The real war began with a rout, and Dugu Xian couldn't remember which senior general he heard this sentence from, and he always took it as a guide.

Therefore, when the army under his rule entered the war, he always kept a part of the reserve army as much as possible to ensure that the retreat process was safe and orderly, and did not turn into a rout.

When he was young, he experienced such a scene: it was originally just a normal withdrawal of troops, but for some inexplicable reason, the soldiers suddenly ran for their lives, as if there was a demon chasing after them.

The generals usually put the blame on the soldiers, and the ministers in the rear accused the commander-in-chief of poor command and the parties quarreled in front of the king.

Dugu Xian knew what was going on, because at that time he was only a low-ranking officer, and he fought as bloodily as ordinary soldiers on the front line.

The battlefield is always chaotic, and those in it have no way to grasp the overall situation, and what happens to them and a few of their comrades is often magnified into the fate of the entire army: the comrades on the left and right move forward bravely, indicating that victory is in sight, and falling one after another is a sign that the whole army has been defeated.

With a personal impression, the soldiers who have just retired from the front line often do not understand the commander's intention to regroup, and the slightest irritation may be that someone accidentally falls on his heels, or the herald runs too fast, which will trigger a rout that no one expects.

Dugu Xian likes to keep the reserve army, these soldiers stand behind the battle line, and can grasp enough overall information like the commander-in-chief, and when retreating, they will not panic because of the wind and grass, which is a great comfort to the soldiers who have just left the battlefield.

The real war begins with a rout, another meaning of this sentence is that if the enemy flees, you must pursue it with all your might, people often ignore the fact that in the-for-tat battlefield, the casualties are actually far less than imagined, you want to kill, the other side will defend and counterattack with all its might, killing and preventing being killed, often become a pair of contradictions.

In the process of chasing and jumping, this contradiction does not exist, and the pursuit can attack with all its strength, killing the enemy who shows his back at the least cost, which is the most lethal stage of a battle.

This is the best time to kill the enemy for a short period of time, after which the enemy will either run too far and scattered, or they will come to their senses and may fight on their backs.

It is not unheard of that it has never happened that the chaser who was originally a chaser of victory, ran and ran, was hit back by the rout, and became a defeated again.

The Jinpeng army began to break and flee, and the first thing Dugu Xian did was to restrain the whole army to prevent them from fighting separately, and then assign each army to pursue it.

He ordered the three thousand-man army, led by the swordsmen of the Great Snow Mountain, to mount their horses and advance quickly, even if they were close to the enemy's passing, they were not allowed to stop and slash, but to run all the way to the second line of defense set up earlier, where they turned their horses' heads and blocked the deserters.

The other thousand-man army, divided into two groups, one in front of the other, steadily pursued, forming a huge encirclement, striving to annihilate the largest number of enemies.

There will be a part of the Jinpeng army to escape from the encirclement in advance, which is beyond Dugu Xian's control, even if the enemy army is in rout, the number still has an advantage, and letting go of a part is conducive to encircling and annihilating the remaining people.

Dugu Xian thinks of himself as a professional general, and he can't help but feel a little excited at this moment, he finally realized his dream, not only commanding a decent army, but also defeating a strong opponent, he may not be a smart general, let alone a great general, but he has made fewer mistakes than anyone else.

The female archer of the country of incense and the unexpected riots within the Jinpeng army were the decisive factors for the dragon army to win this war, Dugu Xian understood the key role of both, but they were both so-called "strange" in the art of war, and "zheng" was still the dragon army, and only the dragon army could pursue the enemy and play an effective role in the most important stage of the war.

There is no dragon army, or the dragon army is not effective, all the efforts of the dragon king are meaningless, the fleeing Jinpeng army will regroup sooner or later, stabilize their minds, and find that their side is still in an advantage, so they launch another decisive battle, when the time comes, the dragon king wants to win with "odd", it is almost impossible.

Surprisingly, in this pursuit, the bravest warriors were not the female archers of the Land of Xiangzu, who obeyed the orders of the Dragon King and still did not descend the mountain, nor were they dragon soldiers, not even the swordsmen of the Great Snow Mountain, but the tribal army formed by Tonoya in the Oosan.

Most of these more than 3,000 soldiers joined the army because of Ha Chilie, the son of the Dongshan chieftain, and he didn't think that he had already secretly thrown himself into Jinpeng Castle, and finally was almost suffocated in the abandoned mine, until the moment he was rescued, he really decided to be loyal to the Dragon King.

Allegiance is not just a word, it requires action.

The female archers of the country of incense were ordered not to descend the mountain, and the generals released the tribal soldiers.

Their desire to prove their loyalty is all the more urgent, especially when they find that their enemy has been defeated.

The tribal soldiers had no horses, so they chased them on two feet, and when they caught them, they jumped up and continued to pursue, even if they were alone.

Some soldiers were so excited that they roared on their solitary horses, brandishing long knives, and were so confident that they seemed to be following thousands of troops and horses behind them, so that the Jinpeng army was often frightened, and even though there were dozens of people, they immediately knelt down and surrendered, and they did not dare to resist.

In the evening, when the pursuit came to an end, Dugu Xian personally went to see the tribal soldiers, first encouraged them, promised a heavy reward, and then horses were recruited.

Tens of thousands of horses and horses are chasing after me, there is really no room for personal play, Gu Shenwei can't be like a tribal soldier, proud of slashing and forcing the enemy to surrender, he has more important things to do.

The victory of the dragon army is the beginning of another battle for him, and he must make sure that the dragon army still belongs to him, and the four countries on the northern shore of the Xiaoyao Sea will not be taken away by some careerist first.

He hid at the foot of the mountain, let the main force of the Dragon Army pass, and then went around the rear as fast as he could, looking for the army directly under the Dragon King, this army of 1,000 people usually did not accept direct orders from General Zuo, and should remain in place and stand by.

The old man followed the dragon king closely, and the corpses all over the ground were a fatal temptation for him, and he couldn't help but let out a painful moan from time to time.

"Remember your vows and keep your mouth shut. Gu Shenwei didn't like Old Man Mu's scream.

"Remember that it's okay to take an oath, it's too hard to keep your mouth shut. Old Man Mu stood on the horse's back, not affecting his control of the horse at all, and from a distance, he looked like a knight seated, "Dragon King, do you know what it feels like for the gods to be demoted and lose all their spells......?

Gu Shen was quick to move, and easily stuffed the horsewhip into the old man's mouth, he needed to concentrate on hurrying, not listening to an old man tell his feelings.

Old man Mu was quiet for a while, then spit out the horsewhip and muttered in a low voice, "What kind of smell, I don't even have a murderous **......"

The direct army was really on standby, and even the queen took a group of people to symbolically participate in the battle, only they stayed in the camp, Dugu Xian set a bottom line for himself, and he would never use this army privately until he was forced to live and die.

Wu Zongheng, the deputy commander of the direct army, had not yet returned, so Gu Shenwei appointed a hundred lieutenants as temporary commanders, and ordered him to lead the army to set off immediately, "go to the opposite bank by boat, occupy the capital of Kangguo as quickly as possible, close the city gates, and do not hand it over to anyone unless I have received an order from myself." ”

The soldiers of the directly subordinate army were all overjoyed when they saw the dragon king, and they all thought that they could immediately participate in the pursuit of the defeated soldiers and grab the merits, but they did not expect to occupy a capital city that was almost not defended by an army.

Gu Shenwei couldn't say his purpose directly, so he could only encourage the generals, "All the dragon army will soon return to the north shore, you are the vanguard, and you have a heavy responsibility, so you must be careful." ”

"Do you want to occupy the capitals of the other three kingdoms?" the generals began to get excited, there were not many Jinpeng troops on the north bank, only scattered small troops, not the opponent of the army directly under the thousand-man.

"Stick to Kangguo, don't let anyone in, and don't go out yourself. ”

After Gu Shenwei issued a strict order, he led a guard team of more than 100 people to chase after the main force of the Dragon Army.

The ships suitable for combat in the Xiaoyao Sea were all in the hands of the right general Shang Liao, and there were many civilian ships staying in the port on the south bank.

Gu Shenwei arrived at the temporary camp of the Dragon Army in the second half of the night, and most of the exhausted soldiers had already fallen asleep.

As soon as the guards entered the camp, they conveyed the dragon king's order, "The soldiers are hard, and no one is allowed to wake up." ”

Gu Shenwei entered the main tent alone, lit a candle, and secretly admired Dugu Xian, in such a busy time, the tent was still in order, as if he had been camped here for many days.

He first looked through the documents of the past few days, and all the orders issued by Dugu Xian were recorded, and through these boring words, he could quickly understand what had happened in the days when he was away.

The queen came to the barracks in person, and Gu Shenwei frowned slightly when she saw this.

The guards outside the door lifted the curtain and came in, "Dragon King, the prime minister asks to see you." ”

Zhong Heng was the first to find out about the arrival of the Dragon King, and he didn't know if he didn't sleep late at night, or if someone disobeyed the order to report the news.

Zhong Heng originally wanted to kneel down and congratulate when he saw the Dragon King, but after seeing it, he immediately changed his mind, this was the Dragon King, not the Central Plains bureaucrat he followed before, he sometimes forgot this.

"There are still more than 20,000 Jinpeng troops fleeing to the west, and General Zuo feels that it is not appropriate to press too hard, and General Right does not know where to go, if there are his ships and fierce fire bombs, it will be a great help. ”

Zhong Heng went straight to the point, explained the battle situation in a few words, Gu Shenwei nodded, since the prime minister came, he ordered the guards to wake up Dugu Xian.

Dugu Xian arrived quickly, and when he saw the prime minister, he was slightly stunned, and then knelt down on one leg to the Dragon King, "I don't know that the Dragon King has arrived, and I have missed the distance, please forgive the Dragon King." ”

Dugu Xian had never been so respectful in front of the Dragon King, he had just led the army to win a crucial victory, but he was as modest as a general of a defeated army, Zhong Heng nodded secretly, thinking that this General Zuo was not completely ignorant of the rules of officialdom.

"What does General Dugu plan to do with the remaining 20,000 Jinpeng troops?" Gu Shenwei calmly accepted the bow and asked the question he was most concerned about.

Dugu Xian got up and said: "Our army is slowly advancing, forcing the enemy to flee back to the north bank, and at the same time sending another army to cross north from the capital of Anguo, choking the northeast exit of Xiaoyaohai, the enemy can only return to Biyu City from the northwest passage, the deserters carry insufficient food and water, and the desert will solve the remaining 20,000 people." ”

This was similar to Gu Shenwei's thoughts, but he pointed to the map and said, "What about this bridge? After the Jinpeng army escapes back to the north bank, the bridge will definitely be destroyed, and our army will not be able to press forward step by step." ”

"That's a real problem. Dugu Xian was a little nervous, because he hadn't thought of a way yet.

What he didn't know was that there were still many people who wanted to destroy the bridge.

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