The officers and troops suffered a sudden defeat.

He Renlong took advantage of the darkness to lead the remnants of more than 300 people to break through by luck, while Zuo Guangxian was seriously injured in the breakthrough, and his life and death are currently uncertain.

In addition to He Renlong, several generals in the army also led the team to break through successfully, after all, the tactical literacy of the rogues is not so high, even if it is several times that of the official army, it is too difficult to completely annihilate the official army in the dark night.

After He Renlong broke through, he didn't dare to run to Xi'an, for fear that there would be an ambush on the road, so he chose to run to Lantian County first, and then decide where to go depending on the situation.

In this battle, the 25,000 men and horses of the He Renlong Department only broke through more than 3,000 people, and the Ming army killed more than 17,000 people and captured more than 5,000 people. And the rogues only lost more than 12,000 people, and achieved an out-and-out "great victory"!

What's even more distressing is that the more than 5,000 Ming soldiers who stayed near Weinan City, so they were suspicious and did not know what was going on in the dark night, and when they got the news from the desperate Ming army, they hurriedly pulled out the camp and withdrew in the direction of Xi'an, and this move had already been expected by Li Zicheng, who intercepted on the road and eliminated about 3,000 Ming troops!

After this battle, Li Zicheng's reputation was in full swing, and the name of "breaking general" resounded on three sides, and no one knew about it, and even faintly overshadowed Gao Yingxiang.

When Qin Shuhuai led the cavalry to Xi'an a day later, he had already received the news that the dragon department of the He people in Weinan had been surrounded and annihilated, with a total loss of more than 25,000 soldiers.

Qin Shuhuai sighed, the 20,000 and 55 major armies that disappeared were simply a draw from the bottom of the kettle for the officers and soldiers who were in short supply.

At this time, He Kegang's troops also arrived near Weinan, and he also got the news of He Renlong's fiasco, so he directly led his troops to Lantian County and "picked up" He Renlong from Lantian to Xi'an.

After arriving in Xi'an, He Renlong, who knew that he had made a big mistake, took off his shirt, went naked, and then asked people to tie himself up, and inserted a long sign for execution on his back, with the words "He Renlong, the crime will be killed", and came to the governor's yamen to find Qin Shuhuai.

He wore a cloak of hair, his eyes were red, and when he saw Qin Shuhuai, he knelt down with a puff, and shouted with tears in his eyes, "Master Hou, the sin will be punished in the future! The sin will only ask for death to comfort the brothers who died unjustly!"

Qin Shuhuai looked at him coldly and didn't say a word.

Some of the generals next to him were frightened, and they all speculated that this defeat really had to be carried by one person before they could explain to the court and the soldiers. Therefore, it is difficult to guarantee that Marquis Qin will really kill people and sacrifice flags this time.

What's more, He Renlong also lost Hou Ye's brother-in-law and his subordinate Ai Jiang, and Hou Ye could easily spare him? If you want to say that this He madman is too, you know that those two people are important people in front of Hou Ye, how can you let them go to the city wall? Even if you don't want to die in a war yourself, you don't want to think about whether others want to live?

Hey, there is no one around Hou Ye who has a relationship with He Renlong, and he will not speak for him, so we can only do our best and reluctantly ask for a favor for him, so I know that He Renlong is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and there are not many fierce generals like Daming, if you just look at him being beheaded, I can't help it.

At this time, Meng Hu knelt down first and said to Qin Shuhuai, "Master Hou, the last general thinks that General He is indeed to blame for the defeat of Weinan, but for the sake of General He's lonely army guarding Xi'an from more than 100,000 Liukou in the past, I beg Master Hou to spare General He from dying!"

He Kegang also immediately said, "Master Hou, what General Meng said is extremely true. Moreover, General He's original intention was to go to Lijiapo to ambush the enemy troops coming from Shangluo, and from a tactical point of view, General He's decision was not a big mistake. If General He could have learned the news that Li Zicheng had left Ankang in advance, then there would be no way to talk about this defeat. However, although the last general sent two groups of horsemen to inform General He, none of them arrived, so the defeat of this battle was not the fault of General He, but the fault of the last general, and the Hou Ye punished the last general. ”

Zhang Xiao also followed and said, "Master Hou, General He intercepted sixty or seventy thousand thieves with 20,000 people that day, and he is a well-known man. Although the defeat in this battle was extremely tragic, it was not the fault of General He, please be aware of it!"

Seeing this scene, Wang Datong, Zhiren and other martial arts people present also stepped forward one after another, and said to Qin Shuhuai in unison, "Please be merciful to the alliance leader!"

The reason why they did this was because they had heard the name of He Renlong "He Maniac" before. Although the martial arts people are dissatisfied with the imperial court, they have admiration for the outstanding generals in the Ming army, such as Zhao Shujiao, who has a good personal relationship with many martial arts people, such as Zhiyun is a friend of Zhao Shujiao.

He Renlong never thought that so many people would intercede for him.

These people themselves have basically never met, and some of them are only one-sided at most, I thought that according to the convention, they would definitely hang up on their own business, and even some people would think about how to take over the remaining soldiers and horses under their hands, but they didn't expect that they were all interceding for themselves.

The people around Marquis Qin are really a group of loyal people who care about the Ming Dynasty, they know that I, He Renlong, are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor, they know!

That's enough!

For a while, a thousand kinds of flavors came to my heart!

He choked up and said, "He...... Thank you! It's just that Weinan failed fiasco, and He has all kinds of reasons to blame. Previously, the deputy general soldier of the left had proposed to withdraw to Xi'an first, and if he listened to him, there would not be such a defeat, but He was stubborn and stubborn, so there was a defeat in Weinan. Therefore, He deserves to die! I just hope that Hou Ye can correct He and comfort the heroic souls of tens of thousands of brothers who died in battle!"

He Kegang and He Renlong have both been generals who have led the army for many years, and they are quite empathetic, and said, "Master Hou, the last general thinks it is ......."

Qin Shuhuai waved his hand gloomily and said, "Okay, there's no need to say any more." ”

There was dead silence in the room.

Qin Shuhuai had already made a decision in his heart.

Naturally, he didn't want to kill He Renlong, who didn't have a miscalculation when he was marching and fighting? Although He Renlong had caused a fiasco, if he had been killed, then all the generals under him would have lost the courage to take risks one by one just to seek stability, so where would the surprise attacks and strange tricks come from? In other words, didn't he himself often take risks? It's just that he was lucky and won every gamble.

However, in such a big defeat, if there is no punishment, or if the punishment is light, there will be no way to explain to the imperial court and the grassroots officers and soldiers below, let alone establish an atmosphere of strict rewards and punishments. In addition, He Renlong's self-righteous temper really needs to be knocked down well, otherwise he will be responsible for making the same mistake next time!

Thinking of this, Qin Shuhuai said to He Renlong, "He Renlong, Ben Hou knows that you are not afraid of death when you fight, and you are known as 'He Maniac'." At the beginning of the battle of Hancheng, you stopped Gao Yingxiang with a mere 20,000 troops of 60,000 or 70,000 people, you can be called a fierce general in the world! However, why are you cowardly again at this time?"

He Renlong burst into tears, but he didn't know what Qin Shuhuai meant, so he could only say with a distorted face in pain, "Sin will ...... Sin will ......"