Shortly after the Liang army issued the retreat horn, Zhang Xutuo also issued a retreat order, and those Liang soldiers who were still alive after breaking through the Longmen Formation immediately began to retreat with great urgency.
There's no rush. After breaking through the Dragon Gate Formation, they only know what the Gate of Hell is, so why are they willing to stay in such a scary place for a long time?
The brutality of the Battle of Longmen Formation simply exceeded anyone's imagination.
Only in the early stages of the war, Xue Rengui used the Longmen Formation of 10,000 people to first trap Yin Kaishan and Liu Hongji's two troops with more than 6,000 troops, and then trapped Li Yuanba and Jia Fu's two troops with 10,000 troops, a total of 10,000 troops.
Sixteen thousand troops.
In order to block the general attack of Li Shimin's army, Xue Rengui divided the most elite three thousand trap camps to stop the enemy, relying on only seven thousand ordinary soldiers to block the sixteen thousand elite Liang army.
Afterwards, Li Shimin added another 4,000 troops and sent Li Keyong and Zhang Xutuo to lead the attack. The two generals took advantage of the fact that Xue Rengui had no time to take care of it and cooperated internally and externally, and finally broke through the Longmen Formation.
In other words, Xue Rengui commanded 7,000 soldiers and horses, but he was constantly fighting against an enemy force of 20,000 Liang troops that was nearly three times his own.
You must know that the 7,000 soldiers deployed by Xue Rengui in the Longmen Formation are not the ace elites of the Zhen camp. The overall quality of the soldiers is directly different from that of the Liang Army. If it were not for the Longmen Formation, the entire army would have been wiped out.
Relying on these ordinary soldiers, Xue Rengui achieved extremely brilliant results.
Before the Longmen Formation completely collapsed, the first batch of 4,000 Liang troops who entered the formation were almost dead, and the second batch of 10,000 troops also suffered more than half casualties.
If it weren't for the third batch of Li Keyong's 4,000 soldiers and horses, Xue Rengui could even have wiped out the first two batches of Liang's troops bit by bit.
Unfortunately, no matter how exquisite the formation is, there is a limit to what it can withstand, and the Longmen Formation is no exception, and Li Keyong and Zhang Xutuo have touched this limit.
When the Longmen Formation first collapsed, there were still less than 5,000 of the 7,000 coalition troops.
In other words, Xue Rengui annihilated over 10,000 Liang troops with less than 2,000 casualties.
When the final decisive battle began and Li Shimin gave the order to retreat, the coalition's strength was only a little over a thousand.
More than 4,000 coalition troops died in the final fight. Of course, the Liang army also suffered more than 3,000 casualties.
Twenty thousand Liang Army soldiers entered the battle, but only 8,000 were still alive, while more than 5,000 of the 7,000 coalition troops died in the battle, which shows how tragic this battle was.
Therefore, after Li Shimin's retreat order was given, the soldiers who were still alive almost wanted to cry. It was really difficult to stay alive, so of course they had to withdraw as soon as possible.
Although Xue Rengui saw this and wanted to pursue him, almost all of the remaining soldiers were injured and were unable to undertake the task of pursuit.
Although Xue Rengui and other generals did not suffer any serious injuries, they were just a little exhausted from killing the enemy, but letting a few of them break away from the soldiers to pursue them would not have much effect at all!
"Deploy a defensive formation to prevent the Liang army from returning. In addition..."
Looking at the retreating Liang Army, and then at the catapult convoy that had been destroyed by more than 80%, Xue Rengui felt a flash of joy in his heart, and then ordered: "Check the catapult convoy immediately to see how many catapults are left.
In good condition, which parts can be repaired and which parts can still be used..."
[Ding dong, Xue Rengui deployed the Dragon Gate Formation with tens of thousands of people to stop Li Shimin's 32,000 troops. He achieved the achievement "Set the Dragon Gate" and was rewarded with a permanent commander of 1 and a permanent force of 1. Xue Rengui's current five dimensions are: commander 100, force 105, intelligence 85, and politics.
76, charm 97.]
If Lu Bu is currently the first and only military commander among all local military commanders who has reached the level of God of War through a little improvement, then Xue Rengui is the first and only one among all the summoned military commanders who has improved to the level of God of War.
Xue Rengui became the fourth God of War under Qin Hao, but compared to those fierce generals who were born as Gods of War, his background is still a little worse!
There was more than one Longmen formation in the battle before Hulao Pass. As for the trapped camp, Zhao Yun and other generals saw that Liang's army was about to withdraw but did not order a pursuit. The reason was naturally that the trapped camp consisted of heavy infantry.
In the battle just now, Zhao Yun and other generals were entangled by the generals of the Liang army. However, the trapped camp still blocked the 12,000 Liang army without the generals, and achieved a kill of 3,000 enemies and a loss of 1,000.
The results of the battle.
The Three Thousand Traps camp faced an enemy force that was four times more than its own, but still suffered 1 to 3 casualties. Although such a record was not as amazing as that of the Longmen Formation, it was still very rare. The Traps camp once again proved that it is the strongest army in the world.
The prestige!
"Zhao Zilong, come here first today, I will take your head next time!"
Wu Yunzhao said with a look of reluctance, then rode his horse to retreat with the soldiers.
Zhao Yun gasped for air, but a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes. In the battle between him and Wu Yunzhao, if Master Shang and his disciples hadn't been in the way, Wu Yunzhao would have been defeated even if he couldn't kill him.
On the other side, when Huang Zhong saw that Xin Wenli and Qiu Rui were also about to escape, he immediately picked up his bow and arrows and prepared to kill them. However, because he ignored He Ruobi, he reminded the two generals to avoid the critical point.
On the way back to Hulao Pass, all the generals of the Liang army gathered together, and Li Shimin also saw Lu Bu and Hou Yi.
Li Shimin looked at Hou Yi who was seriously injured and dying, and was shocked: "The strongest generals of the coalition are all in the Longmen Formation. Who has the strength to injure General Hou Yi like this? Could it be that Li Cunxiao has returned?"
A trace of doubt flashed in Lu Bu's eyes, and he smiled bitterly and said: "General Hou Yi was injured by Qin Hao."
"What? How is this possible?"
Li Shimin's eyes widened, unable to believe this fact.
Not only Li Shimin, but also Lu Bu found it hard to believe that the Qin Hao he knew couldn't be so strong, but the last scene where Qin Hao almost killed Hou Yi was witnessed by Lu Bu with his own eyes. It couldn't be a lie, right?
"It's true. Qin Hao's martial arts has improved rapidly in the past few years and is now completely different from what it used to be."
Lu Bu sighed, he still had some qualifications as a pioneer Qin Hao in his heart. After all, he was far from being as strong as Qin Hao at Qin Hao's age.
"Qin Hao, you really hide it well enough." Li Shimin sighed.
Reinforcements from the coalition forces are about to arrive, and the most important thing for the Liang army now is to withdraw to Hulao Pass, so Li Shimin is not in the mood to worry about this matter, and will wait until he returns to Hulao Pass to talk about anything.
The Liang army had a total of 40,000 troops when they left the city, but when they returned, they only had less than 20,000 troops. The casualties were so heavy, but fortunately, the purpose of leaving the city was achieved.
Li Shimin led some generals into the city, but when he boarded the Hulao tower, he found that the coalition cavalry had already reached the pass, but thousands of Liang troops had not yet entered the pass.