With this advantage, Liu Zheng's men and horses and Sun Jian's soldiers and horses launched a fierce battle here.

A few hours later, night fell.

The battle that took place near the camp also came to an end at this time.

Entering the end, it does not mean that the battle between Liu Zheng and Sun Jian is over.

Rather, because the sky was darkening, the two sides temporarily ceased their troops and retreated to both sides.

Each continues to regroup, establish territory, and have a temporary truce, and may launch a second offensive at any time.

This is also because there were no hot weapons in ancient battles, some were only hand-to-hand, and the terrain was vast, so there was no way to kill all the enemy troops in a short time.

Under such a protracted war, a big war may even last for several hours.

After Liu Zheng dealt with the settlement of some wounded soldiers, he quickly gathered the men and horses who were still able to move on his side and gathered on a hill.

Gan Ning, Wen Ping, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai and other generals regathered to Liu Zheng's side.

"Brothers, are you all alright?"

When Liu Zheng saw that these generals were still alive, he finally felt a little relieved.

"Lord, we're all fine, but our brothers..."

Gan Ning was the first to answer Liu Zheng, although he said that it was okay, Liu Zheng could still see from his body that the gray armor had been stained with blood, showing a black and red color. There were still a few scars on the bare skin, as if they had been cut by a sharp weapon, and there were faint traces of blood, but they had been bandaged at this time.

It can be seen from his outfit that although the person is still alive, he must have left a lot of scars on his body after the fierce battle.

Not only Gan Ning, but several other people have more or less scars on their bodies, although these scars are not fatal, but if they are delayed, they will definitely affect their combat effectiveness.

"Brothers have worked hard, how many men do you still have under your hands?"

"I haven't calculated it in detail, but after a rough look at the 10,000 soldiers under my command, it is estimated that there are only more than 4,000 people left at this time."

Gan Ning led this time, but the most elite 10,000 people under his command set off from Jiaozhou, although they had already lost some of them on the way, plus the 1,000 people sent to Zhang Yongyu to escort grain and grass, they were attacked by Cheng Pu's people and suffered great losses. But now after a big war, more than half of it has been lost.

After listening to Gan Ning's description, Liu Zheng then looked at Wen Ping.

The 10,000 people under Wen Ping, although they are new troops that have just been recruited for a short time, but after Wen Ping led them to Zhuya Prefecture for training, they can be regarded as training for a few months, and their combat effectiveness is not much different from those soldiers and horses under Sun Jian.

"My lord, my brethren should still have five thousand men."

"What about the two of you?"

After Wen Ping finished speaking, Liu Zheng looked at Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai again.

"The two of us should be about five or six thousand people, and this battle has lost a lot of brothers, mainly because the soldiers and horses sent by Sun Jian are quite strong in combat and cannot carry out large-scale battles in the jungle, and most of my brothers are naval troops, so it is not advantageous to fight with those people on land."

Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai had 10,000 sailors under their hands, and these 10,000 people were the shortest recruits, and they didn't have much training before. Therefore, the combat ability may actually be under the soldiers under Gan Ningwenpin and others. As soon as the big war came out this time, the casualties were also huge.

When Liu Zheng heard the words of the three of them, he thought carefully in his heart, and the combined strength of these people actually only had fifteen thousand people left.

He brought a full 30,000 people out of Jiaozhou, and now more than half of them have been lost.

Naturally, Liu Zheng's face turned pale, and the subsequent compensation and bereavement of the family members of these 15,000 people here will be a headache for Liu Zheng.

If you can't get some benefits in Yangzhou, the loss of people and horses this time will be very small.

"I didn't expect Sun Jian to be able to gather 40,000 soldiers and horses here in a short period of time, 40,000 soldiers and horses do have some ability, and I don't know why this guy wants to fight us here, according to our plan, he should lead the army back to help Fuchun."

The reason why Liu Zheng dared to fight Sun Jian here was actually because he knew that Yan Baihu was going to attack Fuchun, and there was still Sun Jian's family in Fuchun, so Sun Jian couldn't ignore it, if he really didn't care about it. He won't have so many followers under his command?

After all, Sun Jian is not Liu Bei, he can abandon his wife and children. Sun Jian attaches more importance to the family than Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

"Lord, could it be that Yan Baihu didn't attack according to our agreement?"

"No, I sent Xu You to Yan Baihu's army to monitor Yan Baihu, if Yan Baihu does not attack Fuchun as planned, Xu You will definitely send someone to inform us."

"And now, we haven't received news from Xu You, so there is only one possibility, Sun Jian should not have gotten the news that Fuchun was attacked."

"Maybe that's the case, no matter what, we can't retreat, continue to garrison here tonight, everyone cheers up 120,000 points, remember not to let Sun Jian attack the camp at night, in case he really robs the camp, our losses will be even greater."

Liu Zheng gave an order to the generals, and then began to order the men and horses below to bury the pot and make food, although he didn't think that Sun Jian still had the strength to attack the camp at night after the daytime battle, but the necessary defense still had to be done.

Now he is planning to delay time, as long as he continues to delay the time, until Sun Jian understands that someone is attacking Fuchun, it is not Liu Zheng but Sun Jian who will be sad at that time.

Sun Jian, who is in a dilemma, will continue to fight with Liu here at that time, nor will he bring people back to Fuchun to support.

Nothing was said all night.

Liu Zheng's side was prepared to defend, and did not receive the news that Sun Jian came to attack at night, it may be that Sun Jian's side suffered heavy losses, and it was unlikely that he would attack the camp at night, so it was not carried out, and both sides wanted to have a good rest.

However, early the next morning, Sun Jian's side hurriedly ran over a few heralds.

These heralds are the clan disciples of the Sun family in Fuchun's hometown, they are all family members surnamed Sun, and their status is relatively high in Sun Jian's military camp, so they entered the military camp unimpeded, and soon came to Sun Jian's big tent.

As soon as they entered, the heralds' faces were anxious.

"Lord, lord, something is wrong!"

"What's the panic, what's the big deal, is it possible that Liu Zheng's guy is calling again?"

"No, it's Fuchun, someone is attacking Fuchun!"