Xiahou Yuan's army, which was winding for more than ten miles, rushed towards Luoyang towards Chaoyang. Originally, he planned to hide in Yiyang for the time being.

But Deng Ai advised: "General Xiahou, a small city like Yiyang cannot accommodate an army of tens of thousands of people. Moreover, the Liang army is not far from them, so it is unlikely that there will be time to build a camp outside Yiyang City to echo Yiyang City. Therefore, it is easy to be surrounded by retreating to Yiyang."

Xiahou Yuan's eyes moved and asked back, "You mean the army is going to retreat to Luoyang."

"That's right..." Deng Ai's throat moved, but he swallowed the second half of the sentence. In fact, his second half of the sentence was, "Even Luoyang, he may not be able to hold on."

Xiahou Yuan stood on the horse, took out the map from his arms and looked at it, and said, "Okay, let's retreat to Luoyang, it's not far from Yiyang anyway." As soon as he finished speaking, a vague sound of a horse neighing sound came from miles away...

The Wei army's rear army, who was marching, heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind again. However, the generals leading the army did not seem too panic.

Previously, a small cavalry team mixed with twenty or thirty chariots and attacked them. However, as long as the tiger and leopard cavalry were dispatched and the spearmen formed a dense array of spears at the tail of the team, they could easily scare and disperse the Liang army.

This time, the Wei army was the same. The three thousand spearmen were lined up in six rows and fifty rows of spears, and the two thousand tigers and leopards were divided into two strands, and they surrounded them from the left and right wings to the direction of the sound of horse hooves. No one expected these five thousand people that this was the last moment of their lives.

The two thousand tiger and leopard cavalry just saw the figure of the opponent's warrior, and the heavy arrows rush to the face with the sound of the wind. Amid the horse's neighing and screams, the tiger and leopard cavalry riders were shot down one after another. A rider's war horse was shot through the breastplate by heavy arrows, turning him over under the saddle. The rider skillfully flipped forward and removed the momentum. When he knelt on one knee and was about to stand up, he found the figure of the longbow chariot on the flank of the Tiger and Leopard cavalry. At this time, another tiger and leopard cavalry could not stop and directly stepped onto the ground and ran past.

The two thousand tiger and leopard cavalry soon lost almost all the losses under the sniper of the five hundred longbow chariots, and the remaining small number of survivors fled in panic. At this time, the two thousand light cavalry of the Liang army rushed up, passed through the gap of the longbow chariot, and continued to surround the two wings of the Wei army's spear formation. The archers on the saddle had already begun to bend their bows and arrows, and they all released arrows.

The overwhelming dense arrows quickly disintegrated the formation of the spear formation. The large-scale deaths in a short period of time almost exhausted the morale of these longbowmen. Some of them even threw away the spears and turned back to flee. Before the Liang army's light cavalry Feiyu approached these spearmen, the latter had completely disintegrated. Everyone began to flee, spreading their legs and running backwards.

But their legs were no longer as fast as the four legs of the Liang army's combat cavalry, and naturally they could not be as fast as the two wheels of the chariot. The arrows continued to attack, making them continue to turn into corpses on the ground. What was even more terrifying than the arrows was that the three thousand heavy cavalry of the Liang army also chased after them. The wolf-toothed stick in his hand slashed across the field like a god of death sickle, knocking down the Wei army infantry on both sides of the mount in pieces.

With such tragic casualties, the Wei soldiers' marching formations collapsed from the rear of the team forward and section by section, and both infantry and cavalry fled in all directions.

When these situations were clearly seen by Xiahou Yuan and Deng Ai of the Central Army, the Wei army had been defeated nearly half. Deng Ai whispered in Xiahou Yuan's ear: "General, now the situation is over, we should retreat quickly. Let the Central Army try our best to resist these pursuers for a while."

Deng Ai's words awakened Xiahou Yuan from his shock. He immediately ordered the central army to form a formation to defend against the Liang cavalry that was coming like thunder. However, he rode his horse and ran towards the forward army surrounded by his personal soldiers.

The Wei infantry and cavalry in the central army saw the Liang army, which was approaching with force, and saw the commander Xiahou Yuan fleeing forward, and they had no intention of forming a formation to defend the enemy. Before the Liang army's cavalry rushed to the scene, they had already dispersed one after another. Even so, most of the Wei infantry did not escape the arrows of the light cavalry flying feathers, the heavy arrows of the longbow chariots or the wolf-toothed sticks of the heavy cavalry, and fell on the wastelands of the western suburbs of Luoyang.

Xiahou Yuan and Deng Ai ran all the way and rushed to the forefront of the army's marching line. While galloping, they shouted to speed up the Wei soldiers they passed by. The speed of the entire Wei army's marching line also suddenly increased.

Finally, they saw the shadow of Luoyang City. The defenders in the city had already put down the suspension bridge and opened the city gate for them. After Xiahou Yuan rushed into the outer city of Luoyang, the Liang army cavalry that followed him had already arrived. Hua Xiong rushed to the front with three thousand heavy cavalry. Unfortunately, when he was less than two battles away from the suspension bridge, the suspension bridge was raised high again.

Hua Xiong tied the reins and hurriedly stopped the mount. He threw the rifle in his hand to the ground and said angrily: "It's a pity, it's a pity that it's just one step away from being able to wipe out all Xiahou Yuan's tribe."

Although Hua Xiong failed to completely wipe out Xiahou Yuan's troops, there were only five or six thousand soldiers left in Xiahou Yuan's troops who fled into Luoyang.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan had just counted the number of people in Luoyang City with a frown and said to himself: "Now my old man has been exhausted, how should I explain to Your Majesty!"

Deng Ai stepped forward and said, "General, now is not the time to think about this. We cannot stay in Luoyang, and we have to continue to escape. The Liang army outside the city seems to be only thousands of war cavalry. When the tens of thousands of main forces of the Liang army arrive, we will not be able to defend the huge Luoyang now."

Xiahou Yuan shook his head repeatedly and said, "It is a serious crime to fail to complete the mission of the Emperor breaking through Tongguan, losing Hongnong, and losing his troops and generals. If he loses Luoyang again, then returning to Yecheng will be a dead end. Anyway, he will die at all times. Why not bet here? If he can use this strong city in Luoyang to greatly reduce the spirit of the Liang army and damage his large number of troops, then how can he still make contributions to the court to atone for his sins?"

Deng Ai thought to himself: "Your death is your business, I won't let you bury it." Thinking of this, Deng Ai clasped his fists and said to Xiahou Yuan: "Since that's the case, then let the Mo General go to Guancheng, the county east of Luoyang to raise reinforcements to support Luoyang, okay?"
Chapter completed!