Zhao Kuangyin no longer hesitated and decisively issued the order to withdraw his troops.
This kind of mutual consumption is too stupid. Zhao Kuangyin has insufficient troops and is not willing to waste them here.
Of course, his retreat here is not a retreat, but an unwillingness to fight again.
Retreat slowly and in an orderly manner.
When Zhao Kuangyin retreated, Li Jingda immediately became anxious. Their original plan was to wear out Zhao Kuangyin's soldiers until they were exhausted, and then have soldiers from Chuzhou and Sizhou surround Zhao Kuangyin.
Now Zhao Kuangyin has retreated directly, and the troops from Chuzhou and Sizhou have not yet arrived.
Wouldn’t it be a waste of all previous efforts?
"Quick, get on them!"
Li Jingda immediately issued the order.
When Zhao Kuangyin saw that the Southern Tang Army was actually entangled with him, he felt angry: "Mother, do you really think I'm afraid of you?"
Although the battle was tense, Zhou Bing did not suffer a loss, but was at an advantage. However, the strength of the Tang army exceeded his expectations and he was unwilling to waste any more.
Just when he was about to give the order to fight back, an ominous feeling suddenly emerged in his heart.
Things are abnormal.
Li Jingda's main task is to rescue Shouzhou, and he and he will consume each other by fighting in this place?
Zhao Kuangyin was keenly aware of a problem and immediately ordered: "The infantry should ignore the pursuing troops, do not fight, and continue to retreat!"
He stared at the battlefield, and following his order, the Zhou soldiers began to flee backwards in a rout.
The Zhou soldiers let go of Yazi and ran away, so the Tang army naturally had to let go of Yazi and chase after her.
At this time, the Zhou soldiers were in a position where they were not resisting at all. As long as they caught up, they would be stabbed from behind.
Therefore, when two armies confront each other, the real mass casualties often occur not during the fierce fighting phase, but during the pursuit.
Many Zhou soldiers lost their lives due to lack of physical strength as the Tang army overtook them.
The situation was instantly on the side of the Southern Tang Army.
Only Lin Renzhao complained in his heart that Li Jingda's order was really stupid...
But he had to obey orders.
Zhou Bing's method of escaping meant that the Southern Tang Army could only pursue them in the same way.
Li Jingda only thought about not letting Zhao Kuangyin go, but he ignored that Zhao Kuangyin still had cavalry on his hands.
Looking at the chaotic formation of the Southern Tang Army in pursuit of the Zhou Army.
Zhao Kuangyin pointed the military stick in his hand far ahead and shouted loudly: "A bunch of bastards who don't know the heights of the sky, follow me and chase them away."
The cavalry thundered, and Zhao Kuangyin led 1,500 cavalry like a torrent, rushing towards the Southern Tang soldiers.
With blood splattering everywhere, Zhao Kuangyin struck left and right with the Huntian stick in his hand. Wherever the men and horses passed, there were corpses on the ground.
There is no enemy under this stick, and anyone who takes a blow from him has almost no chance of survival.
In almost a single encounter, the three thousand Southern Tang troops who were pursuing them were killed by the cavalry team led by Zhao Kuangyin.
The already scattered formation became even more unorganized.
Lin Renzhao's face was ashen, and he waved the harpoon to kill Zhao Kuangyin.
Zhao Kuangyin's eyes flashed with heat. He saw Lin Renzhao while sprinting, but chose to avoid his position and kill through the enemy's formation first.
Now that the enemy's formation is in chaos, and it's time for his cavalry to massacre, it's time for him to have some fun.
Zhao Kuangyin met Lin Renzhao head-on.
When Lin Renzhao saw this, he pulled the reins, turned around and ran away.
Zhao Kuangyin smiled sternly and saw that he was delaying his time. He was quite sorry, but he stopped chasing him. Seeing that the pursuers had been killed, he looked around the battlefield and laughed and said: "I, Zhao Kuangyin, can come when I want.
Just leave, you rats, what can you do to me?"
When Lin Renzhao saw that Zhao Kuangyin was not pursuing him, and listened to Zhao Kuangyin's heroic words, he shook his head regretfully.
I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep him here today.
Li Jingda's face turned livid when he saw that Zhao Kuangyin had defeated his pursuers with three strikes.
Chen Decheng advised: "The opponent is the best at cavalry assault. We pursued blindly and suffered the consequences. Our army has captured Chuzhou, and Zhao Kuangyin is scheduled to join Zhao Kuangyi in Liuhe to collect grain, grass and baggage. According to the time, Guo Ting
The Supervisory Army should be attacking Zhao Kuangyi. We don’t need to chase them too hastily. As long as we pester them, we can attack them with Guo Ting’s Supervisory Army."
Li Jingda remembered the experience of rushing Zhao Kuangyin back to the south of the Yangtze River. He didn't want to let Zhao Kuangyin leave like this, so he said loudly: "It should be like this. The whole army maintains its formation and pursues him slowly."
When Zhao Kuangyin was evacuating Hengshan, he had discovered the soldiers from Chuzhou behind him. He was shocked and secretly thankful.
Fortunately, he retreated in time, otherwise if he continued to fight, the soldiers' physical strength would be exhausted, and the Chuzhou soldiers and horses would block the way back, and the entire army would really be wiped out.
Seeing that the generals and soldiers around him were a little discouraged, Zhao Kuangyin laughed and said: "Victory and defeat are common matters for military officers, so you should not be discouraged. What's more, today we have the upper hand with ten thousand against thirty thousand, but the other side has come with reinforcements, and the force is too large."
There was a huge disparity, so we withdrew our troops tactically. The opponent's troops were several times mine, so it is quite remarkable to achieve such results."
"Let's go back to Liuhe for a short rest and ask the officials for some soldiers and horses. I will take you to attack Yangzhou. Yangyiyier, that is a prosperous place, not much inferior to our Bianjing..."
With a few words, Zhao Kuangyin rekindled the morale of the surrounding generals and soldiers.
Zhao Kuangyin was still waiting to say something, but his expression suddenly changed, and he exclaimed: "Kangyi, why are you here?"
Where he looked was his third brother Zhao Kuangyi.
He had a dark face, riding a war horse with an arrow in its butt, and ran towards him in embarrassment.
"Brother!" Zhao Kuangyi was in shock. Seeing his brother, he felt relieved. He flattered him and wanted to step forward quickly. However, the horse's legs weakened and he knelt down on the ground, pulling Zhao Kuangyi off the horse.
Zhao Kuangyi was fat, and his horse was injured by an arrow. It carried him all the way to here and was exhausted.
Zhao Kuangyi rolled on the ground like a ball three times, dropped a piece of meat, and screamed in pain.
Zhao Kuangyin quickly dismounted and helped Zhao Kuangyi up, saying quickly: "But something happened in Liuhe?"
Zhao Kuangyi grimaced in pain and said: "Shortly after my brother left today, a troop of troops came from the direction of Chuzhou. My brother resisted with all his strength and held on to the camp for many hours. However, we were outnumbered and could not hold on. We could only
Burn the baggage and come to join my brother."
It turned out that after Guo Tingwei took Chuzhou, he checked the grain depot and found that the amount of grain and grass was wrong. After questioning, he found out that Zhao Kuangyin had built a camp in Liuhe, using Liuhe as a base to intercept reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Guo Tingwei suddenly became energetic and remembered the Zhao family's banner captured when he defeated Zhao Hongyin. He left two thousand soldiers to guard the city and led three thousand soldiers and horses to attack Liuhe under Zhao Hongyin's banner.
Zhao Kuangyi looked at his father's flag and thought it was his father who was coming.
It wasn't until Guo Tingwei came close that he felt something unusual.
In a hurry, Zhao Kuangyi had no time to set up his formation and was unable to resist. He could only order people to light grain and grass, delaying for a while, and fled all the way here.