Zuo Liangyu's Chinese army suddenly completely stood out under the Xingtian Army's soldiers, when he saw that the war had reached such a point, Zuo Liangyu no longer had the courage to persist here, in order to prevent his Chinese army from being surrounded by the Xingtian Army, he had to order the whole line to begin to shrink, trying to draw the battle line with the left wing soldiers who had not yet collapsed, slowly withdrew from the battlefield, and the Xingtian Army broke away from the battle, but how could the Xingtian Army let him get his wish, at this time Xiao Tianjian ordered some of the soldiers and horses of the reserve battalion in the army to leave the main formation, Swam to the two wings to take over the main force to pursue the routed officers and troops, while he gathered the main force of soldiers and horses, waved his division and rushed towards Zuo Liangyu's headquarters soldiers and horses.

This time Zuo Liangyu couldn't hold on any longer, he had never seen such a strong thief army as the Xingtian Army, not to mention that the bird guns in their hands were extremely sharp, but even their gunners were like crazy people, pushing the cannons and always insisting on the front line, almost wanting to put the cannon against their noses and fire, and the cannon of the thief army had a long range and fast rate of fire, so that he only had the ability to parry, and had no power to fight back.

Seeing that the Xingtian Army was about to be pasted, Zuo Liangyu ordered Liu Guoneng to take his place and resist the offensive of the Xingtian Army, but how could Liu Guoneng stop the Xingtian Army, just one face, it was scattered by Liu Yaoben's iron battalion, at this time Zuo Liangyu found that his army had been divided by the Xingtian Army on the battlefield, and the entire dispatch had begun to fail.

From the very beginning, the Xingtian Army lured him to come here to fight, in fact, it was a deception, the Xingtian Army hid its strength, and did not fight for several days, not because he was afraid of him, but waiting for him and his officers and soldiers to become proud soldiers, relax their vigilance, and the whole army went to war, and then concentrated his strength, and defeated him in a battle, and now he really realized the feelings of those colleagues who were defeated under the Xingtian Army, the ferocity of the Xingtian Army has exceeded their cognition, and the method of formation battle they used is far beyond their understanding, In addition, these officers and soldiers under his command did not all obey his orders, once the war started, he was defeated by the Xingtian Army, which caused chaos among the soldiers and horses under his command, and then concentrated the elite and only chased him and beat him fiercely, and the Xingtian Army had only one purpose, that is, to completely solve his group of officers and soldiers here.

With this understanding, Zuo Liangyu didn't dare to delay here anymore, and immediately ordered a retreat, and abandoned their big camp in Gaoyang Town, and retreated directly in the direction of Taikang.

As soon as the generals under Zuo Liangyu's command heard this order, they all seemed to have oil on the soles of their feet, and they all beckoned their subordinates to evacuate the battlefield, and wrapped themselves together as much as possible to follow Zuo Liangyu to evacuate the battlefield.

But how could Xiao Tianjian let him get his wish, as soon as Zuo Liangyu moved, he and Li Jinde both realized that Zuo Liangyu was going to leave some of the officers and troops to flee the battlefield, so he immediately ordered all the reserve battalions to leave the main army barracks, and each chose a routed officer army to pursue, while he directly commanded several main army camps, gave up the scattered officers and troops around, and chased Zuo Liangyu's main force.

At this time, the two sides on the entire battlefield have been staggered together, so the Xingtian Army has taken the battalion as a unit, and still maintains the basic combat units have not dispersed, while the official army has already been chaotic under the repeated hammering of the Xingtian Army, many of the soldiers have not been able to find their main generals, and there are also many main generals who have taken a few family members out of the battlefield and fled for their lives alone, so there are formed Xingtian troops to deal with the officers and troops who have lost their formation, whether they are the main force or not, just reserve battalions, It's enough for the officers and the army to see it.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian gave the order, the various departments began to act according to the order, and the soldiers and horses of the reserve battalion that had originally cooperated with the war battalion broke away from the battle line at this time, and rushed towards the gathered piles of officers and soldiers, while the main force immediately converged together and rushed towards Zuo Liangyu's main force along the Tiedi River.

Zuo Liangyu is so panicked at this time! While constantly sending people to the rear of the palace, trying to delay the pursuit of the Heavenly Army, he kept ordering to speed up the speed of escaping from the battlefield, and he couldn't take care of any baggage and grain, and threw away what he could throw on the spot, even the women who rushed into the camp during this time didn't take care of it, and threw it directly in the camp, and even some soldiers didn't even care about the armor, and while running, they took off the armor on their bodies and threw it to the side of the road, just to run faster, and quickly stay away from the fierce and vicious thieves behind them.

However, Zuo Liangyu's various efforts did not have an effect, he sent the soldiers and horses of the palace, and in the face of the swarming soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, almost all of them collapsed on the spot like rolling soup and pouring snow, basically did not have the speed of delaying the Xingtian Army to pursue them, and a large number of soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army, under the leadership of Xiao Tianjian, chased each other fiercely, and chased forward, as if they were in a game, just afraid that they would not get credit for this battle.

Seeing that the sky was dark, Xiao Tianjian ordered to stop the pursuit, gathered the soldiers and horses to count the losses, and Zuo Liangyu led a group of remnants of the defeated generals like frightened birds, and continued to run along the Tiedi River with a black light and a shallow foot, which gradually opened the distance between him and the Xingtian Army.

Zuo Liangyu led his troops to flee for most of the night, before he ordered to stop, and sent people to scatter to the left and right overnight, gathering the remnants of the soldiers who had left the battlefield, wanting to recover some losses as much as possible.

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers at the beginning of the war, after a day of fierce fighting, there were less than 5,000 soldiers left who were still with Zuo Liangyu, and the rest were either annihilated on the spot by the Xingtian Army, or scattered and fled, and the army was already not an army, when Zuo Liangyu ordered to stop, many officers and soldiers were almost planted on the ground, panting heavily, one by one like a broken bellows, just wanted to cut off their breath and pull it down, at this time, they found that they didn't even stutter, In order to escape for their lives, they lost almost everything they could lose, many of the soldiers even lost their weapons directly, but now they became a group of bare-handed homeless people, and even the homeless army can't compare, Zuo Liangyu can't wait to smoke a few big mouths of himself, he knew this, he didn't lead the troops to rush to Qixian County, although the thieves ran harder along the way, at least they relied on robbing along the way, they were also considered to have food, drink and women, and they lived a comfortable life, but he wanted to make a great contribution, The result is not only not to get half of the credit, but to his old book almost folded here, now he found out that in order to escape, his own general guard seal was actually lost, the seal officer on the way to escape, I don't know whether he was caught up and killed by the thief army, or took advantage of the chaos to escape with the big seal, in short, at this time he Zuo Liangyu actually became a general soldier who didn't even have a big seal, this time the joke was big.

Finally, Zuo Liangyu survived this night, as soon as the sky was bright, he beckoned the soldiers to get up quickly, and then hurried in the direction of Taikang, and the thief army of the province caught up after dawn.

But yesterday after a day of fierce fighting, followed by a wolf rushing for their lives, a day and a night, these officers and soldiers did not eat a mouthful of water and rice, and where did they have the strength to continue running! Although drinking water is not a problem, but eating can be a big trouble, the eastern part of Henan has suffered from military disasters over the years, the people of ten miles and eight townships have either been killed, or starved to death, and the living have fled, and many people have simply been coerced by the exile army, becoming a righteous army, within a radius of dozens of miles, there are almost no people's villages, Zuo Liangyu with these more than 5,000 remnants of the defeated generals, even if they want to grab food to eat, there is no place to rob it, so they can only struggle on the road with their legs fluttering.

But before they could assemble and continue on their way, they saw a large cloud of dust raised in the far west, and then someone felt a slight tremor on the ground, as experienced generals, these officers and soldiers immediately changed their faces, and everyone knew what it meant, only to hear someone shouting bitterly: "Oh no! The thief cavalry is coming! Run! ”

The 5,000 officers and soldiers were immediately like a hornet that exploded the nest and was completely messed up, and there were not many people who ran away with Zuo Liangyu anymore, and everyone rushed in all directions.

Zuo Liangyu couldn't put it away even if he wanted to collect his soldiers and horses, and after a while, he saw a sentry cavalry appear on the horizon, killing them fiercely.

Poor Zuo Liangyu was still vigorous when he came, and when he ran to Taikang County, there were only less than 500 soldiers left around him, and tens of thousands of troops collapsed in Qixian County under the offensive of the Xingtian Army, and a large number of officers and soldiers surrendered directly on the battlefield Xingtian Army, and the rest even if they did not surrender, they were scattered to the people on the spot.

In this battle, Xiao Tianjian led the army to be said to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army, and really let the generals fight happily, and completely defeated the official army led by Zuo Liangyu in Qixian County, the only regret is that Zuo Liangyu was not killed here in this battle, so he ran away.

For this reason, Situ Liang, who was responsible for chasing and intercepting Zuo Liangyu, was frustrated, when he led the troops to kill near the remnants of Zuo Liangyu, the soldiers and horses under Zuo Liangyu had been dispersed, and Zuo Liangyu did not even fight the banner, so that he could not find Zuo Liangyu for a while, although he led his troops to cover up and slaughter a lot of Zuo Liangyu's remaining soldiers and horses, but in the end he let Zuo Liangyu escape his pursuit one step in advance, and when he cleaned up the battlefield afterwards, he did not find Zuo Liangyu's body, so that Situ Liang beat his chest and paused.

However, at this moment of the battle, Xiao Tianjian was no longer able to continue to attack in eastern Henan, although Kaifeng City was less than a hundred miles northwest of them, but he still chose to lead his troops to start carrying the capture and embarked on the road back to western Henan.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian gave up continuing to attack in eastern Henan in this situation is because the area in eastern Henan is already dilapidated, although they can obtain some grain by capturing the county seat and Zhuangbao, but it is far from meeting their needs, and they have been fighting for more than a month, and the consumption of grain and ammunition in the army is huge, and after the battle of Qixian, the gunpowder in the army has basically run out, and it is impossible to support them to attack Kaifeng City again.

Originally, according to the opinions of Li Jinde and Li Xin, they both thought that if Xiao Tianjian could lead his troops to besiege Kaifeng City at this time, it would be more beneficial for their future war, and they could attract back some of the officers and troops gathered in Luoyang by besieging Kaifeng Mansion, so that the next step would create better conditions for them to concentrate their forces to attack Luoyang City.

However, after thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian did not adopt their opinions, and only agreed to lead his troops to pass outside the city of Kaifeng Mansion, and show their prestige to Kaifeng Mansion by the way, after all, most of the current army are newly surrendered officers and soldiers, if this batch of surrendered troops is not placed as soon as possible, these surrendered soldiers will either fall into the grass and become a scourge, or they will return to the hands of the government and act as their lackeys, and he Xiao Tianjian is not a famous general of the pre-Qin Dynasty, it is impossible to simply dig a pit and bury the 20,000 surrendered soldiers alive on the spot. Therefore, maintaining the food and drink of the tens of thousands of people who are now following him has become a big problem, and he must return to Ruzhou as soon as possible to get food supplements before he can continue the next strategic action.

So tens of thousands of Xingtian army and officers and soldiers surrendered, after the end of the battle of Qixian, quickly demolished the city wall of Qixian County, and turned to the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, the provincial government sent people here to receive the county, and then they came again to fight another battle, and at this time the grain in their army was basically close to the bottom, as a last resort, Xiao Tianjian personally ordered, since he fell, all the soldiers' rations were halved every day, and strive to hit a few more large forts on the road, supplement, Return to the territory of the Xingtian Army to replenish supplies.