"Woo-woo-woo-"

With the sound of the trumpet, the army retreated like a tidal wave, leaving only corpses on the ground, blood, stumps and broken arms, broken banners, broken weapons, and unquenched flames.

Zhongsun Qi also let out a long breath, in the battle just now, he also personally swung his knife into battle, killed four enemy soldiers in a row, and splashed a lot of blood on his body, although this time he finally withstood the attack of the three kingdoms of Qin, Qi and Chu, but three more military villages were destroyed, and many other defense lines were destroyed.

However, the enemy army finally retreated, although the military village could no longer be repaired, but the defense line could still be organized, so Zhong Sunqi immediately ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, collect corpses, and repair the defense line.

But Zhong Sun Qi's order had just been handed down, and the soldiers who had given the order had not yet left, only heard someone behind him: "Wait a minute, there is no need to repair the position, after cleaning up the battlefield, we will immediately withdraw to Handan City." ”

Zhong Sun Qi turned his head and saw that it was Li Yinghong and Chunyu Zhongxiu, at this time, both of them took off their helmets and held them between their arms, but the armor on their bodies was full of blood, and they could hardly see the original color. And it was Li Yinghong who spoke.

In the combat effectiveness just now, Li Yinghong and Chunyu Zhong Xiuke fought much earlier than Zhong Sun Qi, which of course does not mean that Zhong Sun Qi is timid and afraid of war, but because Zhong Sun Qi is the chief general of the whole army, and it is impossible to fight on the front line if he wants to command the battle. And Li Yinghong and Chun Yu Zhongxiu originally came to the position to supervise the battle, so when they saw that the battlefield was in danger, they naturally immediately joined the battle group.

Although the martial arts of the two of them are not as good as the level of the five god generals, in general, they are also rare masters, so there are countless Qin troops who have been killed, and it is the two of them who are in the battle formation to boost morale, so that the morale of the Han and Qin coalition forces is greatly boosted, and they finally hold the defense line.

However, during this period of time, although Li Yinghong and Chun Yu Zhongxiu supervised the battle outside the city every day, boosted the morale of the army, and sometimes even lived in the position, they never interfered with Zhong Sun Qi's orders, of course, since the start of the war, Zhong Sun Qi's command has not made any mistakes, so at this time it was Li Yinghong who gave orders for the first time.

Since the start of the war, the position in the west of Handan is the main direction of attack of the Qin-Qi coalition army, the two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 days, the Qin-Qi coalition army killed more than 60,000 people, another 30,000 wounded, and finally destroyed the ten military villages in the west of Handan City, and the Han-Qin coalition army also lost more than 25,000 people, and there are still more than a dozen military fortresses, which can maintain the defense line.

And just when the morale of the Qin-Qi coalition army was gradually declining, the 300,000 Chu army finally arrived at the battlefield, and the three parties gathered to form the Qin-Qi-Chu Three Kingdoms Alliance, and the strength was improved, and the Chu army relied on a sharp spirit, in the first attack, it broke through the two military villages of the position, but also paid a heavy price of more than 23,000 killed and more than 18,000 wounded.

The Chu army has always been good at fighting against the wind, not good at fighting against the wind, because it is often difficult to hold on for a long time when encountering a tough battle, so only after this battle, the morale of the Chu army will be greatly reduced, and the courage of the first day will no longer be lost in the future battles. So the offensive and defensive sides fought fiercely for several days, and the Three Kingdoms Coalition finally conquered two more military villages, and at this time there were still nine military villages in the west of the city, which could avoid forcibly maintaining the position.

After resting for two days, the Triple Alliance launched another attack on the position today, but after a fierce battle some time ago, the Han and Qin Coalition had a comprehensive understanding of the offensive capabilities of the Triple Alliance Army, and this attack was not special compared to before, so it didn't pay much attention to it.

After the two sides engaged, the soldiers of the Han and Qin coalition forces found that they were very different, because they had been attacked by long-range weapons, and the three kingdom coalition forces approached the position defense line, and when the two sides began to engage in close combat, from the position of the three kingdom alliance forces, an army suddenly came up, and the other soldiers gave way and gave up the battlefield to this army.

After joining the war group, this army showed far more combat effectiveness than other armies, everyone was strong in martial arts, brave and good at fighting, and the Han and Qin coalition army was indeed inferior to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and it was somewhat caught off guard, so it was completely unable to resist, and was suddenly broken through the defense line by this army, and broke a military village.

Under the leadership of this army, the other soldiers of the Triple Alliance Army could not help but have a high morale, and everyone fought bravely, and they also broke into the position with this army, and set fire to the breached military fortress. Because the main material of the military village was wood, every time the Three Kingdoms Coalition Army broke through a military village, it would immediately set fire to it, making it difficult for the Han and Qin Coalition forces to recover in a short time.

After breaking through a military village, the Three Kingdoms Alliance Army still did not stop, and immediately launched an attack on other military villages, although at this time the defenders had already cheered up and defended with all their might, and Li Yinghong and Chun Yu Zhongxiu also joined the battle, but the combat effectiveness of this army was too strong, almost everyone was not inferior to the combat effectiveness of Bo Chang and Bai Chang, and some people were even stronger, although Li Yinghong and Chun Yu Zhongxiu's martial arts were strong, but after all, there were only two people, in this kind of battlefield, the role was mainly in boosting the morale of the whole army, Moreover, there are several generals in the enemy army who lead the army, and they actually have the strength to compete with the two of them.

As a result, the two sides fought fiercely for more than three hours, and the Three Kingdoms Coalition Army broke through two more military villages before they withdrew their troops and stopped fighting.

A total of 23 military villages were built in the position west of Handan City, although before this battle, 14 military villages had been lost, but in one day, three military villages were lost in a row, which was something that had never happened since the war, and in this battle, the Han and Qin coalition forces lost more than 10,000 people, and it was also one of the battles with the greatest losses of the Han and Qin coalition forces since the war.

After this battle, there were only six military villages left in the west of the city, and they could not form a complete defensive position, so Li Yinghong ordered to abandon the position outside the city and retreat into Handan City to garrison.

However, Zhong Sun Qi still has some objections to Li Yinghong's order, although at this time there are only six military villages left outside the city, not forming a defensive system, but the location of these six military villages is relatively close to Handan City, so relying on the city wall to defend, it is not vulnerable, Zhong Sun Qi estimates that it can hold on for at least three more days.

But Li Yinghong knew very well that this powerful army that suddenly appeared on the battlefield was by no means the army of the Three Kingdoms of Qin, Qi and Chu, it should be the elite army of the Jiuli clan, and it was very likely to be the Nanyang army. Li Yinghong had fought with the Nanyang army, and knew that they were powerful, and in the Han army, only the Beiwei army could rely on exquisite formations to compete with them.

Now the Han army has expanded to 12,000 people, but the plateau raided Xianyang and took away 8,000, and now there are only 4,000 Beiwei troops left in the whole army, which is one of the defenders' cards, of course, this army cannot be consumed on the positions outside the city.

Moreover, since the other party dispatched the army of the Jiuli tribe, this also shows that after a series of fierce battles, but not much progress has been made, the Jiuli tribe is obviously a little unbreathable, and can only dispatch the elite army of the Jiuli tribe to break the deadlock. However, it can force the other party to dispatch an elite army, and it can also be said that the goal of the position outside the city has basically been achieved, so there is no need to fight hard with the Three Kingdoms alliance army outside the city, after all, the strength of the Jiuli army is too strong, and the battle outside the city is still mainly based on hand-to-hand combat, and the Han and Qin alliance forces are obviously not dominant, so it is better to retreat to Handan City to rely on the city wall for defense, so as to limit the combat effectiveness of the Jiuli army.

However, Li Yinghong didn't have time to explain this truth to Zhong Sunqi in detail. But Li Yinghong is the queen of the Han Kingdom after all, and now she is sitting in Handan instead of Gao Yuan, so after she gave the order, although Zhongsun Qi had objections, he still did not dare to disobey. And in terms of the art of war, Li Yinghong can still be convincing in the Han army, after all, Li Yinghong has been accompanying the plateau all the way to fight, in the Han Kingdom, there are really not many people who can defeat Li Yinghong in the art of war, since she gave the order like this, she naturally has her reasons, so Zhongsun Qi still respected Li Yinghong's order, ordered to clean up the battlefield, and retreated to Handan City.

The army withdrew to Handan City, and the military village naturally would not stay, and the built positions could not be left to the Three Kingdoms Alliance, but fortunately, both the military village and the positions used a lot of wood, so as long as a fire was placed, most of the positions could be destroyed.

And Sima Shang had no objection to Li Yinghong's decision, because his vision was much broader than that of Zhongsun Qi, focusing on the overall battlefield, rather than the local gains and losses of the outer positions of Xicheng. The original intention of setting up a position outside the city was not to keep the enemy outside the city walls, but only to wear down the enemy's strength and strength, and eventually to retreat to the city and rely on the city walls for defense.

Since the start of the war, the position in the west of Handan City has been held for more than a month, and nearly 100,000 troops of the Three Kingdoms Alliance Army have been consumed, while their own losses are less than 40,000, and the goal of the battle has been completely achieved, and Sima Shang has also seen the strength of the Nanyang army, so at this time, there is no need to hold on outside the city.

In addition, at this time, only the positions in the west of the city were broken through, and the positions outside the city of the southeast and north sides were still undamaged, if the three alliance forces continued to attack the positions outside the city, they must waste time and lose troops, and if they ignored the positions outside the city of the southeast and north, and launched an attack on Handan City from the west of the city, the positions outside the city of the three sides could pose a containment threat to the three alliance forces, so that the three alliance forces could not completely let go of the siege, so it can be said that retreating into the city to defend the city is the best policy.

At this time, in addition to the garrisons outside the city in the southeast and north, there were nearly 200,000 troops in Handan City, so Sima Shang immediately ordered to arrange troops and city defense equipment on the wall of the west city to prepare to defend the city.