(The third watch, asking for red tickets)

At the beginning, Chen Zhihu decided to lead the elite to cross the river to pursue the Hezhong army, but the generals all called it dangerous and tried their best to dissuade it. After all, there are still more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Hezhong army, and Chen Zhihu led 3,000 elites to cross the river to pursue first, Xingyang, Daliang and other places have no strong troops to help, and Jinan's Ye Ji Duodi and Jining's Yuan Lishan are too far apart. Chen Zhihu just smiled openly with the generals under his command with a disdainful attitude: "Liang Chengyi led the river to escape, like a lost dog, and his soldiers and horses were completely lost. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians withdrew south, and they were all unprepared and had no rules, so how could it be said that they could withdraw if they withdrew? Its momentum is bound to be extremely chaotic, and there are 3,000 elites to attack its vital points, which is enough to take advantage of the chaos to defeat it. ”

After that, the development of the battle situation in Yanque Ridge completely confirmed Chen Zhihu's prediction before the war.

At this time, the Hezhong army fled south, and although the soldiers and horses behind the palace were all the elite of the Hezhong army, it was okay to fight a smooth battle, and if they were slightly frustrated, their morale would drop sharply. Even if Liang Chengyi could have an advantage in troops, he did not have the determination and courage to fight Chen Zhihu to the death.

There is a shallow stream out of the valley, when the army in the river surrounds it, it is bounded by the shallow stream, and is divided into two parts: left and right.

After noon, Lu Xiong and Leng Zilin attacked successively, plus the ambush soldiers in the woods to the south, and first defeated the left flank of the Hezhong army. From the hills and sparse forests to the river beaches, the blood of the army in the river was spilled. The blood flowed like a river, dyeing the stream red, but Chen Zhihu's troops did not stop, and then waded across the shallow stream to attack the right flank of the Hezhong army.

Although there are only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses chasing after Chen Zhihu across the river, they are the strong forces that have followed Chen Zhihu to fight in the north for many years. The leaders of the battalion generals dared to lead one hundred and ten people to kill the enemy alone, and they did not have the slightest consciousness of attacking the crowd. This tiger and wolf army that fought out of the sea of blood was originally the name of the strongest army in the world with Huaidong, and it was by no means comparable to the so-called "elite" of the Hezhong Army.

Liang Chengyi learned that this chasing army was led by Chen Zhihu himself, and he was a little angry. Moreover, what is the current situation of the Hezhong Army, he also knows in his heart that he fled south in a hurry, his morale was difficult to boost, and he did not have the determination and preparation to fight a tough battle.

After the left flank was defeated by the enemy, Liang Chengyi saw that the defeat was difficult to change, so he withdrew more than 1,000 cavalry on the right flank from the battlefield and fled to the mountains and forests to the south.

After all, Liang Chengyi and the others retreated to Ruyang one step first, and they were slightly familiar with the terrain, and passed through a shallow canyon between two low mountains that was no more than one or two hundred steps wide and two miles long, that is, they galloped onto a mountain beam.

Reining in his horse, Liang Chengyi was out of breath, looking back at the battlefield in front of the valley, the routs were everywhere, and the enemy soldiers had no power to fight back. Thinking that he wanted to eat this chasing army last night, seeing the result in front of him, Liang Chengyi wanted to cry. But he knew that if Chen Zhihu could not be blocked at the Lushan Pass, and Chen Zhihu should be told to cross the Lushan Mountain and directly attack the ferry, where the military and civilians would be mixed, it would inevitably be a heart-wrenching tragedy.

Liang Daiwei then came out, and surrounded by dozens of horsemen, rushed to Liang Chengyi to converge.

"What should I do?" Liang Dai asked, "First withdraw the soldiers and horses to the camp of Lushan, collect the defeated troops, and rely on the camp to block Chen Zhihu's gang in the north of the mountain, and then call Fang Keshan and Ju Tao to lead the soldiers and horses to converge." In front of us is only a light army led by Chen Zhihu, although it is beyond our expectations, it will not be a fake that the main force of his army is still drowned on the north bank of the Yellow River......"

Liang Dai is also afraid of a tough battle with Chen Zhihu, he has no capital to fight hard at this time, but he is not so frightened that he is depressed, and he can rationally analyze the situation in front of him.

The 3,000 soldiers and horses that followed Chen Zhihu were very strong, and they lost their armor when they doubled their forces. But in Liang Dai's view, no matter how strong Chen Zhihu's 3,000 tigers are, there is a limit, and the Hezhong army can still transfer nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses to the side of Lushan near the ferry in the south. Chen Zhihu's department can defeat one against two, can it still defeat five enemies with one enemy and ten enemies?

Liang Chengyi first sent his cronies to run south and transfer troops to aid Lushan, he planned to go to the camp of Lushan Pass with Liang Dai first, no matter what, he couldn't let Chen Zhihu drive straight into and attack the ferry.

It was here that the battlefield outside the valley changed, the enemy soldiers did not gather at the mouth of the shallow stream, no longer paid attention to the rout of the army in the river, and the cavalry gathered first bypassed the sparse forest outside the shallow stream, and did not chase this side closely, but went directly to the mountain pass.

The left flank of the Hezhong Army has collapsed, the situation on the battlefield has changed, Chen Zhihu led the 3,000 light soldiers who were half of the cavalry to win easily, with few casualties, and the number of cavalry alone was also above the cavalry around Liang Chengyi.

Chen Zhihu gave up the stalking in the wilderness, and also gave up the routs all over the mountains and fields not to chase and kill, and gathered soldiers and horses to go straight to the key point, which made Liang Chengyi's face change greatly. Afraid that the camp of Lushan would be taken by Chen Zhihu first, Liang Chengyi drove his horse down the mountain, and wanted to lead his troops to retreat to the camp of Lushan Pass before Chen Zhihu's cavalry to strengthen the defense.

Chen Zhihu rode calmly on horseback, looking at the crowded heads on the mountain beam not far away, at this time Liang Chengyi's identity had also been exposed, but Liang Chengyi always had elite cavalry guards around him, and it was difficult to behead the army in the chaos. But seeing Liang Chengyi galloping away from Shanliang and leading his troops to flee to the simple camp in the south, Chen Zhihu smiled coldly and said to Leng Zilin beside him: "As long as we maintain this momentum of rushing and fighting at the moment, the Hezhong army will have no chance to save morale at all." Don't care where Liang Chengyi flees, we will directly bypass the mountain, attack the ferry, and defeat the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians there in chaos. Those enemy soldiers who were pulled behind were handed over to the soldiers and horses who came from Xingyang and Daliang to pack up......"

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Liang Chengyi quickly retreated from the camp of Lushan, and his tail gave a bite to the pursuing Chen Zhihu department, and he lost more than 100 horsemen before closing the camp gate and forcing Chen Zhihu to retreat with a bow and crossbow.

There is a valley in the valley of the mountain pass, and the camp stands on the stone mountain in the middle of the valley, and a simple camp naturally cannot fill the valley mouth. Although Liang Chengyi was a big fish, there were reinforcements coming from the south, but Chen Zhihu gave up the camp and did not fight, but bypassed the camp and attacked directly to the south through the Lu Pass, without the slightest worry about the possibility of encircling the Hezhong army.

At this time, Liang Chengyi wanted to deal with it again, but it was too late.

The remnant city of Ruyang is at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain, but it is not in the passage from Lushan Pass to the crossing of the North Ru River.

Around the ferry on the north bank, about 100,000 soldiers and civilians were mixed together, and the carriages and horses were in a chaotic mess, crowded along the river bank, waiting for the ferry, and there was no order to speak of. This is also a direct consequence of Liang Chengyi's retreat to the south too hastily and without much preparation. If Liang Chengyi had sent troops to erect pontoon bridges on several large rivers between the river and Nanyang in advance, how could it be possible for the Beiru River to block less than a quarter of the people and horses that had crossed it for three days?

Although Liang Chengyi ordered that thousands of soldiers and horses were urgently separated to intercept them in the north, when they were panicked, the soldiers and horses were scattered and withdrawn, and they could not be used in a centralized manner, let alone establish an effective defensive formation in the open area between Lushan and Dayu Mountain.

By this time, the rout of the Hezhong army on the north bank of the North Ru River had become a foregone conclusion and could not be stopped.

In the whole afternoon, on the open plain between the Lushan Mountain and the Dayu Mountain, the chaotic soldiers who had been killed and routed were all over the mountains, and the displaced people and military dependents at the ferry were in a panic, either scattering and fleeing, or competing for the ferry, or regardless of the families and children, they rushed to cross the Beiru River first, hoping to escape this catastrophe.

When countless people jump into the river at the same time, no matter how good the water is, it will be pulled and hugged by others and sink to the bottom of the water.

For a time, corpses were all over the field, and countless soldiers and civilians drowned in the turbulence; Even if half of the ferries did not capsize, seeing that Chen Zhihu led his troops to guard the ferry, he did not dare to go to the north bank to pick up people to cross the river.

At sunset, more than 2,000 enemy soldiers chased after him from the direction of Xingyang. Liang Chengyi and Liang Dai did not have the courage to recapture the ferry from Chen Zhihu, nor did they have time to take care of the chaotic and fleeing soldiers and civilians between Lushan and Dayu Mountain, so they led their troops to flee east along the northern foot of Lushan.

At night, passing through the northeast foot of the Shan Mountain, in a ravine dozens of zhang deep, I met with the enemy army from Xingyang, and it seemed that people were shouting from all directions: "Capture Liang Chengyi alive, capture Liang Chengyi alive!" Liang Chengyi and Liang Dai broke through, Liang Chengyi personally led two hundred cavalry to kill a group of enemy soldiers, until dawn, only to the north bank of the Beiru River in the southeast of the Lushan Mountain, and joined the general Fang Keshan who escaped from the inner port.

Converging with Fang Keshan, Liang Chengyi inspected the remnants, and there were less than 3,000 people left around him.

Liang Chengyi didn't dare to stay, let alone go west to collect the rout, knowing that there was still a reorganized army in the ruined city of Ruyang that had not been dispersed, Liang Chengyi only sent someone over to order them to break through to the east.

Afraid that Chen Zhihu would lead his troops to chase after him, Liang Chengyi walked southeast along the north bank of the Beiru River overnight, looking for an opportunity to cross the river.

Now that the baggage on the north bank is gone, and the displaced people and their dependents who have dispersed the enemy soldiers are no longer cared for, it is still simple to cross the river with only 3,000 remnants. Fleeing to Changqiao Port in the southeast of Jiaxian, the upstream ferry came, and Liang Chengyi led 3,000 remnants to spend more than half a day crossing the Beiru River.

Fortunately, the Beiru River was blocked, and Chen Zhihu's troops could not cross the river to pursue for a while, and the soldiers and civilians who had crossed to the south bank were temporarily not attacked, and the Liang clan and the families of officials and generals were the first to cross the river and escaped.

After crossing the Shahe River, to the south of Lushan, less than fifty miles away from Nanyang, Liang Chengyi dared to stop on the south bank of the Shahe River to collect the remnants again.

From the Shahe River to Wuyang in the north of Nanyang Fangcheng, there is no big river to block it, and it is convenient and quick to escape. Moreover, the water potential of the Shahe River is also large, and when he crosses to the south bank, he is not afraid that Chen Zhihu will be able to quickly cross the river to chase and kill, so that Liang Chengyi, who has become a frightened bird, can feel a little at ease.

Gathered the remnants, connected with the soldiers and horses who crossed the Beiru River with his Liang Yanshun first, and the Hezhong army that fled south to the territory of Lushan was no more than 7,000 people. Liang Dai also successfully crossed the Beiru River and fled to join him, but less than 700 soldiers and horses fled south with him.

After all, Chen Zhihu inserted only 3,000 soldiers and horses first, although they were elite enough, but after defeating the Hezhong Army, there were not enough troops to disperse to chase and kill the defeated soldiers and the generals of the Hezhong Army, so that Liang Chengyi, Liang Dai, Fang Keshan and other generals of the Hezhong Army all escaped smoothly.

Looking at the surging sand river, Liang Chengyi wanted to cry without tears.

When Chen Zhihu led his troops to chase after him, Liang Chengyi had a total of 28,000 troops on the north bank of the Beiru River, and he could so easily kill Chen Zhihu's 3,000 pursuers to pieces and collapse. Of the 28,000 soldiers and horses, less than 5,000 were able to escape in the end, not to mention the large amount of baggage and materials carried by the army from Hezhong Mansion were taken away by Chen Zhihu. As for the tens of thousands of displaced people who went south with the army, most of them were naturally blockaded in Ruyang on the north bank of the North Ru River, and could no longer go south to Nanyang.

Yuan Jinsheng rushed to Shahe to join Liang Chengyi, and when he saw this situation, he was really speechless. He and Liang Chengchong originally hoped that after Liang Chengyi led the Hezhong troops to withdraw to Nanyang, they would be able to strengthen the defense north of Nanyang, but who would have thought that the Hezhong army would chase and intercept Chen Zhihu halfway and kill him like this?