"Soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy."

Hua An shouted, led two hundred soldiers under his command, and rushed to the front, followed by Lei Storm, Zhao Wu, Wang San, and Tie Niu.

"Eat me." Hua An shouted, and a large knife slashed through the neck of an enemy soldier, and suddenly, an enemy soldier's head rolled to the ground.

Hua An didn't have time to glance at it, and after chopping, he then brandished a big knife, slashing and slashing among the enemy soldiers to his heart's content, constantly harvesting the lives of enemy soldiers.

The soldiers behind him are also struggling to kill the enemy, thunderstorms, iron bulls are the most energetic, kill to the place where they rise, directly throw away the helmets and armor, and kill the enemy shirtless.

However, the field strength of the enemy's cavalry should not be underestimated, although the Northern Expeditionary Army has a lot of advantages in terms of strength, but the field ability is obviously inferior to the enemy, the two sides can be said to be evenly matched, and the fight soon entered the white-hot stage.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, the enemy and us, except for the soldiers who died in battle, nearly half of the remaining soldiers were wounded, and hunger, thirst and fatigue tormented the soldiers on both sides.

At this time, it would be a meaningless war of attrition to fight any longer, and Han Qian saw that the enemy's fighting spirit was much weaker, so he decisively ordered: "Retreat, retreat three miles." ”

When the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army heard the order, they immediately retreated.

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"No pursuit, the whole army is on standby." The enemy general ordered the soldiers not to pursue the retreating Northern Expeditionary Army.

"General, the Jin army is defeated, why don't you chase it." A junior asked aloud.

The enemy general glanced at the retreating Northern Expeditionary Army, and said loudly: "The Jin army has retreated, and the task we are waiting for has been completed, and the soldiers are tired and thirsty, so take a rest when you retreat." ”

"Order, rest for a while, the army retreats in the direction of Yinling." The enemy general shouted.

A moment later, the enemy general led more than 9,000 elite soldiers and rushed towards Yinling City.

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After the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army retreated three miles, Han Qian ordered his subordinates to check the casualties, and his subordinates carefully checked for a long time and presented the results to Han Qian.

After reading the casualties, Han Qian said softly: "The field strength of the enemy's cavalry is really good, in just half an hour, more than 1,000 people were killed in our army, and nearly half of the soldiers were wounded. ”

"What the general said is, however, the casualties of the enemy are not small." Chen Xiong paused after speaking, and then said: "In the last battle of Yinling, the enemy's rear road was cut off, the main force of the peach leopard withdrew to Dangtu, and the palace army left behind was crushed at the touch of a button, and it was not the opponent of our army at all. ”

Hearing this, Han Qian thought for a moment, and said softly: "This time, the enemy's strength is thousands more than last time, especially the cavalry accounts for most of it, and the combat strength is naturally different, and the strength of our army is a full five thousand less than last time. ”

Chen Xiong and the generals nodded approvingly.

But when Han Qian said this, he always had a question in his heart, that is, the morale and will to resist of the enemy army were completely different from last time, and it could be said that the morale was strong.

Of course he didn't know, in fact, it was Peach Leopard who gave the death order and did not allow the general to inform the soldiers under his command of the news that the back road was cut off, so as to avoid panic among the soldiers, and the morale of the soldiers would naturally not be affected.

10,000 enemy elite soldiers successfully blocked the pursuit of the 15,000 troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which made Hua'an sigh at the strength of the enemy's combat power.

"Master, the enemy army has withdrawn, is our army still chasing?" Hua An asked softly.

Han Qian raised his head, looked at the enemy army in front of him who was retreating to Yinling City, and said softly: "Chasing, of course it is chasing, but although the enemy army has withdrawn, it has not broken up, and its combat power is even higher than our army, so our army can only follow behind, and cannot chase too close." ”

"The master's meaning is to follow behind the enemy, so that after reaching Yinling, he can encircle and annihilate the enemy with the main force of the Jingzhou Legion and the Yangzhou Legion." Huaan said.

Han Qian nodded, and said with a straight face: "This is exactly what the teacher intended, I hope that the armies of Jing and Yang have blocked the retreat of the main force of Peach Leopard." ”

"Master rest assured, according to the situation mentioned in the letter, at this time, the Yangzhou Legion of my Great Jin has arrived in Yinling City, and the main force of the Jingzhou Legion is also about to arrive." Huaan said loudly.

"I hope so." Han Qian replied and ordered loudly: "The army enters the woods in front, rests for an hour, and then marches." ”

Suddenly, more than 10,000 troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army poured into the woods, and the military doctor immediately bandaged the wounds of the wounded soldiers, and the more seriously injured ones were placed on vehicles and prepared to be transported back to Dongcheng.

Han Qian and his generals discussed the military situation, while Hua An and several sworn brothers leaned on a big tree and chatted.

"Big brother, I fought with the enemy just now, and it was really cool to kill! It's been a long time since I've killed an enemy so happily. Thunderstorm exclaimed.

"That's right, it's really cool to kill, but in the end, the main general actually ordered the army to retreat, and I haven't completely enjoyed killing yet?" Iron Bull complained a little.

"If our army holds out a little longer, it will be the enemy who retreats." Zhao Wu said and touched the spear in his hand.

"The main general decided to withdraw the army, naturally there is a reason for the main general, you are all small team members, what are you complaining about." Wang San pointed at the three of them and quipped.

"Yay! Wang San, you kid has actually learned to play officially, see if we don't tie you to the horse's belly. Iron Bull said with a wink at the thunderstorm.

Thunderstorm understood, and hugged Wang San together with Tie Niu.

"Let go, let go of me." Wang San struggled, but his strength was much worse than that of Thunderstorm and Iron Bull, so he naturally couldn't break free.

"Zhao Wu, take the rope and tie this kid up." Thunderstorm looked at Zhao Wu and said.

Zhao Wu looked left and right, smiled indifferently, and said softly, "I didn't see the rope." ”

Although there was no rope, Thunderstorm and Iron Bull carried Wang San to the side of the horse, ready to stuff Wang San under the horse's belly.

"Hahaha!" The soldiers who were watching around laughed when they saw this.

"Two brothers, let it go! Wang San knew that he was wrong. Wang San looked at the horse's buttocks in front of him, and finally relented.

"Now I know it's wrong." Iron Bull doesn't seem to have had enough.

Hua An saw that they were playing too much, and they attracted Han Qian's attention several times, and said loudly: "Okay, stop playing, come back." ”

"Oh." Seeing that Hua An was a little angry, Thunderstorm and Tie Niu immediately put down Wang San, and the three of them walked to Hua An's side together.

Hua An looked at the three of them and said: "The enemy army is strong, you have also learned it just now, it is a serious matter to stay more and kill the enemy, don't make any more trouble." ”

"Yes, big brother." When the three of them heard this, they hurriedly smiled and nodded.

After the army rested for a whole hour, Han Qian ordered some of the military doctors and soldiers to send the seriously wounded back to Dongcheng, and at the same time ordered thousands of men and horses and baggage battalions in Dongcheng to come to support immediately.

"Soldiers, let's go." Han Qian shouted at the soldiers.

Suddenly, the main force of more than 10,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, under the leadership of Han Qian, marched in the direction of Yinling City.

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Wang Yunzhi, the general of the Yangzhou Army, led an army of 20,000 into Yinling City.

Because he got the news before sending the troops that there were 10,000 enemy troops stationed in Yinling City, Wang Yunzhi was naturally reluctant to storm Yinling, and he planned to be stationed outside the city and wait for the main force of the Jingzhou Army to arrive and attack the city together.

But when he led his army to ten miles outside the east gate of Yinling City, he sent out scouts to inquire about the news, and reported that Yinling City was an empty city.

Wang Yunzhi didn't believe it at first, and then, many scouts reported it like this, Wang Yunzhi believed it, and then, he was extremely excited, and hurriedly ordered his army to enter Yinling City.

After entering the city, the first thing he did was to immediately write a letter to report the results of the recovery of Yinling to the imperial court, and then arrange the city defense and reconnoiter the terrain near the city.

Soon Mao Bao, the fierce general of the Jingzhou Army, led 20,000 troops into Yinling to join Wang Yunzhi, because there are small roads leading to Dangtu in the east and west directions of Yinling City.

Among them, the path outside the east gate is more dangerous, and sending an army of thousands of men and horses is enough to block the enemy, while the path outside the west gate is relatively open, and the roads are more numerous, and it is the best way for the enemy to escape.

Therefore, the two discussed and decided that Mao Bao led an army of 20,000 troops to garrison the place where the enemy army must pass outside the west gate of Yinling City, while Wang Yunzhi sent 2,000 men and horses to garrison the path outside the east gate of Yinling City, and the remaining 18,000 troops were stationed in Yinling City, ready to go out of the city at any time to fight a decisive battle with the Peach Leopard army.

In the afternoon of the second day, the main force of nearly 20,000 troops of Taobao arrived ten miles outside the south gate of Yinling City.

Soon, the scout reported the information to the peach leopard, and after the peach leopard heard about it, he was at a loss, and the retreat was all blocked by the Jin army, and tens of thousands of troops may be wiped out.

"Dad, if Zhang Ju can stick to the Yin Tomb, it won't be like this, he obviously did it on purpose." Momotake looked furious.

When the peach leopard heard this, he was silent, just sighed softly.

"There is a strong enemy in front, and there are pursuers in the back, general, what should we do?" A subordinate general asked with a frown.

"You can't just tie your hands and catch it! Only hard fighting. ”

"Fight to the death with all your might, maybe you can kill a bloody road."

"General, the last general is willing to follow the general and fight to the death with all his might."

A group of generals began to talk about it.

Peach Leopard frowned and thought for a long time, looked at the generals, and analyzed: "Now, our army's siege equipment is all smashed, and it is definitely not possible to attack Yinling, now there is a road in the east and west directions of Yinling City, which can lead to Dangtu City, outside the east gate is a rugged and difficult road, and the west gate is a slightly larger road, the two roads have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the generals think it is better to take which one?" ”

"General, the path outside the east gate, the last general has walked, it is too dangerous, the Jin army has already stationed a group of men and horses, it is difficult for our army to get through, but there is a glimmer of hope on the path outside the west gate." A ministry general said.

"Bring me the map." Peach Leopard frowned and said.