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Chapter 1198 I'll Cover You

After Hu Dawei returned to his central military camp, he immediately gathered a thousand servants and personal soldiers, whipped their horses and urged them to ride out of the camp, galloping straight towards Feng Dadong's front camp.

Hu Zichen looked at the cavalry team going away, feeling very worried, but he was helpless...

He originally wanted to lead the cavalry to support Feng Dadong instead of Hu Dawei, but Hu Dawei ordered him to stay in the central army and did not even give Hu Zichen any chance to fight for it. He set off immediately after gathering all the troops.

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Wang Tianshun's entire body was covered in black and red. No one knew whether it was dyed red by his own blood, or by the enemy's blood that splashed on his body and then mixed with the dust to turn it into a black and red color.

Although he had not eaten a full meal for several days, he burst out with great strength at this moment. He ran at the front alone, screaming loudly: "Don't... don't kill me... don't kill me..."

His extremely hoarse voice had a strong penetrating power and seemed to be heard from very far away. Even though the deserters following behind him were making the same roar, they still could not completely cover up his highly distinctive hoarse roar.

  The army was routed like a landslide!

Feng Dadong initially killed several defeated soldiers who fled back from the east and barely frightened away the defeated soldiers behind them. However, as more and more bandits climbed over the wall and poured in, they rushed over howling like tigers and wolves, and the officers and soldiers, who were already demoralized and hungry and exhausted, were finally completely defeated.

They shouted and fled towards the rear camp. No matter how Feng Dadong and his servants killed them, they could not scare them away. In the end, these defeated soldiers even dared to resist. After injuring two servants, they finally gave up trying to stop the defeated soldiers from escaping.

"Uncle, we can't hold on any longer. Let's run away!"

Feng Kuan rode his horse quickly to his uncle Feng Dadong, raised his hand and whipped his warhorse on its butt. The pain made the horse under Feng Dadong suddenly raise its front hooves and gallop towards the rear camp like crazy.

"Quick, protect the general and break through. Charge out."

Feng Kuan shouted and urged his horse to chase after them. More than 180 servants protected Feng Dadong, pushed away the fugitives blocking their way, and even used spears, hammers and clubs to cut a bloody path, and headed straight for the back door of the camp.

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  The commander-in-chief has fled, so why would the officers and soldiers still fight for their lives?

Feng Dadong's escape became the last straw that broke the camel's back for the front camp. Not only did the eastern defense line collapse, but even the western line, which had been able to hold on, collapsed in an instant. All the officers and soldiers in the entire front camp fled backwards.

They even dropped their weapons and ran away desperately like crazy, as if there were man-eating devils behind them and they would be eaten if they ran slower.

Zhao Qiangong was originally ordered to go to the left wing to block the gap, but when he reached the left wing with less than 400 cavalrymen, he happened to see the left wing collapse, with hundreds of defeated soldiers fleeing towards him.

The hundreds of cavalrymen he led had not yet had a fight with the invading bandits, but their formation was disrupted by their own people first. Some fearless fleeing soldiers even took the opportunity to pull the cavalrymen off their horses, then jumped back on their horses and fled away.

Seeing hundreds of bandits shouting and rushing towards him from behind, Zhao Qiangong knew that his formation was in chaos and his morale was completely gone. At this moment, he was unable to stop the bandits, so he shouted to the knights and ran to the rear with the fleeing soldiers.

But he had just galloped a few steps when he suddenly heard a rapid and sharp sound of breaking wind behind his ears. Before he could react, he felt a chill on his neck, followed by a huge force that knocked his head forward.

Zhao Qiangong's eyes were full of disbelief. He turned around slowly on his horse, and as soon as he opened his mouth, a mouthful of bright red blood spurted out. He opened his mouth weakly, but could only spit out mouthfuls of blood and could no longer make any sound.

His left hand still held the reins tightly, and his right hand was weakly raised up, but it stopped halfway. With a "bang", Zhao Qiangong fell off the horse's back. The huge noise startled the warhorse and made it neigh and gallop away. The hundreds of cavalrymen were not incapable of fighting, they were just in disarray. As long as they retreated a little, reorganized and fought the bandits again, they might be able to drive the bandits out with the advantage of the cavalry's impact.

  It’s a pity that they couldn’t wait for this opportunity, and they will never have this opportunity again!

Qi Dakan, the general of the bandit army who was in charge of attacking the front camp of the Baoding army, looked at Zhao Qiangong who had fallen off his horse not far away, put down his bow with a little pride, and said lightly: "Go, report the victory to Lord Shan, the front camp of the infantry has successfully attacked the enemy camp!"

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After Hu Dawei led nearly a thousand servants and soldiers out of the camp and marched northwest for less than a quarter of an hour, he saw smoke and dust billowing in front of him, and it was very noisy.

He felt something was not right, so he ordered all teams to immediately disperse into battle formations, while he himself led ten personal soldiers to a small mound more than ten feet away to the east.

Hu Daweice looked forward on his warhorse. The flying dust obscured his vision, but he could still vaguely see that many officers and soldiers were running away crying for their lives, just like rabbits chased by dogs, running around in panic like wolves and beasts.

"quick."

Seeing this, Hu Dawei had no time to think carefully and shouted, "Return to camp. Quick, all troops return to camp."

A leader of the guards asked in confusion, "Master, are you not going to save the front camp?"

"The front camp is finished, let's go back to defend."

Hu Dawei glanced towards the front camp again, his eyes full of regret, and said, "Send two people to tell Governor Yang the news."

"And send two more people to tell Zeng Xinjun that if the enemy troops attack urgently, they can retreat to my central army and I will support them!"

After Hu Dawei finished speaking, he did not stop at all, whipped his horse, and rushed back the way he came...

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"Tum! Tum! Tum!"

After three cannon shots, the position of the Chuang army facing the Shuipo Ji side was like boiling water. The infantry and cavalry took turns launching charges, sweeping southwards towards the Ming army's camps like rolling waves.

In particular, Yang Wenyue's central army camp of the Baoding Army was the first to bear the brunt of the attack. Liu Tichun commanded more than 10,000 soldiers in his own camp, plus the two armies of Li You and Bai Minghe, and marched straight towards Yang Wenyue's central army camp.

On the other side, Ren Jirong's army also launched an all-out attack on Hu Dawei's front camp. Although Zeng Xin's army was not as strong as Feng Dadong's, they were well prepared and fought on equal terms with Ren Jirong's army.

"General, there are too many bandits. We can't defend it."

After hearing the words of the leader of his personal guards, Zeng Xinjun glanced at the battlefield and saw that his camp had been breached by the enemy army. Facing an enemy army that was several times larger than his own, if he continued to persist, his entire army would surely be wiped out.

He shouted loudly: "You lead the brothers to retreat to Tiger General's central army, I will cover your retreat!"