Under the leadership of Zhao Yun, Bai Ma Yicong broke out into a more powerful battle, but in half an hour, he broke through the Dunhuang cavalry.

When the cavalry of Dunhuang saw this scene, they did not gather around Dong Wu, but rode their horses and fled, they were already frightened by the white horse Yicong.

After the defeat of a cavalry on the battlefield, they often choose not to move closer to the Chinese army, but to flee, which is also human nature, they have lost their fighting spirit even if they return to the Chinese army, what can they do, unless it is the elite of the cavalry.

The cavalry of Dunhuang has experienced a lot of wars, but in terms of overall strength, it is not much worse than the white horse Yicong, especially the cavalry of Dunhuang does not have stirrups to help, in their eyes, the white horse Yicong is a person with superb riding skills and strong martial arts, and it is inevitable to flee in a hurry, even if these cavalry flee back to the city, it is more to preach how brave the enemy's cavalry is, and it is overwhelmed on the battlefield.

After the cavalry was routed, Dong Wu sensed the urgency of the matter.

In the confrontation of foot soldiers, Dong Wu had 2,000 foot soldiers in his hands, and the vanguard army of the raid had 1,000 foot soldiers.

"Withdraw!" Dong Wu had no choice but to give the order to retreat, if he did not withdraw, he would face even more heavy losses, these armies were the last reliance of Dunhuang, once lost, it would be fatal for Dunhuang.

Dong Wu led the soldiers to flee towards the city in embarrassment, but Zhao Yun did not intend to let Dong Wu go so easily, and led the white horse to pursue until the city, and the defenders of the city used arrows and arrows to protect the wood, so that Dong Wu could enter the city.

On the way back to the camp with Zhao Yun's troops, he collected the Dunhuang soldiers who had been defeated in the battle and captured more than 500 people.

It was a great victory against the defenders of Dunhuang, who suffered such a heavy defeat despite being numerically superior, and the cavalry in the city was routed during the confrontation.

After escaping into the city, Dong Wucai breathed a sigh of relief, he faintly regretted why he led the troops to raid Zhao Yun, otherwise, there were still thousands of cavalry in the army at this time, and these thousand cavalry were the biggest support of the defenders.

The reason why Dong Zhuo went to war had a lot to do with observing the situation of the enemy army during the day, and he found that although Bai Ma Yicong was strong, the formation was a little chaotic, and he was obviously not the most elite soldier in the enemy army, and if the raid was successful, it could not only improve the morale of the defenders, but also stabilize his position in the army.

After counting the soldiers and horses, Dong Wu's mood was even more depressed, when he went out to fight, there were 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers, but now there are only more than 200 cavalry returning to the city, this is still the way to withdraw to the army, and there are only 1,000 foot soldiers left.

A surprise attack was originally with great expectations, but I didn't expect to lose most of the troops.

After these results were transmitted to the army, the shock of the generals in the army can be imagined, from Chen Ying to the present in Dunhuang, the army of Dunhuang has not experienced such heavy losses, especially thousands of cavalry, in the battlefield is repeatedly established merits, Chen Ying at the time, for the cavalry attaches great importance to the cavalry, after all, it is the most powerful force in Dunhuang City, and these cavalry are selected from the elite of the army.

This fiasco made many generals lose their trust in Dong Wu before, and even had more doubts, and at this time they also remembered Dong Wu's mention of Chen Ying's defection to King Jin.

Some generals suddenly felt that it was a wise move to take refuge in the King of Jin at this time, the King of Jin was a general of the Han Dynasty, and he had the power to mobilize the world's soldiers and horses, and the defenders of Dunhuang were nominally Lu Bu's subordinates, and it was a matter of course to take refuge, which also led to their dissatisfaction with Dong Wu, but now Dong Wu still has some prestige in the city, and they naturally dare not oppose Dong Wu after this.

After Zhao Lu learned of the fiasco of the army, his complexion changed greatly, the foot soldiers lost a thousand people, he didn't feel anything, but the cavalry lost more than 700 people, which made him a little unable to sit still, in order to form these cavalry, but it cost a lot of money, just the cavalry equipped with war horses, all need to pay a lot of price, although these war horses are purchased from the Western Regions countries at a low price, the consumption of cavalry in daily training is several times that of foot soldiers, and it is a great consumption to maintain a thousand cavalry in the army.

However, in this battle, the cavalry in the army suffered such serious losses.

Dong Wu said with a low face: "It was General Ben who fell for the enemy's tricks, otherwise, why would he have been defeated like this." ”

Then Dong Wu explained in detail the situation of the battle between the two sides.

Zhao Lu said: "The soldiers under the account of the King of Jin are really brave, and now there are still 6,000 troops, if it is defended, even if the King of Jin has 20,000 soldiers and horses, he will not easily break through Dunhuang." ”

Things have come to this point, and after the war between the two sides, it means that there is no chance of détente between them and Lu Bu.

Dong Wudao: "That's right. ”

The situation in the city became more solemn, obviously Dong Wu also realized that the generals in the army might be a little dissatisfied with him, and the prevention and control of the generals in the army was stricter, and the detailed work in the city was strictly investigated, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were panicked for a while.

Dunhuang as the county seat of Dunhuang County, there are 50,000 people in the city, when the Han Dynasty is strong, there are 50,000 people in a county town that is a common thing, put it in Liangzhou, but it is a great city, at this time even some important cities in Liangzhou, in the number of people, compared with Dunhuang There is also a certain gap, Liangzhou has experienced too many wars, how many people are buried because of the war, sometimes, once the war is started, it is not ordinary people can influence.

The soldiers in the army will not take into account the feelings of the people in the war, what they need is victory, the life and death of the people, at that time they become uncared for, if they are lucky, they can get out of the war and find a place to settle down again, if they are unlucky, they can only become a plaything in the hands of the enemy.

Under the war, the people will only get poorer and poorer, and every time they leave their hometowns, they will lose a lot of things.

The captives of the Dunhuang army, gathered in one place for Zhao Yun, looking at the more than 500 captives of the Dunhuang army in front of him, Zhao Yun took it into account, from the news from the city, and now the generals in the city army have some resistance to Dong Wu, and last night's raid made Dong Wu lose face, if these soldiers can be put back, let them preach the benevolence of their own army in the army, maybe it will have a good effect.

(End of chapter)