Chapter Fifty-Seven
"Brother, our army can no longer pursue it and must retreat!" Pu Guang shouted to Pu Tu who was not far away.
Pu Tu hadn't noticed the situation around him. When he heard that Pu Guang proposed to retreat, he immediately said dissatisfied: "Why? Why don't they pursue the enemy with only a thousand cavalry? How can we wait for the master if we return now?"
Pu Guang thought that he didn't know how to explain himself now when he went back, so he quickly reminded: "Brother, look around, how many people are left in our army?"
Pu Tu turned his head and took a look, feeling that the formation had become a lot sparse. After a rough count, he couldn't help but tremble. Unknowingly, there were more than 2,000 riders missing! He recalled the whole process in his mind, even though he was chasing after him.
They had traveled more than ten miles, but they always maintained a distance of seventy to eighty steps from the enemy, just outside the range of most of our own bows and arrows. Suddenly, I understood that this was a deliberate move by the enemy.
, and killed the enemy troops one by one while escaping. During the entire pursuit, only a few of the enemy troops were shot by our own arrows, but the price paid was that more than 2,000 horsemen on our own side had been killed.
When he thought that Pu Hong would not be merciful when he returned, he couldn't help but turn pale. Liu Shen Wu Zhu asked: "If we return now, how can our lord spare us two brothers?"
Pu Guang suddenly said anxiously: "Brother, how can you take care of this at this time? The enemy's tactics are novel and vicious, which we have never seen before. If we continue to pursue, our army will be completely destroyed, and you and I will be destroyed."
People still cannot escape death, I'm afraid it will also affect their relatives. If you don't go back and apologize to the lord, maybe he will spare your life and mine because of the love we have been following for many years. Please make a decision quickly, brother.
.Otherwise, the entire army will be annihilated and it will be too late to say anything."
Pu Tu's face changed violently, obviously he was having an ideological struggle. After a moment, he made a decision and said loudly: "As brother said, the whole army retreats!"
However, it was not possible for the war horses that were traveling at high speed to turn around so easily, and the Di army had not received Yunfeng's professional equestrian training. In the blink of an eye, the entire formation was in chaos. The ones in front had a hard time stopping forcibly, and those behind them bumped into each other.
When they came up, there was a burst of trampling on each other, people fell on their backs, and more than two hundred Di soldiers fell to the ground.
It's not that easy for the Di people to run away. Yunfeng naturally won't let him go. He immediately gave the order and the soldiers turned their horses and chased after them to cover up the kill. They raised their bows and fired in a chaotic manner. The Di army was already out of formation.
, and then being chased by random arrows from behind, the whole army collapsed in the blink of an eye. They all picked up their whips and whipped the horses' butts wildly, wishing that the horses under them would grow four legs again. Along the way, there were constant enemies who were hit by arrows and fell from their horses.
They were lucky to be killed by an arrow, but quite a few of them were hit by arrows but survived. They fell from their horses and were trampled to death by the pursuers behind them! The entire long strip of grassland was littered with corpses.
The pursuers pursued them until they were seven or eight miles away from Puhong's camp before Yunfeng ordered them to stop the pursuit. This was not because Yunfeng wanted to let them go, but because he was worried that if they chased them too close, Puhong would become angry and send another ruthless attack.
When a cavalry army comes out, Yunfeng will have to drink a pot. Judging from the physical strength of our horses, it will be difficult to chase and escape again, and they will be forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. This is Yunfeng's side.
What Feng doesn’t want to see.
Watching about two thousand cavalry disappear into the darkness, Yunfeng left a hundred cavalry behind to serve as a guard, while he led the remaining men and horses back slowly along the original road, collecting scattered horses and various trophies along the way.
In the meantime, everyone was very busy, collecting horses, searching for corpses, and the casualties found were immediately carried to horses after emergency treatment. The whole crowd was filled with joy after a great victory.
On the contrary, the Puhong tent was filled with the depressing atmosphere before the storm.
Although Pu Guang and Pu Tu described the battle process, no, but the massacre process in detail, Pu Hong still couldn't accept the result that only 2,000 of the 6,000 cavalry returned. You know, the opponent only had 1,000 cavalry, even if one
If you exchange one life for another, can you get five thousand riders back?
Pu Hong glanced coldly, staring directly at Pu Guang and Bo Tu, who were kneeling in front of him. Although they both shrugged their heads with expressions of extreme remorse, Pu Hong looked at Pu Guang and Bo Tu, who were kneeling in front of him.
In Hong's eyes, the murderous intention in his heart became more and more intense! "Bang~!" He punched several cases fiercely, and they were smashed into a pile of sawdust on the spot! He said angrily: "Someone, kill this!"
Drag these two losers down and chop them down!"
The two of them were shaken all over, and they quickly begged loudly for mercy. But the guards didn't care about it. They walked in, twisted the four of them, and dragged them out.
"Wait a minute~!" A young man stood up and tried to dissuade him.
When Pu Hong saw that it was his second son Pu Feng, his face suddenly darkened: "These two losers deserved their death. Do you still want to intercede for them?"
"Ah, please calm down." Pu Feng saluted and said, "Both uncles have been fighting for many years and are experienced veterans. The reason for the defeat in this battle was that the enemy's tactics were strange and ferocious, and they were unable to adapt to them for a while. Therefore, they cannot be entirely attributed to the two uncles.
.I ask Aweng to take into account the friendship that he has followed for many years and allow the two uncles to take the blame and perform meritorious service."
There was a leader, and all the other generals in the tent followed suit and begged Pu Hong.
Pu Hong hesitated for a long time, then glanced at Pu Guang and Pu Tu bitterly, and said in a deep voice: "Since there are people interceding for you two, I will spare your lives this time. However, death penalty can be avoided, but living penalty cannot be avoided! Come on!
Man, drag these two losers down and beat them with eighty sticks each!"
The guard received the order and continued to drag the two of them outside.
Pu Guang and Pu Tu thanked each other loudly: "Thank you Lord for your kindness!" and looked at Pu Feng gratefully. A few hits were nothing, as long as they lived.
Pu Feng was very satisfied with the performance of the two of them. To be honest, he was quite grateful that Yunfeng killed his eldest brother. As soon as Pu Meng died, he became the eldest son in the family. The eldest brother is like his father, and Pu Hong has not decided on his heir.
Before, his younger brothers had to listen to him. Besides, Pu Feng was also good at winning people's hearts. He saved Pu Guang and Pu Tu just to make them grateful and help him.
Ignoring the sound of claps outside Pu Hong's tent, Yunfeng and his party returned to the starting point before dawn. After counting, a total of six people were killed, all of whom were killed by an arrow hitting their vital organs. Sixty-three people were injured. The casualty ratio is as follows
The huge disparity is due to the silk clothes Yunfeng put on the soldiers, which made it easy to take out the arrows and quickly treat the wounds.
In addition, due to the large scope of the battlefield, the limited manpower on Yunfeng's side, and the need to prepare for Pu Hong's counterattack, after finding all the casualties, they closed the formation and only collected nearby horses and trophies, but even though
In this way, they also obtained nearly 1,500 war horses, more than 2,000 human heads, other armors, swords, guns, arrows and shields, a hill of elephants, and many gold tooth earrings and other trinkets.
A simple but grand memorial ceremony was held for the fallen soldiers, and Yunfeng ordered a fire to be made to make rice. After running around all night, the soldiers were already hungry and ate happily. After eating and drinking enough, the next step was naturally for the whole army to rest and recuperate.
Chapter completed!