After fighting day and night, the soldiers had already put in all their efforts. There were still endless defensive fortifications in front of them, including long trenches and powerful Donghu enemies who were waiting for them. No one believed that they could penetrate the enemy's defense line and obtain the food hoarding from Jinzhou.

An atmosphere of despair hovered over the remaining army's heads. Failure was inevitable, it was just a matter of time. All the grain storage in the army was used up before the battle, and the soldiers tried their best to eat and prepared dry food for the remaining one or two days.

Two days later, everyone is afraid that they will not even have the strength to walk.

At this moment, Li Guorui was also desperate and sent a red flag envoy to each wing capital and the army to order the command to be handed over to Yue Zhi, so that the army would not have to attack Jinzhou anymore, but turned to the Songta behind him.

The mountains are stretched, and the main force of Donghu is here. The garrison in the Songta direction cannot be very tight. Whether it is crossing mountains and ridges, or breaking through the enemy's defense line, the only way to survive is to be behind you.

After announcing the military order, Yue Zhi saw the most spectacular scene.

Li Guorui, wearing a purple robe, had only a few cavalry beside him, but he was the big flag holding the commander's command. The red flag fluttered in the wind. Under the flag, several cavalry rushed forward like arrows. The mud oars flew on the ground, and the iron cavalry went forward. At the last moment, dozens of Donghu archers shot in the direction of the flag, and finally the people and horses were killed, and everyone was covered with bows and arrows.

The Wei army was filled with sad voices and saw off for the commander of the army. The person who ordered the archery was supposed to be a Donghu nobleman who was riding a horse to the formation. He bowed to the Dawei recruit who was halfway through the death of the Great Wei army. Countless Donghu soldiers also lowered their bows and arrows and bowed to greet them.

No matter what, no matter how heavy the casualties on both sides were, at this moment, everyone paid their highest respect to the Wei army commander who was seeking death and was the ritual of the Lord.

After that, Yue Zhi collapsed, and he never wanted to see such a scene again in his life.

At the beginning, there was a dispatcher. When he went to the Tashan area to see the long trenches dug by the Donghu army, the remaining main forces of the Wei army collapsed. Each army did his own business, some attacked the trenches, some crossed the mountains, and some simply ran to the Yushui and Liaohe areas. In a panic, he was in a panic. Although there were no Donghu soldiers to stop him, he was still alive and it was difficult to escape.

After the chaotic armies, Yue Zhi also lost command. Each army was in charge and each army fought on its own and had no command.

Yue Zhi saw Zhang Bangwen fall into the chaos army, and saw the veteran Mai Jitong wielding forward, jumping forward in front of the trench, but falling into the trench, his subordinates rushed forward, filling a long trench. Yue Zhi and his personal guards seized the short gap, bypassed the castle in the rain of arrows, climbed into the forest, and then detoured in the deep mountains and old forests. The Donghu soldiers cut off the road to Ningyuan, and most of the mountains on both wings were strictly guarded and could not be established.

The imperial guards who took off their armor and even threw away most of their weapons were no longer their opponents, and could only run around the mountains and fields. At this point, the Northern Expedition Army no longer has a system, and it cannot be said to be an army. The current Northern Expedition Army is no longer different from those ordinary civilians who are chased and killed. At most, they are in good physical strength and consciously flee in groups of three or five. When they encounter small groups of Donghu soldiers, they can occasionally burst out with effective resistance.

When Yue Zhi first escaped, there were still many soldiers around him, and he could see the fleeing imperial guards everywhere.

By the evening of that day, there were much fewer imperial guards running together. On the contrary, the sound of the Donghu soldiers chasing was constantly, and the screams and crying begging for mercy were also constantly.

A large number of imperial guards were blocked in front of the trench and chased and killed in the mountains and forests.

When they arrived near Ningyuan, the Donghu soldiers opened a long line of defense and killed the defeated soldiers who were trying to approach Ningyuan one by one, and plundered the light cavalry, whether it was a piercing, a knife, or an arrow shot. The Donghu soldiers were very patient and physically. They were ready long ago and must kill the main force of the Great Wei imperial guards as much as possible in this battle, and eliminate all the 200,000 soldiers as much as possible.

In fact, there are less than 200,000 imperial guards. After several days of fierce fighting, more than 50,000 soldiers died in battle. More than 10,000 seriously injured were abandoned and waiting to die. More than 140,000 soldiers fleeing.

There are tens of thousands of military, civilians and men, but there are only 200,000 people.

If there is sufficient food and grass, these 200,000 people will not be able to eat them even if they use all their strength. In this situation, once a defeat is formed, it will be artificial swords and one side will be fish.

While running away, Yue Zhi wanted to kill his own son several times, but was stopped by his closest guards. Li Guorui must have been blamed for the failure of the army. Generals like Yue Zhi were not only wrong, but also should return to the court and question the two governments and the emperor in person. At least the truth about the annihilation of the 200,000 troops should be made public. It should not be called Li Jian, Li Enmao, Chen Changde, and Xu Ziwei, and other scums at a loss.

After this battle, the Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty and the Central Committee would have lost all their prestige. If the army of more than 100,000 angry people could really break through the siege, Yue Zhi himself dared not imagine what would happen.

But everything is over.

Late at night, the pursuit continued to sound. The Donghu cavalry was chasing the defeated soldiers everywhere with torches. The sound of killing continued to stop. Yue Zhi was heartbroken every moment. He did not feel afraid. The idea that the elders of the family had instilled in the idea that it was honor to die on the battlefield for the generals. On the day of joining the army, he regarded himself as a dead person. If he was the commander for his whole life, thousands of soldiers died of death and he died of injuries and illness in the bed, it was not a good thing, nor was it worthy of gratitude.

The elders of the family who spoke were all covered in scars. On rainy days, they were sick and even those with legs and those with few arms were mostly gloomy. Not only did they suffer physical pain, but also mental damage. They were not very grateful that they could survive.

Yue Zhi was not afraid and did not want to survive. What he was most sad was that the army was defeated in such a situation, not that it was not that the soldiers were unable to fight hard, but that the emperor, the two palaces, and a group of mediocre generals were unable to fight against the enemy. The battle to bet on the fate of the country was ended in this way, which was really heartbreaking and I didn't know what to say.

In the wilderness, the light and the sound of fire and pursuit were everywhere. Yue Zhi himself didn't know when he and the small group of people around him were chased. He could survive, mainly because the Donghu soldiers were also quite scattered, and the defeated soldiers were too easy to chase and kill. Yue Zhi had dozens of loyal and brave guards. Although he had light armor, he had long swords, and bows and arrows. This small group of people was hard-core. Donghu soldiers roared several times, but were repelled by the guards. Then the Donghu soldiers saw more defeated soldiers who were better killed, so they turned their horses and went to chase those more easily targets.

After noon the next day, Yue Zhi and a large number of defeated soldiers finally escaped from the valley, hidden traces in the wastelands, woodlands, and shrubs, and began to run along the coastline.

According to the crowd, Yue Zhi roughly calculated that there were about 10,000 defeated soldiers around him. This was all the people who ran from Changfu, castle, mountains, plains to the beach in two days. In two days, everyone ran fifty or sixty miles away. Ningyuan City was not far behind, but it took another 170 or 80 miles to reach Yuguan.

If the Donghu cavalry chased after him, the more than 100 miles would be the death of more than 10,000 people, and no one could run out.

Unless there are war horses to ride, if there are thousands of war horses that are well-rest and have sufficient physical strength, even if two people ride, more than 10,000 people can escape. Behind them, at least tens of thousands of defeated soldiers will run and hide in the middle of Ningyuan to Tashan Fort. The Donghu people will have the energy to continue chasing the beach after they have to clear them and clear them. This time will not be too long. At most, half a day is enough.

Unfortunately, there is no horse, and everyone has almost exhausted their physical strength. After fighting and running around one day and one night, people's physical and mental health are on the verge of collapse. Many people know that slowing down means dying, but they can only take a hard step and move forward at an extremely slow speed.

Many soldiers recognized Yue Zhi. They had no resentment towards the commander, and their anger was all on the emperor, the two palaces, Li Jian, Li Enmao, Xu Ziwei and others.

There were yelling and cursing from time to time in the crowd. If it weren't for the emperor's urging the two prefectures to fight, if Li Jian and others had not ignored Li Guorui's repeated strict orders and failed to entrust the main force of the subsequent troops to ensure the retreat, resulting in an imbalance between the front and rear and the Donghu army seized the opportunity, how could this war be so far?

People were reluctant to let go of resentment and screams and scolding. Whether it was the Yanzhao men from Hebei or the soldiers who had always been famous for their tenacity in Daibei, at this moment, they were full of resentment and complaints.

It is hard to imagine what kind of "welcome" will the emperor be even if he appears on the battlefield at this time?

People walk along the beach, hoping to walk at least more than half of the journey after dark before the Donghu soldiers arrive, so that there will be much greater chances of escaping.

Yue Zhi kept looking behind him. There were indeed some defeated soldiers rushing over, but it was obvious that the defeated soldiers appeared one after another, which meant that the enemy cavalry that was chasing the defeated soldiers would soon appear.

The Grand Marshal of the Great Wei did not have much despair or much trouble. Now that things have come to this point, there is no hope for whether he can survive, or even feels. If he can survive, Yue Zhi would not know how to seek justice for the 200,000 army.

Are you still trying to confront the emperor, or are the two governments, or those mediocre generals who still have heavy troops?

After this battle, the situation was quite obvious. The court had little problem in defending against the Northern Barbarians and the Western Qiang. As long as all the imperial guards in the south were successively searched to the north, they could gather 100,000 troops in a short period of time, which was almost the limit. Then the remaining 300,000 imperial guards would have to bear the defense line of thousands of miles, and the door was already open to the Donghu. From then on, not only could they not be able to defend, but they also did not have the ability to gather troops to defend and counterattack. More than a dozen routes in the north of the Great Wei could only be allowed to attack by the enemy.

Fortunately, Donghu also exhausted its national strength this time, and its domestic use of military supplies, grain and all storage, and its manpower was extremely severe. In the subsequent spring famine, a large number of Donghu people would starve to death, which is inevitable. At this time, they could not conquer Ningyuan and Yuguan, and detoured thousands of miles to attack the Wei Dynasty to be slow and anxious. They had no strength. Donghu soldiers also suffered 30,000 to 40,000, of which at least 30,000 were killed in battle, 10,000 or 20,000 were seriously injured, and many were unable to return to the battlefield.

The losses of war horses must be quite large. People were killed in battle and starved to death. The losses of war horses were calculated in tens of thousands. Even if the ally Beilu, the ally, helped to supplement them, the Donghu people would not be able to fight the Wei battle within one or two years.

Yue Zhi only hopes that within one or two years, the Great Wei can replenish about 200,000 imperial guards, and their commanding military officers and combat abilities, including armored equipment, cannot be compared with the current main force of the imperial guards, but at least they will not be penetrated by the Donghu people at once and abandoned the Great Prefectures and Prefectures and counties.

Yu Pass and Ningyuan, this is the last line of defense for the Great Wei, and it is also an opportunity. As long as the two important passes are guarded and the Donghu people have to take a detour, the Great Wei will still have the opportunity to hold on.

The greater threat comes from the inside. It is not enough for the imperial guards to defend the border with all their strength. Because the people are exhausted, the country is weak and the people are poor, and people are dissatisfied. Once a disaster is found by the ambitious, overthrowing the country is likely to be a matter of the situation.

Yue Zhi could no longer think too much at this moment. He had already thought too much about the Great Wei Dynasty and could no longer care about the internal hidden worries.

The sound of horse hooves came faintly behind him, and many imperial guards changed their expressions when they heard the sound. Almost everyone looked behind him at the same time. Sure enough, a small number of cavalry appeared on the distant skyline. Then the cavalry flocked forward, and more and more. The entire horizon seemed to be filled with black cavalry.

"Hu Qi, Hu Qi is here." A large number of imperial guards changed their faces when they heard the news. Many people's faces were twisted. They shouted wildly, trying to raise the last bit of physical strength to run forward, but they found that they were already weak and their legs were as heavy as lead, and they could not run at all.

"It's over, it's over." Many soldiers, including the middle and lower-level military officers, fell to the ground and burst into tears.

At this time, everyone's will was completely over. Even though many people still carried long swords and horizontal swords, they had no will or ability to resist at this time.
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