Chapter 154: The Way Home

After all, the camp was broken, Wei Xu attacked under the gate of the walled city regardless of casualties, and the ban had no time to care, and in a short period of time, the two teams of cavalry adhering to the tradition of the border army rushed into the camp, torches flew everywhere, and the camp tent was ignited, and the cavalry raged in the camp, from time to time to harass the foot soldiers who formed a formation to resist the enemy.

Annoying.

The situation of the forbidden department, which was already on the defensive, took a sharp turn, and at the same time faced the situation of belly and back attack, and the only crossbowmen and foot soldiers in front of the gate of the village could not bear the consumption in turn...... Seeing it, the military tent in the camp is about to be burned to the ground!

Wei Xu's eyes outside the camp became more and more joyful, and the gate of the village was blocked by corpses, and he immediately ordered soldiers and horses to enter from the gaps on both sides, forming a circle around the forbidden department, and constantly squeezing.

"Remove the corpse and slowly withdraw." Yu Ban watched the situation get worse and worse, although there were many soldiers and horses under his subordinates, there were not many cavalry, and he knew that today's camp was destroyed. At this time, he heard the enemy troops on the left and right shouting loudly that Yanbei would send troops to attack Chengwu tomorrow, and his heart was even more anxious, and he ordered: "Withdraw to the official road outside the village, and ambush two songs in the forest!" ”

If he had known that this was the result, Yu Ban would have left the camp and left from the east, but the current situation did not allow him to leave through the east gate. The camp is full of galloping Yan cavalry, not to mention that the foot soldiers have almost sealed them, and there is no way to get out except for the official road in the west behind them!

With every minute of killing, the Yan army of Wei Xu's army squeezed the Yu Ban Department under the Zhaimen more and more heavily, and the offensive became more and more fierce. Because the walled gate is about to be burned down, once the walled gate collapses, the forbidden department will have no way to go to the sky and enter the ground, and can only be killed at the price.

As for the reinforcements from Chengwu, Wei Xu didn't have to think about it. In the east, it was Gao Shun who blocked the back road for him, Gao Shun's tactics were different from those generals who only knew how to fight and rush, that was a general who really used his brains to fight, although Gao Shun could defeat people, Wei Xu did not feel that he might not be able to defeat; But if even Gao Shun, who led nearly 6,000 soldiers, couldn't beat ...... Then don't go over, Wei Xu will definitely not be able to beat it!

Wei Xu, who just rushed into the middle of the camp to direct the battle, didn't know what Yu Ban was doing.

Yu Ban asked the last sergeant of the layered army formation to remove the corpses blocked under the gate of the village, and withdrew in small quantities and slowly, intermittently sending two full thousands of people to the official road to the west outside the camp.

He originally had 5,000 soldiers, but both sides lost hundreds of men and horses after a long period of attrition, and then hundreds of soldiers and horses were eaten away.

This made Wei Xu not even aware of the movement of the forbidden transfer of troops and horses...... He only felt that the advantage was always in his hands, and the cavalry continued to charge without casualties, but the enemy army was becoming smaller and smaller or even equal to his soldiers and horses.

This is a harbinger of victory!

Suddenly, with Yu Ban's order, more sergeants passed under the door that had been cleared and ran out, and the last sergeant after the break smashed the gate of the village with a prepared wooden crash, the flames and the camp blocked the way of their pursuit, Wei Xu immediately ordered the cavalry to rush out from the two gaps that had been opened earlier, who knew that the narrow gap had already been ambushed by the crossbowmen under the forbidden subordinates, and a rain of arrows caused him to lose dozens of horses.

Yu Ban's large army ran westward!

Cleaning up the collapsed gate was not too vigorous, it was too easy for Wei Xu, and his subordinate soldiers lifted the giant trees in the wall to the wall that had not collapsed, but in a moment they left the burning camp behind them, straddled the horse and shouted: "Chase quickly, they can't run far!" ”

Yu Ban really couldn't run far, and the army he fled from fell into Wei Xu's eyes, and he could even see a faintly visible back, and the distance was not five hundred steps at most!

The fierce cavalry team chased and killed, and Wei Xu, who was born in the border army of Bingzhou, knew that this was the real place where the cavalry came in, and more than 600 horsemen dragged the smoke and dust to catch up, and hundreds of foot soldiers followed. Even in the darkness of the night, the path they had traveled before no longer needed to be careful.

However, the moment of relaxation of vigilance often occurred, two Cao troops in ambush in the woods suddenly struck out, first with a dense rain of arrows as they rushed in front of them, and then a large group of foot soldiers slaughtered the frightened horses with spears, and cut off each head that fell to the ground...... The short knife cuts the side of the neck, the easiest and most labor-saving way to kill the enemy.

The cavalry who narrowly escaped the catastrophe and still charged westward was not lucky, more than 200 cavalry ran head-on into the forbidden place with thousands of foot soldiers, more people were frightened to stop their horses but did not know how to advance or retreat, a few brave people tried in vain to knock out the gap, but often only a few Cao army foot soldiers were stabbed to death and fell to the ground to break their leg bones.

Victory and defeat came too straightforwardly, those cavalry who had been pursuing the enemy army a moment ago were scattered in a blink of an eye, but there was nowhere to escape, and they could only watch the corpse of their leader, Wei Xu, be dragged out from under the horse corpse like a dead dog by several sturdy foot soldiers of Cao Jun.

Wei Xu charged at the forefront, the cold arrows in the dense forest shot at his back, and several crossbow arrows pierced through the large armor and pierced the armor, and the real fatal wound was the spearhead that broke in the neck. Three iron spears struck his mount from the front, one shattering the horse's bone, one breaking through his neck, and the other piercing his neck through the horse's neck.

The knife hand that cut off the head did not exert a little extra strength, and only stabbed a layer of flesh attached, and his head rolled down.

They were defeated.

Although Yu Ban was victorious, it seemed that there was a thousand catties of boulders in his heart that made him unhappy no matter what...... In the midst of the scuffle, he clearly heard someone shouting that their king would attack Chengwu tomorrow, and Cao Ren, who was now in Chengwu City, probably didn't know anything about it. As for the dead Wei Xu, Yu Ban couldn't raise any interest, and even the head didn't even look at it, so he waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to mend their swords on the battlefield, kill all the living mouths and collect the spoils of war, the whole process only took half an hour, and then more than 2,000 remnants of the army turned around and headed east.

Yu Ban gave a death order, there was still an hour before sunrise, and they needed to march quickly to Chengwu!

When the first rays of the morning cast their light on the camp, the scouts who had staggered from the valley reached the summit of the northern hill, and from his direction he could only see the figure of an army in the east that had gradually disappeared into the morning mist, and beneath his feet the camp was in ruins, only the charred charcoal and the corpses strewn to remind him of the terrible war that had taken place the previous night.

The eastward figure in the eyes of the scout was extremely tragic, and the little scout kneeling on the mountain couldn't help but cry with sorrow.

He knew that his general, this army, would never reach Chengwu City again!