In order not to let the cavalry lose too much, Yang Wu had to order the collection of troops; And An Renyi's side didn't do much entanglement, and the two sides stopped fighting. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the end, after a big battle, Yang Wu's side lost more than 600 infantry and more than 100 cavalry; And the losses of An Renyi's side should be more than 3,000 people.

Judging from the comparison of losses, Yang Wu is undoubtedly the victorious side, but unfortunately the sky is not beautiful, but a pouring rain prevented him from expanding the victory, and in the end he could only end hastily.

Fortunately, this battle also greatly weakened the strength of the rebels, as long as they waited until the sky cleared, even if they fought head-on, Yang Wu's side would not be weaker than the other party.

After withdrawing from the battlefield, Yang Wu ordered to first set up camp tents for the wounded soldiers to protect them from the rain, and sent military doctors to bandage their wounds, and then began to set up camps and establish defensive measures.

It was not easy to set up a camp in the heavy rain, and the soldiers were a little tired after a fierce battle, but Yang Wu's rule was to set up a defensive camp no matter what the situation was to camp in the wilderness to prevent the enemy from sneaking up.

In order to boost morale, Yang Wu had to personally lead the guards to do it, and under his leadership, the soldiers quickly set up the camp, and then began to bury the pot and cook.

"Although the enemy army has suffered heavy losses today, they still have the strength to fight, so we must still defend tonight in case the enemy army sneaks up." After eating, Yang Wu felt better after drinking a cup of hot ginger soup, and dried his wet clothes on the campfire in the tent.

"The prince can rest assured that the garrison will not be relaxed. It's just that An Renyi will take the opportunity to escape? Li Yu said with a smile.

If An Renyi took advantage of the heavy rain to march overnight, today's battle not only hit An Renyi hard, but also made An Renyi understand the hidden strength of Yang Wu's side, he must know that it is not beneficial to continue to entangle, it is better to flee overnight.

"Then let the scouts work hard, and keep an eye on each other's movements at night, and chase them if they show signs of escape!" Hou Zan said.

"Then arrange it like this, in short, we must entangle the rebels to the death, and we must not let him return to Runzhou before our reinforcements arrive." Yang Wu nodded in agreement.

That day, the heavy rain continued until late at night before it gradually became lighter, and when it really stopped, it was just after the sky was just getting dark.

However, when Yang Wu led the cavalry to An Renyi's camp again, he couldn't help but be stunned, only to see An Renyi's camp full of flags, and some soldiers coming and going in the camp.

"What's going on, isn't An Renyi going to leave today and want to stay and fight to the death with our army?" Hou Zan wondered.

Yang Wu was also puzzled at first, thinking that An Renyi should not be so stupid, and when he carefully observed for a while, he found that although there were still soldiers in the camp, the number of soldiers he saw was too small, but there were a lot of various flags, and he couldn't help but wake up.

"It seems that our scouts have been fooled, An Renyi must have withdrawn his troops overnight!"

When Li Yu and their infantry arrived, they had just sent people close to An Renyi's camp, and the soldiers inside obediently left the camp and surrendered.

It turned out that only a few hundred wounded soldiers and some old and weak people were disguised as the main force of the rebels under various banners in the camp, and the night was too dark last night, and the continuous heavy rain further hindered the scout's vision, and as a result, they successfully evaded the scout's attention, and An Renyi's main force had fled in the rain overnight last night.

"Shizi, I just asked the soldiers who surrendered, An Renyi began to withdraw his troops as soon as it was dark last night, and it has been at least five or six hours at this time now, and according to their speed, they have opened a distance of at least thirty or forty miles from us, should we still chase?" Li Yu asked on the side.

The distance of forty miles is not too far, and if the cavalry pursues it at full speed, it may not be impossible to catch up, and An Renyi's soldiers are not iron-clad, and they marched in the rain overnight last night, and now they must be too tired to do so; On the other hand, Yang Wu's side had a good night's rest last night, and his physical strength was abundant, and the marching speed was definitely much faster.

"Chase, of course you have to chase!" Yang Wu thought for a while and made a decision, "This general will lead the cavalry to pursue first, Li Yuanjun, you leave some people to be responsible for guarding the prisoners and taking care of the wounded soldiers, and then lead the rest of the infantry to catch up at the normal marching speed." ”

With Yang Wu's order, the cavalry team quickly attacked and pursued in the direction of the retreat of the rebels. However, in order to prevent An Renyi from ambushing again, they did not increase the speed of the horse to the maximum, and cautiously advanced along the way.

After more than an hour of pursuit, Yang Wu was surprised to find that more and more rebel soldiers were encountered on the side of the road, all of whom were too tired to fall behind.

These rebel soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered obediently after seeing the cavalry, and there were more than 500 rebel soldiers who surrendered in this way along the way.

Yang Wu couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was the consequence of An Renyi's withdrawal in the rain overnight, he didn't pay much attention to these surrendered soldiers, leaving hundreds of cavalry to take in the prisoners all the way, waiting for Li Yu's infantry behind, and he continued to move forward.

After chasing for more than ten miles, he suddenly lost the trace of An Renyi's rebels.

"Strange, why did the trail of the rebels suddenly disappear here? Not good, there is an ambush! Withdraw first! ”

Yang Wu was shocked, and hurriedly led the army to retreat, but after a while, there was still no movement in front, he observed the surrounding terrain, and saw that although there was some grass and trees around, it was difficult to hide the army, and after sending scouts to investigate, he found that there were no ambushes around, but Yang Wu was too nervous.

"It seems that I am too cautious, and I am a little bit of a soldier!"

He smiled self-deprecatingly, and personally led the guards to investigate the surroundings, only to find that the traces of the rebels did not disappear after arriving here, but left the avenue and walked in the direction of the canal, and continued to chase to the canal, only to find some items abandoned by the rebels.

"Shizi, it seems that the rebels have found a ship to board the ship and leave along the waterway, probably sent by Runzhou to pick it up." Hou Zan said with an unhappy face.

Yang Wu was not very satisfied with this result, but after this pursuit, there were nearly 600 stragglers in the camp alone, and there must be some stragglers who did not stay on the avenue, and no one could find them when those people fled into the surrounding woods, so that there should be as many as seven or eight hundred enemy soldiers who fell behind or fled, plus the old, weak and wounded soldiers who stayed in the camp, and in the end, it would be good if An Renyi could have 4,000 people around him to return to Runzhou with him.

Thinking about it like this, Yang Wu was also relieved, 10,000 troops were sent to Changzhou, and finally returned defeated, losing nearly 6,000 people, An Renyi's strength was absolutely greatly damaged. Now with the addition of the 5,000 people who stayed in Runzhou, An Renyi's army is less than 10,000 people, and the difficulty of conquering Runzhou has been reduced a lot.

Next, as long as the main force led by Wang Maozhang and them arrives, they can encircle Runzhou, and the initiative of the war has completely shifted to Yang Wu's side.

ps: There's another chapter in the evening, to make up for what was missing yesterday