The upper reaches of Luoshui, southeast of Luodu, and Jiuqu City on the north bank of Yongji Bridge, have fallen into a busy chaos?.?? `

It was already Xiao Gan, the envoy of the Heshan Festival, who was still behind, and he was also shouting loudly, trying to suppress and gather the defeated soldiers, horses and crowds.

At this time, there was an atmosphere of great calamity and panic on the streets and gates of Jiuqu City. The gate of the southern city, where the front line rushed, was crowded with countless officers and soldiers and wounded who had retreated from the front line.

And more northern officers and soldiers, drenched in the pouring rain, continued to flee, looking from the entrance of the city gate to form a black oppressive piece. And in the distance at the Yongji bridgehead, Xiao Gan's subordinates of the Shaanzhou Army are also engaged in a desperate battle with the attacking Southern Army.

Someone fell into the river and was swept away by the river that slowly became turbulent, and someone rushed over the bridge again to join the battle at the bridgehead.

Although the southern front was temporarily safe by Yang Keshi's desperate battle, in the face of the southern army that was coming from the other side, there was once again a crisis and mistakes.

In the blink of an eye, the southeast region of Dujian Road still looked like a safe and secure Gaomen Pass, and a series of additional and strengthened garrison strongholds such as Partridge Pass, Changshui County, Shazha Town, Fuchang County, and Liuqiaoyi fell one after another.

If it weren't for the sudden heavy rain in the middle of summer, which seriously weakened the power of the firearms of the Southern Army, and also made several water systems in the territory of Duqian Road become anxious, I am afraid that those daring soldiers of the Southern Army have already landed on the north bank of Luoshui

In fact, since the southern army entered the customs, the Luodu side already knew that the local hastily recruited local regiments and township soldiers were not useful, and specially transferred the Yongwei army, which was originally stationed in Heyang Sanguan, to Jiuqu City to sit in and manage it.

Then, due to the delay and confusion in command and assignment, although the Yongwei Army, which had been transferred to the local area for a short time, had the power to defend the city, it did not make any defensive plans and take any appropriate measures. Until this moment heard the news of the defeat at the front,

For his own safety, Zhang Guangtai, the town guard who commanded the Yongwei army, the first thing that came to mind was to close the city gate, whether it was the enemy's pursuers who came to seize the gate, or the defeated soldiers on his own side.

And in terms of defeating soldiers, the first consideration is also their own safety. They knew that being shut out of the gates meant being slaughtered by the enemy, and they feared that the enemy would have chased them to their heels.

As a result, the defeated soldiers were so overwhelmed that they tried to open the gate before they could close it, and showed the courage they had not shown when they were being pursued just now. They were victorious,

As a result, the gate suddenly opened, and the few city defenders behind the gate who tried to block it were crushed to death and trampled down, and the rest fled without a trace in an instant. The defeated soldiers shouted for joy in the battle for the gate, crowded in a hurry, trampled each other and rushed into the city gates, as if they had recovered a city from the enemy.

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On the other hand, Liu Yanxiu, who came to reinforce with his Shengjie army first, just arrived at the gate of the city in their uneven cheering "victory", and he didn't have time to say a word, so he rushed along the city wall and rushed around most of the city. He rushed all the way to the official road due south of the city.

The torrential rain that had not stopped since last night blocked his vision like a veil. But through the screen, he still saw a very startling, very painful picture of the rout and chaos. The official road is crowded with people, horses and all kinds of vehicles.

The official road was originally a business trip, from the Gaomen Pass to the gate of Luodu Guangding, the road of more than 100 miles was built very neatly. However, in recent years, the national economy has been difficult, and the lack of repair of the road has gradually lost its ring, and it can not even withstand the impact of the storm this night, and has lost its original form and appearance, and the ditches, wild paths, and fields on both sides are connected, connecting into a large area of water.

People are shouting and swearing, horses are neighing, and the slanted vehicles crowded between people and horses are "rattling". Everyone wants to go fast and escape to their safe area as soon as possible.

The area seemed to be out of reach, and they had seen the tower for a long time, but they had not reached its heels. It is this common and urgent desire that prevents it from being fulfilled as soon as possible. They stand in each other's way, and all the rage, fear, fighting, fighting, and killing each other revolve around this central idea of escaping.

The official road in front of it was really crowded with people, and some people rode horses or walked through the field paths and fields with some scorched crops. The official road and the surrounding area have long since lost their original boundaries, and more and more people are scattered from the middle to both sides, just as the river that has broken its embankment will inevitably spread out to the lowlands outside the riverbed.

At this time, the weather became worse, and in addition to the storm, there were also hailstones the size of bowls, and they were beaten down without a head. The rain came so hard that the long-dry ditches and channels were filled with billowing turbid water. The muddy water rushed to the low-lying areas, and some of the slopes were washed down by the rain in large chunks. This part of the place has turned into a muddy swamp.

Men and vehicles walked in the mud, constantly skidding and spinning, and sometimes they were squeezed by the people behind them, and it was difficult to extricate themselves when they stepped into the deep mud. Some of the men and horses who slipped and fell did not have time to get up, and the men and horses that squeezed up behind trampled over them, and the wheels ran over them, causing casualties.

Liu Yanxiu rushed forward along the official road several times, but was blocked by the rout several times. And tried to wrap him up and return it together. At this time, it is much more difficult to rush through the rout and seize the way forward than to rush into the enemy's strong position.

Because the strength used by these routers to flee is usually doubled or several times greater than when they attacked. Ma Kuo went in and out, and then again, inch by inch, and won his own way forward.

Along the way, he constantly bumped into familiar soldiers and officers. Some have time to say hello and say a word. It seems that they have not yet seen the face of the enemy, and they are intimidating each other based on rumors and rumors, and they are afraid of each other.

In a defeated battle, the one who can see the face of the enemy before turning around and fleeing is considered a warrior, and some have no time to speak, and in a moment, they are scattered with each other. The soldiers and officers were amazed. Now that all the people are running back, here and now, why is he rushing forward single-handedly?

Someone gave a thumbs up and pointed behind him to indicate that the pursuer was approaching, and advised him not to go any further. There are also people who speculate that Liu Yanxiu went to the front line to find someone to convey an important order. What could be more important now than running for your life? He kindly told Liu Yanxiu that the people who could control them in the rear had already fled, and now the order could not be conveyed.

Then, Liu Yanxiu finally met a more familiar face. Gao Zaizao, the Hebei general who was also the privy envoy Zhang Shuye's old department, was wrapped up in a large chaotic army, spinning in the whirlpool of defeat and escape. He dismounted several times, angrily commanding something, trying to put a stop to the chaos. At this time, as long as you can do this, you can hope to reinvigorate the team and return to the enemy.

But no one can do that. A person who has lost his subordinates, his generals, his own soldiers, his guards, his heralds, and his flag-recognizing all his rulers, and he is mixed in the chaos of the army, his power is not much greater than that of an ordinary partiality, and he has no more chances of escaping his life than others.

A small command flag in the hands of military envoys, defense envoys, and soldiers and horses envoys can command the advance and retreat of tens of thousands of troops in peacetime, but now in the minds of soldiers, it is just a shabby cloth, and it is too small to wipe the table.

The strict hierarchy in the army, in a great rout, was automatically flattened. Officers and enlisted men of all ranks are nothing more than a gang of fugitives, all of whom are equal. People pretend not to recognize him, pretend not to hear his orders, or pretend to want to carry out his orders but can't.

When a greater rapids rushed up, they hurried away from him, leaving him alone in the midst of the crowd to rage and curse. The chamberlain sent by the imperial court to supervise the withdrawal of the army was not majestic at this time, so he had to follow him with a bald head and a limp, and retreated step by step with the current.

At this time, the high reengineering has no effect on what Liu Yanxiu wants to do. To go to the front line to prevent the enemy from sending him to death, he does not need this Songyang Pass guard to issue documents and letters, nor does he need an order.

Liu Yanxiu was clearly aware of this, and hurriedly passed them like the wind??.?. `?．?? `.

Then Liu Yanxiu also saw another general with blood flowing from his mouth, Li Changyu, the deputy envoy of the Yongning Army, who scolded angrily in the retreating team in a muffled voice,

After he saw Liu Yanxiu, he was angry and slurred and suddenly waved his hand and shouted something. It's just that his voice doesn't seem to come out of the mouth of the Li Changyu he is familiar with at all.

It turned out that in the melee, he was shot by an arrow from the enemy, which pierced directly on the left cheek, so that his speech was full of blood foam and constant air leakage.

It was the second time in eight days that he had suffered an arrow wound and was forced to retreat.

So, when the cavalry of the Shengjie army, which was going upstream, converged with the remnants of the Yongning army, the tide of defeat here finally slowed down, and a part of the three or four thousand people in the city was regathered around them, and slowly turned around and marched towards the position of the Yongji Bridge.

After half a sound, when the team, which was one foot deep and one foot shallow, finally saw the flag that still belonged to the official army at the head of the Yongji Bridge, they also heard the whistling and sound like a landslide and a crack.

However, it was the sound of artillery bombardment by the southern army one after another, as well as the Shaanzhou soldiers who retreated like the water that broke the embankment.

And the straight-line distance from Luodu here is less than twenty or thirty miles.