On the tenth day of the first month of the Republic, late at night, the crescent moon that only appeared in the first half of the night gradually disappeared and was hidden in a dark night.

In the middle of the night, the Wei army stationed at the ferry at Gongxian Ferry on the west bank of Luoshui River. He felt the earth under him shaking and calming. The Wei soldiers who woke up in their sleep jumped out of the tent barefoot in a hurry and screamed involuntarily, "Enemy attack!"

Like a ghost suddenly appeared in the dark night, a square formation composed of ten thousand light armored cavalry was rushing towards them! The neat and dense black armored cavalry was like a steel wall, and like a sea of ​​swords and swords that were rushing towards them. The dark wings were silently stretched out, gloomy and terrifying. The sound of dry and cracked horse hooves rolled in like thunder, and they were like a whirlwind, sweeping across and destroying everything.

In the face of this terrifying torrent of destruction, the fences, tents, and horses of the Wei army destroyed the tiles like paper. The Wei soldiers who were fleeing in all directions made a scream of death, and were crushed into powder by the torrent of steel...

Chen Pojun began to attack the Wei army! In the early morning, ten thousand light armored cavalry first robbed the Luoshui Ferry in Gong County, cutting thousands of panicked Wei troops into pieces. Then, next to the remains of the Wei army, five floating bridges were built on the surface of the Luoshui River, and the neat and powerful Hebei infantry quickly crossed the wide Luoshui River. At dawn, Chen Pojun's troops unexpectedly appeared behind Li Mi camp on the west bank of the Luoshui River.

The failures gradually collapsed the minds of many Wei soldiers. The entire army was in the shadow of defeat the night before, and many soldiers were so passive that they didn't even make careful arrangements for the post. In the last darkness before dawn, large groups of Hebei infantry quietly poured into the empty Wei camp. Countless spear tips flashed in the dark, just like sparks on the grassland. They quickly occupied the two hills on the left and right wings of the Wei camp, and quickly set up crossbow beds and catapults.

Everything was ready, Chen Kefu stood on the mountain and ordered: "Do it!"

The soldiers of the engineering battalion began to hang the strings, load iron crossbows, stone bullets, gunpowder packs, poison gas smoke bombs, turbulent oil bombs, and pig iron flowering bullets...

"Flash!" As three red signal arrows rose into the dark night sky with whistling sounds, the attack of the Hebei army officially began.

The Wei army's former camp suddenly fell into a shocking explosion, and it surged into the sky. The storm bomb exploded in all directions with a roar in the camp, and countless burning bomb fragments were scattered and thrown onto the nearby tent. It was burned one by one. The smoke poisonous gas bombs emitted a burst of yellow choking smoke from the camp, which soon made the entire camp in its permeability. The Wei army, who had just escaped from the tent, could not even find its direction, and was choked by the choking poisonous gas so that it could not breathe.

Iron crossbow, stone bullet, flower bullet... The soldiers of the engineering camp were pouring firepower into the Wei army camp like no capital. Only a few Wei soldiers who remained awake could escape from the sea of ​​fire. They jumped out of the camp gate and shouted, "What's going on?" The answer was a group of sharp arrows coming to their faces. More than 20,000 Wei troops were sealed in the front barracks, and some finally escaped naked. What appeared in front of them were thousands of Hebei soldiers holding sharp blades.

Chen Kefu did not expect that this raid turned into a massacre. In the dark night, more than 20,000 soldiers in the front barracks of the Wei army were blocked in the camp by various long-range firearms of the Hebei army. Poison gas was filled with fire, and the camp was burned, and the arrow rain gun array was formed. Few people escaped. In particular, the Wei army generally lacked armor and shields, and responses to this new attack method. When Chen Kefu finally asked the guards to send orders and let the soldiers accept the surrender of the Wei army, he found that not many could run out of the camp.

The interrogation was rushed. From the prisoners, I learned that this camp was just a front military camp, and Li Mi's central and rear military camps were not here, but several miles apart.

The prisoner was not completely honest. This was not a former military camp. In fact, these 20,000 people had been abandoned by Li Mi. After being bitten by the Jianghuai Army and fighting for several days, Li Mi was scared when facing Chen Pojun who was about to arrive.

In order to avoid falling into Chen Kefu's hands, Li Mi left 20,000 troops to defend the camp at the foot of Mangshan, and he led more than 60,000 people to the south to the camp. In fact, although there were two camps in the south, the Central Army and the Back Army camp, there were actually empty camps. As early as dark, Li Mi had already taken his men and retreated and fled back to Yanshi. Only 20,000 soldiers from the front army camp were left, and they were still kept in the dark.

The successive victory over the past few days has made many generals of the Jianghuai Army a little careless and did not notice that Li Mi's golden cicada escaped. However, perhaps Wang Xuanying had known it a long time ago, but why he did not stop Li Mi is meaningful.

Yanshi was only dozens of miles away from Luokou battlefield. If Li Mi escaped lightly, she could rush back to Yanshi before dawn. Chen Kefu sighed and felt that he was careless. When he was in Huzhu, he had a day off. Although he was fighting for rest and reorganizing some prisoners on the surface, but in fact, Chen Kefu also paused, hoping that Li Mi and Wang Xuanying would fight each other and finally rush to clean the battlefield. However, after waiting for a day, Zhang Zhongjian had already sent an urgent report, saying that Wang Xuanying seemed to have noticed his intention and wanted to passively avoid the war. Moreover, in the direction of Yanshi, the last troops of Wei State had already spread out and were about to arrive. As a last resort, Chen Pojun arrived overnight, but he still did not expect that it was still one step too late, so Li Mi ran first.

"Your Highness, Li Mi has been running for less than two hours, and he will definitely be back to Yanshi at this time. I think we can send light cavalry to pursue him without asking for annihilation of the enemy, just dragging Li Mi's army." Li Jing, wearing a robe, jumped off his horse and suggested to Chen Pojun.

Li Mi escaped with more than 60,000 people. Although nearly half of them were horse-dominated cavalry, more than half were infantry. The Wei army had been fighting with the Jianghuai Army for nearly ten days and was exhausted. Even if they ran away at this time, they could not run very fast. At this time, Li Mi was unlikely to lose all the more than 30,000 infantry, and they must have let the cavalry guard the infantry retreat.

Chen Kefu nodded and reached out to attract Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Luo Shixin.

"You each bring 5,000 light cavalry to pursue Li Mi. Remember, don't fight hard with Li Mi, just pursue him with your tail. Even if you can't keep Li Mi, you can't let these more than 60,000 people easily withdraw to Yanshi City!"

"The last one will obey the order"

The three generals took the order, each of whom rose on their horses, and each led five thousand light riders to chase westward in the dark night.

As it turns out, Li Jing's speculation is completely correct.

When the three generals led 15,000 light cavalry to pursue, before dawn, they finally caught up with Li Mi's large army about twenty miles away from Yanshi City. The Wei army, which had more than 60,000 people, was like a frightened bird, fleeing in panic.

The Wei army, which had more than 60,000 people, completely discarded all the logistics supplies. They discarded all the vehicles, tents, and logistics supplies. Along the way, there were discarded flags and heavy shields everywhere. Many soldiers even discarded their armor, and the civilians who followed the army even threw away the bundles of feather arrows, spear signs, vehicles, etc.

Li Mi was still well-instructed. At the last moment, he maintained the order of retreat. More than 60,000 people did not flee. Although the formation was a little scattered, he still barely maintained the order of the array. In order to avoid pursuit, Li Mi sent his confidant Wang Bodang and Meng Haigong to lead 8,000 cavalry to cut off the rear. Ten thousand sixteen,000 cavalry behind the back hall, which also made the soldiers of the Wei army who were running all the way feel a little more at ease.

Seeing Yanshi City looking at it, smoke suddenly rose up behind it. Among the smoke and dust, the military flags fluttering in the wind made the Wei army in an uproar.

Li Mi, who was riding on the horse, changed drastically. The Hebei Army appeared behind so quickly, and the 20,000 troops he left behind had basically been declared destroyed. He evacuated in the middle of the night, but the Hebei Army was able to chase after him quickly after defeating his 20,000 army. The sharpness of the Hebei Army had already made Li Mi frightened.

"The King of Wei, the rear army came to report, and the Hebei army was light cavalry, and the flag was Qin, Cheng, and Luo, all of them were cavalry, and the number was about 15,000! Wang Bodang ordered his subordinates to report to the King of Wei, asking the King of Wei to withdraw back to Yanshi City as soon as possible. He and General Meng were willing to be the queen of the palace." A cavalry sent a commander to report to the flying cavalry.

"Qin, Cheng, Luo, it seems that Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Luo Shixin are here. These three are Chen Pojun's confidant generals and have always been close to him. Since these three have led their troops to chase him, it means that Chen Pojun is not far away. Passing the Order's order, the entire army stopped advancing and set up a formation on the spot. Form a large Yanyue defensive formation and wait for the arrival of reinforcements!" Li Mi gritted his teeth, hesitated and struggled for a long time, but finally gave up Wang Bodang's suggestion.

Although he was very happy about Wang Bodang's loyalty and courage, the one who was chasing Chen Pojun instead of Wang Xuanying. Although it was only twenty miles away from Yanshi City, once he was entangled by the Hebei army, these twenty miles might be Li Mi's Soul-breaking Road. He had already received news last night that Wang Dangren, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Wang Gui, Sun Changle, Yuan Baozang, Yang Defang and others had already brought all the troops and horses of Wei to support him and were already gathering towards Yanshi. Li Mi believed that as long as he formed a formation here to block Chen Pojun's sharpness, Wang Dangren's reinforcements would arrive.

There is no need to retreat, there is no need to retreat again! This battle is about to fight to the decisive battle!

The soldiers of the Wei army shouted, "That's not the Jianghuai army, it's the Hebei army chasing us!"

"What should I do!"

Wang Bodang, the general of the rear army, was patrolling and shouting: "What are you afraid of! The Hebei Army was also raised by his father's biological parents. With two eyes and one sign, one knife, it will still be a big scar! Set up a formation and wait for them to come!" His calmness and majesty suppressed the commotion in the audience. The officers slapped the panicked soldiers, making him look like stars: "You! Why are you panicking? Stand back to the queue!" The punches and kicks drove them back to their original place, and the team gradually became quiet.

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