More than half an hour later, the sky gradually brightened, and the camp of the Huainan Army gradually calmed down. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The surprise attack launched by the enemy before dawn did not cause great losses to the Huainan army, except for the Suzhou artillery that was mostly destroyed, more than 100 soldiers were killed and wounded, basically all of them were killed by the enemy in the chaos or even killed by each other; As for the cavalry of the Liang army that launched the attack, they retreated before the Huainan army could react.

This time, Yang Wu directly ordered Hou Zan to lead the cavalry in pursuit, if not to completely eliminate them, at least to prevent them from continuing to make trouble.

With the withdrawal of the enemy troops, the process of the enemy's surprise attack was easily investigated, from the hiding place of the enemy cavalry to the process of the enemy's assault, it can be judged that this was a deliberate attack against the Huainan army.

However, because the Huainan army had already transferred the flowering bombs to the camp, the Liang army's attempt failed.

However, because of its bulkiness, the Suzhou artillery was left on the battlefield by some negligent soldiers, and only a simple camp was built, and thousands of people were sent to guard it, which gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

was attacked by a surprise attack for the time being, but there was no way to retaliate back, and the aggrieved soldiers had no choice but to vent their anger on Kang Huaizhen's army, which was still fleeing.

Immediately after breakfast, the army set out in pursuit of the enemy.

At noon, there was finally good news coming, because they were not familiar with the road, and they were marching at night, the Liang army actually lost its way when it fled, and only reacted when it was dawn, but they had deviated more than thirty miles by that time, which made the distance between them and the Huainan army be quickly pulled in, and finally caught up by the Huainan army in the morning.

Kang Huaizhen saw that he could not escape, so he had no choice but to set up a formation to prepare for a big battle with the Huainan army, and as a result, the Liang army, which was completely inferior in terms of strength, morale, and physical strength, was defeated, and nearly 1,000 people were killed on the spot, and tens of thousands of Liang troops were captured, and the remaining thousands of Liang troops could no longer maintain the formation, and the various departments scattered and fled.

Seeing this, the Huainan Army simply disbanded part of its forces and scattered the pursuit, while the remaining soldiers continued to converge with Qin Pei to the west.

After getting the news, Yang Wu breathed a sigh of relief. Most of Kang Huaizhen's troops have been wiped out, and even if some of the remaining stragglers will eventually escape, those routs will not have much effect, so what Yang Wu has to do next is to prepare for the battle with Zhu Quanzhong.

Although Kang Huaizhen was defeated in the first battle, Zhu Quanzhong still had more than 100,000 troops in his hands, and Zhu Quanzhong personally led him, and his strength should not be underestimated.

Of course, Yang Wu will not be afraid of him, in terms of military strength, now the Huainan army plus the army in Shouzhou City also has 120,000 people, which is not less than the Liang army; In terms of morale, the Huainan army has just won a big victory, while the Liang army has just won a defeated battle, and the Huainan side must have the advantage in morale; As for other aspects, the strength of the Huainan army was no worse than that of the Liang army.

"Spread the news of the victory to the whole army, let everyone rejoice together, and tell them that we will continue to rush to Shouzhou to teach Zhu Quanzhong a lesson!" Yang Wu commanded with a smile on his face.

Soon, the whole army was thunderous with joy, morale was greatly boosted, and the grievances caused by the sneak attack before were also reduced a lot.

"Go to Shouzhou to teach Zhu Quanzhong a lesson..."The soldiers looked relaxed and encouraged each other.

In the afternoon, new news came that more than 10,000 reinforcements sent by the Liang army fought with Qin Pei's forward, and neither side took advantage of anything, so they each withdrew their troops and prepared to wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

However, not long after, perhaps the Liang army had already broken out and joined them, and the 10,000-strong Liang army suddenly retreated more than a dozen miles, setting up a defensive formation behind a stone bridge, trying to resist the Huainan army's attack with the advantage of terrain.

After Qin Pei's main force arrived, he launched a tentative attack, which was repulsed by the Liang army and lost more than 500 men, so he had to stop temporarily and send people to the upper reaches of the river to find a place to cross the river and detour to the rear of the enemy army.

However, the Liang army did not give the Huainan army a chance to surround them, and when it was dark, they retreated smoothly under the cover of night; Because the enemy situation was unknown, Qin Pei was worried about being ambushed by the enemy, so he did not fail to pursue him.

Late at night, in the Liang army camp, Zhu Quanzhong was shocked by the news he had just learned.

"An army of 50,000 is over in one day? Just one day! Even 50,000 pigs won't be wiped out so quickly, right? Zhu Quanzhong seemed to be dripping blood in his heart.

Kang Huaizhen's 50,000 troops are all elite troops under his command, although he can now be called a large number of generals and a rich family, he can still afford the loss of 50,000 people, and even, as long as he gives the order to recruit troops, a new army of 50,000 will not be long before it can be formed.

However, no matter how thick the family foundation is, it can't be corrupted so easily, and the newly recruited 50,000 soldiers can't compare to the previous elite soldiers who have been in a hundred battles, so the loss this time is too great.

"What about Kang Huaizhen? Is he dead? You come to tell Lone, how did the army defeat? Zhu Quanzhong roared loudly and asked the messenger.

The messenger seemed to be paralyzed by his anger, and his face turned pale, but he stammered and could not even say a word.

Zhu Quanzhong was furious, and even though he was about to let the guards drag the messenger down and kill him, he was fortunately dissuaded by Li Zhen.

"Great King, General Kang is not an incompetent general, if it is not possible to be wiped out by the Huainan army in one day under normal circumstances, so there must be a hidden meaning in this. If the king cuts this person, then the king will not be able to figure out the hidden secret! So the king might as well wait until he asks clearly! ”

Only then did Zhu Quanzhong calm down a little, and waved his hand to let the guards retreat first.

Perhaps knowing that his life would be in jeopardy if he continued to stutter, the relieved messenger spoke much more fluently, and in a few words he gave an account of what he knew.

“…… The king, that's all the villain knows, and please spare the king! After saying this, the messenger begged for mercy.

Zhu Quanzhong didn't pay any attention to it, he waved his hand and let the guards come in and dragged the messenger out.

Soon, there was a terrible howl outside, and then the sound grew weaker and weaker, and finally no more sound was heard.

The generals were silent, and none of them dared to intercede for the messenger, for fear of being angered by Zhu Quanzhong, and even they were a little glad to have this messenger to vent their anger on Zhu Quanzhong.

Sure enough, after killing the messenger, Zhu Quanzhong gradually calmed down and began to think about his next move.

Now Kang Huaizhen's 50,000 troops are almost wiped out, and even Kang Huaizhen, Li Si'an, and his nephew Yuan Xiangxian and other generals do not know whether they are alive or dead.

After losing these 50,000 people, now he has only 120,000 people, even in terms of troops, he does not have an advantage, not to mention that in terms of morale and logistics, the Liang army is even more inferior, and the battle with the Huainan army at this time is obviously not good for him.

However, if he withdrew his troops and went back, this time he personally led the army south, but he was defeated by Yang Wu, a junior, and finally he could only flee in a panic, he couldn't think of what the world would think of him.

What's more, if there are many feudal towns that disobey him today, they were all intimidated by his powerful military power before, so they didn't dare to act rashly; But after this battle, everyone in the world will see his hypocrisy and reality, and thus feel that he is nothing more than that, and when the time comes, the various feudal towns will definitely raise troops again.

"I regret that I didn't listen to Mr. Jing's words at the beginning......" Thinking of what Jing Xiang said when he dissuaded him from sending troops, Zhu Quanzhong immediately regretted not falling, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in the world to take.

"King, now the morale of the Huainan Army is flourishing, don't fight hard! Why don't we withdraw our troops and go back first, and then find an opportunity to avenge this later? Li Zhen cautiously proposed.

Although it was Zhu Quanzhong's own decision to send troops south, with his stubborn character, it would be difficult for others to persuade him once he made up his mind, but Li Zhen had spoken out to support it at the beginning, but now that he has been defeated, of course he must be careful.

Fortunately, Li Zhen's ability is still good, plus he is loyal to Zhu Quanzhong, and he is still responsible for replacing the Tang Dynasty, so Zhu Quanzhong is not angry with him.

"Withdrawal?" Zhu Quanzhong was a little hesitant.

"Yes, in the current situation, if we continue to stay and fight with the Huainan army, it will be difficult for our army to achieve victory, and once it is ......," Li Zhen persuaded in a low voice: "So it is better to save these 120,000 troops." As long as the 120,000 troops are still there, will the Huainan Army still dare to cross the Huai River to compete with our army? If that is the case, the cavalry of our army will be able to teach them a good lesson when they reach the north of the Huai River! ”

"In addition, if our army retreats, we can also use these more than 100,000 troops as a deterrent. It can be expected that there will definitely be other feudal towns that will jump out next, and the king can concentrate his forces to teach the first ones to jump out first, so as to deter other feudal towns! ”

Listening to Li Zhen's words, Zhu Quanzhong couldn't help but feel a little moved, at this time in the battle with the Huainan army, he really didn't have much chance of winning, once defeated, the situation would really be irreparable.

Seeing Zhu Quanzhong's reaction, Li Zhen immediately understood his thoughts, and immediately cheered up and persuaded him, and the generals were also unwilling to fight with the Huainan army at such a time, so they asked for the withdrawal of the army, and Zhu Quanzhong reluctantly agreed.

"Pass the order, the rear army will become the front army, retreat immediately, and order the Long Xiang army to be responsible for breaking the rear!" Zhu Quanzhong ordered in a deep voice.

The Long Xiang Army is the most elite unit under Zhu Quanzhong, and more importantly, this is a pure cavalry force, with more than 8,000 people, which is the most suitable for the Broken Queen.

In addition, because Kang Huaizhen was defeated too quickly, his army was not far from Shouzhou at this time, so it would not take much time for him to withdraw along the original road.

It's just that in this way, Kang Huaizhen's rout is equivalent to being given up by him, and whether they can escape depends on their luck.