"Are you just retreating? We are a coalition army! If you were to retreat, you should have informed us first, instead of fleeing on your own, as you are now, and leaving our warriors there to die!" The Western Turks pushed away the Sassanid soldiers who were guarding the door, broke into the Sassanid commander's residence, and slapped the table at the Sassanid commander.

"The warriors of the Western Turks are the bravest soldiers, and I believe that their death will bring us the ultimate victory. But now my army has to retreat back, retreat across the Wuhu River, and then look for an opportunity to fight back against these Han Chinese. If you are willing to retreat with us, then come with us, if you are not willing to retreat with us, you can stay here and die, anyway, no one will stop you. When the Sassanid commander saw the menacing Western Turk leaders, he first fastened a top hat on their heads, and then told them his intentions.

After all, the Sassanid army came here only as a guest army to support, and was not under the command of the Western Turkic Khan, and enjoyed its own independent military command and decision-making power. Therefore, even if you suddenly retreat at this time, you will not be able to say anything else to complain about. However, compared to the Sassanid army, which came and went freely, the Western Turkic army stranded on the front line could only independently and struggling to support the crumbling front, while sending people to report the situation on the front line to the Khan and ask the Khan what he should do next.

The Western Turks were to wait at the front for the next order from the Social Khan, but the Sassanids did not. After the Sassanid commander advised the Western Turks to retreat with him, to no avail, he left them alone and withdrew westward. The Western Regions Army, which was attacking on the front line, was also entangled by the soldiers of the Western Turks, and for a moment it was unable to launch a large-scale pursuit of the Sassanid army. After all, it was an extremely delicate situation on the battlefield at this time, and it seemed that the Sassanid army could no longer support itself to retreat first, but the Western Regions Army could not divide its forces to pursue them. If only a small force is sent to pursue, it will be found by those Sassanids to take advantage of the opportunity to annihilate the small group of pursuing troops that follow with more and less fighting, so the Western Regions army still chose to consolidate and expand the existing results steadily, honestly relying on the sharpness of their armor and the first step of firearms to squeeze the living space of the Western Turks on the front.

Just when the Western Turkic soldiers on the front line were resisting a little desperately, the order to shoot the Khan was finally delivered. The herald rolled over and dismounted the frothing horse he had ridden, and then conveyed the order to the soldiers at the front line, ordering them to retreat west with the Sassanid army, crossing the Wuhu River, to rest, and wait for the next order.

After receiving the order of the Khan, the Western Turkic soldiers had no idea of resisting, so they rushed to the other end of the battlefield, and suddenly became quiet on the battlefield that had just been hot. All the Western Turk soldiers were fighting for the few horses at this time, or two or three people and quickly fled into the distance, leaving only the Mo sword soldiers and musketeers in thick armor and limited mobility, standing on the front line of the battlefield that was still hot.

Their formation is a step-by-step advance formation, so it is naturally not suitable for the pursuit of the rout at this time, and it will take some time for the military commanders at all levels to adjust the formation of the attacking troops, so the infantry failed to launch the pursuit of the Western Turkic rout at the first time. Now the infantry did not react, it does not mean that other people will also sit back and watch the withdrawal of the Western Turks, the cavalry who were still fighting guerrillas before saw that the soldiers of the Western Turks began to rout, so they put their muskets back into the bags on their saddles, turned their hands and drew their sabers, and formed a formation to impact the rout of the Western Turkic army.

The cavalry of the Western Regions Army on this side of the horse, even if you count all the weapons and equipment on the saddle and the armor and weapons, is only enough to carry the weight of two people, and a horse on the Western Turk side is often entrusted with three or four people, and the horses they ride are all horses raised by each family, which are far inferior to the standard military horses equipped in the Western Regions Army in terms of speed and endurance. Therefore, some Western Turks were caught up by the cavalry of the Western Regions Army behind them, and then became the battle exploits of this cavalry between the swords of the cavalry of the Western Regions Army.

Seeing this scene, some of the other Western Turkic soldiers who had not yet been caught up were greatly shocked in their hearts, and some of them reacted first, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the others on the horse, they pushed all those people off their horses, and fled alone on the horses they sat down. The Western Turkic soldiers who were pushed off their horses fell at this time, and before they had time to come to their senses and curse the soldiers on their horses, they had already been wiped out by the cavalry of the Western Regions Army who came later, and were trampled into meat by the horses' hooves.

This sudden pursuit battle made the military commanders and staff officers of the Western Regions Army at all levels very busy for a while, and they hurriedly dispatched reserve soldiers to fill the vacancies left by the retreat of the Western Turkic army, and at the same time mobilized corresponding personnel to receive the soldiers surrendered by the Western Turks. The cavalry pursued and killed at this time, and followed the Western Turkic soldiers all the way directly to the bank of the Wuhu River before stopping the pursuit.

The Western Turkic soldiers, who were the first to flee to the west bank of the Wuhu River, saw the cavalry of the Western Regions Army chasing after them at this time, and they didn't care that there were still their comrades on the east bank, so they hurriedly set fire to the bridge across the Wuhu River. Seeing that the bridge was burned, some Western Turkic soldiers jumped into the Wuhu River in a panic, trying to swim through, but then they were swept downstream by the turbulent river and disappeared. The remaining Western Turkic soldiers, desperate for their escape, could only kneel down and surrender to the pursuing Western Regions army, hoping to save their lives.

When Zhang Juntai also led the army to the Wuhu River, he found that all the boats that could cross the river had been taken to the west bank by the Sassanid and Western Turk soldiers, and the only bridge that could pass through the Wuhu River was also set on fire by the Western Turks. So he had no choice but to order his soldiers to camp on the spot and confront the Sassanid Empire and the Western Turkic coalition forces across the bank. At this time, it was also a luxury to cut wood on the steppe to make tools for crossing the river, so they could only wait for the river-crossing ordnance, which was far behind the advance of the army, to slowly move to the front line, and then continue the plan to attack westward.

At this time, in the area east of the Wuhu River, only the Western Regions Army, an army led by the Sassanid deputy commander, and the Roman legions surrounded by heavy troops, remained.

(End of chapter)