Ji Zhijiang sat in the big tent, and below were several cavalry generals who escaped from Jigongling. More than 20,000 cavalrymen went out, but less than 500 people came back.

Ding Hao is finished, Changsha is finished, all the plans this time are finished.

Ji Zhijiang lamented in his heart.

Tang Jun on Tiaoziling was already holding his hands. He originally thought that when it was dawn tomorrow, he would launch another attack and everything would be over.

But now, what's the point?

Shi Zhuang's army is only a short distance away from him. Now every quarter of an hour is delayed, he will push himself further to the defeat.

"Call all the generals." He said weakly: "It's time for us to retreat."

The meeting was sad and dull.

The generals from Lingnan, Jiangxi and Hunan have nothing to say about the situation in front of them. When it comes to responsibility, no one can escape. If they can quickly kill the Tang army on Tiaoziling, if they had not delayed so many days, would all this change again?

"General Ji, now Grand Master Ding is leading his army back from Yiyang. Can we also march towards Changsha to fight against Grand Master Ding and turn defeat into victory?" A Hunan general asked.

Ji Zhijiang looked at the other party and said lightly: "I am afraid that Shaoshuo Marshal Ding's failure is inevitable. If anyone wants to go, I will not stop him. But if anyone still wants to live, follow me to retreat to Lingnan!"

"We can go back to Jiangxi, General Qian is still in Yichun!" Another Jiangxi general jumped out.

"Another sentence, I want to go back to Lingnan with me alive." Ji Zhijiang was too lazy to explain. The battle was like this. The Right Qianniu Guard ignored Qian Shouyi's strategy of luring the enemy into depth. He is still in Yichun. When Liu Xinda saw that the situation was not good, he had already escaped, and now he is afraid he will soon arrive in Yongzhou.

Liu Xinda naturally saw the potential danger before running away.

"Everyone is dispersed, everyone will prepare for it." Ji Zhijiang waved his hand: "If you want to go back to Changsha and to Yichun, please give me some advice. If you don't want to make unnecessary sacrifices, follow me back to Lingnan. Now General Xiang is the time to use people. You are all generals of war. When you arrive in Lingnan, you will definitely be valued."

At dawn, the Lingnan army under Ji Zhijiang was ready, and Ji Zhijiang also walked out of the tent with his whole body, turned around, and finally looked at Tiaoziling. On it, the Tang army's flag was still flying high. It only takes another attack to completely take it down, but it is no longer worth it.

Did you vent your anger by killing these Tang soldiers in front of you?

That would allow many of their subordinates to follow him to be buried with him.

For an unworthy goal, Ji Zhijiang felt that there was no need for one more person to die. Every soldier here is worth cherishing. He rushed thousands of miles, fought many times, won victory, and witnessed failure. These soldiers were the backbone of the future resistance to the Tang army. One of them could be preserved, that is, one.

The Lingnan army marched straight away. After a little hesitation in several other camps, the two armies of Jiangxi and Hunan obviously had differences within the team. Some followed Ji Zhijiang toward Lingnan, while the other part went their separate ways, one to Changsha and the other to Yichun.

Nearly 30,000 troops were divided into three here. More than 20,000 people were heading towards Lingnan, and the other two were thousands of people.

On Tiaozi Ridge, Qin Kuan, who was sleeping in a daze wrapped in a broken sleeping bag, was awakened by the cheers of the soldiers.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he crawled out of his sleeping bag.

These days, he has been on the front line, and his armor has been covered with a thick layer of blood shackles. If an ordinary person approaches him, he will definitely be scared away by the strong smell of blood on his body, but for him and his companions, he is not aware of it at all.

"What's wrong?" he yelled.

"The enemy has retreated, the enemy has retreated!" A soldier with thick gauze wrapped around his head jumped three feet high on the spot, pointing to the departing Confederate army.

The other party was already moving further and further in his vision.

"Retreat?" Qin Kuan suddenly jumped out of the trench, ran forward for a few steps, stood on the edge of the trench, and stared downward with wide eyes.

His telescope was cut by an enemy in the previous fight and broke up, and now he can only rely on a pair of big eyes.

The enemy is really gone.

Not coaxing them.

Because in fact, they are no longer worthy of coaxing. Now there are no more than two thousand people who can fight on Tiaoziling. Apart from the dead, they are injured and can only lie there.

When the large number of Southern Confederate cavalry left two days ago, they had already had a premonition that a major change should have occurred, and the court must have made great moves, forcing their opponents to respond, but for them, it seemed too late, and there was still only one way in front of them.

Everyone thinks they will die.

But vitality appeared before them without warning.

Qin Kuan's legs became weak and he sat on the ground. If the soldiers around him hadn't grabbed him in time, he would have been sure to plant a green onion back into the trench.

Qin Kuan just lay on the ground with his back on all sides.

He was not losing his composure because he was too happy, but because his nerves have been in a state of high tension these days. It would be great if he could sleep for an hour or two every day. Ordinary soldiers only need to fight, and there are too many things for an officer like him to take into account.

In fact, I just rely on one breath to support myself.

Now, this tone suddenly ejaculated and the whole person collapsed.

"General, have we won?" A young soldier beside him squatted beards beside him, looking at the beards that had just appeared on the other party's lips, Qin Kuan smiled.

"We won, yes, we won!" After saying this, Qin Kuan's tears fell.

At this moment, he was really wept like rain.

The soldier was obviously a little panicked. He didn't know how he made his general so sad after just one word. He was at a loss for a moment and blushed and didn't know what to do?

"You little bastard, can't you tell that I can't stand up anymore, your general? I won't help me!" Qin Kuan cursed with tears in tears.

"Oh!" The soldier quickly threw the spear in his hand aside. The spear that he had never used to scattered in these days finally left his palm at this moment. It took a lot of effort to drag Qin Kuan up from the ground.

He punched his still trembling legs hard several times, and Qin Kuan turned around and walked towards the military camp behind him.

After pushing open the door of the only mud-brown house in the military camp, Qin Kuan saw Ren Xiaonian sitting behind the table in full arms, and the unsheathed horizontal knife resting on the long table in front of him.

"General Ren, we are alive!" Qin Kuan said loudly.

Ren Xiaonian smiled and nodded: "Yes, we persevere, we live."

Looking at Ren Xiaonian sitting there, Qin Kuan suddenly felt something was wrong, "General Ren, what's wrong with you?"

The smile on Ren Xiaonian's face slowly disappeared.

"But our army of ten thousand is not considered medical battalions, logistics and supplies technology, etc., now there are only more than two thousand left. Eight thousand brothers, because of my decision, died on the battlefield."

"Who knows if he is a soldier and fights? "Qin Kuan walked forward a few steps and found that Ren Xiaonian was a little abnormal. Because Ren Xiaonian actually changed into a clean set of clothes, and his hair was obviously cleaned and combed, and the armor on his body was polished brightly. Compared with Ren Xiaonian, he was now like he crawled out of a garbage pit. But these days, Ren Xiaonian, like himself, has charged forward and killed the enemy on the front line.

"Stop!" Ren Xiaonian stood up suddenly, held the handle of the knife with one hand, and pulled out the horizontal knife with a blink of an eye.

"General Ren, what are you going to do?" Qin Kuan's face changed color.

"This is my fault!" Ren Xiaonian said painfully: "It was because I saw Jose becoming the General of the First Guard. It was because I was eager to make a great contribution. It was because I was eager to make a profit. It was because I was eager to launch this attack without waiting for Yu Xiaowen to be supplemented. If it weren't for my series of mistakes, how could such a brother die here? I had no shame to see Yu Xiaowen, Gao Wufu, nor did I have no shame to face General Li, nor did I have no shame to see His Majesty the Emperor. I had to apologize for my death. Qin Kuan, I will leave this to you. I want to apologize to brothers such as Liu Yuan, Leng Feng, and Cai Kaiming!"

Seeing Ren Xiaonian put the knife horizontally on his neck, Qin Kuan was furious.

"Ren Xiaonian, you are a fucking coward! Liu Yuanzhen's fucking death was worthless. At that time, Liu Yuan had already jumped out of the encirclement and had a chance to run away, but why did he repeatedly attack the enemy? Isn't it just for you? You coward! Are you dead like this now?"

"I'm not a coward!" Ren Xiaonian roared with blushing.

"Ren Xiaonian, I am not as high as you, and I cannot judge what went wrong with this battle. But as a soldier of the Tang Dynasty and a member of Yixing, you can't stop yourself even if you have a big problem. If you have meritorious, you will be rewarded and commit a crime, and you should bravely face the court's accountability. If this is not enough to intimidate later generations. What is your death now? Do you die by force? Are you still thinking that if you die like this, death is the greatest, and the court can give you a decent ending? If you are still a man, just stand up and be a human being. Even if you are deprived of all your glory, go to jail, and be exiled, you are still a hero!"
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