Under the fierce raid of the Wu cavalry, the Liang army with an army of 40,000 finally collapsed, and the soldiers of all departments completely lost their fighting spirit.

Fiasco, this is a real fiasco.

"Is this the death of the heavens?" Niu Cunjie looked at the defeated tribes, suddenly screamed, and fell off his horse in anger.

"General!" The guards around him were startled and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.

Niu Cun was so angry that he didn't sit down for a while, fell off the horse, and was immediately bruised and swollen, but he didn't care about it at all.

He muttered to himself: "Defeated, Your Majesty handed over the 90,000 army to the general, but the general lost his vigilance at the last moment, so that the army was defeated, what kind of face does the general have to go back to see Your Majesty?" With that, he drew his sword and wiped it from his neck.

"General, no!" The guards were horrified and hurriedly went up and snatched the sword from his hand.

Just kidding, if Niu Cunjie killed himself here, they were afraid that none of them would survive, and they would definitely be held accountable at that time.

Even now, these guards are also complaining in their hearts, worried that Niu Cunjie will not be able to think about it, and then they will kill themselves.

"General, why is this so bothering? Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and generals have led troops to fight on the battlefield for decades, how can they not even figure out this truth? ”

"General, although our Chinese army has been defeated, the front army is still intact, and General Liu Yan will definitely lead his troops to the rescue."

"Yes, the enemy's strength is not much, and now everyone is just afraid in their hearts, and they lost their advance and retreat for a while, so that the whole army collapsed, the soldiers scattered and fled, and not many people were really killed in battle; If the general manages to gather after the war, he should be able to gather the army again. ”

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Many guards hurriedly persuaded him, for fear that Niu Cunjie would still not be able to think about it.

They didn't know that the reason why Niu Cunjie wanted to kill himself before the festival was because he was old, he was already over sixty years old this year, and seeing the defeat of the Liang army year after year, the situation was declining, and he was pessimistic about the prospects of the Liang country that he had served all his life.

Coupled with this big defeat, he couldn't help but be disheartened, and he didn't think about it for a while, so he had the idea of killing himself.

However, after being rescued by the guards, he calmed down in his heart and began to think about the next response.

Indeed, the Chinese army is no longer reliable, although there is still a little resistance, but most of the soldiers are fleeing, and it is almost impossible to redeem the defeat at this time.

However, when the army retreated, Niu Cunjie ordered He Gui to lead an army of 10,000 queens, but now it has long been defeated; The 40,000 Chinese troops under his own command are now about to collapse; However, the 30,000 former army led by Liu Cheng is still intact, and it is not far from the Chinese army.

With Liu Jun's ability, he would definitely reorganize the army as soon as he got the news, and then immediately lead the troops to come to the rescue.

And judging from the timing, reinforcements should be almost arriving at this time.

Although the cavalry of the Wu army was extremely fast when they assaulted, they defeated He Gui's rear army one after another in a short period of time, and even his Chinese army was defeated by the Wu army, but it can be seen that the cavalry of the Wu army has also reached the end of the strong crossbow; And they did not have many troops, but it was only by relying on the advantage of surprise attacks and the strong assault power of the cavalry that they achieved such great results.

As long as Liu Jun's reinforcements arrive, the Wu army will naturally choose to retreat rationally, otherwise it will be counterattacked by the Liang army, and it is afraid that it may be surrounded and annihilated.

And as the guards said, although the Liang army seemed to have suffered heavy losses, not many soldiers were actually killed by the enemy or died in the stampede, and most of the soldiers were simply scattered; In addition, the vicinity is all controlled by the Liang army, and those scattered soldiers are not worried about their lives.

As long as he comes forward to collect the remnants, he should be able to gather most of the scattered soldiers again.

Thinking of this, Niu Cunjie felt a little relieved.

Soon after, Liu Cheng led 5,000 reinforcements to the rescue.

Don't look at the fact that this reinforcement is only 5,000 people, but they are a prepared army of 5,000, and they will definitely play a greater role at this time than the 40,000 Chinese troops who were unsuspecting before.

On the Wu army's side, Chai Kehong saw that after the enemy's reinforcements arrived, he did not continue to entangle, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.

At this point, the raid that lasted only more than an hour came to an end, and the cavalry led by Chai Kehong on the Wu side suddenly launched an attack, defeating the large but unsuspecting Liang army, and easily won the battle, and also announced that the battle for Xuzhou, which lasted for more than half a year, finally ended in the victory of the Wu army.

On the battlefield full of corpses, the Wu army, which had just raged, had left, leaving only the soldiers of the Liang army, who were still unable to hide their panic, cleaning the battlefield; After Liu Yan ordered his men to pursue Wu's army for a while, he rationally collected his troops and returned.

Looking at the corpses left everywhere on the battlefield, Liu Jun, Niu Cunjie and other generals were speechless for a while, and their expressions were extremely ugly.

After a while, Liu Jun spoke: "General, although the Wu army has temporarily retreated, the current top priority is two things, the first is to collect the defeated army, let the army regroup, and clean up the losses of our army; The second thing was to send someone to find out the movements of Wu Jun. ”

When it came to the second thing, whether it was Liu Jun or Niu Cunjie, they were a little uneasy in their hearts, if the Wu army took the opportunity of this big victory to immediately send troops to the north, it would be difficult for the Liang army, which had just experienced a heavy defeat, to block the enemy army.

At that time, Bozhou, Songzhou and other hinterlands of the Central Plains may fall into the hands of the enemy, coupled with the imminent attack of the Northern Jin State, this will be the most serious crisis since the Liang State.

Perhaps although the generals were worried about being attacked by the armies of Wu and Jin in the north and south, the main force of the Liang army was still there at that time, and even if the Wu army went on a northern expedition, they could temporarily block it; However, if the Wu army immediately went on a northern expedition now, the generals would not have any confidence in their hearts.

Niu Cunjie was in a heavy mood, but he had to cheer up at this time.

At this time, He Gui, who had fled before, also arrived, and when he saw the tragedy on the battlefield, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.

"General, the defeat in this battle is all the responsibility of the last general, please punish the general!"

Niu Cunjie snorted coldly, turned his face away and didn't look at him, and didn't answer.

On the side, Liu Yan hurriedly persuaded: "Although General He led the troops to be in charge of the rear army, everyone did not expect that the enemy army would suddenly launch a surprise attack with cavalry, and the last general also had a share in the guilt of this battle, and General He could not be blamed alone." ”

Niu Cunjie thought that as the commander-in-chief, he also had an unshirkable responsibility, so he had to respond: "That's it, the defeat of this battle will be difficult for the general to escape his responsibility, how to deal with it, or let His Majesty deal with it after he goes back." ”

In fact, what annoyed He Gui the most was not that He Gui led the rear army but did not play the role of the queen of the palace, after all, everyone did not expect the enemy army to surprise before, and at this time, the army had returned to the territory controlled by the Liang State, and the soldiers would inevitably slacken.

Although He Gui has to bear some responsibility, other generals also have to bear some responsibility, especially Niu Cunjie, the main general, is even more responsible.

However, what made Niu Cunjie arrive and annoyed was He Gui's response after being raided.

The 10,000-strong army was quickly defeated under the surprise attack of 1,000 cavalry, which was expected, but the speed of He Gui's rout was inevitably too fast; And in this process, He Gui did not send someone to inform Niu Cunjie, but immediately fled the battlefield with his guards.

This led to the fact that when the Wu army came to kill the Liang army next, Niu Cunjie was not prepared, and even he got the news from the rout.

If He Gui could resist a little and immediately spread the news to the Chinese army, then Niu Cunjie would not have been so passive, let alone defeated so quickly and so miserably.

However, this is not the time to pursue these issues, and the most urgent task at present is to quickly gather the rout and figure out the next movement of the Wu army.

Niu Cunjie immediately ordered the camp to be settled, and at the same time assigned various generals to collect the scattered soldiers, and ordered all departments to send scouts south to inquire about the news of the Wu army.

Because Liu Cheng came in time, although the Chinese army was defeated, the scattered soldiers did not flee far, so they were quickly regrouped after the war.

However, the rear army under the command of He Gui before, because the place where the soldiers were defeated and scattered was originally far away from the location of the Chinese army, and a long time had passed, so those scattered soldiers had fled far away.

It wasn't until the evening that the scattered soldiers were basically gathered up, and after some counting, Niu Cunjie and others wanted to cry without tears.

When He's troops had been routed before, the army was approaching a river; After the army broke up, many soldiers tried to cross the river to flee for their lives, but they were crowded and trampled in the river, and many soldiers died.

Coupled with the soldiers who were killed by the Wu army's charge later, as well as the casualties due to other reasons, the casualties of the Liang army were as high as more than 7,000 in the end.

Perhaps compared to the overall army of the Liang army, 7,000 people is only equivalent to 10% of the strength; But you must know that many times the casualties of a big war are only a few hundred or thousand; Seven thousand casualties are completely nerve-wracking.

What's more, in addition to the heavy casualties, the more important point of this defeat was the blow to the morale of the Liang army.

Why did the Liang army flee overnight because of the fake news that "the main force of the Jin army has arrived"? In the final analysis, it was because the Liang army was demoralized and had no fighting spirit.

If it was in the heyday of the Liang army, the morale of the soldiers was high and the fighting spirit was strong, even if the Jin army attacked in a big way? The Liang army did not defeat the Jin army many times, and in the end, even Jinyang City besieged it twice, and even almost forced Li Keyong to flee to the desert.

It's a pity that today's Liang army is no longer the invincible Liang army it was at the beginning, and their spirit has long been exhausted in the defeats of the past few years.