The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 423

The battle became fierce, and the guards of the palace were surrounded in the middle, which can be said to be a deep hopeless situation.

Some people will give up in a desperate situation, but some people will fight to the end, and the guards of the palace are precisely the latter.

Although they have been upgraded, but in this extremely unfavorable situation, there are still many casualties at this moment.

At least 15 people died in battle, and the Ming army suffered a lot of casualties, more than 70 people died in battle.

The battlefield was in a mess, with wounded horses running wild, wounded soldiers being trampled and howling, and the intestines and stomachs of the dead left all over the place...

In the era of cold weapons, the army's ability to withstand casualties was not high. When nearly a quarter of the battle died, the Ming army was on the verge of collapse.

The Yong army in front of them had a solid formation, relying on horses and grain carts to fight to the death, so that the soldiers of the Ming army could not see the hope of victory.

Maybe only a few dozen people can win in the end, but what's the point of such a victory?
In fact, the fact that the soldiers of the Ming army were able to persist until this point was regarded as an extraordinary performance. After all, they were not a regular army.

Seeing his subordinates hesitate to move forward, Zhu Xiaoan, who was supervising the battle at the rear, yelled loudly: "Come on..."

The soldiers braced themselves, but seeing the miserable situation around them and the wailing voices of their companions, they already retreated.

Hearing Zhu Xiaoan shouting from behind made Chen Yuhe realize that the Ming army had no fighting spirit, so he shouted: "Down with them..."

Next, a jaw-dropping scene happened.

I saw Hu Dabiao leading his subordinates, holding a knife, directly out of the army formation, and killed the Ming army in front of him.

He led people out of the army formation, tantamount to opening a hole in the Yong army formation, and there was no chance to fill it.

For the current plan, there is only one way to go all out and take the initiative to attack and defeat the Ming army.

"The whole army goes out..." Chen Yuhe ordered decisively.

The guards all attacked, rushing towards the Ming army like waves, holding bloody knives like ghosts from hell.

Hu Dabiao rushed to the front, and after beheading three people in a row, he roared angrily: "Kill..."

"Kill it..." the guards yelled.

Under this row of overwhelming offensives, some soldiers of the Ming army finally collapsed, and then turned around and wanted to retreat.

And this withdrawal formed a chain reaction. Soldiers turned around one after another, and the grassroots officers could not control the situation at all.

More and more soldiers fled, and Zhu Xiaoan, who supervised the battle in the rear, killed several people, but he was unable to reverse the collapsed situation until the entire team collapsed.

Then a strange scene happened, 200 or [-] infantrymen, carrying knives, chased more than [-] cavalrymen.

Fortunately, Chen Yuhe was not dazzled by the victory. The first thing he did after defeating the Ming army at home was to gather his soldiers.

"Stop chasing, come back!" Chen Yuhe shouted.

"Whoever dares to continue the pursuit will be severely punished by military law!"

After all, the guards are infantry, and they can't catch up with the four-legged cavalry.

"Chen Baihu, why didn't you pursue him?" Hu Dabiao walked up to Chen Yuhe and asked angrily.

Chen Yuhe did not explain, but said seriously: "Hu Dabiao, you led the troops to attack without authorization, and I will settle the score with you when I go back!"

"Chen Baihu..."

Before Hu Dabiao could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Yuhe: "I don't have time to quarrel with you now, what's the matter...to clarify in front of the prince today!"

Hu Dabiao was fearless, but as soon as he heard that he was going to confront Zhao Yanxun, he immediately became cowardly.

This fellow was also decisive, and immediately put on a smiling face and said: "Master Baihu, I am the old Hu who confiscated it today, isn't it that we have won the battle...don't bring these crap things to the prince!"

With a straight face, Chen Yuhe said coldly: "Take your people and gather the horses of the bandit army!"

"Yes... I'll go to the humble post!"

Seeing Hu Dabiao running away, Chen Yuhe couldn't help but sigh.

After all, instead of suppressing his subordinates with the identity of a hundred households, he had to borrow Zhao Yanxun's authority, which was very uncomfortable for Chen Yuhe.

But if he broke his face with Hu Dabiao, he would also be embarrassing, so he took a step back.

Seeing Wu Gang approaching, Chen Yuhe ordered: "Move the brothers who died in battle together and send them all back to Tianma Castle..."

"As ordered!"

The Ming army left behind at least [-] horses, which greatly improved their transportation capacity, and they could naturally transport the dead bodies back.

Soon the battlefield was cleaned up, and a small flag officer took charge of transporting the corpses back in two carts, while Chen Yuhe continued northward with his troops.

Besides, Zhu Xiaoan and his party, after the army was defeated, he retreated at least a dozen miles before he gathered his subordinates together.

Nearly a hundred people were killed in the battle, but there are only more than 170 people around him right now, and another three or forty people disappeared during the rout.

It is very likely that the 34 missing people will never come back.

"Lord Qianhu, what should we do?" Baihu asked.

Of the three hundred households, one died in the battle, and the other disappeared during the defeat. Right now, this one is the "only fruit left".

"What else can we do? We can't even defeat the miscellaneous soldiers of the Yong army, what else can we do?" Zhu Xiaoan wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Get out!"

Right now, not only was he beaten out of fighting spirit, but so were the other soldiers.

In their eyes, the Yong army is already an invincible and powerful enemy, and their going to battle is tantamount to death.

At this time, Baihu reminded: "Qianhu, retreating privately... is a serious crime!"

"Should we drive the brothers to die?" Zhu Xiaoan asked back.

Continuing to fight is death, and withdrawing troops privately is also death, so it's better to save some strength for King Ming.

"Withdraw..." Zhu Xiaoan said very solemnly.

He, a thousand households, had spoken, and naturally no one objected, so everyone withdrew to the north.

But after walking no more than a dozen miles, they encountered another group of rout soldiers, a total of more than a dozen people.

"Zhu Qianhu..."

"Youngest Wang, why are you here? Shouldn't you be attracting monsters?" Zhu Xiao'an asked suspiciously.

"Lord Zhu, we've lost...we've lost!" Wang Lao Yao panicked.

"Defeated? What's going on?" Zhu Xiao'an snapped.

"Yesterday we attracted a large number of monsters and surrounded Beixi Village where the Yong Army was stationed. Things were going well..."

"But I don't know where the Yong army found the cavalry, wreaked havoc in various places, killed many of us, and attracted monsters to attack us..."

Zhu Xiao'an was credited to these suddenly assembled cavalry, and he sent another seventy or eighty horses just now.

"Should we just let them do bad things?"

"Of course not, the prince sent troops to exterminate these people, but in the end..."

"What happened in the end?" Zhu Xiaoan couldn't help asking.

"In the end even the prince fell into it, and now I don't know what happened!"

"Even the prince is trapped?" Zhu Xiaoan couldn't believe it.

"I haven't found any trace of the prince, the north is already in disarray, everyone can only withdraw..."

They had no choice but to withdraw. In fact, it is a more literary way of saying it. In fact, it means that the army was defeated and fled.

"Zhu Qianhu, seeing you as a child has a backbone, where do you think we are going next?"

Asked by the youngest Wang, Zhu Xiaoan couldn't answer for a moment.

He was here to find Zhu Jinzhang, but now Zhu Jinzhang has disappeared.

"Tell me, what should I do next?" Zhu Xiaoan asked his officer.

After a few breaths, someone replied: "My lord...how about withdrawing to Baishan County first?"

Compared with the battlefield in front, Baishan County is in the rear, and it is surrounded by city walls, which can bring a sense of security to everyone.

"Okay, let's go..."

Before Zhu Xiaoan could finish speaking, a soldier shouted: "Master, there are corpses coming from the west..."

"Hurry up and go to Baishan County!" Zhu Xiaoan left immediately after saying this.

(End of this chapter)