Fifteen miles southwest of Gaoyi County, on the north bank of the Yehe River, in the wilderness, nearly 100,000 troops on both sides of the Jin and Liang sides are fighting fiercely.

The relatively large Liang army was divided into two formations by the Jin army, and the main force in the north, led by Wang Yanzhang, launched a fierce attack on the Jin army, trying to relieve Wang Qianyu's troops who were under siege by the Jin army in the south.

When the battle was at its most intense, the Jin army composed of the Zhao army and the Beiping army was defeated and retreated again and again, and was almost defeated by the Liang army.

At a critical time, Li Jianji, the general of the Jin army, led two hundred dead soldiers to repel the attack of the Liang army.

After losing this wonderful opportunity, the Jin army once again stabilized its position, and no matter how the Liang army attacked, it was never able to make a breakthrough.

Seeing this situation, although the Jin army was determined, the Liang army couldn't help but panic.

Wang Yanzhang also broke out at this time, he personally led the troops to attack the Jin army many times, and sometimes even fell into the siege of the Jin army, but he still killed the enemy.

It's a pity that if you miss the opportunity, you miss it, and there will be no time to start again.

When the sun gradually sank in the west, Wang Qianyu's side in the east could no longer hold on, and as the raging fire ignited, countless baggage was turned into ashes in the flames.

The soldiers of the Liang army, who were responsible for guarding the baggage, fled in all directions, and those people were even more scattered.

"We have already lost, there is no point in fighting this battle again, let's find a way to withdraw the army!" Looking at the skyrocketing fire in the distance, Wang Yanzhang knew that Wang Qianyu had been defeated.

Considering that the morale of the Liang army has been greatly reduced now, the soldiers are even more exhausted; And the Jin army's morale must have been greatly boosted after successfully eliminating Wang Qianyu, and they are about to be supported by Li Cunzhang, who eliminated Wang Qianyu, under the advantages of one another, it is impossible to win today's battle.

So Wang Yanzhang is already thinking about withdrawing troops.

However, now that the two armies have become completely entangled, it is difficult to separate, and if they retreat rashly, there may be a major defeat.

In the Battle of Weishui, the Qin army only retreated a little, which led to a crushing defeat, and now that the two armies have started a melee, they can't retreat casually.

However, if the war continues, it will only make the two armies more entangled, and it will be more difficult to separate at that time.

When Li Cunzhang led his troops to press, the two armies eliminated each other's strengths, and the Liang army could not hold on at all, if it withdrew, it would be even more defeated.

Therefore, after Wang Yanzhang figured it out in his heart, he immediately knew that retreating while the soldiers still had the fighting spirit and their physical strength was relatively sufficient.

"Pass the order, let Han Qing lead the right wing to retreat first, let him pay attention to leaving Wei Bojun behind, and let the state soldiers of Xing and Wei retreat first!"

"Tell Li Si'an to let him lead the Shenjie army to retreat, and Ben will lead the Long Xiang army to cover for him!"

"After the two units that have withdrawn successively retreat for three miles, they will rectify the formation, and then cover the Long Xiang Army and Wei Bo Army that are left behind!" Wang Yanzhang immediately made a decision.

Retreat is also a technical job, and it cannot be retreated at the same time, and a part of the troops must be left behind.

If it is a weak army, I am afraid that it will not be able to resist the attack of the enemy, and even before the enemy army can fight, it will be scattered.

Therefore, Wang Yanzhang chose to personally lead the Long Xiang army and let the Shenjie army withdraw one after another.

However, the strength of the right wing was composed of state soldiers from Xing, Wei and other states, as well as Wei Bo's army, and their combat power and morale were not as good as the two armies of Long Xiang and Shenjie on the left flank, so Wang Yanzhang was extremely worried about whether the right wing army would be chaotic when retreating, and then be taken advantage of by the enemy.

It's a pity that at this time, he has no other way but to hand over the battle to Han Qing and Li Si'an.

A quarter of an hour later, the military order was in place, and the divisions began to slowly retreat.

"The Liang army has retreated, and the soldiers are killed!"

"Kill!"

Seeing this situation, the Jin army decisively pressed up, and Zhou Dewei was even more noisy, encouraging the Jin army to attack.

Li Siyuan of the right wing of the Jin army shouted loudly in front of the left wing of the Liang army: "Your right wing has already retreated first, why are you still here to die?" ”

This strategy can be described as vicious, where can the soldiers of the Liang army distinguish the true from the false in the melee, so after listening to it, they immediately became a little confused.

Fortunately, at this time, the Liang army has not reached the point of exhaustion after all, especially the Longxiang army that stayed behind is the elite of the Liang army, and the morale is relatively high.

In addition, after Wang Yanzhang personally stayed behind to break off, the soldiers saw their commander personally waving the iron gun in his hand and rushing back and forth in the Jin army array, and their morale was suddenly boosted, and the chaos that had just appeared was also calmed down again.

The Shenjie army slowly retreated under the command of Li Si'an and began to disengage from the Jin army.

Seeing this situation, Wang Yanzhang and Li Si'an both secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, at this time, the situation of the right-wing Han Qing was very bad.

The right wing of the Liang army was composed of Wei Bojun and the state soldiers of Xing and Wei Prefectures, and their combat strength was not as good as that of Shenjie and Long Xiang, and their morale was much worse, and Han Qing's personal ability to lead the troops was also lacking, and he did not dare to take the lead and set an example for the soldiers.

Those Wei Bojun were originally only vassals of the Liang army, and their morale was low, and at this time they thought that the army had collapsed, and they didn't dare to stay at all, just thinking about quickly fleeing the battlefield to save their lives.

As a result, the right flank of the Liang army quickly turned from an organized retreat into a rout in chaos.

On the left flank of the Jin army on the opposite side was Zhou Dewei's department, and this veteran saw this opportunity and immediately led the cavalry to charge the Liang army.

The galloping Jin army's elite cavalry rushed back and forth in the Liang army's formation, setting off a large area of blood.

The collapse of the right flank soon affected the left flank, because of the loss of the cover of the right flank, the retreat of the Shenjie army also became panicked, and even the Long Xiang army almost led the army to retreat together.

Fortunately, Li Si'an did not spare his life to run away at a critical time, although this veteran has fought a lot of defeats, he is still very brave on the battlefield.

Under the leadership of Li Si'an, the Shenjie army gradually stabilized, and began to cover the retreat of the Longxiang army three miles away according to the previous agreement.

At this time, the Jin army was busy chasing and killing the right-wing Liang army, but it did not concentrate its forces to deal with the Long Xiang army, plus Li Cunzhang also needed to rest after eliminating Wang Qianyu's army, and it would also take time for them to arrive at the battlefield, so although the Long Xiang army was alone against the Jin army during this period, the Jin army could not help them.

When the Shenjie army began to stop to cover them, the dragon army also began to slowly retreat.

After the two armies of Shenjie and Longxiang converged, they could no longer care about the collapsed right flank, and began to quickly withdraw from the battlefield, leaving only the chaotic battlefield that was still fighting.

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Late at night, the camp of the Southern Liang Army in Gaoyi County.

"Ben will put you in charge of the withdrawal of troops on the right flank, and that's how you retreated? Thirty thousand troops! 30,000 people! That's how you cut it off! Wang Yanzhang stared at Han Qing who fled back in embarrassment with an excited expression.

In this battle, although he finally succeeded in escaping the battlefield, the losses were extremely heavy.

First of all, the 5,000 men led by Wang Qianyu who escorted the grain and grass were routed by the enemy, and it is impossible to predict how many people would survive in the end.

The second is the 30,000 troops on the right wing of the Liang army, when Han Qing commanded the right wing to retreat, for various reasons, there was chaos in the end, and the Jin army took the opportunity to defeat it.

Because the Jin army had a large number of cavalry, it is also clear how many people on the right flank after being defeated will survive, but judging from the situation at the time, there should not be many people who can escape in the end.

Finally, the left flank is composed of the elite of the Shenjie Army and the Longxiang Army.

Although this Liang army successfully disengaged from the Jin army, it suffered a lot of losses in the previous battle, and the Jin army did not stop attacking them during the subsequent retreat, and the Liang army could only ignore these attacks in order to evacuate faster.

By the time they finally returned to camp, less than 20,000 of the original 30,000 men (10,000 had been sent out to escort grain and grass and guard the pontoon bridge).

That is, the Liang army has lost more than 40,000 troops so far.

What's more, they are still in danger now, and they will only be safe if they cross the wild river and return to Bai Township.

"I didn't expect to suffer such a big defeat for the first time when I led the troops alone, and I don't know how Your Majesty will punish me when I go back." Thinking back to the loss report he had just gotten, Wang Yanzhang's heart seemed to be dripping blood.

He once dreamed of being like Liu Zhijun, Yang Shihou and other generals, and had a good performance in the first battle of leading the troops alone, and then received more attention from Zhu Wen, and defended one side for Liang Guo in the future.

It's a pity that the truth is so cruel, no matter how cautious he is, no matter how much he takes every step, the final result is still so tragic.

However, although Wang Yanzhang is miserable, Han Qing is even more miserable than him.

When the right flank collapsed, Han Qing was retreating with his guards and the state soldiers of Xing, Wei and other states, leaving Wei Bojun alone.

As a result, Wei Bojun did not play its due role at all, resulting in the entire rout of the right flank, and he himself was seriously injured in the chaos, and he escaped with difficulty under the desperate protection of the guards, but he did not expect to face Wang Yanzhang's accusations just after escaping.

Of course, there is a reason why Wang Yanzhang is so angry, he really failed to play his due role, when Wang Yanzhang and Li Si'an were fighting in person to boost the morale of the soldiers and let them know that their commander was with them, he stayed in the rear and was ready to retreat at any time.

As a result, Wei Bojun had no backbone, so he naturally thought that he was abandoned, and their collapse was a normal thing.

Of course, although he knows in his heart that he is responsible, Han Qing will not let Wang Yanzhang accuse him because of this, no matter how he is said that he is also a veteran in the army, when will it be the turn of a junior like Wang Yanzhang to point at him?

"Why did the right wing collapse so quickly, don't you know why? Whether it was Wei Bojun or those state soldiers, their morale was already low. If you Wang Yanzhang are replaced, they are only afraid that they will collapse faster! ”