Chapter 468: Fiasco

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"The king should leave quickly." Li Gu had been standing on the side of the horse and watching the battlefield, and he had felt that this battle was a little suspenseful, and it might not be as smooth as imagined, but the battle was like this, it was not smooth from the beginning, and then it collapsed to the end, which was also beyond the imagination of this staff. At this moment, this ambitious staff member is also helpless, he is good at conspiracy, grasps the hearts of the people, and has no ability to offer advice at all for this kind of horizontal knife duel on the battlefield. But when it came to this, King Zhao was here, and there was still something to do about the big thing, Li Gu immediately climbed the horse's head and persuaded: "If you delay any longer, when the forbidden army also collapses, you can't do anything, and you will be chased and killed by the enemy's elite cavalry, and the king's daughter must not take risks......"

The cavalry battle the day before yesterday, more than 300 horsemen under the command of King Zhao were quite eager to try, and when they saw the elite of the thief cavalry, they were skilled in riding and shooting on the horses and horses, and their combat skills were outstanding.

King Zhao did not send these personal cavalry guards to fight, and at this time, King Zhao had a clear understanding that these personal cavalry guards, although their equipment was much stronger than that of the thief cavalry, really fought, I am afraid that they were far from their opponents.

At this moment, the three hundred horsemen escorting King Zhao to escape are all a bit risky.

At this time, King Zhao was happy, because he was worried about the grain route, and in the past few days, more than 10,000 box troops have been arranged to camp along the way.

"That's all there is to it." King Zhao let out a long sigh, which was almost hurtful, but at the moment he said categorically: "Retreat." ”

As soon as these words came out, many staff members and personal guard generals were relieved, and everyone turned around, intending to flee immediately.

"Father, not." Xu Ziwen, who had not spoken up, spoke out at this time and said: "The army is still fighting, if my father escapes, nothing can be done." ”

"You know what." Xu Ziwei raised his whip on the side, and said with fear and impatience: "The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and now we seem to be stable, but the enemy has not yet freed up his hands." Once the Xiang army is completely destroyed, the enemy will go to kill the forbidden army, and when the enemy will free up his hands and not come to seek my father and son, will he stand aside and watch the battle? ”

Although Xu Ziwei pretended to know the soldiers a lot, the analysis at this time was also quite accurate, and now the thieves and the elite cavalry still have to clear the box army, and when the box army is defeated, a small part of the cavalry will chase after it, so that the box army will no longer be arrayed, and then most of the elite infantry will go to the north camp to flank the forbidden army before and after, the light cavalry was useless at that time, and the light cavalry was used to rush the forbidden army with a complete array, which was lost in vain.

"I know that, too." Xu Ziwen's face was pale, he looked at King Zhao who was angry, then glanced at Li Gu, and said in a deep voice: "Although the situation is unfavorable now, when the eldest brother is sent to the Xiang army array with a knife, summon the generals in charge, strictly persuade him to collect his subordinates, retreat slowly, and not collapse into an army, and secondly, when the retreating Xiang army retreats to the side of the forbidden army, and the forbidden army is a horn, so that the remnants of the Xiang army and the forbidden army can be preserved, and the two soldiers and horses can gather and retreat in the evening." Although there are many soldiers who have been damaged in this way, they still have the strength to fight. Mr. Li, you said that it doesn't matter if you win or lose, this battle is about politics. But if the father and king were defeated to the point that there were only a few hundred guards left, how could he talk about the follow-up politics? ”

This is a very serious problem, and it is also a reminder to everyone.

The consequences are too serious, even on the battlefield at such a critical moment, Xu Ziwen has to remind him.

Li Gu's face was as white as paper, and his ambition and smug posture at this time had been swept away.

"What does the shaft say?" When everyone hesitated, King Zhao whipped at Xu Ziwen, pulling out a long whip mark on Xu Zixian's face.

"If your father dies on the battlefield, what kind of politics will he talk about, what kind of opening a mansion!" King Zhao was furious, looked around and said: "All the generals must be thorough and rewarded, and the rest of the things don't have to be ignored." ”

In other words, in addition to guarding the safety of the prince in front of him, the rest of the staff and officials, including Xu Ziwei, Xu Ziwen and others, do not need to pay attention.

The guards suddenly agreed, but the king of Zhao was the first to turn the horse, the rest of the guards galloped like arrows to follow, more than 300 horses surrounded the king of Zhao turned around, there was originally a flag bearer holding the banner of the king of Zhao, at this time of course it was also abandoned, the big pole is more than six zhang high, together with the flag and flag dozens of pounds of weight, non-strong men can not be sincere, at this time the flag was thrown casually, but also fell in the weeds from it.

Xu Ziwen was sad and angry, Jane

I want to draw a sword and slash it in my neck, so that I will no longer be humiliated by others...... After repeated setbacks, Xu Ziwen's last hope is on the battle in front of him, and at this moment, he saw the true skills of his father and brother, including Li Gu, the head of the staff, who are all people who talk eloquently and are not beneficial to practice.

The more than 10,000 forbidden troops and 60,000 or 70,000 Xiang troops of the imperial court, plus the 100,000 army of the people, were actually abandoned by easy waves, and the prince of the country fled before the battle, which really opened a bad example for the Great Wei clan to flee first on the battlefield......

If Xu Ziwen has a clear understanding in his heart, not only will he not be able to compete with Xu Zixian in the future, but he will compare the two on a par, which will also be a humiliation to Xu Zixian, the king of Zhongshan.

Even the Son of Heaven will be implicated in this matter.

And King Zhao has no scruples about this, above the battle array, His Royal Highness the prince only regards his own life as the main thing, and everything else is insignificant......

Xu Ziwen laughed miserably, but he couldn't help it, he turned the horse and ran away, and he died with great difficulty, no matter how Xu Ziwen saw the overall situation, he would not throw his life here at will.

As soon as King Zhao fled, the situation became even more unavoidable.

The general fled with him.

On the chaotic battlefield, there were a small number of cavalry that broke down and fled, and the generals threw away their banners and threw them directly on the ground, and then threw away their own henchmen, and fled in embarrassment with only a few personal guards, several or a dozen horses.

In addition to Liu Jie and He Deqing and others who fled, Lin Dewu, Zhang Zhongqian, Lin Huairen and other generals were all shot by thieves on the way to escape, or were cut off under the horse!

The mountains are all over the fields, fields, villages, official roads, ditches, and everywhere are van troops who have abandoned their weapons and fled, like a large swarm of headless ants, densely packed, and it seems that people almost have no idea where to start.

Liu Maoqi, who presided over the battle in Beiying, was also quite surprised, and after a long delay, he ordered the cavalry to disperse and suppress, and loudly announced that those who surrendered would not be killed.

On the battlefields of the Central Plains and Hedong, there has never been a box army of more than 1,000 people who surrendered, and in today's battle, in addition to the more than 20,000 box troops who escaped by chance, there are still more than 40,000 box troops who surrendered directly on the battlefield, and the number of dead in the battle is less than 1,000, and several hundred of them died when they trampled on each other.

And the elite of the North Battalion, directly under the leadership of Liu Maoqi, went to flank the forbidden army.

After being attacked from both sides, the forbidden army finally collapsed.

Liu Guangsi, He Zhiyuan, Lin Zhien, Li Yaowu and other generals ordered Mingjin to retreat, these generals were experienced, and they also knew that they could not turn around under the enemy's attack, so Mingjin ordered to form a defensive circle at the same time.

The teams, sentinels, battalions, and armies are all connected to each other, and the archers defend within the hands, and there are still many arrows at this time, and if they can form a circle and hold out until dark, they can slowly retreat in the southeast direction, and they can still maintain the general structure of the troops, so as not to be wiped out like the box army.

But this plan is because of King Zhao's first escape, the collapse of the Xiang army, and Liu Maoqi's actions are quite decisive, and although the troops led by Li Kaiming in front of him are mainly the people of Jianzhou who have been in the army for less than two months, but after the morale is boosted, even the original gloomy and sad songs are sung majesticly, obviously morale boosted, although its military quality is far worse than the forbidden army, but the soldiers of the forbidden army have fallen into a desperate situation, and their morale has dropped to the valley, especially when they saw King Zhao's Wang Xuan landing, many soldiers of the forbidden army directly let out a mournful sound.

In this battle, the forbidden army did not attack ruthlessly, the generals had different hearts, King Zhao decided to let Li Kaiming go in advance, and when the public saw Li Kaiming leading his troops to rush out, he did not send a sharpshooter to suppress or even shoot this person, but hoped to use a less drastic way to repel this person and make him escape.

When they found out that the situation was not right, the battlefield was already anxious, and the generals of the forbidden army frequently wanted to withdraw their soldiers and form a formation to protect themselves, but when the thieves attacked from the north and south, they only formed a number of small circular formations, and the forbidden army of five armies was divided and surrounded, and the smallest circular formation was only a few hundred people.

Rao was like this, in the face of the siege of nearly ten times the enemy, the forbidden army wearing heavy armor, holding a well-armed army, and holding a foot bow still fought until the last moment...... At this time, it is impossible to turn back and escape, and after all, the forbidden army has been trained for a long time, and has the consciousness and tenacity of a soldier, knowing that surrendering before the battle is unpredictable, and it is likely that at the same time as surrendering, it will be stabbed to death by the red-eyed enemy, it is better to wield a long sword and fight side by side with his companions.

At the end of dusk, there are still more than half of the forbidden army insisting,

The array still existed, slowly retreating behind him, the two sides fought all day, did not eat at noon, did not use water, the water bladders carried by the forbidden army and the thieves had long been drunk, everyone was so thirsty that their lips were so dry that they could not speak, and there were many people who shouted for a long time, so that their throats were swollen and sore, and they could not speak.

Even collapsed and fell to the ground, trampled by their companions and died more, on the battlefield, whoever has a stronger spirit and higher physical fitness can hold on longer.

The forbidden army showed the demeanor of an elite army at this time, wearing armor, besieged by several times the enemy, and the companions around him fell from time to time, because there were too many dead people, many circles were piled up with the corpses of thieves and forbidden soldiers before the formation, forming the most cruel and terrible long base.

The dead also bleed, the blood of hundreds of thousands of people kept oozing, and many forbidden soldiers just trampled on the mud formed by the pool of blood under their feet, and fought with the thieves silently.

Liu Maoqi and Li Kaiming also had a lot of battlefield experience, they took turns to transfer some tired troops, threw the fresh army on, and the withdrawn people drank water and rested cross-legged not far from the battlefield, and in the evening, the siege was unabated, and the soldiers of the forbidden army were also tired and injured to the extreme.

Originally, when they saw their wounded comrades on the battlefield, the soldiers of the forbidden army would cooperate with each other, use long guards and shields to block the enemy, and then drag the wounded robes to the center of the circle.

The two sides have already been red-eyed, Li Kaiming knows that this forbidden army must be eaten, in addition to Hongdu, Jiangling, Mingzhou, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou have forbidden army garrisons, the entire Fujian Road, Jingnan, Jiangxi only have the forbidden army of the five armies in front of them, once it is eaten, the overall situation will be settled.

This Northwest man's original character was strong and resolute, and under the overall situation, he also showed his iron-blooded and cruel side.

There are also military attachés in the newly recruited Minzhuang, as long as they dare to complain about the fierce battle all day, or hesitate to retreat, Li Kaiming will order all to be beheaded!

If you can't retreat, if you can't fight, you will be beheaded!

Flee from the battle, reflexively retreat, beheaded!

Those who complain and shake the hearts of the army will be beheaded!

Even if he had already won a complete victory against the Xiang army and forced King Zhao to flee, Li Kaiming did not have the slightest sense of pride. What is it to run a waste prince, as long as the forbidden army is there, it is like a thorn in the back, and I can't feel at ease!

At dusk, Li Kaiming climbed the high slope, and the man in the blue robe began to beat the drums to help the battle.

Liu Maoqi and other generals led elite personal guards, held a long guard, and personally went to the front to engage the officers and soldiers.

Liu Maoqi's breath is well-proportioned, when he is in his hand, he is calm and calm, but his movements are extremely violent, like a fire on the battlefield, everyone is melted by it, even if he is the strongest soldier of the forbidden army, no one is his enemy.

Around it formed a hundred or so arrows array, are courage and combat skills for the best of the thieves, although it is not as long as the forbidden army in the array, but several people in a team, shields and long guards, horizontal knives to cooperate, and not afraid of death and injury, the forbidden army under its attack, soon was also broken through several large arrays, the soldiers have fallen into their own melee struggle.

"Don't do anything." Liu Guangsi, who has always been known for his unruly and old qualifications, also lamented at this time, and then to everyone's surprise, surrounded by his own guards, he didn't care about the rest of the generals, rushed out of the encirclement, and fled directly.

The thief cavalry guarding not far away immediately chased after him, but behind Liu Guangsi, thousands of soldiers of the forbidden army and several generals of the army all let out unwilling roars.

The rest of the generals did not have the opportunity to find a gap to stand out, but everyone did not expect that at the last moment, the one who made up his mind to abandon his subordinates and flee was actually Liu Guangsi, who had white hair, always liked to brag and put on old qualifications, and considered himself a strong general......

In the roar and scolding, Liu Guangsi and more than ten elite horsemen galloped towards the southeast, their horses were much better than the horses of the Liukou, and did not run in the fierce battle all day, at this time let go of the four hooves, flipped away, actually threw off the chasing horse in a short time, and soon fled without a trace.

Behind Liu Guangsi, the array of the forbidden army began to collapse, the circle collapsed, countless thieves rushed in, the horizontal knife ring sword, the iron spear and the forked halberd were dense like a forest, the archers and knives of the forbidden army were squeezed together, and there were already military attachés who died one after another, everyone knew that the general trend had gone, not only was the defeat predetermined, but now these thousands of forbidden troops could escape, I am afraid that there are very few.