When Du Wenhuan was anxious about the battle situation, a scout suddenly came out of the woods next to him and shouted, "General...... The two branches of the thieves sent troops at the same time and copied us behind......"

"Huh?" Du Wenhuan's brows, which were already furrowed, furrowed even deeper. He looked up at the black smoke rising from the top of the mountain, sighed lightly, and said, "I thought that this pillar of smoke was accidentally burned by the thieves themselves, and the result was ...... It was the wolf smoke that asked for reinforcements from the other two foreign branches...... Hey ......"

He smiled bitterly and said, "Play scout blockade with me when you were in Luochuan...... When the imperial court recruited security, the war situation was delayed...... When we attacked the first sub-village, they retreated decisively...... In the blink of an eye, he tried his hand in front of our army...... Then came the bed crossbow...... And then down, there is still a beacon of fire......"

"This ...... Where are these thieves? Du Wenhuan looked up to the sky and sighed: "This is more like officers and soldiers than the officers and soldiers of our court!" ”

Ma Rulong next to him was stunned: "General Du, don't just sigh, you can quickly arrange which generals to send to lead the troops to meet the two bandit reinforcements copied from the back." ”

"Hey, what else is there to arrange?" Du Wenhuan shook his head and said, "This battle has already been lost...... The time, place, and people are favorable, and the other side occupies all over the place, and our army has fallen into an unfavorable situation from the very beginning, and there is nothing to fight until now. ”

"No, haven't lost yet!" Ma Rulong shouted: "Please send the last general to lead the Shenji battalion to intercept one of the thieves, although the last general only has two hundred commanders, but relying on the advantage of firearms, it is not a problem to fight against thousands of eight hundred thieves!" ”

Du Wenhuan snorted coldly and said: "Wake up, your Divine Machine Battalion's morale has been lost, and now not only the thieves are not afraid of their firearms, but even they themselves are doubting whether the firecrackers can hit people!" ”

Ma Rulong was stunned and shouted unconvinced: "General Zou Yi is still in the back mountain of the thieves, if he can kill the thief village......"

"It's no fun!" Du Wenhuan shook his head and said: "You don't have to wait for the scout to report that Zou Yi is finished, since the thieves still have the spare strength to send reinforcements, didn't you think of it?" The defense that the thieves put into the front mountain was not all their strength at all...... Other words...... The mountain behind the main village must have also arranged an ambush. ”

"This ......" Ma Rulong took half a step back: "Then what should I do?" ”

"Of course it's ......" Du Wenhuan sank his face and said, "Run!" ”

Ma Rulong: "......"

Du Wenhuan is worthy of being a veteran, in fact, the battle is here, the officers and soldiers may not really be defeated, if you think of a way, maybe you can still hold on, and if you change to other generals, most of them will have to fight. But this old fox knows that the most fundamental purpose of this battle is to capture the Huanglong Cottage, but now it is certain that the goal cannot be achieved, so it is better to simply run away, this is the mystery of immortality in a hundred battles for half a life!

How is a celebrity made? As long as you don't die, you can eventually refine it, and if you fight a few battles, you will die, and you will never become a famous general.

Du Wenhuan unfurled the order flag in his hand, and loudly ordered to his cronies on the left and right: "The whole army is westward, with the left wing army as the front army, and the right wing army is behind, abandon all heavy objects, and quickly withdraw into the territory of Luochuan......

Ma Rulong was stunned: "General Du, there are still our people attacking the mountain on the mountain road, you withdraw at this time, what should they do?" ”

"Attacking the mountain is not good, they should also be aware and die in peace." Du Wenhuan sneered: "Who can take care of them? ”

Ma Rulong broke out in a cold sweat: "Although General Zou Yi may be ambushed, that army can always escape some soldiers, don't you have to wait for them?" ”

"Don't wait, according to the scouts, they've been wiped out!" Du Wenhuan grabbed a scout from the side and snorted coldly, "Am I right? ”

The scout had been standing beside Du Wenhuan and had never been sent out, how could he know the situation on Zou Yi's side, and when Du Wenhuan drank it, his whole body trembled with fright, and he didn't dare to have any objections, so he hurriedly responded: "Yes...... That's right...... Villain...... The villain saw that Zou Yi had been completely wiped out......"

"Well, then there's no problem, let's withdraw!" A sneer flashed at the corner of Du Wenhuan's mouth.

What a selfish and cool guy...... Ma Rulong felt that his heart, liver, spleen and lungs were cold.

A group of heavily armored soldiers surrounded him, protected Du Wenhuan in the middle, and began to retreat to the west, these heavy armored soldiers were Du Wenhuan's soldiers, each of them was wearing the best iron armor, the knife on the waist was refined iron, and the spear in his hand was also made of iron.

As mentioned earlier, the generals of the Ming army have the custom of supporting their family soldiers, and these family soldiers have the best treatment, and whenever they fight a tough battle, or protect their meal tickets and flee for their lives, they will exert amazing combat effectiveness. They used an impenetrable human wall to protect Du Wenhuan, and regardless of the friendly troops next to them, they just walked westward.

The retreat in the era of cold weapons is often this tune, the army is defeated, each fleeing for his life, and there are countless examples of the general only fleeing with dozens of hundreds of people, such as the Battle of Chibi, after Cao Ying's defeat, he only took a few hundred people to escape, so there is the story of "Huarong Dao". If Cao Ying fled with an army of 830,000, Guan Yu would not dare to stop him in Huarong Dao if he had 100 million dares.

Ma Rulong saw Du Wenhuan abandon the army and run, he sighed long, but he didn't run, this good young man from the Beijing camp has the temper of some newborn calves, or rather, he has some of the arrogance of the generals of the Beijing camp, abandoning the friendly army and running away, which cannot be done.

"General Du is gone, from now on, Ben will take over the post of commander-in-chief!" Ma Rulong shouted at the people around him: "Scout, go and contact General Zou Yi who attacked Houshan, if he is not dead, tell him to withdraw immediately...... The military band, quickly Mingjin withdrew the troops, and let the soldiers who attacked the mountain road retreat...... General Du and General Zhang were ordered to lead 500 men to meet the reinforcements of the enemy...... The rest will line up for me, and re-array......"

Ma Rulong let go of his throat and shouted a long command.

Pity...... No matter how much he shouted, he couldn't stop the chaos...... The commander-in-chief has run away, how can the soldiers' morale not be chaotic? This is not a problem that can be solved by just one person!

Scouts, Military Bands, General Du, General Zhang...... The people he named did not listen to his orders, all the generals and soldiers, all panicked, and those who had the ability to escape, all followed in the direction of Du Wenhuan's escape, because the mountain road was difficult, the soldiers abandoned iron shields, iron helmets, iron armor and other things to the ground, and only held light weapons such as wooden spears, so it would be faster to escape.

Ma Rulong looked left and right, and in the end, the only people who were willing to listen to his orders and gather around him were the two hundred divine machine battalions he brought from the capital...... Many of these people were still wounded, because the two hundred soldiers of the Shenji battalion participated in the attack on the mountain, and although they were protected by shield soldiers, many of them were still injured by stones.

"This is the end of it...... Ben General is helpless......" Ma Rulong smiled bitterly and said to his divine machine camp: "Let's withdraw too......"

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"The officers and soldiers have withdrawn!" Xu Renjie on the top of the mountain shouted: "Brother Zhu, look, the officers and soldiers are withdrawing so quickly...... This...... It was too sudden, and they were only halfway through the battle, and they actually withdrew......"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the edge of the cliff, watched the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain rushing westward, shook his head and said: "Decisive enough, if Du Wenhuan runs more slowly, he will really be entangled with Miao Mei and the poodle who copied the bread, and he will not be able to leave if he wants to." ”

"Why are the officers and soldiers retreating to the west? Isn't Whitewater City on the south side? Xu Renjie was a little curious.

"He can't go back to Whitewater at this time!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "If he goes back to Baishui at this time, Wu Fu, the imperial historian who is stationed in Baishui City, will immediately take him down and send him to the capital, and then he will die without a place to be buried." ”

He paused, and said in a deep voice: "What Du Wenhuan has to do now is to flee to Luochuan, find some good people there to kill, and take their heads to take credit." Then he wrote a recital, saying that although the thief was powerful, he also fought bravely to the death, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, and now he presents the thief's head to a number of clouds......"

"Silk!" Xu Renjie gasped: "How can you ...... Let him be so cranky! ”

"Haha, well said, how can he be so reckless." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered loudly: "Generalissimo listen to the order!" ”

Xu Renjie perked up: "Here!" ”

"Now I will give you 800 people, and order you to go down the mountain to pursue Du Wenhuan, and chase him to me, and I can't even find the time to stop and kill. And took advantage of the situation to collect taxes from all the squires and wealthy merchants in Luochuan, and included Luochuan in the sphere of influence of the village in one fell swoop. Zhu Yuanzhang said as he stretched out his finger to the eight centurions: "You go with the generalissimo leader." ”

"Wow! Order! Xu Renjie was overjoyed, jumped up as soon as he brushed the ground, and ran down the hill, and the eight centurions who were named also hurriedly followed, shouting loudly as they walked, calling a hundred of his men to follow.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand again: "Desperate San Lang, I will give you 400 soldiers, you take them to retreat down the mountain, cooperate with Miao Mei and Poodle from the village, and Wang Er from the back mountain, and work together to sweep away all the defeated officers and soldiers under the mountain." ”

"Yes!" Desperate Saburo also hurried away.

"By the way......" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly smiled and said, "Your most important task is not to kill people...... It's about grabbing something for me! ”

"Grab something?" Desperately, Saburo was fluted.

"Didn't the Shenji Battalion bring a very powerful cannon?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Anything can be let go, but this cannon must be snatched back for me!" The mountain road is rugged and the cannons are difficult to carry, if the Shenji Battalion can escape with the cannons right under your nose...... Then it's really a problem with your talent. ”

Desperately Saburo was provoked by this sentence, where could he still hold back, and yelled: "I can't get that cannon back, I'll take off my head and kick it for the brothers in the village!" I'll go too! ”