Although there were not many new troops in his hands, Yang Wu still sent 2,000 reinforcements to Zhu Qianyou without hesitation.

Yang Wu knew that although Zhu Qianyou was an extremely low-key person, his character was very resolute, and since Yang Wu had handed over the battle situation on the middle line to him, he would not easily ask for reinforcements until the critical moment.

And once he starts asking for help, it means that the situation is urgent.

After sending two thousand reinforcements to the central line, the reserve army left on the hillside at this time was only two thousand men.

And for a period of time after that, there was no news coming from all over the front, but Yang Wu knew that this did not mean that the situation had improved, on the contrary, it meant that the battle situation was still in a stalemate, so no new news came.

After all, Yang Yan on the side had only seen this kind of scene for the first time, he stood there with an anxious face, and wanted to ask Yang Wu several times, but he was worried that it would not affect Yang Wu's train of thought.

As for the other guards, they watched the battlefield under the hillside nervously, not daring to make a sound.

For a while, only the distant shouts of fighting continued to come from the entire battlefield, and the atmosphere was suffocatingly tense.

After a long time, new news finally came, but unfortunately it was not good news, but bad news: the veteran Li Zhang was seriously injured, and the battle situation on the right flank suddenly changed.

Originally, after Yang Wu sent reinforcements to the right wing, Li Zhang quickly stabilized the battle situation, and then the enemy and us continued to fight fiercely, and the battle was difficult to solve.

However, just now, when Li Zhang was commanding his soldiers to fight fiercely with the enemy, a stray arrow shot him in the head.

As a result, Li Zhang fell on the spot, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead; The Wu army also panicked because of this, while the Jin army took the opportunity to attack, and the battle situation finally inevitably tilted towards the Jin army's side.

Yang Wu asked the heralds who came to report, "Who is currently commanding the right wing?" ”

"King Qiyu, the other two commanders on the right wing were also killed in battle, and now it is Meng Kang and Meng Dutou who are in charge of commanding."

Yang Wu's face sank when he heard this, has the war on the right wing reached such a point?

He only hesitated for a moment before ordering: "Let Meng Kang immediately lead the army to retreat, retreat to the hillside, and reorganize the defensive line to continue to resist." The Lone Society sent troops to meet his retreat. ”

The herald asked in disbelief, "My lord, do you mean to retreat?" But our army should be able to hold out for a while. ”

Yang Wu sneered when he heard this: "Insistence? From Lone's point of view, if it takes another period of time, it will not only be the end of the right wing, but also the end of Lone's entire army! ”

He glanced at the herald and said with some displeasure: "Why are you still stunned?" Still not to deliver orders? ”

Only then did the herald react, and hurriedly answered, and left in a hurry.

Yang Wu immediately ordered to send 1,000 men to cover the retreat of the right flank.

Not only the right wing, but he also sent people to send orders to Wu Bo on the left and Zhu Qianyou on the middle line, asking them to make arrangements and prepare to retreat to the hillside.

At this time, the two armies were in a state of anxiety, and the soldiers on both sides were inextricably killed, and it was undoubtedly very dangerous to choose to retreat at such a time, and even if one was not done well, the retreat might turn into a rout, which would then lead to the collapse of the entire defense line.

But Yang Wu has no choice, after losing the command of Li Zhang, the right wing is now only relying on the command of a capital, the situation is already very dangerous, if you don't take advantage of the fact that it has not completely collapsed to retreat and regroup, I am afraid that the right wing of the army will really be finished.

Since the right flank is about to withdraw, then the center line and the left flank must also retreat accordingly, otherwise they may be attacked by the enemy around the rear and the enemy on the flank.

At the same time, after such a long period of fierce fighting, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, although at this time because of the darkness, it was not clear to see the specific situation of each front, but Yang Wu knew that there must have been many loopholes in the entire defense line at this time.

At this time, only by appropriately shrinking the entire defense line and reducing the defensive range can we concentrate our forces to strengthen the defense and further resist the enemy.

After the order to retreat was issued, the next period of time was also the most dangerous moment, not only Yang Yan's face was like dirt, but Yang Wu's expression also looked very nervous, for fear that the whole army would retreat.

Fortunately, although the process of retreat was a little dangerous, it was finally passed safely, and the right flank was safely withdrawn to the mountainside under the cover of reinforcements.

The retreat of the middle line followed, and after Zhu Qianyou received the order, he did not immediately execute it, but first personally led an elite army to launch a counter-charge against the Jin army, and after repelling the Jin army for a distance, he broke off with the elite soldiers and retreated safely.

The left flank was the last to receive the order to retreat, and their retreat process was also the most thrilling, when Wu Bo led his troops to retreat, the enemy immediately followed, followed by the Wu army and stormed, and for a time the danger came out, almost triggering a complete collapse of the left flank.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Yang Wu sent a thousand people to support, which blocked the pursuers and stabilized the left flank.

After the third-line army successfully retreated, Yang Wu immediately sent people to make an inventory, and found that there were a total of 7,000 soldiers on the right flank, including reinforcements, but at this time there were only more than 3,000 left; Of the 9,000 soldiers on the central line, only more than 4,000 were withdrawn at this time, while the situation on the left flank was relatively better, with nearly 3,000 of the 4,000 soldiers retreating.

If you add the fresh army that originally stayed on the mountain, there are only more than 11,000 people left in the Wu army at this time, that is to say, by this time in the battle, the army has lost half of its soldiers, and many of the remaining soldiers are also wounded.

What is even more tragic is that the losses of the officers and generals of various departments are extremely serious, such as Li Zhang, the commander of the right wing, and one commander and one deputy commander under his command, all of whom have now fallen, leaving only one in command; The situation on the center line and the left wing, although better, has also suffered greater losses.

Of course, the casualties of the Wu army were certainly heavy, and the situation on the side of the Jin army would definitely not be much better.

After all, the Jin army is the attacking party, and the time is pressing, in order to break through the defense line of the Wu army as soon as possible, it can be said that the Jin army up to Li Cunqing, down to the ordinary soldiers, at this time are already fighting for their lives, such a fierce offensive has successfully forced the Wu army to shrink the defense line, but its own casualties are also amazing.

After withdrawing from the Wu army, the Jin army launched a large-scale assault, and after failing to achieve results, the Jin army temporarily stopped, preparing to take a short rest and attack again, the reason for this is obviously because of too many casualties.

The Wu army also took advantage of this gap to make adjustments, first of all, to promote a group of brave soldiers in the line of fire, so as to fill the vacancies left by the officers who died in battle and restore the command system of the army.

This is extremely important, if an army loses its command, it is undoubtedly against the mob, and even if the soldiers are brave, it is difficult to exert sufficient combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Yang Wu immediately ordered Meng Kang to be promoted to commander, performing the duties of the commander, continuing to be responsible for the battle on the right flank, and at the same time promoting a large number of other officers and generals to assist him; On the middle line and the left wing, Yang Wu also asked Wu Bo and Zhu Qianyou to each report a list of promotions, and immediately made promotions according to the list.

If he is still stingy with rewards at such a time, then Yang Wu is too stupid.

After a night of fierce fighting, the consumption of arrows was extremely high, and there were signs of shortage, and at this time the sky was almost bright, and the role of bows and arrows would become important again, so Yang Wu took this matter as a key point.

Of course, Yang Wu did not forget to do these things such as rescuing the wounded and calming the hearts of the army.

In general, after this night's fierce fighting, although the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the morale of the army was quite stable and did not fluctuate much, which made Yang Wu feel a lot more relieved.

Time passed, the sky had become gray, a fog had risen, and it was difficult to see the figure five paces away, a situation that was even more difficult than the fierce battle of the night before, and any command would be useless, and the only thing that could be counted on was the quality of the army itself.

It's a pity that although the quality of the Wu army is very strong, it is still a little worse than the elite of the Jin army.

At this time, the Jin army launched another attack, vowing to settle the battle today.

This attack was even more fierce than the previous one, because the Wu army had fought fiercely with the Jin army without retreating; And now, the Wu army has been forced to retreat to the mountainside, which is a great result for the Jin army soldiers, as if victory is in sight.

Under such circumstances, the morale of the Jin army was even higher, and the fighting was more desperate.

Only an hour later, the Wu army was forced to shrink the defensive line again, the front was almost compressed to the hillside, and not far behind was Yang Wu's royal banner, it can be said that the Wu army had no way to retreat!

And what's even more critical is that Wu Jun's arrows have been exhausted!

At this time, the morning sun was rising, the thick fog was gradually dispersing, and the battlefield that had been fiercely fought all night was full of corpses, like a huge Shura field, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

The Jin army under the mountain saw that it was not far from Yang Wu's Wang Qi, and they seemed to have victory in sight, and they attacked fiercely one by one, impacting the defense line of the Wu army.

Under such a fierce offensive, the entire defense line of the Wu army was crumbling, and the situation was already endangered to the extreme, Yang Wu invested all the new forces, and only then did he barely repel the Jin army and get a respite.

After the Jin army retreated, they did not give up the attack, and while seizing the time to rest, they sent troops to wade across the river and prepare to make a detour to the rear of the hillside, apparently intending to encircle the Wu army.

And on the hillside, at this critical moment, there was no longer any need to distinguish between the left flank, the right flank and the center line on the battlefield, all the armies were concentrated on the last line of defense to resist, and the main generals were also concentrated in front of Yang Wu.

Sun Hongyu, one of the commanders of the Yulin Army, was kneeling on one knee at this time, and begged bitterly: "King, today's battle is unfavorable, please break through immediately!" The last general is willing to swear to protect the king and the second prince to break out! ”

The other generals also knelt on the ground one after another, and said bitterly: "King, if we don't break through again, once the enemy army completes the encirclement, it will be too late for us to break through." ”

Breakout?

Yang Wu glanced at the generals, and his heart was shaken for a moment, but then he strengthened his determination again.

"Breakout? No, Lone will never break through! Breaking through at this time, how is it different from escaping? ”

He remembered the historical Song Taizong, during the Battle of the Gaoliang River, the Song army of 300,000 troops launched a siege on Youzhou.

Originally, the battle situation had always been dominant, but at the critical moment, the Khitan general Yelu Xiuge led his troops to raid, resulting in the defeat of the Song army, and Song Taizong was also hit by an arrow, and in a panic rushed all the way to Zhuozhou City, but abandoned the 300,000 army behind.

Originally, although the Song army suffered a small defeat, it did not change the situation of the entire battlefield, and the Song army still had a huge advantage; However, Song Taizong's escape led to the final complete defeat of the army.

Now Yang Wu is surrounded here, although the Wu army on the periphery occupies an absolute advantage, and may rush to the rescue at any time; But at this time, if Yang Wu chooses to break through and flee for his life, the consequences may lead to a crushing defeat for the Wu army like the Song army in the Battle of the Gaoliang River.

This result was something that Yang Wu was never willing to accept, so he rejected the general's proposal without hesitation.

"King, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, as long as you break through, join General Li Jian, and then regroup, you will be able to defeat the enemy army!" Sun Hongyu is still persuading.

Yang Wu was furious, pulled out the sword at his waist, raised it high, and shouted: "Gu has decided to fight to the death here today, and those who dare to persuade Gu to break through will disobey the order and be killed!" ”

Zhu Qianyou opened his mouth when he heard this, as if he wanted to say something, but he was forced by Yang Wu with a stern look, and finally he didn't dare to speak.

Yang Wu shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, although the enemy army is attacking fiercely, in fact, they are already at the end of their crossbows, so what are they afraid of? As long as we work together, we will be able to defeat the enemy here. ”

He looked at the generals and said: "If Gu unfortunately dies in battle today, Naer and the others will immediately break through, and the person who returns alive will convey Gu's will to the queen, so that the prince will inherit the unification immediately, so as to determine the hearts of the people in the world!" ”

He said slowly: "In today's battle, Lone lives and dies with all the soldiers!" ”

All the soldiers were inspired to have the last blood bravery, and one by one their blood was full of blood, and they shouted loudly: "I am willing to die for the king!" ”

Even Yang Yan, the little guy, also shouted loudly in a childish voice at this time: "I wish to live and die with my father!" ”

Yang Wu said loudly: "The enemy army has attacked our army's defense line for a night, we have been passively beaten, this is absolutely not possible, we must fight back, let the enemy know that we are invincible!" ”

"Lone is determined, all the soldiers launched a charge, and the target was the enemy's Chinese army, and the soldiers and horses of the headquarters led by Li Cunmiao heard it?"

"Obey the King's command."

"Alright, beat the drums of war!" Yang Wu ordered loudly.

The rousing drums of war immediately resounded throughout the battlefield, shaking everyone's hearts.

At this time, Zhu Qianyou raised his right arm and shouted: "Zhu Qianyou died here today!" With that, he rushed to the enemy army at the bottom of the mountain.

At this time, although the Jin army was repulsed, the distance between the two sides was also very close, only an arrow away.

Therefore, Zhu Qianyou charged a few steps before he rushed into the range of the enemy's bow and arrows.

At this time, the sun has already risen, the dense fog has long since dispersed, and the view is very good.

Zhu Qianyou took the lead in the charge, and immediately became a live target of the Jin army.

"Poof!" An arrow pierced through his shoulder, knocking Zhu Qianyou to the ground.

But he immediately stood up again and shouted: "Kill! ”

Immediately afterward, another arrow hit him, but each time he stood up and continued to charge forward, until he was finally hit by six arrows, and then finally fell to the ground, still shouting: "Kill! ”