Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 320 Fight and Retreat
It is not the first time Anton Cavalry has used gunpowder to restrain enemy cavalry.Sun Liancheng also heard that the Anton Cavalry has a secret weapon that can restrain the enemy cavalry, making the enemy cavalry sit down on their horses uncontrollably and become a mess.

However, it is one thing to hear about it, but one has not actually seen it, and even does not know what it is, so it is impossible to take precautions in advance.

Although Sun Liancheng was angry, the army was distracted and suffered heavy casualties. If the battle continued, the entire army might be in danger of being wiped out. It is better to evacuate and rest first.

"The whole army retreats!" Sun Liancheng ordered to retreat unwillingly.

The anti-army cavalry desperately manipulated the frightened horses and fled in the direction of Liaoxi City.

After all, this place is only [-] miles away from Liaoxi City, which has already been captured by the rebels. Even if the rebel cavalry is chased and killed, as long as the rebel cavalry escapes to the vicinity of Liaoxi City, the main force of the rebels who captured Liaoxi City can be rescued at any time, so Luo Ying did not blindly chase down Sun Liancheng and other rebel cavalry who fled.

Instead, concentrate all forces to intercept and surround some of the anti-army cavalry.

About a thousand rebel cavalry were intercepted and surrounded by Luo Ying and other Anton cavalry.

"Huh! Huh!"

"Pfft! Puff——" the divine arm crossbow kept shooting and killing the surrounded rebel cavalry.

Although the encircled anti-army cavalry also counterattacked, they found that the main general and others had fled. They were trapped in a tight siege, their morale was low, and they were very desperate.

In less than half a stick of incense, more than 400 of the 500 anti-army cavalry were killed, and the remaining [-] or more surrendered to Luo Ying in despair.

Luo Ying simply cleaned the battlefield, moved away the intact horses, and then quickly evacuated.

When Sun Liancheng returned to this battlefield with a rebel army of tens of thousands, all that was left was a field of corpses.

"Hateful!" Sun Liancheng was livid with anger.

This battle was obviously head-to-head. He had more cavalry than Anton's cavalry, but he suffered a disastrous defeat, and lost more than 700 cavalry, and his heart was bleeding.And after returning, Master Lu Zhihai Jiedushi will definitely punish him and call him a waste.

Compared to Sun Liancheng who wanted to vomit blood, Luo Ying was more energetic.

Lord Wu Guogong trusted him and asked him to command the 800 Anton Iron Cavalry left in Andong. This was the first time he commanded a battle alone. Although he failed to directly annihilate the 160 anti-army cavalry, he still defeated the anti-army cavalry. Nearly 300 anti-army cavalry were killed and captured, while the Anton Cavalry itself suffered less than [-] casualties, of which only more than [-] were directly killed in battle. Even including the seriously injured, the Anton Cavalry lost only [-] people around.

With the loss of 300 people, more than 700 anti-army cavalry were lost, a nine-fold gap, no matter how you look at it, it is a big victory.

It is said that if you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred.

But sometimes the two armies are at war, and the side that loses and flees often suffers far more losses than the side that wins.

Because the defeated party must flee from the battlefield and leave the battlefield to the victorious party. Those who stay on the battlefield, whether they are directly killed or injured, cannot escape.On the contrary, the winning side can not only capture the injured person of the other side, but also get timely medical treatment for the injured person on their own side.

In Liaoxi City, Lu Zhihai wanted to kill Sun Liancheng.

He has an army of [-], the core of which is the [-] Modao Army and the [-] cavalry.

If it is said that [-] Anton cavalry can be wiped out, and he loses more than [-] cavalry, Lu Zhihai will not be angry, but will be very happy.But the situation is just the opposite.

Sun Liancheng led his [-] cavalry against the [-] Anton cavalry, but they were defeated miserably. He wanted to come back to rescue the soldiers. up.

Lu Zhihai scolded Sun Liancheng a lot. If it wasn't for the occasion of employing people, Lu Zhihai really wanted to dismiss Sun Liancheng and replace him with someone else to lead the cavalry.

"Order the whole army to go directly to Yingzhou City!" Lu Zhihai was planning to rest in Liaoxi City for a day, but the loss of Sun Liancheng's cavalry made him very annoyed, and he immediately wanted to go to Yingzhou City.

As long as Yingzhou City is captured again, there will be no dangerous fortified city behind, and he will soon come to Liaoyang City. After breaking through Liaoyang City, Andong Protectorate will be in the pocket of 'Da Yan'.

After reaching the city of Yingzhou, Lu Zhihai immediately ordered to attack the city.

After building a high city wall more than a year ago, Yingzhou City is almost as strong as Liaoxi City. Lu Zhihai's rebel army spent three days under Liaoxi City, so it is naturally impossible to capture Yingzhou City so quickly.

In fact, when Lu Zhihai attacked Yingzhou City against the army, he encountered almost the same situation as Liaoxi City.

It is still Yuan Kui who presides over the defense of Yingzhou City.Arrows, rolling logs, bricks and other defensive utensils, regardless of consumption, only use the minimum casualties to kill several times or even ten times the number of rebel soldiers.

Lu Zhihai's rebellious army attacked the city for three consecutive days, and after paying the casualties of more than 5000 soldiers, they attacked Yingzhou City when Yuan Kui voluntarily abandoned the city to break through.

Facing Yuan Kui and other Yingzhou defenders breaking through and retreating to other cities, Lu Zhihai once again dispatched Sun Liancheng with the remaining 4000 anti-army cavalry to pursue and kill them.

Undoubtedly, Sun Liancheng and other rebel cavalry were intercepted by Luo Ying and other Anton cavalry.

Last time, seven thousand anti-army cavalry were defeated against five thousand Anton cavalry.This time, the number of the two sides was almost the same, and the anti-army cavalry was no longer the opponent of Anton's cavalry.

Luo Ying and other Anton cavalry not only firmly suppressed Sun Liancheng and other anti-army cavalry in terms of hard power, but also used the "shocking thunder" as last time, causing the anti-army horses to run wildly in shock and uncontrollably.

Sun Liancheng and other anti-army cavalry were defeated immediately, and about 2000 people were lost.

Knowing that Sun Liancheng suffered another defeat, Lu Zhihai was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and once again scolded Sun Liancheng as a waste.

The anti-army cavalry suffered two disastrous defeats, and about 800 people have been lost, leaving only 2000 two hundred cavalry.On the contrary, there are still more than 4000 Anton cavalry including Luo Ying, and it is impossible for the rebel cavalry to compete with Anton cavalry.

Without the threat of the anti-army cavalry, Yuan Kui resisted more calmly from city to city, killing and wounding the vital forces of the anti-army from city to city.

Although Lu Zhihai's rebellious army advanced step by step from the west of Liaoning to Liaoyang City, it seemed that the momentum was unstoppable.But only Lu Zhihai knew how suffocated he was.

Because not only did he have to pay a huge price to attack the cities one by one, but after he captured the cities, because the people in the cities had already evacuated the solid walls and cleared the fields, he could not grab any supplies and had to rely on transportation from Pingzhou City, which was a drop in the bucket.

The closer to Liaoyang City, the longer the logistics supply line, but Luo Ying and other Anton cavalry still went around behind him to sneak attack on his food road.

In order to protect his food road, Lu Zhihai had to send out the remaining 2000 anti-army cavalry including Sun Liancheng again.

After another contact, Sun Liancheng and other anti-army cavalry were undoubtedly defeated again, losing more than a thousand, and the remaining number was less than a thousand.

Lu Zhihai was aggrieved and angry, but fortunately, Liaoyang City was just around the corner.

This is the core of Anton's Protectorate, Li Fei's lair. I don't believe that Anton's defenders can retreat to any other place.
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(End of this chapter)