At this time, seeing that there was no way to escape, many officers and soldiers also lost their last courage, dismounted and lost their weapons, knelt on the ground and shouted spare their lives, don't kill again, only a few soldiers escorted Zu Kuan to escape from the battlefield, but even if he fled here, Zu Kuan was also hit by two bullets, seriously injured, under the escort of several family members, desperately rushed out of the encirclement, and barely fled in the direction of the crossing bridge.

Zu Dale was leading his troops to cross the river and speed up in the direction of Yichuan, when suddenly they heard a roar like rolling thunder from the northwest direction not far from them, which immediately startled Zu Dale, and hurriedly ordered to stop the advance, and sent out the night to quickly investigate the place where the sound of artillery was heard.

It didn't take long for the night sent out to protect a few people covered in blood and ran back, Zu Kuan lay on the north of the injured horse, just returned to Zu Dale, the injured horse neighed and fell to the ground, if someone didn't rush forward to help, Zu Kuan would have been crushed under the horse.

Zu Kuan, who was pale, looked up at Zu Dale, coughed up blood and shouted, "My lord, retreat!" There is an ambush for the thief army! We've got it! ”

It would be strange if Zu Dale didn't understand what was going on at this point, after hearing Zu Kuan's words, he immediately shouted and ordered: "Quickly put General Zu down for treatment, give the order to turn around on the spot, and quickly withdraw to the bridge!" ”

The officers and soldiers who were still in high morale also realized that something had happened, and even if they wanted to understand what was going on, when they thought of the thief army setting up an ambush here, they realized that the big thing was not good, so the fear suddenly began to spread among the officers and soldiers, even if it was the Guanning Army, it was still an old-style army in the end, and they were still far behind the Xingtian Army and an army trained in modern military training.

When fighting a tailwind battle, the morale of the officers and soldiers can be very high, but once they are ambushed, even the generals of the Guanning Army, who are known as strong soldiers, are difficult to control their emotions.

In a hurry, Zu Dale didn't have time to control the generals, and suddenly the officers and soldiers were in chaos, especially those auxiliary soldiers who accompanied them, they were not well-trained elite soldiers, and they were responsible for running errands and pulling things or something, but when they learned that Zu Kuan's department in front of them was almost wiped out by the thief army in the first battle, they were immediately like bees that had blown up their nests, and they were completely chaotic, and they rushed towards the direction of the bridge.

And at this time, the battalions of the Xingtian Army that had just surrounded and annihilated Zu Kuan's department also rushed towards the direction of the ferry at a fast speed, although the difference between the two sides was not too far, but because Zu Kuan was ambushed, Zu Dale also panicked, and he lost the fighting spirit just now, and he didn't know how many ambushes the Xingtian Army had set up around him, so he just wanted to quickly retreat to the south bank of the Baijiang River and get out of this dangerous place.

As soon as they saw the various flags of the Xingtian Army on the horizon, the officers and soldiers who were already a little chaotic intensified their fear, the more they were afraid, the more they were afraid, the more accidents happened, the cavalry in order to return to the bridge as soon as possible and cross the Baijiang River, thinking that those auxiliary soldiers who were walking slowly were in the way, so they simply began to whip them and let them make way, and the auxiliary soldiers were also in a hurry to run back at this time, where would they let these Guan Ning troops go first! And so the conflict began.

Some people scolded, some screamed, and some people simply moved their knives, the Xingtian army had not yet pounced, the soldiers of the Guan Ning army first moved their own auxiliaries, the auxiliaries were definitely not the opponents of the Guan Ning army, as soon as they saw the blood, they immediately dispersed, and threw all the baggage they carried on the road, regardless of it, and the Guan Ning army bypassed these fleeing auxiliaries on horseback, and hurried towards the crossing bridge.

In short, before the war started, Zu Dale's department first messed up by himself, and was chased by the Xingtian Army in the back and fled in the direction of the bridge, and even many formations began to be confused at this point, and the soldiers couldn't find the generals, and the generals couldn't control the soldiers, so in addition to being more chaotic, Zu Dale had no way out.

The Xingtian army did not chase too quickly, so they stayed behind the officers and soldiers, slowly squeezed them towards the crossing bridge, and gradually formed a semi-circular encirclement, covering the officials and soldiers in a small area centered on the crossing bridge.

At the end of March, the river was still very cold, and under normal circumstances, people would not choose to jump into the river and wade across the river, so the officers and men rushed onto the pontoon bridge in a crowd and shouting, and from time to time some people were squeezed into the river, making the sound of falling into the water, followed by the sound of insulting each other.

But at this time, on the south bank, there was a sudden shouting and killing, only to see that a small number of auxiliaries who had been left on the south bank of the pontoon bridge suddenly ran towards the direction of the bridge with shouts.

But what they didn't expect was that at this time, a cavalry of hundreds of people suddenly arrived here, and there was almost no suspense about the officers and soldiers who stayed on the south side of the pontoon bridge, and the cavalry of the Xingtian Army almost swept to the south bank of the Baijiang River like a gust of wind, blocking the retreat of the officers and troops back to the south bank, and under the leadership of a general, the wind killed a group of officers and soldiers who had just escaped from the river, and even drove some people back to the Baijiang River.

Zu Dale's scalp was numb at this time, to be honest, he was better than Zu Kuan, at least Zu Kuan dared to fight, but he didn't have Zu Kuan's courage, don't look at the official position is wider than Zu Kuan, but once he is in adversity, he is quite unbearable.

When he saw that there were thieves on the north and south banks, he panicked, and under the escort of the family, he waved his horsewhip to disperse the soldiers blocking the road, rushed back to the bridge, and looked towards the opposite bank.

At this time, Zu Dale understood why the thief army did not ignite the bridge when he was defeated just now, it turned out that the people had dug a pit at all, just waiting for him to jump, and the fire oil splashed on the pontoon bridge was simply prepared for them at this time, only to see dozens of rockets soaring into the air in the hands of the thief army on the other side of the river, and they crossed arcs in the air, and sprinkled on the pontoon bridge with a tuk tuk sound.

When the oil met the rocket, a cloud of flames immediately rose, and soon a fire broke out on the pontoon, and even the officers and soldiers who were crowded on the pontoon bridge and did not know how to advance or retreat were all burned into turkeys at this moment, and they rushed to jump into the icy river with screams and screams.

"The whole team! Hurry up! Wade across the river! Disperse the thief army on the other side of the river and retreat to Ruzhou City! Zu Dale was really panicked when he arrived here, and hurriedly passed down the order, ordering the Guan Ning army under his command to quickly line up and cross the river to return to Ruzhou City.

But at this time, the soldiers and horses under his command have become chaotic, where can they organize to cross the river in a moment! Even if some officers and men obeyed the order and jumped into the river in order to escape, and rushed towards the opposite bank, they were unable to form a large-scale assault force.

The cavalry of the Xingtian Army on the other side of the river was not in vain, even if Situ Liang organized archers or soldiers with bird guns or short guns to dismount and arrange a defense line along the river, he began to put arrows on the officers and soldiers who jumped into the Baijiang River, and the war horses were inconvenient to move in the river, and the officers and soldiers on the horses were like live targets in front of the Xingtian Army, and they were shot in the river one after another, and a large area of the river turned blood-red, and the dead horses and dead people gradually began to accumulate in the river, and some dead horses were floating on the surface of the river. Drift downstream.

Seeing that many officers and soldiers threw themselves into the river but were shot in the river like targets by the Xingtian Army, more officers and soldiers also began to panic, once they lost their morale, the Guan Ning Army didn't count as a fart, so no matter how much Zu Dale shouted orders, these officers and soldiers no longer dared to go down the river and rush to the other side, so they were crowded together in a chaotic manner.

It was not such a long time, but it gave Xiao Tianjian the opportunity to tighten the entire encirclement on the north bank of the river, and Li Xuanzhu also reconvened his scattered subordinates and joined the front, and the four battalions of the Xingtian Army were connected together, forming two or three lines of defense on the periphery of the official army, just like an inverted pot, covering Zu Dale's department by the Baijiang River.

At this time, Zu Dale's subordinates, looking at the situation around them, were all terrified, they only saw countless troops of the Xingtian Army, rushing towards them from all directions, a neat array of arrays, arranged around them, a door with a black hole in the muzzle, pointed to their location, and rows of spears and bird guns aimed at them and flattened.

If it weren't for Zu Dale's panic just now, as soon as he found out that the cavalry of the Xingtian Army on the south bank of the river cut off their back road, he immediately organized the cavalry under his command to concentrate on breaking through in one direction, with the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Guanning Army, Xiao Tianjian might really have no way to take them, at most he could only trap the auxiliary soldiers they brought here, and the main force of the Guanning Army under the command of Zu Dale still had a chance to break through.

But it was precisely because Zu Dale saw the destruction of Zu Kuan's department, so that in a panic, he couldn't figure out how many ambushes the Xingtian army had set up here, so that they lost their best opportunity to break through in vain, and when Zu Dale retracted his men a little, the banks of the Baijiang River were already covered with dense Xingtian army troops, and the guns of the black hole and the dense guns of birds were all aimed at them, if they were a group of soldiers with a strong fighting spirit, then maybe Zu Dale would lead his troops to make the last decisive charge, Maybe there will be some officers and soldiers who can break through the encirclement and escape from here, the North Shore Xingtian Army does not have cavalry, even if they want to pursue, they may not be able to catch up with them, but unfortunately Zu Dale does not want to die, and he does not have the courage to charge to the death, so they lose the hope of breaking through the final encirclement.