"Pudding lump..."

It was drizzling in the sky, and the whole earth was shrouded in haze. Hundreds of war horses were galloping on the bumpy path, and the sludge from the horse's hooves splashed everywhere.

"Run...Run...The officers and soldiers are still behind!"

Li Yan lowered his body and leaned on the horse's back. His legs tightly held his entire body to maintain the center of gravity as the movements of the war horse, and it fluctuated rhythmically. This is also the most effective way to save physical strength.

But despite this, Li Yan felt that his body, which was gradually becoming cold, no longer belonged to him. His soreness, swelling, and extreme fatigue reminded him all the time that his body had reached its limit. If this continues, he might have to fall from the horse's back in the next moment.

It has been two days since he broke out from Huizhou City. According to Li Yan's idea, he led a 20,000 army to break through and retreat to Hangzhou Prefecture along the predetermined road.

As long as the army retreated in an orderly manner, the Jiangning army would not dare to pursue too much, so as not to suffer losses by their counterattack. For this reason, Li Yan even prepared several plans.

However, although ideals are good, reality gave him a loud slap in the face.

In Li Yan's vision, after his troops retreat, the troops will be divided into three parts, alternately and orderly retreating, and must not run back in a mess.

For this reason, Li Yan specially called Hao Yaoqi and two other brigades, and carefully explained it for a while before he began to order the retreat.

When they first retreated, the troops could still retreat in an orderly manner as they imagined, but when the last troops withdrew less than five miles from Huizhou Prefecture, the cavalry of the Jiangning Army began to appear.

These cavalry rushed towards the retreating bandits like ducks. They did not launch a general attack on the bandits, but hung from afar, and launched a charge from time to time. After rushing to them, they did not fight with them in hand and hand, but fired with muskets at a distance of about a hundred steps.

To be honest, although the shooting hit rate at such a distance is not very high, it can take more than ten people's lives every time after a round of volleys. Faced with this situation where you can only be beaten but not fight back, the bandits quickly couldn't stand it.

The collapse came so suddenly. After hundreds of casualties, the first group of bandits behind the palace immediately collapsed. More than 5,000 people shouted, and began to turn back together, spread their feet and ran desperately towards the back.

The speed is so fast that even the cavalry battalion is chasing. Looking at the crowds all over the mountains, they don’t even know what to do?

It was the first time that a thousand general reported that he quickly ordered the troops to gather, ignore the defeated soldiers, but continue to pursue them. Thousands of cavalry stabbed the enemy like a sharp knife, and soon pierced a line of defense of the bandits, and then rushed towards the bandits' large troops.

Because the defeat came so suddenly that Li Yan and others had no mental preparation and reaction time at all.

The person responsible for the second round of the palace is not someone else, but Hao Yaoqi.

As someone who fought with the Jiangning Army, Hao Yaoqi naturally knew the combat effectiveness of the Jiangning Army. After learning that the people behind him had been defeated, Hao Yaoqi immediately ordered the formation without thinking and relied on the surrounding terrain to block the Jiangning Army.

I have to say that the one who knows you best is not others, but your enemy.

Hao Yaoqi's approach was correct. When the bandits began to resist layer by layer with bows, arrows, spears, big swords and even stones based on the favorable terrain around them, the cavalry's impact speed began to slow down, and soon they were blocked under a hillside.

Seeing this, the Qianmao who was commanding the army wanted to take a detour, but the surrounding terrain was very steep and there was no road for cavalry to pass. If you want to go there, you can only pass through the official road just now. But now the official road is full of bandits. If you want to rush forward, the losses will probably be small.

Fortunately, before departure, both Yang Feng and Cao Yingmao had explained that if they encounter large bandits who are incapable of the enemy, they should retreat immediately or stop attacking, and wait for the arrival of subsequent troops.

According to this instruction, the commander of the Thousand-Person Team made a quick decision to command the troops to retreat, but at this time the problem arose.

The bandit sniper unit they had just defeated was also rushing towards them. After seeing this situation, General Qian had a sudden inspiration and directed the troops to penetrate the defeated army again, and walked around behind them. Then he rushed the defeated soldiers towards the defense line set up by Hao Yaoqi in the back like a duck-driven one.

Facing the dense crowds of our own people, Hao Yaoqi was also stunned for a moment.

He quickly jumped out and shouted loudly: "Stop, stop me, stop by me, and go around from the side, don't attack our formation. Otherwise, don't blame me for killing people?"

But Hao Yaoqi's shouting was useless. Before he could react, thousands of defeated soldiers had already submerged them like a tide.

At this time, the Qianmai commanded the cavalry to take the opportunity to cover up and kill. The official road was filled with dense sounds of muskets and explosions. The cavalry who rushed over once again learned to be smart this time. They not only fired with muskets from afar, but also sent some people to rush nearby. When they saw that there were many people gathering, there were still tens of thousands of enemies.

Accompanied by the rumbling explosions of thousands of enemies, the bandits were under the swords in pieces.

"Are these bastards deaf? Hurry up to form a formation for me. Only by forming a formation can we deal with the cavalry of the officers and soldiers. We cannot let them rush over."

Faced with the line of defense that was about to collapse, Hao Yaoqi desperately scolded the bandits under his command, and kept waving the horse whip in his hand. He even brought his guards to kill more than a dozen fleeing bandits.

However, it was too difficult to stop once the defeat began. In the end, Hao Yaoqi was swept away by the defeated soldiers. Half an hour later, Li Yan's carefully planned alternative cover to retreat layer by layer was completely out of stock, and the 20,000 troops scattered and collapsed like sheep.

Li Yan could only run along the official road with his guards. In two days, three war horses under his crotch had been replaced, and there were only less than two hundred guards left. The remaining guards were either beaten to death by the Jiangning army or ran away.

After Li Yan ran for a while, an escort suddenly said hesitantly: "Military advisor, there seems to be no sound of horse hooves behind him. Those dog officers and soldiers will not chase us!"

Someone next to him listened and a hint of surprise was heard: "Hey... it seems to be true. There is really no sound of horse hooves behind him. Let's get rid of those dog officers and soldiers!"
Chapter completed!