In this era where cold weapons are mainly fighting at close range, a general, especially the main general, has a greater role in the army than imagined. Whether his wisdom or courage can completely determine the upper and lower limits of an army. Once the main general is dead and seriously injured, he can destroy all the fighting spirit of a powerful army in an instant, even if they are facing a group of enemies whose strength is far less than that of their own.

Such things have happened many times in history. Today, the same scene has happened again in the vast wilderness of the border between the Song and Liao dynasties. This time, the Liao army was already in a situation of defeat. After discovering that its leader Xiao Yanping was shot and fell down, the entire army collapsed.

At this time, they could no longer maintain their formation, and they fled around in panic, and even the courage to resist and struggle was gone. Some people continued to run along the valley road, while others came down from the already exhausted horse and climbed up the hillside, hoping to avoid the pursuit of the Song army. Some people even chose to kneel down at this time and dared not resist at all.

As Xiao Yanping was shot over by an arrow, the Liao army was no longer threatened. After the Song army reached the entrance of the valley, they saw prisoners all over the place, and many people were running straight up the mountain in a panic. Even Qin Dan, a general with rich combat experience, was also surprised and sighed: "General Sun is indeed amazing. Your arrow can reach a thousand troops."

Although his words were a bit exaggerated, his meaning was almost the same. If he really wanted to completely destroy this defeated Liao army, it would be far from enough for the Song army to invest only a thousand troops. But now, it saved everyone a lot of effort, and no longer needed to cause unnecessary damage. This also made the morale of the Song army who followed the pursuit more. He shouted to come forward and kill the enemy with people and obtain his own contribution.

The ones who were kneeling on the ground were naturally easy to capture. As for those who ran up the mountain and fled, some people quickly divided their troops to pursue them. Judging from the current situation, it took less than midnight to the battle of chasing the north to end.

However, Sun Tu had no joy on his face at this time, and he just stood in a daze at the entrance of the valley. Even the praises Qin Gan and other generals did not listen to him. Although this battle ended with the great victory of the Song army, the previous casualties of the Hu Ben army were too heavy. All of this was because of his own wrong decision!

In addition, Gukou has never seen the Liao general Xiao Yanping, the culprit. Although that guy was shot by him with an arrow, he didn't know if he had survived like he did back then and escaped.

However, at this moment of the battle, he could no longer care about it. In addition, he was exhausted and unable to take the risk of chasing him. He could only turn off his horse with a little depressed look around helplessly, and look around to see what the final result of this battle would be.

The result was reported soon. In this battle, the Song army did win a great victory, completely defeating a total of nearly 5,000 Liao troops, almost completely wiped out. There were only about three or four hundred people who fled in the dark, and the captives were about five hundred. As for the important Liao generals, they captured a few living people, but there was no Xiao Yanping.

After hearing these reports, Sun Tu became even more silent: "Do you still fail to do your best?"

"General Sun, you are too full of blame. In today's battle, our soldiers of the Song Dynasty have done their best to achieve a rare victory. Not only did they eliminate hidden dangers in the rear, but they also wiped out thousands of enemies. Even if they were placed on the front line, it would be a rare victory." Qin Gan was quite satisfied and said with a hurried smile: "Of course, if this battle really comes, your General Sun and his subordinates will be the first to be the best. If you hadn't persisted here, even if I arrived, I would not be able to defeat the Liao army."

The soldiers who had already returned around also agreed and were generous to Sun Tu and the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army who had not arrived yet. It was not until then that Sun Tu came back from his emotions and bowed and smiled: "General Qin, generals, I am grateful for your kindness. But I can't agree with what you said. If you really want to make a contribution, you are only above my Hu Ben Army. If you hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid that thousands of subordinates and I would have died from the hands of the Liao Army."

Sun Tu's words made these soldiers happy and became more close to him. Before, he was admired because he was brave enough and famous enough. Now, I really agree with this general who was originally from Central China.

Qin Gan also laughed: "General Sun's words are too exaggerated. You and I are one, so how can we distinguish between great and great achievements? Hu Ben Army and us are both good, and we should be rewarded!" One sentence completely determined the matter and both sides shared the contribution equally.

Next, we cleaned the battlefield and waited for the troops from the rear to arrive one after another.

In the past, the cavalry on both sides tried their best to pursue the fugitives, but they didn't realize anything, but for the infantry in the rear, it was quite a long way. In addition, they had to be vigilant and deal with the Liao soldiers who fled scatteredly, so time was spent. So when the main force finally arrived, the day was bright again and the whole night had passed.

Then, it was the time to count the sad moments of his own casualties. When the specific numbers came out, even Qin Gan's face changed. The soldiers he brought were not seriously injured, only two or three hundred, but the Hu Ben Army was greatly injured.

The team of five thousand people is now less than three thousand, and most of them are injured, exhausted and unable to stand firmly. In fact, if Qin Gan's reinforcements had not arrived in time, the casualties would have only increased exponentially. By then, the Liao army would have ended up with theirs.

When Sun Tu got this cruel number, he stood still for a while. Especially when he learned that Zhao Jiongguang and Yang Siming and the other two generals were also killed in the chaos, Pan Song was seriously injured after breaking his arm and not awakening so far, he even tightened the hilt of the sword and took several deep breaths before calming down.

Although these generals were not his confidants, they followed him for a while and obeyed his advice. But this time, they all died in the battlefield, and this pain could not be eliminated for a while. What's more, such a tragedy could have been avoided. As long as the reinforcements on Yanmen Pass could arrive in time as agreed, the Liao army would not have posed such a great threat to the Hu Ben Army guarding high places, and they would not have fought for their own rescue...

If Qin Dan hadn't been going south to find the Liao army and saw the wolf smoke in time, he would have been afraid that the entire Tiger and Ben army would have been buried under the mound and killed by someone in Yanmen Pass.

At this moment, Sun Tu's heart was filled with resentment and murderous intent. His eyes swept over the injured soldiers in front of him, and he made a decision - he must get this justice back!

So when Qin Dan looked at him and asked, "I wonder what General Sun has next?", he replied without thinking, "Of course we will go back to Yanmen Pass first!" The three words "Yanmen Pass" almost burst out from his teeth.

"Will you go to Yanmen Pass to rest? It's a good idea. After all, here is still hundreds of miles away from the front camp, and many of our soldiers were wounded, and these prisoners. Let's go there!" Qin Gan immediately responded to this statement, and at the same time, he waved to a close friend: "Take a few cavalry and return to the camp at night, report the victory here to Tongshuai, so that he and the front soldiers can rest assured. I will personally escort the military rations back soon." He still remembered the military order he had made. At this time, tomorrow is ten days, but he has never violated the order.

"Here!"

"Also," he said, looking at Sun Tu, who looked slightly strange next to him: "Report the news that the Marquis of Yue Sun Tu led his army, including the meritorious service of his army under his command this time, and there must be no concealment." Although he was a border general, he also knew that Sun Tu had a good relationship with Tong Guan, so this little face should be sold.

After the confidant ordered a few people to ride the horse away, Qin Gan ordered the entire army to rest for half a day at the valley entrance, and then go back to Yanmen Pass. Sun Tu had no other opinion on this, and he and his soldiers of the Hu Ben Army did need to rest for a while.

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Two days later, at noon, the city wall north of Yanmen Pass.

Tian Boyuan once again climbed the city to look north, and in addition to worry, he also felt full of guilt and self-blame.

At this time, the smoke pillar that soared into the sky had long dissipated, and it had never happened. But he knew what it meant behind all this - I'm afraid General Sun and his troops had already lost their slaughter and sank the sand there, and was defeated by the Liao army.

As a general who had experience in head-on confrontation with the Liao army, he knew very well how great the Liao army had when it came to the Song army outside the pass. Even the elite border troops would suffer losses, let alone the thousands of imperial guards coming from the capital.

What made him even more panic was that five days have passed, and no one in front of him has fled back. Does this mean that the entire Song army has really been in the wilderness in the north?

There were thousands of people, and they were all killed in battle because of their timidity and incompetence, and the plot of Du Jianjun Du's conspiracy and revenge? In the past few days, he was ignorant and unable to sleep. He almost always wanted to run to the north city to look out, wanting to see Sun Tu flee back with the defeated army. Even if they only came back a few hundred people, at least he could know one result, instead of thinking and guessing everything like these days.

"If I had known this, I would have been..." Tian Boyuan said softly afterwards, but in fact he said that. He really gave him a chance to start over, but he still didn't dare to choose to be an enemy of Du Changguo.

Shortly after the words were said, a soldier beside him suddenly shouted in surprise: "Then... what is that? What a huge smoke and dust, is there a large army coming?"

"What?" Tian Boyuan was also shocked, and then he looked away and found that there was indeed a large army coming towards Yanmen Pass. With this situation, his troops were at least tens of thousands!

"Prepare to fight, I'm afraid the Liao army is coming!" At this time, this might be the first thing that Tian Boyuan thought of. After all, even if Sun Tu and the others escaped, there would be only a few thousand people at most, and it would be impossible to come back with several times the strength of the troops...

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The first update today...
Chapter completed!