain to the soldiers in the army, and he doesn't know how to explain to Gongsun Du.
"General, retreat quickly." Han Lu reminded.
Gongsun Kang could only order the Chinese army to keep retreating, and temporarily pinned his hopes on the soldiers of the Chinese army, as long as his own soldiers could continue to consume the enemy's cavalry, and leave the enemy's cavalry in the Chinese army, the victory would still belong to him.
As soon as the banner of the Chinese army moved back, Lu Bu shouted: "The enemy army has withdrawn, kill!" â
"The enemy has withdrawn, kill!" The cavalry behind him kept shouting, and the sound gradually converged, even drowning out the sound of fighting on the battlefield and the rumbling of war drums.
The coalition soldiers who are struggling to fight, after hearing such a shout, their first reaction is to look in the direction of the Chinese army, when they see the banner of the Chinese army, is constantly moving backwards, the feeling in their hearts can be imagined, the Chinese army has retreated, they stay on the battlefield to kill, what is the point, for a while, the soldiers of the front army and the Chinese army, even if Queen Cang withdrew, Chen Zhi and Gao Shun led the soldiers to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill.
Gongsun Kang's small abacus, how could Xu Yu not see through, he already had no hope for the victory of this war, under the protection of the guards, breaking out of the encirclement, he didn't want to die with the coalition soldiers, even if this operation failed, Jizhou did not have any losses.
The shouting made the coalition soldiers panic, and many soldiers lost their initial fighting spirit under the charge of the cavalry and the trapped camp, and fled in all directions, and the main generals fled, not to mention the soldiers below.
Yan Rou's face was also gloomy, they were defeated by the superior in numbers, they were defeated by the bed crossbow and cavalry that they had already known, the bed crossbow weakened the morale of the coalition forces to the greatest extent, and the cavalry was a sharp weapon to tear through the defense line of the coalition army.
"Withdraw!" Yan Rou reluctantly gave the order.
ă Tian Yu saw that the enemy army began to flee, and hurriedly ordered the army to rush and kill.
Lu Bu is leading the cavalry to keep following the banner of the Chinese army, under the banner of the Chinese army, there must be the main generals of the enemy army, he has no intention of defeating the coalition army, just forget it, with the first time, next time these enemies may come, the most simple way is to completely defeat the enemy, so that they have no chance to make a comeback, as for what Liaodong Gongsun family, Lu Bu did not intend to let go, he wanted to use elite soldiers to tell the Liaodong Gongsun family, in the face of absolute strength, their little tricks are not worth mentioning.
Seeing that the cavalry behind him was in hot pursuit, and his own soldiers had been defeated, Badun was also panicked, and hurriedly ordered his generals to gather their soldiers and horses, they should do their best to preserve the strength in their hands, this battle once again made them feel frightened, 30,000 troops were defeated in the hands of 10,000 and the state army, and it was the cavalry of the state that led to their defeat, and the state cavalry once again showed their invincible posture in front of Badun.
Gongsun Kang was in a panic, and he couldn't care about the army, so he frowned and made the soldiers of the Chinese army continue to flee, while he led a group of generals to flee in another direction.
With the pursuit of the cavalry, the soldiers in charge of the banner of the Chinese army also held back their strength to escape, lest they be caught up by the cavalry behind.
The defeat was like a mountain, and the officers and soldiers of the coalition army, who were inseparable from the state army at the last moment, began a great escape after the retreat of the Chinese army, and more soldiers chose to flee in the direction of the camp, as long as they entered the camp, they would be safe, but the cavalry on the left and right of the camp who were closely chasing after them would not let their wish succeed.
After Lu Bu led the cavalry to catch up with the enemy's Chinese army, the Chinese soldiers scattered in a hurry, and only after questioning did they learn that Gongsun Kang had fled.
Although he failed to kill the main general of the enemy army, the winner of this battle was the Bingzhou army, and the rout of the coalition army also facilitated Lu Bu's next big move in Youzhou.
Seeing that there was no hope of escape, many soldiers directly threw their blades on the ground and chose to surrender.
At dusk, the curtain was completely drawn on this decisive battle, which lasted for nearly a day of fighting, and also made the Bingzhou army a little tired, but the harvest on the battlefield was huge, countless armor blades, these are all credits, and the corpses on the battlefield made the empty battlefield even more desolate.
After ordering people to clean up the battlefield, LĂź Bu led the victorious army back to the city.
Counting the losses, the Youzhou army lost nearly 600 cavalry, more than 2,000 foot soldiers, killed about 7,000 enemy troops, and captured more than 11,000 enemy troops.
The people in the streets and alleys are now talking about the most about the victory over the enemy.
The news of the Youzhou army's victory in Youbeiping soon spread to the counties of Youzhou, and this victory dispelled the shadow that shrouded the heads of the people of Yuyang, especially ordinary people, even if they lived in their hometown, they were not willing to leave their hometown, and to a strange place meant that there would be death.
After Gongsun Kang and others fled back to the camp in embarrassment, they counted the soldiers and horses, and found that the original army of more than 30,000 people was only more than 10,000 people left at this time, many of whom were wounded, and the morale of the army was even more low.
"Incompetent, how did this king trust you in the first place and handed over the army to your command." He suddenly accused angrily, 10,000 Wuhuan troops, at this time there were less than 3,000 people left, and not only that, but also offended the Marquis of Jin.
Gongsun Kang's face turned red and snorted coldly: "General Ben is incompetent, you Wuhuan cavalry prides yourself on being elite, why can't you stop Lu Bu's cavalry, you Wuhuan people are the first to escape, what kind of face do you have to blame General Ben." â
The three of them quarreled endlessly, but the soldiers under his command never found Xu You's traces, and at this time, Gongsun Kang also understood that Xu You was seeing that the coalition army could not succeed and left, and his resentment towards Xu You was overwhelming.
After the argument, the three also sobered up from their anger.
"It's this king who fell for Xu You, if you see Xu You a villain in the future, you must peel him alive to vent the hatred in the heart of this king." Badun gritted his teeth.
The strength of the three parties was only more than 10,000 people in one place, and it was difficult to succeed, Gongsun Kang led the army to leave the next day, and Yan Rou and Badun also led the soldiers to leave Youbeiping, a sad place for them, and naturally plundered along the way.
The enemy retreated, Youbeiping once again returned to its previous calm, and the nervous expressions of the people and merchants walking on the streets disappeared.