Chapter 207: The Hardest Battle (14)
Chapter 207: The Hardest Battle Fourteen
The commander of the thousand took the seriously injured and unconscious Kebi Neng to gallop all the way to the rear of the Xianbei army.
Seeing Kebi can have such a miserable appearance, all the Xianbei generals can't help but be shocked.
"How could the leader be so badly wounded?" Seeing this, Captain Wan couldn't calm down for a long time, and after being stunned for a while, he barely calmed down and asked in a condensed voice.
"Han, Han will be fierce, the leader is invincible to ......" The commander was about to tell the truth.
However, he was only halfway through his sentence when Gou suddenly slashed his head off with a single sword.
"Woo! What are you doing! Seeing Gou Hao's sudden murder, several captains around him were also taken aback, and asked at the same time.
Although Gou Ye is a commander of ten thousand and has a high status in the clan, the other party is also a commander of a thousand people, and his status is not low. Even if Kebineng himself wants to kill a thousand-tor, he must at least ask everyone's opinions symbolically 'sexually'. And he was so good that he said he would kill it!
Could it be that he wanted to take advantage of the leader's serious injury to have bad intentions!
"The leader was besieged by a large number of Han soldiers in front, and this person was not effective in rescue, but said that the Han will be fierce, increase the prestige of others and destroy his own morale, and he should be punished!" Gou said sharply.
When the others heard this, they were silent. These Xianbei generals are not stupid people, they heard Gou Yu say this at this time, and they also figured out the cause and effect. Although Gou Wei's actions are too domineering, there is no doubt that he has done nothing wrong.
Can Kebi be seriously injured by Han Jiang? It's not impossible, but it must never be said in public.
If the commander had been more clever and had made up a more exaggerated reason during Gou's previous questioning, such as the excuse that the leader of Kebineng had one enemy and a hundred, and finally his physical strength was exhausted, and he was accidentally injured by the enemy, it is estimated that Gou would not have killed him. But the commander told the truth, and it was a pity that he had to die.
Who can be Kebi? In the minds of the Xianbei people, he is almost the highest belief except for the gods. He is extremely brave and invincible, how could such a powerful and incomparable Kebineng be injured to such an extent by a Han general?
If this spreads, Kobi's prestige in the clan will be gone, and it is very likely that he will not even be able to keep his position as leader.
The more prestige you accumulate, the more powerful it falls. If you are not careful, you will be in danger of being ruined.
Therefore, the killing of the commander was not because he was disobedient, but because of his loyalty to Kebineng, and he had to quickly eliminate all factors that might be unfavorable to him.
Although the commander was still quite clever, he was already 'confused' after seeing that Kebineng was seriously injured, and when he was confronted with Gou's inquiry, he answered in a panic, without going through deeper consideration, so he unfortunately suffered this catastrophe.
The commander is dead, it's not much to pay attention to. Now the question is, what should I do if I can seriously injure him?
Kebineng's injuries are serious, there is no doubt about this, and he must be treated urgently, otherwise he may die at some point.
So in this case, should the troops be withdrawn?
Everyone focused on Gou Xuan, who was the most prestigious general in the entire clan below Kebineng.
At this time, only Gou is qualified to make decisions instead of Kebi.
"Order the whole army, retreat!" Gou Yan set his eyes on the battlefield and said in a deep voice.
The losses brought by this expedition have been very heavy, and tens of thousands of Xianbei warriors have died in battle, which can definitely hurt the vitality of the tribe.
Although the Han cavalry was almost exhausted, their own cavalry was also trapped in the opponent's infantry and could not give full play to their advantage.
Even if the Han army in front of them is completely defeated in the end, it will definitely be a crushing victory, and the casualties that the army will have to pay are absolutely beyond the scope of what they can bear.
It is very likely that the whole army will fight to the end and survive in the end, and there will not be one out of ten.
If it really reaches this point, even if the Han army is completely annihilated, the self-army will not have the ability to further plunder the Han territory, and after returning to the grassland, it will have to worry about being oppressed by other tribes.
Originally, even if Kebi was not injured, Gou had the intention of looking for him and persuading him to retreat. Now that Kebineng was seriously injured and 'unconscious', although Gou was shocked and grieved, he also gave the order for the whole army to retreat at this opportunity.
Leaving a part of the soldiers and horses as the palace army, the Xianbei army retreated.
Withdrawn? The Xianbei army has finally retreated!
Looking at the Xianbei army formation that was retreating to the rear, Cao Jun let out bursts of cheers.
Finally persevered! These thieves will finally be defeated! Finally drive the robbers back to the grassland!
Although Xiahou Yuan wanted to pursue, there were thousands of men and horses left behind by Xianbei, and although these thousands of men and horses knew that they would die, they did not give up at all, and they fought extremely tenaciously, gaining enough time for the retreat of the whole army. After the Cao army annihilated all of them, the Xianbei army had already left some distance.
Xiahou Yuan had no choice but to withdraw the army to Jiuyuan City and make other plans.
After entering Jiuyuan City, the number of people counted, 100,000 troops, a total of more than 40,000 were killed, of which 7,500 cavalry, less than 500 horsemen, 800 tiger and leopard horsemen, and finally only more than 50 horsemen.
A total of ten officers at the rank of lieutenant were killed, and the rest, such as the military marquis and the Dubo, suffered dozens of casualties.
In addition, the casualties of the two 'elite' troops, the trapping camp and the Euphorbia, also exceeded three-quarters.
Even in the Battle of Guandu, although Cao Jun was under the tremendous pressure brought by Yuan Shao, he did not suffer such large-scale damage.
It can be said that this battle with the Xianbei army caused the largest casualties in the history of the Cao army. More than 40,000 people were killed in a single battle, and the 'elite' troops were almost completely exhausted, which was unprecedented in the wars that Cao's army had ever experienced.
This was the most difficult battle among the wars that Cao's army had experienced since the founding of Cao's army. Please keep in mind the URL, if you like "The Invincible of the Three Kingdoms" written by the thunder