It's time to retreat, it's really time to retreat......

"What a pity!" Kaimingpan took one last look at the lone enemy on the west bank and gave the order to prepare to retreat.

There is still a pity for the reason, the Ou Kingdom came to Lingnan this time with nearly 800 war elephants, and they were forced to interrupt before they could fight.

The method of taming war elephants in the Ou Kingdom was learned from the savages, and there are quite a lot of elephant herds in that area of South Asia, but it is difficult to tame an adult elephant, and it is generally necessary to train war elephants to start taming them when the elephant is breastfeeding.

In the dense forests of South Asia, it is necessary to tame elephants, who are often not used for war purposes, but as the main tools of labor in ordinary construction.

Enlightened Pan and they came all the way to Lingnan, relying on elephants to open the way along the way, otherwise it would be pure wishful thinking to use manpower alone to build a road with a total length of thousands of miles in the primeval forest area without ten or eight years.

In fact, after the Lian clan, who knew how to tame elephants in Changsha County, was exterminated, Lu Zhe's side also discovered the role of elephants, and the southern army must have elephants in the usual advance operations, and the strength of their trunks is too great, and the trees that are difficult to pull out by manpower are always uprooted by a roll.

At present, there are still elephant herds in southern China, such as Changsha County and Cangwu County, but these herds are not the large elephants of Africa. Compared with their distant relatives in Africa, adult elephants in Asia are only about 2.4 meters tall, while adult African elephants are 3.5 meters tall.

In fact, there were still a small number of elephants in the Yellow River Valley in the Central Plains during the Western Han Dynasty, but later due to the increase in the development process, the elephant herd lost its habitat space, and the other is that the Chinese people dare to eat everything and kill all the elephants.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (during the Three Kingdoms period), Cao Chong said that the elephants were transported from the south, and the so-called south was in the Lingnan region at that time, and it was in the Southern Song Dynasty that the elephants on the land of China were concentrated in the Yunnan region (Dali at that time), and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the elephants migrated to the southwest.

It is never easy for a large army to retreat. After the order of Kaimingpan was issued, someone with a higher status finally returned to the camp.

The high-ranking officials who returned to the camp found that the camp had been killed in a dark place, and the thick smoke was also full of motionless people. After he found out about this situation, he didn't try to suppress it, and there was no need for tens of thousands of people to fight in the area full of fire, and thousands of people were just being pestered to join the fight.

"What!?" Enlightened Pan was stunned when he got the reward.

The number of Lu Zhe's troops who went to attack the camp was not large, why was the entire camp completely chaotic? Kai Mingpan is a person who doesn't know much about the grievances of the various ethnic groups in Lingnan, if he is clear, he can guess why a small part of the enemy army can disrupt the entire camp, and if he can turn back time, he will definitely not connect the camp of the Ouluo army with the various ethnic groups in Lingnan.

It's too late to say anything now, and what Kaimingpan can do is to send enough troops to the camp to rob the granaries that have not yet been hit by the fire, and grab as many as they can.

Lü Zhe's army on the west bank soon found that the enemy's offensive was weakening. The enemy troops in short coats and shorts were once again replaced by naked brutes. In addition, the naked barbarian launched an attack this time obviously not as fearless as before, no matter how dense the arrows were, the barbarians would rush, but tonight, a few waves of arrows can repel the barbarians.

"The enemy army must retreat!"

Tang Jie and Zhou Dang should have been happy, but when they thought that they might destroy the deployment at the strategic level, their hearts began to be afraid.

The enemy army began to break away from the battle, and before these people left, the army of the Ouluo Kingdom had already turned around and ran, and the barbarians of the various ethnic groups in Lingnan ran even more simply. Tang Jie originally wanted to build a yì Zhou Dare to lead the active people to pursue or entangle, but the order from Zhou Wen later made them have to give up.

At this moment, with the successful addition of the horizontal rope, Lu Zhe's army on the east bank has successfully swam nearly 5,000 people. Behind it, there was a steady stream of large ships transporting soldiers to the West Bank.

The new batch of Lu Zhejun did not participate in the battle, they were extinguishing the fire in the camp, and then they brought wooden planks to build a crossing, obviously preparing for the subsequent crossing of the river.

The new lieutenant conveyed Zhou Wen's order. Have the West Bank Commander arrange for the wounded soldiers to be gathered and prepared to transport these and sick people to the East Shore in accordance with further orders.

Zhou Wen also had an order, that is, to let Tang Jie and Zhou Dare stay in the Chinese army and wait for the summons at any time.

The commander of a 200,000-strong army. He asked a lieutenant and a military marquis to wait for the summons at any time, how could Tang Jie and Zhou Dare not be apprehensive, thinking that it was their own behavior that caused an accident in the deployment.

By the time the sky was bright, the number of Lu Zhe's troops who had crossed the water had increased to 30,000. Some of these troops stayed to expand the camp, and about 17,000 men were sent to hunt down the enemy troops who did not have time to escape, and it was at this time that Zhou Wen came to the west bank of Lishui.

After all, Ou Yu still failed to grab much food, not because the fire was too big to enter people, but because the moist bamboo, wood and other plants emitted too much smoke when they were burned, and people could not move in the smoke in this era without oxygen cylinders.

Lü Zhe's army crossed the river in a big way, and Kaiming Pan finally looked like a shrewd king, and he decisively abandoned the food in the camp that was enough for 30,000 people to eat for half a year, 800 war elephants that could not be rescued, and 3,000 soldiers left behind, and retreated to the southwest with his troops.

Lü Zhe's army, which had crossed the river and was sent out to pursue the enemy, did not catch up with the army of Ouluo, and they pursued until noon before returning to the camp on the river beach, bringing back nearly 2,000 enemy heads.

To tell the truth, it is too easy to escape in the primeval forest, as soon as a person runs into the dense forest, he can always escape the pursuit as long as he does not make any stops, and whether he can return to the rear alive depends on whether he encounters fierce beasts or poisonous insects.

The Lingnan tribes who came to the west bank of Lishui to participate in the attack and the Ouluo State army should have been about 110,000 together, and they attacked for eight days in a row, and the Lingnan tribes should have suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and the Ouluo Kingdom only suffered more than 3,000 casualties because they only participated in the last attack, and this was the battle loss during the battle, not counting the losses after the camp was sneak attacked.

Chen Shao led a small group of men to sneak attack, and the number of enemy troops they killed with weapons was estimated to be four or five hundred, and the number of enemy troops who were burned to death or choked to death by thick smoke was terrifyingly large, which should be between 20,000 and 23,000 people.

500 people directly or indirectly killed more than 20,000 enemy troops, and although only eight of them managed to break through, they made history, the dead became martyrs, and those who survived became heroes without exception - living heroes!

Zhou Wen waited until Chen Shao and the others returned to the camp before summoning a group of people.

The weak Tang Jie was helped by Zhou Dang, but Chen Shao and the other eight people had all scorched hair, tattered clothes, and black all over their bodies...... The image comes over.

When the ten people came in, Zhou Wen, who had been sitting on his knees, stood up, and what he saw was everyone with a worried expression and a wolf looking unbearable.

Tang Jie took the lead in saluting, and Zhou Kang, Chen Shao and others also saluted, and they all exhaled: "See the main general!" ”

Zhou Wen tidied up his clothes and returned the salute, which made Tang Jie and the others a little stunned.

"Gentlemen, sit down," Zhou Wen is expression was kind: "You are all meritorious people, and you will definitely write a battle report to present the Lord's current situation." ”

Hey? It turned out to be a reward, not to pursue a counterattack to force the enemy army to retreat? Tang Jie could still hold back, and the rest of the people showed ecstatic expressions.

Zhou Wen rarely gave them a rough introduction to the overall battle situation as the commander of the first army, and the West Bank battlefield naturally does not need to talk about it, after all, these people are all personal participants, and Zhou Wen is talking about the situation in other directions.

When the battle on the west bank was fierce, the Northern Route Army led by Wu Liang had already swam across the upper reaches of the water, and after they successfully crossed the river, they made a detour to the south, and three days ago they had broken through to a position about sixty miles west of the battlefield on the west bank, and eliminated a garrison of Ou Yu State, and captured the supply base set up by Kaimingpan in the rear.

How did Wu Liang find the supply point of Ouluo Kingdom? In fact, it is only about luck, not how effective the scouts who spy on intelligence are.

In addition to the Northern Route Army, the Southern Route Army also crossed the water, but Zhou Wen lost contact with the Southern Route Army for three days for that period of time, and it was only at midnight yesterday that he was reported back by the Southern Route Army.

What happened to the Southern Route Army now no one knows except themselves, and all the information they sent is a report that they have arrived at the predetermined location.

Originally, it was too difficult to play a roundabout battle in Lingnan, an area full of primeval forests, but what kind of person is Zhou Wen, he was the first person to discover that the Lingnan water system is too much and too complicated.

What does it mean to have more water systems? It means being able to take advantage of the fast march!

In fact, it was originally possible to do this with a guide with a good sense of direction, but what kind of force are they, to put it bluntly, it is a force that rises under the leadership of a traverser, and what else Lu Zhe may not think about or make for a while, but how can the compass forget it.

Taking advantage of the development of the water system to march, the two troops sent out had a compass to determine the direction, and it only took six days to detour the distance of about 150 miles, if it were not for the delay in the transmission of information, Zhou Wen would have led the army to cross the river a long time ago, and there was no need to delay it until today.

At this stage, the enemy's rear road has been cut off by two Lu Zhe's armies. The back road here of course refers to the road line opened up by the Ouluo Kingdom and the various ethnic groups in Lingnan, and what is lacking is to wait for the enemy army to collide with itself. (To be continued......)