Chapter 119: Abandonment, Retreat, Change of Horses
A few miles away, Shi Dayong sighed, he knew that Zhang Chun was finished, and the tens of thousands of Ming troops were also finished.
He also wanted to go over to save Zhang Chun, but Zuo Liangyu's words completely broke his thoughts, Zuo Liangyu said very simply, and very straightforwardly, he directly told Shi Dayong: "The army is over, there is no salvation, if you don't want to go, I'll go." After saying that, he led his own head and fled to the south bank, not wanting to advance and retreat with the Matsuyama army at all.
After a short period of hesitation, although he looked down on this evil general, Shi Dayong had to admit that he was right, the army had collapsed, and there was no miracle at all under the pursuit of the Jin army, and he did everything he could, even if he rushed to rescue Zhang Chun desperately now, what could he do?
If you lose, you lose, and if you don't admit it, you have to admit it. To save people now is to joke with the lives of the soldiers.
Isn't it enough for 40,000 troops to be buried here? Do you have to bury your 3,000 Changping children here to be willing?
Bloody battles again and again, in exchange for fewer and fewer familiar faces around them, and the battles were fought fiercely, which battle was not the same as on the edge of the hanging end?
Enough, you can't fight like this anymore, stay in the green mountains, and don't be afraid of no firewood. In this battle, even if Zhang Chun and his 40,000 troops are buried, how good is he to build a slave
If the future battles make Jiannu hurt his muscles and bones, can he still enter the Central Plains in the Manchu Dynasty?
"Let's go, let's go back to Jinzhou" Shi Dayong gritted his teeth and ordered a retreat.
"General, don't you save the soldiers?" I heard that when I went back, Cao Bianjiao was in a hurry, and the soldiers and tens of thousands of brothers were being chased and killed by Jiannu, so they watched them being wiped out by the Jin army?
"We can't save them from leaving, and if they don't leave, no one will want to leave"
Shi Dayong turned around expressionlessly, raised his feet and walked silently towards the south bank, Guo Yi followed closely behind.
Seeing this, Jiang Wanli, Huang An, Li Dashan, and Ma Zhong shook their heads, and successively led their subordinates to retreat with Shi Dayong.
Although the Changping soldiers are not afraid of death, the fact that the army collapsed is clearly visible, and Zhilu Dao can only withdraw at this time, and if he does not withdraw, once the defeated soldiers pour over, it is impossible to withdraw again.
Blood could not hide reason, and under the leadership of the officer, 2,000 Changping soldiers withdrew to the south bank in an orderly manner.
"Alas"
Everyone is gone, Cao Bianjiao can only stomp his feet in pain, wave his hand at the wolf cavalry angrily, and withdraw to the south bank very unwillingly.
The Songshan army retreated to the south bank, and along the way, Shi Dayong did not forget to order to gather some stragglers, search for weapons discarded by the Ming army, and bring the wounded as much as possible.
The defeated army on the north bank and the Jin army were still several miles away, but they were not afraid to catch up. When he joined Shao Wu's rear army, Shi Dayong found that Shao Wu had done a better job than he had explained, he not only gathered more than 1,000 defeated troops and more than 600 war horses, but also sent 300 people to the river to search for useful supplies when the fire broke out on the south bank.
Seeing that there were war horses, Cao Bianjiao hurriedly asked the wolf cavalry to put the iron armor on the horseback, and it was really difficult to carry it all the way. After removing the iron armor, the wolf cavalry suddenly let out a sigh of relief.
Shao Wu came up with a few thousand generals and told Shi Dayong that Zuo Liangyu, the general of Changping, had run away to Jinzhou with people just now. He wanted to stop the other party, but when he saw that the other party was strong and strong, he didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only let them go.
Shi Dayong nodded, did not speak, and ordered Huang An, Shao Wu, and Jiang Wanli to immediately lead their troops to Jinzhou to retreat, and the wolf cavalry army left a hundred soldiers who knew cavalry to come down, and another hundred horses to come down for them to ride.
Huang An saw that there was a Jin cavalry crossing the river on the side of Changshan, and he was worried that the Jin army would come to chase and kill, so he said to Shi Dayong: "General, let the middle army and the rear army withdraw first, and I will lead the front army to stay with the general, in case the Jin army chases over, I can stop it."
"No need, you all withdraw." Shi Dayong waved his hand and motioned for Huang An to hurry up, "If the Jin army dares to chase after me, I will immediately set fire to this side, although this fire is blowing southward with a tailwind, but he Jiannu can no longer chase us." It is imperative that you leave first, or we will have enough to drink a pot if we really start a fire. ”
Hearing this, Huang An nodded, knowing that Shi Dayong was right, the Changping soldiers were all foot soldiers, and if they set fire here, they might be able to run. It was best for them to hurry away now, and when the fire broke out, there would be enough distance for them to retreat to Jinzhou.
Seeing that Cao Bianjiao was also going to stay, Shi Dayong waved his hand at him and ordered him: "Xiao Cao, you also go"
"No, I'll stay." Cao Bianjiao said in a muffled voice, obviously very dissatisfied with Shi Dayong's retreat.
Shi Dayong had no choice but to agree, and pointed at the golden dragon banner on his shoulder, "The banner let Huang An and them take it back, you have to leave this flag, it's strange if Jiannu doesn't die chasing us." ”
Cao Bianjiao didn't speak, turned around and handed the banner to Huang An, who took it and asked the two soldiers to carry it.
Here, Jiang Wanli led people to help the rear army deal with those war horses and weapons, and those routs were also required to come to carry them, and after a short busy while, Huang An and others came to say goodbye to Shi Dayong and led their troops to retreat one after another.
After everyone withdrew, Shi Dayong and Cao Bianjiao took a hundred wolf cavalry to the north and entered Erlidi on horseback, and then stopped there and looked at Xiao Ling Ke in the distance. Shi Dayong was always a little unwilling in his heart, fantasizing that Zhang Chun would be able to escape.
But as there were more and more Jin troops in front of him, the last trace of illusion was also shattered.
On the north bank, the Jin army suddenly stopped attacking, but on the south bank, there were hundreds of Ming cavalry running wildly, but they were stopped by the Jin army bypassing Changshan.
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Wu Xiang was miserable, ran fast, but still didn't have time to run out of the city before the Jin army rendezvous, thousands of Jin soldiers roared and killed, and in one round, there were only two or three hundred of his subordinates left. Song Wei is no better over there, and there are only a few dozen riders left around him.
"Lord Zhentai, you run"
Seeing that the most vacant vacancy was about to be closed by the Jin army, Wu Xiang's general Wu De led people to rush to the Jin army, a fight, the Jin army was disrupted for a while, Wu Xiang saw this, and hurriedly beat the horse and desperately ran towards the vacancy, the Jin army saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to intercept, after a fight, Wu Xiang finally escaped, but there were only thirteen horses left. Song Wei also got out smoothly, he was worse than Wu Xiang, and there were seven horsemen left around him.
After escaping, Wu and Song went crazy. Whipping the mount, he ran desperately south. When Gu didn't know the identities of the two, he saw that there were only dozens of Ming troops who escaped from Lu, so he ignored them, blew the trumpet and led his troops to Xiaoling River to participate in the encirclement of the Ming army brigade.
After galloping for three miles, Wu and Song saw a cavalry in front of them, and they were taken aback, thinking that it was the Jin army, and when they saw that it was the Ming army, they breathed a sigh of relief. Desperately running there, the war horse was so tired that he was foaming at the mouth.
Jumping off the horse, an arrow went straight to the Ming army, before the people arrived, the voice came first: "This general is Wu Xiang, the general of Liaodong, and you will exchange the war horse with this general at the same speed" ()