Wang Jiyong tried his best, coupled with the desperate fighting of the brothers around him, to get out of the encirclement, but when he looked back, there were originally more than 1,000 brothers, but now there are three or four hundred people left, and half of them are wounded.

But Wang Jiyong didn't have time to feel sad at this time, if he didn't run again, these brothers would have to explain here. Then immediately rushed to Tongguan City.

Meng Ke and Hu Dadao finally got the news from Cheng Xiaolian at this time, and they knew the current situation on the battlefield, and began to slowly retreat with their brothers. Fortunately for them, it had always been Meng Ke and his Modao team who had rushed to the front, so it was easier to gather it now than the rest of the army.

Cai Yurong naturally refused to let the duck fly to his beak, and immediately accelerated the drumming, and the soldiers in front began to attack with all their might, and the shield players had already flashed to both sides at this time, and the spearmen behind all poured out.

At this time, Wang Jiyong had already run to Cheng Xiaolian, and Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "Return to Tongguan City immediately, even if the whole army outside is wiped out, you have to defend Tongguan City for me, Tongguan City is stable, Shaanxi is here, otherwise you will wait for me to regain Shaanxi again." ”

Wang Jiyong shouted: "Yes! Then he rushed back to Tongguan City with the cavalry, and now it is too late to transfer people around, once the front is defeated, Tongguan City will be lost immediately.

Cheng Xiaolian watched Wang Jiyong return to Tongguan City with the wounded soldiers, and took a deep breath: "It's up to us now, if we can survive this catastrophe, Tongguan can still be saved, otherwise Tongguan will be gone, and half of Shaanxi will be gone." ”

Yang Youcai stared at Cheng Xiaolian: "Your Highness, now that the war is urgent, even if you stay here, you won't be able to help much, and you can still stabilize the morale of the army when you return to the city." General Qu and they may not be able to retreat with their whole body, and then they will fold you in, and we will lose a lot in today's battle. ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "When you want to win the battle, you stand up and say that you want to share weal and woe with the soldiers, come out and pretend to stand for a while, seeing that the battle is going to be lost, but I hid in the city by myself, who in the army is willing to fight for the Ming Dynasty?" Even if I lose today, I will carry it down with the soldiers in the army. ”

Saying that, he glanced at Yang Youcai: "Yang Youcai, your task today is to protect my thoughtfulness, can you do it?" ”

The corners of Lu Li's mouth, who was standing behind Yang Youcai, involuntarily curled: "Your Highness, you are really a scoundrel." ”

Cheng Xiaolian snorted: "I'm going to work hard, are you still watching from the sidelines?" So saying, he ran into the middle of the battlefield and stretched out his hand and grabbed a bow and arrow.

Meng Ke and Hu Dadao were very fierce when they burst in, and they didn't turn around and run when they evacuated, they were generals like them, they had a fierce spirit in their bones, and the more dangerous the battle, the hotter the fight, but today was really not suitable for fighting anymore, so they could only retreat, but this did not let Cai Yurong's people take much advantage.

However, Qu Songtin was much more miserable, they almost faced the archers and began to charge, and there were almost no cavalry, and after a while, a group of people fell.

On the battlefield, a casualty rate of more than thirty percent will cause the army to be defeated, and at this time, the soldiers under Qu Songjin have not yet approached the team of archers, and the morale of the soldiers is already a little unstable.

Qu Songtin was also very anxious, these people ran over and were shot by others, if they ran back again, they would be shot again, and now they are about to finish, so naturally they can't give up halfway.

But as the old saying goes, the one who walks a hundred miles is half ninety, that is, a person has to walk a hundred miles, and walking ninety miles can only be regarded as half, not that the ancients are bad at mathematics, because everyone understands a truth, the more at the end, the physical strength and spirit have reached the limit, so ninety miles can only be counted as half.

These three hundred steps have come to pass, but by the last fifty steps, the soldiers under him seem to be about to collapse.

At this time, a bow and arrow behind them slammed into the big flag on the opposite side, and the big flag was made of hollow wood, so that it was easy to run around on their backs when fighting, otherwise there would be no saying that the wind would damage the general if the flagpole was broken, it was all solid wood, and it was so easy to break.

Cheng Xiaolian's arrow hit the flagpole, and then the flagpole fell in response, Qu Songjin turned around and shouted loudly: "Brothers, it was His Highness who released the arrow, and His Highness is still watching behind us, kill me!" At this point, he rushed forward first.

It's not that he's not afraid of death, it's just that if he can't arouse the morale of his subordinates at this time, these people will all be finished.

Seeing that Qu Songtin rushed forward, and the surrounding soldiers all recovered their fierce and vicious appearances, and their own coaches rushed up, is their lives more valuable?

Relying on Qu Songtwin's death charge, these soldiers finally crossed the final hurdle and reached those archers.

Of course, when the archers are far away, they take advantage of each other, and everything in the world is mutually reinforcing, and they take advantage of them from afar, and they have to be taken advantage of when they are near.

Cai Yurong had arranged some short knife men to protect the archers in advance, but in the face of these fierce beasts with bloody faces, those people were obviously no opponents, and the archers were soon scattered.

At this time, Meng Ke and Hu Dadao's people also retreated to this mile, and Xiaolian waved his hand: "Kill, retreat to the city at this time, you can only be chased by Cai Yurong, there are not many people in our city, and we can't stand it." ”

Meng Ke was naturally obedient to Cheng Xiaolian's life, and immediately rushed forward with people, and then these people began to run after those archers.

Those archers naturally ran into their own military formation, and this rush blocked Cai Yurong's offensive, Cheng Xiaolian knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and immediately ordered to retreat to Tongguan City.

Then these people retreated under the cover of the city, and when the number of people was counted, nearly 10,000 casualties were taken, and the defenders of the city were full of less than 3,000 men.

Cheng Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "General Qu, it's up to you again, even if you transfer troops from Xi'an Mansion, it will take at least ten days." ”

Qu Songtin nodded: "Your Highness, rest assured, even if I kill to the last soldier, I will defend Tongguan City." ”

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at Wang Jiyong again: "General Wang, go to Xi'an Mansion immediately to transfer troops, Cai Yurong will not give us too much time." ”

This battle can be said to be the biggest defeat Cheng Xiaolian has suffered since the war, the reason is that he underestimated Cai Yurong's strength, to be honest, after Cai Yurong was assigned, Qing History's evaluation of him was not high, if he was given a high evaluation, wouldn't it mean that Kangxi was a faint king? So Cheng Xiaolian had never heard his name at all, so he could be regarded as suffering such a big loss.

(End of chapter)