Jin Song failed to hold Yique Pass, and the fire in Longmen Town swept away the morale of the Yu army in Yique Pass. Jin Song held out for less than three days before completely losing Yique Pass, and Wang Rong led a large army into Yique Pass.

Then he began to repair the Yique Pass and stationed the personal guard division in the pass. At the same time, camps were set up around Yique Pass, and the First Army was placed in Longmen Town. The Second Army was sent north to attack Wangcheng and Gucheng, while the Third Army was placed on Longmen Mountain outside Yique Pass, making use of the fortifications that Jin Song did not know before.

On a June night, the stars were bright, the night wind was howling, the black shadows of the trees were hideous in the wind, the horses' hooves rumbled, there was only moonlight on the avenue, Yin He led the second army, and did not dare to light the fire.

Yin He looked into the distance, his heart was flustered, in the distance of the woods was a wheat field, the wheat swayed slightly in the night wind, they took a small path to get here, through a large wheat field.

When he went north, Wang Rong instructed that the people's fields should not be trampled, the people's houses should not be burned, and the people's livestock should not be robbed, but at this time he could not take care of it.

Yin He personally led more than 1,000 armored cavalry of the Second Army, and after the break, the rest of the soldiers and horses of the Second Army had already gone to Yique Pass.

Yin He was shocked at this time, but after all, he was a veteran and experienced, and he knew that he couldn't flee to Yique Pass at this time, if Yu Jun followed behind their buttocks, it would be troublesome, and someone needed to break the back.

In such a time when the people are in turmoil, only the generals can reassure the whole army after the break, and the troops will not break and flee after the break, so as to ensure the safety of the whole army.

At the beginning of the great war between the Ji State and the Japanese army, the general Zhang Lang of the Ji State failed to sneak attack, so that the whole army retreated, and he personally led the troops to break the rear, so that the Ji army could retreat safely, and that kind of courage and ability also impressed the soldiers of the Tang Army.

And for this defeat, Yin He felt ashamed, Wang Rong gave him the task of provoking Wei Hua under Hangu Pass to the north, luring the enemy to go deeper, and he could retreat at any time and give way to Gucheng.

So he didn't even enter the city, but camped outside the city to facilitate his retreat.

At the same time, the forward was sent to the north, more than ten miles south of Hangu Pass, responsible for investigating the movements of the Yu army, once there was movement in front, the Yu army went south, their second army resisted slightly, and then immediately turned around and retreated to the south, retreating in the direction of Yique Pass.

But what I didn't expect was that the forward generals sent were negligent in their duties, carried away by the successive victories, and were so arrogant that they didn't take the Yu army seriously, and when they were stationed south of Hangu Pass, they directly set up their tents not far from the side of the road for convenience, and they didn't send scouts at noon because of cooking.

So that the Yu army suddenly went south to raid them, hundreds of people were captured and killed on the spot, and the rest were defeated, and then the Yu army did not hesitate at all, and pursued them all the way to the south of Gucheng.

As soon as the remnants of the soldiers in the north had fled back to the camp and told the general situation, a large number of Yu troops had already appeared in the woods and fields on the other side of the river, and there were many of them along the long river bank for several miles, and the number of people was difficult to estimate, but it was certainly more than theirs.

So he didn't think about it, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat south, and he led his troops to break the rear.

At the same time, Yin He immediately sent someone to contact Gou Anli in the east, because he guessed that once Yu Guo attacked, it was likely that the troops would be divided into two routes, attacking Gucheng and Wangcheng at the front, respectively, and Gucheng fell into the hands of the enemy, and Gou Anli's side was also in danger.

Yin He led everyone to retreat slowly on the avenue, fearing all the way, beware of the chasing soldiers in the rear, and did not dare to light a fire at night, so he could only walk by the moonlight and starlight.

In the second half of the night, when people were sleepy and tired, Yin He could finally be sure that the Yu army was not chasing, and ordered everyone to retreat in the direction of Yique Pass at full speed.

At dawn, the tired and sleepy people finally arrived at the Tang Army camp under Yique Pass, and after verifying their identities and entering the camp, they fell asleep on the ground one after another, and even Yin He himself fell asleep by the haystack next to the stable.

That night, in the Tang army camp under Yique Pass, Wang Rong had not slept and waited for news from Yin He.

In the second half of the night, some heralds hurried to report to him in the middle of the night that most of Yin He's troops had retreated to Yique Pass, and Gucheng was once again occupied by the Yu army.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Wang Rong immediately called the herald and ordered: "Go to Wangcheng from the west immediately, don't go to the Gucheng side, tell Gou Anli, retreat from the east in the direction of Yique Pass, and don't take the official road from Gucheng to Yique Pass

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Remember, you must be fast, the army of Yuguo has already occupied Gucheng, if they don't know, the retreat in the direction of Gucheng will be complete, and the life and death of Gou Anli's army will depend on you."

Several heralds solemnly said, "Holy Lord, rest assured, we will send the news overnight even if we are desperate."

Wang Rong patted a few people on the shoulder and encouraged, "Go quickly, come back early."

After dealing with these things, he didn't go to bed to sleep, but squinted in the military tent for a while in his military uniform, and Wang Xu and Zhang Yunshu accompanied him.

When the sky was bright, another herald came, who came from Luoyang, and the servants told him a big news, Luoyang really sent troops!

According to the investigation report of the Investigation Department, the Yuyang Yu army has set out from the city and can enter the battlefield at any time.

This Wei Hua, as soon as he moved, made a big move, ordering Luoyang to march from the east, and they led the army to the south from the north, wanting to flank the Tang army from two directions.

At this time, Wang Rong couldn't control the Hangu Pass, which was about 300 miles away from Yique Pass, such a large space span, it was too late to transfer troops to support, not to mention that there were 300,000 Yu troops in the middle, and it would be good for Baotong to be able to hold Hangu Pass.

Subsequently, the scout battalion sent out by Wang Rongjia began to intensively wait for the movements of the Yu army, and he selected and trained a large number of scouts to finally achieve results, many scouts were densely scattered in Henan County, and the movements of the Yu army would be reported to his desk almost every two quarters of an hour.

This kind of battlefield is becoming more and more transparent, and the Military Division, under the leadership of Zhang Yunshu, quickly sorted out a large amount of information, refined the useful main content, and then provided it to Wang Rong to see.

The existence of the Military Division made Wang Rong a lot easier, and he also paid close attention to the movements of the Yu Army.

Wang Rong looked at the information and muttered to himself, "The next stage is mainly to let Gou An's troops return to Yique Pass......

Dozens of miles away from the periphery of the royal city, the morning glow on the stream, the sun is rising, the long shadows of the trees are dense, Gou An Li is pacing by the river on horseback, pulling out a long shadow behind him, he nervously looks at the dense Yu army on the opposite bank.

The army of Yu reached the other side of the river last night, but did not cross the river.

It seemed that there were many people and horses, and he immediately led people to guard several ferries and bridgeheads.

Jianshui is a tributary of the Luoshui River, and the river channel near Wangcheng is more than 40 meters wide in most places, and it is difficult for the Yu *** team to cross it quickly.

Gou Anli led people to confront the Yu army by the river, and found that there were more and more Yu troops gathered on the opposite bank, at least twice as many as last night, and he immediately judged that the opposite side was the Yu army.

However, he did not retreat, Wang Rong gave him the task of luring the enemy to the south and take the Yique Pass, the enemy did not cross the river, and it was likely that he would not go in the stream, so he decided to block the Yu army at the ferry and the bridgehead for a while, angry with them.

When the sun fully rose, looking at the sparkling bank of the river of more than ten zhang, Gou An gasped sharply, and behind the trees where the river bank gradually became clearer, more people and tents emerged from the mist, and they could see more clearly.

Behind the woods, the dust raised by the running of many cavalry swept through the royal city, obscuring the sky on the shore.

Last night, he thought that the other party only had three or four thousand people, but now that he looks, the strength of Yuguo is at least more than 10,000!

On Gou Anli's side, in order to lure the enemy, the soldiers and horses he brought were only one brigade, more than 5,000 people. He wondered a little in his heart, why did the generals on the opposite side dare not attack with such a big advantage in troops?

Immediately, he didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered people to cut down trees, block the ferry and bridgehead, and then the whole army prepared to retreat in the direction of Gucheng, and he personally led a battalion of men and horses to break off.

However, not long after leaving, he met a herald from the rear, bringing the news that Gucheng had been occupied.

The moment he heard the news, Gou Anli broke out in a cold sweat, "Gucheng is forty or fifty miles west of us, and the cavalry will arrive in a few hours, Yin He will definitely send someone to call us the police."

The lieutenant also reacted: "But now that the night has passed, no one has come......

"Retreat! The whole army ran south, and told the whole army to beware of an ambush!" Yin He hurriedly said, and immediately led people to the south.

Not long after he left the city, he met a bloodied soldier on the side of the avenue and cried to him: "General, we have been ambushed, twenty miles south of the city

Zhuang, the Yu army ambushed us there, coming from the west."

Gou Anli's face sank, and his beard trembled, "It's still late!"

Many hands panicked, "What about the general, should we bypass the southern ......?"

Gou Anli hesitated, and immediately became firm: "No, there are only two avenues, one can't go to the west, Gucheng has been occupied by the Yu army, and the south must rush over, and the horses can't run away by taking the trail, we will be caught up sooner or later!"

Brothers, if you want to live, go south and break out of a road, otherwise there will be Yu soldiers in the north and west, and sooner or later we will be besieged and killed."

When the people saw that the Lord was going to say this, they gradually began to calm down.

Gou Anli ordered, "Immediately rush south to help."

Then he personally led the team to gallop south.

In the distance, a lot of dust rose into the sky, shouts of killing could be heard from afar, and the exit to the north of the village was a flat field, surrounded by a large number of wheat fields.

A large number of Yu cavalry in the wheat field has been surrounded by the Tang army in the center, the sound of shouting and killing can be heard from afar, a large number of cavalry on the periphery are surrounding the Tang army in the middle of the arrows, and the inner layer is a lot of Yu cavalry and infantry regiments to surround the Tang army.

Many soldiers of the Yu army were shouting to besiege the Tang army, the weakly equipped rangers were on the periphery, forming a huge two-layer circle formation, and the middle circle of infantry and heavy cavalry was almost immobile, blocking the Tang army inside, and the peripheral rangers kept moving and releasing arrows.

Gou An held the spear in his hand and said loudly, "Brothers, there is still a way to survive when you rush over, rush!"

Then he directly rushed to the opponent's large array with hundreds of people, and the well-armored heavy cavalry rushed to the light cavalry of the Yu army on the periphery from a hundred paces away.

For a time, the men and horses neighed, the dust was flying, Gou An struck the horse's belly fiercely, constantly speeding up, the wind whistling in his ears, the sound of the horse's hooves rumbled, a spear directly penetrated the opponent's chest by inertia, blood spilled, the blood in the wind became more and more intense, and the frightened Yuguo cavalry was stabbed under the horse with a scream, and smashed to the rear with a plop.

Immediately Gou An shouted angrily, the spear shook, and slapped the other man off the horse, and the horse's hooves quickly trampled mercilessly, and the wailing and screaming were instantly drowned out in the sound of the horse's hooves.

The outer Yu army was unprepared for their appearance, and the cavalry immediately following Gou Anli rushed in one after another, and the light cavalry of the Yu army, which was too late to react, fell off their horses and screamed again and again.

The northeast corner of the outer periphery of the Yu army's encirclement suddenly turned on their backs and became a mess.

Gou An rushed out of dozens of steps, immediately turned his horse's head and led everyone to rush back again, and the light cavalry on the periphery had already been killed to open a gap, and this time directly rushed to the heavy cavalry and infantry inside.

These Yu heavy cavalry and infantry were besieging the Tang army in the middle of the defense, and they were suddenly attacked from behind, and they couldn't react for a while, and they were caught off guard.

Gou Anli easily pierced the armor of a Yu soldier with the help of a fast horse, plunged the spear into his throat, and then immediately let go, so as not to dismount from the huge force of the counterattack, and then drew the ring knife at his waist and slashed the back of the head of a Yu infantry in front of him.

While slashing forward with the others, Gou Anli shouted loudly, "Brothers! When reinforcements arrive, rush out, rush to this side!"

The Tang army who was besieged in the big array heard the sound and saw the reinforcements, and the army's heart was shocked, and they killed them outward, attacking from both sides, the Yu army in the middle was constantly squeezed, the war horse neighed and was squeezed down and shot down, and then it was squeezed like meat sauce, and the thick blood flowed out of the cracks like water, and the soldiers in the middle wailed for help but to no avail, and were quickly cut down and chopped to death.

The northwest corner, which was sandwiched from both sides, became a meat grinder-like hell.

Soon, the Tang army inside hurriedly crawled over the corpse wall covered in blood, and the surrounding Yu army was so killed that they temporarily retreated and did not dare to step forward.

Gou Anli immediately asked people to dismount and open the pile of corpses to make way for the people inside to come out.

It was only a quarter of an hour or so, and the generals of the Yu State sitting in the rear had already reacted, and the pro-soldiers on the periphery hurriedly shouted: "General, go quickly!" Reinforcements from the Yu Kingdom are coming!"

Gou Anli raised his head, saw that the northeast was full of dust, and the earth under his feet was shaking more and more, and saw that there were still two or three hundred people who had not rushed out of the large array surrounded by the Yu army, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Go! Immediately retreat south!"

A large number of soldiers of the Don Army went south

fled, gave up contact with the Yu State, and soon hundreds of Yu cavalry rushed over in the wheat field in the north, blocking the gap in the military formation.

In the distance, Gou Anli heard some soldiers crying and shouting to let him not give up on them, he felt very uncomfortable, but he had no choice but to watch the reinforcements of the Yu cavalry from the northeast re-plug the gap that had been opened. Five

He didn't have to think about what happened to those who didn't escape and were surrounded by the Yu Legion......

As he charged outward, he was getting farther and farther away from the village, and his vision gradually broadened, and Gou Anli saw a large number of flags fluttering on the hillside outside the village in the distance, and he couldn't see the Yu *** team standing there, as if he was watching them flee in embarrassment......

Covered in blood, Gou An's teeth were clucking, but there was nothing he could do, the thieves were far superior to them, and the opposing general acted decisively, and copied their back roads overnight to set up an ambush.

In the evening, when Gou Anli fled back to the Tang army camp under Yique Pass with the remnants of his bloodstained and exhausted body, Wang Rong personally came to greet him, but Gou Anli could not kneel for a long time, and he was in tears.

"Shengshang, the last general has failed the Shengshang, 5,000 Erlang, the last general only brought back more than 2,000 people, and the rest either fled or were captured and killed by the Yu army, please punish the Shengshang!" Gou Anli said and knelt on one knee.

Wang Rong stretched out his hand to help him up: "The blame is not on you, it was my miscalculation, after the Yu army took Gucheng, they did not continue to pursue Yin He's department, I should have thought that they might have gone to cut off your back road, although they sent messengers, but they were still a step late."

Wei Hua is a person who can fight, and he knows the truth that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt someone's five fingers. He gave up pursuing Yin He to the south, but went directly east overnight to copy your back road, and also joined forces with another army in an attempt to encircle and annihilate you.

You've done a good job of bringing people out, and I've been worried about your annihilation day and night."

Wang Rong sighed, this time the loss is indeed large, Wei Hua is a person who knows how to fight very well, he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue Yin He in the south, but concentrated superior forces to the east with the intention of annihilating Gou Anli's troops, this hand is really a good move.