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Da-da-da-da!

"Lu Buxiu go, quickly dismount and die!"

"Where is the big-eared thief running, kill!"

"Pound is here, the thief will leave!"

In the midst of the loud shouts of killing, tens of thousands of Xiliang cavalry quickly passed through the left wing plank road, and then galloped directly in front of the Allied camp, and went straight to the official road to the south to chase and kill.

At this time, Lu Bu, who was one step ahead of the right flank plank road, turned a deaf ear to the sound of pursuit behind him, and led the surviving more than 20,000 foot horsemen, and went straight south by taking the road to the south without entering the Allied camp.

After the Lu Bu army, it was the Xuzhou army led by Liu Bei.

However, there are not many cavalry in the Xuzhou army, only the 3,000 guards around Liu Bei are cavalry, and the rest are all infantry troops, which are not as fast as Lu Bu's army and lag behind.

In addition, in the previous pit collapse, the Xuzhou army under Liu Bei suffered heavy casualties, and the ten pavilions lost eight pavilions.

I think that when he led the army to join the alliance, he had more than 50,000 troops in his hands, and he lost tens of thousands of horses in the first battle last night, and then more than 30,000 men and horses fell into the collapse of the pit.

Therefore, now Liu Bei has only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left in his hands, and there are still three or four thousand wounded soldiers. If the wounded soldiers were discarded, the soldiers and horses under his command would be less than 10,000. This is a real casualty of heavy casualties, just a little bit, and the whole army will be wiped out.

The most important thing is that Liu Bei's subordinates have no generals available at all, so they have to go into battle in person, and he fought in person during the previous decisive battle, and now he is still doing it himself in a hurry. Before that. There are hundreds of generals under his account on the surface, but there are very few generals who can really be used, and the only general who can rely on him is Zhang Fei. However, Zhang Fei was seriously injured. It's still difficult to protect yourself, let alone go into battle to kill the enemy?

Therefore, in the midst of the escape, Liu Bei and the Xuzhou army under his command were very wolf. Because he was afraid that the Xiliang army would chase and kill him, he was in a hurry along the way, and he panicked, so that thousands of soldiers ran directly to Yuanmen by mistake. As a result, they were blocked by the Xiliang army, and all of them were captured alive. As a last resort, Liu Bei had no choice but to lead his troops to flee behind Lu Bujun. So at least he won't crash into Xiliangjun's arms again.

Compared with Liu Bei, who suffered heavy losses and was overwhelmed, Lü Bu and the Yanzhou army under his command were no better. The 70,000 troops at the time of joining the alliance have now lost most of them, and only more than 20,000 foot cavalry remain. Among them, the largest casualties were the infantry. Almost all of them were killed and wounded, and less than 10,000 foot soldiers remained. Fortunately, the casualties of the wolf cavalry under his command were not too large, and now there are still more than 10,000 war cavalry, and there is still a fighting force.

However, Lu Bu himself was seriously injured. He had lost both of them with Huan Fei before, but in fact his injuries were much worse than those of Huan Fei; Then he fought with Dian Wei for nearly a hundred rounds, and as a result, he was injured more than injured. Yes. He is now unable to fight again, and in the face of the fierce pursuit of the Xiliang army. There is no alternative but to escape.

In the rush to escape, Lu Bu led the army to gallop for several miles in one go, gradually moving away from the Allied camp, and not far in front was the Feiyun Pass. At this point, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, pulled the reins, and slowly slowed down.

Immediately, Lu Buzema stood on a rather high dirt slope on the side of the road, raised his eyes to look at the official road to the west, and saw that Liu Beijun who was following behind seemed to have two or three thousand fewer men. And what surprised him the most was that there was no scream on the official road behind Liu Beijun, which made him very puzzled, and he really couldn't understand whether the Xiliang Army, which had always been extremely vicious, suddenly changed its personality and did not kill the soldiers of the Xuzhou Army who were left behind.

In fact, Lu Bu's idea was right, but he didn't know it yet.

In fact, as early as dawn, after Li Li ordered the whole army to stop chasing and killing the Allied soldiers and make every effort to rescue the Allied soldiers who fell into the pit, the Xiliang Army never killed a single Allied soldier again.

Just as Zhang He and Gao Ran saw when they fled, after a brief truce, when the sun rose, the Xiliang army began to hunt down the Allied soldiers again. However, this is only superficial; In fact, the reason why the Xiliang army shouted loudly and pursued and killed the Allied forces with great fanfare was to deter the Allied soldiers who had fled into the desert and force them to abandon their weapons and surrender. In this way, the Xiliang army can kill less, or even no more.

Therefore, during the entire pursuit and killing, the Xiliang army was full of thunder, small raindrops, and great momentum, but in fact, they never wantonly killed the fleeing Allied soldiers. Even if they encountered some stubborn soldiers who swore not to surrender, the Xiliang cavalry only wounded them and captured them alive, and no longer killed a soldier in vain.

The cause of this qiē originated from a military order issued by Li Li: to capture as many prisoners of war as possible, and not to kill a single person in vain unless forced to do so.

In this way, Lu Bu made a surprising discovery, and the decisive battle of Loudiyuan was also made from the moment of dawn, from the moment Yuan Shao led his troops to abandon the camp and flee, there were no more large-scale killings, but the war continued.

And the reason why Li Li gave such an unbelievable order was because after witnessing the tragic situation of nearly 200,000 soldiers buried in the pit, he couldn't help but feel compassion, and even had a faint sense of guilt in his heart. Although this kind of sadness and kindness is destined not to last long, for Li Li, who has long been accustomed to bloodshed, this is the first time in recent years, and perhaps this will be one of the few acts of mercy in his life.

Maybe Li Li himself doesn't know why he, who has always been iron-blooded and ruthless, suddenly has good thoughts in his heart, or directly says that he has the kindness of a woman? In fact, the reason is very simple, because this kindness comes from the memory and character of his later life.

Perhaps Li Li has gradually forgotten that he is a reborn person, and has already fully integrated himself into this chaotic era. However, certain natures hidden deep in the soul will never disappear. And this kind of nature is not unique to him, but the kind nature that every descendant of Yan and Huang has, just like when he, Lu Bu and Liu Bei coincidentally chose a temporary truce before.

In the face of irresistible and senseless sacrifices, the best side of human nature will naturally be revealed, leading to decisions that even you cannot understand. Although they themselves did not understand why they did this, they still gave the order without hesitation, thus saving the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers.

While fighting bloodily, while saving the dead and helping the wounded, such a tangled and contradictory thing is true. Thinking about the "Red and White War" in later generations, the Red Bandits and the White Army fought inextricably, as if they were incompatible, either you die or I die; However, when the nation suffered a catastrophe and countless innocent people died in vain, the Red Bandits and the White Army finally united to fight against foreign enemies. However, after the thieves were driven out, the two armies were still at odds with each other, and an earth-shattering war ensued until one side established power and expelled the other.

Although the qiē done by Li Li, Lü Bu and Liu Bei is slightly different from the wars of later generations, the essence is the same.

At the beginning of the decisive battle of Loudiyuan, the total number of soldiers and horses of the two armies was as high as 500,000 or 600,000, and the casualties of the two armies together were only more than 100,000 soldiers after a fierce battle. However, the collapse of a pit caused huge casualties of nearly 200,000 people, and it was a litter of good and bad that did not distinguish between friend and foe, and caused hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the two armies to be crushed to pieces and have no corpses.

This is not war at all, let alone killing for survival, but pure disregard for life, killing for the sake of killing, a deliberate massacre.

Although Yuan Shao's original intention in planning this matter was to deal with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, his ultimate goal was to kill all the allied forces and the Xiliang Army except for his own soldiers and horses. Such a madness that exterminates humanity is beyond the realm of human beings.

In many things, it doesn't matter what the original intention is, what matters is the result. The size of the danger is not determined by the starting point, but depends on how big the danger is and how wide the scope of the impact is. But all misfortunes, no matter what the starting point is, do not ask the original intention, the world only looks at the results, and everyone is a disaster, and no one cares about it.

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The Allied camp was two hundred paces away from the gate.

Li Ligao sat on the back of the Golden Lion Beast King, although he was still wearing heavy armor, he had no weapon in his hand. Now, he has returned to the position of the commander, sitting in the middle army, commanding the army to continue the war.

At this moment, Li Li personally led the Chinese army Flying Bear Battalion, Jin Yiwei and the Trap Camp to besiege the Allied battalion. In his opinion, this allied Dazhai is the lair of the alliance of princes, and it is also the symbol of the alliance of princes in the Central Plains. Just waiting to capture the big village in front of you is equivalent to smashing the lair of the allies and completely winning the final victory of the decisive battle of Loudiyuan.

At the same time, this huge camp is not an empty camp, and there are still at least tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the camp at present, as well as all the grain and grass left behind by the various princes who fled in a hurry.

And this is precisely the trophy that Li Li values the most. After all, this battle lasted too long, and the Xiliang army consumed a huge amount of food and grass, and it must be replenished, otherwise this decisive battle would be in vain. Although he won the final victory of the war, he emptied the treasury of Xiliang Mansion. In this way, this battle can be said to be a victory or a defeat, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, Li Li had high hopes for the Allied battalion in front of him, hoping to reap the benefits here, so as to make up for the huge consumption of continuous campaigns for more than half a year.

Right now, the people on both sides of Le Ma who stopped beside Li Li were Jia Xu, the division of the left army, and Guo Jia, the division of the right army.

The generals of the Chinese army were located next to the two military divisions, and the generals looked excited, and their faces were filled with joy that could not be concealed. At this time, looking at the tall and towering Allied Dazhai, the generals couldn't help but rub their hands and were eager to try, as if they were only waiting for Li Li's order, the generals could capture the camp in an instant, full of confidence and high morale.

Indeed, the war has continued until now, and the victory of the Xiliang army has been decided, while the princes and allied forces are scattered and scattered.

After the capture of this large battalion, the cavalry of the battalions will again send troops to pursue the fleeing Allied forces. And the reason why it is not appropriate to send troops to pursue the defeated army now is because this large battalion is too large, and the siege soldiers and horses cannot be too small. Otherwise, if there are tens of thousands of allied troops in ambush in the camp, and when the Xiliang army pursues and kills the allied army, they suddenly come out, and then attack Hangu Pass, the consequences will be unimaginable, and it is very likely that the Xiliang army, which is in control, will fall short.

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