The defeat of the army was like a mountain, and the rout was almost not stopped.

Fortunately, Lu Xiong is a veteran of the battlefield after all, and he has mastered the hearts of slaves under the hint of the king, and this group of soldiers also knew the cruelty of war early and got used to it.

Soon, under Lu Xiong's methodical dispatch, although the army of the Western Expedition was tired and its morale was extremely low, it did not collapse or flee, and gradually stopped its defeat and stubbornly stood outside the Bishui Pass.

Nangong Shi was shocked when he saw that the slave army could also do this, but he was only slightly surprised, and he looked at Lu Xiong a little higher, even if this soldier and horse were tenacious and tenacious, they couldn't change the defeat.

He led the army in pursuit for a while, forcing the merchant army back for ten miles before returning to Bishui Pass again.

Lu Xiong began to collect the defeated army, counted the battle damage, and suffered more than 30,000 casualties.

There are not many soldiers killed in the battle, more because the army is in a hurry to break through, panicked, and injured in the chaos, after all, there are knives and guns on their bodies, and it is easy to be injured by mistake when they are huddled together, and the wounded soldiers can't keep up with the large army, and finally stay in the Bishui Pass and can't come out.

If it weren't for the hasty march and the rush to go while sleeping, he would have been able to adequately deal with this chaotic situation, but I was afraid that the casualties would have been even heavier.

How can this not be painful?

However, after a while, the battle damage was counted, and there was no need for more processing.

Although it was a defeat, it was defeated in the Bishui Pass, and the corpses were naturally in the pass, so there was no need to bury, no sacrifices, and even the flags and weapons did not need to be gathered, which was quite trouble-free.

But in the army, Gu is silent, and no one wants to save so much trouble.

Lu Xiong looked at the pile of gold, silver and bronze medals with dull eyes, straightened his body and bowed down unconsciously.

He finally understood why the king had repeatedly urged the army to withdraw.

It's not that it can't be fought at all, but the war between Shang and Zhou is different from the past, and there are too many unknown enemies.

The young generals are easy to say, they have a strong ability to accept new things, they have not fought a few battles, and they will not refer to their previous experience to fight the enemy.

And the problem lies in the veteran, the experienced veteran will not underestimate the enemy, but has inertial thinking, and will always unconsciously judge the situation with previous experience.

Lu Xiong is such a veteran, although he has been very careful, did not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy, and even when he broke into the Bishui Pass, he also set up a defense line at the gate to stay behind the retreat, but he still didn't expect that Lei Zhenzi, who came and went freely, could lead the soldiers and horses to kill from behind, which was really unexpected.

"Hey—"

Lu Xiong let out a long sigh, it was very quiet outside the Bishui Pass, as quiet as the hearts of the soldiers, in fact, if it was really about casualties, even if it was a big defeat this time, the casualties of the Shang and Zhou armies were about the same.

Nangong Shi's side also suffered heavier losses because the number of troops was smaller.

But so what?

Defeat is defeat, Shang and Zhou sides, the army fought, the Zhou army occupied Bishui Pass, and the Shang army was defeated, which was a fatal blow to morale, not only wasting the fighters of Bishui Pass to fight for their lives, but also brought great resistance to the follow-up westward expedition.

For a while, Lu Xiong found that he was a little cowardly, but it was the immortals who intervened in the mortal war, and after a big defeat, he lost his former vigor.

He looked at the night sky and was stunned.

At this moment, there was a slight sound of footsteps behind him, but it was a young general in full armor.

"Uncle—" The young general began, as if trying to comfort Lu Xiong.

"It's Renjie...."Lu Xiong turned around, this young general was none other than Lu Renjie, the last marshal of the Great Shang in the original book.

Although the relationship between Lu Xiong and Lu Renjie is not mentioned in the original book, both of them are surnamed Lu and are generals, and in this era, it is likely that there is a family relationship.

Lu Xiong sighed and said: "The old man knows that casualties are inevitable in the battle between the two armies, and he also knows that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, even if it is a big defeat, even if there are tens of thousands of casualties, they must be faced calmly, the war will not be terminated because of a victory or defeat, only in this way can we fully deal with the next battle, the old man has been in the army for decades, these naturally understand, but this defeat...."

Lu Renjie's face is not very good-looking, this defeat is really ugly, it is the first big defeat of the big businessmen in foreign conquests in recent years, not to say that it is enough to regroup and fight again in the next year, the instability of the people's hearts brought about by the defeat is what makes people more worried.

Lu Xiong also accepted the facts at this time, and said: "Anyway, now that we have been defeated, we can only retreat for a while, turn the attack into defense, and prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the weakness, you go back first and report everything to Your Majesty." ”

Lu Xiong will not hide the news of the war because of a fiasco, there is nothing to say, a defeat is a defeat, this is the responsibility of the general.

The only thing that made him feel fortunate was that he had obeyed the orders of the king earlier, and divided the western expedition army into three routes, although the road of storming Bishui Pass was the largest number of troops, but there were also many soldiers and horses on the north and south roads, and Jiamengguan was used as foreign aid, which was enough to maintain the subsequent western expedition.

Although he Lu Xiong was defeated, he was not defeated in the Western Expedition, but it was difficult to swallow the main force of the Zhou army in one go.

Now that I think about it, at that time, I listened to the will of the king of Xuan and retreated temporarily, and after seeing how the people in the immortal path intervened in the war, it was the best choice to attack with all my strength, hey....

...........

After Zishou, who led the army outside, rescued the remnants of Bishui Pass, he did not rush back to the division, but camped on the spot, and asked Yu Hualong of Tongguan to send the dancing girl and music girl who he forgot to bring over.

Let's continue to play music and dance.

Lu Renjie personally sent back the news and found the camp all the way.

He was outside the camp gate, at first glance, he heard the sound of extremely neat footsteps inside, and admired it in his heart, it seems that His Majesty has expected that the war on the front line is unfavorable, and he camped here to train soldiers, I am afraid that it is also to be able to send troops to support the Western Expedition army as soon as possible, His Majesty really has no last resort, but it is a pity that his uncle did not listen to the order.

Lu Renjie entered the camp and was thinking about whether to wait for a while, so as not to disturb the drills of the soldiers, but he suddenly found that what was waiting for him was not the solemnity of the military formation, but a lively scene of singing and dancing.

"Let's all dance!"

The military formation is a military formation, but it is not a training method of stabbing and splitting, but .... Dance.

That is, the ten thousand dances that must be tested in martial arts.

"Ten thousand, ten thousand!"

The dust and mist were filled, and all the soldiers were lined up neatly, holding a shield in their left hand and an axe in their right hand, and they drank in unison.

Whether it is the soldiers and horses of Tongguan or the remnants of Bishui Pass, they are all old pawns, and naturally they will not be able to dance the newly popularized Wan Wu, so they have to let Yin's ruined guards and Li Lie's Imperial Forest Army be well trained.

Lu Renjie couldn't help frowning, with his martial arts and military strategy, if he participated in the martial arts, as long as there was no accident, he would definitely be able to become the champion, but he did not participate in the martial arts, but took Lu Xiong's relationship and directly entered the army.

Going to the relationship is a very normal way to enter the office in this era, and even whose relationship is awesome, whose background is hard, are all boasting capital, but after the appearance of the imperial examination, it has changed a little, among the big businessmen, they are proud to participate in the imperial examination, after all, the test is hard power.

Even if you memorize the answers, you can memorize them!

But Lu Renjie still avoided the imperial examination and chose to go through the relationship, because he didn't like Wanwu very much.

What's the use of this thing? It's okay to shout twice during the drill to raise the momentum, isn't it a waste of physical strength to really jump up and down on the battlefield like this?

Can you still scare the enemy?

But the king of Xuan put Wan Wu, who had been reduced to the sacrifice, back on the table, as something that the big merchant soldiers must master, and compared it with the art of killing, and even at this critical time of survival, he still had the mind to let the Tongguan soldiers and the remnants of Bishui Pass, who had never been in contact with Wan Wu, learn Wan Wu from scratch.

What's wrong with it? What's the obsession?

However, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and the most important thing at the moment is to submit the battle report from the front line to the king.

After receiving the news of Lu Xiong's defeat, Zishou's expression did not change, and he was still flat.

There's only one word inside him,.

(End of chapter)