Liu Zheng originally thought that relying on the elite spear and shield soldiers under Zhou Cang, he could fight with the cavalry.

But the truth was a heavy blow to him.

More than 1,000 people died, more than 4,000 people were injured, and these wounded people and horses could not continue to fight in a short period of time and needed to recuperate, which was equivalent to Liu Zheng losing 5,000 people in one face.

is still an elite army, with such a large number of casualties, Liu Zheng will always feel heavy.

"My lord, although our army has suffered relatively large casualties, it is not completely unfavorable in front of the enemy, when we counted the battlefield, we found that the enemy had more than 3,000 casualties, and we had more than 400 horses just collected."

Liu Zheng lowered his head, and while thinking deeply, Zhou Cang spoke again, which made Liu Zheng's heart feel better.

After all, although Liu Zheng's command had relatively large casualties, the same Lu Bu was not without damage.

Judging from the corpses left on the battlefield, although the number of cavalry losses on Lu Bu's side was less than theirs, it was possible to exchange 5,000 infantry for the loss of 3,000 cavalry.

Although the casualties of Lu Bu's men and horses were also very serious, this was not the result that Liu Zheng expected, in his opinion, even if these under his command were infantry, against those cavalry, they might not have the strength to fight.

However, the appearance of the result still made Liu Zheng feel a little heavy.

Originally, he didn't want a killer feature that would be pulled out so quickly, but he was afraid that he would not let them appear in advance.

Liu Zheng was hiding in Jiaozhou, and he had been a heavy weapon for two years, so I was afraid that he would also need to move out to deal with Lu Bu at this time.

This killer feature is the cavalry regiment formed by Liu Zheng's war horses that have been continuously transported back from Youzhou since last year some time ago.

Xu Huang was in charge of Liu Zheng's most elite battalion of soldiers and horses.

Over the years, Liu Zheng has almost not used Xu Huang's men and horses in foreign wars, firstly, Xu Huang is Liu Zheng's most trusted person, and he is responsible for the security work in the entire territory, and secondly, Xu Huang's subordinates have a small number of cavalry that Liu Zheng has had from the very beginning.

Especially after he opened up the route to Youzhou, he was able to get war horses from Youzhou, so that the originally abandoned cavalry battalions could be formed again.

During this year, Xu Huang has been training the cavalry brought by Liu Zheng in Jiaozhou.

In fact, no one else knows that under Liu Zheng, there is also a cavalry of 8,000 people.

Originally, Liu Zheng also planned to let Xu Huang continue training and training, and then take out the cavalry when he really needed it, but now he didn't expect that he would need to use these cavalry so soon.

Liu Zheng raised his head and glanced at Zhou Cang.

"Zhou Cang, now do you know why I value Ding Yuan so much?"

"I know, this Ding Yuan's soldiers and horses don't seem to be a soft persimmon that we can pinch at will."

"This is just the surface, Lu Bu still has an elite army of several hundred people under his command, called the trap camp, its strength is higher than these elites under us, I am afraid that it is even higher, of course, it is not that I will grow the morale of others and destroy my own prestige, but we must not take it lightly when facing any enemy."

"I understand, lord, I used to despise Ding Yuan too much, but now it seems that the other party is also a powerful person, and it must be paid attention to."

Zhou Cang can understand the strength of the other party, and he also needs to suffer some hardships, and now he has lost a lot of 10,000 horses under his command, I am afraid that this lesson will be a little impressive.

After Liu Zheng admonished Zhou Cang, he began to put up his thoughts.

"Brothers, these opponents we have encountered now are very strong, and if we want to defeat them completely, it is not so easy, so we can only increase our troops."

Liu Zheng looked at Huang Zhong, Zhou Cang, Zhou Chao and the others.

There was no opinion from the crowd.

"Zhou Yu, immediately pass on my order to let General Xu Huang of Jiaozhou lead his eight thousand elite cavalry and rush to Changsha County."

"Yes, Master."

Zhou Yu immediately went down to deliver the order.

After some discussion, Liu Zheng's army was temporarily stationed near the pontoon fortress, and then built a temporary camp here, mainly with a pontoon bridge, which could quickly cross the river to Jiangxia County to Changsha County.

Such an action can allow Liu Zheng to ensure that he has a place in Jiangxia County, and he does not need to make trouble with Ding Yuan's people because of the river.

After his men arrived in Jiangxia County, they could attack Jiangxia at any time.

Liu Zheng was discussing the next thing, and Lu Bu, who led the army back, was also reporting the battle situation to Ding Yuan this time.

"Feng Xian, I heard that you and that Liu Zheng fought by the river?"

"Yes, father-in-law, that Liu Zheng's strength is really strong, I led 20,000 cavalry to patrol nearby, or let him find a place where he could land, and he has led the soldiers and horses to the Jiangxia territory, I wanted to use the advantage of the cavalry to directly disperse Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, but unfortunately as soon as the battle began, I found that Liu Zheng's men and horses were very elite, not only not afraid of death, but also had a strong combat ability."

Lu Bu is a high-minded and arrogant person, he has this ability, but he still has a high evaluation of Liu Zheng.

Ding Yuan knew about Lu Bu, and when he heard that Lu Bu actually looked up to Liu Zheng so highly, he was not only a little curious.

"Then Liu Zheng is really so powerful, it's the first time I've seen you look up to someone so highly."

"His personal strength may not be high, but the soldiers and horses under his command are very difficult, but I am afraid that this battle will not be easy."

"In this case, then we don't have to take the initiative to attack, just defend passively, Zhang Liao has cooperated with Huang Zu to gradually occupy Nanyang, we only need to delay time, we can let Zhang Liao take down the entire Nanyang, and then Runan will also be pacified, with Zhang Liao's men and horses coming back to help, and then join forces to deal with Liu Zheng."

With Lu Bu's answer, Ding Yuan finally had a clear understanding of Liu Zheng. For his next battle against Liu Zheng, he also began to turn offensive to defensive.

Anyway, they are not in a hurry, they just need to delay the time, and wait until Zhang Liao and Huang Zu's men and horses destroy Yuan Shu.

It was Liu Zheng who was in a hurry.

"Yes, father-in-law, most of us are cavalry, so we are not suitable for fighting in this kind of mountain forest, and it is better to defend the city."

Lu Bu has no opinion on Ding Yuan's opinion.

The cavalry is not good at attacking the city, but it is good at fighting encounters in the field, and it makes sense that Ding Yuan wants to defend the city, and it makes sense to wait until the enemy army comes to attack, first defend, and when the enemy army is weak, he can use the cavalry to counterattack, and he can win.