Although the men and horses on Liu Zheng's side had the intention to pursue, since Cao Hong, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Chao chose to retreat, and Liu Zheng's number was not enough, it was impossible to completely leave these people here.

In less than a stick of incense, on the battlefield, the soldiers and horses led by Cao Hong, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Chao had already retreated.

Although Liu Zheng still left some men and horses, most of them still fled backwards without their lives, and they couldn't stop them at all, and Liu Zheng had no shooters or cavalry, so it was still very difficult to pursue.

What's more, this place is not far from Shouchun City, and it is only the time for a stick of incense to go back and forth.

Liu Zheng's ability to kill thousands of more men and horses during the pursuit was already the maximum he could do.

When he led the soldiers and horses to Shouchun City, he saw that he was about to arrive at Shouchun City, in order not to confront the main forces of Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others, he still ordered to retreat and temporarily withdraw from here.

"Don't chase anymore, the front is Shouchun City, if we continue to move forward, in case we are entangled by the enemy, it will be difficult for us to retreat, immediately send someone to inform General Huang Zhong, if they have not retreated and let them retreat immediately, what is the situation in Shouchun City, we don't have to care anymore, we have retreated fifty miles and waited for news here!"

Liu Zheng immediately ordered to lead his more than 10,000 people to withdraw from Shouchun City.

After this battle, the 18,000 soldiers and horses under his command lost more than 5,000 men.

When Cao Hong, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Chao led their respective soldiers and horses back to Shouchun City, most of the time had passed.

Great changes have also taken place on the battlefield outside Shouchun City.

First of all, the archers led by Huang Zhong made every effort to block Liu Dai's soldiers and horses, resulting in serious casualties among the soldiers and horses under Liu Dai's command. Although Liu Dai was escorted by his own soldiers and fled at the critical moment, the 6,000 soldiers and horses he left here were killed and wounded, and there were hardly many people left.

After completely annihilating Liu Dai's soldiers and horses, Huang Zhong immediately withdrew from the battlefield in accordance with the previous agreement with Liu Zheng. When Cheng Yu returned with the people, Huang Zhong had already calmly left from here.

On the other side, Yuan Shu broke out of Shouchun City, and faced Cao Cao's soldiers and horses in a fierce battle.

However, the men and horses left by Cao Cao here were only six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, and they could not stop Yuan Shu's more than 20,000 troops from charging at all.

Although Cao Jun cut off Yuan Shu's army a lot, and even cut off their way to break through, Yuan Shu himself and the army behind him were separated, and many Yuan Shu's men and horses were killed.

But Yuan Shu was escorted by three generals, Ji Ling, Lei Bo, and Liu Xun, so that Yuan Shu could break through from here at a critical moment, or let them fight their way out of Cao Cao's encirclement. Difficult withdrawal from the battlefield.

Cao Hong, who hurried back to Shouchun in a hurry, was still late and did not arrive before Yuan Shu broke through.

However, the good fortune in the misfortune is that Cao Cao is fine, at least Cao Cao, Liu Dai, and Zhang Miao have no worries about the lives of the three coaches.

An hour later, the battle of Shouchun City was coming to an end, and Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai regathered in the big tent.

At this time, there was a dead silence in the big tent, no one dared to speak, everyone lowered their heads, or looked at each other, thinking about how to speak.

Everyone's faces were very gloomy. After all, this battle that took place outside Shouchun City was a big defeat for them, not to mention the loss of troops, and Yuan Shu, who was besieging Shouchun City, ran away.

If this matter spreads, it will definitely make them lose face.

Of course, the saddest among this group of people is Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai.

His battle losses here in Shouchun this time can be regarded as the heaviest one.

He brought 30,000 elite soldiers and horses from Yanzhou, and after a series of bloody battles, there were originally 20,000 soldiers and horses left before the great battle in Shouchun.

Although 20,000 soldiers and horses are not much, it is where his confidence lies in attacking Yuan Shu in Huainan, but after this battle, there is not much left. When the battle was over, when he gathered the remnants of his army and counted the number of people, he found that there were only more than 2,000 of his 20,000 soldiers and horses left.

More than 2,000 people were some of the men and horses brought back by Cheng Yu, and the soldiers and horses that were originally left outside Shouchun City were actually lost and almost completely annihilated.

And Cao Cao and Zhang Miao, although they also have some losses.

But Cao Cao still had about 13,000 men left.

Zhang Miao didn't lose much of his soldiers and horses, and there were still more than 15,000 soldiers and horses of the original 20,000 at this time.

Thinking of this situation, Liu Dai felt more and more that something was wrong, why did his soldiers and horses suffer all the casualties while Zhang Miao and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses did not suffer too many losses.

Thinking about it, he thought that when Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses appeared before, it was Cao Cao who said to him that he should lead all the soldiers and horses to rush forward, only in this way could he block the enemy's charge, but in this way, his soldiers and horses were lost, all because of Cao Cao.

He blamed the loss of his soldiers and horses on Cao Cao's blind command.

Of course, Liu Dai resented Cao Cao, not only because Cao Cao had lost all the soldiers and horses under his command, but also because of a more important matter.

He originally came here to avenge his younger brother Liu Xuan, blockading Shouchun City and besieging Yuan Shu, so that no matter how great Yuan Shu's skills were, it was impossible to escape from this city, but now Yuan Shu has escaped.

The soldiers and horses under the command of Cao Cao, who was in charge of the siege, did not block Yuan Shu, and let Yuan Shu run away, and the responsibility for Yuan Shu's escape can only be attributed to Cao Cao.

So this incident made Liu Dai even more annoyed, no one spoke in the battle, and the more he thought about it, the more angry Liu Dai was the first to speak and challenge Cao Cao.

"Cao Mengde, you have to give me an explanation for this matter, this battle was lost, the soldiers and horses under my command were lost, and Yuan Shu in Shouchun City broke through and fled, not to mention this Shouchun City now, even Liu Zheng still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses watching from the side, how should this battle be fought next?"

In fact, Cao Cao was also reflecting at this time, reflecting on the losses he had caused in this battle, and regretting why he was so light on the enemy.

But he didn't expect that Liu Dai would attack him at this time.

Cao Cao raised his head and glanced at Liu Dai.

After hesitating for a moment, he continued to speak, and responded to Liu Dai.

"Lord Zhoumu, this matter is not what I want, and I didn't expect it to turn out to be this result, but although our army has been hit hard, it will not collapse all at once, as long as we reorganize the army's morale and slowly figure it out, this Huainan can still be in our hands."

Although they lost the battle of Shouchun, they still occupied Shouchun after all, and although Liu Zheng and Yuan Shu fled, they also suffered heavy losses, so they were not defeated.