When Guo Yan saw the exit open, he desperately urged his subordinates to rush out. Those who have horses ride horses, and those who do not have horses either ride in pairs, or simply walk and flee with their lives.

They only had one thought, and that was to get out of this place as soon as possible, a place that would only appear in this nightmare.

The troops in the ambush of the Bingzhou army were still too small and too scattered, so when the Liangzhou army moved the barricades and fled, there was no way to stop it, so they could only use their bows and crossbows to leave those who were left behind.

At this time, Wang Quan remembered to wipe the sweat from his forehead, but in his heart he admired the person who designed all this, yes, it was the trainee staff officer, Fa Zheng, who was only eighteen years old.

is really worthy of being the champion among the seventh batch of graduates of Shaling Military Academy, all of which he came up with on the way after separating from Lu Bu.

Then one by one, the Xiliang army was forced to a dead end, but unfortunately the time was too rushed, otherwise Guo Yan would not have broken through so easily.

But even so, most of Guo Yan's nearly 30,000 Xiliang cavalry stayed here, and those who fled were not only wounded, arrows, and burns, but also many of them had no horses to ride.

Now it's up to me to correct my performance, and I hope he can successfully realize all his ideas.

Now it's time for me to carry out the next step, and I hope that my 3,000 people will be able to complete the expected task.

Yes, there were only 3,000 Bingzhou troops who completed the ambush battle just now, and there were only 3,000 people in the Bingzhou army who completed that series of wonderful performances, and another 1,000 people were taken away by Fa Zheng after completing the preliminary work of the ambush.

The 3,000 Bingzhou army wiped out nearly 20,000 Xiliang cavalry, and only a few of their unlucky ones were injured by the indiscriminate shooting of stray arrows.

Guo Yan and his subordinates desperately rushed out of the ambush, and ran out of the place for a few miles without looking back, only to find that there were no pursuers behind him, so he stopped the horses.

He gasped desperately, and waited for his subordinates who were running forward behind him, and now there were less than 4,000 people in the Xiliang army with horses, and some of them were riding in two.

After gasping for a while, Guo Yan's lieutenant asked courageously, "General, are we still going to Han Sui's camp?" He pointed to Han Sui's camp ten miles away.

Guo Yan was so angry that he whipped him, "You are stupid, the state army can ambush us, can you still let Han Sui go?" Let's hurry back to Huaili, if the situation is not right, we will withdraw to Chang'an. In any case, Chang'an City has thick walls, and there are 100,000 horses of General Li Dao and General Fan Chou! ”

Guo Yan ordered the two of them to have a horse, put down the superfluous people, and he himself took 4,000 cavalry to make a detour back to Huaili first, and the deputy general took the others to chase on foot.

The distance was not far, even if it was a detour, it was only more than 20 miles, and soon, Guo Yan returned to the outside of Huaili with 4,000 cavalry.

I saw that above the city, the lights and flags were still the same as when they left, the city gate was closed, and the drawbridge was hanging.

Guo Yan's hanging heart was slightly lowered, and he shouted loudly to the city: "Are you blind? General Ben is back, why don't you put down the drawbridge and open the city gates? Guo Liu, where did you kid die? ”

Guo Liu is his brother in the clan and his confidant, responsible for staying in Huaili.

As soon as his words fell, a black thing flew high from the head of the city and smashed down in front of his horse, and with the help of the light of the torches, he saw clearly that it was a human head, and it was actually Guo Liu's head.

Guo Yan was shocked in his heart, but at this time, a clear voice came from the city, "General Guo, Fa Zheng has been waiting here for a long time, Huaili has been taken over by me and the state army, why don't you get off your horse and surrender to avoid death!" ”

"Fazheng?" Guo Yan naturally hadn't heard of it, but Huaili let the Bingzhou army take it away, and he heard it clearly.

Guo Yan couldn't understand, he left 2,000 people to defend the city, the city gate was closed, the drawbridge was hanging, and how did the state army attack the city?

He didn't see any traces of fighting or fierce fighting outside the city walls!

Guo Yan naturally didn't think that Fa Zheng took a thousand Bingzhou troops, pretending to be reinforcements from Chang'an, and used the letter he intercepted on the road that Li Wei wrote to Guo Yan, deceived the city gate, and easily captured Huaili, of course, there were other people who helped him attack the city.

Guo Yan saw that Huaili had been lost, and he was anxious to let his subordinates attack the city, but when they got a little closer to the city wall, a large number of soldiers of the Bingzhou army appeared on the city, and they all carried crossbows and poured arrows on the Xiliang army that was close to the firing range, how could the cavalry attack the city?

Guo Yan was helpless, so he could only pat his thigh and withdraw! I can only go back to Chang'an, alas, I lost my troops this time, and I can't raise my head in front of Li Dao and Fan Chou after I go back.

Guo Yan stayed with his subordinates and retreated to Chang'an, and at the same time sent someone to send a letter to the deputy general behind, asking them to withdraw directly to Chang'an.

The Xiliang army had just turned around and retreated, and before it had gone far, the horn sounded in the city of Huaili, and the war drums were beaten, and then the city gate opened, and the cavalry of the brigade came out of the city and chased after Guo Yan's defeated army.

Guo Yan looked back and saw that there were at least four or five thousand cavalry of the Bingzhou army that rushed out of the city, and they made a slight adjustment outside the city gate and chased after them.

Guo Yan did not dare to stop and confront the Bingzhou army head-on, his 4,000 cavalry, many people and horses were wounded, when breaking through, many people also skimmed off their weapons and armor, so as to reduce the burden.

This can't be fought either, it must not be someone's opponent, so it's important to run for your life.

While chasing, the state army shot with bows and crossbows, and also shot many of the Xiliang troops who were lagging behind.

However, Guo Yan, who was bent on escaping, still had a strong ability to escape, and most of the horses ridden by the Xiliang cavalry were horses produced in Liangzhou, especially the Hexi horses of the Shandan Military Horse Farm, which were very fast.

The cavalry of the state army, except for the guard brigade and the heavy brigade, the rest of the cavalry brigade is mostly Hetao horses and Hun horses, the legs of the horses are short, and they are not as fast as the Hexi horses, but they have good endurance, and they do not pick forage, so they are easy to raise.

So after chasing for a while, the farther and farther he chased, and finally let Guo Yan escape with 3,000 horsemen.

Fa Zheng was in the Bingzhou army that was chasing out of the city, and when he saw Guo Yan fleeing, he regretted that his calculations were not successful in the end.

Cao Xing on the side, looking at Fa Zheng, who was more than ten years younger than himself, beating his chest there, felt interesting, so he teased him, "Xiaozhi, you have made a great contribution, Guo Yan will run away if he runs!" Keep him for the next time, it's a long time coming! ”

Fa Zheng heard Cao Xing's teasing and regained his mood, "General Cao, fortunately, your reinforcements arrived in time, so that they were able to successfully occupy Huaili and chase and kill Guo Yan." ”

Cao Xuan hurriedly waved his hand and said humbly: "Xiaozhi doesn't have to be polite, or your letter for help is delivered in time, and General Zhang Liao will notify me as soon as possible." Long-distance running is a standing training subject for our cavalry brigade, and it is nothing to rush these hundreds of miles. ”

"Or is it a good idea that you came up with, and you easily deceived the city gate, what should we do next?"

"General Cao praised falsely, with your cavalry brigade, I have a greater chance of helping the lord defeat Han Sui, let's go to Ma Teng's camp, General Wang Quan should almost go to the next step, the ambush in the valley seems to have made Guo Yan suffer a lot."

(End of chapter)