Zhang Yi's scouts discovered the enemy earlier than the Yong family's. They used a more professional investigation method of working in groups and delivering intelligence in rotation, and they also had a more accurate grasp of the enemy's changes.
The reason why he walked five miles for half an hour was because he changed his strategy temporarily after learning that the enemy army was in chaos and seemed to be attacked by Li Hui and others.
Previously, he just wanted to concentrate his superior forces, break through in one direction, and bring Li Hui and the remaining Cuan family army out of the encirclement.
Once this first priority is accomplished, let’s talk about other things.
But seeing the situation change, he immediately redeployed the battle plan.
Zhang Yi temporarily dispatched three thousand soldiers and horses to ambush him in the west. If Yong Kai escaped, he would definitely flee back to Dian Lake in the southwest, or go northwest to look for Meng Huo.
There is a swamp to the south, a big river to the east, and to the north...unless he doesn't want to die too slowly.
There are three mountain roads in the west, one big and two small. No matter you go to the southwest or northwest, you must pass through here.
There are also ten thousand enemy troops, and according to the prince, they have not yet exhausted their strength. It is impossible to control all three roads while ensuring safety.
He arranged these three thousand people on the main road. Yong Kai fled in a hurry, and he would definitely choose the better road.
When Zhang Yi led 7,000 soldiers to attack, they saw a shocking scene.
Li Hui and others, who had only a thousand people left after fighting, actually killed the troops left by Yong Kai to block the attack. It seemed that there were about 2,000 people.
At this time, Cuan's army was chasing most of Yong Kai's troops in front with their swords and guns raised, and their red eyes.
When Yong Kai and others discovered that Zhang Yi's reinforcements had arrived, they were afraid of being held back and did not dare to fight. At first, they still fought and left, but later they simply fled.
As a result, there is now a strange scene of thousands of remnant soldiers with everyone injured, shouting and killing, chasing soldiers several times their size to run away...
Although it is relying on the strength of his own reinforcements, to achieve this effect, there must be generals among them.
"Where is General Li De'ang? Jianwei Zhang Yi came to help on the orders of the prince!" Zhang Yi led his army to join the encirclement and killing of Yong Kai's troops and shouted loudly at the same time.
Although he made great achievements first, he did not forget that the first task given to him by the prince was to save people.
"General Zhang, Li Hui is here! General, just chase Yong Kai and don't let the thieves escape!" Li Hui breathed heavily, wiped his blood-spattered face and shouted loudly.
"General Li, please take a break with the wounded soldiers while I go to capture Yong Kai!" Zhang Yi said and divided a thousand men to protect Li Hui and others, and led the rest to continue the pursuit.
When Yongkai arrived at a three-way intersection in the mountains, he saw only one big road and two small ones, so he immediately took the main road.
"Master, there may be an ambush on the main road. Why not choose a small road?" A Yong family staff member had a foreboding feeling and rode his horse closer to Yongkai Road.
Yong Kai said angrily: "There are pursuers behind me, and the path is rugged and difficult to navigate. Do you want to harm me?"
After saying that, he raised his knife and stabbed him to death with one blow, and hurriedly ordered his men to run towards the main road.
The rest of the people didn't dare to say anything when they saw the miserable situation of the staff member who was still staring at death.
When Yong Kai saw that the front army had already entered the road, and he led the middle army to flee into the road in a hurry without any abnormality, he couldn't help but sneered: "Huh, you are so smart..."
"Fire the arrow—!"
Whoosh whoosh!
Suddenly, Han troops stood up from the grass in the woods on both sides of the road. With an order, arrows rained down on them.
"Ah!!" The unsuspecting Yong family army howled miserably for a while.
Yong Kai was horrified. He saw at least several thousand Han troops ambushing by the roadside, with banners all over the mountain.
Zhang Yi then led his troops behind to bite them hard, shouting: "Whoever kills Yong Kai will be rewarded with a hundred catties of silver; if he captures Yong Kai alive, he will be rewarded with three hundred catties of silver!"
At this point, the desperate Yong Kai no longer cared about the lives of others, and only led two hundred of the most elite private soldiers of the Yong family to protect him and escape.
"Kill——!" After two rounds of arrow rain, the ambushing Han army saw the enemy soldiers running fiercely, and immediately rushed out to encircle and strangle them.
Yong Kai has been domineering in Nanzhong all his life, and no one has dared to disobey him. He often kills people, extracts their bones, cuts their hearts and feeds them to dogs, but when has he ever felt such a dangerous fear?
Terrified, he leaned over the horse's back, held the horse's neck with one hand, and blocked his head with a shield with the other, and fled in embarrassment under the elite guard.
However, he left behind him and turned from attack to retreat, from retreat to rout. Nearly 40% of the soldiers of Nanzhong were killed or injured.
Many of them had also heard rumors about Prince Liu Chan, and at this time they were defeated by the Han army. They suddenly felt that their destiny was inevitable, not to mention that Yong Kai did not treat them kindly.
"Don't kill me! I'm willing to surrender!"
Surrender is like running away. Once you open a hole, it cannot be blocked even if you want to.
As the first few people threw away their weapons, the Nanzhong soldiers began to surrender in large areas.
Although it was a good thing to obtain a large number of surrendered soldiers, it also hindered the Han army from pursuing Yong Kai.
"Eh!" He almost captured Yong Kai and achieved great success, but was blocked by the soldiers who were kneeling in front of the road. Zhang Yi slapped his thigh in annoyance.
However, the record of nearly annihilating the main force of the Yong family this time is already impressive enough.
If we continue to forcefully pursue them, we will be close to the boundary of Dianchi Lake.
Although he was unwilling to do so, Zhang Yi, considering the overall situation, began to gather his troops and prepared to join Li Hui and the Cuan family army to return to Shiwei County.
After all, he led the army south this time, leaving the prince alone to face Meng Huo with his own army. He didn't know how the battle was going.
And Yong Kai, who almost died and narrowly escaped death, was completely frightened after this battle.
Not daring to take the risk to find Meng Huo who didn't know his exact location, he wanted to turn southwest and flee to Dian Lake.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered that another group of people was coming from the northwest! There are even a lot of cavalry among them!
There were more galloping horses in Yong Kai's heart than the opponent's cavalry... As soon as he escaped from the tiger's mouth, he encountered a pack of wolves again.
How could Yong Kai, who was as frightened as a bird, still have the time to think carefully about the direction in which they were coming? Not to mention taking a closer look at his outfit.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!" The desperate Yong Kai quickly took off his heavy iron armor and threw it out without hesitation.
Then he started to disarm and threw away the heavy mysterious armor...
Anyway, once you are overtaken, it is impossible to kill while wearing these things. It is better to reduce the weight of the horse and make it run faster... It would be better if the enemy stops to pick up his armor.
"Drive! Hurry, hurry! Drive!"
Wisdom expanded rapidly - the swollen Yong Kai clamped the horse's belly, waved his hand and hit the horse's body with a whip.
"Ex...Brother Yong...no?"
Yong Kai, who was running without hesitation, suddenly heard a loud shout from afar...it sounded familiar.
Yong Kai, who still didn't dare to stop, frowned and looked back while running.
Only then did he see clearly that the cavalry running towards them were all dressed in blue and black uniforms and had no leather helmets on their heads. They were not Han troops at all.
Slowing down his horse a little, he could clearly see the man waving to him - the big man with a beard and broad shoulders, wearing a barbarian-style leather armor. It seemed like... he was Meng Huo?
"Is that Brother Yong in front of you?"
Hearing Meng Huo's greeting, Yong Kai almost burst into tears. He immediately stopped and dismounted: "Brother Meng! Brother Meng——"
When the two met, they dismounted and ran towards each other at the same time. They grabbed each other's arms, and their eyes became a little moist without realizing it.
For those who don’t know, I thought these two were imitating the meeting between Mr. Guan Er and Mr. Zhang in the ancient city...
"I finally see you!" (in unison)
The two people were so excited that they didn't notice anything strange.
"Hurry and help me to counterattack the Northern Army!" (said in unison)
Now both of them were stunned, and then they observed each other carefully.
Meng Huo's group was tired of their travels, and they only had two thousand people in total... Since Qingqiang was persuaded to leave the mountain, there was no way he could send just this few people.
By the way, why isn't that guy from Huobuli here? With his temperament, Qingqiang attacked in a big way, and he, the Qingqiang King, would never sit back.
Could it be...
Yong Kai's face darkened, but Meng Huo's face was ten times darker than his.
In his eyes, Yong Kai had just thrown away his armor and helmet, his clothes were stained with blood, and there was a broken arrow stuck in his left arm.
Looking around him, there are only less than two hundred guards on his side, and they are all worse than him. Where are the more than ten thousand troops of your Yong family? !
Could it be...
"You also lost?!" (said in unison)
The pair of brothers and sisters in distress now confirmed their ominous premonitions, and immediately opened their mouths and looked at each other speechlessly.
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