The battle has become fierce, and the palace guards are surrounded in the middle. It can be said that it is a deep and desperate situation.
In desperate situations, some people will give up, but others will fight to the end, and the palace guards are exactly the latter.
Although they had been upgraded, under such extremely unfavorable circumstances, there were still many casualties at this moment.
At least fifteen people died in the battle, and the Ming army's casualties were not small, with more than seventy people killed in the battle.
The battlefield was a mess, with injured horses running rampant, wounded soldiers being trampled and wailing, and the intestines and stomachs of the dead left on the ground...
In the Cold Weapon Age, the army's ability to withstand casualties was not high. When nearly a quarter of the soldiers died in battle, the Ming army was on the verge of collapse.
The Yong army in front of them had a stable formation, relying on their horses and grain carts to fight to the death, leaving the Ming army soldiers with no hope of victory.
Maybe only a few dozen people can win in the end, but what is the meaning of such a victory?
In fact, the fact that the soldiers of the Ming Army could persist to this point can be regarded as an extraordinary performance. After all, they are not a regular army.
Seeing his men standing still, Zhu Xiaoan, who was supervising the battle from behind, shouted loudly: "Come on..."
The soldiers bravely stepped forward, but seeing the miserable situation around them and the wails of their companions in their ears, they had already given up.
Hearing Zhu Xiaoan's shouting from behind, Chen Yuhe realized that the Ming army had no fighting spirit, so he shouted: "Beat them..."
Next, a jaw-dropping scene happened.
I saw Hu Dabiao leading his men, holding knives, to rush out of the military formation and kill the Ming army in front.
He led his men to rush out of the military formation, which was equivalent to opening a hole in Yong's army formation, and there was no chance to fill it.
For the current plan, we can only work hard and take the initiative to defeat the Ming army.
"The entire army attacks..." Chen Yuhe ordered decisively.
The guards all attacked, rushing toward the Ming army like waves, carrying blood-oozing knives like ghosts from hell.
Hu Dabiao rushed to the front, and after killing three people in a row, he was heard roaring: "Kill..."
"Kill..." the guards shouted.
Under this overwhelming offensive, some Ming soldiers finally collapsed, and then turned around and tried to retreat.
This withdrawal caused a chain reaction, with soldiers turning around one after another, and the grassroots officers could not control the situation at all.
More and more soldiers fled, and Zhu Xiaoan, who was supervising the battle from the rear, killed several people, but was unable to reverse the collapse, until the entire team collapsed.
Then a strange scene happened. Seventy or eighty infantrymen, holding swords, chased the cavalry of more than two hundred people.
Fortunately, Chen Yuhe was not dazzled by victory. The first thing he did after defeating the Ming army at home was to gather his soldiers.
"Stop chasing, come back!" Chen Yuhe shouted.
"Whoever dares to continue the pursuit will be severely punished by military law!"
After all, the guards are infantry and cannot catch up with the four-legged cavalry.
"Chen Baihu, why don't you pursue me?" Hu Dabiao walked up to Chen Yuhe and asked angrily.
Chen Yuhe did not explain, but said seriously: "Hu Dabiao, you led troops to attack without authorization. I will settle the score with you when you get back!"
"Chen Baihu..."
Before Hu Dabiao could finish his words, he was interrupted by Chen Yuhe: "I don't have time to argue with you now. If you have anything to do... go to the prince today and explain it clearly!"
Hu Dabiao was not afraid of anything, but when he heard that he was going to confront Zhao Yanxun, he immediately became timid.
This guy was also decisive, and immediately put on a smile and said: "Master Baihu, it was me, Lao Hu, who took over today. Didn't we win the battle... Don't bring these nonsense to the prince!"
Chen Yuhe said coldly with a straight face: "Take your men and collect the horses of the rebel army!"
"Yes... I'm here to go to my humble position!"
Seeing Hu Dabiao running away, Chen Yuhe couldn't help but sigh.
After all, he did not use his identity as Baihu to suppress his subordinates, but had to borrow Zhao Yanxun's authority, which was very uncomfortable for Chen Yuhe.
But when he broke up with Hu Dabiao, he was also embarrassed, so he took a step back.
Looking at Wu Gang walking over, Chen Yuhe ordered: "Move the brothers who died in the battle together and send them all back to Tianma Castle..."
"As you command!"
The Ming army abandoned at least 80 horses, which greatly improved their transportation capabilities and could naturally transport the bodies of the dead back.
Soon the battlefield was cleaned up, and a small flag officer took charge of transporting the corpses back in two carts, while Chen Yuhe continued northward with his troops.
Let's talk about Zhu Xiaoan and his party. After the army was defeated, they had to retreat for at least ten miles before he gathered his men together.
Nearly a hundred people died in the battle, but there were only more than 170 people surrounding him blindly, and another thirty or forty people disappeared during the rout.
It is very likely that the thirty-four missing people will never come back.
"Master Qianhu, what should we do?" asked Baihu.
Of the three hundred households, one was killed in the battle and one was missing in the rout. Now this one is the "only one left".
"What else can we do? We can't even defeat the Yong Army's miscellaneous soldiers, what else can we do?" Zhu Xiaoan was about to cry but had no tears.
"Withdraw!"
Right now, not only was he demoralized, but so were the other soldiers.
In their eyes, Yong's army is an invincible and powerful enemy, and if they fight, they will die.
At this time, Baihu reminded: "Qianhu, retreating privately... is a serious crime!"
"Are we just going to drive our brothers to die?" Zhu Xiaoan asked back.
Continuing to fight will lead to death, and withdrawing troops privately will lead to death. It is better to save some strength for King Ming.
"Withdraw..." Zhu Xiaoan said very solemnly.
Since his Qianhu family had spoken, no one from below naturally objected, so everyone withdrew to the north.
But after walking no more than a dozen miles, they encountered another group of broken soldiers, a total of more than a dozen people.
"Zhu Qianhu..."
"Mr. Wang, why are you here? Aren't you supposed to lure monsters?" Zhu Xiaoan asked in confusion.
"Master Zhu, we are defeated... We are defeated!" Wang Laoyao said in panic.
"Failed? What happened?" Zhu Xiaoan scolded sternly.
"Yesterday we attracted a large number of monsters and surrounded Beixi Village where the Yong Army was stationed. Everything was going smoothly..."
"But I don't know where Yong's army found cavalry. They wreaked havoc in various places, killed many of us, and attracted monsters to attack us..."
Zhu Xiaoan's contribution to these sudden formations of cavalry was due to him, who just sent out another seventy or eighty horses.
"Are we just going to let them do bad things?"
"Of course not. Your Majesty mobilized troops to destroy these people, but in the end..."
"What happened in the end?" Zhu Xiaoan couldn't help but ask.
“In the end, even the prince was caught in it, and now I don’t know what the situation is!”
"Even the prince is trapped?" Zhu Xiaoan couldn't believe it.
"No trace of the prince has been found. The north is already in chaos. Everyone has no choice but to retreat..."
We had no choice but to withdraw, which is actually a more literary way of saying it. In fact, it meant that we were defeated and fled.
"Zhu Qianhu, seeing that you are so young, you already have a backbone. Where do you think we should go next?"
When asked by the youngest Wang, Zhu Xiaoan couldn't answer for a while.
He originally came to see Zhu Jinzhang, but now Zhu Jinzhang is missing.
"What do you think we should do next?" Zhu Xiaoan asked his officers.
After a few breaths, someone replied: "Sir... why don't you retreat to Baishan County first?"
Compared with the battlefield in front, Baishan County is in the rear and is surrounded by city walls, which can give everyone a sense of security.
"Okay, let's go..."
Before Zhu Xiaoan could finish his words, he heard a soldier shouting: "Sir, there are corpses coming from the west..."
"Evacuate quickly and go to Baishan County!" With these words, Zhu Xiaoan left immediately.
