Indeed, the official army has been defeated, although there are still 2,000 cavalry in Zuo Liangyu's hands that have not really been put into the melee, but the current situation is not something that 2,000 cavalry can change. The greatest use of these two thousand cavalry was to cover the men who were trapped in the melee in the middle and to escape as much as possible before the opponent's flanks surrounded them. Of course, how many people can run, Zuo Liangyu is not optimistic. But as long as you can keep your family as much as possible, then you still have a chance to make a comeback.

After giving the order to retreat, Zuo Liangyu did not leave the watchtower car immediately, but continued to look at it. The herald had already raised the flag on the flagpole next to him to make the middle lane retreat, and he could also see Zhao Zhu leading more than a dozen cavalry towards the middle lane, raising high dust behind him.

"Hopefully, it's still too late." Zuo Liangyu said to himself in an inaudible voice. Then he turned around and said to Ding Qirui: "Governor Ding, we are going to turn in." Please go down from here. ”

Ding Qirui was already pale-faced when he heard Zuo Liangyu say that the official army had been defeated, and when he heard Zuo Liangyu's words, he walked to the side of the ladder tremblingly and went down tremblingly. Zuo Liangyu turned his head again and looked at the battlefield - the speed of the collapse of the two wings was still accelerating, and the cavalry led by Hao Xiaozhong had not been put into the battle, at this time he had probably seen the banner of recalling them, but from his point of view, he could not see the entire battlefield yet, and Zhao Zhu had not had time to run to him, but he seemed to have begun to act. He led his cavalry towards the position of the fierce battle between the two sides, but did not join the battlefield (because the enemy army had not yet been defeated, and the cavalry rushed to the pike, at this time, it was almost killed), but swept past the side to interfere with the enemy army. And after his action, the two battalions of Decisive Victory and Yangwei also seemed to begin to retreat, but the hateful thing is that those thieves stuck up and chased after these officers and soldiers.

"Alas!" Zuo Liangyu sighed, and was about to get off the watchtower car, only then did he realize that Ding Qirui had only taken two or three steps, and was holding the ladder tightly with both hands at this time, not daring to move.

Zuo Liangyu shook his head, then got down from the ladder, went down to Ding Qirui's side, stretched out his hand and grabbed Ding Qirui's back, lifted him up suddenly, and got off the watchtower car in three steps and two steps. Then he put Ding Qirui on the ground and said, "Your Excellency, the last general is rude." Now that our army is about to move in, please hurry up and get on your horse and follow the general. ”

At this time, a personal guard had already led the war horse over. Zuo Liangyu turned over and got on the horse, and the guards next to him helped Ding Qirui to get on the horse. Zuo Liangyu said to the guard beside him: "Dayong, you go up to the watchtower car and help me keep an eye on it." If the thief is near, let me know as soon as possible. In addition, when you leave for a while, leave the flag of the handsome man on the car. ”

The reason why Zuo Liangyu didn't flee immediately was to wait for a meeting with his retreating family. Until the last resort, Zuo Liangyu will never leave these family members behind. He knew very well that his wealth was not actually given by the imperial court, but by these families. As long as these family members are still there, no matter what happens to him, the court can't do anything to him. Just like the Da Linghe back then, General Wu of Liaodong took the lead in playing the Dead Daoist Immortal Poor Dao, and first led the troops to escape at the critical moment, resulting in a big defeat. And finally? The imperial court grabbed and cut off their heads one by one those general soldiers who ran slower than General Wu and died as a result, but what about General Wu who took the lead in escaping? He was only removed from his post, but he had to continue to "make meritorious contributions", and it didn't take long for General Wu to really be reinstated as an official "for meritorious service". Zuo Liangyu knew that over the years, he had offended many more people than Wu Zongbing. If he didn't have those family members, I was afraid that the imperial court would immediately send someone to cut off his head. Not even just your own head, but your own family's head.

The guard named "Dayong" was like a monkey, and he climbed into the watchtower car with a brush. After a while, I heard him shout: "General Ma and General Hao have retreated, and they are coming soon." Oops, the left wing has completely collapsed, they have all fled, and the thieves on the left wing have gone to the middle! The right wing, the right wing also collapsed...... Oops, truncated in the middle. Most of the cavalry came out, but the infantry was almost all cut off. ”

Hearing this news, Zuo Liangyu's eyes darkened, and he almost fainted. Most of the infantry in the center was cut off, which meant that most of his men would not survive. But at the moment, he can't relieve these people, and even the thief army has swept towards this side, and if he doesn't leave, I'm afraid that even he may not be able to go.

At this time, the "Great Courage" above shouted again; "Great marshal, great marshal, General Hao came over with cavalry, and the cavalry of the thieves followed."

The cavalry of the revolutionary army, to be honest, is not far behind Zuo Liangyu's cavalry in terms of combat skills. If it is a head-on confrontation, the cavalry of the revolutionary army will definitely not be able to defeat these family members of Zuo Liangyu. But under today's conditions, Zuo Liangyu's cavalry is unable to adopt such tactics. Because as soon as they become entangled with these cavalry of the revolutionary army, the enemy's infantry will catch up. Therefore, for the time being, they could only concentrate on escaping, leaving the enemy army to chase and kill behind.

A cavalryman, no matter how good his riding skills and superb combat skills are, he can't beat others when he has his back to the enemy. The cavalry of the revolutionary army has always been waiting for work, and their horsepower is better at this time, plus from the beginning, Huang Zide and Xuan Yi and others have never planned to use cavalry to charge the battle, so their cavalry is not wearing armor. In this way, even if their war horses themselves are not as good as Zuo Liangyu's, even if their riding skills are not as good as those of Zuo Liangyu's, their horse speed can still be faster than that of the official army. Therefore, Zuo Liangyu's cavalry, while retreating, was constantly cut down from behind by them.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and after a short time, Zuo Liangyu's cavalry retreated to the vicinity of their own position, and the cavalry of the revolutionary army did not dare to chase too closely because they saw that the distance between themselves and the infantry had widened a little, and gradually slowed down and widened the distance between them and Zuo Liangyu's cavalry.

Seeing that his cavalry had retreated, Zuo Liangyu was not in a hurry to leave, but first let the cavalry dismount to rest, and then said to Ding Qirui: "Your Excellency, our army has a camp ten miles behind, and we will retreat there first." ”

Ding Qirui was already in a mess at this time, and he could only say what Zuo Liangyu said. Zuo Liangyu asked the soldiers to rest for a while, and seeing that the enemy infantry had slowly approached, he knew that it would be too late if he didn't leave. Then he got on the horse and said, "Let's go!" ”

Zuo Liangyu led the cavalry, left the infantry and began to retreat. However, he also left the flag where it was. Although the teams have basically collapsed now, the position of the Chinese army has not collapsed, and there are still thousands of soldiers here, leaving this flag here can still make these soldiers think that the general is still commanding the battle. This will also more or less slow down the collapse of the army and buy time for its own withdrawal. For this reason, he also left his general Zhao Zhu behind to command the remaining infantry.

"Pillar, I'll leave my horse to you. If the situation is not right, you immediately take a few men to chase after us. Before leaving, Zuo Liangyu and Zhao Zhu exchanged war horses and said this to him. Zuo Liangyu's own war horse was much better than Zhao Zhu's. This can be regarded as increasing the escape rate of Zhao Zhu, who stayed behind.

After explaining this matter, Zuo Liangyu took the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry and turned to the south. Although Zuo Liangyu left the Shuai Qi there when he left, the transfer of so many cavalry could not hide the infantry who were left behind. The infantry ranks immediately stirred. It's just that at this time, the revolutionary army has not yet pressed up, so they have not scattered and fled for the time being.

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On the watchtower on the other side, Huang Zide looked at the yellow smoke and dust rising from behind Zuo Liangyu's Chinese army and said, "Military advisor, look, this must be Zuo Liangyu running away." ”

Xuan Yi also saw this Huang Chen, and he also made such a judgment.

"Haha, we won! After this battle, the overall situation of the Central Plains is almost determined! Niu Juming next to him laughed.

Xuan Yi turned around, bowed to Huang Zide, and said, "Marshal, we can pursue the enemy army." From here, it is more than ten days to return to Huguang. We chased all the way and left Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses here as much as possible. It is best to take Xiangyang on the move, as long as Xiangyang is taken, Huguang can be pacified, once Huguang is pacified, after a few years, the world can be peaceful. ”

Huang Zide heard this, laughed and said: "I, Huang Zide, can have today, all because of the help of the Taoist and my brothers." I think that at the beginning, when my Lao Huang just rebelled, I just didn't want to starve to death, but I didn't expect that there would be a destiny on my day. ”

Hearing this, Xuan Yi sighed in his heart, but said, "Congratulations to the marshal." ”

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The infantry left by Zuo Liangyu collapsed soon after the revolutionary army approached. Some soldiers abandoned their armor and dragged their soldiers away, while others simply surrendered on their knees. According to the plan, the auxiliary soldiers of the revolutionary army and the general soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, while the cavalry continued to follow Zuo Liangyu and them from a distance, and the infantry of the Mandarin Duck Formation set off to pursue Zuo Liangyu after a slight trim.

Zuo Liangyu and the others were all cavalrymen, and they ran very fast, and they walked more than ten miles in a short time. Before the war, when Zuo Liangyu got the information that there was a thief army in front of him, he left the auxiliary soldiers and some soldiers here, established a camp, and left some baggage here. At this time, Zuo Liangyu entered the camp, but he didn't dare to stay here, just asked the cavalry to hurry up and eat something, and brought all the horses that pulled the carts, put beans and other things on these pack horses, and left the camp and continued to flee south.