Just when Luo Shixin was in a daze with fear at the Tianxing Army's spearmen who were superb in military formations.
The longbowmen caught up under the cover of the sword and shield men, and started to take precise aim with their longbows of exaggerated length from a distance of half a mile.
The Wagang cavalry, which had been fighting with the pikemen for a long time, had already lost its initial speed.
This gives those heavy arrows fired by longbows a higher hit rate.
Under this situation, it was only a matter of time before the Wagang cavalry led by Luo Shixin were defeated.
Of course Luo Shixin could see clearly.
When he was about to order the cavalry to retreat to the camp, he saw another large group of broken troops coming from behind, and dust was flying behind them.
In the midst of the rout, General Wagang, whose face was covered with blood and his helmet was tilted, saw Luo Shixin and quickly galloped up on his horse.
He was still far away from Luo Shixin, so he said: "General Qi, after you led the troops out of the camp, a large number of Sui troops suddenly attacked the camp.
There were tens of thousands of people.
Our army was outnumbered and the camp was lost."
"Ah, that means the Sui army has launched a full-scale attack," Luo Shixin said in shock.
The situation was indeed as he expected.
At that moment, the 50,000-strong army led by Duan Da and Shen Guang, as well as the more than 10,000-strong Sui army newly reinforced from the eastern capital, divided into several groups and began a full-scale counterattack.
"Retreat!"
Luo Shixin roared unwillingly, turned his horse and left.
General Nawagang didn't understand what he meant for a while, Nuonuo said to himself: "Where to retreat?"
Then he saw the direction Luo Shixin was flying in, and he immediately understood.
This Luo Shixin was running towards Luokou Li Mi's camp.
He immediately hit the horse and caught up with Luo Shixin's horsemen, and ran all the way north.
As soon as Luo Shixin ran away, the Wagang Army cavalry who had no one left and were still fighting began to mount their horses and flee north.
But the pikemen of Tianxing Army gave them almost no chance.
At this time, their mounts were exhausted and could not pick up speed.
However, the pikemen were able to walk as fast as flying and continued to maintain the high-speed movement of the entire phalanx.
The riders in Wagang were stabbed into honeycombs by random guns one after another.
The remaining large camps of the Wagang Army that retreated and those that stayed behind all suffered similar fates.
The Tianxing Army's cavalry alone defeated three groups of Wagang Army that retreated first.
Duan Da and Shen Guang each captured one of the Wagang Army's camps that stayed behind.
When Luo Shixin's remnant army withdrew to join Li Mi at the foot of Luokou Cang City, a head count revealed that there were only less than 30,000 troops left in the 100,000-strong army, and together with Li Mi, there were only 150,000 troops.
That is to say, for more than half a year, not counting the battlefields in other places, the Wagang Army in the Luokou area alone was killed by the Sui army, with more than 100,000 people killed.
On the second day, Duan Da, Shen Guang, and Sima Dekan's troops who were reinforcing them followed, and Li Cai's troops, with a total of nearly 70,000 troops, set up camp five miles south of Luokou, waiting for change.
Li Mi quickly summoned the generals to discuss countermeasures.
With a fortified city in front and a large camp behind, as well as insufficient supplies of food and grass, everyone felt that they could no longer stay under Luokou City for a long time and thought that they should withdraw to the east of Hulao Pass as soon as possible and return to Wa.
The party that refuses to defend the Gang Army's old territory will make further plans.
Li Mi also had this intention, so the order to retreat was immediately issued to all battalions and departments.
The 150,000 Wagang army slowly withdrew eastward like a torrent.
Despite this retreat, Li Mi, Luo Shixin and others learned enough lessons and made strict arrangements and detailed plans.
However, during the retreat, the Sui Army, which had superior reconnaissance and intelligence gathering capabilities, still seized the opportunity.
The Tianxing Army was the main attack force and launched several consecutive ambush raids, killing and injuring a large number of Wagang Army soldiers.
Lai Hu'er in Luokou City also took the opportunity to dispatch the elite troops of Tianxing Army to attack the rear of Wagang Army.
The Wagang Army, which was already demoralized by successive defeats due to lack of food, was defeated.
In this great defeat, a large number of Wagang Army generals and leaders were killed, including Pei's father and son, Luo Shixin and others.
The Pei family and his son died under the random gunfire of Tianxing Army's spearmen, and Luo Shixin was shot through the head by a heavy longbow arrow in an ambush.
By the time Li Mi fled into Xingyang, there were no soldiers left.
After a few days of gathering the remaining soldiers, the number of the remaining soldiers was less than 50,000.
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Li Mi still comforted himself, keeping the green hills and not afraid of running out of firewood.
Although he lost troops and generals, his territory was still there.
Many counties and counties from the seaside of Qingzhou in the east to the eastern foot of the Jishan Mountains still obeyed his orders.
As soon as he arrived in Xingyang, he immediately wrote an edict ordering each county to collect military service.
And mobilized the best troops to Xingyang for reinforcements.
However, many days after his edict was issued, very few local Wagang forces responded to him.
First, Li Mi's defeat at Luokou greatly affected his prestige among the Wagang army.
Although the Wagang Army was the largest anti-Sui force in the world, its composition was complex, and its cohesion was certainly not comparable to that of Li Yuan, a force with clan members as its core.
If the trend is favorable, they can still obey the commander's orders on the surface, but when the trend is declining, they begin to act eccentrically.
Second, these places are indeed depleted of people and unsustainable.
Originally, the heroes rose up against the Sui Dynasty because Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goguryeo led to the decline of people's livelihood.
As a result, after the rule of the Wagang Army, food, soldiers, and labor were still collected every three days.
I used to work as a soldier for the Wagang Army and still have food from the Kouluokou warehouse, but now I have to bring the food myself.
How can I be willing to do so.
If the persecution becomes more urgent, I am afraid that everyone from ordinary people to powerful families will rebel again.
Therefore, the governors and magistrates of the Wagang Army responded passively to Li Mi's orders.
Just when Li Mi was worried, things were going smoothly for Yang Guang.
The Battle of Yuzhang was a great victory for the Sui army.
After a long siege, Yuzhang County, where Lin Shihong finally occupied, was captured by the Sui army.
Lin Shihong was beheaded on the spot, and his head is now on Yang Guang's desk.
In addition, some time ago, taking advantage of the fierce battle between the Sui army in the north and Wagang, and the Sui army in the south and Lin Shihong, he broke into Nanyang, Xinye, and Xiangyang, and the rogue Zhu Can was also killed by Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin. .
Lin Shihong's death meant that all the systematic anti-Sui separatist forces in the south had been eliminated.
Of course, there are still small groups of armed bandits like Zhu Can, but these are no longer a threat and can be suppressed by local county garrison troops.
Seeing that there was no longer any restraint in the south, Yang Guang immediately issued an edict, ordering Xia Yue to mobilize the elites of Jiangdu General Manager's Office to march north along the Tongji Canal, and attack the Sui army from the north and south together, completely wiping out the Wagang army centered in Xingyang.
Ten days later, Xia Yue commanded 100,000 Sui troops, collected more than a thousand small and large civilian ships, loaded with military supplies and grain, and marched by land and water.
The Sui army marched north along the Tongji Canal, and all the counties and counties along the way watched the wind and fell like a broken bamboo.
In addition, Du Fuwei led another partial army of 50,000 people to attack Qingxu.
There was little resistance along the way, and most cities and counties were informed
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