Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 850
Chapter 848: Great Injury to Vitality
Before being surrounded by the coalition forces, the Liang army still had more than [-] people.

The sudden ambush and siege directly caused more than half of the Liang army's casualties, but there were still more than [-] soldiers alive.

The remaining two thousand Xiliang remnant soldiers are undoubtedly the best of the best. Although it is not easy to break through, the defense is more than sufficient.

Sure enough, the coalition forces attacked violently in the last quarter of an hour. Although they caused a lot of casualties to the Liang army, they did not completely defeat the opponent.

Xue Rengui saw that there was nothing he could do, so he decisively issued an order to retreat.

"Stop the attack, the whole army retreats."

After Xue Rengui gave the order, the messengers quickly shouted: "General Xue Rengui has an order, stop the attack, and the whole army retreats."

"what?"

The generals under the command of some princes showed disbelief. After all, victory in this battle is close at hand, and it is difficult for them to retreat at this time.

But no matter whether you understand it or not, general orders are general orders and must not be violated.

However, in the anxious situation of both sides, it is not an easy task to withdraw the army.

What's more, due to heartache and casualties, some generals actually wanted to bring out all the troops under their command without damage, which greatly delayed the efficiency of the army's retreat.

Seeing that the army was retreating so slowly, Xue Rengui stamped his feet anxiously, and quickly asked, "What is the former army doing? Why didn't they just retreat as ordered?"

"General Qi, the generals of the former army want to avoid casualties, so..."

"Short-sighted fellows."

Xue Rengui gritted his teeth and said, just as he finished speaking, he saw a spy running over in panic and angrily.

"Report... to the general, a large number of cavalry was found in the west, and it is less than five miles away from our army."

"Come so fast?" Xue Rengui's eyes showed surprise, obviously underestimating the opponent's speed.

For the full-speed cavalry, it takes less than a quarter of effort to reach Wuli, but the coalition forces obviously cannot withdraw within a quarter of an hour.

The trapped Liangjun realized that the reinforcements were about to arrive, so he stopped defending, and instead dispatched to entangle the coalition forces in order to delay the coalition forces' retreat speed.

Seeing that part of the coalition forces were getting deeper and deeper, and more people would be dragged down if this continued, Xue Rengui felt overwhelmed and shouted: "Don't worry about them, the whole army will retreat immediately, as much as you can escape."

There is another point that Xue Rengui didn't dare to say clearly, that is to sacrifice this part of the people as backs, so that his own army can escape smoothly.

Of course Xue Rengui also wants to defeat the enemy head-on, but now the enemy is cooperating from inside and outside, and his ambush is exhausted after the battle. There is no chance of winning when the enemy is outnumbered, so it is better for She Xiaobao to retreat in time. The results of World War I have been great enough.

After Yang Guang led the army to arrive, seeing that the enemy army hadn't retreated, a ferocious smile flashed across his face, and he shouted, "Flying Bear Army, attack."

"Kill kill kill."

Among the cavalry that Yang Guang brought this time, in addition to the ordinary cavalry, there was also the strength of the first battalion of the elite Flying Bear Army of the Liang Army, so he was able to arrive in advance.

The three thousand Flying Bears were like fierce tigers descending the mountain, rushing towards the enemy in front of them fiercely. In an instant, the formation of the coalition forces was directly torn apart, followed by a one-sided massacre.

Jia Fu, Wu Yunzhao and other generals were relieved when they saw that Yang Guang had finally arrived, and hurriedly rode their horses to meet him.

"General Yang, if you come a quarter of an hour late, you really won't see us." Wu Yunzhao said with a wry smile.

Seeing that almost all the generals were injured, and several of them were even seriously injured and unconscious, it was not difficult for Yang Guang to imagine what a tragic battle they had gone through.

"Everyone, if you can still fight, please join Guang and kill all these bastards."

Yang Guang gritted his teeth, and then waved his weapon and joined the ranks of chasing and killing himself.

Seeing this, Jia Fu and other generals could only smile wryly, and then endured the pain, gritted their teeth and joined in.

Not long after Xue Rengui led half of the soldiers and horses withdrew, he heard miserable and direct screams in the distance behind him, and he didn't dare to stay any longer and ordered the whole army to retreat quickly.

They are not out of danger yet. If the enemy reinforcements catch up, they will also be the one being chased away, so it would be better if they retreated to the safe zone earlier.

Yang Guang led the army to chase for ten miles, and then ordered not to continue the pursuit. Seeing this, Wu Yunzhao asked suspiciously: "Why didn't the general pursue it? The enemy army has been defeated. Let's kill them directly. Soon all the trapped brothers can be killed." Are you rescued?"

"Ugh……"

Yang Guang sighed and explained: "If the general had [-] cavalry in his hands, he would definitely continue to chase until the trapped soldiers were rescued, but our army now only has [-] cavalry, while the Kwantung Allied Army dispatched [-] cavalry.

The ones who fled were just the ambush soldiers of the coalition army. If Xue Rengui continued to chase, once Xue Rengui reacted, even the ten thousand cavalry would be trapped. "

The generals couldn't help being silent for a while. Yang Guang knew that they couldn't accept this fact, so he didn't say anything more, and immediately ordered to the left and right: "Clean the battlefield quickly, and the whole army is ready to retreat."

A quarter of an hour later, the casualty report came out. The coalition army had nearly [-] casualties in the ambush, and the Liang army's reinforcements basically didn't have many casualties. However, out of the [-] Xiliang cavalry who fought, only a thousand or so survived.

Yang Guang couldn't help but gasped. Fifty thousand Xiliang cavalry left Hulao Pass, but there were only a thousand or so when they came back?
This is already equivalent to annihilation of the entire army, and the casualties are too heavy, right?

After hearing this news, all the generals of the Liang army were in great pain. After all, although Li Shimin gave the order to leave the customs, they also played a role in urging them. How can they explain this to the master of Chang'an?
It took Dong Zhuo more than 10 years to have [-] Xiliang iron cavalry. As a result, more than half of them were killed in the first battle. The generals in Liangzhou couldn't believe Dong Zhuo's reaction after knowing it.

In addition to the soldiers, the casualties of the generals of the Liang army were also not small. Senior generals such as Zhang Gongjin, Gao Shilian, Mai Tiezhang, Yang Yichen, and Liang Shitai were directly killed in battle, and veteran Ding Yanping was captured alive by the Qin army.

In addition, the Liang army also lost more than 50 school lieutenants, more than 30 partial generals, and more than ten miscellaneous generals, which can be described as a serious injury.

If it hadn't been for the rescue of more than a dozen generals including Wu Yunzhao led by Yang Guang at the last moment, the Liang army would have directly lost more than six senior generals.

Yang Guang sighed deeply. The responsibility for this defeat is too great, and he can't bear it. He can only pray in his heart that Li Shimin can survive. After all, apart from Li Shimin, there is really no one in the Liang army who is Qin Hao's opponent. He Yang Guang is no good either.

(End of this chapter)