Chapter 168 Heart-wrenching Loss

Fang Xuanling shook his head and smiled bitterly, and Du Ruhui was also smiling bitterly. He had already thought about all the ways he could think of, but it was still difficult to stop the defeat. Since Qu Tutong was attacked by the Zheng army's Fire Bull Formation at the Jianguo Gate in the south of Luoyang City, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui realized that something was wrong. In the name of joining the army, Fang Xuanling restrained the tens of thousands of left-behind men and the elderly, weak and sick, and barely organized three lines of defense, trying to gather the defeated troops and regroup.

It was just a pity that the three lines of defense organized with all their might were defeated by the enemy three times, and the troops were defeated like mountains of defeat. Wang Shiyun's cavalry was chasing him from behind. The defeated soldiers of the Tang army were like hornets that exploded in a nest, running around everywhere. Finally, they had to pull up a team, but before the enemy could take action, they were rushed to pieces by their own defeated soldiers.

Those who stayed in Beimshan camp were either the old, the weak, the sick, or the farmers who had just put down their hoes and picked up their weapons. If the Tang army won a great victory, these tens of thousands of people would rush up to rush the enemy with their blood and courage. However, after all, they had not been tempered by the battle formation. Once they were defeated by the entire army and attacked by the enemy's cavalry, they would be unable to withstand such a huge blow as a defeat in the entire army. Therefore, they would lose their backbone, their ears were full of the shouts of the enemy, their eyes were full of the enemy's devilish descriptions, and their consciousness became blank. Therefore, the originally organized and orderly response soon turned into a messy defeat.

This was exactly Wang Shiyun's trick. When he found that there was no army that Tang Army had established a resistance on the battlefield, he changed his strategy and divided the five thousand cavalry under his command into five thousand-person teams. Each attack was in a unit of a thousand-person team, and a thousand-person team did not last long. It was only half an hour. As long as half an hour was reached, another thousand-person team would immediately rush forward.

This is like a three-combo attack in cavalry battles. The Zheng army cavalry rushed up one after another, either a rain of arrows or a white-cut attack, constantly harvesting the lives of the defeated Tang army soldiers from behind. Just like a few tigers, driving up to kill one or two of them from time to time, but they didn't surround them, letting the flock run like this until they all ran into the gate of hell.

The densely packed Tang army prisoners were driven by Zheng cavalry, shaking the camps of the Tang army's Beimshan camp. Looking at these Tang army prisoners, such as trenches, horse-rejecting horses, and village walls, they could not bear the flood-like crowd. The first battalion wall was washed down, and the second battalion wall lasted for half an hour and declared lost. Now the last battalion wall is also shaking, where can they retreat?

As the saying goes, one goes up and the other goes up, the cavalry under Wang Shiyun's command was now stimulated by the victory that was about to be won, and his eyes were red and surging like a wave. The iron cavalry rumbled on the earth and rushed behind the Tang army prisoners. At a close distance of more than ten and twenty steps, he shot the wolf-tooth arrows fiercely at the back of the Tang army prisoners.

"Listen to the fuck, rush, hurry up, otherwise you will be dead!"

The prisoners of the Tang army were already in vain. Under the stimulation of the life-saving instinct, they just subconsciously ran forward.

As the Tang army soldiers cried and rushed to the Tang army's camp, the Tang army's Beim camp became even more dangerous.

Listening to the shouts of killing in the bottom of the ears, the pungent smell of blood filled the nerves. Looking at the broken limbs and broken arms and blood flying in the air, Du Ruhui coughed and covered his chest with pain in the sky: "If you don't succeed, you will be successful!"

Fang Xuanling's eyes and Du Ruhui's eyes met in the air, and a thought arose in his heart. Could it be that Li Tang really didn't have a destiny?

One by one, the camps were trapped in the sea of ​​fire, and the fire soared into the sky, which marked that the camp had been occupied and the end of the armed resistance of the camp. More and more camps burning and catching fire gradually approached Li Shimin's Shangshu Lingjie Hall in the east of Shaanxi. The shouts of killing around were clearly heard.

Fang Xuanling gritted his teeth and walked to Du Ruhui: "Keming, your wife is still waiting for you in Chang'an. Even if you surrender, Your Highness Qin will understand your difficulties..."

Before Fang Xuanling finished speaking, Du Ruhui shook his head and said, "Then let's see you again in the next life!"

Du Ruhui staggeredly, walking slowly towards the burning sea of ​​fire. The pile of fire formed by forage and food seemed not dead, but Du Ruhui's paradise. Du Ruhui's face was not afraid, worried, and not panic. Some were only calm, and some were only calm.

Fang Xuanling murmured softly: "Keming, wait for me!"

Just as Du Ruhui was approaching the fire nearly ten steps away, the scorching flames made Du Ruhui's hair and beard burnt and pungent. Suddenly, the generals surviving in the Beijian camp cheered.

Du Ruhui looked up and saw a large group of cavalrymen at the foot of the mountain swarming, and a central army flag erected from all directions of 18 feet high.

"The Secretary of the Shangtai of Xingtai of Shaanxi East Road"

"Chen, Deputy Marshal of the Right Capital of the East Shaanxi Army"

"Henan Pacification Envoy Chen"

"Champion General Chen".

When Chen Ying and Li Shimin heard the shouts of resistance in the Beimeng camp, they felt relieved. After meeting Changsun Wuji on the banks of the Luoshui River, Chen Ying and Li Shimin realized that when they learned that Qu Tutong learned that Li Shimin was in the Longmen, they led the remaining 100,000 troops from the Beimeng camp and headed to Longmen to rescue Li Shimin.

However, Qu Tutong did not expect that Wang Shiyun would use the Fire Bull Formation to deal with him. In a hurry, Qu Tutong's entire army was defeated. The marching chief Shi Wanbao was killed by Wang Shiyun's general commander Huang Junhan, and the entire army suffered a catastrophe.

Until now, Changsun Wuji couldn't tell where Qu Tutong was. At that time, he and Qu Tutong were separated. He was soaked in the cold Luoshui, pretending to be dead, and then escaped. However, the soldiers of the Zheng army were cleaning the battlefield in the direction of Luoshui, and sooner or later they would find Changsun Wuji pretending to die.

When Chen Ying heard that the Beim camp had not yet fallen, he was fortunately he did not give up, otherwise he would be extremely regretful. So Chen Ying ignored the war horses and tried his best to stimulate the war horses, squeezing the last potential of the war horses.

Finally, at the most critical moment, Chen Ying rushed to the foot of the Beimian Daying Mountain.

However, at this time, the hook and sickle lances who followed Chen Ying to Beigang Camp had less than two thousand men, and the other cavalry horses could no longer run. These exhausted hook and sickle lances shouted in unison: "General Champion, Ambassador Chen, Henan appeased Ambassador Chen, please hold on for a while..."

The Zheng army besieged the cavalry general of Beimshan camp at this time was named An Shoujing. This An Shoujing was very close to Wang Renze. He learned from Wang Renze how powerful Chen Ying was. After seeing Chen Ying's banner, he felt timid. When Wang Renze's 30,000 troops occupied the advantage of Hangu Pass, he could not help Chen Ying, let alone at this time?

"retreat……"

Chen Ying looked at the Zheng cavalry who were raising dust and retreating towards Luoyang City, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The current hook and sickle cavalry can no longer be considered as the last one, but it has already run out of energy. The hook and sickle cavalry cavalry on these horses have no strength to raise the hook and sickle spear. Although there are only more than one thousand people on the opposite side of the Zheng army cavalry, and the hook and sickle spear cavalry has more than two thousand people, Chen Ying is not sure of defeating the Zheng army cavalry.

At this time, the cavalry and lances were not covered with armor. If they faced the Zheng cavalry charge, they would definitely suffer huge casualties. Once the war was in a stalemate, the consequences would be unimaginable. Wang Shichong would definitely not miss this opportunity to wipe out the elite troops of Chen Yingjun.

Seeing the Zheng army cavalry looking at Chen Ying's banner, turning around and running without even a fight, Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief. He won the bet this time. In fact, Chen Ying's most afraid of meeting a Zheng army general who is not afraid of a tiger. If that happens, Chen Ying's wisdom will probably be destroyed.

Looking at the Zheng army's retreat, Li Xiuning breathed a sigh of relief, Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Ying's soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm sleepy, I'll go to bed for a while!" Luo Shixin got off the war horse, lay on the ground, and covered his face with a helmet.

At this time, the Tang army prisoners successfully became Tang army soldiers. Chen Ying found that the soldiers of the hook and sickle lances were shaking, so he had to order the Tang army soldiers who were left behind in the camp to clean up the battlefield and gather the prisoners.

Chen Ying slowly got off the war horse, and then lay on the ground regardless of the cold and image, showing off a big word.

Chen Ying was really exhausted. After this battle, he was not relaxed and soon Chen Ying lay on the cold ground and slept soundly.

...

When Chen Ying woke up, he found himself lying in a small tent with a quilt covered with a quilt. Chen Ying listened to the rumbling protest in his stomach and prepared to get up to find food. Just as Chen Ying lifted the quilt, he felt the bones on his arms were as painful as needles.

"Ouch..." Chen Ying screamed in shock.

Li Xiuning ran from outside the tent like a gust of wind: "How are you, Chen Lang?"

Chen Ying shook his head: "I'm so hard that I can't use my arms anymore. I'm hungry again..."

Li Xiuning ordered the guards to find some food for Chen Ying.

After a while, the guards delivered the meal to the tent. Chen Ying struggled to get up. While gritting his teeth and holding chopsticks, he endured the pain like a heart-wrenching pain while enjoying the pain. It was the pain and happiness.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's painful appearance and silently picked up the bowl and a spoon.

"What are you doing?" Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning in confusion and asked.

"Eat, but don't eat!" Li Xiuning had no extraordinary service at first, so it was embarrassing to make an exception for Chen Ying, but when he saw Chen Ying pretending to be confused, he was so angry that he was itchy. Seeing Chen Ying unmoved, Li Xiuning said angrily: "If you don't eat, you will lose it."

"I'll eat, can't I eat?" Chen Ying was enjoying the meal of Li Xiuning feeding him as the injured person, while inquiring about the losses of the Tang army in this defeat.

A worried look appeared on Li Xiuning's face: "It's so miserable!"

"The soldiers lost half of the loss?" Chen Yingqian asked, "The general lost one-third?"

"More than!" Li Xiuning shook his head and said, "There are more than 30,000 corpses with congestion on their faces alone, and tens of thousands of injured people. At this time, the entire army was less than 40,000!"

"Ah!" Even though Chen Ying was strong inside, he couldn't help but speak out in surprise at this moment.

Li Shimin was defeated in shallow water and lost nearly 100,000 troops. This was already a very large defeat in the early Tang Dynasty, but this time Li Shimin lost more than 100,000 troops, and even the marching commanders Liu Dewei and Qu Tutong were not found.

This time, not only did more than 30,000 soldiers be lost, but a large amount of supplies were also burned. Such losses would have made the Li Tang court feel heartbroken.
Chapter completed!