(2nd Update)

The left flank was the Danluo royal family guard camp, led by Li Ji, the son of the Danluo king, who could not resist and retreated under the fierce attack of the enemy's horsemen like a prairie fire......

Zhao Hu's cloth is a hollow phalanx, the soldiers are good at saying strange and true, virtual and real, and the hollow zone in the middle of the formation is strange and virtual, which is the key to the four-sided attack and retreat, adjust the troops, change the formation, and deal with the offensive.

Once the defenders can't support it and retreats to fill the hollow area in the middle of the formation, the entire array will become dull and sluggish, and the main general will not be able to control the entire formation freely, and it will not be far from the collapse of the whole army.

Obviously, the enemy's main general also saw the weakness of the left flank of the Huaidong Army, even if Zhao Hu put the reserve forces into the left flank in batches and wanted to support and prop up the left flank, the enemy army was constantly wading through the shallow ditch filled with pebbles, and threw troops into the left flank, wanting to destroy the left flank in one go, and then collapse the entire defensive position of the Huaidong reinforcements.

At the critical moment, Zhao Hu could only put on armor and go into battle, put only half a battalion of reserve troops into the front formation, gave up the defense, led his troops to assault outward, and ordered Chi Yuanji on the right wing to also go out with him.

The Danluo royal guard camp on the left flank was entangled with the enemy army, which could collapse at any time, and within a narrow radius, the reserve forces could not reach the enemy troops in the left flank fighting area, which only made the left flank more bloated and sluggish.

When the left flank was about to collapse at any time, in order to avoid being involved, Zhao Hu could only order the other soldiers and horses to forcibly spread outward and widen the distance from the left flank, and he was more intentional to involve all enemy forces in the chaotic battle - even if Ge Changgen could not lead his troops to attack from the flank in time, Zhao Hu would have to defeat Chen Zhihu's deviant division in order to win the necessary retreat time for Gao Zongting in Dengzhou.

In terms of experience on the battlefield, Gao Yi is more experienced than Zhao Hu, and he can see Zhao Hu's intentions clearly, that is, he ordered the cavalry team that was stalking in the front to retreat and open up the distance......

The speed at which the cavalry withdrew from the battlefield could be pursued by non-foot soldiers.

Once the distance was opened and there was room for the follow-up cavalry to charge, Gao Yi did not hesitate to put the four hundred cavalry in his hand, which was the most elite in his hand, and who had not been put into the battlefield to store his physical strength, and threw away the bow and crossbow, and directly charged the front of the Huaidong Army that was scattered due to the outward expansion.

Zhao Hu held the rope in one hand, carried the horse and rushed forward, and the left and right infantry armor were clustered around him, forming a tight formation of people crowding and people being close to each other, and forming a wall of guns and knives with snow-white knives and spears, ready to withstand the fierce impact of the enemy's cavalry.

When colliding with the enemy cavalry, countless people broke their bones, and they actually used their flesh, strong armor, Mo knives, and bayonet guns to intercept the enemy cavalry at a distance of more than ten steps away from Zhao Hu......

The enemy soldiers rode on horseback, condescending, swinging their swords to the left and slashing to the right, and stabbing back and forth with their spears, taking advantage of the situation. However, this advantage is far less than that of the enemy's cavalry, fast horses, and sharp blows back and forth.

Huaidong Bujia just lowered his head to block with a shield, slashed with a knife, and stabbed with a spear, resisting a single step and not retreating, using such a desperate way to make the center of the melee between the two sides tightly blocked in the blink of an eye, weakening the advantage of the enemy cavalry.

Once blocked, even if the enemy is on horseback, he will not be able to take advantage of the advantage of riding to maneuver, and it will become a bloody battle and a battle to the death. Getting closer, the enemy soldiers were riding on horseback, and the stabbing of the rifle was weak, and it was difficult to slash the neck under the iron helmet and iron face shield with a knife.

Seeing that the first charge could not be achieved, the enemy cavalry pulled back, leaving dozens of dead bodies and stumps and broken arms, and ran fast on horseback, quickly widening the distance, and then making a second charge.

Zhao Hu was a guard of the Haidong Xing Camp on the left and right, and he was the elite of Huaidong left by Lin Tie to Zhao Hu to deter Haidong.

However, in order to ensure that everyone forgets to die, in addition to strict discipline, it is also necessary to ensure that everyone is ashamed of retreat from the chief general to the military attache at the grassroots level to the ordinary soldiers.

If soldiers are flesh and blood, then grassroots military attachés are the backbone and skeleton of the army. At that time, other armies in the world used bloody battles to cast their backbones, and Huaidong cultivated their backbones systematically with the war training school, and then tempered by bloody battles, becoming more and more tenacious and indestructible.

In such a scuffle, Zhao Hu rode on horseback with a stronger symbolic meaning, just like a banner, his banner did not fall, and many military attachés led their soldiers to surround him, and they would rather die than retreat, like a rock. The enemy soldier also knew his identity, and so close to the battlefield of the battle, the enemy soldier could shoot arrows at him on horseback.

Zhao Hu didn't get off his horse to dodge, he only blocked his head and face with his left arm guard, and didn't care about the arrows on his body. Although Zhao Hu wears a set of fish scale armor, but his hands, calves and other places can not be covered, and at such a close distance, there are weaknesses in the joint of the scale armor, when the enemy soldiers are looking for him with more than a dozen arrows together, Zhao Hu is also instantaneously shot through the arrow with the palm of his right hand, and three arrows are hung on the scale armor and drilled into the flesh.

The Lord will be so desperate, and it will also inspire the people to fight bloodily.

Chi Yuanji was born in a pirate family, he was not good at riding, and he did not ride a horse on the battlefield, he only asked people to carry his banner, he held a big knife, rushed out from the right flank, and the part was spread out into a cone, and he himself was the tip of the iron cone, and crashed into the side corner of the enemy cavalry that was charging for the second time, and Zhao Hu was one left and one right, and the enemy cavalry's offensive was sandwiched in the middle and could not be opened.

Even the left wing, which had been beaten and retreated just now, was like a chicken blood at this moment, and it had the potential to stabilize its position.

Gao Yi's expression was heavy, he knew that the Huaidong army was not weaker than his own elite, the generals were not afraid of death, he knew that this battle was difficult to fight, and he was fully prepared in his heart, but he could defeat the left wing and then defeat this Huaidong reinforcement army in one fell swoop.

In Gao Yi's view, the forward battalion of the Tiger Army is the strongest army in the world, but the Huaidong Army infantry with a similar number of soldiers hedged against the elite light cavalry of the forward battalion, and the cavalry could only break through the distance of less than ten steps, which made Gao Yi's heart very uncomfortable, and he regretted that he only wanted to be brisk when he set off, and did not bring hundreds of sets of riding armor with him......

Although the cavalry will be subject to many restrictions when playing a heavily defended infantry formation, when the infantry formation is spread outward, the formation is scattered, and the formation is floating, the cavalry of the forward battalion cannot break through the cavalry, and Gao Yi cannot accept such a result.

Seeing that the originally weak right wing of the Huaidong Army also began to come desperately, Gao Yi hesitated whether to throw the last troops at hand into the battlefield to entangle the right wing of the Huaidong Army. However, in this way, even if the final victory is won, the casualties will be extremely heavy, and the ability to continue to attack Dengzhou City will be lost.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew from west to east, and for a time the dust flew away, and Gao Yi was greatly excited.

Weather is one of the most critical factors in warfare, and a smooth headwind is a great advantage.

The wind carried the sand and gravel in the face, and the Huaidong army was blown so that they couldn't open their eyes, how to meet the enemy cavalry coming from the wind?

However, Gao Yi didn't be happy for long, there was a sound of killing coming from the side, he turned his head to look, poured a mouthful of the gale, and the fine sand and stone hit his face and hurt, and he vaguely saw a large group of people and horses, rushing to this side!

Gao Yi's heart "chuckled", only to know that Huaidong still had an ambush on the flank, and he actually went back to the flank to hit their weak point - the wind was very strong, carrying rocks and sand, and the horse would be confused by the wind and sand when it turned around, and he didn't know how many ambushes the Huaidong army had in this raid, and this battle could not be fought.

Compared with asking Yan Hu for the crime, it is more important to save his life for now. It is not Gao Yi's cowardice, when a battle has no chance of winning, there is no point in persevering, Gao Yi immediately took up the rope and led his troops to flee to the southwest corner of Kongdang.

There were only four or five hundred cavalrymen resting on the edge of the battlefield, and they could withdraw from the battlefield in time with Gao Yi; The other soldiers and horses are all entangled and fighting with the Huaidong Army, how can it be so easy to withdraw if you want to?

Finally waited for Ge Changgen to lead his troops to fight out from the flank, and Zhao Hu led the remnants of the four battalions to be defeated, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they attacked outward together, spreading their feet and chasing the horses with steps.

This is the case with soldiers, as soon as Gao Yi retreats, all the horsemen leave, the people flee and the horses are broken, and there is no way to pull a safe distance, and there is no way to clean up the mess. The cavalry fled quickly, in addition to being disoriented by the strong wind, the losses were not very heavy, the most heaviest was to dismount and attack the left wing of the Huaidong Army, which entered the inner side, and there were no horses, after the breakout, they could only drill into the mountains, and if they ran half a beat slowly, they stabbed them with knives and guns, and suddenly flew into the sky......

It wasn't until the wind stopped at dusk that Zhao Hu ordered all the troops to gather in Qijiaji, pack up their troops, rush to treat casualties, and count the results of the battle.

In this battle, Haidong's soldiers and horses suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and if Ge Changgen arrived at the time of a stick of incense late, Zhao Hu was not sure that he would be able to hold it out without collapsing.

The enemy also left 500 corpses, plus the routs and wounds, presumably the attrition will not be less than 1,000.

This battle did not take advantage of any casualties, but it was definitely not a defeat for both sides.

Haidong soldiers and horses held the Qijia set, and repelled and disabled Chen Zhihu's partial division. Rather than annihilating many enemy soldiers, gaining time to organize the retreat of men and materials from Dengzhou is the core and first goal of this battle.

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Gao Yi retreated for more than 30 miles, shook off the pursuers, and only then stopped to clean up the mess, and only at dusk did he gather less than 800 people - compared to the defeat under the city of Qingzhou, this defeat really made Gao Yi painful to the bone.

The generals advised Gao Yi to retreat to the west bank of the Jiaolai River and join the main force; How could Gao Yi have the face to see Chen Zhihu at this time? Gritting his teeth and running back, he gathered some remnants of the army, and learned that the Huaidong reinforcements were camped in Qijiaji, and knew that with these remnants in his hands, there was no hope of capturing Dengzhou City, but nailing to the southwest of Buling would block the passage of Zhao Zhen's troops in Pingdu to retreat to Dengzhou.

If Zhao Zhen's troops can be forced to surrender, it can be regarded as a redemption.

With such an idea, Gao Yi led his troops to retreat to the south, avoiding the main force of the Huaidong reinforcements stationed in Qijiaji, and sacked a village at night to supply grain and grass, and nailed it to the heart of Dengzhou with more than 1,000 remnants, between Dengzhou and Laiyang and Haiyang.