Author: Gongsun Wujiu

Forced by the Han army to hide in all directions, Chanyu, the Marquis of Qietan, became angry and ordered his cavalry to continue attacking. He actually launched dozens of attacks in one day.

However, under the counterattack of the Han army's arrow array, more than 2,000 Huns were killed and wounded.

At this time, the Huns were at a disadvantage in fighting and suffered heavy casualties. The entire army planned to retreat.

At this time, Guan Gan, a military lord in Li Ling's army, was punished by Li Ling for escaping during the battle and chose to surrender to the Huns.

After the surrender, Guan Gan told Shan Yu, the Marquis of Qie, that the Han army had no backup and was running out of arrows.

The overjoyed Shanyu Qietanhou ordered to continue to besiege the Han army with cavalry.

Li Ling led his army to continue to retreat south. In order to offset the Huns' cavalry advantage, Li Ling was forced to choose a valley with forest cover to march south.

The Huns took the opportunity to kill the Han army with bows and arrows above the valley, causing heavy casualties to the Han army.

When the Han army finally retreated to Khan Mountain, the 500,000 arrows in the army had been used up, and there were only 3,000 soldiers left. The soldiers who lacked weapons had to cut off the spokes of their vehicles and hold them in their hands as weapons, and only the military officials were left.

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Li Lingjun, who had run out of ammunition and food, was forced to abandon all his vehicles and retreat into a narrow valley.

In fact, Li Ling's army was very close to Juyan at this time, only more than a hundred miles away from Lu Bode's Juyan Pass. If Lu Bode could put aside his personal grudges and rescue Li Ling at this time, the Huns actually had no chance of annihilating Li Ling's army.

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However, Lubold was still hesitant at this time, and finally gave up his plan to leave the fortress after the persuasion of his staff.

Shanyu, the Marquis of Qietan, who had been worried about the Juyan Han army marching out of the fortress, was overjoyed when he saw that the Juyan Han army did not move.

He immediately led his army to cut off Li Ling's army's retreat, then occupied the high ground on both sides of the canyon, and pushed huge rocks down the mountain, causing heavy casualties to the Han army.

The two sides fought fiercely until midnight, and everyone in the Han army knew that nothing could be done, so Li Ling issued an order to break out of the encirclement.

"Shaoqing! Yannian takes the first step. If we can break through, today next year, please Shaoqing, please drink for me! If not, we will meet again in front of Lord Taishan!"

As Li Ling's deputy, Han Yannian knew that it was the last moment.

After explaining to Li Ling, he dragged his body with arrow wounds and hundreds of wounded soldiers, and rushed towards the influx of Huns cavalry.

Han Yannian hoped to use his own sacrifice to bring a glimmer of hope for the remaining soldiers.

Han Yannian's charge was indeed effective. The Huns' attention was attracted by him, and the rest of the Han army took the opportunity to break out from the canyon.

Li Ling led more than 10 people and also mingled with the soldiers and killed him. However, Guan Gan recognized Li Ling among the rebels. Under Guan Gan's guidance, the Huns sent thousands of cavalry to pursue them.

Li Ling's horse was shot and fell off the horse. He originally planned to commit suicide, but at the last moment he regretted it. He felt that he should not die like this.

While he was hesitating, the Huns swarmed up and held him down.

At this time, Han Feng's troops who went out for rescue just arrived at the edge of the battlefield.

Unfortunately, he arrived a step too late, and in the end he only rescued more than a thousand Han soldiers.

Facing the main Xiongnu army, Han Feng's troops were simply unable to resist.

Fortunately, the Huns had no intention of fighting at this time. Although they defeated Li Ling's troops, their own casualties were extremely serious.

In addition, he was worried that other Han troops would arrive, so he hurriedly withdrew his troops with Li Ling.

When Li Ling was fighting a battle with Qie Tuanhou Shanyu, Zhang Yuezheng followed Li Guangli and marched into the hinterland of the right side of the Xiongnu.

The Battle of Tianshan made King Youxian understand that the Huns were still unable to fight the Han army head-on.

So this time the Huns chose the tactic of fortifying the wall and clearing the country, determined not to fight the Han army, hoping to defeat the Han army!

Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, and he was still unable to catch up with the main force of the Huns, Li Guangli had no choice but to lead his soldiers back to the army.

When the army arrived at the pass of Tianshan Mountain, orders from Chang'an City happened to come, and the emperor ordered Zhang Yue to return to Chang'an to report on his duties.

Zhang Yue did not dare to neglect, and after handing over the army to Guo Kai, he took 20 soldiers, Yang You, and Zhao Yi back to Dunhuang with Li Guangli's army.

When the news of Li Ling's defeat reached Dunhuang, it was already November of the second year of Tianhan.

After receiving the news, Zhang Yue sighed secretly, "The inertia of history is still too great, and Li Ling did not escape the fate of defeat in the end."

"That's all, let's just let nature take its course. At least we have rescued more than a thousand elite Han soldiers."

Zhang Yue comforted himself in his heart.

When he first came to this world, Zhang Yue once thought about changing Li Ling's fate.

For this reason, he also made various preparations while at Jingbian, not only drawing a map from Juyan to Junji Mountain.

He also worked hard to create a powerful cavalry force. Unfortunately, fate played a trick on him. Just when he was preparing everything, he was suddenly transferred to the Western Regions.

When Zhang Yue left Longshouzhan, he also reminded Han Xianchu, who succeeded him.

Judging from military reports, Han Xianchu obviously did not send troops to rescue him at the critical moment.

But if you think about Zhang Yue, you can understand that Han Xianchu is different from himself.

As a barefoot person, of course I am not afraid of anything. Whatever you want to do, just do it with all your strength.

But Han Xianchu is different. He also has family, township party, and various complicated relationships.

You may be able to gain some military merit by rescuing Li Ling, but you are more likely to offend officials from the Weihuo and Ershi factions.

You must know that today's court and army are controlled by these two factions.

At the same time, he offended the Wei-Huo clique and the Ershi clique, and unexpectedly offended most of the officials in the court.

In this case, unless you seek refuge with the "virtuous and upright", you have no chance of getting ahead.

However, as a soldier, it is very difficult to mix with a group of weak capitulationists.

"Yang You, get a jar of wine for someone!" Zhang Yue, filled with emotion, ordered to Yang You.

"Why are you upset, Ming Gong?" Yang You did not act immediately.

Zhang Yue shook his head, stood up and sighed, "It's a pity that my great man lost a great general..."

Zhao Yi curled his lips and said, "Then Lieutenant Li has a small belly, what kind of general is he? From a certain point of view, he is not worthy of carrying shoes for Duke Ming, so why should Duke Ming be so sad..."

Zhang Yue lowered his head and smiled when he heard this, "It seems that Zhao Yi has not forgotten the humiliation of Zhang Ye in the past!"

Yang You also said at this time, "Ming Gong, what Zhao Yi said is right. Lieutenant Li may be talented, but he is indeed not a person who can do great things..."

Zhang Yue shook his head, "What do you know? I asked you to get the wine, but you are making noise here..."

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The next day, after waking up and having breakfast, Zhang Yue first went to the Second Division General's Mansion.

Li Guangli in the General's Mansion not only warmly received Zhang Yue, but also gave Zhang Yue several letters asking Zhang Yue to help him meet with several important figures of the Second Division after arriving in Chang'an.

This made Zhang Yue feel extremely surprised. He clearly regarded himself as an important member of the Second Division...
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