Chapter 466

"Don't mess up the formation, this is Xu Huang's trick!"

Lejiu shouted hoarsely, but it disappeared in the wind within a few tens of feet. The beating and shouting of Xu Huangjun's war drums, and the panicked roars of his soldiers far overwhelmed Lejiu's voice. .

Xu Huang launched a thunder strike without hesitation.

"Iron cavalry charge forward, give the enemy a thunderous blow!"

"The iron cavalry from Xiliang is invincible in the world!"

A thousand Xiliang iron cavalry looked down at the chaotic infantry of Yuan Jun in front of them. They could not be called soldiers at all, they were simply a group of temporarily armed farmers, and it was easy to defeat such an army.

Booming, a thousand Xiliang iron cavalry launched an assault, it was like a torrent of steel pouring out, like a sharp blade, it was about to cut the Le Jiujun in front of him in half.

boom! Le Jiujun, who was already in a panic, was attacked by Xu Huangjun, which immediately triggered a chain reaction. Yuan Jun's infantry in the front row were directly defeated and fled in all directions. After seeing this scene, Yuan Jun's soldiers in the back row were too frightened to fight Xu Huang's iron cavalry. Splash.

Except for Lejiu's 2,000 elite soldiers, the remaining 10,000 Lejiu troops turned around and ran away, Lejiu was very angry.

"Damn it, rush forward and fight back!"

The lieutenant general shook his head and tried to persuade him: "General, in my opinion, it's better for us to avoid the edge of the enemy cavalry for now."

Le was furious when he heard the words: "What did you say? You want the general to retreat without a fight, how can I explain to the emperor?"

Although the deputy general was grabbed by the collar by Le, he was not afraid, but said helplessly: "Well, general, even if our army launches a counterattack against the enemy, how can we get there?"

Le looked around, only to see his own troops fleeing in all directions, directly surrounding his central army. If you want to go out, you have to kill your own family first.

This can't be done. If you lose the morale of the army, you can't let your two thousand precious soldiers go into battle when you attack the city, right? If ten of these miscellaneous soldiers died, he would not even blink his eyelids, but if one of the elite soldiers died, he would feel distressed for a long time.

With a livid face, Le gave an order: "The whole army retreats in an orderly manner, and the formation must not be disturbed."

Hearing Lejiu's order, two thousand elite soldiers of the Chinese army and thousands of miscellaneous soldiers surrounded Lejiu and retreated slowly with the flag.

"General Xu Lang, chase after him!" Zhang Duo had already rushed out from the side of the road, staring at Le Jiujun who was retreating not far away, and said excitedly: "If the enemy army is defeated in a battle and the general captures the flag, the general will surely With more rewards, General Xu Lang will be General Xu by then."

I can also earn a school lieutenant!

"No." Xu Huang shook his head slowly.

"General, the enemy army has already retreated, and they don't know the real situation. I don't know how many people there are in our army. Why didn't they pursue them?" Xu Qian seized the opportunity and asked.

"Have you ever read "Zuo Zhuan"?" Xu Huang looked at the two of them and asked.

Zhang Duo and Xu Gan both blushed and shook their heads.

"The two of us are poor people, how can we have the opportunity to study?"

Although Confucius established private schools as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, advocating that "there is no discrimination in teaching", in fact, before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, knowledge was basically monopolized in the hands of the nobles, and most ordinary people did not have the right to study. Books are useless if you don't know how to read.

The so-called humble scholars are actually weak nobles. These nobles may have lost all their property, but the books have been passed down. It's just a history of the decline and revival of the nobles.

And most ordinary people don't read books.

Xu Huang smiled: "I will teach you how to read and write later. How can a general not understand the art of war?"

"In this case, let me tell you about the section "Cao GUI's Controversy" in "Zuo Zhuan" first." Xu Huang said slowly: "Qi State attacked Lu State at Changshao, which is the Battle of Changshao The military strength of the State of Lu was not comparable to that of the Qi army, but at this time there was a man named Cao GUI from the State of Lu who stepped forward."

"The Qi army attacked three times, and Cao GUI ordered the Lu army to defend with all their strength and not to fight."

Zhang Duo curled his lips: "This Cao GUI seems to be a timid and fearful person. If it were me, I would have already led the army and fought to the death with the opponent."

Xu Huang smiled, and said again: "Afterwards, Cao GUI ordered the drums to march. The Qi army passed the three drums at this time, and their morale was weak, while the Lu State was the first drum, and the morale of the whole army was like a rainbow. Therefore, although the Lu army has few soldiers, , but defeated the mighty Qi army."

"After the victory of the Lu army, Duke Zhuang of Lu ordered the Lu army to pursue it, but Cao GUI did not agree." Xu Huang explained: "After he climbed to the high platform and looked from a distance, he found that the Qi army's ruts were chaotic and out of order. It was premeditated but the chaos was indeed broken, so the pursuit was ordered, and the Lu army won a big victory."

Xu Qian seemed to have realized something: "Xu Lang Jiang, what do you mean, that happiness is false retreat?"

Xu Huang nodded approvingly: "That's right. Although the enemy troops fled in all directions, Lejiu's Chinese army is still in a tight formation. Our army is not strong enough to go out of the city. If we go forward and pursue them at this time, both sides will be hurt. Therefore, we will stop as soon as we see it." Can."

Zhang Duo and Xu Gan suddenly realized that they admired Xu Huang a lot, and said in unison: "I will definitely read more military books when I go back, and I ask General Xu Lang to give me some advice."

"It's easy to say, clean up the battlefield and return to the city!"

Xu Huang led the army to pick up the ordnance, supplies, food and grass discarded by Le Jiujun, and returned victorious.

However, Le Jiujun managed to stabilize his formation after being defeated for dozens of miles. He was relieved to see that Xu Huang did not lead his army to pursue.

After finally waiting for the sky to light up, Le ordered the remnant soldiers to be summoned, but only about half of the troops were summoned, that is, about 10,000. Most of the Le Jiujun were recruited by Yuan Shu from various counties and counties in Huainan. Now that they were startled away by Xu Huang's army, all of them naturally missed their family, so they left one after another.

After counting the number of people, Le's face turned ashen.

"Damn it, damn it Xu Huang, you and I will never die together!"

Seeing Le, he looked furious, and all the generals were relieved, and they didn't dare to approach him. Lejiu's brother Lecheng had no choice but to persuade him, "Brother, there are only 10,000 soldiers left in our army. If we attack Yinling City by force, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties."

"Then what do you say?" Le said angrily.

"What Dr. Yan is worried about is that Xu Huang led the army to raid Shouchun. As long as our army surrounds and does not attack, it is good to keep Xu Huang firmly in Yinling City. We don't want meritorious service, but we want nothing to go wrong." The deputy general said bitterly. Persuade.