"Retreat! Retreat!"

When the assault failed, Wu Guoying immediately ordered a retreat, and his shouts were soon drowned out in the noise of people and horses, but the cavalry not far from him still heard it, turned the horse's head, and retreated.

However, they did not retreat too far, because the Xia cavalry that pursued them quickly caught up, and Tongcheng Houma Tengyun rushed to the front, he raised his spear, and with one shot, he knocked the oncoming Guanning iron cavalry under the horse, and blood gushed out from the wound, staining his entire face.

The cavalry of the two armies was once again locked in a fierce battle, and the Xia cavalry showed extraordinary bravery, often paying at the cost of at least two people to kill a Guanning iron horseman.

Under the entanglement of the Xia cavalry, the Guanning Iron Cavalry paid a lot of money to finally kill them, but after they came out, they were already disheartened and could not continue to maintain their fighting spirit.

At this time, the infantry battlefield in front of the Zhou army infantry also fell into close combat and began to retreat, rocket artillery was also redeployed when the cavalry of the two sides were fighting, firing rockets at the Zhou army's military formation, under the double blow of rockets and continuous casualties, the Zhou army's infantry finally fell into a state of military discouragement.

In order to avoid the army from further rout, Wu Sangui could only order Mingjin to withdraw his troops, blow the horn of retreat, order the three armies to retreat in an orderly manner, and shoot crossbows at the Xia army to cover the retreat of friendly troops.

After the horn sounded, the Zhou soldiers on the crumbling front finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to retreat slowly, and the crossbowmen behind them threw arrows at the Xia army at this time, intending to stop the Xia army's pursuit.

Seeing this, the Xia army on the front line did not risk pursuing, but quickly lined up in the same place, with riflemen in front, reloading ammunition and returning fire to the Zhou army within the firing range, the gunfire like bursting beans rang out again, and the retreating Zhou troops were shot and fell to the ground, their morale was hit hard again, and some people even ignored military discipline and rushed to flee backwards.

After the distance between the two armies was widened, the artillery of the Xia army was once again powerful, and one after another shells roared and smashed on the ground of the Zhou army's army and the surrounding area, and exploded violently after landing, and the power of the solid bullets caused a panic again, and the Zhou army immediately suffered a small-scale rout.

But the Xia army did not continue to pursue, Su Dingyuan knew the truth of the poor Kou Mo chasing, the Zhou army still retained a certain combat effectiveness, he defeated the Zhou army, and the goal of seriously damaging the morale of the Zhou army had been achieved, so he sounded the horn of the army and collected the army on the battlefield.

What about the Guanning Iron Horse? After their own infantry was defeated and retreated, they also retreated in the opposite direction, and when the Guanning Iron Cavalry entered the battle, they invested more than 1,000 men and horses, but when they left, only half of them remained.

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After the battle, the Xia army began to clean up the battlefield, and they turned out the unrecognizable corpse of Tan Hong, Marquis of Xinjin, in the pile of corpses, if it wasn't for the corpse's clothing, it would be impossible to distinguish his identity with his sunken face that couldn't see his appearance at all.

Su Dingyuan didn't feel sorry, Tan Hong's ability was not outstanding, and the performance of his soldiers and horses was also disappointing, his death could almost be said to be self-inflicted, if his subordinates hadn't been defeated on their own, how could he have been killed when he fled?

Therefore, Su Dingyuan also directly took him out and told other generals in the army as a negative teaching material, so that they could control their subordinates well and not have similar things happen again, otherwise not only would he die tragically on the battlefield, but even after his death, he would not get the reward he deserved.

As for Wang Guangxing, who also died in battle, Su Dingyuan put his body in a coffin and sent it back to Xi'an, so that Zhang Mingzhen could play a concert for Jiang Ning, and posthumously reward this Nanzhang Bo who died heroically.

Regardless of Su Dingyuan's approach, after the great victory in this battle, the Xia army only repaired for one night, and then acted separately, he ordered Hu Bo Ruan Jin to lead the soldiers and horses of the first town to join up with Liu Shixun, the general of Anyang, and besiege Daqing Pass, while he led the army to continue to advance to Puzhou and pursue Wu Sangui.

At the same time, he also deliberately spread the news of the battle, trying to lure the Zhou army stationed in Linjin to come to support, but Hu Guozhu was not affected, and he did not move until he received Wu Sangui's order.

On the twenty-first day of December, the Xia army approached the city of Puzhou, and the army led by Wu Sangui withdrew to Puzhou after the defeat, but because the city of Puzhou was small, the army could not be used in the city, so Wu Sangui led the army to line up against the city of Puzhou

Meet the enemy.

The two sides launched a fierce battle outside the city of Puzhou, the artillery of the Xia army played again, in the rumbling cannon, the two sides fought fiercely for several hours, the Zhou army was defeated again, Wu Sangui did not even enter the city, and he could not take care of the second son in Daqing Pass, and directly withdrew to Linjin with the rout.

The Xia army then occupied the city of Puzhou, and after Su Dingyuan sat in Puzhou, he ordered the Houma Tengyun of Tongcheng to lead the army to pursue Wu Sangui, and he pursued until five miles south of Linjin, and was repelled by the Zhou army sent by Hu Guozhu to respond, and then stopped the pursuit.

At the same time, Wu Yingqi of Daqing Pass heard the news of Wu Sangui's defeat and knew that if he continued to hold Daqing Pass alone, he was likely to be trapped here by the Xia army.

Soon after the Zhou army abandoned the defense, the first town of the Xia army finally came and occupied this empty pass, and when Wu Yingqi learned of this, the army generals including him Zuo were cold and relieved, and the army generals Zuo was more convinced of him.

After retreating to Ruicheng, Wu Yingqi did not stick to this place, and continued to retreat east after replenishing grain and grass, intending to bypass Zhongtiao Mountain and return to Jin to preserve his strength.

On the way, he learned about Wu Sangui's defeat outside Puzhou, and was more determined to conclude that the Zhou army would be defeated in the battle of Hedong, he did not want to waste his precious troops in the battle of Hedong, he was ready to withdraw all the way to Taiyuan, if Wu Sangui died in Hedong, he would be able to take advantage of the situation to call the emperor, if Wu Sangui did not die, his brother was in the hands of the Xia army, with this 5,000 army, he was also the heir of the certainty.

Wu Sangui didn't know about the retreat of his second son, after retreating into Linjin, Wu Sangui was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, the more than 25,000 troops he personally led were less than 10,000 people left after the Battle of Puzhou, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry was only a few hundred people left, and the strength of the Xia army made him can't help but be afraid.

He wanted to moisten.

Although he still had more than 30,000 troops including Hu Guozhu and Wu Yingzhi's soldiers and horses, his confidence had been repeatedly hit in the battle against the Xia army, and he now only wanted to get away from the terrible Xia army and return to the safety of Taiyuan.

However, Su Dingyuan did not give him enough time to think, and the day after taking Puzhou, Su Dingyuan continued to lead the army to Linjin, and poor Wu Sangui did not have the slightest idea of holding on after hearing the news.

He hurriedly ordered the whole army to pack their bags, abandoned Linjin before the Xia army came, and retreated to Yishi City, while retreating, he did not forget his dear nephew Wu Yingqi, and ordered him not to continue to hold on, and retreat north together.

Wu Yingzhi was commanding the soldiers and horses at this time to fight with Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, who crossed the river from Hancheng, and heard that Wu Sangui was retreating north and the main force of the Xia army was coming from the south, he did not dare to continue to hold on, and also followed the inventory of troops and horses to retreat to Jiangzhou.

Seeing that the Zhou army was retreating, where was Li Laiheng willing to give them the opportunity to retreat leisurely, he seized the time to launch a fierce attack, and soon routed Wu Yingqi's rear army, occupied Hejin, and continued the pursuit.

Wu Yingzhi is worthy of being a famous brave general under the command of Wu Sangui, he saw the Xia army pursuing, set up an ambush outside the Wuping Pass east of Jishan, Li Laiheng's vanguard Yidu Hou Ta Tianbao did not notice, and crashed into the trap of the Zhou army, the Zhou army fired ten thousand arrows, Ta Tianbao was killed by several arrows, and his subordinates were immediately defeated.

Zhou Jun used this to pull back a game, Wu Yingzhi ordered someone to cut off the head of Ta Tianbao, hanging on the head of Wuping Guancheng, and then continued to retreat to Jiangzhou, Li Laiheng heard the bad news that Ta Tianbao was killed in battle, he was greatly annoyed, but he still pursued carefully, and stopped after conquering Jishan.

Although the Xia army lost troops one after another, in the land east of the river, the Xia army had already determined their dominant position, and Wu Sangui was constantly defeated and retreated like a lost dog.

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At the same time, Jiangning, the capital division thousands of miles away.

Wu Yingxiong, the crown prince of Wu Zhou, the empress Zhang, and a cadre of Wu and Zhou Chongchen, who were captured by the Xia army, were all sent to Jiangning City, and Su Yan did not let go of their benevolence, and he directly ordered this cadre to be pushed out of the Hongwu Gate and beheaded.

For the high-level of the enemy country who usurped the emperor, such a bloody killing was necessary, in the angry scolding of a cadre of Wu Zhou officials, the heads of people rolled to the ground with the gushing blood, and I don't know if it was a coincidence, Wu Yingxiong's dead eyes just looked to the north

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That was the direction where Wu Sangui of Yi City was located.

The death of Wu Zhou's prisoners of war did not have any impact, and the entire Jiangning City was bustling with enthusiasm to welcome the arrival of the new year, which was the end of December, and the New Year of the second year of Wu'an was coming.

To say lively and festive, it should be the atmosphere in the imperial city is the strongest, the craftsmen recruited by the Ministry of Industry are working overtime to repair the palaces in the imperial city, and the palace people are also under the instructions of the grandmothers and fathers-in-law to put up lanterns everywhere.

The most beautiful scenery in the palace is the show girls who have just entered the palace, and in the past month or so, the show girls selected from all over the south of the Yangtze River have been sent to the palace before the New Year.

Their joining made the palace a little more angry, the first batch of palace maids before them had been trained to be obedient in the past few months, without the vitality of the girl, they seemed extremely calm, although the time between them to enter the palace was only a few months apart, but the performance of the two sides can almost be described as worlds apart.

Among the 5,000 show girls in the second batch of palaces, only 300 were successfully selected into the Chuxiu Palace, and they wanted to live in the palace for more than a month, during which they would not meet the emperor unless Su Yan took the initiative to summon them, and after a month, they would select 50 people from them as concubines and fill the emperor's harem.