Chapter 915: Broken tail and seeking life


    Chapter 913: Rescue the tail and seeking life


    However, Qin Hao ordered Li Cunxiao to lead the cavalry to support him, while Li Cunxiao directly ignored all the Liang army defeated troops along the way and led 15,000 cavalry straight to the Huzhu.


    The intersection of Hulao Pass is not far from Hukou in front of the pass. Li Cunxiao led the cavalry to speed at full speed and soon arrived in front of Hulao Pass.


    At this time, nearly half of the Liang army had retreated into the pass. Of course, nearly half of the troops had not yet entered the pass, but they were lined up in an orderly manner.


    On the battlefield in front of Hulaoguan, there were broken limbs and broken arms everywhere at this time, and the outer location of the stone catapult convoy was also in a mess. Only a small part was intact, and there were only more than 3,000 coalition troops left.


    Seeing this scene, Li Cunxiao didn’t know that he was late. Of course, it was not a big deal for Li Cunxiao. After all, he was just responsible for leading the army.


    The main thing that dragged him down was Gongsun Zan, his teammate, and his mistake directly caused the collapse of the Dragon Gate Formation, thus paying the additional price of four or five thousand people dying in battle. Of course, he will also pay the price for it.


    Li Cunxiao rushed over from the sour jujube without stopping. It would be fine if he didn''t catch up with the battle with his lord. If he didn''t even drink the soup here, then his trip would have been in vain.


    Seeing that there were still thousands of Liang soldiers at the city gate before they had entered the city, a bloodthirsty smile flashed across the corner of Li Cunxiao''s mouth, and he shouted for a while: "Kill..."


    "Kill...kill...kill..."


    Li Cunxiao and the coalition reinforcements arrived at this time, which made the Liang army outside the city panic.


    At this moment of life and death, no one cared about the order and rushed into the city gate. For a moment, the gate of Hulao Pass became extremely chaotic.


    "Don''t squeeze... don''t squeeze... If this continues, no one can get in..."


    This kind of persuasion not only has no effect at all, but has become even more chaotic because of the cavalry of the coalition cavalry. The soldiers responsible for managing the order were even trampled to death.


    Li Shimin looked at the messy city gate and saw Li Cunxiao coming to the city gate again. A trace of firmness flashed in his eyes, and then he said in a deep voice: "Pull the suspension bridge and close the city gate."


    "But general and soldiers are outside?" a side general said hesitantly.


    "If you don''t close the city gate, Li Cunxiao will enter the city."


    Li Shimin shouted angrily, but now the general dared not talk back, and immediately went to execute the order in person.


    The moat of Hulao Pass has actually been filled by the coalition forces long ago, so even if the suspension bridge is pulled, soldiers cannot get close to the city gate. However, after pulling up the suspension bridge, there is a suspension bridge as a barrier, so soldiers can only run into the city through the gaps on both sides, which can also limit the area of ??soldiers'' close to the city gate, so as to facilitate people in the pass to close the city gate.


    Seeing that the city gate of Hulao was slowly closed, the soldiers who had not entered the city were completely panicked, some begging, some cried, and some cursed.


    "Don''t close the city gate, I haven''t entered yet..."


    "I have been fighting for the Liang army for ten years and are the heroes of the Liang army. Is this how you treat meritorious officials..."


    "I have a seventy-year-old mother above and a five-year-old child below. I don''t want to die..."


    No matter what, the city gate was closed, and everyone who stopped the city gate was dead at the hands of Liang Jun himself.


    These Liangzhou soldiers did not die in the thrilling Longmen formation, but died in the hands of their own people. How ironic!


    But there was no way. In order to protect Hulao Pass, Li Shimin had no choice but to cut off his tail and survive.


    After counting, it was found that there were only 10,000 soldiers back to the pass.


    In this battle, Li Shimin personally led 40,000 troops out of the pass, blocked the enemy''s reinforcements and used 8,000 troops, defeated the Longmen Formation, and used 20,000 troops, and used 12,000 troops to deal with the trap camp. Lu Bu''s eight thousand enemy troops were abandoned, and there was naturally no second way except death and surrender. Tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in the Longmen Formation, and three thousand soldiers were killed and horses were killed and killed in the battle against the trap camp, with a total of 22,000 troops.


    In other words, the Liang army had 18,000 troops during the retreat, but only a few thousand troops returned to the pass, and nearly eight thousand troops did not come in outside the pass.


    8,000 troops are not short, and Li Cunxiao missed two consecutive wars, and actually had a lot of fire in his heart. Now he finally encountered the opposite direction of venting, so naturally he would not let the soldiers outside the city go.


    The terrain in front of Hulao Pass was narrow and too many troops could not be used, so Li Cunxiao only sent 6,000 cavalry and divided them into three groups of two thousand cavalry each. One group killed from left to right, and the other group killed from right to left, while he himself led 5,000 troops to kill from the middle.


    Under the three routes of cavalry for six years, the already exhausted Eight Thousand Liang Army was soon killed and defeated.


    It is impossible for Liang Jun outside this pass to escape back to the pass, but if he wants to survive, he has the only one to leave, that is, beg for surrender.


    After some rushing, Li Cunxiao saw that the Liang army outside the city had lost all courage, so he accepted their surrender.


    After counting, Li Cunxiao found that there were 6,000 surrendered soldiers, and he relied on only 6,000 cavalry to not only sweep the eight thousand soldiers, but also captured 6,000 soldiers and horses.


    At this time, Qin Hao had also cleaned the battlefield. The eight thousand roadblocking troops led by Lu Bu were killed in battle and surrendered, and nearly three thousand soldiers were killed and killed in the coalition.


    In other words, the coalition forces killed a total of 20,000 enemies and captured 10,000 prisoners, while themselves suffered 10,000 casualties.


    Since the Battle of Hulao Rain, the coalition forces have been on the side of the siege, so the number of casualties has always been above the Liang army, but this battle has reversed most of the troops that have been lost before.


    After Qin Hao cleaned the battlefield, he immediately brought the princes and the remaining troops to Hulao Pass. After arriving, his first order was to take all the prisoners back to the camp.


    Ten thousand prisoners are not a small number. If one is not handled well, it is very likely that it will cause big trouble.


    At this time, the generals, led by Xue Rengui, came to Qin Hao together, and worshiped in unison: "The last generals are incompetent and failed to protect the stone casting convoy. They have the high hopes of the lord (the leader) and hope that the lord (the leader) will be punished."


    Qin Hao smiled indifferently and asked, "How many catapults are left intact?"


    "There are only one hundred left, but if it is dismantled and repaired, fifty should be repaired."


    "Are you one hundred and fifty?"


    Qin Hao pondered for a while, smiled mysteriously and said, "It''s enough."


    Xue Rengui and others couldn''t help but feel a little puzzled when they heard this. The firepower network formed by 150 catapults was not enough to suppress the catapults in Hulao. But why did the lord say it was enough?


    Qin Hao obviously had no intention of explaining it. Instead, he looked at Gongsun Zan among the princes and smiled faintly, "Gongsun Prefect, you have promised this leader, don''t forget!"


    Gongsun Zan''s mouth twitched and he smiled bitterly: "I understand that my Youzhou army will do my best to overcome the merits."


    Qin Hao nodded and then said to Xue Rengui: "Deploy the battlefield immediately. This battle is not over yet. There will be a big battle later..."


    (This chapter ends)