Chapter 848: Vitality Injury

Before being surrounded by the coalition forces, the Liang army still had more than 4,500 people.

The sudden ambush and siege directly killed and injured more than half of the unprepared Liang army, but there were still more than 2,000 people alive.

The remaining two thousand remnants of Xiliang are undoubtedly the elite of the elite, and although it is not easy to break through, the defense is more than enough.

Sure enough, the coalition forces attacked fiercely in the last quarter of an hour, and although they caused great casualties to the Liang army, they did not completely defeat the other party.

Xue Rengui saw that he couldn't do anything, so he decisively gave the order to retreat.

"Stop the offensive and retreat with the whole army."

After Xue Rengui gave the order, the heralds quickly shouted: "General Xue Rengui has an order, stop the attack, and the whole army retreats." ”

"What?"

Some of the generals under the command of the princes looked incredulous, after all, the victory of this battle was close at hand, and the retreat at this time was a little incomprehensible to them.

But whether you understand it or not, the order is the order, and it must not be violated.

However, when both sides are anxious, it is not easy to withdraw the army.

What's more, some generals were killed and injured due to heartache, and they even wanted to bring out all the troops under their command unharmed, which also greatly delayed the retreat efficiency of the army.

Seeing that the army was retreating so slowly, Xue Rengui on the side stomped his feet anxiously, and hurriedly asked, "What is the front army doing, why don't you retreat directly according to the order?" ”

"General Qiyu, the generals of the former army want to avoid casualties, so ......"

"These guys."

Xue Rengui gritted his teeth and said, as soon as the words fell, he saw a spy, who ran over in a panic and anger.

"Report ...... The generals of Qiyu found a large number of their cavalry in the western direction, which was less than five miles away from our army. ”

"So fast?" Xue Rengui's eyes were shocked, obviously underestimating the other party's speed.

Five miles can be reached in less than a moment for a full-speed cavalry, while the coalition forces obviously cannot be withdrawn within a quarter of an hour.

The trapped Liang army sensed that reinforcements were about to arrive, so they did not continue to defend, but instead sent out to entangle the coalition forces in order to delay the retreat of the coalition forces.

Seeing that some of the coalition forces were sinking deeper and deeper, and more people would be dragged down if they continued like this, Xue Rengui was heartbroken and shouted: "Regardless of them, the whole army will retreat immediately, and how much can they escape." ”

There is another point that Xue Rengui did not dare to say clearly, that is, to sacrifice this part of the people as a backing, so that his army could escape smoothly.

Of course, Xue Rengui also wanted to defeat the enemy army head-on, but now the enemy should cooperate with the outside, and his own ambush troops are also exhausted after the battle, and there is no chance of victory under the enemy's outnumbered, so it is better to retreat in time to give up the small and protect the big one, and the results they have achieved in this battle are already big enough.

After Yang Guang led the army to arrive, seeing that the enemy army had not yet withdrawn, a hideous smile immediately flashed on his face, and shouted: "Flying Bear Army, attack." ”

"Kill, kill, kill."

Among the cavalry that Yang Guang carried this time, in addition to the ordinary cavalry, there were also the troops of the first battalion of the Liang Army's veteran elite Flying Bear Army, so he could arrive in advance.

The 3,000 Flying Bear Army was like a tiger descending from the mountain, rushing towards the enemy in front of them with great ferocity, and in an instant, the formation of the coalition army was directly torn apart, and a one-sided massacre followed.

Jia Fu, Wu Yunzhao and other generals saw that Yang Guang was finally here, and they were immediately relieved in their hearts, and hurriedly rode their horses to meet them.

"General Yang, if you come a quarter of an hour late, you really won't be able to see us." Wu Yunzhao said with a wry smile.

Seeing that almost all of the generals were wounded, and several of them were even seriously injured and unconscious, it was not difficult for Yang Guang to imagine what a tragic battle they had experienced.

"Everyone, if you can still fight, please join Guang and kill all these bastards."

Yang Guang gritted his teeth, and then waved his weapon and personally joined the hunt.

Seeing this, Jia Fu and other generals could only smile bitterly, and then endured the pain and gritted their teeth to join in.

Soon after Xue Rengui led more than half of his troops and horses to withdraw, he heard a miserable and direct scream in the distance behind him, and immediately did not dare to stay longer and ordered the whole army to retreat quickly.

None of them are out of danger yet, and if the enemy reinforcements catch up, they will be the ones who are being chased away, so it is better to withdraw to a safe area as soon as possible.

Yang Guang led the army to chase for ten miles, and then ordered not to continue the pursuit, Wu Yun summoned this puzzled and asked, "Why didn't the general chase?" The enemy army has been routed, we will kill it directly, and soon we can rescue all the trapped brothers? ”

"Alas......"

Yang Guang sighed and explained: "If the general had 50,000 cavalry in his hands, he would definitely continue to pursue until he rescued the trapped soldiers, but our army only has 10,000 cavalry now, while the Kwantung Coalition Army has dispatched 100,000 cavalry.

The rout is just an ambush of the coalition army, if they continue to pursue, once Xue Rengui reacts, I am afraid that even these 10,000 cavalry will fall in. ”

The generals couldn't help but be silent for a while when they heard this, Yang Guang knew that it was difficult for them to accept this fact, so he didn't continue to say anything, and immediately ordered to the left and right: "Clean up the battlefield quickly, and the whole army is ready to retreat." ”

A quarter of an hour later, the casualty report came out, the allied ambush casualties were nearly 3,000, and the reinforcements of the Liang army basically did not suffer many casualties, but the 50,000 Xiliang iron cavalry who went out to fight only survived more than 1,000 people.

Yang Guang couldn't help but gasp, 50,000 Xiliang Iron Riders left the Tiger Prison Pass, but when they came back, there were only more than 1,000 people?

This is equivalent to the annihilation of the entire army, and the casualties are too heavy, right?

After learning this news, all the generals of the Liang Army were in pain, after all, although the order to leave the customs was given by Li Shimin, they also played a role in urging it, how to represent the main bus in Chang'an?

It took Dong Zhuo more than 20 years to have 100,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but more than half of the casualties were killed in the first battle, and the generals in Liangzhou couldn't believe Dong Zhuo's reaction when he found out.

In addition to the soldiers, the casualties of the generals of the Liang army were also not small, Zhang Gongjin, Gao Shilian, Mai Tiejian, Yang Yichen, Liang Shitai and other senior generals were directly killed, and the veteran Ding Yanping was captured by the Qin army.

In addition, the Liang army also folded more than 50 captains, more than 30 partial generals, and more than 10 miscellaneous generals, which can be described as a great injury to the vitality.

If it weren't for the last-minute moment, Yang Guang would have led the army to rescue Wu Yunzhao and more than a dozen other generals, and more than sixty percent of the generals of the Liang army would have been direct

Yang Guang sighed deeply, the responsibility for this defeat was too great, and he couldn't afford it, so he could only pray in his heart that Li Shimin could survive, after all, except for Li Shimin, there was really no one in the Liang army who was Qin Hao's opponent, and he Yang Guang couldn't do the same.