The enemy's cavalry charged, artillery fire was rushed, the Guards Brigade had long been prepared, and when it saw the enemy approaching, it immediately slowly retreated, and while retreating, it blocked the enemy's cavalry with sporadic muskets, although it was not much, but it was better than nothing.

At this moment, after some fighting, more than half of the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army have been lost, and there are about 2,800 soldiers and more than 100 cavalry.

The formation of the three regiments had been disbanded, and now they were all gathered together, gathered around the remaining guards of Zhang Qiang.

There were only more than 30 people left in the guards, and they re-mounted the horses, and the cavalry and horses that were protected in the middle at the beginning were now only more than a hundred cavalrymen, and they were also recruited into the guards and re-formed the guards, once this battle finally became inevitable to lose, they would protect Zhang Qiang and break out of the encirclement.

The commanders of the three guards brigades slowly retreated with their soldiers, and while retreating, they persuaded Zhang Qiang to break through.

Zhang Qiang didn't expect to fight like this, the first time he saw the enemy fight so tenacious, it took him a long time to realize that he was chasing too eagerly, making the enemy jump over the wall in a hurry, and he was chasing too fast, so that the enemy had his back to the enemy's army, and the enemy's army could come over for reinforcements at any time, but he lost contact with his own army, too careless.

But now Zhang Qiang can't just run away, he asked the infantry to go quickly, and he took more than a hundred cavalry to cover them, at least to stop the enemy's cavalry.

After some arguments, Zhang Qiang calmly gave the order for the infantry to retreat, and then rushed forward bravely with more than a hundred cavalry, even if he had a good gun on his body, the bullets had run out, and he could only use cold weapons to fight the enemy.

Facing the enemy's remaining cavalry of thirteen or four hundred, more than a hundred cavalrymen brandished their sabers and charged again and again, cutting the enemy off their horses.

Of course, the damage to one's own people is indispensable in this process, although the cavalry of the Guards Brigade are all elites who have experienced a hundred battles, but where is the advantage of the opponent's troops, it is not a cavalry that can be handled casually.

There are Manchu cavalry who have fought for decades, brave and extraordinary, there are Mongolian cavalry, experienced, people are growing up on horseback, Han army flag cavalry, although it is a Han cavalry, but the bloodline has long been impure, and the Manchu people intermarriage was born without the second generation of the Han people, these cavalry is the age of blood and strength, and it is also the age of the best physical strength, the age when you want to make contributions the most, the green battalion cavalry, the combat effectiveness is not not strong, it is that people do not want to fight, or often slack off, in fact, there are many people in the green camp who have superb riding skills, The combat effectiveness is good, and the green battalion soldiers have a characteristic, they can't fight tough battles, but if they fight a tailwind battle, their combat effectiveness will immediately increase by two or three times.

If it were at other times, these people might not be able to fight to the death with the Huaxia army, but now that the Huaxia army is defeated, their combat effectiveness can be imagined, and they will immediately increase several times, and they will be more able to fight than others, and this is their advantage in fighting a tailwind battle.

The infantry of the Huaxia Army continued to retreat, and more than 100 troops were killed and wounded, and they withdrew more than 500 meters, and the enemy continued to approach, entangle, and pursue, and the enemy's army was already close to 200 meters, only more than 800 meters away from the infantry.

Zhang Qiang's cavalry attacked again and again, giving them time, and other soldiers were constantly caught up by the enemy, strangling the cavalry pursued by the enemy, although they retreated, they also retreated in an orderly manner, which is the difference between elites and ordinary soldiers.

Two thousand six hundred troops, divided into three waves of troops, alternately cover the retreat, the speed of retreat is not fast, but it did not let the enemy's cavalry take advantage, and fought and retreated, but also killed and injured a lot of the enemy's cavalry, and Zhang Qiang is not blindly to impact the enemy's cavalry, always keep his team at a distance of about 500 meters, which can not only kill and injure a large number of enemies, but also make the enemy's cavalry unable to chase the infantry with all their might.

But he could only do this, many wounded soldiers of the Guards Brigade were inevitably killed, and the enemy's infantry was advancing while searching for the soldiers of the Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army, brutally cutting off their heads, and now there is no such thing as a prisoner.

What the enemy wants is merit and reward, those soldiers who have died were all cut off by the soldiers of the new army town under Ma Bao, pinned to the waist, this era is so barbaric, only recognize the corpse, the enemy's head, and the reward will be based on the enemy's head.

Although Zhang Qiang was very angry about this, he had to bury it in his heart, how to keep these soldiers behind him now, otherwise the whole army would be wiped out.

Every time he was impacted, Zhang Qiang found that his horsemanship was exquisite, and every time he killed an enemy's cavalry on a horse, he felt that his force value rose a little, as if playing a game, every time he killed an enemy, he had experience worth it.

Such a miraculous thing made Zhang Qiang more and more excited, more and more handy, the enemy's new army town soldiers were still fighting in the rear because of the merit, and the infantry on their side endured grief and retreated, and soon withdrew more than a mile, farther and farther away from the battlefield just now, Zhang Qiang and his cavalry were getting farther and farther away from the enemy.

In less than half an hour, the entire army retreated for more than five miles, while the enemy's cavalry stopped in horror and stopped moving forward, at this moment there were more than fifty cavalry left around Zhang Qiang, and the enemy's 13,400 cavalry was killed and only five or six hundred cavalry remained, hanging far away, not daring to rush up again.

Taking this opportunity, Zhang Qiang and the others slowed down their pace, allowing the war horses, which had been rushing for half an hour, to rest, while monitoring the enemy's cavalry and army.

Seeing such an opportunity, the remaining 2,400 soldiers of the three regiments in the back turned around and ran one after another, although they had been running for two days and one night, and had experienced a fierce battle, but at the moment of life and death, they still showed their potential, and in less than fifteen minutes, they ran out of more than ten miles, and they were even farther away from the enemy.

And Zhang Qiang and they always suppressed the enemy's cavalry, and when they saw that the enemy's cavalry had signs of rushing up, they immediately drove their horses to hedge with the enemy once, killed a few people, and then fled quickly, ran away for more than three miles, and continued to monitor the enemy.

And Ma Bao's soldiers of the new army of the Lu army have already fought in the place where the battle just took place, and even used guns and artillery, for a head, hundreds of people fought a battle, lost two or three hundred people, and wounded four or five hundred, Ma Bao and Kong Youxing finally angrily suppressed their troops, and reorganized them and began to pursue.

At this time, they were already more than twenty miles behind the Huaxia army, but Ma Bao and Kong Youxing didn't want to give up, so they asked the soldiers to speed up, two days ago they were still embarrassed escapees, today their identities have been reversed, and they have begun to pursue others.

After running for more than forty miles, it was almost dark, and the Huaxia Army was still ten miles away, which could not be blamed on the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade, they no longer had the strength to run, they could only move forward step by step, and they had exhausted the last bit of strength on their bodies.

Seeing this scene, Ma Bao discussed with Kong Youxing, and dispatched a part of the elite, about 4,000 soldiers and horses, to throw off the other forces, quickly pursue, and in less than half an hour, he made peace with those cavalry who were hanging tightly on the other side.

At this time, Zhang Qiang and the others had fled for nearly fifty-five miles, and they still couldn't stop, and if they stopped, they would have to be cut off by the enemy, but even so, the morale did not drop much, Zhang Qiang was still there, the commanders at all levels of the Guards Brigade were still there, the Chinese Army had trained hard in the past, and the discipline could still be maintained, and they were still the most elite soldiers of the Chinese Guards Brigade.

(End of chapter)