"PS: I wanted to send the two more together, but the second one I want to think about the interesting little friction between Zhao Yu and Yang Ding, I definitely can't catch up, so I will send it first."

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"Report! General Tian Xu's army was broken by the pursuing troops of Kun and Ye counties and could not resume the battle. General Tian asked Guan Shuai to retreat as soon as possible. ”

On the evening of October 21, following the defeat of Zhai Shang's army, the bad news of the defeat of Tian Xu's army also reached the ears of Guan Shuo, who was dozens of miles away from them, making Guan Shuo feel unbelievable.

The armies of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu were defeated?

Those were the two most complete armies under his command, because they did not participate in the Battle of Kunyang, these two armies were complete and their morale was acceptable, Guan Shuo thought that these two armies could at least delay the pursuit of the soldiers for a few days, but he never expected that in just one day, the two armies of 10,000 people were defeated by the pursuers.

Guan Shuo asked the soldiers who came to report in disbelief: "How did Zhai Shang and Tian Xu defeat the battle?" Even if Kunyang and Yexian poured out all their troops, they didn't see more than the soldiers under Zhai Shang and Tian Xu, how could they be defeated in a row in just one day? ”

Like Guan Shuo's question, ordinary soldiers may not be able to answer the ground, but fortunately, the soldiers who came to report this time are the guards around Tian Xu, and their vision is higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

He clenched his fists and replied, "According to General Tian, the pursuers of Kunyang and Ye County took turns to adopt a strange strategy. At the beginning of this pursuit, Ye County drove his troops to the front to intercept General Zhai Shang's retreat, while the Kunyang pursuers slowly covered up and killed at the end. ”

Speaking of this, he cautiously glanced at Guan Shuo, and said in a low voice: "At that time, General Tian and General Zhai made an appointment to cover each other and retreat from each other, but they didn't notice in time that Zhai Shangjun in the rear had been entangled by the pursuers, and before he could send troops to help, Zhai Shangjun had been attacked by the chasing troops in Yexian and Kunyang......"

『……』

Guan Shuo opened his mouth, and finally understood the reason for Zhai Shang's defeat.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Zhai Shang and Tian Xu, who were in charge of the broken end, each had an army of 10,000 people, even if the chasing troops in Kunyang and Yexian combined were close to 20,000, they should not be able to defeat Zhai Shang and Tian Xu in a short time.

But in fact, this idea has fallen into a misunderstanding, and even Guan Shuo Fangcai is no exception.

Because this is a pursuit war, a war of movement, not a positional war.

Zhai Shangjun wants to withdraw, Tian Xujun also wants to withdraw, and the two of them agreed to cover each other's evacuation, which means that at a point in time, one of the two armies is in front and one is behind, not far from each other, which is probably less than ten miles away.

And this means that when the two armies of Kunyang and Yexian successfully implemented the tactics of 'flanking and attacking from the front and rear' against Zhai Shang's army, in fact, the strength of the two sides was not 20,000 against 20,000, but 20,000 against 10,000, because Tian Xu's army was nearly ten miles away, and there was no time to support Zhai Shang in time.

In the absence of assistance, being attacked by two enemy forces at the same time, and the total number of the other party is far above him, how can Zhai Shangjun not be defeated?

If we take into account the factors of 'the whole army retreating to the rear', 'the soldiers generally dare not fight', and the weather, Zhai Shangjun has no chance of victory.

With a long sigh of dejection, Guan Shuo asked dejectedly, "That...... What about Tian Xu? ”

The soldiers who came to report hugged their fists and whispered: "General Tian can't bear to abandon General Zhai, and after learning that General Zhai was attacked by the enemy, he immediately ordered the whole army to set up an ambush in place in order to meet General Zhai's defeated army...... At that time, General Tian successfully ambushed the Kunyang pawn who came to pursue, killing the Kunyang pawn and fled, seeing this, General Tian immediately ordered to retreat lightly with General Zhai's defeated soldiers, but he didn't expect that only a moment later, Kunyang pawn caught up again......

“……”

Guan Shuo was silent.

Considering that Tian Xu didn't even use ambushes to repel the pursuers in Kunyang and Yexian, even if it was Guan Shuo, it was not easy to blame Tian Xu.

I have to say that Tian Xu overestimated the means of 'ambush', and the Kunyang chasing army commanded by Zhao Yu didn't know that the generals of this era liked to set up ambushes when evacuating?

And the way to deal with this kind of ambush is not to ask much at all, asking is to pursue the second time, pursue many times, even if it is the first time it is ambushed, it is necessary to send pursuers again, take advantage of the other party's urgent evacuation to save the defeat, and even expand the results of the battle.

In Zhao Yu's view, this is 'common sense' that does not need to be thought about at all. - Although this common sense is incomprehensible to ordinary people, and it is too late to react.

Perhaps Tian Xu can be called a qualified general who knows strategy, but unfortunately, he can't repel Zhao Yu simply by ambushing the trick, on the contrary, Tian Xu lost his chance to escape in order to ambush the pursuers of Kunyang and Ye County, so that he was finally bitten by the pursuers of Kunyang.

And once bitten, it is destined that Tian Xu will follow in the footsteps of Zhai Shang.

“…… Go down. ”

After asking the reason for the defeat of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu, Guan Shuo melancholy dismissed the soldier who came to report the news.

The good news is that although Zhai Shang and Tian Xu were defeated one after another, they finally broke out with a small number of soldiers before the rout, although they temporarily lost contact with the main division, but considering that the pursuers in Kunyang and Yexian would not 'sacrifice the big and seek the small' to divide the troops to pursue, they would inevitably still aim at his main division, so Guan Shuo was not worried about whether Zhai Shang and Tian Xu could get rid of the pursuers.

In his opinion, Zhai Shang and Tian Xu could finally lead the few remnants of the army to flee to Yuncheng or Zhaoling to join him.

As for the bad news, there are too many places to count, such as the loss of troops, armament losses caused by the defeat of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu, etc., etc., but now is not the time to care about these, the pursuers of Kunyang and Ye County can defeat the armies of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu in one day, which is enough to prove the combat effectiveness of the pursuers of the two counties, and the attitude of eager to further weaken his righteous teacher.

Exhaling slightly, Guan Shuo looked at his side wordlessly, and looked at Jiangxia Qushuai Chen Miao.

Of course, Chen Miao understood that Guan Shuo was extremely embarrassed at this moment, and when he saw this, he relieved Guan Shuo and said: "This time, the second generals Zhai and Tian were defeated, and the reason for the defeat was not in the second general, but in the weather...... If it weren't for my righteous division to retreat, how could Zhai and Tian Er generals be defeated in a hurry in the hands of the pursuers? ”

I have to say that Chen Shuo's analysis is quite objective, but Guan Shuo's mood has not improved because of this.

He threw a piece of firewood into the campfire in front of him, frowned, and said, "...... Regardless of the future, just talking about the current situation, Zhai Shang and Tian Xu are defeated, and there is no army in the rear of our rear, according to the soldiers who came to report, the chasing soldiers are only seven or eight hours away from us, according to my estimate, by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, Zhou Hu and Yang Ding will probably catch up with you and me...... If they had ordered a night march, it would have been earlier. ”

"They won't order a night march."

Chen Miao shook his head and said: "In order to catch up with my main division, the pursuers of Kunyang and Yexian need to order a hurry, and their soldiers must be tired, if they can't rest at night, not to mention that the night is not conducive to marching, they may not be able to shorten the distance between the two armies, even if they catch up, what strength do they have to attack my main division?" …… A hundred miles and the interesting one will kick the general, and fifty miles and the interesting one will be half an army. Although Zhou Hu was born as a bandit, but looking at his use of soldiers, I don't think he doesn't know this truth; As for Yang Ding, Yang Ding is the son of the powerful of the Jin Dynasty, the disciple of the Taishi Wang Ying, according to legend, he has been smart and well-read since he was a child, and he must also know this truth. …… In short, I don't think these two will put themselves in a disadvantageous situation for the sake of 'fun'. ”

Guan Shuo smiled bitterly when he heard this: "In other words, I can rest assured a little?" ”

Of course, Chen Miao understood that this defeat had dealt a huge blow to Guan Shuo, so he considered his words and said with relief: "It's not too late to do it when you return to Zhaoling, and the top priority at the moment is to repel the pursuers of Zhou Hu and Yang Ding." …… Zhou Hu and Yang Ding, regardless of the bad weather, took the risk of chasing and fighting, obviously thinking that they could further damage our righteous teacher. It is not difficult to guess that the army that attacked Dingling in Yexian County is likely to have been ambushed on the way for our army to withdraw to Zhaoling, so Zhou Hu and Yang Dingcai pursued it relentlessly. …… I will immediately send someone to inform Zhu Yan and order him to defeat the Yexian blockers in front at any cost, as long as the Yexian blockers are defeated, Zhou Hu and Yang Ding realize that they can no longer intercept our army, they will retreat......"

"Hmm."

Guan Shuo nodded approvingly.

Sure enough, Guan Shuo, as the commander of the Changsha Volunteer Division, is quite accurate in estimating the itinerary of both the enemy and us.

The next day, around two o'clock in the afternoon of October 22, the pursuers led by Zhao Yu and Yang Ding really caught up with Guan Shuo's main division.

Knowing the enemy situation in the rear, Guan Shuo learned the lesson of Tian Xu's almost total annihilation, and did not consider using ambushes to repel the pursuers, on the contrary, he decided to delay the pace of the pursuers.

But how can you delay the pace of the pursuers?

The answer is the Green Wood Thief.

For the purpose of 'emergency', Guan Shuo did not allow Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu to escape alone from the master along the way, and now they are really used.

He immediately summoned Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu, the leaders of the Green Forest Thieves, and asked them to lead their Green Forest Thieves to break off with the pseudo-thieves.

Of course Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu refused, after all, this is clearly a dead end.

However, under Guan Shuo's angry threat, Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu had no choice, after all, the green forest thieves depended on the righteous master to survive, without the righteous teacher, they were purely rogues, and they didn't even have a source of food and grass, how could they have the confidence to refuse Guan Shuo's request?

Of course, Guan Shuo didn't mean to want Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu to die, he reminded the two of them: "As far as I know, Kunyang's pursuers are more inclined to capture prisoners, and you two still have thousands of servants, not to mention thousands, even if it is thousands of pigs, it is enough for Kunyang people to capture for a while, and you only need to face Ye County's pursuers alone......"

Although this reminder did not make Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu relieved, they did not dare to disobey.

Facts have proved that Guan Shuo's judgment is correct, although the thousands of green forest thieves and pseudo-thieves were defeated by the pursuing troops in Kunyang and Yexian in just one face, but in order to capture these captives, the Kunyang people still took a lot of effort, and only the army of Yexian continued to pursue Guan Shuo's main division with perseverance.

On October 23, Wang Yan and Wei Chi cut off the rebels' return route in the front, while Zhao Yu and Yang Ding pursued in the rear, and the rebel division was about to face the situation of being attacked by the enemy on the back.

There are still seven or eight thousand soldiers under Zhu Yan's command, and there are thousands of Changsha soldiers under Huang Kang and Liu De to help, and this small army of 20,000 will launch a fierce attack regardless of casualties, how can the three or four thousand troops under Wang Yan and Wei Chi alone resist it?

After holding on for half an hour, he was defeated by Zhu Yu and others, and he could only evacuate in a hurry.

Yexian County ordered Yang Ding's idea of 'flanking and defeating the rebel main division before and after', but it was not realized.