The heavy snow finally stopped after three consecutive days, and on this day, the soldiers and horses of the East Wangfu were still on the way back.

On November 26, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Wangfu first pursued the Dongwang army for more than 30 miles, and then began to retreat north. A confrontation, after all, still did not start. However, the Dongwang Army, which was supposed to have withdrawn from the main battlefield, suddenly came out from more than a dozen directions, blocking the way of the Beiwang Army.

The retreat of the Eastern Wangjun army had already reached Zhou Yuan's ears. In Zhou Yuan's opinion, even if the dozen or so soldiers and horses of the Dongwang Mansion were reduced to zero, it would be impossible to form any obstacles to the Northern Wangjun. But he didn't expect that the cowardice of the Eastern King Army was mixed with blood, and it would turn around and rush out.

On the snowy ground, the Northern King Army withdrew less than 20 miles, and it was still more than 40 miles away from Luoyang City, and it had been killed by the two soldiers and horses of the Eastern King Army. These two roads of soldiers and horses, all of which are cavalry, originally fought in the snow, and the cavalry played a small role, but the cavalry of the East Wangfu was stepping on their feet and appeared in front of the soldiers of the Northern King Army through the snow.

The Northern Wang Army was almost unpredictable, and did not know the movements of the more than a dozen soldiers and horses sent by the Eastern Wang Army in advance. After discovering these two cavalry, the Northern King Army wanted to form a defense to resist, but the Northern King Army obviously did not anticipate how to set up a defense in the snow and was caught off guard.

The two cavalry of the Eastern King Army forcibly tore a gap between the east and west roads of the solid Northern King Army.

At this time, Zhou Yuan, the supreme commander of the Northern King Army, was still in the ranks of the Chinese army. When he learned that his soldiers and horses were broken in the back road, he was still a little incredulous. Because in the intelligence of the previous day, the Dongwang army had withdrawn sixty miles away, and in the snow, how could it be possible to kill sixty miles away overnight?

There are two ways in front of Zhou Yuan, either to continue to retreat north and ignore the rear army, which is equivalent to cutting off the rear army to the Eastern Wang Army. In this way, it was necessary to rush across the Yellow River and leave the south bank of the Yellow River before the Eastern and Southern armies formed a joint encirclement.

There is another way, which is to stay and fight to the death. Fight to the death with the invading Dongwang Army.

Zhou Yuan is used to experiencing big scenes. But at such times, he suddenly hesitated. It's not that he's not prepared to fight to the death. Only this time, the Eastern Wangjun was too fierce, so fierce that he was caught off guard. He never expected that he would be like a good cat yesterday. It will suddenly come out like a tiger. This is not the Eastern King Army he knows at all.

"General. To fight or not to fight? ”

Several generals came over to ask for their lives. And at this time. The situation on the back road of the Northern Wangjun is already very critical. As the cavalry of the Eastern King Army rushed out, the follow-up infantry and a large number of infantry and horses mixed with soldiers and horses were all killed. How many people there are, even the sentry can't count them.

Because a heavy snow has just stopped, the whole world is white, and the visual effect brought by the cavalry after rushing out has already blocked the direction of sight dozens of steps away, and if you don't climb high, you can't see the entire battlefield clearly. At this time, the main force of the Eastern King Army was more than 70,000, and if all of them were killed, Zhou Yuan understood that just in this unexpected encounter, the Northern King Army had already fallen behind.

Zhou Yuan is going to make a decision at this time, to fight or not to fight. He hesitated a little and said, "The front army will be the rear army, face the battle!" ”

Hearing Zhou Yuan's order to fight, the generals present knew that this was a hasty battle, but they all accepted the order. In their view, combat is the mission of a soldier, and even if he hates the battlefield in the end, he can be regarded as fulfilling the duty of a soldier.

But everyone also understands that staying and fighting is not the best option. Now if you stand in the position of the North Palace, surrounded by enemies, this battle should not be fought, and it will not have any effect, even if you kill the East King and the Empress, Luoyang will not fall into the hands of the North Palace.

But once Zhou Yuan returned to the north, even if he retreated, he and his soldiers would have to bear the charge of being unfavorable in battle, and they would lose the battle. In Zhou Yuan's view, it is better to fight hard than to die. In the past two days, the Dongwang army has withdrawn and counterattacked, it must be extremely tired, and some are just a blow, if this gas is suppressed, then the Northern Wang Army can take advantage of the momentum like a bamboo, and then the Dongwang army can also fight a beautiful victory in the light.

Zhou Yuan's battle order, the original more than 90,000 Northern Wang Army, immediately divided into three roads. Based on the Chinese army, with the two sides as auxiliaries, the position was stabilized, and he was ready to accept the onslaught of the Dongwang army round after round.

After all, Zhou Yuan is good at fighting defensive battles, and for plain warfare, he is only proficient in some cavalry warfare, and he is also inexperienced in the current snow warfare. In terms of formation arrangement, he gave up the maneuvering role of the left and right roads, but had already dominated the Chinese army and counterattacked in the direction of the coming road of the Dongwang army.

At the beginning, after the main force of the Northern King Army joined the battlefield, it did play an immediate role. After all, the Northern King Army is brave and good at fighting, even on the snow, the ability to fight head-to-head one-on-one is higher than that of the soldiers of the Eastern King Army. But after all, the Eastern Wang Army has already gained the upper hand in terms of momentum, and now it is the robbery of the main battlefield, and the Northern Wang Army found that after killing two rounds, the soldiers of the Eastern Wang Army in front were like meat grinders, going up and dying as many as they wanted, and in the back, they actually added heads to the front.

At this time, the soldiers of the Northern King Army did not have a high fighting spirit, and they were fighting in a foreign country, and their confidence was insufficient. With the bloody battle in front of him, there were more deserters on the side of the Northern King Army.

The snow was already a mixture of snow and blood.

When Zhou Yuan stabilized the hearts of the army and set up a new Chinese army tent, from what he learned, the soldiers and horses of the Dongwang Army had joined the battlefield more than 30,000, which happened to be the dozen soldiers and horses that the Dongwang Army had divided before.

Judging from the intelligence, the rear army of the Northern King Army was killed and could not form an army, even if the Chinese army filled it, it was soon dispersed to the point that it could not form an effective formation, and was killed by the Eastern King Army, and it was already gradually approaching the Chinese army tent of the Northern King Army.

"How is this possible!" Zhou Yuan, who heard the news, was furious, "Jiangdu's soldiers and horses were still sixty miles away yesterday, even if there were thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses to kill, they must be extremely tired, how could they have such combat effectiveness?" The soldiers of our army fought against the Xianbei barbarians in the north, how experienced they were, why couldn't they even kill a few southern barbarians? ”

Zhou Yuan's anger made none of the generals present dare to speak up.

Now the obvious problem is that the soldiers of the Dongwang Army who can't be beaten. The soldiers of the Eastern King Army are all brave and good at fighting, and they are a little more experienced than them.

"General...... If that doesn't work, let's withdraw! "There are generals who are embarrassed.

"Disturb the morale of the army, drag it out, and behead it!"

Zhou Yuan gave an order, and immediately a knife and axe hand stepped forward and dragged the general who spoke. The general also looked sad, but did not beg for mercy. In this case, when he came out to speak, he already realized that he was sent to death, and he himself had no complaints.

The other generals present did not speak. Indeed, the appearance of the soldiers of the Eastern King Army in front of them has exceeded their imagination, originally they thought that although the Southern Army was very brave and good at fighting, but in fact, it was all paper paste, as long as the Northern King Army swept by, it would be like a storm and clouds, and not a single soldier would be left for him. But now, they are being swept away by the Eastern King's army.

"The soldiers and horses on both wings attacked, outflanked from the back, I don't believe it, can the Dongwang army still have three heads and six arms?"

Zhou Yuan shouted, and immediately a herald went out to report it. Sending two wings of soldiers and horses is also equivalent to giving up the defense of the east and west, but in exchange for the back road that can outflank the enemy, in Zhou Yuan's view, this is a battle against the water, anyway, now the East King Army has an advantage in momentum, if it can't open the gap from other directions, then the North King Army is almost lost in this battle.

But with the news of Zhou Yuan's order, the soldiers and horses on both wings began to move, and at this time, a herald came to report, saying that the soldiers and horses of Luoyang City on the north side of the Beiwang Army also poured out of the city earlier and killed in the direction of the Beiwang Army.

"This ...... How can it be! Zhou Yuan was shocked at first, and then he understood.

It turned out that the Eastern King Army had already been in contact with each other, which was clearly to annihilate his Northern King Army in one fell swoop. The Northern King Army is so well prepared, but it is still on the road! (To be continued......)