~Date: ~October 12th~

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The sky was covered with dark clouds and the Black Stone Plain was gloomy.

The heavy helmet was buckled on his head, limiting his vision. Li Mi could only see directly in front, but when he turned his head, he saw that 50,000 infantry had retreated from the front, and there were still 10,000 light cavalry on both sides slowly retreating to cover.

Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin's men changed from front to back formation, "Yanyue Formation," Xu Shiji ordered that the 30,000 Wei army infantry changed the battlefield, from a wedge-shaped assault formation to a Yanyue Defensive formation. General Shan Xiongxin was on his right hand, and his fiery red armor reflected the fire, and his confused eyes were still a little unconscious. He stepped on the war horse red, wearing a red vest, and two cavalry guns were hung on the pine gun stand in the saddle, and one was strong iron shield. On his left hand, Xu Shiji was surprised to find that Yang Defang, the left Sima of Wei, followed with his sword. "Why is Yang Sima coming? Here is too dangerous," he immediately said, "Please go back."

"I am here by the order of the King of Wei, the general."

Xu Shiji had no time to argue, and just felt annoyed. "Then follow me and follow me!" Yu Bi kicked the horse and set off.

Everyone rode very close, knees against their knees, and walked in the array. The flag officer held high the flag of Wei. The red and gold battle flags fluttered in the wind, and two tigers danced together. The team retreated over the battlefield and gradually accelerated the speed of movement. The huge iron crossbow shot out from Luokoucang City, and the stones rotated and flew over the head, blindly crashing into the ground and rivers, shattering steel and flesh. Luokoucang City was right in front of the city, and there were two thousand stones of food in the city. Looking at the Chen-shaped flag flying high above the city gate tower, no Wei army dared to step into the city gate gate within 500 steps. There were crossbowmen on the top of the city gate tower, and whenever someone showed up in front of the city gate tower, they immediately shot arrows.

"Stabilize the formation and retreat slowly!" Xu Shiji ordered, and slowly retreated with a serious and cautious expression.

The ground was wet and slippery, half mud, half blood. His horse tripped on a corpse, his hooves slipped, stirring the mud. He almost rolled down from the saddle in the team, but fortunately the horse maintained a balance in the end.

The sky became more and more gloomy, leaving only the last ray of light on the plain.

When the team finally retreated ten miles before dark and away from Luokou Cang City, Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin, who were in charge of the palace, breathed a sigh of relief. They looked back at the tired Wei soldiers and soldiers looking at each other. They were all heavy and speechless.

After five battles and five victories, the Wei army was approaching Luokoucang City. It seemed that the Wei army won a great victory, but everyone in the Wei army knew that all this was futile. Three days, there were only three days of military rations in the army. Three days later, the reinforcements would not arrive again, and Chen would not need to fight back. They would also die of starvation.

The morale of the Wei army was gone and retreated in a defeat.

Wang Xuanying, who had been defeated for five consecutive days, had a gloomy face at this time, and was worried about his troops stationed at Luokoucang City. The tall Luokoucang City was behind him, but the gate of Luokoucang City was tightly closed. The arrows of the dense crossbowmen on the top of the city had been turned on, bringing them into the target.

The Jianghuai Army reversed its previous situation and turned victory into defeat, losing for five consecutive battles, which seemed a bit incredible, but in fact, Wang Xuanying also had his last resort. Although the Jianghuai Army was far superior to Li Mi's Wei army in terms of training and equipment, compared with the Wei army, which was born into an uprising army, in terms of team, cooperation, combination power and other group battles, no matter how they trained, they could not be the opponent of the JAC regular army.

However, Li Mi fought against the enemy, which inspired the Wei army's determination to die, but his morale was significantly higher than that of the Jianghuai Army, which was forced to fight with the Wei army by the Hebei Army at this time.

Moreover, not only the soldiers had negative intentions, but even Wang Xuanying and other Wang family members were also swaying. Xuanying was unwilling to watch the last essential power of the Wang family was exhausted in this war. He was still looking forward to the news from Luoyang. The more than 100,000 troops in Luoyang were used, so that the Jianghuai army had a way out.

In order to wait for the exact news from Luoyang, he could only use a slow-down strategy and set the decisive battle to delay time. He gave up the head-on battle with the Wei army and used this kind of "wrestling" tactic like a candy to destroy the military strength and time of the Wei army. What the Wei army didn't know was that the seemingly chaotic battles were actually due to the results of Wang Xuanying and the generals of the Jianghuai Army studying until late at night every night.

This seemingly slutty tactic is not something that everyone can play. It requires extremely superb command skills and research on the terrain; understand the psychology of Wei generals, predict the enemy's attack first, predict the direction of the Wei army, arrange ambush; and reorganize the assassination forces at an extremely fast speed to re-enter them on the battlefield. If you are playing with fire, a little careless, it is equivalent to attracting fire. Compared to the scene of shouting "Run!" on the first day, and then the entire army surges forward, this tactic is many times more difficult.

After the two armies began to enter a long-term war, the Jianghuai Army relied on the Hebei Army's logistics advantages to become prominent. At night, huge noise and bustling sounds sounded behind the position, and large areas of torches spread to the end of the earth. The wounded were transferred to the rear, and countless new recruits joined their army.

The next morning, when they appeared in front of the Wei army, the number of people was not reduced at all. Although the Wei army won, there were always hundreds or thousands of casualties. Compared with the situation where tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were killed on both sides on the first day, the casualties ratio between the two sides was now greatly close. From Li Mi to the lowest-level soldiers, they all began to feel panic. The Jianghuai Army seemed to have endless supplementary power. Although they were defeated repeatedly, no matter how heavy the blow was, as long as they had a night of rest, they could immediately recover and their strength increased greatly. Just like the legendary monster, no matter how severe the wound was, this monster could heal all the wounds at night and heal themselves. When would it end?

At this time, Li Mi and other Wei officers felt as if they had fallen into a huge swamp quagmire. No matter how hard they struggled, they could only watch themselves sink deeper and deeper, but they could not get it out.

Moreover, the coalition forces have a decisive advantage. They have many troops and can take turns to fight with their energy. Moreover, the most elite Hebei Army has never appeared yet. The coalition forces seized Luokou Cang City, which was rich in food and grass, and the continuous output of weapons and equipment in the Hulao Fortress. The coalition forces have a comprehensive advantage. Now, the battle has been going on for more than half a month, and the local soldiers of the Wei army who had no rest are getting tired and their morale has begun to decline. Although the Wei army is still rushing around every day and invincible every day these days, their offensives are falling. However, the coalition forces are just like a swamp that cannot see the end. The deeper they go, the more they feel despair.

The night was the end of another day of bloody battle. Today's battle ended with the failure of the Jianghuai army. A row of infantry formations were defeated, with about 1,500 local soldiers from the Jianghuai army corpses on the battlefield.

The troops of both sides had begun to break off contact. The civilians on both sides holding white flags entered the battlefield after the fierce battle and began to search for their respective wounded soldiers. Although there was no agreement, the troops of both sides had a tacit understanding and did not attack the enemy's rescue team.

When night fell, a large number of wounded soldiers from the Jianghuai Army were sent back on stretchers. The low moans echoed in the middle of the camp. The military doctors of the Hebei Military Medical Battalion were treating them as much as possible. However, thousands of wounded soldiers appeared at the same time. Even the specially organized medical battalion was caught off guard. Many people died before the doctor arrived, and they would not see the sun tomorrow.

Wang Xuanying came out of the wounded's tent and was in a heavy mood. The Wei army's offensive was still so fierce, and his subordinates were punished severely. Can they really persevere until the end?

"Look, King Chen summons you to the city to meet!" said a messenger.

Wang Xuanying looked up and saw his younger brother Wang Xuanshu standing in front of him, blocking his way.

"What's wrong?"

"Brother," Wang Xuanshu looked uneasy, "Today we lost another 1,500 people. These days, we have lost more than 10,000 people. Now we only have 50,000 people left in our hands. If this continues, the blood of the brothers will be shed."

Wang Shiyun nodded, "Look, we have retreated again and again these days, but Chen Kefu has not interfered at all. This matter is very contrary to common sense. Now that he is here to recruit you into the city, this matter has clearly reached his limit of patience. It seems that our previous delaying plan has angered him. If we look at this, we are afraid that there will be no return."

Wang Xuanying sighed, nodded, and admitted: "I know. We are playing with fire, but as long as there is a short loss, I am always unwilling to let my father down and ruin the foundation that he has built. "Father, how is the situation in Luoyang? How confident are you?"

"Yuan Wendu and Lu Chu have now expressed their attitude. They are standing on our side. The outer Duan Da has already filtered out the Inner Historian Guo Wenyi, Huangmen Minister Zhao Changwen and other officials in the Eastern Capital. In addition to these people, the Minister of War, who is actually in charge of the Eastern Capital's troops, Huangfu Wuyi, the General of Right Martial Guard, is shaking and swaying. The dog thief is now riding on the wall and watching. Until the situation is clear, he will definitely not express his opinion. At present, most of the lieutenant generals and colludes in Luoyang have the same attitude as him. He sent a letter back, asking whether to take action to get rid of Huangfu Wuyi and forcefully seize the military power of Luoyang?"

"No. Luoyang soldiers and horses are all the children of officials and nobles in the Dongdu. These people are not the same as us. Even if we use force to get rid of Huangfu, they are afraid they will not really follow us. Think about a way to see if they can win over the old thief Huangfu. If it doesn't work, then that's fine. In any case, the decisive battle with Li Mi tomorrow. If Li Mi doesn't die, it will be our turn."

"However, if this continues, the Jianghuai Army may not be able to hold on."

"Try to do it." Wang Xuanying interrupted his speech: "There is no other way."

He turned around and walked towards the Central Military Camp.

Looking at Wang Xuanying's tired and haggard back, Wang Xuanshu suddenly raised his voice and asked, "Brother, when can we turn around?"

Wang Xuanying didn't look back: "Maybe tomorrow!"

"But you said that yesterday!"

"Then it's acquired!" Wang Xuanying said tiredly.

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