Like a flame coming with the wind, the long tongue of flame swept across everything in front of me. The moment I came into contact, the so-called Luoyang elite soldiers were ruthlessly destroyed and swallowed by the flame.

Ren Shang seemed to hear the sound of flames burning, and there were whistling sounds in his head, and all the sounds around him were hidden. He only saw his army dispersed under the horse's hooves, the anxious faces of his personal soldiers and the uncontrollable mouths.

"Captain! Captain!" He finally heard the shouting beside him, "Captain, what should I do? I can't stand it anymore, order to withdraw!"

"Retreat?" Ren Shang repeated blankly: "What to withdraw?"

"Retreat! Retreat!" The second half of his sentence was completely ignored, and the people around him shouted, "Hurry! Retreat! Protect the captain back to the city!"

The only one who can escape was the reserve team that was about to enter the battle. Not long after the offensive order was issued, the team had even set off, and the battlefield quickly reversed. In just a moment, everyone saw clearly that the reserve team of two or three thousand people was completely useless. If they were to join in, they would be a death, and only a casualty would be increased.

The Luoyang right-wing army, which had a certain advantage just now, suddenly received the order to retreat and was once in chaos. Fortunately, the leading generals kept their minds and gradually gathered their troops and left in battle.

Pi Tongjun clenched it tightly behind it, waiting patiently for the opportunity like a hungry wolf, ready to take a bite behind it at any time.

More than 10,000 Luoyang soldiers on the left wing were still struggling under the hoofs of the rushing cavalry in Youzhou.

When ordinary cavalry charge, they usually use conical formations, with the forward protruding, and the two wings slightly spread out to maintain the thickness of the cavalry. Before rushing into the enemy formation, the strike surface is relatively limited. After tearing the gap open, the two open wings follow the vanguard and support the gap wider and wider until the enemy formation breaks. This plays their main role: cutting, dividing the enemy into several sections, and then annihilation of them with the infantry.

The Youzhou thunder cavalry was completely different when charging. At the beginning, their formation was completely unfolded, and the entire team was an arc slightly prominent in the middle. Their purpose was not to cut the enemy, but to directly annihilate and kill. The unfolded formation had a wide attack surface, but the thickness of the cavalry was not enough. However, in terms of the lethality of the Youzhou thunder cavalry, it really did not require too much thickness.

The thunder cavalry used not to swing the ring swords immediately, but long spears and halberds, held with both hands and stabbed forward with the help of the horse's impulse. Such a huge impact force, coupled with long and heavy weapons, can pick the soldiers in front of them up, and some can even provoke two with one shot, stringing Meng Qian's favorite human skewers.

Horses are also direct killing tools. If the enemy avoids the spear, they may not be able to escape the war horse. The impact of war horses that travel at high speed is equivalent to that of cars that travel at high speed in later generations. Few survivors will survive when they hit.

So Ren Shang and others saw a massacre. As soon as they had a little contact with the thunder cavalry, the soldiers would fly blood and flesh. The originally tightly arranged army immediately looked like paper. The extremely high death rate of the front row of soldiers made the soldiers easily collapse.

The left wing of the Luoyang army soon began to collapse. The soldiers threw away the weapons in their hands, turned around and fled in all directions. Behind them, the cavalry of Youzhou stood up with spears and wielded rings of swords, and wanted to harvest their lives.

The fleeing of the left wing affected the right wing. The team that had originally been a forcibly resisting began to loosen until it collapsed, from fighting and walking just now to rushing to rush to escape.

The Luoyang cavalry left in the enemy army turned their horses and tried to break out of the heavy siege of infantry, break away from this terrible quagmire, and return to the high walls of Luoyang.

You can live when you return to the city, and stay outside the city will die.

Zhu Zili was on the city wall, looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, and there were the defeated soldiers rushing in the smoke and dust. He tried his best to control the trembling of his voice and shouted: "Hurry up, leave the city, come out of the city to respond!"

"No one is allowed to go out, close the city gate immediately! The strong crossbowman is ready!" Zhu Yu, who had just arrived, shouted sternly.

The defeat is like a mountain falling down, and the situation of his escape is extremely fierce. When he leaves the city, he may be dispersed by the defeated troops. The enemy can even take advantage of the situation to rush into the city, causing Luoyang City to face a catastrophe.

This order is not wrong strategically, and it is more likely to be the only correct choice, but in Zhu Zili's heart, he felt that his father was too cold and ruthless.

"But that's our robe, that's Ren Shang!" Zhu Zili's weak shouting was completely ignored by his father.

Thirty thousand Luoyang soldiers were completely abandoned.

Ren Shang led a team of more than 2,000 people to the city first, facing the closed city gate and the cold city wall. Ren Shang's soldiers beat the city gate and cried and begged to enter the city, but there was no response in the city.

Ren Shang turned around in despair, looked at the soldiers who were running away in all directions, and the Youzhou cavalry who were chasing from afar, and suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "Form a formation! Form a formation!"

The soldiers who were jealous of being chased and frightened, barely formed a formation, leaning against the city wall, preparing to make the final resistance.

The defeated soldiers rushed in like a tide, wave after wave, as if they were about to destroy Luoyang City.

Among them was the world-famous Youzhou Tuqi, and behind them were tens of thousands of fierce Hebei soldiers.

Zhu Yu ordered an arrow, and the strong crossbows on the top of the city were fired at the same time. Countless people fell down and rolled and wailed in a pool of blood.

There are enemies and people of your own.

Ren Shang looked at the tragic phenomenon in the distance and his body kept trembling. This was his soldier. He was still full of energy early this morning, but in the evening, he turned into corpses.

Zhu Yu on the city had a gloomy face, her lips were closed, and there was no trace of pity on his face. He would rather shoot the troops outside the city without distinguishing between enemies and us than let the enemy approach the city gate half a step.

A battle that was originally evenly matched was turned into a one-sided massacre due to the sudden joining of the Youzhou cavalry. The massacre lasted until the evening and the enemy suddenly retreated.

The Youzhou thunder cavalry suddenly walked clean, leaving only corpses everywhere and soldiers wandering in pools of blood.

When it comes, it looks like a strong wind and retreats like a tide.

All this seemed like a dream.

Ren Shang had a strong sense of unreality. He closed his eyes tightly, hoping that when he opened his eyes, everything would be the same. It was just a terrible dream. But when he opened his eyes, he found that the scene in front of him was even more terrifying than the most terrifying nightmare.

Even though there was no Hebei Han army outside the city, Zhu Yu still dared not open the city gate. It was not until the next morning that he confirmed that there were no enemy troops nearby that he would bring the defeated soldiers who had been outside the city for a night into the city.

In this battle, the elite soldiers in Luoyang suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, the enemy retreated inexplicably in the middle of the journey, allowing the remaining thousands of defeated soldiers to return to the city.

Zhu Yu was furious and cursed Zhu Zili. If he hadn't been worried that Ren Yanjun was the emperor's envoy, he would have beheaded Ren Shang for a long time.

This big defeat caused the morale of the entire army to the extreme. Zhu Yu made up her mind to retreat to the end and completely cut off her mind to go out of the city to fight.

The soldiers of Luoyang were more and more afraid of Youzhou thunder cavalry. They did not understand why the Youzhou thunder cavalry had such strong combat power. Luoyang's cavalry was simply not worth mentioning compared to it.

"They are just horses, tall and fast." Zhu Zili just said something, but was frightened by his father's harsh eyes and closed his mouth.

A general said: "The Youzhou cavalry is different from ordinary cavalry. Not only are they tall and fast horses, but their soldiers' riding skills are also extremely exquisite, well-trained, skilled in tactics, and they are invincible."

"Yes! This cavalry... is so domineering!"

"According to the last general, looking at the world, no team can withstand the impact of Youzhou cavalry, and it is reasonable to have the defeat of Ren Jianwei."

As the frontline general who had just been completely abused by the other party, Ren Shang should have the most say in Youzhou Tuqi, but he didn't say a word for a long time, just staring ahead with a dull look.

After not knowing how long he had been looking, Ren Shang finally opened his mouth and sighed, and gently said: "It's so terrible!"

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The Hebei army retreated because of an urgent report. During the battle in Luoyang, the Xin'an defenders two hundred miles away were suddenly attacked and were in danger. Wu Han ordered Wang Ba and Pi Tong's troops to go for reinforcements. Jing Dan, who had just made great contributions under Luoyang City, led his troops to set out for 4,000 Youzhou cavalrymen to take the lead and must quickly reach 200 miles away to clear the siege of Xin'an.

Xin'an is an important barrier to the west of Luoyang City, and there is no need to be lost. Wu Han would rather withdraw the siege of Luoyang City than launch a large army to rescue him.

Jingdan's army only had a short rest, and then set off overnight, bringing only three days of food and moving westward with light clothes. Pi Tong and Wangba's army had more than 30,000 infantrymen followed closely.

This is an arduous march.

After experiencing a great battle, the soldiers were exhausted and could not see the road clearly in the dark night. They marched extremely difficult, so they could only eat dry food and drink cold water. Their physical strength was not effectively replenished. All of this frustrated the cavalry in Youzhou and even offset the good mood after the victory.

But although the soldiers complained, they absolutely did not dare to disobey the military order.

Jing Dan received the order: "Resist the city of Xin'an one day and one night!"

In order to boost morale, Jing Dan said: "Luoyang is a great victory, and everyone will reward you. If I get the reward from Your Majesty, I will give you a sum of money to all the soldiers of the army! After arriving in Xin'an, I will reward the three armies and make sure to let my brothers have a good meal!"

The entire army suddenly felt thunderous, and the cavalry who were dejected just now were all excited.

The next afternoon, Jingdan's tribe arrived at the suburbs of Xin'an, and in front was the tributary of Jianhe and Luoshui.

Jing Dan ordered the entire army to dismount and rest. The soldiers chewed dry food to replenish their exhausted physical strength. The horses were released to eat grass and drink water. Both the people and the horses quickly recovered.

Half an hour later, the entire army boarded their horses and set off again. The army passed the bridge and walked a few miles northward. The scout came to report that the enemy was found in front of them.

"Caval or infantry? How many people are there?"

"There are not many infantrymen."

"Not much, how much? Ten thousand?"

"No, at most one thousand!"

"Even a thousand people dare to come and block the Youzhou thunder cavalry?" Jing Dan sneered: "Roar over, crush them! Annihilate them!"
Chapter completed!