"Killed five thousand? No, some of them should have escaped. ”

When Liu Zheng heard Mrs. Guo's words, he felt a little strange and asked rhetorically.

In Liu Zheng's opinion, he should have let some of the soldiers and horses leave and deliberately let them escape.

Liu Zheng's purpose was to undermine the confidence of these recruits under Dong Zhuo's command, so it would not be beneficial for Liu Zheng to completely annihilate this wave of soldiers and horses, but to kill most of them, and then reserve a small part for them to go back.

After this small wave of soldiers and horses returned to Dong Zhuo's military camp, they would begin to publicize the power and terrifying of these Yellow Turban soldiers under Liu Zheng's command, making them afraid of the Yellow Turban Army.

In this way, Liu Zheng's goal can be achieved.

was asked by Liu Zheng, and Mrs. Guo hurriedly changed her words.

"No, no, we just defeated the 5,000 men and horses under Hu Chi'er's command, and the people who really killed were only more than 3,000 people, and some of them were killed by us on the way to pursue, it is estimated that the whole battle should have killed more than 4,000 soldiers and horses of Hu Chi'er, and there are only a few hundred people who can escape back to Wuyang City."

Mrs. Guo's explanation made Liu Zheng not fully believe it, and instead glanced at Xu Huang beside him, Xu Huang was in charge of battlefield statistics on their side, and at this time, the casualties of soldiers and horses on the entire battlefield had almost been counted.

"Qu Shuai, what Mrs. Guo said, there is not much difference, I looked at the corpses on the ground, there should be more than 3,000 people, plus the soldiers and horses we sent out to pursue, about 4,000 people were killed by us, Hu Chi'er fled with hundreds of remnants, I am afraid that at this time, I should have turned back to Wuyang County."

Hearing Xu Huang's description, Liu Zheng nodded.

"Go back, go back, even if he returns to Wuyang City, he will be greatly punished by Dong Zhuo because of such a mistake, whether he can save his life is a matter of two words."

"By the way, what about the casualties on our side?"

After Liu Zheng asked about the situation of the enemy army, he immediately asked with concern.

Compared with the losses of Hu Chi'er's side, in fact, Liu Zheng was more concerned about how much the cavalry under his command had lost, after all, once there were a large number of casualties among the cavalry under his command, there was no way to replenish it.

Every time he dies, for Liu Zheng, it hurts.

"Our casualties are not large, the archer battalion, did not directly participate in the battle, there are no losses, but the cavalry battalion has killed seventeen brothers, and more than a hundred brothers have suffered some injuries, which are not very serious injuries, and after half a month of recuperation, they should all be able to recover. However, it is a pity that more than 30 horses were seriously injured, but they could not continue to fight. ”

Xu Huang's words made Liu Zheng's face slightly gloomy. Although the casualties were not large, the loss of more than 30 horses meant that more than 30 cavalry could not continue to fight, and there were only more than 700 cavalry under his command.

Now that the combat strength has been reduced by more than thirty, for the cavalry on his side, it is nearly reduced. Twentieth of the strength.

"War horses, war horses, if we can get a batch of war horses in a short period of time, it will not only greatly improve the strength of our cavalry, but also strengthen our cavalry team."

But this kind of thing, Liu Zheng just thought about it in his mind.

After all, War Horses are not so easy to get. This is the Yingchuan region, and it does not raise horses itself, so it is easier to get war horses only in the north.

For example, if you want war horses in the Central Plains, you can only buy them from merchants, but ordinary horse merchants rarely come here, even if a batch comes, many of them are ordinary agricultural horses, and even fewer want to reach the level of war horses, and the price of war horses is at least forty or fifty thousand yuan.

One, two, or a dozen war horses, Liu Zheng can still have the possibility of buying, but hundreds, hundreds of war horses, this is a lot of money, far from what his current financial resources can pay.

If he gets the ransom in Cai Mao's hands, Liu Zheng may still be able to consider it, but now, this road will definitely not work.

And the only way to get a large number of war horses is to rob, and now there are three thousand Xiliang cavalry under Dong Zhuo's command.

If Liu Zheng wanted to get a large number of war horses, he had to defeat Dong Zhuo and convert the 3,000 cavalry under his command into his own cavalry.

That's it.

It was far more difficult than him buying some war horses directly from the merchants.

Three thousand cavalry is not easy to deal with, when dealing with more than 1,000 cavalry under the command of Huangfu Song, it was almost Liu Zheng's life, and now Dong Zhuo's three thousand cavalry, as well as five thousand elite soldiers and horses, is a great force.

Fortunately, this time, there was no danger in eliminating the 5,000 new troops under Dong Zhuo's command, which can be regarded as a heavy setback to Dong Zhuo's spirit.

Liu Zheng ordered everyone to spend more than ten minutes cleaning up the battlefield. They quickly evacuated from the village.

After all, this place is not too far from Wuyang City, if Hu Chi'er returns to Wuyang City with the remnants of the army, he will call Dong Zhuo's reinforcements in Wuyang City, and use the mobility of the three thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry under Dong Zhuo's command.

Soon you will be able to kill a horse gun and re-kill the vicinity of this small village.

So it is still quite dangerous to stay here, in order to avoid this happening, Liu Zheng is very decisive and quickly retreats to Shangcai County with all the people.

Sure enough, not long after Liu Zheng and his men and horses evacuated from this small village, outside this small village, in the direction where Hu Chi'er had fled before, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves.

A military general led two thousand Xiliang iron horsemen and quickly rushed to this place.

But when he came here, he saw a mess on the ground, full of corpses, but he didn't see the shadow of half of the Yellow Turban Army.

Hu Chi'er, who came over, looked at the corpses all over the ground, there was no Yellow Turban Army for a long time, and he was also depressed, knowing that he was still too late, and those hateful Yellow Turban remnants had fled.

"General Huaxiong, this is here, I was ambushed by a group of Yellow Turban thieves here, and they also had hundreds of cavalry, and it was these hundreds of cavalry that killed our army who lost their armor and fled in embarrassment."

A large, long-haired man in the lead jumped off his horse, looked around on the ground, and kicked away a corpse on the ground.

Then he crouched down and touched the corpse.

"The corpse is not cold yet, it seems that it has not been long since they died, and these people should have only left for a short time."

Although Hua Xiong knew that the battle had just taken place here, he was able to judge the specific time more accurately by the time when the corpse died.

But even if he judged that there were a large number of Yellow Turban Remnants here before, but now he didn't see a single shadow of the Yellow Turban Remnants, and he didn't know where these Yellow Turban Remnants fled to, and even if he wanted to chase them, he didn't know what direction to pursue.

I could only sigh.

"Hu Chi'er, you waste, Dong Gong gave you 5,000 soldiers and horses, this is how you repay Dong Gong."