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In this battle, the Black Army only lost more than 20 people.

Most of these twenty-odd people were injured by Chu Qi when they accidentally fell off their horses when they did not grasp their balance in battle. Several of them were caused by their horses being wounded by the Chu army and frightened.

And Chu Qi said that there were more than 3,000 casualties.

The reason for the approximate number is that it is not clear how many skirmishers fled to the woods and hid.

This casualty ratio broke the record of the Black Armored Army in the water war.

On this side of the river were the corpses of the Chu cavalry and the unowned war horses running around.

Of course, the Black Armored Army will not waste it, and gather these war horses, Chuqi, armor, equipment, etc.... In this era when resources are scarce and the production is entirely dependent on manpower, these gadgets are a lot of wealth.

Especially those war horses, after they were gathered, there were more than 2,000 horses in the inventory, almost all of them could be assigned to the Black Armor.

Of course, the role of these things is sometimes more than just wealth.

Xiang Luo was a little frightened after the two battles, where he dared to continue the cavalry battle with the Black Armored Army, and hurriedly ordered Chu Qi to post along the river to prevent the Qin Army from crossing the river.

This preparation makes sense.

If the Black Armored Army can ride and shoot the entire army and wear cane armor without fear of arrows, then it will be almost invincible in this "non-contact" riding battle.

So once the Black Armored Army sneaked across the river, then the Chu Army on the river side would be finished.

On the other hand, Xiang Luo immediately sent a messenger to inform Xiang Yan, which of course included the Black Armored Army's tactics... He had already suffered a loss, but Xiang Yan could no longer suffer.

His troops are even persuading Xiang Luo to retreat:

"Lieutenant, the black armour is powerful, and our army has no countermeasures."

"It's not a way to go down like this. How long will I wait for the Liangjun to arrive..."

The minister said it does make sense.

The Black Armored Army was just the vanguard, and the Liang Army after that was the main force of the Qin Army.

At this time, the Black Armored Army was the cavalry unable to attack or force through.

At that time, under the attack of the beam army and the black armour, where can these Chu riders be spared?

How could Xiang Luo not know this, he sighed and said:

"Do you think it's okay to withdraw troops at this time?"

"When our army withdraws, how can the Black Armor not chase it all the way?"

"At that time, I am afraid that I will be wiped out before returning to Rushui!"

The minister thought about it, really.

If Chu Qi wants to withdraw, how can he withdraw?

Leave two thousand people behind?

But how can two thousand people be enough for three thousand black armies?

It's almost enough for two thousand people to guard a bridge each, and they need to guard a river more than ten miles long?

So it is conceivable that doing so would easily allow the Black Armored Army to cross the river and then chase after the tail. At that time, Chu Qi would even be divided into several parts and could not support each other.

But if you send more people to the palace, such as two thousand guarding the bridge and two thousand guarding the river... At this time, the total strength of the Chu cavalry is only more than 6,000, and leaving four thousand behind is not called withdrawal, but fleeing.

In other words, not only was the Chu Army defeated this time, but the remaining 6,000 riders were still photographed in the Black Armored Army's combat power. They were stuck here and did not dare to move.

Xiang Luo sighed and said:

"I originally said that with ten thousand cavalry troops can quickly encircle the black armored army, but I don't want to be the three thousand black armored armies encircling and wipe out my ten thousand cavalry!"

Although this is ironic, it is true.

The minister asked nervously:

"Lieutenant, what should I do?"

Xiang Luo answered:

"It is more than a hundred miles away from Ruyin. The Liangjun should arrive at around noon tomorrow."

"Our army stayed here all night, and when it gets dark, our army can retreat by night."

The ministers nodded in agreement.

This is indeed a good idea. If Chu Qi wants to escape, it is indeed only possible to escape at night.

Because the tactics of sticking to the enemy like the Black Cavalry require good visibility, it is difficult to perform at night.

For example, it is very clear between the enemy and the enemy in the night.

In fact, it's okay to distinguish the enemy from us, because the black armour is full-body black armour, while the Chu army is wearing a reflective leather armour, which can be distinguished by a little moonlight or starlight.

The problem is that the bow must be shot at a long distance, and if the black armor itself is invisible at night, the horses will easily collide with each other... This is not a joke, and the horse is almost dead when it falls off.

The more serious problem is that you can't see the terrain clearly at night and you can't drive a horse to run fast.

For example, there is a pit on the ground, or a dead tree lying in front of you...

If this is riding horses and galloping in the dark and the whole team is galloping, once it falls down to form a chain reaction, there is no need for enemies to kill at all, and you will lose more than half.

However, the slow speed of the Black Armed Forces will cause another problem: without the speed advantage, they cannot maintain a distance with the enemy to conduct "non-contact warfare."

Therefore, this network is considered to be a personal talent. Based on his familiarity with horses, he can infer that the black armour is not suitable for night combat.

However, even though Xiang Luo was witty, he still missed one point: the marching speed of the beam army was not as slow as he thought.

Xiang Luo took it for granted to calculate the beam army based on the marching speed of other infantry.

Ruanqiao Town is more than a hundred miles away from Ruyin, and the infantry travels fifty miles a day, so it takes two full days.

At this time, it was only one day before the beam army sent troops, that is, the beam army would not arrive until about noon tomorrow.

This is nothing wrong.

However, the Liangjun had already adapted to jogging under the training of Shen Bing, and without armor, marching for seventy miles a day was not a problem.

In addition, I drove another night on the road, so I rushed to Ruanqiao Town in the afternoon of the day.

I won't talk about the next situation.

As soon as Liang Junbu arrived, he immediately attacked Chu Qi.

The strong attack was the bridge that Chu Qi defended.

The Black Armored Army was afraid of being besieged by Chu Cavalry at the bridgehead, but the infantrymen of the Liang Army were not afraid, especially the Liang Army was also equipped with a wolf pit.

I saw a team of infantry steadily crossing the river along the wooden bridge to the opposite bank in an arc formation.

Chu Qi also hoped to block the beam army with bows and crossbows, but the beam soldiers held vine shields to cover them, and those crossbow arrows couldn't hurt them at all.

If the crossbow arrow does not work, let alone rush into the formation.

In this era, chariots were usually used for battle. As for the cavalry...with a carbine, the cavalry would fall off their horses in rows.

So Chu Qi had only two options: either dismount and fight or escape.

This is actually not a good choice.

The Qin army has 30,000 Liang army plus 3,000 Black Armour, totaling 33,000 people.

But the Chu army only had more than 6,000 knights, and was still scared by the Black Armored Army, with more than 6,000 knights who had no soldiers. How could they fight?

So Xiang Luo no longer cared about whether he was hunted down, and immediately fleeed with his subordinates.

The Black Armored Army is also not welcome. It will chase and kill at the tail of the rear after crossing the bridge...Three thousand horses chase and kill more than six thousand enemy horses, and the enemy horses have almost no resistance. This is also a miracle.