The battle reached the end of the day, and Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu, who were fighting on the northern flank, drove the rebels to the river and forced them into the water.

Nowadays, the armor is mostly leather, and there are fewer metal armor pieces, even so, the buoyancy is also very poor, the light is more than ten catties, and the heavy is twenty or thirty catties, and it is not urgent to fall into the water, and it is very easy to drown. Even if you are armed to swim across with a weight of 10 kilograms, it is still under the condition of adequate preparation, but you are driven down the river like a pig, no matter how good the water is, how can there be a reason not to drown.

The black turban army was like a tide, and under the strong attack, Lu Gao rushed across the pontoon bridge and rushed eastward. Ye Xin saw that the matter had been completed, and Lu Gao ran away on the south bank and ordered a retreat.

At this time, the pioneer battalion has been killed, Su Honggang served as the commander of the Xiao cavalry battalion, and he was extremely desperate to kill, Sikong Nan had many people, and he was equipped with chain mail and steel-bladed weapons, and the equipment was extremely sophisticated, and the black turban army did not have an advantage at all.

"Su Hong, give Ben will withdraw!" Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) shouted.

"General Wei, leave now, it's too cheap for them."

"What do you know, Xu Jin, Bai He, Fang Qian, and Lu Zhao's troops are still more than one hundred and fifty miles away, and they are in danger of being surrounded by the black turban cavalry at any time.

Su Hong is young and ambitious, and if he is released, he will not be able to take it back, and if he is not restrained, something will happen sooner or later.

Chen Hanxin, Lu Ting's 20,000 horses were dying at this time, more than 4,000 people were driven down the river, seven or eight out of ten drowned, at least seven or eight thousand people were compressed on the river beach to resist to the death, relying on shields, knives and guns, bows and crossbows, and the cavalry used nomadic warfare to deal with the dense infantry holding the group on their backs.

At the end of the last round of killing, the pioneer battalion was the first to retreat, Ye Xin led the men and horses of the headquarters to follow, Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu were responsible for the break, and continued to fight for a while and then fought and retreated.

At eight o'clock in the battle, the Xian army was dispersed, Chen Hanxin and Lu Ting's two generals were in shock, looking at the floating corpses on the ground and mourning all over the field, Chen Hanxin couldn't believe that this was the strategy and combat strength of the Xian army that had been at the end of the canopy.

In just a few days, the Xian army first opened the gate of Shaoping by fraud, killed more than 30 county guards and holy envoys, and then got tens of thousands of horses from the Black Turban Army, with four or five thousand casualties. If the battle of Jiangdong could have this half of the combat power and strategy, where could one and a half counties be ceded to the Jin State.

Leaving behind a large number of corpses, the Xian army rode away. At this time, Song He had already captured the first batch of more than 40,000 donkeys and horses left behind by the Xian army, and he was complacent and wondering at the same time.

With his IQ, he really doesn't understand why the Xianjun army gave up the horses and donkeys that had already been in hand for no reason, and sent scouts to the east to explore, but there has been no news, and he didn't expect that the Xianjun was backhanded to slap Chen Hanxin and Lu Ting's subordinates, and he was about to turn around and kill another one.

Especially on the night when he got the horses, he was like a thief who stole from a big family, and he spent the whole night in fear, for fear that the police would come to the door, but after a whole night, Song He felt that there was nothing to do, and he was at ease, and at this time there were still more than three hundred and twenty miles away from Shao Ping.

Ye Xin's department gathered Xu Jin, Fang Qian, Lu Zhao, Bai He and others, and it was already the afternoon after the sneak attack, except for Lu Gaolong's military camp, the total number of troops and battalions was reduced by five or six hundred, most of them had been killed in battle, or were wounded and captured, the casualties of the Black Turban rebels were at least eight times that of the Xian army, and more than 3,000 people had drowned.

Without waiting for dark, the army repaired in advance on the spot and set off in the early hours of midnight. Bailiyan exchanged 500 horses with sufficient foot strength from Xu Jinying, and ordered Su Hong to lead the camp west to check the situation of the horses.

When the Xian army marched east to kill the horse gun, one man and two war horses, half of them were thrown down when the leg strength was exhausted halfway, about less than 30,000 horses, this group of horses was more than 100 miles away from the camp of the Xian army tonight, and less than 70 miles away from the cavalry of the Black Turban Army, the two armies were moving in opposite directions, the Xian army was 1670 miles away from the Black Turban cavalry, and the situation of the horses was still unclear.

At the speed of the Black Turban Army, driving 40,000 donkeys and horses, plus 20,000 under the crotch, it will definitely not be able to walk 70 miles tomorrow morning, unless the troops are divided all the way, and they have to go on the road tonight, and they will break away from the brigade to lead the horses, but today they have been marching for a day, even if the horses can eat, people may not be able to eat, and the Xian army will be on the road at midnight tonight, and will be able to run a hundred miles tomorrow morning.

Therefore, the division of troops may be broken by the Xian army, and regardless of whether the division of troops or not, the Xian army has the advantage of strength and combat power, if the Xian army sets off in the early hours of midnight and marches quickly, after dawn should be able to see this batch of abandoned horses with sufficient physical strength. At this time, the Black Turban Army was divided into two places, and it would still be broken by the Xian Army.

Of course, its main force can abandon the 40,000 donkeys and horses that have already been in hand, and focus on competing for these 30,000 horses, but it still has to face the physical exhaustion of rushing during the day today, the physical strength is exhausted, and the physical strength is exhausted at night. The Xian army rested three to four hours ahead of schedule today, set out on the road at midnight, and arrived at the area tomorrow morning and still had the physical strength to fight again. No matter how you adjust your time, physical strength, and combat power, the Black Turban Cavalry has no chance of winning.

In the second half of the night, everyone was drowsy, and Bai Liyan had just woken up and walked around inspecting the wounded. At this time, several war horses galloped from the west, and it was Su Hong who rode back.

"Su Hong see General Wei!"

Seeing that his eyes were red, Bai Liyan frowned and asked:

"What are you doing here without people squatting and guarding the horses to take turns to rest?"

"General Wei, not long after dark, I found the horses, and I caught a messenger from Shao Ping, the Black Turban Army, what do you guess, what does the Black Turban Army want to do? The custodian General Wei did not expect it. ”

Bai Liyan thought to himself, from the time calculation, the messenger was actually dozens of miles faster than the main force of the Xian army, and the Divine Power Heavenly King must have learned the news in the morning, and hurriedly sent the order. What decision can be made in such a short period of time?

After thinking about it for some reason, Bai Liyan said:

"What about the messengers?"

"Brought."

"What did you come up with?"

Su Hongle laughed and said:

"I know that the general can't guess it, the Black Turban Heavenly King ordered Song He, the commander of the Black Turban Army, to slaughter the captured war horses and donkeys on the spot, it's poisonous enough."

"Hmph, if it's really vicious, the general didn't even count it to this point."

I had to admire the supernatural powers, and it was expected that Song He's troops would be no match for the cavalry of the Xian army, and it would be impossible to drive the horses back to Shaoping, so they could only slaughter the horses on the spot. In this way, the Xian army will only be left with horses under its crotch, and if they want to return to the Yongxing River in the east, they may be run over from behind by the cavalry of the Black Turban Army.

The scout was detained for detailed interrogation, and the information provided by Su Hong was basically inconsistent, but Su Hong had no experience after all, and he didn't know some details.

Because the horses in Shaoping City were almost taken away by Song He's troops, the scouts and messengers were all one person and one horse, and under normal circumstances, they were all one person and one horse, and the emergency could be one person and two horses.

The one who was captured happened to be a man and a horse, and the supernatural power gave a death order, and he must rush before the Xianjun army to convey the news to Song He. Starting from Shaoping all the way, the horses forcibly ran for more than 200 miles, and the horses were already paralyzed, and they only ran seventy or eighty miles more than the Xianjun, and finally the horses were captured when they failed.

In order to ensure the timely delivery of urgent messages, it is usually not one messenger, but two or more ways. This one captured by Su Hong is only one of them, and according to the current situation, the other possible messenger is eighty or ninety miles away from Song He's department, if he doesn't rest tonight, I'm afraid he won't see the rebel general Song He before noon tomorrow.

If you rest, the horse has been paralyzed, in fact, it is wasted, it will be difficult to continue on the road tomorrow, before noon still can't run eighty or ninety miles, unless he is a marathon master, riding a horse for a day, no eating, drinking, no rest, two and a half hours to run more than 40 kilometers in one breath, otherwise I won't see Song He before noon tomorrow.

From Shao Ping to Song He's campsite, there is at least a distance of more than 320 miles, and an ordinary horse will have to die of exhaustion if he runs more than 200 miles, and 300 miles is impossible at all. Judging from this, it is still possible for the Xian army to set off at this time and defeat Song He before he receives the news.

"Su Hong, how is the situation in the Xiao Cavalry Camp?"

"When the horses were found, they took refuge in the nearby woods to rest and keep watch, so that if any rebels passed by, they would not be discovered."

"It is said that the rebels should be able to find these 30,000 war horses today, but they didn't, so in this way, Song He's department not only hesitated for a day, but should have hesitated for nearly two days, otherwise they should have arrived a hundred miles away tonight."

"Yes, God forbid, otherwise the horses would be all over tonight."

Song He's hesitation bought an extra day for the Xian army, and if he was able to calculate that Song He would actually be able to arrive a hundred miles west of the Xian army's camp tonight and find the remaining 30,000 war horses, so that the messenger of the Black Turban Army did not have to run eighty or ninety miles more to avoid the road, and none of the 70,000 donkeys and horses could be spared, and it was Song He's hesitation that missed two days.

The armies and battalions were preparing for the night march, and the news was immediately reported to Ye Xin, who did not say much, and strictly ordered all departments to speed up the march, and be sure to run a hundred miles after dawn in exchange for horses, and then take a short rest, to rush before noon, and then walk seventy or eighty miles, which is undoubtedly a huge challenge to people's physical strength and endurance.

Night marches have to be fired, even in the bright moonlight of the night, and nine times out of ten people are night blind. The situation in the pioneer camp is slightly better, Bailiyan often organizes people to fish by the Yongxing River, the fish is rich in taurine and vitamin A, and the pork liver is also the main source of vitamin A, but there are not many people who eat the water.

After the completion of the new city, a large number of fish ponds will be excavated, and at the same time, fish farming will increase the source of non-staple food, and the cost and labor required will actually be much less than raising livestock and poultry. At the same time, the large-scale excavation of large fish ponds and the storage of water for irrigation can also enhance the regional defense capability, so that the passable area becomes impassable, thereby changing the topography and terrain, forcing the enemy to move in other pre-designed directions, and forming a strategic situation favorable to one's own side.

The pioneer battalion was the first to finish the more than 100 miles, and then Xu Jin's department, Ye Xin's headquarters, Gu Zhong, and Xiao Qu's departments were all two quarters of an hour late, and Bai He, Fang Qian, Lu Zhao and others couldn't walk fast with their female dependents, and the army only arrived after half an hour of repair.

"Su Hong, this battle is extremely physically demanding, you have been bumpy for a day and a night without rest, so you will stay on the spot and take care of the horses with Sikong Nan, there must be no mistake." Baili Yan ordered.

"General Wei, the last general can still kill his mother for a while, so let the last general go with him."

"You think you are beaten with iron, and if you ask for battle, let you charge with the iron pot on your back!"

Su Hong's eyes were red and bumpy for a day and a night, yesterday and today he ran back and forth for four hundred and sixty or seventy miles, even if it was four hundred miles to fly to report to the scouts, the iron fight could not withstand such a toss, the Xian army had an advantage in numbers, and its combat power was far above the black turban traitors, and there was no shortage of him.