Li Guo, the main general, looked at the pale and pale faces of these defeated soldiers almost hopelessly, and his heart hurt like a knife, and he couldn't help but stomp his foot and let out a long sigh.

Now that the battle has collapsed, even though I am the main general, what can I do to save the situation.

The current plan is to retreat the whole army, and one can be saved.

Li Guo deserved to be a veteran of the battlefield, in the face of such an unfavorable situation, he gritted his teeth and remained silent, tried to control the ups and downs in his heart, and gave the order to retreat in a deep voice.

"Chuan Ben ordered the general to immediately sound the gold, order the whole army to retreat, we must highlight the Tang army as soon as possible, withdraw from Tongguan as soon as possible, and the whole army retreat to Huazhou along the Weishui!"

"Order!"

Li Guo ordered the party, and Wang Guangxing, who was Nanzhang Bo on the side, hurriedly said: "Hao Hou, now the Tang army is following our army into the Tong Pass, if you only blindly retreat, the Tang army will cover up, I am afraid that not only the Tong Pass will be difficult to defend, but the soldiers and horses will also be lost!" ”

Li Guo glanced at him: "What does Nantong Bo mean?" ”

Wang Guangxing gritted his teeth, and then arched his hand and said: "Hao Hou, since he started his army with King Chuang, he has been deeply favored by the country, and he has no way to repay him, and he is willing to lead 5,000 foot soldiers and all the young men to stay in Tongguan, and try his best to intercept and kill the Tang army, so as to ensure that Hao Hou and a group of soldiers can retreat smoothly!" ”

Wang Guangxing's impassioned statement made Li Guo's heart tremble.

"Uncle Nantong, you lead your troops to guard the pass, it can be described as nine deaths, how can Ben leave you in such a dangerous situation, or let Ben Hou lead from the back of the palace and try to ensure that you retreat......"

"Nope! No way! Haohou, you are the emperor's confidant and the commander of the army, you must not be lost! Please retreat first, and the general will lead the remaining troops to intercept and kill after the break, and he will be able to escape from the danger! Wang Guangxing looked hideous and categorically rejected Li Guo's arrangement.

"Wang Guangxing! Why don't you listen to ......"

Before Li Guo finished speaking, Wang Guangxing had already waved his hand to interrupt his words, and shouted at the soldiers and horses next to him: "Everyone listen to the order!" And with the general intercepting the cavalry of the Tang Army here, we must try our best to ensure the smooth withdrawal of the Duke of Yasukuni! Do you understand! ”

"Order!"

Seeing that Wang Guangxing resolutely broke off without saying anything, and led the soldiers and horses left behind to resist desperately for himself, Li Guo's heart was very complicated, he had tears in his eyes, his throat surged, but he couldn't say anything more.

He let out a long sigh and patted Wang Guangxing's shoulder hard, which was the last consolation. Wang Guangxing threw his hand at him and turned around.

Li Guo, who had a worried face, finally glanced at Wang Guangxing's figure and turned away, and without saying much, he slammed the horse's belly with a long shout, and accelerated his retreat from Tongguan with more than 100 elite guards.

Mingjin made a loud noise, Li Guo was escorted by more than 100 elite cavalry, and more than 1,000 cavalry followed, guarding Li Guo tightly, and a group of people came out of the west gate of Tongguan and fled westward.

The commander fled, and a large number of defenders in Tongguan were not far behind, and they also fled with them, for fear that they would fall behind a little.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Shun army who returned from the battlefield were all like hearing the amnesty, and everyone's faces were full of desire to live, and they all used their strength to eat, spread their feet and ran backwards as best they could, hoping to keep up with the pace of the commander's escape.

And behind them, the spearmen and cavalry of the Tang Army are still following them, chasing and killing.

Such a one-sided battle to hunt down the remnants of the enemy is simply the happiest thing in the world.

As far as the eye can see, the entire eastern part of Tongguan City has become a Shura field for the Tang army to drill and kill, countless enemy soldiers were either stabbed to death by spears or hacked to death by sabers, and the flesh and blood on the entire battlefield were blurred, and the screams were repeated.

The two cavalry that were the assault arrows of the Tang army kept going all the way, like two large and sharp black arrows, wanting to pass through Tongguan and chase Li Guo's cavalry team that was the first to retreat, in order to encircle and annihilate them.

Of course, along the way, for the enemy infantry who fled on both sides, those Tang cavalry with complete armor and sharp knives and guns, of course, would not give them a chance to escape. They were like the Grim Reaper chasing their lives, slashing and slaying down the routs who fled in wailing along the way.

"Quick! Drop the jack gate! Hugh has to let the Tang army enter the customs smoothly! ”

At this time, Wang Guangxing, who was already the main general at the head of the city, saw that the Tang army's pursuers had entered the pass with the defeated troops, and he was immediately anxious and gave orders one after another.

The defenders above hurriedly pulled the rusty chain and pulled the winch hard, trying to pull down the jack gate and cut off the Tang army's entry into the pass.

The iron chain creaked up, the winch rattled and wrenched, the jack gate was put down by the defenders little by little, the dust splashed at the east gate of the entire Tongguan, and the bluestone gate weighing more than 1,000 catties was exposed from the top of the city pass and kept going down.

When the soldiers of the Tang Army saw that the jack gate was about to fall, they were also anxious, and they quickened their pace, and immediately chased after them from the city wall, trying to prevent the jack gate from falling as much as possible.

"Whoosh 。。。。。。"

At this time, the Shun army at the head of the city, in order to prevent the Tang army from attacking, began to shoot arrows down like crazy.

The Shun army's close-range shooting was extremely lethal, and some of the Tang soldiers who were attacking with death force were unable to dodge, and they were hit by arrows, killed or wounded, and fell to the ground screaming.

"Bang 。。。。。。"

When the Shun army began to release arrows, outside the east gate of Tongguan, the Lu Mi guns of the Tang army also began to shoot fire guns at the head of the east gate, hoping to suppress the Shun army who were shooting arrows frantically at the head of the city in this way, and relieve a little pressure on the Tang army besieging the city.

The situation was very tense, and two of the Lu Mi gunners who kept firing were panicked and stuffed gunpowder twice in a row, but the guns exploded and died on the spot.

It's just that, although their companions are dying next to them, the remaining Lu Mi Gunners still don't dare to slack off. Because everyone knows that at this moment of urgency, the slightest slackness can cause extremely serious consequences.

Due to the large number of Tang army gunners and the extremely fierce firepower, the Shun archers at the head of the city were quickly suppressed, and it was almost difficult to continue firing.

Once the enemy archers were suppressed, the morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted, and hundreds of spearmen who attacked Tongguan rushed all the way to kill, and soon attacked the city wall, and rushed to the enemy army who was working hard to lower the jack gate.

Seeing the Tang army attacking the city, Wang Guangxing's face was already as pale as earth.

At this time, he had no choice but to order his subordinates to immediately meet the attacking Tang army spearmen, and ordered another part of his subordinates to step up the lowering of the jack gate.

Seeing that the enemy army was stubbornly resisting, the spearmen who attacked the city became more and more courageous, and everyone had a stainless steel spear in their hands, dancing like a pear blossom, stabbing towards the enemy army on the opposite side, the guns and guns saw blood, and the offensive was extremely fierce, and the defenders on the opposite side who were demoralized could not resist at all, and the Tang army soon gained the upper hand.

At this point in the battle, both sides had no way to retreat, so they had to fight to the death. Throughout the vicinity of the East Gate, there was like a mill of blood and human flesh, shouts and scolding came and went, and the surging blood flowed all over the streets near the city wall and the city gate, flowing slowly in all directions. The Tang army and the Shun army fought to the death, full of endless hatred for each other, only hated to eat each other alive, but in the end, the corpses of both sides were intertwined in one place, and blood flowed together.

"Brothers! You must kill the Tang army! ”

Wang Guangxing danced with a big knife in his hand, and personally went into battle to fight, his face was splashed with blood, like a hideous ghost, but he still took the time to cheer up all his subordinates who were fighting endlessly.

It's just that Rao is shouting like this, but the response below is Liao Liao, which shows how low morale is. What is even more tragic is that the defenders at the head of the city are still struggling to resist, and those young men who have been captured have already taken advantage of the fierce battle between the two sides, and most of them have fled without a trace, and no one can be found at all.

At this time, Wang Guangxing had an indescribable sadness in his heart.

It's just that he didn't have time to be more sentimental, and a sharp spear was already whistling.

The sharp spear, like a poisonous snake that flew into it, pierced his throat at once, and the sharp head of the spear pierced through the back of his neck.

Wang Guangxing's shouting stopped abruptly, his eyes widened, his mouth snorted, and he subconsciously grasped the cold handle of the gun, as if he wanted to pull it out of his throat.

And the Tang army spearman on the opposite side who took his life, sneered, shook his right hand, and quickly pulled out the spear, and a terrible hole appeared in Wang Guangguang's throat, and blood spurted out wildly.

This Nan Zhangbo, who was desperately loyal to Dashun, fell silently on his back like a stake, smashing up a large piece of sticky blood and mud, and never moved again.

When he fell to the ground, he could feel his life disappearing like flowing water, his whole body was rapidly becoming lighter, and his consciousness began to blur.

Decades of life, with a flick of a finger, it is like a dream.

King Chuang, I have been loyal to the country since I started my army with you, so let my brother take the first step here.

A snow-bright waist knife slashed and cut off Wang Guangxing's head in one fell swoop.

"Surrender quickly, you can avoid death!"

The Tang spearman who had beheaded Wang Guangxing, holding Wang Guangxing's bloody head high, roared hoarsely at the almost frightened defenders.

At this time, the defenders of the city had been surrounded by more and more Tang troops, and they were already suffering from the enemy on their backs, and they were greatly demoralized by the loss of their main generals.

A handful of enemy soldiers began to break through and flee urgently, while many more of the defenders howled loudly and threw their weapons on the spot, raising their hands and begging for mercy.

It's just that in this chaotic battlefield, the scattered enemy army is extremely difficult to control, and the Tang army is eager to pursue and fight, and it simply has no ability and time to collect the prisoners, so those red-eyed Tang army spearmen and shield soldiers still roar like beasts, mercilessly trying to kill all the remaining Shun soldiers.

In the end, the Shun army, which had less than 20 soldiers, fought to the death to get out of the encirclement, saved their lives very luckily, escaped, disappeared on the edge of the battlefield, and disappeared without a trace.

The rest of the nearly 1,000 defenders at the head of the city were all killed neatly by the wolf-like Tang soldiers on this battlefield like a Shura slaughterhouse.

Fortunately, Tian Wei, the commander of the Tang Army, judged the situation and issued an order to accept the surrender of the enemy army when the city was completely taken, and the remaining more than 3,000 enemy soldiers were able to survive.

At this point, the entire Tongguan finally fell into the hands of the Tang army, and the Tang army opened the west gate of Tongguan and pursued Li Guo's headquarters quickly.

These cavalry of the Tang Army, despite their hard work, still maintained a two-part flanking formation, and rushed towards Li Guo's soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry, wanting to follow them and chase them fiercely.

The horse's hooves rumbled, people shouted and the horses neighed, and the Tang cavalry chased wildly all the way, and finally caught up with the tens of thousands of infantry who followed Li Guo to escape in less than half an hour.

Li Guobu's infantry, which was originally fleeing in panic and was already out of breath, immediately collapsed completely under the combined attack of the cavalry in which the Tang army had absolute superiority.

At this point, the entire vast wilderness, the entire south bank of the Wei River, has become a place for the Tang cavalry to slaughter to their heart's content, and the Shun army infantry who fled all over the slopes are like cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs frantically fleeing for their lives, appointing the Tang army to chase and kill and hack to death, and there is no possibility of saving their lives at all.

What's even more terrifying is that in such a scattered rout, even if there were sporadic Shun soldiers who wanted to surrender, they were immediately killed by the red-eyed Tang soldiers, cut or stabbed, and killed on the spot, without mercy.

It's just that the two-legged infantry, how can they outrun the four-legged cavalry, in the end, about 23,000 people, all retreats were cut off by the Tang cavalry, and they were about to be surrounded and killed.

Of course, this group of people understood their fate, and they knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowing in the face of the cold blades of the Tang army approaching more and more, and begging for surrender.

In the end, it was Tian Wei, the commander of the Tang Army, who gave the order to stop the killing, and accepted the surrender of the 23,000 Shun soldiers, and the whole battle finally ended.

So far, the total number of more than 60,000 people of the Shun army guarding the pass, plus the previous surrender of more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Tongguan, only about 28,000 people surrendered and escaped with their lives, the rest of the more than 30,000 people were slaughtered by the Tang army, the whole battlefield, corpses are all over the field, blood is flowing all over the ground, dead people and dead horses are all over the ground, at a glance, shocking.

What's even more terrifying is that the blood that overflows everywhere has merged into a red river of blood. This long and winding river of blood, winding and long, is red and dazzling, making people's hearts palpitate.

And on this bloody and terrifying battlefield, the continuous cheers of the Tang army were already like rolling spring thunder, resounding throughout the field.

And Li Guo, who led more than 1,000 cavalry to flee in a hurry, heard the distant cheers from behind, and the sadness in his heart was difficult to describe in words.

, Tongguan is lost, 60,000 soldiers are almost lost, and I am still being chased to death like a lost dog, this battle is simply a nightmare that I can't believe!

Li Guo suddenly thought sadly, now that he has lost his army and lost his generals, and he has lost the Tongguan Pass, even if he escapes back to Huazhou, what can he do.

Thinking of this, he let out a long sigh and shouted to his subordinates: "Pass on my order, our army has lost its soldiers and horses, and it is useless to retreat to Huazhou, so the whole army will follow me to Xi'an, and then listen to the emperor's arrangement." ”

"Order!"

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