My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 174 Huto Retreat
The effective killing rate of Lu Wu's first round of arrow rain reached 20%.

More than two hundred unlucky guys were hit by arrows. Some were hit in the vitals by the iron arrows and died instantly with a scream, while others were shot and fell to the ground, losing their combat effectiveness. The worst one was that when they were crossing the moat, they were hit by stray arrows, lost their balance, and fell into the moat, becoming food for the water ghosts.

"My men suffered heavy casualties in this round of arrow rain. We cannot fight anymore!"

"Retreat quickly!"

Huto's eyes were as big as bells.

He immediately ordered the messengers to sound the horn to retreat.

"Clang clang clang!"

The sound of the horn reached the ears of the remaining six hundred pioneers.

They felt as if they had been pardoned and immediately fled from the moat, abandoning their weapons and armor.

Even if Huto doesn't sound the gong.

The vanguard, whose men had been reduced by more than 40%, mutinied and retreated.

In the era of cold weapons, those who could maintain this attrition rate and still fight to the death were the elite among the elite.

However, the Hu people, who were cunning and cunning, rushed forward at the sight of profit and fled in all directions at the sight of danger, could not maintain this attrition rate and continue the attack.

Hutto's move to call off the troops was not only to preserve strength, but also because he was worried that the remaining troops would mutiny or be defeated, which would affect the entire army.

But Huto sounded the alarm.

However, Lu Yi would not sit idly by and watch these demoralized Hu people retreat safely back to their camp.

"Cheng Lian!"

"You must lead a thousand auxiliary soldiers out of the city immediately to pursue them! But you cannot chase them too far, you can only chase them 500 steps at most!"

Lu Yi immediately seized the opportunity and ordered Cheng Lian to pursue, while at the same time ordering the remaining 1,000 auxiliary soldiers to continue firing several rounds of volleys, and took away more than 200 people from the 600 remaining soldiers.

"promise!"

Cheng Lian immediately took the order and led his troops in pursuit.

This kind of battle with the wind in your favor is the simplest. The loser will only focus on escaping and will not be able to organize a decent resistance. This can maximize the advantages of the pursuing troops.

Cheng Lian, with a thousand auxiliary soldiers who were fighting for the first time, excitedly pursued the enemy.

And from the remaining 400 pioneers, half of the Xianbei people were left behind.

In the end, only 200 frightened Xianbei vanguards managed to escape back to the camp.

"Kill them!" Hutuo was so heartbroken when he saw that he had lost eight hundred elite soldiers in a tentative siege that he almost fell off his horse.

Looking at Cheng Lian, who was excitedly finishing off the disabled Xianbei vanguard and safely cutting off their heads, he could not help but get furious and immediately hysterically ordered the remaining 3,700-plus Xianbei cavalry who were ready to charge at Cheng Lian and his men.

However, Cheng Lian faithfully carried out Lu Yi's orders and only pursued the Xianbei people for a distance of 500 steps, and there was always a trap range of 400 to 500 steps between him and the Xianbei people.

Seeing this, Lu Yi on the top of the city wall immediately ordered the soldiers to sound the horn and retreat.

After receiving Lu Yi's order, Cheng Lian immediately and decisively gave up some heads that had not yet been collected, and immediately led a thousand auxiliary soldiers with almost no damage to retreat safely back to Luwu.

"Lü Yi! You are such a coward, you are still known as the best hero in Bingzhou!"

After Hu Tuo led the army to pursue the enemy a hundred steps beyond the moat, he dared not continue the pursuit, fearing that he would be caught in the footsteps of the vanguard in front. He could only curse at Lu Yi on the top of the city wall, and then reluctantly retreated to the original battle formation with the injured Xianbei vanguard and hundreds of headless corpses. All this happened in less than half an hour.

"Oh! I didn't expect that Lu Yi was so difficult to deal with. He built a small fortress that was stronger than Jiuyuan County. The day before yesterday, I attacked Jiuyuan County and only suffered 300 casualties. Now, before we even get close to Lu Wu, 700 to 800 people have died. My Hutuo tribe has suffered heavy casualties in this battle!"

Huto was so furious that he even shed tears of regret.

Seeing this, Su Shuang behind him wisely did not step forward to talk.

He had been instigating Hutuo to attack Luwu. Now that the war had failed, Hutuo would most likely vent his anger on himself.

After realizing this, although Su Shuang secretly resented Hu Tuo's incompetence in his heart, he could only retract his neck to avoid being hit by Hu Tuo's gun.

After a long time, Hutto finished venting and regained a bit of rationality.

"No, this Lvwu is too difficult to deal with. Even if Chief Luo Hanyi leads 10,000 troops here in person, it is estimated that it will be difficult to gain any benefits. I'd better catch up with Chief Luo Hanyi and report the situation here before making a decision!"

Hu Tuo looked at Lu Wu who was unharmed and couldn't help but feel like retreating.

"Brother Su, you have seen with your own eyes how difficult it is to attack Luwu. It is not that I, Hutuo, do not obey the orders of Chief Luo Hanyi, nor that I am unwilling to avenge you. It is that the men of my Hutuo tribe have suffered heavy losses. Now there are less than 4,000 people left. It is really difficult to complete Chief Luo Hanyi's mission. What do you have to say about the current situation?"

But the Xianbei people might not mind under normal circumstances, but in wartime, if they disobeyed the orders of their superiors, the consequences would be very serious, and Luo Hanyi's order had already been issued.

It would be fine if Hu Tuo won, as he could use his military achievements to disobey Luo Hanyi's orders.

Now that Hutuo has suffered heavy casualties, he does not want to continue to obey Luo Hanyi's orders. If he does not have a good excuse, I am afraid that even at this critical moment in the war against Han, Luo Hanyi and Budugen will not deal with him, but once the Xianbei people retreat to the grassland.

Based on Hu Tuo's understanding of Luo Hanyi, he will surely face brutal accountability.

Therefore, the cunning Hutuo immediately forcibly pulled Su Shuang, a person outside Hutuo's department, over, wanting him to endorse his disobedience to Luo Hanyi's orders.

"Brother Hu Tuo is right. It seems that Lü Yi has known about the Xianbei army's invasion to the south for a long time. He built the city defense so solidly. If the 10,000-man army is not here in person, it will be difficult to shake Lü Wu."

"Our army has suffered heavy casualties and is running low on food and fodder. We should catch up with Chief Luo Hanyi first and then make other plans!"

Although Su Shuang understood Hu Tuo's thoughts, he knew that a strong attack would be useless at the moment, so it would be better to conserve his strength and retreat temporarily.

Make plans after meeting up with Luo Hanyi.

Luo Han also coveted the smuggling business that I told him about, and would definitely not give up attacking Luwu.

"Alright, then we will retreat for now and come back to deal with Lu Yi another day!"

Seeing that Su Shuang was willing to endorse him, Hu Tuo took advantage of the situation and immediately led the remaining soldiers to leave Jiuyuan Pavilion without looking back and chase after Luo Hanyi's army.

"The Xianbei people are defeated!"

"we won!"

The soldiers and civilians on the city wall of Luwu who had been closely watching the actions of the Hutuo tribe couldn't help but burst into warm cheers when they saw the Xianbei people defeated and retreating.

"Brother, we have successfully repelled the Xianbei people!" Cheng Lian was also very excited and shouted to Lu Yi repeatedly.

"This Hu man has some brains."

On the contrary, Lu Yi felt a little regretful when he saw this.

He had prepared many good things specifically for Huto, but now that Huto had run away, they were of no use to him.

(End of this chapter)