With the pursuit of the city's defense troops in the town, the retreat of the rebel siege troops was very difficult, of course, the so-called desperate retreat is not really desperate, if it is really desperate, the retreat will naturally develop into a rout, let alone rescue at that time, even self-preservation is a luxury.

In this way, by the time the nearest siege force at the east gate retreated to the big camp, the offensive and defensive battle of the big camp had come to an end, and Qian Yue was even able to free up some of his troops to come out and flank the rebel army's reinforcements with the officers and troops pursuing from the east gate.

Everything seems to be going according to plan, the battle is basically decided, Qian Yue has retreated from the front line of the battle, as a commander, the commander of an army, personally participating in the battle is only a means, not an inevitable requirement.

"It's time to finish!" Qian Yue watched the encirclement getting smaller and smaller, and the nerves that had been tense slowly relaxed.

But at this moment, a high neighing of horses came from the camp.

When Qian Yue heard this, he was immediately shocked.

"Come on, hurry up and stop them!" There was a neighing sound of horses in the formation, and Qian Yue knew that there was only one possibility, that is, the other party's camp was also equipped with horses, although the number would not be very large, but it was really a very troublesome thing for the other party to break through.

As he expected, he soon saw through the heavily surrounded crowd more than a dozen cavalry who kept rushing outward in the chaotic army.

The cavalry has an innate advantage over the infantry, and in the absence of effective restraint, the cavalry can be said to be the nemesis of the infantry, with more than a dozen cavalry leading the way, and other rebel soldiers following behind the horse's ass to kill together.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot them for me! Qian Yue roared angrily, he didn't want to let the other commander's commander go in such a favorable situation, once the other commander's commander escaped from the encirclement and joined up with the other rebel forces, the previous efforts would be in vain.

"General, there are many of your own brothers there." The herald beside him reminded him that the arrows didn't have eyes, and in such a glued state, if the arrows passed by, I was afraid that half of them would fall on his own people.

"Shoot the arrows!" Qian Yue didn't know this, but in this case, he had no choice.

Military orders are like mountains, and there is no mercy to speak of on the battlefield at all.

With just one volley, most of the cavalry of the rebel army fell, and with it more fell the officers and soldiers who were besieging the cavalry.

No one thought that in such a situation, they would be attacked by a rain of arrows, you know, the tactics of arrow rain are generally only used when the enemy and us are separated by a certain distance, and I am not willing to do the thing of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, but the current situation is precisely to kill eight hundred enemies and lose one thousand, no, even more!

After a brief moment of astonishment, the besieging officers and soldiers retreated, giving way to a vacuum, waiting for the second round of arrow rain to come, for fear that they would become the fish in the pond.

But they are waiting, and the rebels are not waiting.

Although many cavalry fell in the rain of arrows, the remaining cavalry relied on the vacuum area and launched a decisive charge against the officers and soldiers in front.

The terrible thing about the cavalry is its speed, many times, there is no need to wave a weapon at all, and the impact of the horse alone can break the bones of the infantry who stand in the way.

It was such an impact that by the second round of arrows had swept away the remaining cavalry, the rebels had broken through to the edge of the encirclement.

The two rounds of arrow rain almost seemed to open the way for the rebels, and Qian Yue was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Give it to me! Stop them! ”

But with the bloody lesson before, the surrounding officers and soldiers became cowering, it was not terrible to die under the enemy's sword, but they didn't want to die under the arrows of their own people, that kind of death was too embarrassing!

At this time, the rebel army reinforcements from the north and south gates have also rushed over, Qian Yue never expected that the good situation, a low-hanging fruit, would actually become like this, seeing that the other party has broken through, chasing or not to chase has become the most difficult question for Qian Yue to decide at this time.

To be honest, he is really unwilling to let this battle fall short like this, if he tries his best to pursue at this time, he is at least thirty percent sure that he will annihilate the other party, but it is only thirty percent.

Qian Yue's face was cloudy, he looked up at the sky, after this battle, it was already past noon, if he retreated at this time, General Ju would be able to explain the past, after going back, there was no merit and hard work, although the credit for the success of the pursuit was a great temptation for him, but once he failed, he had no chance to run.

"Withdraw!" This sound almost popped out between Qian Yue's teeth, he would not admit that the current battle situation was caused by his improper command, after all, in that case, he couldn't think of a better way to deal with it.

Maybe if it were another commander with superb command ability, facing the same situation, there would be many different ways to deal with it, or maybe if it was another group of more elite soldiers, these dozen or so rebel cavalry could be easily settled, but Qian Yue thought that he couldn't do anything.

The so-called retreat is not a comprehensive retreat, because a considerable number of officers and soldiers have already fought with the rebels who rushed to support, and they can't retreat if they want to, and only a few hundred elites can really be taken away at the moment.

At the same time, a few miles south of Meilin Town, five people appeared on the official road, none other than Wang Hao and his party.

After walking all the way, after arriving at a place that Wang Hao thought was relatively safe, he finally had the strength to stop and rest.

"Brother Wang, why did you hurriedly pull me and others away from Merlin?" Marlowe took advantage of the rest to ask the questions that had been held in his heart all the way.

"That's right, it's clear that we're all progressing according to your plan, and now that the official army is about to win, why are you so busy leaving?" Guo Da was also puzzled.

Wang Hao smiled and said: "That's right, the victory of the official army is indeed in sight, but have you ever thought that even if General Qian takes the rebel battalion and kills the commander of the rebel army, how many capable soldiers does the official army still have, and how many capable soldiers does the rebel army have?" According to my estimates, there will never be more than two thousand soldiers left in the official army, and there are so many rebels in Zhenxi alone, not to mention anything else. ”

"But without the commander, the rebels are just scattered sand?"

"You must know that Meilin Town is now just an empty city, and almost all the troops are besieging the rebel camp, if the battle in the west of the town is over at this time, come back and occupy Meilin Town at any time, you say, when the time comes, does our General Qian have the courage and ability to storm Meilin Town?"