Zhuge Liang nodded, "The lord is right, I have been a classmate with him for several years, and we all live in seclusion in Jingzhou, and we often get together to evaluate the world's major events and exchange our research experiences, so we naturally know each other very well." ”

"Shi Yuan, this person, is far more competitive than me, so he easily refuses to show weakness to me. He always thought that Feng Xiao would be in front of Wolong, and he had always been worried about this matter. ”

"Kong Ming, on top of their retreat, you have arranged everything, right?" Lu Bu asked casually.

"Don't worry, the lord has made all the arrangements, Liu Bei and Pang Tong, it's still useful to keep them, but these elite Jingzhou troops will stay in this land of Bashu!" Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly, indescribably chic.

While Lu Bu and Zhuge Liang were talking, the Jingzhou army retreated faster than when they came.

The Rongyi Division walked out of the mountains and forests and began to pursue as a team, and the special operations division also rode its own war horse and pursued with the Rongyi Division.

The 1st Garrison Division was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield in place and burying the corpses.

The record of this battle was 8,000 to 200, and only 200 people of the Central Army died under the bows and crossbows of the Jingzhou Army, and the Jingzhou Army and the Yizhou Army did not have the opportunity to fight hand-to-hand from the beginning to the end, so it was impossible to bring more casualties to the Central Army.

Liu Bei's army still had more than 40,000 people left, and he retreated with his head down, and he lost the morale he had when he first entered Sichuan.

Hearing that this was to withdraw to Jingzhou, many of Yan Yan's subordinates and those soldiers of the Yizhou Army who joined along the way deserted one after another and slipped home.

They didn't want to follow Liu Bei for thousands of miles to go so far from home.

Of course, Yan Yan knew what his subordinates thought, not to mention that many people were recruited halfway, and they were not trained by him, and there was no emotion to talk about.

Therefore, he can only turn a blind eye along the way, as if he didn't see it.

Liu Bei didn't have the heart to care about them now, all his thoughts were on whether he could return to Jingzhou safely.

The special operations division of the Central Army was all on horseback, although the road was bumpy, but the four legs were always much faster than the two legs, and it didn't take long to catch up with the rear team of Liu Bei's army, mainly the Yizhou army fell last.

The next scene is a bit like modern people hunting on horseback, except that the prey is just the soldiers of the Yizhou Army, and the soldiers of the Central Army aim with flintlock pistols on horseback, and the hit rate within 100 zhang is not low.

They usually don't shoot with live ammunition, and this marksmanship is the same as archery, which is purely fed with bullets.

Of course, the policy of the Central Army is not to kill innocents indiscriminately, and the officers and men of the special operations division, while chasing, shouted loudly: "Surrender and don't kill, surrender and avoid death!" ”

Seeing that their companions were helpless and were put to the ground like rabbits, they all lost their fighting spirit and the desire to resist, and they threw away their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

However, the reaction of the Jingzhou army was completely different, as if they did not see and hear, they accelerated forward and fled.

The cavalry of the special operations division had a lot of effort when they climbed the hillside, and Liu Bei did not hesitate to leave a small army to break the rear in some dangerous areas.

The quality of the Jingzhou army is not low, and the soldiers who were arranged to stay behind did not complain, but only asked to bring messages and bereavement to their families.

All of this stems from the fact that the Jingzhou Army also learned from the Central Army's military merit pension system, and the aftercare pension for these soldiers was very generous, so that they had no worries.

With the help of the complex and steep mountain road in Shudi, the Jingzhou army left behind could also block the special operations division for a period of time, so that Liu Bei's large army could escape farther.

This style of play is a bit like a gecko cutting off its tail to confuse the enemy when it is in danger.

In this way, Liu Bei has fled to Nanchuan, and from here he can walk a little further back to Fuling on the edge of the Yangtze River.

Liu Bei just wanted to rest for a while, took a breath, and the scout came to report that a cavalry was killed from the direction of Fuling, with more than 10,000 horsemen.

When it got closer, the leader of the army, Yan Yan recognized that it was Xiliang Ma Chao.

Liu Bei and Pang Tong have seen a lot of information about the Central Army, and of course they know who Ma Chao is, but because Ma Chao has been active in Liangzhou and the Western Regions, they have not had an in-depth understanding.

I only know that he is Ma Teng's son, one of the best students of the military academy in the Central Army, who rose quickly in the Central Army, and was very reused and favored by Lu Bu.

However, they didn't care about Ma Chao, they cared about the more than 10,000 cavalry he led.

There was a cavalry behind the buttocks, and suddenly another cavalry came in front.

Pang Tong said to Liu Bei: "This must be a plan made by Zhuge Liang, it doesn't leak, he wants to leave us in Yizhou, and no one will be released back to Jingzhou!" ”

Liu Bei couldn't help but complain about Pang Tong, "When I listened to me, it would be good to go back to Jingzhou directly from Fuling, and if I lost a battle, wouldn't I be just as demoralized?" ”

Although Pang Tong was not angry in his heart, after all, Liu Bei was the king, he was a minister, and he still had to maintain Liu Bei's authority.

"My lord, it doesn't help to say this now. But don't worry, I've been prepared, let's not go to Fuling, go east from Nanchuan to Wulong, and there is a small road from Wulong to Pingdu. ”

"I think our navy should have arrived in Wanxian or Zhongxian, as long as we reach the riverside, we will be safe."

After Liu Bei heard this, he felt that the tone of his words just now was a little heavy, "Shi Yuan, I was in a hurry just now, and there was something inappropriate to say, please don't take it to heart, since you have already made arrangements, it's great, just do what you say!" ”

Pang Tong nodded, and then looked at Wei Yan and Yan Yan behind him, "Two generals, whether the army can get out of danger smoothly depends on the two of you." I have two military orders, I don't know if the two generals dare to take them? ”

Wei Yan and Yan Yan are both fierce generals in the world, and they are never ambiguous when they start a battle, "Strategist, you don't need to provoke the generals, please give an order, and never give up!" ”

"That's right, what General Wen Chang said is what I want to say, military advisor, you just give the order and guarantee the completion of the military order!"

Yan Yan had already regarded himself as Liu Bei's subordinate, put himself in the right position, and entered the role.

"Okay, I'll give the two generals three thousand men each, one thousand hoplites, and two thousand crossbowmen. Please ask the two generals to block the Central Army coming from behind them and from the direction of Fuling, and hold on for at least two hours to buy a little time for the transfer of the army and my arrangement. ”

"Yes!" The two generals received the order and each led his subordinates to block the pursuers, of course, these 6,000 people were all Jingzhou troops, and the Yizhou army had 4,000 people left, but there were no heavy infantry and crossbowmen.

Pang Tong and Liu Bei led the army to turn to the path from Nanchuan to Wulong, and after traveling more than ten miles on the mountain road, it became more and more precipitous, with high mountains on one side and the galloping Wujiang River on the other.

Fuling

(End of chapter)