Chapter 0041: Give Up the Hunt (Second Update)

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As the drums sounded, the galloping iron rider suddenly stopped. Guided by their respective battle flags, they began to face southwest to regroup their charges.

Li Pengfei stood at the forefront of the team with the Overlord gun in his hand, silently watching the Yellow Turban Army approaching in front of him. After the Yellow Turban Army approached a certain level, he turned and shouted: "Spread out the goose parade and prepare to meet the enemy." ”

The two sides are five hundred paces apart. This distance is the best plus distance for cavalry to start attacking.

Li Pengfei raised his spear high, and the white dragon horse under his crotch raised his front legs, hissed his neck, and prepared to launch a new round of wild running.

When the commander saw Li Pengfei raise his spear, he hurriedly picked up the drumstick, ready to beat the drums of the charge at any time.

At this moment, Li Pengfei noticed that Gao Xiang's troops had suddenly stopped.

Li Pengfei laughed, the enemy general opposite was a smart man.

After a long night's journey, Li Pengfei's troops were already a little tired. Coupled with the fierce and brutal battle just now, the physical strength of the soldiers has reached the limit. If there is another fierce battle with Gao Xiang's troops, I am afraid that even if the more than 1,000 iron cavalry behind him wins by luck, there will be very little left.

This iron horse was built by exhausting the net worth he had accumulated with great difficulty in the past few years, and it was the foundation of his family. And everyone lived and trained together for half a year, and asked him to fight hard, but he was unwilling to do it anyway.

Gao Xiang was also reluctant to fight again. He brought only 1,000 men and horses, and in the case of a great defeat and low morale of the main army, even if there was a battle, it would be more than a victory. As long as he stops Li Yi's pursuing troops, he will be considered to have completed the task. He expected that Li Yi's raiding troops would also be unbearable to fight again, and he would take a gamble.

He won the bet.

Li Pengfei slowly put down the spear he was holding high. He turned his head and saw the nervous faces of the several commanders behind him, as if they were preoccupied with the enemy, and couldn't help but laugh.

Several soldiers didn't understand why their adults still had time to steal fun alone at this time, and looked at him one by one in puzzlement.

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"The general is really like a god." Wang Bao saw that the Han army did not take the initiative to launch an offensive as Gao Xiang expected, and couldn't help but admire it greatly.

Gao Xiang smiled bitterly and said slowly: "On the other side is Li Yi." ”

The Yellow Turban Army behind Gao Xiang was silent when they heard this. The bloody lesson brought about by the destruction of Cheng Yuanzhi's 100,000 Yellow Turban Army was too great a shock to these Yellow Turban Army.

On the other side, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei also led their respective troops to Li Pengfei. The soldiers of both armies were similarly sleepy.

Seeing Li Pengfei confronting a Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Fei patted his horse over and asked, "Big brother, what's going on?" ”

Li Pengfei shook his head and did not speak.

Zhao Yun also leaned over silently.

Zhang Fei looked at Li Pengfei suspiciously, then at Zhao Yun, scratched his head and said, "Big brother, third brother, you are all silent, what's the matter?" There are only 1,000 Yellow Turban thieves on the other side, and we have more than 3,000 iron horsemen, why don't we kill them? ”

Li Pengfei looked at the iron horse standing quietly behind him, smiled helplessly, and said to Zhang Fei: "Yide, look at the situation of the brothers, do you still have the strength to kill?" ”

"Uh......" Zhang Fei stopped talking. Looking at the soldiers who were riding on horses, Zhang Fei really couldn't say the word "can".

A red sun is rising, and the morning glow reflects half of the sky. All creatures on the earth are bathed in golden sunlight, which seems warm and peaceful. The crystal clear dew drops lay down on the young leaves that had just greened, enjoying the warmth of the rising sun.

Li Pengfei pulled the reins. He said in a deep voice: "Go back and clean up the battlefield!" ”

Zhang Fei was still a little unwilling and said, "Big brother, did you really let it go?" ”

Li Pengfei whispered to Zhang Fei: "How can there be such a cheap thing!" Cloud Chief will be waiting for them in front. ”

"Second brother? Didn't he attract the attention of the Yellow Turban Thieves to the south? Zhang Fei said in surprise.

"That was before sunset yesterday." Li Pengfei smiled mysteriously.

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After seeing Li Pengfei lead the cavalry to turn around and leave, Gao Xiang also led his subordinates to evacuate the battlefield and chased in the direction of Zhang Qun's withdrawal.

Zhang Qun and Zhang Feng brothers abandoned the rout and fled all the way north, not daring to stay for a while. However, after a night of fierce fighting, the body was extremely tired, and after fleeing for about forty or fifty miles, everyone finally could not hold on.

Zhang Qun considered that this place was already fifty miles away from Quanzhou, and there were no pursuers behind him, so he relaxed a little and decided to rest here for a while.

Zhang Feng said worriedly: "Zizhong, we are not completely out of danger, I think it is better to withdraw to Yongnu directly and rest again?" ”

Zhang Qun shook his head and said: "Don't worry, big brother, I think Li Yi also led the army to Quanzhou at night, and after a fierce fight, there must be no spare strength to chase and kill." ”

Zhang Feng was still a little worried, Zhang Qun said indifferently: "Big brother, don't worry, you think, our army is all foot soldiers, and Li Yi is a cavalry, if he really has the strength to chase and kill us, how can we escape here?" ”

Zhang Feng thought that this was really the case, it took them more than three hours to escape here from Quanzhou. And if it is cavalry, coming from Quanzhou, it is just an hour's journey to speed up the horse. If Li Yi really chased and killed, he would have killed him a long time ago. In addition, he was also extremely tired, so he didn't say anything more.

Just as Zhang Qun was about to order the army to stop and rest, smoke and dust billowed in the direction of Quanzhou behind him, and a large army chased after him.

Zhang Qun was shocked, thinking that Li Yi's army was chasing and killing, and secretly said that my life is over.

Zhang Feng was also surprised, and was about to pull Zhang Qun on his horse to escape, but he heard a Zhang Qun's personal soldier next to him shouting very excitedly: "Military division, is it an enemy army, it is our men and horses!" ”

Zhang Qun was stunned: "Our people? How can it be? ”

Zhang Feng remembered something and said, "It should be Gao Xiang's soldiers and horses." ”

"Gao Xiang? Could it be the kid? Zhang Qun asked in disbelief.

"We'll find out in a moment." Zhang Feng said, "However, we can't take it lightly, it may be Li Yi's trick, disguised as our army to raid." ”

Zhang Qun nodded and said, "What the eldest brother said is that Cheng Yuanzhi fell for Li Yi's trick in Youbeiping at the beginning, and was attacked by Li Yi and led by the army disguised as a friendly army. The order went down, and the army lined up and was on guard. ”

The thousands of exhausted Yellow Turban soldiers gathered began to curse and swear in formation. Although they just wanted to fall asleep now, they still held on to their tired bodies and waited for the battle at the thought that the army that was catching up might be the demon's army.

After a while, the troops who caught up approached, and Zhang Qun and they also saw that the general who was the first was really Gao Xiang, so they were relieved.

The two sides met, and after some exchanges, Zhang Qun said with some emotion: "Thank you General Gao this time, if you hadn't dragged Li Yi's pursuers behind, the army would have been really dangerous." ”

Because Li Pengfei did not lead the large army to chase and kill, Zhang Qun's army fled from the battlefield more than he expected, and with Zhang Feng's troops, there were 5,000 people. Coupled with the 5,000 troops he left in Yongnu, he still had 10,000 horses under his command. Although it is considered to be a heavy damage compared to before, it also has the capital to make a comeback, and it is not afraid that it will be completely annexed by Zhang Bao.

Gao Xiang waved his hand and said, "The military advisor is polite. This time, our army was attacked by Li Thief, suffered heavy damage, and was unable to attack Quanzhou again, I don't know what the military division plans to do? ”

"Our army is newly defeated, morale is low, and for today's plan, we can only withdraw to Yongnu, join the army left behind, and then withdraw to Jixian." Zhang Qun said with some loss.

Gao Xiang nodded and did not speak. Although he is Zhang Bao's cronies, seeing Zhang Qun's tragic situation now, he can't help but feel a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. Not to mention, he himself suffered heavy losses in this battle, 15,000 men and horses, after a few days of siege battles, plus last night's battle, there were only 5,000 men and horses left, which was not much better than Zhang Qun.