"Hurry! Move quickly!"

"Retreat quickly, retreat quickly, and the entire army evacuated eastward!"

"Jin Army, Jin Army is here!"

"It's Xue Ao!"

"Cabin! Cavalry!"

There was chaos in Kaiyang City. In order to cover the evacuation of the large army, some soldiers from Jiangdong took the initiative or passively left behind to cut off the rear, temporarily blocking the pursuit of Taiyuan cavalry at the cost of sacrifice.

Seeing this, the cavalry general Zhong Liao sent someone to report to Xue Ao: "The streets and alleys in the city are narrow, and the enemy's rear guards are also guarding the important roads. The cavalry cannot be used and it is difficult to pursue..."

Upon hearing the news, Xue Ao shouted: "Report to me about Zhao Bohu's whereabouts!"

Soon a cavalry came to report: "Report to General, some soldiers saw Zhao Bohu heading towards the East City Gate."

"Is it so decisive to retreat?"

A few surprises flashed in Xue Ao's eyes, and this surprise was soon replaced by secret joy.

After all, compared to fighting inside the city, fighting outside the city can exert the true strength of the Taiyuan cavalry.

Thinking of this, Xue Ao ordered without hesitation to order the three generals Wei Xu, Dong Dian and Zhong Liao to lead the cavalry back from the original route of the Nanchengmen, and to go out of the city to pursue the Jiangdong army trying to break through.

After giving the order, he waved his hand to call his nephew Zou Shi and told him: "Go and meet your father, tell me, I will chase Zhao Bohu first and ask him to follow as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" Zou Shi hugged her fists and turned around and left.

In just half a stick of incense, Xue Ao returned to the south gate.

At this time, it was not only Wei Xu, Dong Dian, and Zhong Liao who led the cavalry to set up attacking formations in the open space outside the city. Even Zou Zan also sent a Taishi army to circumn outside the East City Gate, obviously to intercept the Jiangdong Army and prevent the Jiangdong Army from breaking south.

However, unexpectedly, the Jiangdong Army broke through the eastward decisively.

"General."

After seeing Xue Ao from afar, Wei Xi immediately rode his horse and said with his fists: "The soldiers are ready, I wonder what instructions the general has?"

Xue Ao stared at the Jiangdong Army who was evacuating quickly in front of him and said in a deep voice: "Tell all the brothers of the army that I have watched Zhao Bohu to death. Today, only Zhao Bohu is the only one. No matter how far he fled to the ends of the world, he will be removed!"

At the end of the conversation, he suddenly clenched his fist, and there was nothing in his palm, but he made a crisp sound.

"Abide by the order!"

Wei Xun hugged his fists, and when he turned his horse's head, he shouted loudly: "The general has an order. Brothers must keep an eye on Zhao Bohu's whereabouts to death, and never ask him to escape!... Zhong Liao, cooperate with me to launch an attack, Dong Dian, you are here to support him and keep an eye on Zhao Bohu's whereabouts!"

"yes!"

"attack!"

"Whoa whoa!"

After a command, Wei Xun led about 3,000 cavalry to launch an assault on the retreating Jiangdong Army. Only more than a thousand cavalry led by Dong Dian were left, and slowly rode on the periphery of the battlefield, staring at Zhao Bohu's location.

"It's not good..."

At this time, among the evacuated Jiangdong army, Chu Xiao frowned and looked at the Taiyuan cavalry in the distance.

Seeing that the Taiyuan cavalry had reserved about a quarter of the cavalry, he vaguely guessed the other party's purpose.

Beside him, Zhao Bohu also stared at the cavalry in the distance without saying a word.

"This time, I'm really careless..."

Zhao Bohu thought to himself with sadness.

To be fair, it was not actually his carelessness. In fact, he was already careful enough. When Master Chen threw out the bait Kaiyang, he endured it for nearly ten days before he started to act.

But he didn't expect that in order to get rid of him, the Jin army opposite was so calm and hid on Mengshan west of Kaiyang for more than ten days. Even when he led his army to attack Kaiyang yesterday, the Jin army did not move at all. He watched Kaiyang be captured by him, and he watched more than 5,000 Jin troops in the city be defeated by him.

How to say, in order to get him into this trap, Grand Master Chen, Zou Zan, Xue Ao and others were at all costs this time.

"Is this retribution?"

Zhao Bohu suddenly thought of Zhang Jing.

I still remember that last year, he killed Zhang Jing in Xia Pi. I didn’t expect that today, he encountered the same situation as Zhang Jing at that time.

but……

"It's not that easy to want my life!"

After "Fur" breathed a long sigh, Zhao Bohu quickly cheered up and ordered in a deep voice: "Transfer to Cheng Yi that blindly escaping will only be defeated by the Jin army, and ask him to gather his troops as soon as possible and cover each other with me."

"yes!"

"Chu Xiao! Wu Tai!"

"clear!"

After all, the Jiangdong Army withdrew from the city had nearly 30,000 people. Even if the Taiyuan cavalry seized the opportunity and killed them for a while, the remaining soldiers still had enough troops to resist the cavalry.

Now, after realizing the intention of the Taiyuan cavalry on the opposite side, Zhao Bohu changed his previous order to evacuate and ordered the entire army to set up a defensive formation on the flat ground outside the city, trying to reverse the situation by taking the opportunity to severely damage the Taiyuan cavalry.

But unfortunately, both Xue Ao and his deputy general Wei Xu were both generals who were very good at commanding cavalry and knew the advantages and disadvantages of cavalry. When they noticed the reorganization of the formation of the Jiangdong Army, Wei Xu immediately ordered the stop of attack and led the cavalry out of the battlefield, regained his previous "watching" state, and looked at the Jiangdong Army from afar.

Seeing this, Chu Xiao cursed inwardly: "Damn it, are they all so calm?"

It has to be said that he actually prefers to have a melee with the Taiyuan cavalry in the distance. After all, there are nearly 30,000 people on one side, while the Taiyuan cavalry is estimated to be only four or five thousand. With such a huge gap in military strength, the Jiangdong Army is not without the ability to lose both sides with the Taiyuan cavalry.

Some people may say that if the Jiangdong Army chose to lose both sides with the Taiyuan cavalry, how could Zou Zan resist the more than 20,000 Taishi Army under his command?

The answer is, no resistance.

Things have reached this point, let alone Chu Xiao, even Zhao Bohu has given up his hope of winning, because with their 30,000 Jiangdong Army, it is impossible to defeat more than 20,000 Taishi Army and more than 4,000 Taiyuan Cavalry, although the combined strength of the latter two is less than that of theirs.

Therefore, in Chu Xiao's view, the most urgent task is to let his young master and the commander of the Jiangdong Yishi retreat safely to break through. For this reason, he could even sacrifice 30,000 Jiangdong troops here.

In the current situation, if Zhao Bohu wants to break through, he must severely damage the Taiyuan cavalry. Otherwise, if these cavalry send messages to the infantry of the Taishi Army, it would be almost impossible for his young master to retreat to Tancheng safely.

However, what was unexpected was that the Taiyuan cavalry opposite was also very cunning. They could see their plans to die together at a glance, and immediately retreated.

"kill"

There was a sudden shout of killing sound in the west. Chu Xiao turned his head and saw a army of Grand Tutors around a corner of the city and killing them.

I think he is familiar with the generals in Jin.

"Today is the day to avenge General Zhang Jing!"

He shouted the slogan of revenge. Chen Jie, the general of the Grand Tutor who had once guarded Xia Pi with Zhang Jing, led troops to kill him in red eyes.

"whispering sound!"

Zhao Bohu also noticed Chen Jie's army who was approaching them quickly, and waved his hand to order: "Retreat! Ask Cheng Yi and our army to cover each other and retreat east together!"

The two armies covered each other to evacuate. This was originally the best way to prevent enemy pursuits, but the only disadvantage was that it took longer.

But the general of the Grand Tutor Army, Chen Jie, was eager to avenge him. He ignored the Cheng Jie army who was helping him, and led his soldiers to kill Zhao Bohu's army.

"Wow! Is Chen Jie going to fight to the death?"

From afar, Taiyuan cavalry general Zhong Liao said in surprise when he witnessed all this.

Not far away, Xue Ao and Wei Xun also watched the melee ahead and communicated in a low voice.

The two did not immediately order the cavalry to help Chen Jie's army. The reason is very simple, because the Taiyuan cavalry is the protagonist who trapped Zhao Bohu today. As long as thousands of Taiyuan cavalry stared at Zhao Bohu, the latter would naturally not escape. On the contrary, if his Taiyuan cavalry was injured and killed, causing the Taishi Army to lose its eyes and ears on the battlefield, it would be difficult to guarantee whether Zhao Bohu would take the opportunity to escape.

Considering that Zhao Bohu and Cheng Yi's armies were unable to escape quickly, Xue Ao was not in a hurry. After a while, his brother Zou Zan led the main force of the Grand Tutor Army to arrive, and this Jiangdong army would undoubtedly be defeated.

As Xue Ao thought, with the two armies covering each other's evacuation, the two Jiangdong armies of Zhao Bohu and Cheng Yi were unable to withdraw quickly, not to mention that Zhao Bohu's tail was bitten by the Jin general Chen Jie, forcing Cheng Yi to give up evacuation and instead attack Chen Jie.

"Shoot!Shoot!"

"kill"

On the battlefield in the distance, there was chaos. Chen Jie's army alone carried the offensive of nearly 30,000 Jiangdong troops here with only more than 30,000 troops.

With such a huge gap in military strength, Chen Jie's army naturally couldn't get it well. With less than half of the incense stick, more than half of Chen Jie's army suffered casualties.

But this heavy casualties were not worthless, because during this half incense stick, the Jiangdong army under Zhao Bohu was dragged to the spot and evacuated eastward for only more than a hundred feet. This was impossible. After all, thousands of Taiyuan cavalry were staring at each other, and the tail was bitten by Chen Jie's army behind him. Zhao Bohu did not dare to retreat too quickly, for fear that the retreat too quickly would lead to the collapse of the entire army early, so he could only move back step by step.

How far can this retreat method be withdrawn?

Now, the second army of Grand Tutors came quickly, and the generals led by the troops were also considered to be the old acquaintance of Zhao Bohu, Chu Xiao and others. It was Xiahou Lu, the general who guarded Xia Pi with Zhang Jing, Chen Jie and others.

Seeing Chen Jie's army biting the tail of Jiangdong Army from afar, Xiahou Lu shouted in a gutter: "Chen Jie, I'll help you!"

After shouting, he immediately led his army forward and joined forces with Chen Jie's army.

Seeing this scene, Jiangdong Army General Cheng Yi was shocked and angry.

What was shocked was that another army of Grand Tutors chased after him so soon. What was angry was that Chen Jie, the two generals of Xiahou and Lu ignored him at all and were only concerned about attacking Zhao Bohu's one.

"I can't run away, if this continues, no one can run away..."

After gritting his teeth, Cheng Yi grabbed a guard beside him and said, "Take people to Zhao Qushuai immediately and ask him to speed up the evacuation immediately. I will cut off the rear for him!"

"General?!" Cheng Yi was panicked. Obviously, they had realized what Cheng Yi was going to do.

That's right, at this time of crisis, Cheng Yi decided to sacrifice his entire army to win the time for his commander Zhao Bohu, the commander of the Jiangdong Yishi Division.

He thought it very clearly that Jiangdong Yishi could not be without him Cheng Yi, but Zhao Bohu could not be without him. If the latter unfortunately died in battle, then Jiangdong Yishi would definitely repeat the mistakes of the previous Jiangdong Yishi's defeat.
To be continued...