Finally, the opinions were finally unified, and the next step was to carry out a plan to arrange a retreat, and according to Wang Ben's idea, the army should be withdrawn immediately overnight, and all the baggage and materials should be thrown away, and the soldiers only brought ten days' rations, which was enough for the whole army to withdraw to Daliang. Because the Qin army has gathered a large number of materials in Daliangtun, it is enough to supply the armies of Qi and Chu, not to mention that it can also rely on Qi and be able to get supplies from Qi.

However, on the issue of the time of withdrawal, it was resisted by the Chu army, on the grounds that the time was too hurried and there was no time to prepare, so the generals of the Chu army demanded at least three days of preparation time, and the generals of the Chu army had a very tough attitude this time, claiming that if the Qi army could not afford to wait, it could withdraw first, but the Chu army must wait until three days later, and then retreat after making full preparations for withdrawal.

The reason why the generals of the Chu army had to deal with Wang Ben on the issue of the time of withdrawal was that in addition to wanting to avenge the decision to withdraw just now, there was also an important reason, that is, they did not want to throw away the materials in the army. Because every general of the Chu army has a lot of interests in it, he fills his own pockets in military materials and accumulates a large amount of private property, which is also the practice of the Chu State, and his property is naturally reluctant to throw it away.

The two sides quarreled for another day, but Lu Xiuhong and Wang Ben still couldn't convince the generals of the Chu army, although Lu Xiuhong was eager to shoot and kill these Chu generals, but he had to compromise.

Although it is not difficult to kill these generals of the Chu army, it will completely make a stalemate with the Chu State, and at this time, if it is too stiff with the Chu army, it is not a good thing for the Jiuli people, firstly, it is related to the outcome of this battle, if there is no Chu army, even if the Qi army retreats to Daliang, it is difficult to say whether it can be defended; Second, if nothing else, the plateau has now merged the Han and Qin kingdoms, so the Jiuli tribe must gather the strength of the two Chu countries in order to compete with the plateau, if the Chu state is lost, even if it holds the beam, in the long run, the Jiuli tribe will still not be able to match the plateau.

As a result, Lu Xiuhong had to agree, leaving three days for the Chu army to prepare, while the Qi army gradually withdrew in batches. After three days, the remaining Qi army withdrew with the Chu army. However, Lu Xiuhong made up his mind in his heart, and when the situation calmed down a little, he must try his best to completely control the Chu State and let the Chu army obey the command like the Qi army.

Seeing that Wang Ben and Lu Xiuhong finally compromised, the generals of the Chu army were satisfied, so they left the Qi army camp and returned to the Chu army camp to prepare to pack up their personal belongings. And Lu Xiuhong also hurriedly ordered the Qi army to prepare, and evacuated 100,000 Qi troops overnight tonight, led by Wang Ben, to rush to Daliang in advance, and prepare to meet the following men.

However, in order to persuade the generals of the Chu army, it has taken most of the day, when Lu Xiuhong gave the order, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, although it was only to evacuate 100,000 horses, but it was not an easy thing, Wang Ben originally planned to withdraw from the camp after entering the watch, but it was delayed until the third watch, and the fourth watch was about to lead the army from the camp.

After the demolition in the middle of the night, the first batch of evacuated Qi troops were already very tired, so the speed of walking was not fast, and they walked more than a few times, and when the sky was bright, they walked out of a distance of more than 30 miles, and the Qi soldiers were tired and felt, and they were a little unable to support it, and they asked Wang Ben to rest for a while.

Wang Ben's heart was also very annoyed, if according to his plan, after entering the shift, he should withdraw the army from the camp, what kind of overnight rush, should be able to walk out of the distance of sixty or seventy miles, basically out of the range of Handan, and then rest will not be anything, and now the Qi army is still within the range of the Handan battlefield, it can be said that it is very dangerous, and it may be attacked by the Han army at any time, so at this time, it must not rest, and must continue to march. So Wang Ben immediately refused the Qi army's request to rest and ordered to continue advancing.

If it was the Qin army that was leading, of course Wang Ben's order was nothing, firstly, Wang Ben had prestige in the Qin State, and secondly, the Qin army had always had strict military discipline and forbidden, so the Qin soldiers naturally had to obey orders honestly. But the Qi army is not the Qin army, although it has been trained by the Han army and has fought a few tough battles, but compared with the Qin army, there is still a considerable distance, and the Qi army has no reverence for Wang Ben, so Wang Ben's orders will naturally not be carried out unconditionally. So they dragged their feet, stopped and walked, and some soldiers simply sat on the side of the road to rest. Although Wang Ben's heart was anxious, he couldn't call it out.

At this moment, only the sound of dense horses' hooves was heard, and between the white sky, countless cavalry troops could be faintly seen rushing towards the Qi army from both sides. Wang Ben's face couldn't help but change greatly, and he didn't need to ask about the cavalry of the Han army, so he immediately ordered the Qi army to prepare for battle.

At this time, the Qi army also knew that the situation was critical, and it was not necessary for Wang Ben to say that it would prepare for battle, but the Qi army was not the Qin army after all, and it was able to maintain its composure and prepare for battle in such a sudden encounter with the enemy army. As a result, they went their own way, some people raised shields, some people held guns, some people opened bows and arrows, and they were in a mess.

The speed of the cavalry was extremely fast, although it seemed far away, but in the blink of an eye, it approached the Qi army, and the first thing to greet the Qi army was a dense rain of arrows, which immediately knocked down the Qi army. And the Qi army was suddenly in chaos, some people retreated, some people advanced, some people dodged, they collided with each other, pushed and crowded, and many soldiers were knocked to the ground and trampled on countless times.

After several rounds of arrow rain in a row, the Qi army was shot and killed a lot of people, coupled with pushing and trampling each other, countless casualties, and at this time the cavalry of the Han army rushed to the front of the Qi army, with the horse's hooves flying, the saber in the knight's hand waved out a bright knife light, and the soldiers of the Qi army fell to the ground in rows like mowing grass.

There were a total of 15,000 Han cavalry troops in this battle, all of whom were lightly armored cavalry, of which 5,000 were the Han army's ace main force, Fan Yongjun. It turned out that Gao Yuan had long expected that the Qin army would completely defect to Hehua, and the Qi and Chu armies would never continue to attack Handan, but would withdraw their troops as soon as possible. Naturally, the plateau will not allow the two armies of Qi and Chu to withdraw calmly, because only by inflicting heavy losses on the two armies of Qi and Chu can they win a long period of stability for themselves to digest the results obtained so far.

The retreat of the Qi and Chu armies from Handan was just conducive to the Han army to inflict heavy losses on the Qi and Chu armies in the pursuit, because the Han army had a large number of cavalry troops, and it was this kind of pursuit battle that they were best at. Therefore, the plateau immediately sent a large number of scouts to lurk near the large camps of the Qi and Chu armies to monitor the movements of the Qi and Chu armies.

As soon as the Qi army came out of the camp, it was discovered by the Han army's scouts, and they were immediately sent back to Handan City with a bird book, and the plateau had already prepared a cavalry army in Handan City, and after receiving the report, he immediately ordered the cavalry to attack and pursue the Qi army.

Because of the pursuit at this time, all the troops dispatched were lightly armored cavalry. Although the impact of the light armored cavalry was not as strong as that of the heavy armored cavalry, it was faster and more flexible, which was more suitable for this pursuit battle, and although it was late in leaving the city, it quickly caught up with the Qi army and outflanked it from both sides of the Qi army.

Moreover, the Han cavalry was now familiar with this kind of pursuit, and after approaching the Qi army, they immediately dispersed into a squad of thousands of people, divided into different parts, and pursued and covered the Qi army. The offensive tactics of the light cavalry army are not to attack head-on like the heavy cavalry army, rampage, but to cut and kill from the edge of the Qi army, like peeling fruit, cutting layer by layer, but once the weak link of the Qi army is discovered, it will also not hesitate to rush and smash to divide the Qi army.

At this time, the morale of the Qi army was not high, and after almost a night of fatigue, people and horses were tired, so they couldn't resist the impact of the cavalry, and they were suddenly disrupted by the cavalry. And in a short time, the whole army was divided and cracked by the Han cavalry, and the whole army was scattered into more than ten parts, fighting separately, scattering and fleeing, of course, there were some Qi troops still stationed in the same place to resist.

And at this time, it is the cavalry that can give full play to its advantages, because it is impossible for two legs to run and win four legs, so the infantry army can not get rid of the pursuit of the cavalry at all, the cavalry of the Han army only needs to catch up with the horse from behind the Qi army, and with the help of the momentum of the war horse, and do not need to make much effort, swing the knife and slash, you can cut the fleeing Qi soldiers, and some cavalry can even kill more than ten Qi soldiers in a row.

Often there are only a few hundred cavalry troops, you can chase more than 10,000 deserters, and then gradually chase and kill, and after running for more than twenty or thirty miles, you can chase and kill thousands of soldiers, and the remaining deserters are also exhausted, one after another abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and some people ran to death halfway.

The Qi army was in turmoil, and Wang Ben couldn't call it out, but after all, Wang Ben was a famous general who had experienced a hundred battles, and there were nearly 200 personal guards around him, these people were also battle-hardened, and they were loyal to Wang Ben, of course, they would not abandon Wang Ben and run away by themselves, but still be by Wang Ben's side, obey Wang Ben's command, and resist the Han cavalry. After all, Wang Ben is still the chief general of the whole army, and at this time, he has become the backbone of the whole army.

After a while, three or four thousand Qi troops gathered around Wang Ben, and under Wang Ben's command, they formed a circle formation to resist the attack of the Han army.

For a long time, the Qin State was the enemy of the Han State, so the study of the tactics of the Han army, which was the tactics of the Han army's cavalry, was also one of the key tasks of the Qin generals, and Wang Ben was not only responsible for training the Qin army's cavalry, but also seriously studied the tactics of dealing with the Han army's cavalry. After repeated trial battles, Wang Ben also found that if the infantry could organize a tight array, it would be able to resist the attack of the light cavalry. It's just that Wang Ben didn't expect that he would use his research results at this time.