Huang Degong looked at Tian Xiong's pale face, and his heart was as painful as a knife, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Now that the situation has collapsed, even as the main general, how can I do what can I do to save the endgame?

The only way to retreat is to protect one of the entire army.

Huang Degong is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield. Faced with such an unfavorable situation, he gritted his teeth and kept silent, tried hard to control the ups and downs in his heart, and issued a retreat order in a deep voice.

"I pass on this general's order and immediately call the gold medal to retreat. We must be bounded by the Tang army as soon as possible and retreat to the other side of the Jing River as soon as possible!"

"Get orders!"

With the sound of the golden master, the three thousand cavalry in Huang Degong's army immediately came out of the battle and tightly protected Huang Degong, Tian Xiong and others. A group of people rushed over the top of the Tang army's encirclement and rushed south and fled.

At the same time, the enemy soldiers who were fleeing all over the battlefield were all as if they had heard of the amnesty. Everyone's face was full of desire to survive, and they all used their strength to run back and forth their best, in order to keep up with the coach's escape.

Behind them, the Tang army's spearmen and cavalry were still following like shadows, chasing and killing them.

Such a battle to chase down the enemy on the one hand is simply the happiest thing in the world.

Looking around, the entire south of Huai'an Prefecture City has become a Shura field for the Tang army to practice and kill. Countless enemy soldiers were either stabbed by spears or killed by sabers. The entire battlefield was covered in blood and screamed in succession.

As the Tang army's assault arrows, the two cavalrymen were constantly moving forward, like two sharp black arrows, chasing the cavalry team that was the first to escape from Huang Degong's army.

Of course, along the way, the enemy infantry fleeing on both sides and the Tang cavalry with complete armor and sharp swords and guns would not give them a chance to escape. They were like the god of death chasing their lives, constantly chopping and killing the defeated soldiers who were wailing and fleeing along the way.

The horse's hooves rumbled, the gun pointed at the sword, and the Tang cavalry rushed to chase them all the way, and soon rushed to the back of the three thousand cavalry of Huang Degong's army, who fled south and had a very scattered formation.

The arrival of the Tang army was so fast that the enemy cavalry suddenly became very passive. While responding in a hurry, they accelerated the speed of withdrawal.

At this time, when Huang Degong saw that the Tang cavalry had caught up with his own cavalry, he suddenly felt cold sweat on his face.

Now, if we don’t leave some of the troops, we are afraid that all the cavalry will not escape.

"Tian Xiong! The enemy's tail is chasing, and our army is hard to get rid of. You retreat first, I will break the back personally!" Huang Degong's eyes trembled, and he gritted his teeth and strangled the horse's hooves.

"No! No! Duke Jingguo, you are the lord of Huai and Chu, and the commander of the first army. You must not make any mistakes! Duke Jingguo asked him to quickly escort his guards to retreat first. I will lead the three thousand cavalry to cut off the rear and intercept them. I will definitely be able to protect Duke Jingguo from danger!" Tian Xiong looked ferocious and flatly refused Huang Degong's arrangement.

"Tian Xiong! Why don't you listen..."

Before Huang Degong could finish his words, Tian Xiong had already interrupted him sternly: "Everyone obeys the order! Let's intercept the Tang cavalry with me here. We must work hard to ensure that Duke Jingguo retreats smoothly! Do you understand!"

"Get orders!"

Three thousand cavalrymen roared together, pulled their horses and followed Tian Xiong to intercept the large number of cavalrymen coming from the Tang army like a tide.

Seeing Tian Xiong resolutely stopping without saying a word, leading all the cavalry to fight to the death for himself, Huang Degong felt very complicated inside. His eyes were filled with tears and his throat was surging, but he couldn't say much.

He hurriedly looked at Tian Xiong's figure returning north, and without saying anything, he shouted for a long time, then pounded his horse's belly, and accelerated his escape from the battlefield with more than a hundred elite cavalry guards.

The Tang cavalry rushing towards the high speed all the way was semicircular in the overall formation, like a ferocious fist. With a very sharp momentum, they instantly rushed into the rear-rear cavalry of Tian Xiong's troops who were turning back and fighting.

The Tang cavalry, both in heavy armor and the half-ton Xuanhu heavy cavalry, made the Tang army's assault arrows. Their attacks were fierce, like running tanks, and the three thousand enemy cavalry that had already been scattered and turned around to fight were even more scattered.

In particular, a large number of cavalry that were facing the Tang cavalry were killed by the Tang cavalry that rushed over with one blow.

They either fell off their horses screaming or were stabbed in the chest with sharp rifles, and many were stabbed in pairs by Tang army's rifles or knives, and were stabbed in pairs with people and horses, which was very terrifying.

The Tang cavalry, who was already the superior number of people and had a strict formation, immediately gave a strong and fierce attack to the Tianxiong cavalry, who had a fewer people and had a scattered formation.

Immediately, the two cavalry teams immediately strangled together.

The jingle of swords and swords, the sound of cutting bones that makes people sore teeth, the dull puff sound of stabbing into the human body, the screams of death and the dying horses suddenly rang out.

"Brothers, Duke Jingguo is very good at waiting for me. He will definitely fight to the death and resist the Tang army!"

Tian Xiong, who was fighting with blood, shouted loudly at the crowd of cavalry that were already panicked and encouraged them.

However, in the face of the powerful combat power and fierce assault of the Tang cavalry, Tian Xiong's leadership of his troops to resist was almost futile.

The stalemate battle between the cavalry can be clearly seen that the Tang army's formation was constantly squeezing forward and impacting, while Tian Xiong and his subordinates kept retreating backward. The entire formation became more and more messy, and their military formation was gradually swallowed into it in a semi-arc shape by the Tang army's cavalry formation.

The two armies fought, stabbing guns and yelling, and cavalry kept screaming and falling off their horses, or their mounts were chopped to the ground, making a whine cry.

This cavalry battle with obvious advantages in the Tang army, as the Tang army spearmen rushed over quickly, the entire battle situation became clear in an instant.

A Tang army spearman holding a 4-meter steel spear ran all the way here. Everyone was panting, but he was still full of energy and morale. They rushed over quickly, completely cutting off the rear of Tian Xiong's cavalry and completely encircled them from front to back, causing the enemy cavalry to fall into a desperate situation of being completely surrounded.

Sharp steel spears, like flying poisonous dragons, whistling and stabbing hard. The bandit cavalry, people or horses, were stabbed into the vital points by spears. Cavalry after cavalry screamed and fell off their horses, and war horses neighed and fell to the ground.

The battle was fierce and the battle continued. The Tang army completely gained the upper hand in this sudden encirclement and annihilation battle in a very short period of time, and the entire battle had already shown a one-sided trend.

"Brothers, hold on, you must hold on!"

Seeing that the soldiers of the altar were surrounded by the Tang army and the number of people fighting was getting smaller and smaller, Tian Xiong shouted in despair.

At this time, a sharp spear, like a poisonous snake flying in, pierced through his throat, and the sharp spear head came straight out from the back of his neck.

Tian Xiong's shout stopped abruptly. He widened his eyes and kept roaring in his mouth. He subconsciously grabbed the cold gun handle, as if he wanted to pull it out of his throat.

The cavalryman who took his life on the opposite side sneered, shook his right hand and quickly pulled out his cavalry rifle. The terrible hole in Tian Xiong's throat spurted out blood.

He rolled silently from his horse like a piece of wooden stake, smashing a large area of ​​sticky blood mud without moving.

"General Tian!"

"General Tian!"

Seeing the main general being killed, the enemy cavalry beside him burst into tears, and the entire formation became increasingly scattered and almost out of control.

The bandits and cavalry who were attacked from both sides and resisted for a while, finally collapsed completely.

A large number of bandit cavalry began to break through at all costs.

However, at this time, there were still people who had the strength to break through, after all, and a large number of bandit cavalry howled loudly, threw away their weapons on the spot, raised their hands to beg for mercy, and looked very pitiful.

However, in this chaotic battlefield, because the enemy troops everywhere were almost unable to control them, the Tang army had no ability and time to collect the prisoners. Therefore, the Tang cavalry and spearmen who were red-eyed were still roaring like wild animals, and mercilessly wanted to kill all the remaining bandits and cavalry.

In the end, the bandit cavalry, with less than 200 cavalry, fought hard but broke out of the siege, and saved their lives by chance and escaped.

The other two thousand bandit cavalry were all on this battlefield like Shura slaughterhouse, and they were about to be killed by the Tang army.

At this critical moment, the commander of the Tang army, Cao Bianjiao, agreed to their surrender. The messengers on both sides waved their flags and whispered the flags. The group of Tang cavalry, who were so angry that they finally stopped the killing of the side.

More than 2,000 cavalrymen from Huang Degong's army finally saved their lives. They all rolled off their horses and mourned and surrendered.

Of course, the return of the bandit cavalry this time is not without any value.

After all, when they fought to the death, they had won a very precious time for escape for a large number of defeated soldiers. These defeated soldiers took advantage of this rare opportunity to flee in a hurry to the Jinghe Bridge in the distance. Finally, there were about a thousand people who were able to escape over the bridge in a hurry and finally saved their lives by chance.

Once the enemy cavalry surrendered, the battle situation was settled. In the entire battle formation, there were intercepting and pursuers behind them, and there were more than 20,000 remaining enemy infantry running around like rushing. At this time, they also realized that the situation was hopeless and had no choice but to surrender and save their lives. They also abandoned their weapons and armor, and cried loudly and knelt down and begged for mercy.

They also got the right to surrender, and were successfully tied up by a large number of Tang army auxiliary soldiers, like a bundle of grasshoppers, tied into long and long strings.

At this time, the Tang army had already won a great victory. In order to avoid any trouble, they just chased to the north bank of the Jing River, and stopped and did not continue to pursue. Then they retreated and began to clean up the battlefield.

As the sun was getting west, all the surrendered soldiers were arrested, and the thunderous cheers resounded throughout the field, like rolling spring thunder, rolling over the earth.

He hurriedly escaped the south bank of Jing River and ran all the way outside Baoying County in the south. Huang Degong, who stopped the horse's hooves and stopped, turned back to see the remaining cavalry and infantry who were following in a hurry behind. The sadness and helplessness on his face was simply unspeakable.

Alas, I was too rash and didn't expect that Huai'an Prefecture had surrendered to the Tang army, but instead lured myself to continue the attack, missing a good time to escape.

What's even more apology is that it was not until the cavalry of Liu Liangzuo, who came to kill himself with the Tang cavalry, that he realized that the Tang army was so dangerous, but by then, he was already powerless to turn things around...

Thinking about it now, how can I regret it?

Huang Degong punched his thigh hard, his face full of regret and grief, which was hard to describe.

At this time, another fleeing cavalry rushed over with a sad look on their faces.

"Reported to Duke Jingguo, the Tang army is in great momentum, our entire army is defeated and returned. General Tian, ​​he, he died in battle..." The fleeing cavalry reported to him in tears.

Huang Degong sighed long and waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to continue talking.

He stood north silently for a long time, tears flashed in his blood-red eyes. Without saying a word, he led the hundreds of cavalry and more than a thousand infantry who escaped by chance, and retreated south in a hurry, heading towards Yangzhou City.

Along the way, Huang Degong's face turned pale and his heart was as if it were cut by a knife.

What a painful failure, it’s so embarrassing!

More than 30,000 troops were completely destroyed, with only more than 1,500 people left to flee, and a trusted general was also lost. Such a defeat can be said to be the most tragic failure since Huang Degong led his troops independently.

Before Huang Degong could taste more bitterness and sorrow, he quickly thought of a more important and urgent question.

That is, now all the elites are lost, and there are only more than 11,000 guards in Yangzhou City, the heart of Yangzhou Prefecture. In this way, how can the few soldiers and generals resist the further attack of the Tang army like a wolf and a tiger?

Then, the Tang army headed south from Huai'an and could attack directly under Yangzhou City with unstoppable momentum.

Once they were at the city, the Tang army, which had a force of nearly 100,000 troops, had elite soldiers and extremely powerful artillery attacks. With more than 10,000 soldiers with weak morale, how could they defend this huge Yangzhou city?

What should I do now?

He was extremely painful inside, and he pondered for a long time and finally made a difficult decision.

That is, in order to protect Yangzhou City, the only thing I can do now is to lose my car and protect my handsome guy.

He had been thinking silently at once, took a long breath and said to the guards beside him: "Go to Chuzhou quickly to pass the order, and make the guards of Chuzhou be rewarded. Immediately lead the 30,000 troops from Chuzhou to help Yangzhou as soon as possible."

"Duke Jingguo, if this happens, then there will be no soldiers left in Chuzhou City. Wouldn't you have to give up the Tang army..."

"Do you think I am willing to do this?" Huang Degong looked helpless. He gritted his teeth and replied, "This is a helpless plan to lose the car and protect the commander. The Chuzhou City is small and the city is low. If the Tang army leads its troops to attack, even if there are 30,000 troops gathered in the city, it is probably difficult to defend for a long time. It is better for a hero to cut off his arm, take the initiative to abandon Chuzhou, and concentrate his troops to guard Yangzhou City. As long as Yangzhou can defend it, it will protect the foundation of our army. In the future, after the veterans of the Tang army retreat, our army will take advantage of the victory and pursue the prefectures and counties of Yangzhou and Chu prefectures, including Chuzhou City, will be no problem. Don't say more, just go and send orders."
Chapter completed!