Chapter 242: Breaking the Dead

Zhao Yun's slashing became the last straw that pressed the Euphorbia, and in the confrontation with the Mandarin Duck Army, nearly half of the Euphorbia were damaged, and the army was defeated......

And at this moment, finally ...... Yiyang light riding has played the role of a light horse and a reaper!

pursued and killed all the way, not only further expanding the casualties of the Euphorbia, but also driving the Euphorbia and rushing towards Huang Qi's army behind.

The army led by Huang Yi was the remnants of Nanyang left by Yuan Shu, and at this time, in the back, seeing that the halberd warriors were "inexplicable", they were defeated and retreated, and shouted angrily at the same time: "Around the formation, around the formation!" ”

shouted that no one paid attention to him, and he also reacted, there was nowhere to go around this terrain, so he changed his words again: "Forward, forward!" "If you want a halberd soldier, you can reline yourself in front of his infantry phalanx as a striker.

However, no one paid attention to him, and they were still rushing back, Huang Yi couldn't help but be annoyed: "Lu Yi! What are your people doing! ”

"They need to be repaired, let's get them in first! With the elite of the Euphorbia, they will find a gap to enter after the formation is cleared, and they will not impact the military formation! Lu Yi hurriedly said.

Huang Yi glanced at Lu Yi strangely at this time, and after being silent for a while, he said, "Do you think my soldiers can recover after neatly and quickly clearing the formation?" ”

It's a pity that the army that Yuan Shu once raised in Nanyang, although it was his family's background, can be described as elite training and well-equipped, but it ...... Nowadays, both military discipline and training have been abolished for a long time, and they have long been cultivated as wasters, and the current generals are too vegetable, so it can be said that they are getting farther and farther away from the word "elite".

Lu Yi: ......

"If you can't stop, you can only block it together!"

At this time, under the urging of Huang Yi, I saw Nanyang Jun raise the round shield on his arm, wanting to block the battle with the halberd......

Lu Yi was already angry, but he only had the share of stomping his feet - seeing the defeat of the Euphorbia and the beheading of Wen Chou, Huang Yi also lost the respect he had before.

The Euphorbia is also worthy of being elite, and most of them did not rush into the friendly army, but wanted to return to fight, but unfortunately...... The lineup is in chaos, and there is also the Nanyang Army by his side!

It was scattered by the Yiyang light cavalry, and then the infantry also covered up......

The decisive victory in the pass road is different from the ordinary plain fighting formation - normally in the short-range encounter, even if it is the elite of the veterans, the casualties will cause a rout, and the undertrained recruits will have worse endurance.

However, in the passway terrain, the rout can only collapse backwards, which can easily trigger a chain reaction, so in the passway decisive battle, the situation will be very "special".

At the beginning of the battle, even if the army in front was scattered, it would not be able to retreat because it was blocked by the army formation behind.

However, once the inferior side has an unstoppable rout, it will instantly trigger an avalanche-like chain collapse, which is equivalent to the initial time, morale has little impact, because there is no place to escape, but once it exceeds a certain critical point, it will completely run with the rear army!

This is the case with the current Nanyang Army......

From the beginning of the Euphorbia rout, the entire front collapsed backwards uncontrollably.

After a chaotic battle, the Nanyang army was kicked and kicked back to the Underworld.

When Lu Yi's momentum in Yiyang's light cavalry had been exhausted under his own huge casualties, and the opposing infantry had not yet followed up, he wanted to organize a wave of counterattacks to contain the situation, how could he ...... Huang Yi's handsome flag was already empty, and he had already withdrawn with his personal guards and rear army at the beginning!

The front army, which lacked command, was almost given to the Northern Route Army for military merit and prisoners for nothing......

Lu Yi had no other way than to scold "the erector is not enough to plan", so he had to hurriedly organize the remnants of the Euphorbia and retreat.

Lucky...... No matter how miserable the Euphorbia soldiers are, they can run faster than their allies!

With friendly forces as buffer "meat pads", the whole army was not wiped out.

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After the war, both sides counted the casualties and collected the corpses.

Of the 800 halberds, only 200 remained in the First World War, which can be said to be the largest casualty since its establishment.

The 12,000 Nanyang troops in the Underworld Fortress suffered nearly half of the casualties, and the terrain of the pass further expanded the casualty ratio of the losers, and the remaining half were either the old and weak who stayed behind, or the "race winners", and the morale could be imagined.

On the side of the General's Mansion, the most serious proportion of injuries is the "Mandarin Duck Army", the biggest hero of this battle.

Even if it is a big victory, after all, there are real generals on the opposite side, 1,800 Mandarin Duck Army, with a loss of more than 300, but the loss of generals is only 30 - after all, under the Mandarin Duck formation, the generals in the command position are all at the back of the small formation.

Yiyang's light cavalry injured more than 100 riders, most of whom were killed by the euphorbia warriors who came back to their senses and took the initiative to return to their bodies.

As for the ordinary infantry, the losses were more than 600, which was more numerically than the Mandarin Duck Army, but ...... There are tens of thousands of ordinary infantry as the main force, and there are also three or four thousand people who are engaged in the battle - there is no way, the terrain of the pass, and the ones behind are lining up!

After this defeat, the Nanyang army could only defend the low fortress, and the morale of the fortress was low......

That night, the scouts found that there was a sudden noise in the underworld, which seemed to be a chaotic situation, and after reporting back, Zhao Yun immediately wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack at night, but was stopped by Jia Xu.

"General, the enemy is weak at this time, if this mutiny is the enemy's plan, I am afraid that there is a danger of falling, if the enemy army really does not attack and mess up, tomorrow only needs Chu Ge to be together, and the fortress can be broken by itself, why don't the general watch the fire from the other side?" Jia Xu persuaded him.

Zhao Yun pondered for a moment and then said: "It's okay, send someone to wait and see in front of the fortress, and if you encounter an enemy escape, take them back first." ”

Jia Xu is also very conservative, in fact, it is not impossible to attack at this time, and Jia Xu does not think that at this time, someone in the Cypriot will do this risky trick and lure his own side to attack.

It's just that the characteristics of Jia Xu's use of troops are not conservative or radical, but "clear goals"!

This is true in Liangzhou to Li Dao and Guo Yan, this is true in Wancheng, and it is also true now.

Killing a few more enemies and dying a few of his own people is just a "minutiae" in his heart, and his thirst for combat exploits is very low.

Since the most important thing is to conquer the Underworld Fortress, if the other side is really disorganized, he can lure him to surrender tomorrow, even if he can't lure it down, he can't stop the attack of our army, so why risk a night attack according to the rhythm of the other party?

Unless he can see the key winners, Jia Xu will not fight uncertain battles......

It's like in Wancheng, after assisting Zhang Xiuyin to Cao Cao, for Cao Cao, who couldn't take care of his son and fled in the wilderness, Jia Xu's suggestion was still "poor Kou Mo chase" - not that he really expected that Cao Cao would have a backhand, but ...... The goal has been achieved, so why take the risk?

Not being greedy for cheapness can be said to be a characteristic of Jia Xu's use of soldiers......