As Li Jue's central army collapsed, Duan Wei turned against him, and Zhang Xiu and Guo Si on both wings were not much better.

Guo Si is also fortune telling. After all, more than 70,000 people are his direct troops. He has to carry one-third of the width of the entire battlefield alone. Moreover, it is on the northwest side of the battlefield, and it is the farthest distance from Duan Wei who is turning against him, and it is not affected for a while.

Therefore, the part of the infantry troops that Guo Si fought against Tai Shi Ci were severely damaged - more than 30 battle elephants were divided into the line of Guo Si's infantry, and they rushed and trampled randomly. After the formation was completely chasing, the 15,000 infantrymen from Tai Shi Ci followed.

Guo Si personally supervised the formation and fought and retreated. He was forced to be chased and gradually retreated to the northwest. After retreating to the edge of the Jing River, he continued to retreat upstream along the river, and finally retreated to Jingyang County.

After the main force of the central infantry disintegrated, the cavalry troops under Guo Si also fled back frantically. They used their speed advantage to distance themselves from Ma Chao and Huchuquan, and paid thousands of casualties and captured people, and finally broke off contact.

Today's bloody battle lasted for a long time. The cavalry on both wings were the first to enter the battle, and they fought the most fiercely and tragic. At the beginning, it seemed to be evenly matched. So Ma Chao also suffered more than a thousand casualties. When Guo Si's troops withdrew, Ma Chao led more than 3,000 cavalry soldiers with combat effectiveness to try to chase them relentlessly.

As a result, after being fled twenty miles by Guo Si, he turned around and fought back. Both sides suffered casualties and injured. Guo Si himself fought with Ma Chao for more than ten rounds before he could defeat him. This was the second time Ma Chao fought with Guo Si in his life, but unfortunately he still had no chance to kill the general. In that battle last year, Ma Chao had a slight advantage, and both sides were injured before the end.

After all, Guo Si was also a general in the Xiliang army who was famous for being the most brave and brave, and survived a one-on-one fight with Lu Bu. In today's battle, Ma Chao also led his troops to fight early in the morning and was not afraid of tigers, so he consumed a lot of physical strength. The gap with Guo Si who always supervised the battle but did not end in person was not so obvious.

However, Guo Si's counterattack also poured a basin of cold water on Ma Chao, which made him notice a problem. As a friendly army, Hu Chuquan did not pick up Guo Si, a relatively hard-boned enemy, but chose to squeeze soft persimmons. After Guo Si retreated, Hu Chuquan took his five or six thousand Shanyu's personal guards to Li Jue's right wing and rushed to Li Jue's infantry.

This cannot be said that Huchuquan does not work hard. After all, they are also working hard to kill the enemy, and there are many killing levels. However, when they see the food, they will chase after anyone who escapes slowly and becomes more and more broken. Whoever escapes relatively quickly and in an orderly manner will be spared.

Ma Chao himself had only more than 3,000 people, and it was too dangerous to chase Guo Si for more than 20,000 riders who broke through the siege. He had to give up and retract his horse and join the ranks of abuse.

Guo Si finally brought more than 20,000 horse-drawn soldiers and retreated to Jingyang in a panic, then closed the city gate, while resting and gathering the defeated soldiers. The more than 20,000 people were not all cavalrymen, some of them were just infantry troops who caught the dead cavalry on the battlefield and fled to Jingyang wildly.

Guo Si ran away, completely exposing Li Juejun's right wing.

The already collapsed Li Jue's central army had to carry the rampage of frontal war elephants, the burst of crossbows, and the crazy pursuit of Gao Shun and Guan Yu; they also had to face the back prick of the left wing Erwuzai Duan Wei on his left waist, and the double-team of Hu Chuquan on his right wing and the late Ma Chao, which of course further accelerated the collapse.

Thousands of strong men surrendered in an organizational manner, knelt down and begged for mercy, and were captured in batches. In the end, only about 10,000 people fled to the Jing River and seized the ship down the river. Those who escaped were basically following Li Jue's iron-kick for many years, and were willing to be so devoted, running for thirty miles to escape to the river before they had not yet dispersed.

Zhang Xiu, on the southeast side of the battlefield, wanted to run away when the central front collapsed, but he was also affected by Duan Wei. Moreover, Zhang Xiu's current territory nest is in Wuwei County, and in the northwest direction, Zhang Xiu could not run directly to the main direction of the nest. The battlefield was blocked by the other armies, so he had to scatter and escape in the direction of Qi County.

During the bloody battle, Zhang Xiu also fought with Zhao Yun for more than 20 years, and soon became dangerous. Finally, he let his personal guards risk his life to break the rear. He abandoned his gun and threw his armor and reduced his weight and used his speed advantage to run away.

Zhao Yun stabbed Zhang Xiu's personal guards to death one after another, and had already let the enemy run away. Zhao Yun took a bow and took several arrows, but he actually caught a moving target at a distance of nearly a hundred steps. Zhang Xiu screamed and ran away with an arrow.

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The chaotic pursuit and slaughter continued until the evening before it gradually subsided.

Like the blood in the setting sun, Guan Yu's main infantry force advanced thirty miles in one noon and most of the afternoon, pushing it to the edge of the Jing River. Duan Wei, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao had also completely blocked the flanks.

Therefore, as long as anyone in this encirclement cannot swim, the empty grain ships on the Jing River will be driven away, and the rest will have to surrender.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu had no time to celebrate the victory, so they were busy rectifying disciplines and recruiting troops to count the profits. They worked hard all night long, and it was not until dawn the next day that Guan Yu and other generals counted the results with their excited and bloodshot eyes.

This battle was not counted as Duan Wei's defeated troops, but a total of 80,000 enemy troops were wiped out. Among them, more than 35,000 were surrendered and captured in an integrated manner.

When cleaning the battlefield, identifying it according to the armor and armor, it is indeed the Western Liang army, and then killing the level and making achievements, a total of 14,000 heads.

There were still thousands of people who probably couldn't find the body. Some were trampled on the ground by elephants. The Yizhou army, based on the idea of ​​being a benevolent army, was too lazy to dig out and behead the beheading plan. So they took a rough inventory and poured a few shovels of soil to completely buried it.

Some of them were finally chased and drowned directly into the Jing River, or they overestimated themselves and wanted to swim across the river but were exhausted, or they were pushed down the river by Li Jue's friendly troops who fled the ship, or they were overturned to the river, or they were drowned by the boat capsized.

Conservatively estimated that at least 20,000 people died.

There are also wounded soldiers who are no less than this, and they are wailing everywhere. There are not so many drugs to treat serious injuries. They can only let them ignore them. If you can save minor injuries, you can save them. Before saving people, you have to see if they come first and then arrive. You must identify the identities of these Xiliang soldiers. The soldiers who follow Duan Wei have higher priority, and the new Lazhuang men with no bad records are also higher priority-

This can be judged by the accent of soldiers. The local accents of Anding County are all the most innocent. Most of the Guanzhong accents have been in the army for less than two years, so I didn’t say anything about Xiliang accents. As long as the broken arm, the broken legs and the broken belly can only give up treatment.

In the year of a major disaster, food shortage is imminent. When the autumn harvest is not achieved, most people in Guanzhong will face a break in the food chain. The wounded need to recover more nutrients than to save normal people, and there is no way to do so in the era when the materials are generally insufficient.

The Xiliang Army was killed by 80,000, and Liu Bei's Yizhou Army suffered considerable casualties. He killed 40,000 enemies and killed 6,000 or 7,000 people, and more were injured.

The main ones were Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's cavalry teams. They were both tough battles in the wings, without the support of war elephants, nor did they have large-scale battles after the collapse of the enemy army. More than 3,000 people were killed in battle, accounting for nearly half of the total deaths in the army.

Among the infantry units in each unit, there were more than 3,000 people dead, and more than 1,000 were the Shanyu personal guards in Huchuquan, not Han people.

The war elephant troops were assassinated and shot more than 40 elephants, which was the most resistant to injury. They rushed to the front assault sharp knife in the second half. When many war elephants were killed, they had more than a hundred feather arrows inserted into their bodies and bamboo armor, and some of them had more than twenty broken guns. All of them were trampled and shot to death by the Xiliang spearmen, and the spears inserted into the elephant were broken, leaving half of them in the elephant's body.

There are also thirty war elephants who are injured in various ways, or they escape uncontrollably after being injured. Only thirty have no injuries or skin injuries. More than half of the 300 elephants have died. If the war elephants are dead, the crossbowmen and drivers on them must have been stabbed to death by the angry Xiliang people and dismembered by the corpse. The war elephants are alive, and the drivers and the crossbowmen are also killed by the enemy's spear javelin.

Considering the special contributions of these soldiers, each ordinary elephant soldier who died in battle immediately received the annual salary pension of 100 s of s of squatter (equivalent to the salary of a town chief). Those who survived the wounded could also receive an additional salary subsidy of "two dou of solar eclipse" until they retired.

Even those who have been accustomed to life and death after fighting for ten years, they feel quite psychologically burdened in the end.

At dawn, before Liu Bei could rest, he summoned Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, Li Suxun You, sat down and drank a little while Yu Yuhan, and counted the number:

"According to Duan Wei's statement, the Xiliang army actually fought 170,000 before the war, and annihilated 80,000 in this battle, and Duan Wei turned against 30,000, which means 110,000 yuan was reduced. Does Li Jue and Guo Si still have 60,000 people?"

Li Su corrected: "I asked Ma Chao specifically, that Guo Si should not have so many people who escaped, and it may be as high as 20,000. In addition to a small number of cavalry, Li Jue's troops were all flocking to the Jing River. We captured Li Jue's grain officer and asked about the size of the grain fleet. The largest number of people was transported away, and it was possible to overload and capsize at any time.

Therefore, it is impossible to have 60,000 troops left. I estimate that there are still 10,000 or 20,000 people who are not surrounded by the organization and fled in scattered parts of the country when they collapsed. Maybe some of them will return to the team, but they are limited to the direct lineage of the Xiliang Army. Those strong men and peasant soldiers will definitely be able to escape and will not be able to work hard for Li Jue anymore, and most of them will return to the farming site."

Liu Bei calculated it, and after explaining this, it seemed that there was still a gap of more than 10,000 people, so he couldn't help asking: "Where are more than 10,000 people?"

Li Su smiled and said, "Then I have to ask Duan Wei. At night just now, I took Dian Wei to his place to comfort him. It is said that his direct troops were only 30,000, and today's battle was lost to thousands, and there were still those who did not follow him in chaos.

But in the end, he withdrew his troops and counted them, and there were 40,000 people - more than 10,000 more than 10,000 more. I guess they were Li Jue and Zhang Xiu's soldiers. They pulled the linen towel that distinguished their identities and pretended to be Duan Wei's soldiers."

After hearing this, the other generals couldn't help but think it was weird, but at least the accounts were closed.

Liu Bei nodded with satisfaction: "That is, in fact, 50,000 enemy troops were fled and evacuated, 20,000 of which were determined to go to Jingyang and headed northwest. Ten thousand five back to Chang'an, and 15 back to 10,000, he had six or seven thousand back to the team, and it might not be all back to Li Jue. Then the only one who could return to Chang'an in the end would be at most 20,000 remaining enemies-

At present, our army should be chasing us urgently and heading straight to Chang'an, right? Guo Si's 20,000 people in Jingyang, don't worry about it for the time being, so as not to lose the big picture due to small losses. Boya Gongda, what do you think?"

Xun You didn't get the opportunity to speak tonight, and immediately expressed his attitude: "The king Mingjian, Guo Si has become tinea scabies, and his more than 20,000 troops cannot affect the battlefield in Guanzhong. I guess he dare not and is unwilling to fight for Li Jue anymore. We will take Chang'an first with one move.

However, the troops cannot march along the Jing River. At most, our army can quickly advance to Linjing County or Qi County, so we must turn to the south, go to Mei County and Wugong direction, and meet with General Zhang. Our army will only carry food for five or six days. Even if we add the remaining grain from Duan Weiying, it will last for seven or eight days. We must retreat south from the Jing River to the Wei River and advance along the Wei River."

Otherwise, even if there are only 30,000 people left in Chang'an to defend the city, they can easily hold on until Liu Bei's food is finished with the army. If there are people in Qixian and Chiyang to hold back the time, the army will be in danger of being out of food.

Liu Bei nodded: "What Gongda said was very good, so he repaired it in the middle of the night and then marched lightly."

After giving the order, Liu Bei seemed to remember something and gritted his teeth and asked: "By the way, have you caught the old thief Jia Xu today? I heard that even Zhang Xiu was injured by Zilong's shot. Jia Xu couldn't run away with Zhang Xiu, right?"

No one could answer this matter. Xun You hurriedly asked some military officials who handled the interrogation of prisoners of war, and then he obtained a seemingly credible information:

"I heard from Li Jue's prisoners that Jia Xu followed Li Jue's army to retreat to the Jing River. However, after someone saw Jia Xu's ship carrying people, he immediately rushed to the northwest shore. He crossed the river and rode his horse upstream. Maybe he was joining Guo Si."

This old thief really changed his power. It seemed that he felt that Zhang Xiu could not escape today, so he decisively abandoned Zhang Xiu, the tool man. He felt that Guo Si had the opportunity to escape back to the northwest, take over Zhang Xiu's territory, and the few counties left by Guo Si's army in the northwest, Jia Xu decisively followed Guo Si and fled back to his hometown in the northwest to occupy his hometown.

Unfortunately, Chang'an is important now, and the Northwest has no time to control it for the time being.

Li Su looked at the map and analyzed in a discussion tone: "Our army now occupies Jieting and Huating, and Guo Si cannot pass. Maybe in order to escape our return to the northwest, he and Jia Xu will go from Jingyang to the north, and go from Guyuan to the northernmost end of the Longshan Mountains, and go back to Wuwei by the prairie occupied by the Qiang people in Beidijun."

Beidi County was no longer an area actually controlled by the imperial court at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In fact, it was a place where the Qiang people or the Southern Xiongnu often came to nomadic places. The water plants were a bit like Ningxia in later generations.

However, if Guo Si wants to pass here, his army must not be enough supplies, and the Jingyang and Guyuan counties cannot provide so much food and grass. Therefore, if Guo Si wants not to starve to death, he must rob the Qiang tribes and even the individual tribes of the Southern Xiongnu Subu Guduhou, and seize their cattle, mutton and meat supply.
Chapter completed!