Seeing that the situation was developing in the direction favorable to Wu Jun, Qiao Ren's face smiled even more, and looking at Cao Jun, who was less than two thousand, Qiao Ren waved his hand.

Huang Ce, who was behind him, got the signal, raised the gun (horse lance) in his hand, and shouted: "Brothers, the cavalry is attacking!" ”

The dust was violently raised from the high ground, and the foot soldiers in the center automatically gave way to a road, and the cavalry of the Wu army rushed into the Cao army formation with a strange scream. Speaking of this strange name, it was learned from Zhao Yun's cavalry when Qiao Ren and Zhao Yun faced Lu Zhao in the Battle of Chibi in the past.

For Cao Jun, who was already in chaos and his own commander had disappeared, the addition of this cavalry was like the last straw that crushed the camel. The cavalry of Eastern Wu recklessly harvested the heads, while the elites of the Cao army could only hold their heads and run away, which was really an unbelievable thing.

"The Grand Duke! Zhang Liao's army moved. Jia Hua received the news from the scouts that Zhang Liao had received a call for help from Le Jin, and came as fast as his army could, and according to the speed of his iron cavalry, it would not take three quarters of an hour to arrive.

Qiao Ren was also stunned when he heard this, and he was about to annihilate Cao Jun of the Lejin Department, but he didn't want Zhang Liao to come. Zhang Liao has an army of 10,000, and the Wu army has a lot of casualties after more than half an hour of hard fighting, and it is exhausted.

There is no way, there is only one way to withdraw the army at the moment.

"Mingjin withdraws his troops, and the army quickly retreats to the city! The cavalry leads the spearmen. ”

The sound of the drums of war suddenly disappeared, and the clear sound resounded throughout the battlefield. The soldiers of Wu slowly distanced themselves from Cao Jun and slowly withdrew towards the city gate.

"The crossbowmen retreat first and return to the city wall to set up defenses."

Fortunately, in addition to the first half of the crossbowmen shooting, the rear has already retreated to the end of the army, so it is just right for them to retreat first.

Wow! In the middle of the circle. Le Jin's left hand had been stabbed, and Liuzan had a hideous knife wound in his chest. Both were exhausted, holding the hilt of their knives in their right hands, supporting themselves with their knives.

But when the round spearmen began to disband, a group of about thirty cavalry rushed in, it was the guards who came to rescue Lejin, and the heavy spearmen were already exhausted and the spears could not be used as melee weapons, so they could only watch them kill in, and these cavalry did not dare to provoke these heavy infantry, and the two sides had a tacit understanding that they only wanted to take away their main general.

"I'm the general Lejin, and the kid is famous!" Le Jin, who was picked up by the guards, asked Liuzan, who was surrounded by a group of guards five meters away.

"Kid Liuzan, it's just another Sima under the Metropolitan Governor!"

"I remember you, next time I will definitely cut off your head with my own hands."

"Hmph, return the original words!"

In this way, the two sides seemed to 'pass by' harmoniously and retreated.

By the time Zhang Liao's army arrived, Qiao Ren had calmly retreated into the city, leaving only the corpses of Cao Jun in one place, and even those ownerless horses were led back to the city by Wu Jun.

Looking at the scene in front of him and the arrows on the city tower that were full of metal, Zhang Liao seemed to be a few years older, and sighed indifferently: "The army retreated three miles back and went down to the village." ”

Zhang Liao asked while beating his horse and retreating, "How is General Lejin's injury?" ”

"General Hui, General Lejin, there is a wound in the abdomen and left arm, but it is not deep in the flesh. It's just that there is too much blood loss and the body is weak. It's just that I don't know whether to talk about it or not. "The man who spoke was dressed in a scribe's suit, and it was very special to hide in the depths of the armor.

"Mr. Zitong is a great talent in the world and a military advisor in the army, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it." Zhang Liao waved his hand and said to Jiang Ji.

Jiang Ji said in a very low voice: "The headquarters of General Zhan Le, almost all the troops were wiped out, leaving only more than a thousand wounded soldiers. In addition, Ji also has a word, I hope the general will forgive me, and it is better for the general to retire from the army. ”

Zhang Liao turned to stare at Jiang Ji abruptly and said, "Even if our army loses 5,000 soldiers, why should a certain family still have 10,000 people. ”

"Hey!" Jiang Ji sighed and said, "Ji asked the general to retire, not because of excessive losses. Instead, Ji thought that this Qiao Ziyan actually dared to go out of the city to fight, whether there was any basis, Ji was originally puzzled, but now Ji understands. Qiao Ren was scheming, he had long expected that the general would come to attack Shu County, and grasped the discord between General Le Jin and the general, and at the same time knew that General Le was good at attacking first. Only then did he dare to go out of the city, in order to completely annihilate Lejin General Headquarters. Since this Qiao Ziyan has been preparing for a long time, it may be difficult for our army to win this battle. Moreover, there are 5,000 soldiers in Zhoutai, who can enter Chaohu Lake at any time, and the rear of our army is not stable, so Ji suggested that the general should retreat first. ”

Zhang Liao broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, "How deep his scheming, how careful his mind and what a long-term vision this Qiao Ren has." It's a pity that Zhang Liao never knew that Qiao Ren would know that the discord between the five sons and generals was because of the Three Kingdoms.

"Nope! No withdrawal from the army for the time being. Maybe this Qiao Ren was just a blind cat and a dead mouse, and Liao decided to wait. "Zhang Liao led the army to come, first suffered a defeat, although it has nothing to do with him, but he is the main general after all and it is also a mistake not to support. Although Zhang Liao did not support Le Jin because he thought that Le Jin could easily solve Qiao Ren, because Le Jin fought more battles with less, they were all head-to-head, and the generals of Cao Jun were not optimistic about Qiao Ren in their hearts, but they didn't want to be counterattacked. If Zhang Liao went back like this, he really couldn't accept it in his heart.

Jiang Ji was also noncommittal when he heard this, and he didn't think in his heart that Qiao Ren would have such vision and scheming. Therefore, he did not insist on retreating.

Compared with the bleak thinking of the Cao army, the Wu army in Shucheng can be regarded as elated, until the battle of Chibi, the Wu army's land combat ability has been criticized, even they themselves think that it cannot be compared with the Cao army, but today's big victory has given them great confidence. Although the generals Liuzan, Xu Sheng, Huang Ce, and Song Qian were all injured, they were all slightly injured except for Liuzan.

After getting the news that Zhang Liao retreated three miles to the village, Qiao Ren summoned all the generals who could come to the lobby of the county office, and looked at the generals of the Wu army who almost everyone in the hall was wrapped in bandages, Qiao Ren was still smiling.

"Respect for the public today, how much will you lose in the war!"

Liu Jifang had just finished tidying up, and at this moment he was holding a large volume of books, and said: "Back to the Dudu, our army has 1,320 dead and 3,000 wounded. In addition, one lieutenant who died in battle was under the command of General Sun Shao. ”

Qiao Ren secretly said in his heart: Annihilated more than 4,000 people in Lejin, and injured more than 1,000 opponents. This loss is completely negligible. In terms of casualties, it's a ratio of 1 to 4.

"Haha! The great victory in this battle is due to the merits of the soldiers. Pass on my military order, tonight the labor army, every soldier must drink meat soup. Wounded soldiers should also be treated attentively. ”

This battle of the Wu army can indeed be regarded as a great victory, not only annihilated countless enemies, but also captured almost 300 intact war horses, which is not a small number for Jiangdong, which lacks horses, and for Qiao Ren, who has formed cavalry, it is even more of a send-off. Since the beginning of Chibi, Qiao Ren's cavalry has suffered great losses, slowly there are nearly a thousand people, and only six hundred are left, and now that these three hundred horses are replenished, Qiao Ren's personal cavalry can finally recover the appearance of the past.

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