Look, as long as you treat a strategic retreat as a winter adventure spree, the situation becomes completely different.
Guns can be discarded, cannons can be abandoned, as long as you keep the food. Everyone thought this way, so they brought all the food they could find.
Hoping to find those who scattered is unlikely, and at this time, even the remaining infantry in this Qin Country regiment didn't know if they had really encountered Tang Army Soldiers.
They only heard gunshots and someone shouting that the Tang Army was attacking, then everyone ran without hesitation, continuously running until they reached this place.
When the battalion commander realized he couldn't even gather enough soldiers for one battalion, he wasn't discouraged. At least they had plenty of food apart from lacking weapons and ammunition.