Chapter 176: Retreat

Last time, it was said that Liang Xu's People's Self-Defense Army had suffered a devastating blow, and just when they were about to be destroyed, an unknown army appeared, causing the Yellow Turban Army to suspend its attack on the People's Self-Defense Army and reorganize its formation in order to plan for the future.

Liang Xu and the others also took the opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield, reorganize their troops, and wait for the battle.

The knights of the third army saw that the Yellow Turbans and the People's Self-Defense Army were in separate formations, so they did not continue to charge, but returned to their infantry ranks.

The new third-party army approached the People's Self-Defense Army and the Yellow Turban Army from the north and south directions respectively, and two of the knights who took the lead had a very different hairstyle from the Han Chinese, one was to keep only the braids on the sides and the back of the head, and the other was to have short hair overall, but the hair on the sides and back of the head was very long, and it was estimated that the man's previous findings were the same as those of his companions. There is no need to ask where they come from, they all know that these two people are definitely nomadic people. Moreover, the troops to the north were all under the command of the hairless foreigner, making it even more difficult to find out who this army that suddenly appeared was.

When this third-party army got close enough that everyone could see their appearance clearly, everyone found that the weapons and equipment of this army were also very incomplete, but the proportion of weapons in the ranks was much higher than that of the people's self-defense army, and nearly one-third of the people were equipped with weapons.

Although the equipment of the third-party army is not complete, the Yellow Turban Army does not dare to make any changes, because the number of this trouble-making army is really large, and there are four or five hundred people on each side, which adds up to almost a thousand.

The new troops, with 100 men on each side of the north and south, lined up against the People's Self-Defense Army, but did not come forward to attack. Their movements in changing formations were very fast and smooth, and at a glance they knew that they were not soft persimmons that everyone could pinch like the People's Self-Defense Army.

The rest of the new army lined up and pressed towards the Yellow Turban Army.

Liang Xu and the others saw that the soldiers facing them were all unarmed, but Liang Xu didn't dare to move, because the remaining people on the side of the People's Self-Defense Army might not even be a hundred. Liang Xu hopes that this third-party army will not face him, so that he can slip away with the troops. But now that people are staring at this side, Liang Xu doesn't dare to move, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings. Liang Xu kept telling his grandfather and grandmother in his heart, hoping that this new army would not want to destroy the Yellow Turban Army first, and then come and destroy themselves.

The current situation of the People's Self-Defense Army is very uncertain, but the Yellow Turban Army is even less optimistic.

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Although the Yellow Turban Army had the upper hand in the battle with the People's Self-Defense Army just now, it was sure that people would die in the battle, and now there are about 200 people left in the Yellow Turban Army. And the new third-party army attacked the Yellow Turban Army with more than three times the strength of the Yellow Turban Army. There was no need to fight at all, and the remaining 100 generals of the Yellow Turban Army were already preparing to retreat.

Now the north and south directions of the Yellow Turban Army have been caught by others, and the People's Self-Defense Army is in front of them in the east, so they can only retreat west to Tangcun. The 100 generals of the Yellow Turban Army gave an order, led the troops to turn around and run.

The third-party army also reacted quickly, following the Yellow Turban Army's buttocks, shouting and chasing after them. The troops they had used to defend against the People's Self-Defense Forces did not immediately follow, but continued to face the People's Self-Defense Forces and slowly retreated westward.

Liang Xu saw that the opportunity to escape had finally come, and hurriedly commanded the troops to face the other party, and slowly withdrew from the battlefield to the east.

But the remaining 200 men of the third army were far enough away from the People's Self-Defense Army that they turned and chased after the main force.

At this time, Liang Xu wanted to command the troops to flee for his life, but Liu Bei objected, and his gambling addiction was committed again. Liu Bei thought that the third-party army should have no hostility towards his side, otherwise the two hundred people left just now would be able to wipe out the remaining people's self-defense army. And the reason why he wanted to stay was because he fell in love with the weapons left on the battlefield. The lack of equipment is a big factor in the heavy casualties of the People's Self-Defense Forces this time.

Liang Xu didn't want to pay attention to Liu Bei, a die-hard money fan, but Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Feng all agreed with Liu Bei's opinion, so the minority obeyed the majority, and Liang Xu could only draw a circle and curse Liu Bei and his supporters, because he couldn't do anything to leave his brother alone and run for his life alone.

Liang Xu stood in his carriage and watched the soldiers of the People's Self-Defense Army loot the loot, and found that most of them would stop next to the corpses of their comrades and cry. Seeing this scene, Liang Xu felt so painful. Liang Xu knew that they might not only be comrades-in-arms, but also friends, or neighbors, and even relatives, fathers and sons, and brothers, because of his misjudgment, so many people were separated between life and death. Liang Xu looked at these sad people while fighting in his heart, whether it was important for him to flee for his own life, or to organize people to collect the corpses of the soldiers by hand? The only thing that can make my conscience a little better now may be to let these deceased people be laid to rest.

Until the People's Self-Defense Army has collected all the armor, the third-party army has still not appeared. Liang Xu also told Liu Bei that he wanted to bring back the body of the deceased. Since there is no danger for the time being, everyone agrees with Liang Xu's opinion.

When the soldiers heard that they could collect the bodies of their comrades, their movements became much sharper, and although the corpses were heavier, the time spent collecting the corpses was shorter than the time spent collecting the trophies, and everyone quickly gathered the corpses of their comrades.

But the problem came again, the bodies were gathered together, but there were no carts to transport them back. In the end, it can only be carried back by manpower. The only way to do this was to carry the food back to the camp first, and then to free up the grain cart to put the corpses, and the rest of the food also needed to be carried back by hand.

Although the third-party army was not found to be chasing after it, for the sake of safety, the People's Self-Defense Army did not stay in the camp for long, nor did it return by the same route, but planned to go back to Zhuoxian in a large circle to the south.

In the evening, everyone in the People's Self-Defense Army was too tired to do anything, so they did not set up camps, but arranged sentry posts, and after dinner, they went to rest.

Liang Xu still couldn't put his mind at ease, he was very afraid of the army that suddenly appeared, so he decided to use divination software to find out the details of the third-party army. Because no camp was set up to avoid being discovered by potential enemies, there was no campfire in the camp. Liang Xu took advantage of the dark night and quietly began to pinch his handprints.

(End of chapter)