The setting sun was as bloody as it sprinkled the last red on the Tengchong territory. From the war that broke out in the early morning to the present, both sides were exhausted, but the mood of the commanders of both sides was completely different. Hu Zehua smiled, and he had seen the dawn of victory. The Panshi Battalion of the Northern Army had deeply penetrated into the Shu army's formation, and the division and siege were being completed. After a day of fierce fighting, Hu Zehua also put away his contempt for the Shu army. Although this army was not as tenacity as the Northern Army, it was indeed a rare strong army. Especially the Northern Army fought from the battlefield, but the Shu army had almost not experienced much battle. Hu Zehua was very surprised that he had such combat power. No wonder the opponent's chief general Xie An dared to set up a formation and fight head-on with the Northern Army. This unit wearing straw sandals and leggings did have his proud capital.

Unfortunately, he encountered the invincible Northern Army.

Looking up at the sky, Hu Zehua said: "Tele to the reserve team, prepare to take the final blow."

Hu Zehua was preparing to launch the final attack, and Xie An also keenly noticed this point. In this battle, the Shu army was defeated. This was not the first blow to the proud Shu army. In this battle, there was no cunning plan, and some were only face-to-face, and the Shu army lost. Xie An was very sad. The Shu army was not lost in morale or fighting spirit. They lost in equipment. The excellent equipment of the Northern Army shocked him. Ordinary soldiers were wearing iron armor, and the standard equipment on their bodies was equipped with short daggers, short crossbows and other weapons. In close combat, their excellent equipment made the Shu army suffer a great loss. Even if the Northern Army acted a little slow, it always seemed a bit difficult to move in front of the mountain enemies.

Seeing the enemy's central army flag shaking, Xie An immediately understood that the opponent was going to launch a final fierce attack. He looked at the battlefield with regret. In such a frontal contest, the same number of Shu troops would definitely not be the opponent of the Northern Army. This was a lesson he had exchanged for the blood of the soldiers.

The war drums sounded in the Shu army, and the hard-working Shu army suddenly shouted loudly in the battlefield. At this moment, they seemed to burst out with great energy and launched a fierce counterattack in every corner of the battlefield. The dying enemy suddenly counterattacked, which had already won the victory and was beaten backwards.

"They are going to run away!" Li Chunsheng, deputy general of Panshi Battalion, looked at Hu Zehua and shouted: "General, I'll go and stabilize my position."

Watching the opponent's desperate counterattack on the battlefield, Hu Zehua nodded, "Interrupt, split, and leave as many enemies as possible."

"I understand, general!" Li Chunsheng said loudly.

A new force of three thousand people rushed into the battlefield, and the target pointed directly towards Xie An's central army.

The desperate counterattack of the Shu army on the battlefield was able to win the opportunity to retreat for their rear army. Xie An did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered to retreat. The hero cut off his arm and was helpless. If he hesitated, the entire army would be stuck and there would be no chance to retreat. Finally, he looked at the subordinates stranded on the battlefield, and then looked at the opponent's supporter who was directly inserted on the battlefield. Xie An sighed deeply, turned his horse's head, and headed straight for Tengchong County. Next, he could only defend the county and wait for reinforcements. The Shu army in Tengchong had lost the ability to go out of the city to fight.

Xie An's reaction was timely and accurate. Li Chunsheng's three thousand new forces did not stick to his opponent after all, allowing him to withdraw from the battlefield smoothly. Li Chunsheng looked at Xie An's remaining troops unwillingly, spat fiercely, and gave a loud order. The entire army turned around and cut off the retreat of the other Shu army who were still trapped on the battlefield.

"Surrender and don't kill!" The shouts resounded through every corner of the battlefield.

The main force retreated, but could not win the battle and had no way to retreat. Except for a few of the Shu troops on the battlefield who were still fighting desperately, the rest of the Shu troops put down their weapons with their arms, raised their hands to surrender to the Northern Army, and those who were stubborn in the corner were annihilated in a moment.

In this battle, the Northern Army killed more than 3,000 people from Tengchong, captured more than 1,000 people, and killed more than 2,000 people. This was the first real battle between the Northern Army and the Shu Army, and also gave the Northern Army a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Northern Army. His significance was not only the victory of Hu Zehua's battle.

The troops of Panshi Camp followed Xie An's escape route and rushed to Tengchong City. As Xie An had just entered Tengchong, his butt was not even warm, and the vanguard of the Northern Army had already arrived at Tengchong City.

Within the next day, more Panshi Battalion troops arrived in Tengchong. Three days later, Panshi Battalion logistics and supplies troops arrived in Tengchong. They were exhausted with heavy weapons. They obviously suffered a lot through the Tengchong Wetland.

Fortunately, the heavy weapons of the Northern Army have already achieved standard Chinese accessories. Heavy weapons such as thunderbolt cannons can be removed and then reinstalled. Looking at the dense thunderbolt cannons that appeared overnight under the city, Xie An in Tengchong City gasped. A combat unit was actually equipped with so many heavy weapons, which was unimaginable in Xie An's opinion.

Is this the difference between the Northern Expedition Army and the Shu Army? Xie An felt very bad. The Thunderbolt cannon is not a new thing, and the Shu army is also equipped with a large number of them. However, for each Thunderbolt cannon, the Shu army must equip it with at least fifty soldiers. Look at the Thunderbolt cannons under the city like a dense forest. If the Shu army is equipped, how many people should the Northern Expedition Army be equipped? Obviously this is impossible. All this can only show that the opponent needs to install and operate the Thunderbolt cannon to complete the work that the 50 people in the Shu army cannon cannon.

The innovation of every important weapon will cause a huge change in the form of battle. The birth of the Thunderbolt cannon is that the city guards are also facing a terrifying blow. The birth of the rigging makes the chariot soldiers become a history. The current demon-subduing crossbow and the emergence of the Thunderbolt fire in the Northern Army will make the dense military formation a nightmare. Will the form of war change again?

First, use these large-scale attack weapons to attack the enemy, then use the Mongolian cavalry to attack the opponent, and finally use infantry to crush all opponents like mills. Is this the wishful thinking of the Northern Army?

"Ceek for help from Jingzhou City!" Xie An said to the guard beside him with a blue face.

Jingzhou is now full of smoke. Yun Zhao issued an order to Meng Yao, Jamuhe, and Tuli to restrain Xie Shilin's Shu army so that they could not pose a threat to the Northern Army's attack on Xiangzhou, Luzhou and other places. However, Yun Zhao's order was ambiguous and did not restrict their behavior. These three were all the highly offensive generals. When they arrived in Jingzhou, they immediately launched a highly targeted combat against Jingzhou. Meng Yao used the main force of Lucheng Camp to advance to Jingzhou City. The vanguard was only more than fifty miles away from Jingzhou City, and they could launch an attack at any time. Jamuhe and Tuli led the elite troops of the Mongolian army, with iron cavalry and countless Mongolian cavalry traversing Jingzhou, destroying traffic and attacking towns. For a moment, Jingzhou was in a panic. The grass and trees were all soldiers, and the counties along the Cangjiang River were all in an emergency state of preparation.

Xie Zhao from Yuzhou received an order from Xie Shilin to march from Yuzhou and threatened Lucheng Camp from the flanks to relieve the pressure on Jingzhou City. At the same time, he gathered troops in Jingzhou City and prepared to leave the city to meet the enemy at any time.

At this moment, the letter of help brought by the messenger from Tengchong gave him a bucket of cold water, which made him cold from the beginning. Xie An's ten thousand Tengchong garrison was the elite of the Xie family. He was completely defeated in a head-on battle with his opponent, and was forced to retreat to Tengchong County. Their opponent was not the most powerful force of the Northern Army.

The most powerful army of the Northern Expedition Army was opposite to it, which was Meng Yao's Lucheng Camp. In this way, it is conceivable how powerful the Lucheng Camp is. What's more, Lucheng Camp has the help of the Mongolian cavalry.

If Xie Shilin did not have an intuitive understanding of Meng Yao's Lucheng Camp, Xie Shilin was familiar with the fighting style of the Mongolian army coming and going like the wind. The ancestors of Xie helped the ancestors of the ancestors of all dynasties to launch countless attacks on the Mongolian army, but they never won a complete victory. They had a deep understanding of the power of the Mongolian cavalry.

But Tengchong had to save him. If Tengchong fell, would his opponent attack Jingzhou or head towards Xiangzhou? Xie Shilin was not sure. With Yun Zhao's use of troops, no one could guess what he was thinking. In Xie Shilin's view, the opponent's possibility of attacking Jingzhou was greater. After all, Jingzhou was rich and Xiangzhou was poor. Attacking Jingzhou would give the Northern Army more gains.

"Let the cavalry go to Tengchong to help!" Xie Shilin finally made a decision. At present, the Panshi Camp of the Northern Expedition Army gathered in Tengchong County, and the cavalry in that area could be used. Apart from the cavalry that serves as scouts, the Panshi Camp does not have complete cavalry combat power. If the Shu cavalry can arrive at Tengchong County safely, it will become a decisive force, at least it can maintain its rush. The only thing to worry about is how this cavalry can escape the pursuit of the Mongolian cavalry.

"The only thing we can rely on is to surprise." Looking at the map, Xie Shilin led the two cavalry generals behind him, "Your 5,000 cavalry is almost half of our Shu army's cavalry. Now the enemy does not expect that under the pressure of their army, we dare to attack lightly. Moreover, the Mongolian cavalry is unscrupulously attacking Jingzhou Township. The troops are very dispersed and it takes a certain amount of time to assemble. This is another advantage for us. The third advantage is that our war horses have a long endurance.

Long-distance raids, while the Mongolian Iron Cavalry's war horses are better at short-distance assaults and have good explosive power. As long as we can save them for a moment, we can use this advantage of our war horses to get rid of the opponent's pursuit, arrive in Tengchong, and give the North Army a fatal blow to the Panshi Camp of the Conquest Army, then enter Tengchong County and find an opportunity to fight again. Remember, you must not fight head-on with the Mongolian Iron Cavalry. Once you meet them, the first priority is to run. First drag them with them, so that their war horses can't run, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack."

"I understand the general!"
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