Chapter 71: Jia Wen and the Night Battle of the Lantern Wusun Kingdom had no choice but to retreat

Only a cup of tea time, Chi Xingmi led the army to arrive outside the front camp of Jia Xu's army, because Jia Xu's front camp was quite large, so Chi Xingmi also extinguished the idea of besieging the camp, and was ready to win from the front!

In order to win the battle this time, Chi Xingmi let the Wusun army take the lead directly, and when attacking Jia Xu's camp, Chi Xingmi's Wusun army encountered strong resistance, but it was Jia Xu and Gan Ning who led the Chinese army to strongly resist Chi Xingmi's attack in front of the camp!

Chi Xingmi commanded the army to attack continuously for an hour, breaking through the outer defense of the camp several times, but was beaten out again and again by the army led by Gan Ning and Zahemu! The attack continued for an hour, and finally Chi Xing Mingjin, all the army of the Wusun Kingdom retreated like a tide!

In just one hour of offensive and defensive battles, Chi Xingmi's army lost 4,000 soldiers, while the Shence army also lost 2,000 soldiers, these two thousand soldiers were elite soldiers, not young men who were recruited.

I didn't know whether to rest or renegotiate the offensive strategy, and half an hour later, the mighty army of Wusun Kingdom attacked the front army camp again.

Without encountering the slightest obstacle, the Wusun army directly broke through the protection of the former army camp and directly rushed into the front army camp, which Chi Xingmi was quite surprised.

It's just that some guards came to report that they found Liu Beijun retreating in a hurry in the former camp, and a lot of grain and grass were not taken away.

It turned out that just as Chi Xingmi's withdrawal was resting, Gan Ning led the remaining Shence army to retreat quietly, and once again withdrew to the rear army camp, leaving a dilapidated front army camp.

At the same time, Chi Xingmi hurriedly ordered the army to form a whole team, directly attack the rear army camp, and personally led the remaining army to rush to the front army camp.

As soon as the order was conveyed to the forward army, the front army led by Chi Xingmi had just stepped into the camp, and countless rockets flew in the air.

Seeing these whirling rockets, Chi Xingmi was thinking about the report of the Taoist guards, and hurriedly fled, but the grain and grass were scattered all over the place without having time to take them away. At that moment, Chi Xingmi almost couldn't sit firmly on the horse, but fortunately, his own soldiers quickly helped him.

"Quick, quick, order all the soldiers, retreat, and withdraw from the camp of Jia Xu." The order was hurriedly issued, but the order was as fast as the rain of arrows speeding in the sky. In just an instant, the rockets were shot at the flammable materials.

A raging fire broke out in an instant, and the Wusun army in the camp tent scrambled to the outside of the camp, and at this moment there were nearly 50,000 troops in the front army camp. All the soldiers rushed to all directions, wailing incessantly, but at this time, the Guards, Xiaoguo, and Shence were all holding in three directions, except for the retreat.

Acting like this, but it was also arranged by Jia Xu a long time ago, using the defeated army to attack Chi Xingmi's main formation. Moreover, the Wusun army, which was frightened by the fire, rushed to the rear army after trying to attack the other three sides to no avail.

And Chi Xingmi, who is not the general of Wusun State, quickly separated the Chinese army, let the defeated army pass through the center of the Chinese army, and did a good job of defense to prevent Jia Xu from leading the army to attack the rear army of the Wusun army.

However, Jia Xu did not prepare to attack Chi Xingmi, but only guarded the three directions of the former army camp and did not let a single defeated soldier pass, and the wailing gradually subsided after this fire lasted for a full hour. The entire former army camp was completely reduced to ashes.

However, Chi Xingmi had already counted all the casualty data, and there were more than 20,000 people in the Jia Xu camp who could not escape, and half of the soldiers who escaped were injured, and thousands of people were seriously injured. Burns were a more dangerous disease in those days, and in the age of antibiotics, widespread burns meant death, and these thousands of seriously injured soldiers had to sit and wait for death.

There was constant wailing in the camp, but now the bigger problem was not the injury but the Jia Xu army on the periphery, at this time Jia Xu had already lit all the torches, and only then did Chi Xingmi see the true face of the entire Jia Xu army.

There was a scribe sitting in front of the camp of the Chinese army, and the scribe was holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, and the soldiers next to him put the torch close to the bamboo slips, as if they were afraid that the scribe would not be able to read the words on the bamboo slips. However, the soldiers around the scribe did not dare to make any sound, as if they were afraid that their own sound would disturb the scribe's reading.

Chi Xingmi looked at this scribe and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, at this time, he already knew that this scribe must be Jia Xu. Previously, Chi Xingmi would have a thousand words to say to Jia Xu after he won, but at this moment, there was no words to express his heart. But after this defeat, he still has the ability to fight, so he doesn't plan to stop.

"On the other side, it's Jia Xu, the military commander of the Western Regions who protects Liu Bei, Jia Wenhe?" Chi Xingmi was the first to ask.

Hearing this, Jia Xu put down the bamboo slip in his hand, then glanced at Chi Xingmi, then picked up the bamboo slip again, and said slowly: "You can fight again with the whole army, I am waiting for you here." ”

An understatement, but all the thoughts of Chi Xingmi's preparation to speak inwardly were extinguished. At this time, the mountains shook for a while, and I saw a cavalry galloping in the distance, and when he walked in, Chi Xingmi looked at it, in addition to the "Han" character flag hanging, there was also a slightly smaller "Zhang" character flag, in combination with his own intelligence, who is this army not Zhang Ren's black cavalry.

Originally, there were nearly 50,000 troops around Jia Xu, and at this moment, with Zhang Ren's joining, the entire Jia Xu group had almost 60,000 troops, and although his own 120,000 troops were killed and 30,000, 10,000 were injured, and the real combat power was only about 80,000 troops, which was equivalent to Jia Xu's strength, unless the 40,000 troops of the Dragon War were combined, but Jia Xu could still gather the 30,000 troops and 10,000 leopard Tao troops in Shule City, so that there were nearly 100,000 troops, and he was not sure of victory.

As far as the Wusun army is concerned, it has to retreat at this moment, not to mention that the morale of its own soldiers is low at this moment, and its own army is not sure of victory, and more importantly, through this fire, Chi Xingmi doesn't know if Jia Xu has other preparations, and seeing that Jia Xu is confident at the moment, Chi Xingmi's heart is constantly drumming.

After thinking about it for a long time, in desperation, Chi Xingmi ordered the withdrawal of the troops, and all the armies of the alliance began to withdraw in an orderly manner, and Jia Xu did not lead the army to catch up.

Seeing the retreat of the coalition army, Jia Xu led people to clean up the whole army camp overnight, while the pro-guard army and the black cavalry army kept wandering around the periphery! And Jia Xu looked up at the northern sky outside the big tent, and the real war was not in Shule, but in Wusun.

After this time, although the alliance of all countries damaged 80,000 soldiers and horses, the main force still exists, and it can still fight with Shule, and Wusun is still the focus of this decisive battle, only if Wusun retreats, this battle can be won!

And at this moment, Long Zhan has already led an army of 40,000 to evacuate from outside Shule City, since Chi Xingmi has withdrawn his army, then Long Zhan is just a dish in Jia Xu's mouth!

For Shule, the whole war has entered the stage of strategic stalemate from the strategic defensive stage to the present, and the next thing is to wait for the opportunity to start a strategic counteroffensive!

Seeing the alliance of all countries gathered in one place, Chi Xingmi felt a little comforted in his heart, after a few days of fighting, the alliance of all countries directly shrank to less than 150,000, and among them, the Qiuzi country and the Wusun country suffered the greatest losses!

At this time, in the territory of Wusun State, when the monarch of Wusun State learned that the right general was defeated and fell, he was full of shock, and then got the news that after Liu Bei's army drove a circle of several tribes to the east, he rode a horse to the north, and the entire east and north were restless by Liu Bei, and Zhao Yun was a heavy cavalry, so the Wusun people rode away and Zhao Yun couldn't catch up, so he focused on rescuing the enslaved people of all ethnic groups! In just two or three days, another three or four thousand people were rescued, and the entire slave army grew by nearly a thousand!

And, due to the death of the right general in Wusun Kingdom, there was no suitable general to lead the troops for a while, and in desperation, the monarch of Wusun Kingdom could only rush Chi Xingmi back as soon as possible for 800 miles to annihilate Liu Bei!

This order finally reached Chi Xingmi's military tent two days later, knowing that the domestic situation was so tense, Chi Xingmi was also in a dilemma, because if Wusun retreated at this time, then Gumo Kingdom, Qiuzi Kingdom, and Yanqi Kingdom were equivalent to giving them to Liu Bei!

But if you don't withdraw now, maybe Wusun will be made into something by Liu Bei! In the end, under the pressure of the situation and the monarch's orders, Chi Xingmi prepared to withdraw his troops!