On the day of October 14, the valley on the southeast bank of Fenshui was exceptionally quiet.

The Liang army raided and captured the two cities of Quwo and Jiangxian, and relied on the two cities and the remnants of the enemy's abandoned camp to consolidate the defense line non-stop, so that tens of thousands of defeated enemies could be besieged between Jiangxian, Yuhe, Fenshui and Xiangshan and then calmly eaten.

However, the problem lies in the fact that many of the camps built by the Mongol army before were mainly distributed in echelons facing the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain, in order to prevent the Liang army from advancing from the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain to the banks of the Fenshui River.

These camps are coherent and quite thick horizontally, but they are very thin vertically, leaving a gap for the enemy to flee north vertically in Jiangxian and Quwo.

The scattered Mongol army east of Jiangxian County gathered in the area of Linjiang County and Quwo in the west of Anyi and Wenxi counties throughout the day—not to mention the military generals and officers, the families of those soldiers were not in the Fenshui River valley basin, and when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, who did not want to return to their homeland, but were willing to disarm and become prisoners?

In the evening, the cold wind is cold, and the wind is dry and cold, like a knife cutting the face.

It is impossible for the Mongolian army to turn defeat into victory, its establishment has been scattered and disrupted, and even a considerable part of the men and horses have discarded their weapons and armor in order to flee for their lives.

Most of the soldiers were panicked and only thought about running for their lives, and there was no morale at all.

In such a situation, the Mongolian army did not even dare to pass through the territory of Jiangxian and Quwo during the day.

However, when night fell, instead of fighting in an open area with the high-morale Liang generals, the Mongol army stepped forward, found a gap in Jiangxian and Quwo, and fled for their lives in the direction of Yicheng in the north along the open terrain sandwiched between the Fenshui River and Taiyue Mountain, at least faster than the Liang army's foot soldiers wearing neat armor.

And the black light is blind, and it is much more difficult for the Liang army to go out of the camp at night to intercept it.

Defeat and defeat are two different concepts.

The Liang army was able to organize night battles with sentinels as units, but they did not want to suffer too many casualties under the counterattack of the Mongol cavalry, so the troops could not be further dismantled.

For the enemy army who only wants to flee for their lives, as long as there is a general direction, the escape is completely dispersed, but there is no pressure.

The difference is as big as scattering tens of thousands of pigs and intercepting, catching or killing tens of thousands of pigs within a radius of 100 miles.

At this time, Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing also gathered cavalry troops in the southern ridge of Yicheng as much as possible, preparing to respond, which further increased the difficulty and danger of the Liang army to go out of the camp at night to intercept.

At dusk, Xiao Yiqing piled firewood on the hills in the south of Yicheng and made a fire, which was used as a sign; The two generals, Xiao Siqing and Minshan, gathered together the cavalry of the descendants who had finally gathered, and directly stationed the two cities of Jiangxian and Quwo, which had the most Liang soldiers, and forced them over, and the night quickly darkened.

It was night, the weather was thin, there were only a few stars in the sky, and tens of thousands of scattered soldiers and horses, like a torrent, surging to the northwest.

Relying on the walled fortress, the Liang army scattered into the open Fenshui River valley with 30 reorganized infantry battalions to form a formation, burned hundreds of bonfires, blocked the open area with bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other combat weapons, and shot the defeated enemy who tried to pass through the territory.

But it is also undeniable that the Mongolian army is not available

The field combat ability of the elite cavalry is amazing, even after such a big rout, in just one day and one night, it was twisted into hundreds of cavalry, taking advantage of the dark night, one team after another avoided the strong camp, regardless of casualties to attack the Liang army outside the camp to intercept the position, wrapped up the foot soldiers to the northwest.

No one knows how many casualties the two armies added to each of them this night, Xiao Siqing was bloody, and when he met Lingxiyu with Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing, a touch of fish belly white just appeared in the sky.

Lingxiyu is a valley in the southern part of Yicheng County, sandwiched between two low mountain ranges, and a meandering stream flows down from the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain to the west into Fenshui.

The stream is more than ten zhang wide, full of pebbles, gurgling streams, trampled by war horses and muddy.

It is also a pity that after the winter, the rainfall in Taiyue Mountain is less, and the stream cannot be submerged to the knees, so the cavalry can directly flow through the water, and the foot soldiers who fled north can use a few improvised pontoon bridges to go north.

If the water level rises sharply in summer and autumn, most of the soldiers and horses will be stopped by this stream to the south, and then you will really want to cry without tears.

Although the first batch of cavalry who rushed through the encirclement at this time was less than a thousand people, Xiao Siqing breathed a sigh of relief.

They were cavalry, and they ran naturally fast, thinking that when the sun rose, the thousands of soldiers and horses behind would be able to withdraw, and then establish a defense against the low mountains to the north, delaying the pursuers.

Yicheng County is a key point connecting the northern part of Jinju and the western part of Zeju, but Xiao Siqing came in a hurry, and it is not clear whether Wusu Dashi has any idea of defending Yicheng, or whether he will temporarily establish a defense, and wait until the soldiers and horses withdraw to the southern foot of Mount Taiyue and Huo County in the north, and abandon the entire Jinju, including Yicheng?

"......" Xiao Siqing swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and saw Wusu Dashi and his uncle Xiao Yiqing, standing on top of the mountain rock with a grim face, he didn't know what to say when he walked over, and if he gave up Jinzhou directly, he had no way to ask directly.

This battle was fought so aggrieved that even most of the generals didn't know what was going on, so they were defeated.

Seeing that Wusu Dashi and clan uncle Xiao Yiqing turned a blind eye to his arrival, and his eyes were still firmly fixed on the southwest direction, Xiao Siqing thought that he had fled too early, and did not stay in the rear to cover the other routs fleeing north, which made them dissatisfied.

He stubbornly asked for battle and said: "The Liang army will chase after you, there is a mountain ridge in the southwest, which can block the enemy army, and a certain leader will wait there!" ”

In order to cover the northward escape of more soldiers and horses, it is necessary to have brave and warlike soldiers and horses to entangle and contain the pursuit of the Liang army.

"You came through Jiangxian and Quwo, can the cavalry of the Liang army in the two cities be dispatched?" Wu Su Dashi asked Xiao Siqing with a worried face.

"The enemy cavalry should be tired and did not set out from the city camp." Xiao Siqing said.

"No, Han Qian is not such a cautious person." Xiao Yiqing shook her head and said.

"The enemy cavalry also suffered heavy casualties the day before yesterday, and the remaining six or seven thousand horsemen who went out of the city and fought at night could not stop us." Xiao Siqing said.

This battle was too aggrieved, Xiao Siqing had many cavalry generals under him, and he even wished that Liang cavalry would go out at night, so that they could save some face, but throughout the night, except for sending foot soldiers out of the camp to block the gap, only a few cavalry remained.

Xiao Siqing thought that the cavalry of the Liang army had suffered too heavy casualties and was unwilling to use it in the chaotic night battle

, and wanted to recuperate, waiting for the dawn to cooperate with his infantry and horse infantry, and pursue their rout from behind.

In his opinion, this is also a prudent tactical choice for the Liang army to expand the results after the decisive victory.

Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing didn't ask anything more, and they also hoped for it in their hearts.

More and more deserters gathered, and there was a lot of noise between heaven and earth.

At this time, the sky is also brighter, and the peaks and ridges of the distant mountains are exposed in turn, and the birds and birds are flying above the mountains and forests in the south.

Wusu Dashi's expression suddenly changed, he took the bronze telescope from Hu Wei's hand, and looked at the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain in the southwest direction, with a tremor in his hand, almost causing the copper telescope to fall.

Xiao Siqing's eyesight was extremely strong, and he saw that more than 20 miles to the southwest, a column of soldiers and horses was turning over a hillside, and their heads came out, and the black pressure was overwhelming, like a huge wave gushing out from behind the hillside.

He also jumped in his heart, such a neat cavalry array was definitely not their soldiers and horses who fled from the southwest.

The cavalry of the Liang army did not fail to dispatch at night, but from the periphery of their northward escape route, sticking to the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain, and went around to the south of Yicheng County.

This is by no means the soldiers and horses of the Liang army entering Jiangxian and Quwo to rest, but the reinforcement cavalry transferred from other places, the purpose of which is to intercept their deserting soldiers and horses!

And looking at the direction they are traveling, they are going directly to the Meihe Ancient Road, which is thirty miles away.

Xiao Siqing's heart was cold:

From Yicheng to the east into the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, all the way to the territory of Qinhe County, in the Meihe Ancient Road and Qinshui River Valley, there are four passes, in which they are stationed hundreds to thousands of soldiers and horses.

In a short period of time, they are not worried that these four passes will be taken by the Liang army, but the problem is that this black pressure looks at the Liang army, which has as many as seven or eight thousand people, if they are asked to directly block the Meihe pass, how much time will it take them to defeat this Liang army and open the passage for the soldiers and horses to retreat east to Zezhou?

The rout fled to Yicheng and fled east through the Meihe Ancient Road, which was the fastest.

The fleeing soldiers and horses, even as long as they enter the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, can be assembled and rectified on the spot, and even can restrain the Liang army's wanton jealousy of continuing to pursue their retreating soldiers and horses in the direction of Huo County along the Fenshui River Valley.

If the passage for the eastward retreat is blocked, and the northward escape into Huo County can there be a chance to rest and recuperate, then it will be an extra distance of nearly 1560 miles.

For the hungry fleeing infantry, it would take at least three or four days to cover one hundred and fifty or sixty miles.

And in the past three or four days, they hastily gathered more than 10,000 cavalry, can they really stop the main force of tens of thousands of Liang army's infantry cavalry chasing north south of Yicheng County?

Thinking of this, Xiao Siqing's hands and feet were also cold.

When Wusu Dashi was panicked, he sent several teams of cavalry to the south to attack his flank, but soon saw that the Liang army divided three groups of cavalry with a size of more than 1,000 people to intercept it, and the other soldiers and horses continued to move along the low mountains and hills, quickly turning towards the direction of the Meihe Ancient Road.

Soon they got the news that in the direction of Jiangxian and Quwo, the Liang army that went out of the camp and fought at night yesterday had retreated into the city to rest, and the more than 30,000 elite Liang troops who were stationed in the camp or recuperated in the city last night were gathering out of the city one after another at this time, and they would chase and kill in the direction of Yicheng at any time......