Chapter 152: Remnant Victory (I)
The flag symbolizes the position of the commander in this era of extremely underdeveloped communications. If the commander wants to give orders, he mostly relies on cavalry and some command flags.
However, these orders may not be issued to units of 1,000 men in battles of 10,000 men.
In the same way, on the other hand, once the flag falls, morale plummets, and once there is a rout, it is easy to cause collapse.
In later generations, Fu Jian, the former Qin king, claimed to have an army of 800,000, but it was because of an inexplicable sentence "the front line was defeated" and it was torn apart, and the huge former Qin was suddenly wiped out.
Now, the handsome banner of the Han army has fallen. The coalition army shouted everywhere that the commander of the Han army was dead. Many dazed Han soldiers looked back, and sure enough, the tall and erected big coffin was gone.
Immediately after that, I began to wonder if what the coalition said was true. And when you think about it, it's easy to be killed.
Once there are more people who die, there will naturally be people who can't bear it in their hearts, and the collapse will begin.
"Major General, what should I do?" The general beside Li Danghu asked anxiously.
The rout of the front line was naturally seen by Li Danghu, although he was struggling to kill the enemy, but now that people were intertwined, the speed of the cavalry was completely useless.
"Mingjin retreats! Also, grab it back and put it up as soon as possible! ”
Li Danghu said, and ran to the location of Da Xuan again.
I don't know if it's because Chen Zhaoming was too fierce before, even if Chen Zhaoming is down now, no Han soldiers dare to step forward.
Therefore, when Li Danghu arrived, his eyes were suddenly cracked again.
"What are you doing! Why don't you go and put the big up! The general beside Li Danghu shouted angrily.
"Whew...... Here! The Han sergeant, who reacted, hurriedly rushed forward.
However, just when he was about to fall down, Chen Zhaoming, who had been unconscious, actually got up again at this moment.
One hand leaned against the sword, and between the dirty hair, barely open eyes were faintly visible.
"Death to those who step further!"
In his throat, he made a hoarse voice, which was obviously not high, but it was chilling.
The Han soldiers, who were originally trotting, stopped their steps abruptly. You look at me, I look at you, but no one dares to step forward.
"Bastard!"
Li Danghu, who was already extremely annoyed when he saw that his Daxu was cut down by one person, saw that his soldiers were frightened by a dying person, and his anger finally broke out all at once.
Carrying his sword, he rushed towards Chen Zhaoming.
With a swing of the sword, Chen Zhaoming staggered and dodged in front of him. However, Li Danghu kicked Chen Zhaoming to the ground again.
Chen Zhaoming rolled back and forth on the ground several times, and the whole person was smashed.
Li Danghu was neither in a hurry to re-erect the banner, nor in a hurry to kill Chen Zhaoming directly.
Daxu was cut down, this defeat is secondary, if the soldier is born in his heart that the person in front of him is invincible, and even because of this battle, he will create a Chu State God of War, it will be really terrible.
Therefore, Li Danghu wanted to tear off Chen Zhaoming's last disguise, which was already crumbling, in front of everyone.
Li Danghu was holding the sword, his eyes were full of indifference, and he couldn't even see the original anger.
People who are not swayed by emotions are the most terrifying.
However, at this moment, there was a miserable cry from the Han soldiers guarding the surroundings.
Li Danghu frowned and looked over, only to see more than 20 people in silver armor as if they were harvesting rice, and the lives of the soldiers around the harvesters.
"Protect General Chen!" The only man in the silver armor who didn't wear a helmet shouted.
Li Danghu's eyes were full of murderous intent in his eyes, before, it was these people who greatly affected the Jiuyuan Jingqi, so that they didn't have time to stop it.
Now, these people have come to save people again, is it really impossible for him to be Li Danghu?
Taking advantage of the fact that the people on the opposite side had not had time to rush over, Li Danghu rushed towards Chen Zhaoming, who had already fallen to the ground.
"Whoosh!"
A violent sound sounded in his ears, and Li Danghu subconsciously stopped.
"Dang!"
A crisp voice sounded, and a seven-foot-long silver spear pierced in front of him.
Before Li Danghu looked up to see who threw the gun, another sound of breaking the air sounded.
Li Danghu hurriedly dodged back, and the silver spear landed on Li Danghu's original position with accuracy again.
"That's a great head!" Li Danghu was shocked.
In just a few seconds when Li Danghu was stopped, more than two dozen silver-armored soldiers had already surrounded Chen Zhaoming.
Li Danghu looked at the more than 20 people, holding a small round shield in one hand and a spear in the other, like an iron bucket, and knew in his heart that he was afraid that the life of the previous person would not be possible in a short time.
Since Chen Zhaoming's life was not wanted, Li Danghu also chose to give up very decisively.
There are more and more routs on the front line, and if they are not dealt with as soon as possible and re-establish the morale of the army, the scattered people will overwhelm the formation behind them, giving the coalition forces a chance to take advantage of.
Li Danghu stared at the silver-armored soldier who was slowly retreating backwards for another two seconds, and then turned his head and picked up the big sword with the thickness of his arm.
Almost at the same time as Li Danghu erected the banner, the sound of the Han army also sounded.
Mingjin also has a unique skill, the centurion at the grassroots level, and even the captain of the army, will retreat in the direction of Mingjin, so that the team behind will not be scattered.
In addition, the big banner symbolizing the commander was erected again, and the military spirit of the Han army was also stabilized to a certain extent. In the retreat, there are also rules to follow.
On the other side, the infantry of the coalition army, who had been fighting twice as much as themselves for more than an hour, was also exhausted.
Although the Han army was in chaos, it was obviously impossible to pursue.
Looking at the Han army that had retreated, Xia Huan was also relieved.
Xia Huan is still a dignitary in the end, although he ordered Sun Qian to take all the palace guards away, but in the end, he still left more than ten people to protect Xia Huan's side.
After fighting hard, although Xia Huan's strength had been exhausted, he was not injured much.
"Mingjin retreats." Xia Huan gasped and said.
Soon, on the walls of Kan Yu City, a crisp sound also sounded.
Kan Yucheng is not too big, and the reason why he didn't Mingjin when he found out that something was wrong was entirely because there were too many soldiers stranded outside the city, and it was impossible to enter the city in a short time.
Once the city gate was blocked by the Han army, everything was over.
After a battle, the two sides left at least tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield.
A field battle, but the intensity was even more tragic than the battle of the attached wall.
Under the city wall, watching the retreating coalition forces of the Han army, many people fell into a burst of helplessness at the same time after being excited.
Today, more of their companions died than in the previous two days combined.
This is a pyrrhic victory, whether it is against Xia Huan or Li Danghu, this is not the result you want to see.