The deputy general in front of him and a group of guards desperately opened the way, Xie Chong hurried to the edge of the woods in the south, but saw several generals with thousands of archers and Tang troops firing arrows at each other. There were a large number of corpses strewn on the ground, apparently the sudden attack just now had killed many of his own soldiers.

"Stand out! What are you still rubbing around here? Xie Gui said loudly.

Under the strict orders of the commander, the Han soldiers gathered here and rushed out of the forest without fear of death, while the Tang army seemed to be afraid of their large numbers, and began to slowly retreat, and the Han army shot hundreds of Tang soldiers, but other than that, nothing was accomplished.

Seeing that he could escape from danger smoothly, Xie Gui didn't take a breath when he suddenly heard the report, and the Tang cavalry that appeared on the east side of the valley suddenly appeared a hundred paces away.

After this sharp blade disrupted the formation of the Han army, it collided with two rounds and killed thousands of Han troops and then retreated, and when the Han army was panicking, it quietly turned around and ran south, Xie Gui couldn't help but curse angrily, and then hurriedly arranged the defense line, but this Tang cavalry disappeared inexplicably, and together with the Tang archers who had just retreated, they hid in the forest in a dashing manner.

At this time, Xie Gui understood that the Tang Army had adopted this extremely obscene and irritating style of play, who was not familiar with the Han Army? This time, the tactics were obviously much more shrewd than before, in addition to using the advantage of cavalry interspersed with flexibility to avoid frontal confrontation, he also took advantage of the night to use the forest and grass and the infantry to coordinate the sneak attack, Xie Gui was like choking a fly in his throat at this time, and he was so aggrieved that he couldn't speak.

But after understanding this, Xie Gui was a little relieved, since the Tang army did not dare to confront head-on, it meant that the troops were insufficient, at least not as many as his own men, so he immediately ordered the officers and men of the whole army not to disperse anymore, but all shrunk together, the archers were guarded around, and once the enemy appeared, they would shoot arrows and shoot, and they all slowly retreated south.

In this way, it actually worked, the more than 10,000 Han troops gathered together, the archers had to be at least three or four thousand, and the powerful firepower network was enough to suppress the other party, and then the Tang army obviously suffered some small losses after two attack attempts, and soon died down completely.

However, Xie Gui arranged his troops in this way, although he effectively avoided excessive casualties caused by their respective breakthroughs, but it exhausted the Han army. More than 10,000 people are naturally moving slowly when they move together, but how can the withdrawal of troops be so delayed?

Every time there is a delay in the danger, all the soldiers have to be afraid for a moment, at this time they all wide-eyed each other crowded forward, no one dares to relax their vigilance, the mentality is extremely collapsed, and finally survived until dawn, and the Han army finally withdrew from the valley, one by one as tired as a dog.

After dawn, the light was bright, fortunately, the soldiers and horses of the Tang army who attacked at night did not follow the pursuit, and had already disappeared, and even half a figure could not be found at this time. The Han army reached the flat official road leading to the south, and the crisis was temporarily resolved.

Xie Gui hurriedly ordered, and the whole army accelerated its pace and marched south. Since the commander gave the order, this time he was finally able to spread his legs and run wildly, and the soldiers of the Han army did not look back and rushed towards the official road, at this time it seemed that the fatigue accumulated for many days was abandoned, Xie Gui led the army to run hundreds of miles in one breath, and it was not until the afternoon that the order was given to take a break.

The generals of the army counted the losses of the soldiers, and more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded that night, and all the equipment and baggage were discarded, which is unimaginable, and a rough estimate shows that the Tang army also suffered more than 1,000 casualties in this battle. Xie Gui ordered dozens of wounded Tang soldiers captured for questioning, and these Wuping soldiers were all seriously injured and were captured because they couldn't escape.

While Xie Gui was torturing them, several Han soldiers arrived carrying a corpse. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted, Xie Gui frowned and was about to ask a question, when suddenly he saw the corpse's face clearly, and the bloodless face was Xie Chong's. The knife wound on the neck was extremely eye-catching, and it was cut into seven or eight points, and now only a little bit of hanging flesh was left connected to the body, which was really shocking.

"What's going on? This...... It's Ah Chong?! Xie Gui instantly gasped and said in shock.

"Yes, we found General Chong while we were cleaning up the bodies of our brothers...... The throat was slit, and the body was in the grass, which was not easy to find. The Han soldier carrying the corpse said with a bitter face.

Xie Gui was stunned, and suddenly remembered that before going to bed, Xie Chong slept at the edge of the woodland on the north side, saying that the grass there was softer, and he didn't want to sleep in the forest to be protected by the soldiers. It's good that my throat was cut in my sleep.

"How so? Ah Chong, what are you my Xie family, how could you be killed in your sleep, you are really stupid! It's stupid! Xie Gui's face was distorted at this time, looking sad, but he only sighed loudly, but he did not shed a single tear for this clan brother.

Xie Gui was depressed, in fact, for him, it was nothing for a cynical guy like Xie Chong to die, but the problem was that he secretly thought about it before, since Xie Chong was drunk and bold at the military meeting, it was just for him to bear the sin of defeat together with Shao Tingxuan, who led the "suspicious soldiers" to the north......

At the moment, it doesn't matter if Shao Tingxuan doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, but Xie Chong's death is a troublesome matter, because when he returns to the imperial court, he has to have a living person to take the blame, right?

After thinking about it, Xie Gui was upset and had no other solution, and finally decided to push all the sins on Xie Chong's head, but he had to talk to the generals in the army later, especially the older generals under him, and he must let these old stubborns unify with him, so he said that Xie Chong knew that the blame for the defeat of the army was inescapable, so he apologized for his crimes, and it could not be said that he died in battle, because the death in battle was still a little merit.

Xie Gui was also mentally prepared, if a few of the generals of the Han army refused to cooperate with the lie, then he had to find a way to kill those disobedient people before returning to the palace, so that he could justify himself casually in front of Emperor Liu Cheng.

The idea was made, Xie Gui quickly ordered someone to build a simple coffin and load Xie Chong's body. The soldier's body can be buried on the spot, and Xie Chong's body must be carried with him, so that it can also be used as evidence. Although the huge wound on his neck obviously does not match his death by suicide, this is easy to explain, such as the swords intertwined in the chaos of the army, or simply said that it was caused by the Tang army's mending of the sword.

Turning his head, Xie Gui continued to interrogate the dozens of captured Wuping soldiers. These soldiers were all seriously wounded, covered in blood, and were forced to kneel in a row by the Han army on the ground, and some were already lying on the ground with only one breath, and they were already dying.

Xie Gui walked up to a Wuping soldier who didn't look too badly injured and looked normal, and kicked his kneeling legs with his toes with a grim face. The soldier immediately screamed in pain, his teeth chattered, and he inhaled cold air in his mouth, and it turned out that he had injured his leg, and there was a large hole in his right leg that was bleeding.

"You answer all the questions of Pontus, but if there is half a lie, he will immediately cut off your head." Xie Gui said in a deep voice.