Three hundred and sixty-four times, retreating as advancing?
Although Li Xin annihilated the four dead soldiers and all their men and horses, Ling Chuan, who went to attack Nankou Fort, was killed and only one escaped.
Li Xin knew that Liu Xiang would never be able to hold Nankou Fort, so he reorganized his troops and immediately sent troops to attack, and some scouts had already reported the news to Liu Xiang and others.
Liu Xiang said: "Lord Wu raised so many dead soldiers, and sent them to control the entire military and political affairs in Liaodong, but unfortunately he made a fatal mistake, he overestimated the dead soldiers under his command, and by the way, he took these people to overestimate himself, the dead soldiers are dead soldiers after all, and the two armies are not as good as ordinary generals."
"Now these dead soldiers and their men and horses have suffered a crushing defeat all the way, resulting in the fall of the entire east bank of Liaoshui and the entire Liaoyuan region, and now Nankou Fort is like an isolated island and must not be able to hold it, we must evacuate."
After listening to what Jian Xin said, everyone also approved of the idea of retreating, and after everything was ready, Liu Xiang ordered to take away all the baggage and weapons in the walled city, and then set fire to Nankou Fort.
When Lord Yu learned of the death of four of his henchmen, he was furious and asked to personally lead his army to meet the Qin army.
King Yan was already about to be frightened by the offensive of the Qin army, for fear that even the last soldiers and horses under his command would be buried, so he had been thinking about it and did not reply to Lord Yu in time.
At this time, Anguo Hou Ji Tong begged to see the King of Yan, and suggested that he should be attached to the Qin State to protect the Zongmiao Sheji, and after a while, the prince Dan Jiwu Anhou Ji Jiao came, asking the Qin army to force the Qin army to withdraw from Liaodong, and Dong Yu, who had been reappointed as the right governor of Liaodong County, also came over and asked the King of Yan to send troops to fight to the death with the Qin army.
Seeing so many main battle factions, King Yan decided to play another game, and immediately ordered Ji Jiao and Dong Yu to lead 50,000 Liaodong guards to meet the battle.
Liu Xiang and others retreated all the way to the vicinity of Anyuan Town, and built several defensive lines to intercept the advance of the Qin army, and Li Xin also ordered the army to charge round after round.
Seeing that Anyuan Town was constantly fighting against the enemy, Ji Jiao and Dong Yu immediately led the army to join the defenders, and after attacking from behind the Qin army and defeating the charging Qin army, all the soldiers and horses entered the city of Anyuan Town.
However, Wen Ye hurriedly found that the land along the way had fallen, so he had no choice but to continue walking in the northeast direction, and heard the local people say that Anyuan Town was still purely anti-Qin, so Pegasus went straight to the front-line position outside Anyuan Town.
Hearing Wen Ye's name and the purpose of coming, Ye Zhao, the first-line guard, hurriedly brought him to Liu Xiang, who exchanged a few words with him and sent Liu Xi to take him to Liaodong County.
Before leaving, Wen Ye asked Liu Xiang: "I have seen a lot of things along the way, and I dare to ask what the current situation is here, and King Yan has no determination to fight to the end."
"King Yan's indecision is also well known, only from the Qin army invaded the land of Liaodong, he moved the capital from Xiangping to Liaodong County, and the words of the main battle lord and made him entangled, you came at the right time, and the alliance can greatly encourage the confidence of King Yan."
Wen Ye nodded and told all about what happened in Daiguo, Liu Xiang said after listening: "Although Zhao Jia is wiser than Zhao Qian, I have already seen from the past when I was in Handan that he is a very suspicious and very good at playing with power, but he used to be afraid of being unfavorable to himself when he was in power, and he has been suppressing it and not showing it, Enming has now gotten rid of his clutches, but you are still in Daijun will be disadvantaged, it is better for you to stay in Liaodong for the time being, don't go back yet."
"General Liu doesn't know that his younger brother Wen Zhe and General Gong Qi are still under Zhao Jia, if I don't go back, Zhao Jia will definitely be angry with the two of them."
Liu Xiang didn't say anything after hearing this, and immediately sent Liu Xi to Liaodong County with Wen Ye.
Seeing Lin Yao walk into the tent, Liu Xiang told Wen Ye about the situation in the country, and then said to him: "I don't know what happened to Enming now, why don't we send someone to contact him."
"Judging from what Wen Ye said, Man Ziwei is by his side at this moment, this person is the deputy high school of Bingzhou, he has been asking good friends since he was a child, and he often gives me advice and solves problems, and he must be worry-free with Zhang Enming."
After Lin Yao finished speaking, Liu Xiao said: "It seems that the Man Ziwei you mentioned is Man Jia, I have already seen his ability, and with him, we can indeed come down with confidence."
Before Liu Xiang and Lin Yao could continue to talk, they only heard the rumbling explosions outside, and when they walked out of the camp and looked out, they saw dozens of catapults of the Qin army roaring.
Soon after a while, the first two lines of defense outside Anyuan Town were lost, and the soldiers and horses of Mu Huan's troops guarding the third line of defense also abandoned their positions because they could not bear the destruction of artillery fire.
Jiang Chen and Jianxin agreed that taking the initiative to retreat at this time was the best policy, so Liu Xiang told Ji Jiao the idea and prepared to evacuate.
Dong Yu did not agree with this method and insisted on gathering troops and horses to fight again, Mu Huan and Guo Yue had already ordered him to obey the retreat, and before everyone had withdrawn from the city, the Qin army had already broken through the last line of defense outside the city.
Ji Jiao quickly issued an order for the whole army to retreat, and the generals rushed out of Anyuan Town with their troops to Xiangping, and all the soldiers were exhausted when they were scattered and halfway through.
Seeing that the cavalry of the Qin army at the front was about to catch up, in order to cover the safe escape of the army to Xiangping, Dong Yu led 500 soldiers and horses to charge and kill the Qin army, and finally all the outnumbered people were killed.
Dong Yu, who had already been shot and arrowed several times, in order to delay more time for the large army, still desperately killed the Qin soldiers after the war horse was injured and fell to the ground, until he was shot by the rain of arrows.
Under the cover of Dong Yu's army, the large army of the Yan army finally arrived safely in Xiangping, which has always been the seat of Liaodong, so the city walls are very high and thick and there are many heavy weapons in the city.
After the king of Yan arrived in Xiangping, he set it up as the accompanying capital, so that the city and its vicinity also had more armed forces, and under Liu Xiang's arrangement, the defense capability was greatly improved.
Li Xin led the army all the way to the city of Xiangping, the Qin army surrounded the city on all sides and attacked on all sides, and the loss of troops was still unable to break through the city, and when it was tired, it was attacked by the Yan army that had already ambushed outside the city.
Ye Zhao, Lu Lian, Wen Yi, and Xu Yao led the army to kill from all sides, Liu Xiang had already arranged everything with his strategy, and the four generals each left a part of the troops and horses to set up a formation on the periphery according to the deployment, and took most of the remaining men and horses to insert into the Qin army.
Seeing that the other party was already prepared and didn't know how many men and horses the other party had, Qin Jun hurriedly wanted to evacuate this place as quickly as possible in a bit of confusion.
The defeated army had just walked a distance outside, and Ye Zhao and the others had deployed the few soldiers and horses in a position, and the Qin soldiers who were shooting like locusts and arrows turned over on their backs one by one.