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Sun Qing and the others, who lost the battle, were naturally depressed, but Hua Xiong, who won the battle, was also furious.

The Liaodong Army was surprised by the tenacity of the Xiliang soldiers, and Huaxiong was not surprised by the ferocity of the Liaodong Army. This was a night attack, he launched a night attack with three times the force, and if he did not completely annihilate the enemy, it was already a defeat in his eyes!

What's more, if you can't leave the enemy, you have also lost thousands of subordinates!

The enemy had been prepared for this night attack, and the greatest casualties occurred in the initial charge, when the corpses that had fallen on the outskirts of the camp were counted at a strange two hundred and thirty. In addition, when the Liaodong soldiers and horses formed a front arrow formation to break through to the north, his subordinates left more than 800 corpses.

Coupled with the wounded soldiers, inside and out, in order to leave 2,000 enemies in this battle, the Liangzhou soldiers lost nearly 2,000.

And the corpses left here by the enemy are only more than 900!

Who the is this guy who loses?

Hua Xiong now felt that it was pointless for him to launch this night attack, and instead of losing 2,000 soldiers and horses like this, it was better to stay in Xingyang City and prepare for the siege that would inevitably take place next.

At least in the siege battle, he relied on 6,000 men to defend against the attack of 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yanbei. When the time comes, he will join forces with Zhonglang General Xu Rongli, and it will be another big victory like the annihilation of Cao Cao.

Such a night attack made him not achieve any strategic goals, but only passed the addiction of fighting...... What is this called?

Hua Xiong now understands why Dong Gong said that he didn't understand strategy and was too reckless.

I usually feel that I am brave and superior, but I am really ...... to fight such a battle It's a bag!

As for those meager gains, compared to the overall victory or defeat of this battle, it seems that it is not so important.

Hua Xiong just ordered someone to count the corpses of the two armies, then piled them aside and stopped caring about them, gathered up the hundred and ten war horses scattered in the camp, and set up a troop team that served as scouts for a short time and scattered out to guard against the possible return of the enemy to sneak attack.

There are already such a big number of casualties, and the remaining soldiers can't afford to miss the slightest, otherwise Xingyang City may not be able to save it!

Xu Rong will not march at night, his 20,000 horses are going to fight a decisive battle with Yanbei, and at present, General Zhonglang's soldiers and horses must have rested in the field garrison between Xuanmen Pass and Xingyang.

This Xingyang City, but it depends on him to hold out until noon tomorrow...... If there is any mistake in these soldiers and horses, once Yanbei attacks, will he be able to hold it?

"Hurry up, don't be idle, hurry up!" Hua Xiong paced between the camps with a slug and a long knife, loudly urging the soldiers to step up and gather the gains of war, shouting: "Hurry up, go back to the city as soon as you finish it!" ”

The Liaodong Army had a lot of war horses, and those soldiers who escaped were all riders, which made Hua Xiong feel uneasy. The brightly lit camp still gave him a sense of security, but the thought of the next eight miles to walk through in the dark worries him.

What if those cavalry rush back again?

However, Hua Xiong also knew in his heart that this possibility was very small, after all, their enemy had already suffered heavy losses, and they only cared about picking up their tails and fleeing, where would they have the courage to attack back?

But just when he was thinking that the Liaodong people would not come back, he rode a war horse and ran back to the camp with a sigh, which made Hua Xiong furious.

There was a man falling behind the one-sided stirrup of the warhorse, with three feathered arrows stuck in his chest and back, and he had been dead for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that his foot was stuck in one stirrup, the horse wouldn't have run back...... Hua Xiong stretched out his hand to probe the snort of the dead Liangzhou soldier, raised his knife and shouted: "The whole army is on alert, Youzhou Dog is back!" ”

With his shout, there was chaos in the camp. The will of the Liangzhou soldiers to fight is extremely tenacious, but the equivalent is that their military discipline is also so poor that it is unbearable to see, and suddenly receive the news of the enemy attack, some people are holding spears and screaming and rushing out, and some people are nervously looking around left and right, and they don't know how to form a formation.

After Hua Xiong's repeated shouts, and even slashed a Tu Gehu Tun general who did not obey the order, the surrounding sergeants spontaneously formed a circle formation and guarded the enemy in the camp who did not know where they would come from.

After the formation, Hua Xiong secretly rejoiced in his heart, thanks to the enemy army, he did not directly attack the camp on horseback, otherwise with their military discipline, it is possible to be directly scattered by the enemy cavalry while taking advantage of the chaos just now, but now...... No one can break up the Liangzhou army after the formation!

Time passed quietly, and it was quiet all around, and it was pitch black all around, where could I see the shadow of the enemy?

Hua Xiong's cronies and military marquis asked, "Captain, could this war horse be a ...... Just grabbed the horse and pursued the enemy's brother, right? ”

Hua Xiong shook his head, stared around with a pair of big eyes, obviously nervous to the extreme, and said to the military marquis for a while: "Send a few people to take a look around, especially the north, this horse came from the north just now." ”

The military marquis clenched his fists in agreement, and then several scouts galloped out in all directions, and in a moment their backs disappeared into the surrounding darkness.

Hua Xiong relaxed his vigilance a little, and said with a long breath: "It may be that Hua is too worried......"

Before he had finished speaking, a short scream was heard in the distance to the north, and then the two horsemen ran side by side, one looking back and pointing behind, but neither of them could reach the camp, and the flying arrows pierced their hearts, and one fell from their mounts to the ground.

"The enemy is in the north!"

Then, the sound of the march of the brigade came from the north, which made them sure that the enemy had really returned, and Hua Xiong hurriedly ordered: "Quick, crossbowmen go to the north!" ”

There were more than 1,000 archers in Huaxiong's army, and they got a lot of cavalry bows in the night battle, and now they had as many long-range troops as many as three songs, and they ordered one after another: "Shoot into the distance!" ”

With Hua Xiong's order, nearly a thousand archers opened their bows and arrows to throw arrows into the darkness in the distance, and the blink of an eye caused the arrow rain to envelop the distance, but most of the arrows were only pierced on the ground, at least Hua Xiong did not hear anyone screaming from the arrow.

Little success.

The sound of horses' hooves continued, moving to the northwest, and Hua Xiong hurriedly lined up the two archers in the west and north directions to ensure that they could guard against the enemy who might charge out.

His formation had just been set up, but the sound of horses' hooves came from a direction he didn't expect...... To the east, that is, behind their formation.

Su Muyan came with the whistle of Hu soldiers in his mouth and roared with a big bow, leading six teams of three hundred archers to charge out from behind the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed to within a hundred paces, and the Wuhuan warriors each opened their bows and arrows, and shot arrows together with the order at forty or fifty paces, and then the cavalry team circled half a circle to the south, and shot a rain of arrows in the blink of an eye.

With the sound of the Wuhuan cavalry collapsing, they could take the lives of dozens of Liangzhou soldiers every time.

The east side was originally the main defense area of Huaxiong, but at this time, because of the sound of war horses running back from the north and the hooves of horses marching westward, he thought that the enemy was making a detour, so he transferred all the archers to the northwest and west.

Su Muyan led his army to the south, only to be counterattacked by the archers from the west, but in the blink of an eye, he turned around again, fired another volley, turned around and galloped into the darkness.

At this time, Hua Xiong was completely panicked, he didn't know what else he could do now. Now it is clear that there is an enemy in the east, and more in the north and west, and he has so many archers in his hands, how else can he defend it?

There was no way for him to defend it, so he could only order all his troops to shrink their formations and form a cone formation. Leave three sides of the perimeter for archers, so that you can be sure that no matter which direction an enemy horse attacks, you can be shot by at least one curved archer.

But with this raid, the four sides fell into a silent uneasiness again.

Huaxiong's military Sima couldn't stand this unknown nervousness, and said, "Captain, let's rush out!" ”

"How to rush, get out of here, it's dark everywhere, those cavalry can run faster than us!" Now rush out, and without fire, the enemy will not see himself, and he himself will not see the enemy; If you light a torch, you will become a live target...... Live target, Hua Xiong shouted: "Quickly extinguish the brazier in the camp, the enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, they know what we are doing!" ”

In fact, it is true that Sun Qing, Tai Shici, and Su Fuyan respectively led more than 300 cavalry camps in the west, north, and east directions, and they were only three or four hundred steps away from the camp, but it was enough to lead the Liangzhou soldiers not to see them. However, the brightly lit battalion completely exposed them to the Liaodong Army's field of vision, and they could see the changes in his formation clearly.

As the military order was handed down, the entire camp was completely dark after a while, and only two hundred steps outside the camp remained, and a circle of bonfires still glowed faintly.

For a while, neither side could see each other's movements. Hua Xiong's method of extinguishing the brazier in the camp made the three of Liaodong feel discouraged, but now it's okay, no one can see anyone. But the first to come up with a solution was Tai Shici, who did not hesitate to order more than a dozen horsemen to extinguish the braziers in his direction on the periphery of the camp.

With the darkness on his side, Sun Qing Su Yanyan did the same, and when all the braziers on the periphery of the camp were extinguished, it was not just a night battle...... In the night, when you can't see your fingers, everyone can only distinguish the enemy by their voices.

"Captain, what are we going to do? It's not a way to drag it out like this! ”

Hua Xiong should let him know that it is not a way to drag it down, and when dawn or most of Yanbei is killed, all of them will have to die here, but is there any good way at the moment? Hua Xiong could only order his subordinates to move lightly in the direction of Xingyang as lightly as possible, trying not to make any sound.

"Captain, there are only more than a thousand enemies, and although they have light horses and fast horses, we have four thousand people...... Why don't you run separately? ”

"Running apart?" Hua Xiong muttered, then nodded and said: "That's right, run separately, only by running separately to Xingyang can you live, pass the order, all the departments will run around and flee to Xingyang!" ”