Those who fled at first, after fleeing, gradually began to spread this morale of losing their armor to the whole army.

In addition, there were cavalry constantly rushing and killing, and soon, the Jiaozhou soldiers began to flee in the whole army, and soldiers continued to flee from the core battlefield.

Liu Yan stood at the back of the team, holding his sword and shouting.

"Can't be returned! Keep charging, and those who violate the order will be killed! ”

The angry Liu Yan saw that his soldiers and horses had broken through the first wave of Liu Zhengjun's defenses, and the victory was in his hands, but suddenly the situation changed drastically, and his initial ambition suddenly collapsed.

But he didn't want to give up like this, so he could only use brute force to keep the fleeing soldiers.

But the soldiers, after all, there are too many people, and they are scattered and fleeing, Liu Yan's roar, even if he can affect one or two people around him, he can't let all the soldiers and horses know about his anger.

The end result was that more and more people fled, and in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of people retreated and fled.

These people are all people who have not experienced much battle, they are all new soldiers, and in the first big battle, they met soldiers and horses like Liu Zheng, how can they not be afraid.

After a short time, only a small half of Liu Yan's side escaped.

Seeing that Liu Yan, who was gone, he could only sigh in the end. Taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers and horses on his side were not completely defeated by Liu Zheng's army, he also hurriedly fled for his life.

And the Zhu Fu behind him had already begun to retreat to the periphery of Hepu City when the soldiers were charging, and as soon as Liu Yan's army was defeated, he had already fled.

Liu Zheng used the cavalry to fight with these Jiaozhou soldiers and horses here, and after seeing these people start to flee, he did not take the initiative to chase them.

First, there were not enough soldiers and horses under his command, and there were only more than 10,000 men and horses, and some of them were lost in the battle.

Although Jiaozhou lost more than 20,000 people in the battle, after all, 30,000 people fled, and if these 30,000 people were pursued, there would be no enough manpower.

Once dispersed, less versus more, it becomes more difficult.

In addition, now that Liu Zheng has defeated Zhu Fu's army again, Zhu Fu's already small number of men and horses have suffered heavy losses again, even if he flees back to other counties, his soldiers and horses will rebel.

And now Liu Zheng's men have liberated all the counties near Hepu County, so it is not a matter of effort to occupy the entire Hepu County.

Liu Zheng needs to temporarily recuperate here in Hepu and reconsolidate his power.

Therefore, he did not rush to order people to attack, but chose to surrender the soldiers who continued to stay here.

Only by capturing these soldiers can Liu Zheng be able to recruit them and turn them into his own men, so as to continue to strengthen himself and feed the war with war.

The advantage of the cavalry was reflected at this time, the war horse galloped quickly, went around to the retreat of those fleeing soldiers, and then blocked part of the escape route, many retreating men and horses, seeing that the escape road was blocked, panicked.

Then Liu Zheng's celebrity conveyed the order to surrender and not kill, plus Liu Zheng's men and horses by the river, some of them were recruited from Cangwu County, and those soldiers who had no intention of fighting could only surrender in the end.

In less than half an hour, a battle had come to an end.

Liu Zheng ordered people to count the casualties on his side, and on the other hand, he asked those Jiaozhou men and horses who had surrendered to gather together and wait for the next arrangement.

After the battle outside the city was over, Liu Zheng immediately continued to attack Hepu City, in fact, at this time, there was no difficulty in attacking Hepu City.

Without Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses to guard it, Hepu City is already an empty city, and Liu Zheng can go over at any time, but at this time, the things on the battlefield have not been completed, and the matter of entering the city is not in a hurry.

As the sun sank, the battle outside Hepu City was finally over.

Liu Zheng also took people and sat in the position that Zhu Fu had done before.

At this time, Gan Ning Zhoucang and others, who received the news, also rushed back to Hepu City at this time.

"Zhou Chao, you come to report the losses of this battle outside Hepu City this time!"

"Yes, my lord."

Liu Zheng glanced at the generals present, and originally wanted Xu Huang to report the battlefield losses, but after seeing the Zhou Dynasty, Liu Zheng still decided to let him speak.

This guy is more or less a talent, and his strength is nothing among the top generals of the Three Kingdoms, but now under Liu Zheng's command, he can be regarded as a rare general.

When Liu Zheng didn't have enough people around him to use it, he still had some effect.

Zhou Chao immediately stood up and quickly described it to Liu Zheng,

"My lord, in this battle of Hepu City, we left here with 10,000 horses, more than 1,600 sword and shield men, 700 pikemen, and more than 30 cavalry."

Zhou Chao first told the loss of soldiers and horses on his side, which immediately made Liu Zheng's face a little ugly.

Although the total loss of soldiers and horses was only more than 2,000 people.

However, more than 2,000 people are not the new army that has just been recruited, they are some of the most elite people under Liu Zheng's command, and they can be described as the elite of the elite, so they lost more than 2,000 people here, close to one of the 50,000 people.

How can this not make Liu Zheng's heart ache, especially the loss of more than 30 cavalry, and now the cavalry under his command is getting less and less, after these days of fighting, the loss of war horses, plus self-consumed war horses.

The cavalry under Liu Zheng has gradually changed from more than 3,000 people at the beginning to just over 2,000 left.

If there are a few battles, this number will continue to decrease, not increase, and if you fight a few more battles like this, I am afraid that the cavalry will only have one name left.

However, there were no war horses on the Jiaozhou side, so he could not get the replenishment of horses, and Liu Zheng had no way to expand the cavalry even if he wanted to.

"What about the enemy, what casualties did the enemy have?"

Although he was quite heartbroken about the loss of soldiers and horses on his side, this was not the time for Liu Zheng to be heartbroken, and he continued to ask Zhou Chao.

"At present, we have counted 18,000 enemy casualties, 8,000 were captured by us, and the rest fled in advance with Zhu Fu and others.

Zhou Chao has heard Xu Huang talk about these things, so he is still clear about these news.

Liu Zheng nodded after hearing this.

Although Zhu Fu fled again, Liu Zheng understood that even if he fled, he would not be arrogant for long, and when Liu Zheng's men and horses gradually encroached on Jiaozhou, in the end he still had no way to retreat.