Chapter 708: Breaking Through the Siege
Just here, a large amount of smoke and dust suddenly rose from the west, as if a large number of troops were approaching quickly. Seeing this, Su Zhi was shocked. Oh no, could the other side still have cavalry? Judging from the speed of the smoke and dust, it was obviously caused by the rapid movement of cavalry.
Not only Su Zhi saw the smoke and dust in the west, but Fan Chou also saw it. Unlike Su Zhi, he knew how many troops he had. Seeing this, his heart sank immediately, and he knew that a large wave of cavalry from the Sizhou Army had arrived.
Although it was known that the Sizhou Army had only 10,000 cavalry, now his 20,000 cavalry had lost nearly 2,000, and they were distributed on three sides of the army. There were less than 10,000 people who really faced the Sizhou Army cavalry, and they were exhausted after two battles.
Thinking of this, he immediately ordered the cavalry to retreat, get out of the entanglement with the Sizhou Army infantry, and regroup before deciding on the situation. However, part of the cavalry was already entangled with the Sizhou Army, and it was not so easy to retreat.
The sound of Dong Zhuo's army retreating made Su Zhi realize that the cavalry coming from the west might be his own cavalry. With this in mind, he did not bother to confirm it. Su Zhi immediately ordered the soldiers around him, "Quick, shout with me, General Zhao's cavalry is coming to rescue us!"
The soldiers were stunned and had not yet reacted. Su Zhi slapped the soldiers around him and said, "Quick, everyone shout together."
The soldiers who reacted immediately shouted loudly, "General Zhao's cavalry is coming to rescue us!"
"General Zhao's cavalry is coming to rescue us!"
"General Zhao's cavalry is coming to rescue us!"
The generals in the army were all smart. When they looked up to the west, they also saw a large amount of smoke and dust, and immediately followed suit and shouted loudly. When the soldiers in the army heard it, they all shouted one by one. For a time, the soldiers in the entire army shouted in unison.
The deafening roar stunned the Dong Zhuo cavalry outside the formation. In this moment, spears and arrows rushed towards the Dong Zhuo cavalry, causing them to lose hundreds of people at once.
The sound of the retreat horn and the enemy's counterattack in the formation occurred almost at the same time, so that the Dong Zhuo cavalry could not react at once, especially the counterattack caused a little confusion in the cavalry caught in the melee.
However, the elite are always elite, whether it is the Feixiong Army or the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, they are all the elite in Dong Zhuo's army. After a brief chaos, the cavalry generals of each unit quickly reacted, quickly gathered the soldiers around them, and covered each other to get out of contact with the Sizhou Army.
However, at this time, although the army had already broken away from contact, it was still not possible to gather into a formation to fight against the enemy cavalry. Seeing this, Fan Chou ordered his deputy to continue to collect the rear horses, and then he led the 3,000 already assembled Xiliang Iron Cavalry to intercept the Sizhou cavalry, but was led away by one of his deputy generals.
Seeing the deputy general leading his troops away, Fan Chou was moved but knew that now was not the time to delay. He immediately ordered the cavalry that had retreated to assemble, and at the same time sent a message to the two schools of cavalry in the south and the east to assemble quickly and prepare to meet the deputy general. However, he knew that his 3,000 cavalry would probably suffer a lot of losses.
As Fan Chou expected, Zhao Yun's 4,000 White Horse Volunteers fought against the 3,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the two wings of the White Horse Volunteers were 2,000 cavalry each. Facing 8,000 elite cavalry, the 3,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry lost nearly half in the first round of engagement. After the other 1,000 cavalry broke away, they quickly bypassed the Sizhou Army cavalry and went south.
However, although they lost more than 1,000 cavalry, they had intercepted the Sizhou Army cavalry. After a round of fierce fighting, the White Horse Volunteers had lost their horse speed, and now there were more than 5,000 cavalry gathered around Fan Chou, and more cavalry were gathering behind them.
At this time, Zhao Yun's White Horse Volunteers also lost nearly 1,000 people. Seeing this, Zhao Yun ordered the cavalry to continue to guard the two wings of the White Horse Volunteers and headed towards Su Zhi's army.
As the Dong Zhuo cavalry retreated,
Su Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief this time. At least the army was safe for the time being. As for how to arrange it later, he believed that General Pingdong would definitely make arrangements.
Both sides retreated far away, quietly licking their wounds, and then preparing for the next round of fighting.
After Zhao Yun arranged the cavalry to be on guard all around, he led his personal guards into the army. Along the way, the ground was full of broken limbs and blood. The soldiers cleaned up the bodies of the men in the robes and looked at the young general in front of them with reverence. Looking at the situation in front of him, even Zhao Yun was not only surprised by Su Zhi's calmness and good defense. With 20,000 soldiers lined up to fight against 20,000 cavalry, the soldiers lost nearly half of their soldiers, and the army did not collapse. It was indeed a talent of a great general.
"Hello, General!" At this time, Su Zhi had already stepped down from the carriage and walked quickly to Zhao Yun.
"General Su, no need to be polite. Dong Zhuo's army should retreat a little. The army should retreat to the camp as soon as possible and make plans later!"
"I will not obey your order!" Su Zhi also knew that Dong Zhuo's army would not give him too much time. So he immediately ordered the soldiers to count the wounded and quickly headed towards the camp two miles away.
Zhao Yun led more than 7,000 cavalrymen to guard behind the army. In the previous battle, although Fan Chou lost more than 1,500 Xiliang cavalry, Zhao Yun's Baima Yicong also lost nearly 1,000 people. After ordering the replacement of war horses, Zhao Yun led the cavalry to guard behind the army and monitor the cavalry of Dong Zhuo's army.
Fortunately, after the previous few battles, Fan Chou also understood the strength of the Sizhou army. Moreover, he still had nearly 20,000 cavalry in his hands, plus more than 10,000 infantry, while the opponent had far more infantry than cavalry. There is no fear of the other party escaping. So he also led the cavalry back and joined the 10,000 infantrymen who came out of Yi's city, and then considered the follow-up issues.
With the escort of Zhao Yun's cavalry, Su Zhibu quickly retreated to the camp. The captain guarding the camp has been reminded, so he has prepared a tight defense in the camp. At this time, after the army retreated into the camp, both the generals and the soldiers breathed a deep sigh of relief.
After handing over the placement of the rescue soldiers to the generals in the camp, Su Zhi immediately led everyone into his own main tent in the camp.
Entering the tent, Zhao Yun was invited to the chief's seat, and then the generals sat down according to their duties. Su Zhi said: "General, do you have any military orders from my lord?"
Zhao Yun did not refuse. After sitting down, he told everyone about the situation that Sizhou's army was facing now. However, what Zhao Yun didn't know was that the situation was now more serious than what he had first known. His family's retreat had already been compromised. It's blocked.