Although the sunset from the head of Qixian County is poignant and tragic, the camp under Fan Minh You is full of gloomy clouds.

After two consecutive days of siege, the morale of Pham Minh Huu's troops had already hung on a thread, and there were signs of collapse at any time.

Although the number of dead and wounded in the battalions has not yet been reported, the total number is at least more than 5,000.

Twenty percent of the men and horses were lost in two days, which was even more fatal to the already panicked army.

Thousands of people were lost, but no progress was made, and the morale of the army can be imagined.

Fortunately, there are many children of Fan Mingyou's Fan Huo family, and there are many people in the private army, and they can still suppress the situation.

In addition, the terrain here is closed and deserted, and the soldiers who fled have no way to escape, so they can only stay in the camp.

Otherwise, the morale of the army will probably collapse faster.

……

The big tent of the Chinese army, which was hastily erected, was a little crooked, and all the furnishings were just hastily arranged, and there was an ominous appearance of defeat at a glance.

Pham Minh You stood in the middle, and the rest of the lieutenants and generals surrounded him, and everyone's faces were very ugly.

Today's siege was unfavorable, and after the retreat returned, Fan Minh You ordered Huo Shan to lead his men and horses to patrol around the camp, and immediately summoned the lieutenants and generals here to pacify.

And Ding Ping, the envoy of the army, also pretended to say something to make the generals loyal to the general just now, which calmed the hearts of the army.

There were a total of ten lieutenants who followed Pham Minh Woo, one of whom was killed yesterday and two of whom were killed today.

Pham Minh Huu was immediately temporarily promoted from the partial general to three lieutenants, and asked them to lead the men and horses who had lost their main general.

Finally, he ordered the beheading of several princes and tun chiefs who had escaped from the battle, and ordered their heads to be circulated throughout the camp.

Under this resolute disposition, this precarious army finally slowly stabilized.

Although the situation in the army has stabilized for the time being, the situation has not improved at all.

After two days of confrontation, Pham Minh Huu and the others will have to accept a fact that they are unwilling to admit.

Han Zeng didn't come to Qi County alone, I'm afraid there are really one or two thousand elites in Qi County.

Moreover, Han Zeng still has plenty of grain and grass in his hands - even if the grain and grass in the city are eaten, Guanzhong can continue to transport grain.

The forces of the two sides are equal, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the enemy has food and grass, and our side is tired - Qixian is invincible, and it is already a sure thing at this moment.

Since you can't attack forward, you have to retreat.

And if you want to evacuate, you have to retreat as soon as possible, after all, there are only three days of food and grass in the camp. Sixty miles away, the camp guarded by Huo Yu only had three days of food and grass.

Relying on these six days of food and grass, Pham Minh You's troops can retreat to Yinpan County in Anding County.

Capture that county seat, and wait for Tian Guangming's reinforcements and grain and grass to get a glimmer of life.

Everyone could see how desperate the situation was, but no one dared to stand up and persuade them.

Because Fan Mingyou's face is very ugly at the moment, no one wants to come out and touch his moldy head.

All of a sudden, the entire Chinese army tent fell into a depressing and strange silence.

In the end, Ding Ping, who was still nominally equal to Fan Mingyou, stood up with big eyes and picked up this dangerous topic.

"General Fan, our army's attack has not been favorable in the past two days, should we temporarily avoid the edge and join forces with the little general first?" Ding Ping carefully chose the right words.

Fan Minh You listened and did not speak.

Even Ding Ping can see through the situation, how can he not see through it?

But once he retreats to join Huo Yu, then he can only take root in Anding and Beidi County.

These two counties are not densely populated, and they do not produce much rice and millet, so it is impossible to support an army of 50,000 or 60,000 for a long time.

Therefore, retreating from the city of Qixian can only solve the temporary life and death, but it still can't save this game of chess.

Ding Ping saw that Fan Mingyou was silent, knowing that there were too many people in the account at this time, and Fan Mingyou was not good at expressing his position in public.

So he said without authorization: "The generals have worked hard today, and there are many military affairs to be dealt with in the battalion, so let's go back to the camp for the time being, and the general will give military orders later." ”

"Yui!" Everyone left, but only Ding Ping and Fan Mingyou remained in this big tent.

"General Fan, there are no outsiders here, the lower officials have the courage to say a word, quickly withdraw the army, otherwise the city of Qixian will be the burial place for us!"

This time, Fan Mingyou finally spoke, and he sighed and said, "Ding Gong, how can Ben Jiang not know that this Qi County is difficult to attack, but where can he go?" ”

"The general must not be discouraged, we still have tens of thousands of troops in our hands, and General Tian Guangming still holds many county towns in Anding County, and there is still a lot to do!"

"Ding Gong is reasonable, but I'm afraid I can't delay what I'm doing ......"

"Chang'an City is two hundred miles away, and the troops will be in the city in three days, and I am really unwilling to be defeated here!" Pham Minh Woo smashed his fist on the case.

Of course, he was not reconciled, so he withdrew from the army, even if he could be divided between Anding and the north, it would be difficult to re-enter Chang'an.

"General, there is still time to turn around, General Tian Guangming must have raised grain and grass, and the two armies will be able to make a comeback within half a month!"

"Staying here is an absolute death, and there is no chance of a turnaround!"

This mediocre Ding Ping analyzed it well, and finally made Fan Mingyou nod.

He had actually seen through this situation a long time ago, but he was a little unwilling.

Now, Ding Ping helped him say what he thought, and it was not so difficult to make a decision.

Now the best strategy is to withdraw the troops, and then take Yinpan County north of Beishan, raise grain and grass by themselves, and after Tian Guangming's department arrives, then rectify the military peak and make a comeback.

"Ding Gong, give the order to go, pull out the camp tomorrow, and join forces with the little general first......"

"After joining forces, rest for a day, and then go in the direction of Yinpan...... Turn in. ”

"Yui!" Ding Ping is not a military general, it is good to be able to pick up a life in Qi County, and seeing that Fan Mingyou is no longer stubborn, he immediately rejoiced and breathed a sigh of relief.

When Ding Ping turned around and was about to leave to convey the military order, Fan Minh You suddenly stopped him.

"Duke Ding, send some scouts north to contact General Tian, I haven't heard from them for five or six days, and the general is a little worried in his heart."

"Yui!"

……

The next day, Pham Minh Huu's unit finally retreated.

The corpses left by the people and horses were only hastily buried, and the thin layer of loess may not even be able to withstand the north wind.

As for the wounded soldiers left in the two days, the heavy ones stayed in place and resigned themselves to their fate, and the light ones got on their horses and walked slowly.

The whole team was much more embarrassed than when they came, like a broken ship in disrepair, ready to break up at any moment.

After a day of marching, Fan Minh You's troops finally joined forces with Huo Yu, and the army finally gained time to breathe.

But after only one night's rest, the weary army immediately withdrew from camp again, and slowly retreated towards the north-west direction of the gloom.

Yin Pan is only more than 100 miles away from the camping place of Fan Minh You's department, and it can be walked in two days.

After escaping the bloody battlefield for a while, and having a good night's sleep, the number grew a little stronger......

These insignificant good things have slightly improved the morale of the military spirit of Fan Minh You's troops.

In the next two days, nothing major happened on the way, and the only thing that made Fan Mingyou and the others uneasy was that he still did not get any news from Tian Guangming's department.

On the seventh day of the twelfth month, the exhausted Fan Minh You's troops came to a place ten miles outside the Yin Pan City.

The Yinpan County Commander must have also learned of the arrival of Fan Minh You's department, and moved the people into the city early.

The gate was closed tightly, and there was no sign of surrendering and disarming.

When the scout told Pham Minh Huu the news, his already unhappy mood became even more depressed.

I'm afraid this Yinpan County is a bone that is more difficult to gnaw than Lingwu County.

Fan Mingyou had some regrets, he originally thought that Liu's destiny had ended, but now he felt that he might have seen it wrong.

"Fear is like a lost dog, and you can't live all day." Pham Minh Huu finally understood Kong Chungny's mood when he said this.

Because they couldn't enter the county town of Yinpan, Fan Minh You's troops could only camp ten miles outside Yinpan, and then persuade them to surrender or attack the city tomorrow.

……

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the lieutenants and generals gathered again.

The atmosphere in the tent was even more depressing than the previous days, after all, tomorrow we were going to fight for our lives again.

The faces of many generals and lieutenants were also extremely gloomy.

In the past few days, another eight or nine hundred people have fled.

And those lieutenants and generals who were picked up by Fan Mingyou under coercion and temptation had a trace of resentment in their eyes when they looked at Fan Mingyou.

Inexplicably involved in a rebellion with no turning back, it is okay to win, and if you lose, you will be killed.

But who can they blame?

At the beginning of the army, they could still say that they were blinded, and they were supported by greed along the way.

At this point, all the people in this tent are already guilty.

Fan Mingyou looked at everyone dissatisfied, wanting to say a few words that could boost morale, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them for a while.

Just when the big tent of the Chinese army was about to fall into a depressed silence again, a tun chief who had taken scouts to the north yesterday ran in in a panic.

"Generals, generals, the last general has military information to report!"

"Huh? Why are you so flustered? Pham Minh Woo asked with a gloomy face.

"That, General Nada Hiroming, well, it seems to be defeated!"

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