Chapter 572 Peace in the Rear
Neither Guo Wei nor Tian Hai would obviously give the other a chance, especially Tian Hai. Originally, the two sides' formations collided and reached a stalemate, and no one could do anything to the other for a while. But now, chaos broke out in the opponent's rear, and the combat effectiveness of the troops in the front suddenly dropped.
Tian Hai took advantage of the situation and led his troops to charge, directly breaking through the enemy's formation.
The defeat was like a landslide, and the front formation was broken, causing thousands of enemy soldiers to fall into chaos. However, Guo Wei seized the opportunity and led his troops to attack the rear army.
Then, the entire battlefield fell into melee.
The two sides fought for a while, and the troops from Guo Wei's rear arrived. The arrival of this army not only replenished the troops for Guo Wei and others, but more importantly, it directly suppressed the remaining fighting spirit of the other side to the bottom.
Except for a small number of people who were still fighting to the death, most of the soldiers fled and surrendered.
"I'm General Guo Wei. Whose troops are we facing?" Guo Wei reined in his horse, took a deep breath, and shouted towards the front.
After a moment, a voice was heard.
" General deputy general, Tian Hai, has been ordered to come!"
Guo Wei breathed a sigh of relief. He naturally knew Tian Hai. Since they were his own soldiers, it would be a good thing.
"Thank you, Brother Tian Hai. Let's kill the rebels first, and then we can talk."
Afterwards, the two sides joined forces, with the cavalry charging forward and backward, while the infantry formed a large formation and advanced slowly.
The battle lasted for nearly an hour. Except for a small number of enemy troops who fled, the rest were all killed or captured.
Guo Wei walked up to Tian Hai and said with a big laugh, "Thank you, brother, for coming to help!"
Tian Hai stepped forward and saluted. "General Guo, you are welcome. You and I both serve under the Marshal, and I am here on orders."
"Brother Tian Hai, they sent out a 3,000-man army earlier. I only left 1,000 soldiers to lure the enemy. I need to rush over immediately. I'll leave the main camp to you for now."
"General Guo, you and I will lead the troops together, leaving some behind to clean up the battlefield immediately."
Guo Wei was not polite either. He left some soldiers to clean up the battlefield, while the rest of the soldiers turned around and fought back.
As for Ning Qi, he was ordered to lead his troops to attract the enemy troops, but it was just a feint after all. Therefore, Ning Qi did not cross the river until the enemy's vanguard of 3,000 troops arrived.
After the two sides were in a stalemate for a while, the enemy troops could no longer hold back and crossed the river to attack.
However, Ning Qi did not fight to the death with the enemy, but relied on sniping on the river bank. The two sides fought for nearly an hour. Ning Qi was outnumbered in the end, and the enemy's troops crossed the river.
"They are approaching, the enemy is coming to kill us, let's retreat!" a captain said urgently.
Ning Qi gritted his teeth and said, "We can't leave now. If we retreat, and these troops don't pursue us but instead retreat, the general will be in danger."
"We can't support the general right now, but we'd rather die than not delay this army."
"Judging from the situation just now, the enemy has about 3,000 soldiers and horses, and nearly 1,000 of them were killed or wounded while crossing the river. And now, we still have more than 700 soldiers and horses!"
"Pass on my order. After the enemy crosses the river, all troops will retreat to the dense forest two miles away and use the dense forest to engage them. The longer we delay here, the less pressure there will be on the general."
Afterwards, Ning Qi led his men to fight again, but the enemy had more than three times the number of his own men. Now that a gap had been opened, how could he stop them?
After a fierce battle for a while, Ning Qi lost another two or three hundred soldiers, while most of the enemy soldiers had successfully crossed the river.
Ning Qi did not dare to delay and directly retreated to the rear with the remaining troops!
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"Hurry!" Guo Wei kept urging his soldiers. This cavalry had first rushed and then fought, and was already extremely tired. But now Ning Qi was outnumbered and fighting against a larger force, which was bound to be dangerous. Therefore, he could not care about anything else and could only hurry on his way at all costs.
Fortunately, this time he not only had hundreds of his own cavalry, but also more than a thousand cavalry from Tian Hai. These two thousand soldiers were enough to rescue Ning Qi. When the army from the rear arrived, the other side's three thousand soldiers would be nothing more than fish on the chopping board.
When the two led their troops to the riverside, they saw the twinkling lights of torches , and the shouts of killing that had not stopped.
Guo Wei and Tian Hai rode their horses directly across the river. After walking for a while, they encountered the remnants of the enemy army.
The two men did not delay and directly divided out two teams of 100 people to clear out these remaining soldiers, and then continued to lead their troops forward.
Before long, the enemy's main force came into view.
"The enemy only has less than 2,000 soldiers left. Brother Tianhai, you and I will charge from both sides !"
The two men's troops split into two, sweeping towards each other like two black dragons. In the darkness, it was impossible to see their faces clearly. At first, the enemy troops thought they were from their own side, but it was not until the two sides met that they realized that the troops coming from behind were actually the enemy?
In an instant, the morale of the remaining less than two thousand enemy troops was broken!
Guo Wei and his companions took the opportunity to lead the cavalry to break up the enemy's formation, and hundreds of soldiers also rushed out from the dense forest opposite.
This tribal army was attacked from both sides, and they had no idea how many soldiers the other side had, let alone the situation in the main camp, so they were immediately defeated and fled.
Guo Wei and his companions led their troops in pursuit for several miles, and killed almost all of the troops except those who surrendered, before they withdrew their troops.
"General!"
As soon as he returned to the edge of the dense forest, he saw a captain covered in blood coming towards him and bowing down to him.
"Where's Ning Qi?"
"General, General Ning died in battle!"
Guo Wei swayed on horseback, feeling a buzzing in his head. Ning Qi had always been his deputy. The two had experienced countless life-and-death situations, but he had never imagined that today would be the day they would part ways.
A tear rolled down Guo Wei's eyes, but he wiped it away immediately.
"Let the brothers clean up the battlefield and bury the bodies of the brothers!"
It's not that he wasn't sad. It was his comrades who had shared life and death with him, his brothers. How could he not be sad? However, he was the commander-in-chief here, still on the battlefield. His joy and sorrow would shake the morale of the army.
Moreover, once on the battlefield, who wouldn't be prepared to face life and death? The soldiers under his command could die, Ning Qi could die, and he, the commander, could also die in battle. This was their fate.
In fact, at this moment, he really wanted to throw himself on the ground and cry bitterly. Perhaps his brothers would think that he, as a leader, was sentimental, but even a single cry would only shatter the morale of these thousands of soldiers. At this moment, the enemy camp and this place had not yet been completely pacified, and Xie Jing was still leading his troops in battle up ahead. He had no time for sadness, nor was he qualified to be sad.
After gathering all the soldiers and cleaning up the battlefield, some of the soldiers who had originally stayed in the camp also rushed over.
After counting, it was found that nearly 4,000 soldiers under the command of Guo Wei and Tian Hai were killed or wounded, and the enemy had more than 10,000 soldiers, more than 7,000 of whom were killed in the battle. They also captured 5,000 to 6,000 prisoners, and a small number of soldiers simply dispersed and fled.
