Chapter 123: Retreat to the Yin Tomb

Hua'an's sudden appearance saved the life of the Jin army scout, and naturally he learned from the scout that Taowu and Zhang Liang's 2,000 troops were behind.

Now, in this small-scale contest, Hua An has a certain understanding of the combat power of Zhao's cavalry, and at the same time, he also understands that the less than 400 soldiers under his command will definitely not be able to resist the nearly 2,000 army of Taowu and Zhang Liang.

It was inevitable to retreat to Yinling City for temporary refuge, but at this moment, there were many wounded among his subordinates, and the wounded must be slow, so it was difficult to retreat safely into the city before the arrival of the enemy's 2,000 troops.

Hua An thought for a moment and decided to let Wang San and Tie Niu take the wounded soldiers and captured war horses, as well as the corpses of the dead soldiers, and return to Yinling City with the two hundred soldiers led by Lei Storm and Zhao Wu to lead the enemy away.

As the scout said, when Hua An walked around the mound with two hundred men, he raised his eyes and saw a black cavalry in front of him, less than five miles away from his position.

In order to attract the enemy's idea, Hua An asked his subordinates to ride their horses to the top of the mound, and stayed for a while, estimating that they were discovered by the enemy, and then slowly left from the mound.

The distance of less than five miles is that the cavalry can reach it quickly, and since Hua'an has revealed his whereabouts, the next thing to do is how to retreat.

Fortunately, Hua'an had walked around Yinling City before, and was quite familiar with the nearby terrain, and there was a small road leading to the south gate of Yinling City, although the road was a little tortuous, but it was very suitable for getting rid of the pursuers.

So, after Hua'an 'showed his face', he took Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu and two hundred cavalry to the south gate of Yinling.

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"Brother Tao, there is a team of men and horses on the hill in front, it seems that Brother Tao's subordinates have succeeded, and it is another great achievement." Zhang Liang complimented casually.

Hearing this, Tao Wu raised his eyes and looked ahead, although the distance was too far to see clearly, but he felt that there were definitely more than a hundred cavalry, and the troops he sent out to chase the Jin army scouts were only a hundred cavalry, which made him feel that the situation was wrong. "This team looks like there are more than a hundred, it may be the Jin army." Momotake guessed.

Seeing Tao Wu say this, Zhang Liang looked up again and looked forward, only to see that the cavalry in front of him was leaving the hill and running in the opposite direction to himself.

"Brother Tao, they are running away, it seems that most of them are the Jin army." Zhang nodded his head in approval.

"The hundred soldiers who were just sent out must have been poisoned by them." Taowu Qingjian burst out, looked back at the soldiers behind him, and said loudly: "All the soldiers, accelerate forward and chase me." ”

"The whole army is ongoing." Zhang Liang naturally chose to advance and retreat with Taowu.

The two led an army of nearly 2,000 and pursued fiercely in the direction of Hua'an's retreat.

When they chased to the hill, they found a hundred soldiers who had been killed in battle, and Momotake looked at the whole hundred corpses on the ground, gritting his teeth with hatred.

However, Zhang Liang, who was careful, found that there were only the corpses of his own soldiers on the ground, but the other party left nothing, which made him frightened in his heart.

"Brother Tao, the corpses on the ground are all soldiers of our army, it seems that this Jin army is extremely powerful." After Zhang Liang finished speaking, he looked at Taowu with a frightened expression.

When Tao Wu heard this, he took a closer look, and the people lying on the ground were indeed his subordinates, but he also found that the war horses had all disappeared, and the war horses were very loyal to their masters.

"Hmph, the combat power of the Jin army, you and I have seen it yesterday." A sneer appeared at the corner of Taowu's mouth, and he said in a dark voice: "The Jin army is playing tricks, they think that they can scare our army by transporting the corpses, and they are delusional." ”

Zhang Liang also found that the war horses were all gone at this time, and immediately understood, and said: "Brother Tao, the Jin army's bluff is enough to prove its weakness, this is a suspicious strategy, as long as we catch up, we can find out." ”

Tao Wu nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Catch up and kill them all." ”

Suddenly, nearly 2,000 cavalry, under the leadership of Tao Wu and Zhang Liang, accelerated again to chase Hua'an and others.

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Hua An, Lei Storm, and Zhao Wu led two hundred soldiers to gallop in front, and when they saw the enemy chasing behind them stop, they immediately sweated.

The position where the enemy stopped was the same position where they had just fought, in case they saw through their plan and no longer chased after them, but went straight to Yinling City, it would be bad, Wang San and Tie Niu's subordinates only had more than 100 people to fight, and they were completely vulnerable in front of nearly 2,000 enemy troops.

In order to prevent the enemy from losing, Hua'an asked his subordinates to stop and rest for a while, and at the same time to raise their horsepower.

Fortunately, Hua'an's worries were unnecessary, and the enemy only paused for a moment before rushing in the direction where he was.

Hua An breathed a sigh of relief, and led his subordinates to continue moving forward, stopping from time to time to wait for a while, but always keeping a distance of at least two miles from the enemy.

The south gate of Yinling City was in front, Hua An glanced at the enemy army chasing behind him, smiled indifferently at the corner of his mouth, and led his subordinates to speed up back to Yinling City, while Wang San, Tie Niu and others approached, entered the city from the north gate one step earlier, and led more than 100 subordinates to the south gate to meet Hua'an.

At the same time, the Yinling garrison also took the main force of 200 soldiers to guard the south gate city wall, because he was worried that the enemy would attack the east and west, he arranged the other 300 soldiers in the east, west and north gates respectively to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack.

After Hua'an and others entered the city, the Yinling garrison immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and when the city gate was completely closed, the enemy army had already approached the city.

Looking at the nearly 2,000 cavalry rolling in, the Yinling garrison looked nervous, looked at Hua'an and said: "The enemy army is large, and the Yinling city is short, I am afraid that our army will not be able to hold it for a long time." ”

Seeing Hua An's dissatisfied gaze, he hurriedly changed his words: "In the lower body, I am guarding the Yin Tomb, even if I am defeated, I should fight to the death and serve the court." ”

Hua An smiled indifferently, pointed to the enemy army under the city, and said: "The garrison adults don't need to be nervous, the enemy army is all cavalry, and there is no siege weapon, it is not easy to break the city, and there are more than 300 soldiers under the command of the last general, when the adults advance and retreat together with life and death, it is not difficult to defend the city." ”

"In this way, you can rest assured that with all the soldiers here, Yinling City can be safe." The Yin Tomb garrison was at ease.

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Tao Wu and Zhang Liang led the army to the foot of Yinling City, and saw that the city gate had been closed, and the city walls were full of Jin army defenders, so they stopped two hundred steps outside the city.

"Brother Tao, the enemy army is hiding in the city, and the city gate has been closed, and the siege of the city at this time will be unfavorable to our army." Zhang Liang frowned and said.

They originally planned to raid Yinling, first with a small number of cavalry disguised as the Jin army to run to the city of Yinling, control the city gate, and then the cavalry suddenly rushed out and attacked the city, so as to achieve the goal of capturing Yinling City.

And at this moment, because of the accident of a hundred soldiers killed in battle, their strategy was not implemented, and now they are watching Hua An and others who killed a hundred subordinates and retreat into Yinling City safely, Tao Wu and Zhang Liang are extremely angry in their hearts.

Tao Wu carefully inspected the city wall in front of him, and found that Yinling City had no moat, the height of the city wall was less than one zhang, and the defenders were only a few hundred people.

"I didn't succeed in the division, and I lost a hundred soldiers in vain, so I went back like this, how to explain to the main general." Momotake's face was furious, and it was clear that he was planning to attack the city.