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Zhao Shujiao's face was ashen on horseback, his hands were clenched into fists, and his nails were digging into the flesh of his palms.
Guan Ning's soldiers and horses who dared to fight against the slave thieves in Liaodong were actually defeated, and they were defeated by a group of thieves.
"Come back, general, leave quickly." The soldiers on the side stepped forward to persuade Zhao to leave.
The people ahead were densely packed and retreating.
"Go, you all go, immediately lead people to stop the defeated troops in front. I will personally lead them to kill the rebels." Zhao led the teachings unwilling to accept defeat.
He could barely accept losing to slave thieves, but he would not be reconciled to losing to rebel bandits no matter what.
A soldier on the side advised: "General, there are too many people and we can't stop them. It's better to leave quickly. If you don't leave, you will be trapped in the broken army."
Zhao led Jiao and his soldiers to ride horses.
Before the defeated troops came over, they could calmly evacuate on horseback. Even the rebels might not be able to catch up with them on the chaotic battlefield.
But once you are coerced into the middle of the rebels, you will no longer be able to control your life or death. Even such a striking move as riding a horse may very well become the target of the rebels.
A horse with four legs can run faster than a horse with two legs. In order to survive, no one cares whether you are a general or a high official. You want to escape from the battlefield on horseback.
"Still stunned, go!" Zhao Shujiao shouted to the few soldiers and servants around him.
He was unwilling to fail like this. Even if there was little hope of intercepting the defeated troops, he wanted to give it a try. As long as he successfully intercepted the defeated troops, he might not have no chance of turning defeat into victory.
The few surrounding soldiers had no choice but to follow the general's orders, take some of the soldiers and horses left behind, and start to intercept the defeated troops in front.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ground shook, and the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from a distant direction.
Chen Xunping, who was on the bank of the Hun River, heard the sound and hurriedly looked through his monocular in the direction of the sound of horse hooves.
Through the monocular, he saw countless cavalry galloping towards the battlefield.
"It's our cavalry, our cavalry." Qin Rong, who was also holding a monocular, shouted excitedly when he observed the cavalry coming from a distance.
Chen Xunping, who also saw the cavalry flag, showed a victorious smile on his face.
His own cavalry came at the right time. With this cavalry working together with his first battle division, he was confident that he could completely annihilate the troops coming from Liaodong.
The cavalry was getting closer and closer to the battlefield, and the sound of horse hooves filled the sky above the battlefield.
"It's the cavalry." A soldier beside Zhao Shujiao exclaimed.
Zhao Shujiao looked at the dark cavalry in the distance. When he saw the flags raised by the cavalry clearly, his face suddenly turned pale and bloodless.
"It's over, it's all over." Zhao Shujiao weakly spat out these words.
The scene before him was all too familiar to him.
When the Liao soldiers faced the army of slave thieves, once they were defeated, the slave thieves' cavalry would immediately cover them up from behind, leaving no chance for the Liao soldiers to escape.
Now this scene was repeated in the hands of this army of rebels. For a moment, he even suspected that he was fighting an army of slaves and thieves.
But the idea flashed out of his mind.
Because he knew that the traitor in front of him was the Liu bandit's soldiers, and the slave bandit was not able to avoid the court's eyes and ears, bypassing Guan Ning and appearing in Xuanda.
"General, don't hesitate anymore, let's go!" The soldiers on the side looked anxious.
At this point in the battle, the outcome is already obvious. There is no use in staying on the battlefield other than to get yourself involved.
All the men who were sent out by Zhao to stop the rout retreated.
At this time, there is no point in stopping the defeated soldiers from escaping. They can only wait for the battle to end, leave the battlefield and think of ways to collect the escaped soldiers.
The soldiers who came back said eagerly: "General, we can't stay in this place. The young men will escort you away. If you don't leave, the rebel cavalry will surround you."
"Where can we go if we leave?" Zhao Shujiao looked bitter.
He didn't even see Liu Zei's face, but Liu Zei's troops defeated the elite Guan Ning he brought with him, and his fate was already predictable.
"If you keep the green mountains, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood. After gathering the defeated troops, we can still fight. If it doesn't work, we can go back to Guanning. With Governor Sun here, the general still has a chance to make a comeback." The soldier on the side persuaded.
At the same time, he did not forget to look in the direction of the battlefield vigilantly.
The rebel cavalry coming from a distance had already begun to cover up the defeated troops from one side.
"Walk!"
Zhao Shujiao, who was sighing just now, turned his horse's head and galloped away in the direction of Yanqing Prefecture.
The surrounding soldiers and servants followed him and rode away together.
At this time, the cavalry of the Tiger Character Banner joined the battlefield and began to charge and kill the defeated army.
The defeated troops began to be killed one by one by the tiger-shaped banner cavalry who were chasing after them.
No matter how fast two legs run, they cannot run faster than the four legs of a war horse.
More and more defeated soldiers who could not escape were kneeling on the ground, wanting to surrender and beg for their lives.
The chasing cavalry no longer paid attention to the broken soldiers who chose to kneel on the ground and surrendered, but continued to pursue the broken soldiers who were still running ahead, and separated into two groups of cavalry and moved forward.
The defeated soldiers who had surrendered were captured by the tiger-character banner soldiers who caught up from behind and were taken away for custody.
The cavalry continued to pursue the fleeing defeated soldiers.
Huailai in the acropolis.
Kang Shu had been guarding the city wall. From the beginning of the battle between the official army and the rebel army, to the final defeat of the official army, he could see clearly from the top of the city.
"Failed, just defeated. This is an elite from Guan Ning. How could they be defeated so quickly." Kang Shu muttered to himself with trembling lips.
When the army led by Zhao was defeated, Huailaiwei bore the brunt and had to face the next army of rebels.
Now he was panicking.
Even Guan Ning's elite Ming army was defeated by the rebels outside the city. He didn't know how long Huailaiwei could hold on.
"Guan Jun, something happened in the city."
At this time, Shi Peizhang, the commander of Huailai Guard, found Kang Shu.
Kang Shu slowly turned around, looked at Shi Peizhang and said, "It's over, Zhao Lianjiao has been defeated, and the rebels outside the city will soon attack Huailaiwei."
"Ah! I really lost." Shi Peizhang looked shocked.
Kang Shu nodded with a pale face and said: "I saw with my own eyes that the tens of thousands of troops led by Zhao were defeated like this. That was an army of tens of thousands. They were defeated as soon as they said they were defeated."
When he talked about the latter part, he was crying.
"Those are the elites of the Ming Dynasty who dared to fight against slaves and bandits. How could they be defeated?" Shi Peizhang did not want to believe the fact that Zhao led the teachings to lose to the rebel bandits outside the city.
Kang Shu tremblingly raised his right hand, pointed outside the city, and said, "See for yourself!"
The tiger-character banner army outside the city had begun to clean the battlefield. The flags of the Ming army were randomly thrown on the ground. The Ming soldiers wearing shabby mandarin duck coats were escorted to the bank of the Hun River by the rebels wearing leather boots.
And around Huailaiwei, there were many more rebel soldiers.
