But the city gates are also precarious. When Xiang Xun led his troops from the west of Lingzhou to attack and march to Lingzhou City, the Obstruction Army immediately gave up the attack on the South City Gate, and only sent 30,000 troops to besiege the city, and the remaining 30,000 Obstruction Army launched an attack on Xiang Xun.

Xiang Xun was miserable because of this, the forbidden army was only equipped with thirty percent of cavalry, thirty percent of crossbow soldiers, and four percent of sword and shield soldiers, although it was the same army of 30,000, but compared to the 30,000 rangers of the Obstruction Army, the level was not at the same level at all.

But the emperor is trapped in Lingzhou City, if there are three long and two short, then Xiang Xun is a few times to drop his head, I am afraid it will not be enough to offset such a heinous crime. Xiang Xun had to stubbornly order the forbidden army to attack the Obstruction Army and resist the charge of 30,000 Obstruction Cavalry.

There is almost no suspense in such a battle, once the cavalry of the 8,000 forbidden army is exhausted, the sword and shield soldiers cannot withstand the cavalry charge at all, and the crossbowmen who press the formation behind have little lethality to the nearby rangers, let alone resistance, so they can only be slaughtered.

Xiang Xun seemed to have seen the end of the rout, and the only hope in his heart was to kill one more Divination Blocker soldier and reduce the pressure on Chai Rong's stubbornness.

At this critical moment, Zhao Kuangyin arrived with 30,000 forbidden troops.

Zhao Kuangyin led the cavalry into the battlefield and stabilized the forbidden army's front, so that the sword and shield soldiers and crossbow soldiers of the training department stabilized their positions and attacked the blocking army again.

The situation on the battlefield changed, and the obstruction army began to be unable to stop it.

Seeing that there were more and more Zhou troops, Zhu Bu had no choice but to retreat, and after meeting with the Zhu Bu army surrounded by the Three City Gates, he retreated to the south gate. Confront Lingzhou City.

In fact, the command of the obstruction army also made a huge mistake, if when the training department arrived, only 20,000 troops were sent for the purpose of blocking. Hold Xiang Xun, and the 40,000 obstruction army launched a general attack on Lingzhou City from the four city gates, perhaps, Lingzhou City has already been captured. In this way, the Divination Army with Chai Rong in hand can win without a fight. However, the Obstruction Army did not know how many Zhou troops there were in Lingzhou City, and wanted to use the hunting method of encircling the point to send reinforcements to devour the Zhou army that came to help. As a result, I didn't expect Zhao Kuangyin's department to arrive quickly, so he made a mistake and was full of sparse plates.

So far. Xiang Xun lost his cavalry troops, but the sword, shield, bow and crossbow troops were still there, plus 30,000 people from Zhao Kuangyin's department, plus the remnants of Chai Rong in Lingzhou City. The strength of the Zhou army has reached more than 60,000 people. And the army of 60,000 people. After 30,000 forbidden troops outside the south gate blocked, attacked Lingzhou City and fought with Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin outside the west gate, the loss of troops has reached more than 30%, and only about 40,000 troops remained.

But there was a problem with Zheng Eun at this time, Zheng Eun was a brave general, but lacked resourcefulness. It is indeed a bit difficult to let it charge into battle and let it stand alone.

When I first started. Zheng En's bold attack and the 60,000-strong army attacked the 60,000-strong army with the southward momentum, and the battle was smooth. But when the Bu army slowly stabilized its position and began to counterattack, Zheng En was like Cheng Biting Jin's three-plate axe, completely losing the ability to control the situation on the battlefield.

He could only lead his guards to lead all the cavalry to charge forward, and the rest of the sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen followed the formation, but the cavalry was consumed very quickly when charging, and there was no strong wing cover, and the cavalry was slightly more skilled in cavalry to hedge against the cavalry, which was slightly more sophisticated, and the consequences could be imagined.

Gradually, the Obscure cavalry withstood Zheng En's onslaught, and divided into two cavalry teams to detour to the flanks of the Zhou army.

Zheng En saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, but he who had already led the charge could not order the sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen behind him to block the cavalry on both sides, he knew that once the two wings were surrounded, the next thing would be to be attacked on three sides.

The shape shì is getting worse and worse, and it's terrible.

The formation of the Zhou army became very scattered due to the rapid rush of Zheng En's troops, and the sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen were thrown out more than a mile away, and they could not play the role of pressing and supporting Zheng En's troops at all, and when the blocking army detoured to the two wings, it was very likely that Zheng En's cavalry would close at the distance between the sword and shield and crossbow soldiers, forming a situation of division and encirclement.

Zheng En began to panic, he ordered the cavalry to retreat, seeking to meet with the follow-up sword and shield, bow and crossbow soldiers, but the cavalry has been attacking in a charging posture, has been inserted into the depth of the blocking army, once the blocking army withstood the cavalry of the Zhou army, after the charge was blocked, the blocking army will naturally close to the middle, at this time want to retreat, I am afraid it is too late.

Sure enough, Zheng En's cavalry was firmly pinned down by the two sides of the Divination Army and could not move, and the follow-up infantry archers were surrounded by roundabout Divination Division, and it was only a matter of time before they collapsed.

But unexpectedly, a variable emerged.

Yun Yang was ordered by Baili Wuji to cooperate with Chai Rong Zhou's army to resist the invading Bubu army, and dug up a piece of meat from the Bu Blocker Army to the east of Baitinghai - 30,000 Bu Blocker Cavalry.

Yunyang's First Army has been overstaffed since its establishment, and the number of soldiers is at most twice that of other Black Flag Armies, reaching 60,000, and then slowly after the battle losses are not replenished in time, the number of soldiers began to decline, but it is also stable at about 50,000. This time, when the Liao was exterminated in Ganzhou and the remnants of the divination were blocked, the losses were very large, and there was no time to rest, and the strength of the army had dropped to more than 30,000 people.

With less than ten days of rest and no ordnance replenishment, it is not easy to contain 30,000 cavalry in this state.

But Yun Yang is a generation of famous generals, and as soon as he has restrained the 30,000 Obstruction Army, he has already begun to think about the march route to reinforce Lingzhou.

From Baiting Haidong to Lingzhou to reinforce Lingzhou, you need to climb Helan Mountain, and Yun Yang doesn't want to go to this muddy water. Therefore, the only way to make a detour to the south, from the Hexi Corridor north of Liangzhou to the east, along the Great Wall north to Huaiyuan, and then east to cross the Yellow River to the south to Lingzhou.

Therefore, Yun Yang sent fast cavalry to Hehuangjiao to ask for help, and ordered him to lead his troops north to the Great Wall north of Liangzhou to set up defenses, carrying a large number of arrows to ambush on the Great Wall, preparing to cooperate with him to block the Bu army. On the one hand, he began to make the appearance that he could not resist the attack of the cavalry, and he lost three battles in a row, retreating while fighting, and retreated south along the Baiting River.

Along the way, Yun Yang ordered the Ming soldiers to tear up their uniforms and throw them on the march from time to time, discarding a large number of cooking utensils and camping tents, and even throwing away a few military flags.

The three-day journey, while fighting and retreating, dragged on for seven days, and when the Great Wall could be seen to the south, Yun Yang ordered the Ming army to begin to "break and flee".

The rapid "rout" of the Ming army made the blocking army extremely excited, and it was impossible to imagine that there would be other Ming troops participating in this battle, so they also accelerated to chase after the Ming army.

Both armies were cavalry, and this pursuit and escape made it impossible for the blocking army to catch up for a while. (To be continued......)