Prancing Horse Xiliang

Chapter 223 Returning to Guanzhong
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The atmosphere in the big tent was tense, and everyone drooped their heads and said nothing.

Duan Yan's face was still ashen, and Senhan's eyes swept over the generals, until all the generals under the tent were staring at him. His heart became more and more uneasy, and his heads drooped, so he snorted heavily and slapped him on the ground. on the table.

"An army of more than 8000 people can't attack a camp of [-] people!"

Duan Yan gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "Shame, it is a great shame! Since our Xiliang army followed His Majesty to Beijing, we have never fought any kind of vicious battle. Even if we were repulsed by our army. Now our army is several times larger than the enemy's army, but we can't attack a mere camp. Who can tell this general what's going on?"

All the generals looked away, bowed their heads and remained silent.

Duan Yao took a few deep breaths, his chest heaving violently like a bellows.

He was about to be blown up, and his chest was about to explode.

Since leading the army, there has never been such a fierce battle.

After a long time, the general said cautiously: "General, Luo Zheng led the army to attack Guanzhong. It has been five days. In order to prevent Chang'an from losing, it is better to return to the division and defeat Luo Zheng's cavalry for the time being. It's not too late to clean up Gao Shun."

"This is right!"

All the generals quickly seconded the proposal in unison, and they didn't want to fight Gao Shun anymore.

The [-] army, including [-] infantry, lost more than [-] in the attack on Long County, and more than [-] were lost in the attack on Gaoshun Camp, with nearly [-] casualties. Such a loss is too great.

Now there are only [-] soldiers left to fight, [-] cavalry, and [-] infantry.

Not to mention whether Gao Shun's camp can be broken, even if it can be broken, the generals don't want to fight anymore.

Without him, even if the Gaoshun camp could be broken through in the end, the remaining [-] infantry would suffer all casualties.

Duan Yan struggled for a long time before he gritted his teeth unwillingly and said, "Decree, withdraw troops tomorrow morning."

"The last will obey."

The generals breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly agreed.

Long County, Ma Teng's official residence.

"Lord!"

Some generals hurried into the inner hall and saluted Ma Teng.

Ma Teng waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "Forget it, Duan Yan hasn't broken through Gao Shun's camp yet?"

The general said in a low voice: "My lord, I don't know. Duan Yan sent his army to storm Gaoshun's camp. After five days, there were heavy casualties. He only captured Gaoshun's first camp, and there are still two camps behind. .”

Ma Teng asked, "How many casualties did Gao Shun's army suffer?"

The general replied: "According to the observations of our scouts, Gao Shun's [-]-strong army suffered very little casualties. Only when the first camp was breached by Duan Yan's army and they withdrew to the second camp, there were about a hundred soldiers. After the pawns were cut off, all of them died in battle. Apart from these few, there were almost no casualties, while the casualties of Duan Yan's army were at least five thousand, or even more."

Ma Teng's eyes froze immediately, "This Gao Shun is so difficult to deal with?"

The general nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, Duan Yan failed to defeat the tiger and was bitten severely. Only [-] of the [-] army remained, and he gave up attacking the Gaoshun camp, and retreated to Chencang. "

Ma Teng's expression froze, "Duan Yan withdrew to Chen Wu?"

The general replied furiously: "Exactly, my lord, do you want our army to go out of the city to pursue and give Duan Yan some ruthlessness?"

"Chasing a fart!"

Ma Teng scolded: "Although Duan Yan suffered heavy casualties, our army is not much better, so there is no energy left to pursue. Besides, Gao Shun is still watching, do you want this general to be taken away by Gao Shun? "

"Uh, this..."

The general choked, and hurriedly said: "The last general has no such intention."

Ma Teng waved his hand and ordered: "Pay close attention to the movement of Duan Yan and Luo Zheng's army, and report back at any time."

"As ordered."

The general agreed, and seeing that Ma Teng had no other orders, he hurriedly withdrew.

Yu Mi went to Chencang on the official road, and Duan Yan took Xiao general Yang as the vanguard and led [-] cavalry to go one step ahead.

About twenty miles later, the army of Duan Yan's personal headquarters marched slowly behind the cavalry.

Luo Zheng personally led more than [-] cavalry into the Guanzhong, Duan Yan did not dare to be careless, and used [-] cavalry as the front army to open roads on the roads and mountains, build bridges when encountering water, and scout the horses everywhere. Whenever encountering deep ditch and dense forest, he must be careful Search to avoid being ambushed.

There are continuous mountains in front of you. After crossing these mountains, you will arrive at Chencang.

This mountain road is not long, about 30 miles.

Yang Ding has already walked through it once, so he is naturally very familiar with the situation.

Except for the relatively steep mountains on both sides of the two-mile mountain road in Tiger Leaping Gorge, the rest of the mountain roads are relatively easy to walk. Basically, they are all connected with one piece of low hills, and they are bare, so there is no place to lay ambushes.

As long as you climb a hill, you can see at a glance whether there is an ambush.

Yang Ding didn't take it seriously, and directly led the army on the mountain road. The scouts in charge of exploring the road ran back and forth, and kept climbing up the hills in the distance. Report the situation.

All the way without incident, soon to the Tiger Leaping Gorge.

Yang Ding didn't dare to rush in, and ordered the army to line up on the spot, and then sent scouts to climb up the cliffs on both sides, searched the dense forest back and forth, and only continued to move forward after confirming that there was no ambush.

Five thousand cavalry quickly passed through the Tiger Leaping Gorge, and Yang Ding was relieved.

Another seven or eight miles of mountain roads will pass through this mountain range.

However, at this moment, a scout galloped over and said loudly: "General, Luo Zheng's cavalry was discovered."

Yang Ding's eyes narrowed immediately, and he said in a deep voice, "Where are Luo Zheng's cavalry now?"

The scout cavalry said loudly, "It's just outside the mountain pass."

Yang Ding asked, "How many cavalry are there?"

Just Hou cavalry replied: "No less than three thousand cavalry."

"No less than three thousand horses?"

Yang Ding was stunned, Luo Zheng led 1 cavalry to attack Guanzhong, how could there be only about [-] cavalry.

Since there was no ambush, where did the rest of the army go?

Yang Ding is very wary of the scheming Luo Zheng, and dare not be careless, he shouted: "Go, go and see."

The five thousand cavalry accelerated forward, and it took only half an hour to pass through the remaining seven or eight miles of mountain road.

Turning around a mountain depression, the terrain in front of them suddenly opened up, the grass on the plain was shaded and green, and there were no rolling hills to block the view.

However, just a few miles away in the field, there was a cavalry force of about 3000 people waiting in formation. It seemed that they had been waiting for a long time. Yang Ding immediately ordered the army to line up on the spot, but he felt suspicious.

The three thousand cavalry who were several miles away stood quietly in formation, and did not take the opportunity to attack.

Such a scene is really weird, making people wonder what this cavalry wants to do.

If you want to ambush and attack, a place like Tiger Leaping Gorge is the best place.

This has already turned over the mountains, even if they want to lay an ambush, there is no place to hide.

Moreover, this cavalry just waited outside the mountain pass openly, without looking for a place to hide, and it didn't look like they were going to ambush for a sneak attack, which was really puzzling and confusing.

"General, what is Luo Zheng doing?"

A small school couldn't help but leaned forward and asked, "Why does the villain think that this cavalry is waiting for us?"

"nonsense!"

Yang Ding frowned and said, "If they weren't waiting for us, what are these cavalrymen doing here?"

Xiaoxiao laughed a few times, scratched his head, and retreated to the side embarrassingly.

Yang Ding frowned and glanced around, and was about to send someone over to investigate the situation.

At this moment, there was a continuous sound of cow horns in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, thunderous hoofbeats sounded from behind a hill more than ten miles away to the northeast, and a black cavalry rushed out from behind the hill, and in the open wilderness, all over the mountains and fields came to kill here .

"Not good, line up to meet the enemy!"

Yang Ding was taken aback, and immediately howled a wolf, and he understood instantly in his heart that he was the first master, and he always felt that if Luo Zheng wanted to ambush, he would definitely choose a very dangerous place like Tiger Gorge.

After all, ambushes rely on surprise. If there is no terrain cover, how can surprise be achieved.

However, the final result was beyond Yang Ding's expectations. Luo Zheng did not choose to lay an ambush on the way, as Duan Yan expected, but chose Shankouzi for a real frontal decisive battle.

However, since it is a decisive battle, there is nothing to be afraid of.

As the saying goes, when you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins.

Yang Ding had great confidence in the brave Xiliang cavalry and didn't think he would lose.

Even if there are only [-] cavalry, and the strength is less than half that of Luo Zheng, Yang Ding has enough confidence.

As long as you persist for at most half an hour, General Duan Yan will lead the army to arrive and block the mountain pass. At that time, Luo Zheng's more than [-] cavalry will be unable to fly, except for the cavalry to abandon their horses and flee to Liangzhou on foot across the mountains.

Five thousand cavalry quickly lined up in the wilderness outside the mountain pass, ready to meet the enemy.

At this moment, the [-] cavalry who had been arrayed several miles away also moved.

After the horses began to run, the two wings of the three thousand cavalry quickly moved closer to the middle. When they were less than one mile away from Yang Ding's formation, the three thousand cavalry were already accelerating and formed a triangular cavalry assault formation.

"The iron cavalry from Xiliang is invincible in the world!"

Yang Ding was full of fighting spirit, raised his gun and yelled, "Boys, let me kill you!"

The [-] cavalry responded with three calls, and they also urged the horses under their crotches to meet them fearlessly.

At this moment, seeing that the distance between the two armies was less than [-] paces, in front of the [-] cavalry on the opposite side, [-] cavalry suddenly broke away from the formation, raised their horse speed to the limit, and charged straight at Yang Ding's [-] cavalry. .

"How is this going?"

Yang Ding was startled for a moment, then thought of something, his expression suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, "Not good!"

It has long been heard that Luo Zheng has an iron armored cavalry. Even the man and the horse are all wrapped in the dark iron armor.

I didn't even think about it just now, until now, seeing five hundred cavalry rushing out of the formation, Yang Ding suddenly remembered that there was such a cavalry under Luo Zheng's command, but at this time, it was too late to change the formation.

The distance between the two armies was less than three hundred steps, so Yang Ding could only bite the bullet and charge forward. (My novel "Leaping Horse Xiliang" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign on the top right to "add friends" , search the official account "qdread" and pay attention, hurry up!)
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