Chapter 903 Breakout

After a quarter of an hour, the stones and arrows finally stopped falling, and then countless soldiers of the Anton Army rushed out from behind the southern tents. The leading army was actually the crossbowmen, and behind the crossbowmen were the soldiers of the Anton Army's combat camp.

The Anton Army soldiers who emerged like a tide instantly annihilated the remaining soldiers who survived the baptism of stones and arrows. Afterwards, Ji Ling only saw that his 5,000-strong army had only the leading lieutenant escape from the Anton Army camp under the protection of a few dozen people.

The sudden change made the soldiers of Yuan Shu's army stunned, and it took them a long time to react. Ji Ling, who was the first to react, said angrily: "Order the catapults and wells to continue to advance, and attack when they reach the fifty steps in front of the camp!"

Boom boom boom. . .

However, at this time, the Anton Army disappeared from everyone's sight again, but Ji Ling was completely enraged by the ambush just now, and ordered the catapults and wells to start attacking immediately after entering the attack range. In his opinion, the ambush of the 5,000 guards was a complete provocation of the Anton Army, so he planned to extend the half-hour long-range attack time to one hour.

Just as the southern front began to attack Ji Ling's 5,000 guards, the army in the southern camp that had already prepared began to counterattack.

Unlike the battle of Ji Ling's headquarters in the north, if the Anton Army on the northern front must be carefully defended, then the battles in the south and east are still relatively easy. The attack of Yuan Shu's army on these two sides can only be said to be mediocre. Whether it is the combat effectiveness of the soldiers or the generals' grasp of the opportunity, Huang Wudie and Wang Yong, who are responsible for this side, are more than enough to deal with the attack of Yuan Shu's army.

South of the Anton Army camp, Li Gui looked at the soldiers who were fighting with the coalition forces, and couldn't help but feel secretly happy. It had been a few days, and he could clearly feel that the coalition forces' combat power seemed to have declined. Thinking of the deafening shouts of killing in the north, Li Gui couldn't help but secretly guess, could it be that the offensive pressure from the general in the north was too great, so the coalition forces transferred some of the elite troops in the south?

Thinking of this, Li Gui couldn't help but get excited. It must be like this. With the combat power of the generals, the coalition forces must have felt that their troops were stretched, so they transferred some troops from the south. Fortunately, they met a veteran general like him, otherwise such a subtle change would be too much for ordinary people to react to.

"General!" Just as Li Gui was lost in thought, the deputy general next to him suddenly woke him up and said, "Look at the wall, the army has already captured the wall!"

Li Gui looked up at the wall, and sure enough, less than an hour after the battle started today, the soldiers in the first round of attack had already captured the wall. It seemed that his inference was correct.

"Come here, order the heavy infantry to attack!" Thinking of this, Li Gui hurriedly gave the order; out of caution, he still did not send out all the heavy infantry, leaving less than a thousand heavy infantry around him.

Soon, four thousand heavy infantry slowly approached the direction of the stockade wall with the rumbling sound of war drums. Just when Li Gui was immersed in his seizing the opportunity to quickly kill into the coalition camp, and then he would be outstanding in battle and have unlimited glory, the sudden change caught him off guard.

When the heavy infantry entered the fifty-step distance, the soldiers on the stockade wall, who had a slight advantage, suddenly fell down like dumplings, and then he saw nearly a thousand crossbowmen and thousands of archers suddenly appear on the stockade wall. For a while, arrows fell straight down at the four thousand heavy infantry like rain.

Almost at the same time, the camp gate of the coalition camp suddenly opened, and thousands of soldiers poured out from the camp, quickly lined up outside the camp gate, and killed the heavy infantry. At this time, the heavy infantry was busy dodging the dense rain of arrows, and the formation was already somewhat chaotic. At this time, the army in the camp suddenly rushed out, making the heavy infantry even more chaotic.

What surprised Li Gui even more was that the 4,000 heavy infantry were attacked by the 2,000 soldiers of the coalition army, and they were killed in a mess. In a moment, the formation was disrupted, and behind the 2,000 soldiers,

the thousands of soldiers who followed took the opportunity to kill into the heavy infantry.

Then, the heavy infantry that Li Gui was proud of could not withstand the attack of these soldiers, and they were defeated and killed one by one.

Then, the 4,000 heavy infantry and thousands of soldiers who attacked in the early stage were defeated and fled by the counterattack of the coalition army. Thousands of defeated soldiers rushed straight towards their own central army, and behind them were more and more soldiers of the coalition army. Just as he was about to gather the defeated soldiers, the rumbling sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the field to the west. When Li Gui looked up to the west, he saw several lines of cavalry rushing straight towards his central army.

The scattered soldiers, driven by the coalition army, rushed towards their own central army regardless of anything. Seeing this, Li Gui knew that he had been fooled. The coalition army was going to break out from behind him, but there was Yulou to the south. Were they going to break out to Yulou?

No, although Yulou County was not big, the coalition army had all withdrawn to the camp, and there was no abnormality in the news from Yulou in recent days. Suddenly, Li Gui thought that the coalition army used the night to evacuate Yulou and return to the camp. Li Gui, who had been in the army for a long time, suddenly thought of this problem.

A bone-piercing chill rushed straight to his tailbone. It must be like this. At night, the scouts could only count the torches but could not see the real situation. In this way, the soldiers and horses that left halfway could be hidden, and then...

Instantly, Li Gui understood that Yulou must have been lost, so the coalition forces were preparing to break out and enter Yulou City for defense, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from Yuzhou, and then defeat their own army in one fell swoop.

Li Gui grabbed the guard beside him and shouted in a hysterical voice: "Inform the general immediately that the coalition forces are going to break out from the south. They may have already captured Yulou. Please make a decision early! Quick! Quick! Immediately! Immediately!"

Seeing the guards leading several cavalrymen running wildly towards the position of Ji Ling's army in the north, Li Gui prayed in his heart that he could report the intelligence to the general in time, while his thoughts turned rapidly. If the order was given, it would be impossible for his more than 10,000 remaining soldiers to resist the coalition's breakout. Blocking the direction of the coalition's retreat would only waste more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. There was no other use. The only way was to join up with Ji Bao's 20,000 troops, and then bite the coalition's tail tightly to delay the coalition's retreat as much as possible.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Gui immediately ordered the generals around him: "Order the army to retreat to the east, and order the defeated soldiers to retreat to the east! Quick!"