Chapter 196: Tianshui Elegy

"Lord Thorn Shi!" Guo Huai's own soldiers rushed over one after another, trying to help Guo Huai up.

But Guo Huai was mortally injured, and the gods were difficult to save, and when he picked up Guo Huai, Guo Huai was already out of breath.

"Lord Thorn Shi!"

Guo Huai's guards roared in the sky, and tears couldn't stop sliding down.

Everyone saw that Guo Huai had been killed, the veteran who had been guarding Yongzhou for many years died suddenly, so that everyone was sad, and suddenly there was a cry in the city, these people were taught by Guo Huai all the year round, Guo Huai was kind and won the hearts of the army, and his departure made all the Wei troops sad.

The people inside the city no longer have the courage to rush out to the rescue of those outside the city, because they have lost their backbone.

Guo Huai's guards took Guo Huai's corpse and slowly walked towards the city, and the soldiers in the city squeezed through a passage one after another, so that Guo Huai's corpse could get out of the crowd.

However, at this moment, the siege outside the city is not over.

The Yulin Guards were bloodied in front of the formation of the Qilin Army and the White Ear Army, and no matter how desperately they tried, they were never able to break through the formation formed by the two.

It was as if there was a wall of steel in front of them, and no mortal could hurt it in the slightest. Under hand-to-hand combat, Yu Linwei slashed at the armor of the Qilin Army, leaving nothing more than a series of sparks and knife marks, but every time the Qilin Army cracked, it could easily break through Yu Linwei's armor.

And the White Ear Army's side is not much better, the White Ear Army's super long spear array of one foot and two feet long, so that Yu Linwei can't get close to the White Ear Army at all, even if there are occasional fierce Mengshi who are not afraid of death to shoot into the gap in the gun array, they are soon assassinated by the spears in the back row.

Where is this fighting, it is simply a massacre, and gradually, Yu Linwei can't hold on.

The other army outside the city was even more miserable, surrounded by 30,000 cavalry of the Shu army, repeatedly charging and strangling, and more than half of the casualties were killed in a short time, and they wanted to retreat to the city, but because there were too many people, they couldn't squeeze in at the gate of the city.

The dense crowd was huddled together, and the Hun archers of the Shu army almost didn't need to aim, and any arrows they shot could be missed.

At this moment, the cry in the city shook the sky, and the morale of the soldiers outside the city who had already collapsed had completely dropped to negative at this moment, and they all heard a bad news, Guo Huai died in battle!

This Yongzhou assassin who was loved by Yongzhou soldiers died in battle, and he died on the way to rescue them.

This made them feel extremely desperate, and extremely angry, despair was that most of them might not survive tonight, and the anger was that if it weren't for Xiahou Xuan's indiscriminate command, how could Tianshui City suffer such a big defeat.

At this time, Jiang Wei, accompanied by Zhuge Zhan, came to the battlefield, and saw that the situation on the battlefield was very good, and suddenly he also heard a burst of painful crying from Tianshui City, and quickly called a sentry and asked:

"What's going on, why is there a cry in Tianshui City?"

The sentry immediately replied: "It seems that Guo Huai died in battle!" ”

"What? Guo Huai died in battle? I don't think Guo Huai went out of the city to participate in the night attack, how did he die? ”

The sentry replied excitedly: "The villain heard from the Hun cavalry that he was killed by General Liu Bao's arrow!" ”

Jiang Wei was overjoyed, clapped his hands excitedly, and said loudly: "Okay! Yes! Liu Bao has made a great contribution this time! ”

Jiang Wei knew that Guo Huai had a high reputation among the Wei army, and Guo Huai's death would definitely deal a great blow to the Wei army, and he might be able to enter Tianshui City tonight.

So Jiang Wei immediately ordered: "It is rumored that Ma Dai and Liu Bao will closely follow the Wei army that retreated into the city and attack Tianshui City, and tonight is a good time to recover Tianshui." ”

The herald immediately took the order and left.

"Wait!" Jiang Wei stopped the herald again, and added: "Tell Ma Dai and Liu Bao that those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

"Yes!" The herald immediately obeyed.

Soon, there were bursts of roars among the Shu army.

"Those who descend will not be killed! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

The sound was wave after wave, and it instantly spread throughout the entire battlefield. Those Wei troops who were being pursued by the Shu cavalry outside the city, seeing that there was no chance to escape back to the city, immediately threw away their armor and surrendered on their knees.

Soon, large swaths of the Wei army began to surrender on their knees, and the remaining Wei troops desperately tried to escape back to Tianshui City.

Seeing this, Ma Dai said to Liu Bao: "General Liu Bao, please lead your army to surround Xiahou Xuan's Yulinwei, and I will lead my troops to rush into Tianshui City." ”

Liu Bao responded loudly: "Okay, wrap it up on me!" ”

So Ma Dai hurriedly led the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry under his command, closely caught up with the infantry who fled into the Wei army, and after blending into it, he followed and poured into Tianshui City.

And Liu Bao led the army and outflanked the Wei army Yu Linwei. When they circled behind Yulinwei, the Hun archers fired arrows at Yulinwei and missed.

The Yulin guards suddenly fell into the unfavorable situation of being attacked by the enemy on their backs, and their morale instantly fell to the bottom. Xiahou Xuan saw that the defeat of the Wei army was decided, and even Yu Linwei, who was the most brave enemy under his command, began to have people fleeing, so he decisively ordered Yu Linwei to withdraw from the battlefield.

But at this time, the gate of Tianshui City had been completely blocked by the rout of the Wei army and the Liangzhou iron cavalry of the Shu army, and Yu Linwei was absolutely unable to return to Tianshui City.

Xiahou Xuan's mind was thinking quickly, he recalled the deployment of the Shu army that he had inspected before the war, and he deeply remembered that the Shu army had deployed heavy troops on the north, west, and south sides, but the east did not arrange heavy troops, so he immediately made a decision.

"The whole army of Yulinwei listened to the order, and together with the governor of Pontus, broke through to the east and highlighted Tianshui."

The guards beside Xiahou Xuan hurriedly reminded: "Governor Xiahou, if you break through at this moment, wouldn't you abandon the tens of thousands of troops in Tianshui?" ”

Suddenly, there was a "snap", and Xiahou Xuan slapped the guard in the face, and then scolded bitterly: "Are you teaching the governor to do things? ”

The guard hurriedly said, "The subordinates don't dare! ”

Xiahou Xuancai subsided his anger a little, and then said:

"Do you think Pontus doesn't want to return to Tianshui? How can we go back now? I see that Tianshui City is afraid that it will not be able to hold it, the Shu army has already entered the city, and try to send an order to the city, so that the remaining troops in the city, Tianshui City can be guarded, if it is really impossible to hold it, then all of them will break through to the east gate, and after gathering, make plans! ”

After that, Xiahou Xuan led Yu Linwei and began to withdraw from the battlefield to the east. The Qilin Army and the White Ear Army are not good at chasing the enemy, but the Hun archers are very good at this, seeing the Wei army Yulinwei who retreated like a tide, Liu Bao ordered the Hun archers under his command to bite Yulinwei until the arrows in the quiver were missed.

The Xiongnu archers did not prevent the Wei army from breaking through to the east, but they were like wolves that were not going away, biting the Yulinwei who broke through, and always maintained a long-range attack on Yulinwei, which made Xiahou Xuan miserable.

If it weren't for the fact that the Yulin guards were wearing armor and had a certain degree of protection against the bow and arrow, if they didn't hit the vital point, they would often not form fatal injuries. If this were to be replaced by other armies, it is estimated that it would have collapsed long ago.

Liu Bao led the Xiongnu archers and cavalry, pursued Xiahou Xuan all the way to the east, and did not withdraw until Xiahou Xuan entered the ambush circle of Oh He Yaoge.