Pimple pimple......"

A light rain was falling in the sky, and the whole land was shrouded in a haze, and hundreds of horses galloped along the potholed paths, and the mud from the horses' hooves splashed everywhere.

"Run...... Come on...... The officers and soldiers are still to come! ”

Li Yan bowed down on the horse's back, his legs tightened, and his whole body maintained his center of gravity with the movements of the war horse, rising and falling rhythmically, which was also the most effective way to save physical strength.

It's just that despite this, Li Yan also felt that the body that was gradually becoming cold no longer belonged to him, and the soreness, numbness, swelling and extreme fatigue reminded him all the time that his body had reached its limit, and if he continued like this, he would have to be planted off the horse's back the next moment.

It has been two days since he broke out of Huizhou City, and according to Li Yan's plan, he led an army of 20,000 to retreat to Hangzhou Mansion along the predetermined road after breaking through the siege.

As long as the army retreated in an orderly manner, the Jiangning army would not dare to pursue too much, lest they would suffer losses by their counterattack, and Li Yan even prepared several sets of plans for this.

However, although the ideal is good, the reality has given him a resounding slap in the face.

In Li Yan's vision, after his troops retreated, the troops would be divided into three parts, retreating alternately and orderly, and they must not run backwards in a chaotic honeycomb.

For this reason, Li Yan specially called Hao Shaoqi and the other two brigade commanders, and explained carefully for a long time before he began to order a retreat.

At the beginning of the retreat, at first the troops could begin to retreat in an orderly manner as expected, but when the last troops withdrew less than five miles from the Huizhou capital, the cavalry of the Jiangning army began to appear.

These cavalry rushed towards the retreating rogues like ducks, and they did not launch a general attack on the rogues, but hung from a distance, and from time to time they launched a charge, and after rushing near them, they did not engage in hand-to-hand combat with them, but shot with firearms at a distance of about a hundred paces.

To tell the truth, although the shooting hit rate at such a distance is not very high, a salvo can take the lives of more than a dozen people each time, and in the face of this situation where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back, the rogues will soon be unable to withstand it.

The collapse came so suddenly, after hundreds of casualties, the first batch of rogues in the palace immediately collapsed, more than 5,000 people screamed, and began to turn backwards in unison, spreading their feet and running desperately towards the back.

The speed was so fast that even the pursuing cavalry battalion should not be frightened, looking at the crowd all over the mountains, they didn't even know what to do?

It was still a thousand generals who were the first to reflect, he quickly ordered to gather the troops, ignore the rout, but continued to pursue, thousands of cavalry stabbed at the enemy like a sharp knife, and soon pierced one of the defense lines of the Liukou, and then rushed towards the large army of the Liukou.

Because the rout came so suddenly, Li Yan and the others didn't have the time to prepare and react at all.

It was none other than Hao Shaoqi who was in charge of the second round of palaces.

As a person who has fought with the Jiangning army, Hao Shaoqi naturally understands the combat effectiveness of the Jiangning army, and after learning that the men and horses behind him have been defeated, Hao Shaoqi immediately ordered to form a formation without thinking, relying on the surrounding terrain to block the Jiangning army.

I have to say that it is not someone else who knows you best, but your enemy.

Hao Shaoqi's approach was correct, and when the rogues relied on the favorable terrain around them to resist with cold weapons such as bows and arrows, spears, broadswords, and even stones, the cavalry's impact began to slow down, and it was not long before they were blocked under a hillside.

Seeing this, the commander of the Qian Zong wanted to make a detour, but the surrounding terrain was very steep, and there was no road for the cavalry to pass through.

Fortunately, both Yang Feng and Cao Yingmao had explained before setting off that if they encountered a large group of incapable enemies, they should immediately retreat or stop the attack and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

According to this instruction, the commander of the thousand-man squad immediately ordered the troops to begin to retreat, but at this time the problem came.

Seeing this situation, the commander of the Qian General had an idea, commanded the troops to penetrate the rout army again, went around their backs, and then drove these rout troops towards the defense line arranged by Hao Shaoqi like ducks in the rear.

Facing the dense influx of his own people, Hao Shaoqi was stunned for a while.

He hurriedly jumped out and shouted: "Stop, you guys stand for Lao Tzu, all go around from the side, don't impact the formation." Otherwise, don't blame Lao Tzu for killing people? ”

But Hao Shaoqi's shouts were useless, and before he could react, thousands of routs had already drowned them like a tide.

At this time, the commander commanded the cavalry to take the opportunity to cover up, and the official road was full of dense firecrackers and explosions, and the cavalry who rushed over again learned wisely this time, they not only shot with firecrackers from a distance, but also sent some people to rush to the nearest place, and saw that there were still 10,000 enemies in the place where there were many people.

With the rumbling explosion of 10,000 enemies, the rogues fell under the knife in pieces.

"These bastards, are they all deaf, hurry up and form a formation for Lao Tzu, only a formation can deal with the cavalry of officers and soldiers, and you can't let them rush over."

Facing the imminent collapse of the defense line, Hao Shaoqi desperately scolded his thieves, and the horsewhip in his hand kept waving, and he even led the guards to kill more than a dozen fleeing rogues.

But once the rout began, it was too difficult to stop, and in the end, Hao Shaoqi was also carried by the rout and fled backwards, and half an hour later, Li Yan's plan to retreat under alternate cover was completely broken, and the 20,000 troops scattered like sheep.

Li Yan could only run desperately along the official road with his guards, and in two days, the war horses under his crotch had been replaced by three, and there were less than two hundred guards left under his command, and the remaining guards were either killed by the Jiang Ning army or ran away.

After Li Yan ran for a while, one of the guards suddenly said with some hesitation: "Strategist, there seems to be no sound of horses' hooves behind, those dog officers and soldiers are no longer chasing us!" ”

Someone next to him listened to it, and there was a hint of surprise in his tone: "Huh...... It seems to be true, there is really no sound of horses' hooves behind, let's get rid of those dog officers and soldiers! ”

In the end, everyone finally confirmed that the pursuers behind were gone, and after learning the news, the guards all let out bursts of cheers, and many even cried with joy......