Chapter 185 Return to Yuxi

Zuo Liangyu's army suddenly stood out under the front of the Xingtian Army. Seeing that the war had reached such a point, Zuo Liangyu no longer had the courage to persist here. In order to prevent his army from being surrounded by the Xing Tianjun, he had to order the whole line to begin to shrink and try to fight with the left wing that had not yet collapsed. The soldiers flattened the front, slowly withdrew from the battlefield and broke away from the battle with the Xingtian Army, but how could the Xingtian Army make him want? At this time, Xiao Tianjian ordered the soldiers and horses of some of the reserve battalions in the army to leave the main array and swam to the wings to take over the main force to chase the defeated officers and soldiers. Then he gathered the main soldiers and horses, waved his division to Zuo Liangyu's headquarters soldiers and horses. Go over.

Zuo Liangyu couldn't hold on any longer. He had never seen such a strong thief army like Xing Tianjun. He didn't say anything about the sharpness of the birds in their hands, but even their gunners were like crazy people, pushing the cannons and always sticking to the front line, almost trying to fire the cannon against their noses, and The thieves' cannon has a long range and a fast firing speed, so he can only fight and has no power to fight back.

Seeing that Xing Tianjun was about to stick to him, Zuo Liangyu ordered Liu Guoneng to take his place and resist the offensive of Xing Tianjun, but how could Liu Guoneng stop Xing Tianjun? With just one face, he was scattered by Liu Yaoben's iron bone camp. At this time, Zuo Liangyu found that his army had been killed by Xing Tianjun on the battlefield. Separated, the whole dispatch has begun to fail. At this time, Zuo Liangyu has known that his general trend has gone, and there is no way to save the situation.

From the beginning, Xing Tianjun lured him to fight here. In fact, it was a scam. Xing Tianjun hid his strength and did not fight for a few days. He was not afraid of him, but waiting for him and his officers and soldiers to become proud soldiers, relax his vigilance, fight with the whole army, and then concentrated his strength to defeat him in a battle. Now he really understands that The mood of the colleagues who were defeated by the Xingtian Army at the beginning, the fierceness of the Xingtian Army has exceeded their understanding. The method of battle they used far exceeded their understanding. In addition, these officers and soldiers under his command did not all obey his orders. Once the war started, they were given to him by the Xing Tianjun. Breaking it, and then causing the chaos of his soldiers and horses under his command, and then concentrated on the elites and only chasing him to fight fiercely. Xing Tianjun had only one purpose, which was to completely solve his group of officers and soldiers here.

After this understanding, Zuo Liangyu no longer dared to delay here. He immediately ordered a retreat, and gave up their camp in Gaoyang Town and retreated directly in the direction of Taikang. As for the officers and soldiers in Henan who were temporarily under his command, he couldn't control it. He just threw them to Xing Tianjun and let They held back Xing Tianjun's pursuit of him.

As soon as the soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command heard this order, they all rubbed oil on the soles of their feet. They called their men to withdraw from the battlefield and followed Zuo Liangyu to evacuate the battlefield as much as possible.

But how could Xiao Tianjian let him do what he wanted? As soon as Zuo Liangyu moved, he and Li Jinde realized that Zuo Liangyu was going to leave some of the officers and soldiers to escape from the battlefield, so he immediately ordered all the reserve battalions to leave the main battle camp and choose a turbulent officer to pursue, while he directly commanded several main battalions and gave up the surrounding areas. Those scattered officers and soldiers chased after Zuo Liangyu's main force.

At this time, the two sides of the whole battlefield have been staggered. At least the Xingtian Army is a battalion unit, and the basic combat units have not been dispersed. However, under the repeated hammering of the Xingtian Army, the officers and soldiers have long been in chaos. Many soldiers have Without finding their main generals, there are also many generals who have taken a few soldiers out of the battlefield and fled for their lives alone. Therefore, there is an established criminal army to deal with the officers and soldiers who have lost the establishment. Whether they are the main force or not, just the reserve battalion is enough for the officers and soldiers to see.

Xiao Tianjian gave an order, and the various departments began to follow the order. The soldiers and horses of the reserve battalion who originally cooperated with the war camp now left the front line and ran towards the piles of officers and soldiers, and the main force immediately gathered together and ran along the Tiedi River towards Zuo Liangyu's main soldiers and horses.

Zuo Liangyu is in a panic now! While he constantly sent people to try to delay the pursuit of the Xingtian Army, he kept ordering to speed up the speed of escape from the battlefield. He didn't care about the weight and grain. He threw away what he could throw away on the spot. Even the women they snatched into the camp during this period didn't care about it. They threw it directly into the camp, and even some He didn't even care about the armor of the soldier. As he ran, he took off his armor and threw it to the side of the road. In order to run faster, he quickly got away from the fierce and evil thieves behind him.

However, Zuo Liangyu's efforts did not have any effect. He sent the soldiers and horses behind the palace. In the face of the swarming soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, almost all of them collapsed on the ground like rolling soup and splashing snow. Basically, they could not delay the speed of the Xingtian Army to chase them, and a large number of soldiers of the Xingtian Army. Under the leadership of Xiao Tianjian, you chased each other and chased each other fiercely, as if you were in a competition. I'm afraid that you can't get credit in this battle.

This chase has been chasing them from the afternoon to the dark. The soldiers on both sides will not have time to eat at all. Seeing that the sky is getting dark, Xiao Tianjian ordered to stop the pursuit and collect the soldiers and horses to count the losses, while Zuo Liangyu took a group of defeated generals like frightened birds, and the black lights blindly along the Tiedi River. He continued to run away with a deep and shallow foot, which gradually opened the distance from Xing Tianjun.

Zuo Liangyu led his troops to run away for most of the night before ordering to stop. He sent people to disperse left and right overnight to collect the remnants of the soldiers who had left the battlefield, hoping to recover as much as possible.

At the beginning of the war, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were left with Zuo Liangyu after a fierce battle in one day. The rest were either annihilated by the Xing Tian Army on the ground or fled in all places. The army had already failed. When Zuo Liangyu ordered to stop the station, many officers and soldiers almost fell to the ground. On the ground, they gasped heavily and gasped like a broken wind box. They just wanted to cut off and pull it down directly. At this time, they found that they didn't even have a phing on their mouth. In order to escape, they almost lost everything they could lose. Many soldiers even lost their weapons directly. Now it turned into a gang. The barbar-handed exiles can't even compare with the exiles. Zuo Liangyu couldn't wait to slap himself with a few big mouths. If he had known this, he would not have led his troops to come to Qixian County happily. Although the thief army followed this road ran harder, at least they relied on robbery along the way. They also had food, drink and women, and lived a comfortable life. However, he wanted to make a great contribution. As a result, he not only did not get any credit, but almost folded his old capital here. Now he found that in order to escape, his own general Guan Fang Dayin was also lost. On the way to escape, he did not know whether he was caught up and killed by the thief army or took advantage of the chaos. He has escaped with the big seal. Anyway, at this time, Zuo Liangyu has become a general soldier who doesn't even have a big seal. This joke is a big joke.

It was not easy for Zuo Liangyu to survive this night. As soon as it was dawn, he called the soldiers to get up quickly, and then rushed in the direction of Taikang. After dawn, the thief army caught up again. At that time, with his strength, it was not enough to be slaughtered by others.

But yesterday, after a fierce battle for a day, followed by the wolf running for his life. After a day and a night, these officers and soldiers did not enter a mouthful of water, and there was no strength to continue to run! Although drinking water is not a problem, it is a big trouble to eat. The area in eastern Henan has been plagued by soldiers over the years. The people of ten miles and eight townships have either been killed or starved to death, and those who are alive have also fled. Many people are simply taken away by the escaping civilian army and become the rebels. Within a radius of dozens of miles, there is almost no village. Zhuang, Zuo Liangyu took more than 5,000 defeated soldiers. Even if he wanted to grab food, there was no place to grab it, so he could only struggle on the road with his legs.

But before they could gather up and continue on their way, they saw a large mass of dust in the far west. Then someone felt a slight vibration on the ground. As experienced generals, these officers and soldiers immediately changed their faces. Everyone knew what it meant, but only heard someone. He shouted sadly, "It's not good! The thief cavalry is coming! Run away!"

The five thousand officers and soldiers suddenly bombarded like a wasp and completely messed up. Not many people took care of running away with Zuo Liangyu, and everyone rushed in all directions.

Zuo Liangyu couldn't collect his soldiers and horses even if he wanted to close them. After a while, he saw a sentry cavalry appearing on the horizon and killing them fiercely. Zuo Liangyu shouted that it was not good, whipped the war horse hard, and played for his life in the direction of Taikang with only a small number of soldiers left. He ran away.

Poor Zuo Liangyu was still aggressive when he came. When he ran to Taikang County, there were only less than 500 soldiers left. Tens of thousands of troops collapsed in Qi County under the offensive of the Xing Tian Army. A large number of officers and soldiers directly surrendered to the Xing Tian Army on the battlefield. Even if the rest did not surrender, they were on the ground. As the largest group of officers and soldiers in Henan, it has also completely declared the disintegration of ice.

In this battle, Xiao Tianjian's army can be said to give full play to the combat effectiveness of Xing Tianjun. In fact, he let the soldiers kill each other happily and completely defeated the officer army led by Zuo Liangyu in the territory of Qi County. The only regret is that Zuo Liangyu was not killed here in this battle and made him run away.

For this reason, Situ Liang, who was responsible for chasing and intercepting Zuo Liangyu, was very frustrated. When he led the troops to kill near Zuo Liangyu's remnants, the soldiers and horses under Zuo Liangyu's command had collapsed, and Zuo Liangyu did not even hit the flag, so that he could not find Zuo Liangyu for a while. Although he led the troops to cover up, he was slaughtered. The remaining soldiers and horses of Shao Zuo Liangyu finally let Zuo Liangyu escape his pursuit in advance. When cleaning the battlefield afterwards, he did not find Zuo Liangyu's body, which made Situ Liang beat his chest and feet.

At this moment, Xiao Tianjian was unable to continue to attack in the eastern part of Henan. Although Kaifeng City was less than a hundred miles northwest of them, he still chose to lead his troops to start carrying the capture and embarking on the road back to western Henan.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian gave up continuing to attack in eastern Henan under such circumstances is that the eastern part of Henan has long been dilapidated. Although they can get some grain by capturing the county and Zhuangbao, it is far from meeting their needs. In addition, after their transfer of war for more than a month in a row, the army consumed a lot of grain and ammunition. After the battle in Qixian County, the gunpowder in the army had basically been exhausted, and it could not support them to attack Kaifeng City at all.

Originally, in the opinions of Li Jinde and Li Xin, they both thought that if Xiao Tianjian could lead his troops to besiege Kaifeng City at this time, it would be more beneficial to their future war. By besieging Kaifeng Mansion, a part of the officers and soldiers gathered in Luoyang could be attracted back, so that they could concentrate troops for them in the next step. Strive to attack Luoyang City to create better conditions.

However, after thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian did not adopt their opinions. He only agreed to lead the troops to pass outside Kaifeng Mansion and show their prestige to Kaifeng Mansion by the way. After all, most of the troops in the current army are newly surrendered officers and soldiers. If they are not placed as soon as possible, these surrenders will either fall. If the grass becomes a scourge, he will either return to the government and act as their lackey, and Xiao Tianjian is not Bai Qi, a famous general of the pre-Qin Dynasty. It is impossible to simply dig a hole and bury these 20,000 soldiers alive on the spot. Therefore, maintaining the food and drink of the tens of thousands of people who follow him now has become a big problem. He must do his best. Only by returning to Ruzhou quickly and getting food supplements can we continue the next strategy.

So tens of thousands of Xingtian army and officers and soldiers surrendered. After the end of the battle of Qixian County, they quickly demolished the walls of Qixian County and turned to Kaifeng Prefecture. The provincial government sent people to come here to receive the county. In the future, they will have to fight another tough battle again. At this time, the grain in their army It was basically close to the bottom. As a last resort, Xiao Tianjian personally ordered that since he surrendered, the rations of all soldiers and generals would be halved every day, and tried to fight a few more big Zhuangbao on the road to supplement them, and return to the territory under the jurisdiction of Xingtian Army to replenish supplies.