With the resistance of Anton's army, every time they give up a defense line, Anton's fleet will be reduced by several percent. By the time they reach the last defense line, only the stone bridge and the two floating bridges on both sides of the north and the South will be included, and Anton's army only needs 5000 troops to organize the defense.

At this time on the river, of the several floating bridges on the upstream and downstream of the stone bridge, only the two nearest to the stone bridge are still preserved, and all the other floating bridges have been destroyed. And Anton army's baggage cars only had less than 200 left here in the end. And there are less than 8000 troops.

When the troops of other departments had withdrawn to the east bank, Gao Shun and Dian Wei began to form an array at the west end of the stone bridge to prepare for the withdrawal of the defense army to take over the second vehicle array. At the same time, they ordered the destruction of the other two floating bridges, leaving only one stone bridge to cross the river.

With Huang Zhong's order, the generals of each department began to retreat alternately, leading the soldiers to retreat slowly towards the stone bridge, while Ji Ling's army was pressing forward step by step, and the soldiers of both sides were killed red eyed.

It was less than 20 steps from the defense line to the west of the bridge, but it took Huang Zhong a full quarter of an hour to withdraw with the army. When Huang Zhong stepped on the stone bridge, there were less than 2000 5000 soldiers, and the remaining 3000 had died on the way to withdraw.

Standing on a wagon 200 steps to the east of the bridge, Huangfu Chaobo is staring at the bridgehead in the west, where there are his most elite three thousand guards. This battle will be very difficult. From the beginning, Ji Ling's Army wanted to encircle and annihilate his 120000 troops, he had been prepared, but he didn't expect that it would be so difficult.

Now the army has basically crossed the river. Only Dian Wei and Gao Shun led two thousand iron barracks and one thousand trapped formations to resist Ji Ling army in the west of Qiaoxi. Huangfu Chaobo made a little visual inspection. Except for the 10000 wounded soldiers who had withdrawn to Yulou county and the 3000 Tui cavalry in Hexi, the 120000 troops who had assembled on the East Bank of the river were less than 40000, including thousands of seriously injured soldiers. It is estimated that thousands of people will be killed and injured in the end.

In this way, the 120000 troops will eventually be left with only over 50000 troops, with a loss of up to 60%. That is to say, in the war less than two hours ago, more than 10000 troops were lost, which shows the heavy casualties. Of course, this is only his preliminary statistics. The specific casualties need to be counted in detail after all the troops are settled down.

Just at this time, Huang Zhong came to him: "general, the army has basically crossed the river. We can order the two generals of Diangao to retreat. This stone bridge

Huangfu Chaobo knew what he meant and shook his hand: "no, we don't have the time and opportunity. Just order to arrange it. The army should withdraw to Yulou as soon as possible and be ready to defend Jiling. The next war is not easy! "

At this time, Zhang Ying's great halberds had returned to Hedong to regroup. Now there were only more than 3000 of the 5000 great halberds left, and they were all arranged by Huang Zhong in Qiaodong, ready to take over the two armies of Dian Wei and Gao Shun.

At present, there is no suitable halberd in the army, so Zhang Ying first equipped the soldiers with a long gun, but it is not a long gun with a length of several feet used by the soldiers with long guns, but a gun with the same length as the long halberd, which is more than one foot long, which is more than three meters in reality. This length is exactly the length of the halberd used by the halberd, and the long gun of this length is more flexible and convenient to use.

Behind and on both sides of Zhang Ying's army, five thousand yuan army crossbow soldiers and five or six thousand bow and arrow soldiers were waiting. When Dian Wei and Gao Shun retreated to Shiqiao, they began to fire bows and arrows at Ji Ling's army again to take the two troops back to Hedong.

With Huang Zhong's order, the two troops of Dian Wei began to retreat slowly. Of course, they didn't retreat directly to the bridge. First, a thousand crossbows and arrows of the trapped camp were fired together to turn over the encircled Ji Ling army. Then, Dian Wei led nearly 2000 iron wall battalions to launch a counterattack against Ji Ling army.

Dian Wei's counterattack was far more than his younger brother Dian Zi could match. It was just a rush. Dian Wei waved his double halberds directly into the soldiers of Ji Ling. The soldiers of Tiebi camp immediately followed him and killed the thousands of Ji Ling soldiers who surrounded him. After more than ten steps of killing him, with a whistling of Dianwei, the soldiers of Tiebi camp raised their injured companions and quickly returned to the stone bridge.

At this time, Gao Shun's camp has retreated to the stone bridge, and has taken over a few vehicles to block the bridge. Only after tiebiying retreated to the stone bridge, they can quickly block the bridge.

Soon, the two soldiers and horses retreated to Hedong among the arrows of the Jiling army, and when the trapped camp left, they lit several wagons on the stone bridge with the grain on them.

When they retreated to the middle of the bridge, more than 10000 crossbow soldiers began to pour out their arrows to the Ji Ling army on the other side, and tens of thousands of arrows submerged the Ji Ling army again.

Two hundred paces away from the West Bank of the river, Ji Ling looks at the war by the river with no expression. He sighs in his heart that he underestimates the crossbow of the Anton army. It has been rumored that the Anton army has a very strong crossbow army, but he didn't expect to be so strong, which leads to the success of encircling and annihilating the Anton army. It seems that it's time to prepare for the siege.

Thinking of this, Ji Ling waved his hand and said: "Mingjin, stop the troops!""Dangdang"

With the sound of Mingjin, Ji Lingjun began to retreat slowly. Of course, the wounded soldiers of his army will not forget to carry them away together. When the soldiers of Anton's army saw that Ji Ling's army had finally retreated, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

After all the soldiers had retreated to a hundred paces away, Ji Ling said, "the herald army set up camp on the spot to rest and send an order to guard general Anfeng. He ordered him to gather 20000 people to join the army tomorrow. At the same time, he brought the army's supplies together. The army would rest all night and cross the river tomorrow to prepare to attack Yulou."

With a long breath, Ji Ling continued: "count the casualties of the army, and report to the general as soon as possible!"

The next generals agreed and turned away.

In Hedong, Huangfu Chaobo is also watching Ji Lingjun's movement. When he sees that Ji Lingjun doesn't continue to attack, but collects all the hundreds of wagons abandoned by Anton's army in Hexi and prepares to camp, he is really relieved. Ji Ling has realized that it's useless to fight again. It seems that he is ready to rest the army and cross the river again tomorrow.

Now there is only one stone bridge left on the river. It is impossible for Ji Ling to cross the river. Seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo said to Huang Zhong's generals, "retreat, withdraw!"