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One by one, the generals on the front line returned, their blood-stained robes and scars, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on their faces, dim and gray.

No one in the Wei army expected that from the defeat on the first day of the battle to today, the result would be so tragic every time. Since the Battle of the Fifth Day of the First Month, the Wei army has not taken the slightest advantage.

On the fifth day of the first month, although the strategy of deceitful defeat and ambush was laid out, the Jianghuai army successfully withdrew in the counterattack of 40,000 ambush cavalry and 670,000 infantry with excellent equipment and strong combat effectiveness. In that battle, although it seemed that the Wei army won in the end, in fact, the 120,000 Wei troops who participated in that battle were 8,000 killed, more than 10,000 seriously wounded, and countless minor injuries. In just one battle, the Wei army had already lost nearly 20,000 men.

Although the Jianghuai army was defeated and retreated, according to the final estimate of the Wei army, the Jianghuai army had less than 5,000 casualties at most, which was completely a battle loss of four to one.

Luokou and Luokou Cangcheng are only dozens of miles away, but such a distance that was originally only two or three hours of marching has become a nightmare that it seems to never reach.

On the fifth day of the first month, they had just defeated the Jianghuai army and were about to return to Luokou City with peace of mind, but the Jianghuai army unexpectedly immediately launched a pursuit of them. It was like a disgusted dog skin plaster, and as soon as the Wei army retreated, the Jianghuai army began to pursue. The Wei army stopped advancing and counterattacked, and the Jianghuai army immediately retreated. In this way, you come and go, stop and stop, and retreat. After three days of fighting, the Wei army is still more than 20 miles away from Luokou Cangcheng.

Today, Li Mi made up his mind to fight a decisive battle with the Jianghuai army, and they laid an ambush and played a trick of deceitful defeat and ambush. As a result, the Jianghuai army seemed to have seen through all this, and the Jianghuai army's light cavalry charged in a neat array, turning the Wei army's deception into a rout. Although the ambush was finally exhausted, the Jianghuai light cavalry successfully blocked them. Wait for the Jianghuai infantry.

It was a more tragic slaughter than the fifth day of the first month, with more than 30,000 Wei cavalry and the Jianghuai army fiercely tearing apart. War horses are crisscrossed. Flags flying. Along the banks of the Luoshui River, countless blood soaked the grass on the plain. Mountains of corpses, countless broken spears, and horizontal knives were all over the battlefield. In the end, Li Mi personally put on his armor and went into battle. It can be regarded as saving the final rout of the Wei army.

The battle stopped all day, and the Wei army formed a formation in the mountains. The generals gathered around Li Mi, dazed and at a loss. All eyes were on Li Mi, at this time. Keeping a calm Lee Mi was their only expectation. They looked at him. His eyes are earnest, like helpless lost lambs.

Looking at the way everyone looked, Li Mi even scolded in his heart whether those people were trampled on by horses' hooves on the battlefield, and they actually stayed like this.

Li Mi was calmer than the others, because he had long expected that this battle would be difficult to fight, but he also did not expect his Wei army to be so unfought. Defeated so completely. But at this time, it is useless to let others be angry and destroy their own prestige. Speaking out will only make those soldiers panic even more. The last battle is cowardly, and if the commander shows fear on his face, then the final fate of this army is basically decided.

He shouted loudly and gave all kinds of instructions: "Go back to your troops, count the casualties, and report them quickly." ”

"The generals of the various units have gathered their troops tonight and overnight! Summon the lost soldiers in the team to return. If a straggler from another unit is in his own ranks, he may be incorporated into his own ranks. ”

"The officers of each unit can act cheaply and select suitable young men from those logistics civilian teams to join and fill the casualty vacancies in the team."

"The doctors in the army will give the best treatment to the wounded, and send a team to send the wounded to Yanshi City for treatment overnight."

When the generals heard Li Mi's order, as if they had received something to rely on, they acted one by one as if they had just woken up from a dream. Around midnight, according to the information sent by the troops, Fang Xuanzao roughly counted the casualty reports. …,

The heaviest casualties were Wang Bodang's cavalry battalion, in today's daytime battle, they withstood the main offensive of the Jianghuai cavalry, 10,000 light cavalry, the five cavalry battalions at the front line were almost completely wiped out, and the team could not even maintain its structure, Li Mi had to order the number of those five battalions to be abolished, and the remnants were incorporated into the remaining fifteen battalions that were also seriously understaffed. Most of the remaining fifteen battalions also suffered more than half of the casualties, so they had to order some units to be combined into new units. Of the twenty battalion captains, six were killed and nine were seriously wounded. The number of dead in Wang Bodang's camp is about 2,000, and the number of wounded is even more, which has not yet been counted. The cavalry casualties of Meng Haigong, Xie Yingdeng, and Xu Yuanlang on both flanks were relatively light, and they also reached more than 6,000.

The remaining 60,000 infantry also suffered serious losses in this battle, with more than 10,000 casualties, and many soldiers fled on the battlefield. After this battle, the Wei army only had less than 80,000 horses left, including more than 10,000 wounded.

In the tent, in the dim light, looking at this casualty report, the generals of the Wei army turned pale. Such a small amount of possessions that had been painstakingly built up were almost completely destroyed in a matter of days.

So, is that the end of it? Is the rise and victory of Wei just a flower moon in the water? With so many soldiers and horses, the last expectations of all the rebels, and the sacrifices of so many heroic warriors, have they all become like smoke and dust?

The quick-tempered rebel generals were so anxious that they tore their hair, and they were so anxious that they were full of fire; The other generals of the rebel army who joined later also looked at each other one by one, and Meng Hai scolded Fang Xuanzao fairly, "It's all this ghost idea you came up with, and you hurt us like this!" Chen Pojun casually devises a plan, and you will drill into the trap like a stupid pig. It doesn't matter if you want to die, but the rest of our brothers will be killed by you. ”

Fang Xuanzao was a little unwilling, "Actually, our plan is still feasible, and even our soldiers are more than Wang Xuanying." If it weren't for the unfavorable command of the infantry in the front today, which turned the deception into a real defeat, we would have had a chance to defeat the Jianghuai army today. ”

During the day, the commanding generals Li Junxian, Liu Heimin, and Hao Xiaode stood up and pounced on this shameless guy. Fang Xuanzao let out a sharp scream: "I am Shang Shuzuo's servant, my official position is higher than yours, you can't treat me like this... Ouch! ”

Wang Bodang went up to persuade him to fight, and at the same time stomped on Fang Xuanzao's fingers with his boots. Fang Xuanzao screamed endlessly: "Ouch! Ouch! Help me! ”

"Enough!"

Li Mi's face was gloomy, and he shouted loudly to stop the generals from passing the buck to each other.

Everyone stopped talking, and outside the door, rapid footsteps sounded, and the guards opened the curtain and rushed in: "King Wei! ”

Fang Xuanzao jumped up and scolded: "Don't you know the rules!" When you come in, you have to ask for instructions, you..."

"King, urgent military situation, Jindi Pass has fallen!" The guards gasped for air.

Li Mihuo stood up.

After taking the letter, Li Mi saw that it was only crookedly written with a few words in charcoal strips, "On the morning of the 8th, there was a rebel general Huang Junhan's old department in Jindi Pass, and the city fell immediately. General Bing wanted to resist to the death, but was hijacked and surrendered by a few generals in the army. Jindi Pass completely fell before noon, and 50,000 soldiers and horses were captured, and none of them fled. Chen Pojun had already led 50,000 troops, and he was rushing to Luokou in the starry night. ”

Looking at this urgent report, Li Mi only felt that the world was spinning for a while. Luo mouth is lost, and all the grain and grass are lost. The tiger prison is lost again, and the eastern barrier is lost. Before that, the six counties east of Luoyang were lost, and 200,000 soldiers and horses were lost. Originally, Li Mi thought that there was Bing Yuanzhen in Jindi Pass, and he could hold out for ten days and a half months. But he didn't expect that in three days, just three days, the south bank of the Yellow River, which he had worked hard for a long time, relied on to defend the strongest fortress in Hebei, was breached.

The first is Huang Junhan, and the second is Bing Yuanzhen. His generals surrendered one after another, which made Li Mi feel a sense of fear that the general situation was gone. …,

The generals next to him were all pale, and Fang Xuanzao rubbed his fingers that were trampled on and stepped forward and said, "It's a shame that King Wei used to treat Bing Yuanzhen so trusted, he actually rebelled, how could he surrender, even if he was kidnapped by his subordinates, he should commit suicide and be loyal." The king of Wei and his ministers suggested that he immediately send an order to Kim Yong Cheng and let General Wang Dangren immediately arrest Bing Yuanzhen's family and execute them all to pay respect. ”

Li Mi's heart was shocked, and for the first time, he glared at Fang Xuanzao with undisguised disgust, he never thought that Fang Xuanzao was such an idiot. He slowly spoke, "Everyone, General Bing Yuanzhen has always been a hero of my Wei State, and his hard work is high. Guarding Jindi Pass, he used 50,000 troops against 300,000 troops under the command of the three major generals of Chen Pojun. It is not his responsibility to lose Jindi Pass, it is not a crime of war. Being hijacked and surrendered by his subordinates is also something that cannot be done. Lone believed in General Bing's loyalty, Lone believed that he surrendered to Chen Pojun because he could not do it, Lone believed that he was in Cao Ying, and his heart was in Han. Send someone back to Kim Yong Kim to deliver a letter to General Bing's family, and ask General Wang Dangren to give gold and silver to Bing's family as a sign of comfort. ”

"Also, from now on, set up camp at once, dig ditches, set up fences, dig horse pits, and bury deer's feet. We camped against the mountains and rivers, defended on the spot, and prepared to meet the enemy! ”

The failure of the retreat for three consecutive days made Li Mi break his previous plan to recapture Luokoucang City first. Chen Pojun had already set off from Jindi Pass, which was only about a hundred miles away from him, and he could reach it overnight.

If he continues to retreat as before, the biggest possibility is that he will be entangled with the Jianghuai army again for a day, and then Chen Pojun will take advantage of the situation to attack. At that time, he will no longer be a scuffle and a bitter battle, but will face the danger of being annihilated by the whole army.

The situation on the battlefield changed in an instant, and now the only thing Li Mi was looking forward to was that the Wei army in Baihua Valley and Yanshi City could rush to the battlefield to support them to withstand the attack of Chen Po's army and Jianghuai army, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from Wei Dao'er in Hebei and Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, and looking forward to the alliance army of the Three Kingdoms to defeat Chen Po's army in Luokou in one fell swoop.

The cool evening breeze in April brushed his face, but Li Mi shivered, feeling as if he was naked in the cold winter wax moon, bearing the howling north wind blowing, and it was cold to the bone.