That being said, after a night of fighting, the soldiers were also tired, and it was naturally impossible to continue fighting.

It's just that in order to avoid encountering Zhang Bao's attack from the north and south in these more than ten days, the task of cleaning up the mountains and forests must be carried out in at least three days.

"Brother, the battle report has come out......" The next day, Liu Tao had just slept and got up, and Lu Yan came over with three points of fatigue, obviously he had been busy since the second half of the night.

Clearing his throat, his throat was a little dry now, and he had been busy for two hours, barely taking a sip of water.

"Don't talk yet, drink some water." Liu Tao obviously noticed this as well, and handed over the skin bag beside him.

"Thank you, brother!" The latter thanked him, and began to drink, he was indeed too thirsty.

"Drink slowly, the thirstier you are, the slower you have to be, otherwise the water will not be absorbed." Liu Tao reminded. When the latter heard this, he slowed down his drinking, and that's all. He also had to report that he couldn't waste too much time on drinking water.

"Okay, let's continue with the topic just now......" Lu Yan quickly finished drinking, and then picked up the paperwork, "In the battle last night, not counting the losses in weapons and armor, our army lost 145 soldiers and 33 were disabled, most of them were pikemen, and some sword and shield soldiers. As for the more than 300 wounded soldiers, the most serious ones have stabilized today, and the minor ones have recovered. ”

After a pause, he continued to report: "The enemy suffered 3,623 casualties, including 975 wounded soldiers, should it be recruited?" ”

"There's no need, this part has no value in co-optation, kill them all." Liu Tao shook his head, these thieves here are the backbone of the Yellow Turban Thieves, and they will not surrender at all, and even if they surrender, there will be problems.

"Okay...... In addition, about the supplementary ...... of the soldiers, "Lu Yan tried to ask, before coming, Guan Yu came over to tell him about it, and although Liu Ge was hesitant, the meaning should be the same."

This time, it was mainly these two people's troops who died. On the contrary, Zhang Fei's cavalry troops did not suffer much loss.

"I'm pleading with you?" Liu Tao reacted.

"............" Lu Yan didn't answer directly, but just gave a helpless look.

"Tell them, no!" Liu Tao thought for a while, "Two thousand eight hundred soldiers, after all, there are still more than two thousand five hundred." Not to mention cleaning up the thieves in the woods, just saying that it will not be a problem to knock down Xia Quyang......"

After a pause, he continued: "As I said, this is our final battle, which means that after this battle, no matter how many soldiers we have, it doesn't mean much. The materials that can be paid for, but they cannot be less, so it is a waste. ”

At least until there is a fixed piece of land that can provide food and taxes, too many soldiers will only be a burden.

The point is that there is no way to expect the imperial court, or Liu Yan to support his army, unless it is completely thrown into him and becomes his subordinate. I can't say, in the end, I have to go to Bashu with him in four years.

Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but at the same time, it is also difficult to come out. There is also a shortage of horses, there are horses on the side of Dianchi Lake, and the Dian horse is very famous even in later generations, but it can only be regarded as a mountain transport horse, not suitable for the plain charge, let alone a bantam horse.

Since he had already made stirrups and horseshoes in advance, he had to choose a territory close to the north where he could get horses. Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou are the first choices. Yizhou, definitely not in his reference range.

"Brother's consideration is also reasonable, I will communicate with them." Lu Yan nodded, mainly because he didn't take this factor into account, and now he also felt that there was really no need to replenish his troops.

In terms of the combat effectiveness of this army, especially those spells of Liu Taohui, unless it is a major decision-making mistake, it is almost impossible to cause them to cause a large number of casualties.

"In addition, since we have come to Julu County, then follow up and report the merits, let's go directly to the teacher!" Liu Tao continued.

"The premise is that I have to send someone to Wuji County first to get some lime...... Three thousand heads, it's not easy to nitrate. Lu Yan shook his head, the main thing is that this process infiltrates people, but there is no way, the calculation of military merit relies on human heads.

"Anyway, we are not in a hurry, we will rest for a few days, explore the mountains and forests one after another, and eliminate the thieves." Liu Tao replied.

"That's right......" Lu Yan smiled knowingly and left the tent, he really needed to go back and rest.

Zhang Fei and Liu Ge were somewhat disappointed when they heard that they would no longer replenish the soldiers. But Lu Yan also informed the two of them of the situation, so it was naturally not good to continue to entangle. I can only go back and reorganize the soldiers, but in the end there are less than 500 people, and the phalanx is not very good-looking.

Zhang Bao's side was also patient, and in the next three days, he didn't send anyone out of the city. The only action was to transfer the soldiers of several stockades in the east back to the city, depending on the situation, and planned to defend it.

"Sticking to it works?" Zhang Fei came back from the horse, he had just gone over to investigate, "We can go south directly!" ”

"And then he came and killed, nothing more." Guan Yu saw further, "You can even continue to go north...... On the side of Lunu County, there are only 1,000 soldiers. ”

Why did Lu Zhi let them go south, not only to make Zhang Bao unable to go south to support, but mainly not to give them the possibility of going north. In case of time, they destroyed Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang in Guangzong, but Zhang Bao went north to the erosion place, and the matter would not be over.

So going south or something, it's obviously impossible, they are destined not to go south until they destroy Zhang Bao.

"Shhh...... Third brother, do you also realize this when you say this treasure? Zhang Fei was a little worried.

"Even if you realize it, what can you do?" Unknowingly, Lu Yan also came over, and he had also discussed this issue with Liu Tao in the past three days, "Unless he is not worried about his brother and third brother, he will definitely not go north easily." ”

"At the same time, it is estimated that they will do whatever it takes to defeat us." Jian Yong also came over to join in the fun, "It is said that there should be thousands of soldiers under his command, why don't you come out to fight us?" ”

Even if it's five thousand, five thousand against two thousand five hundred, how can his side have the advantage.

"Probably because he doesn't have cavalry under his command......" Lu Yan said with a smile.

Just when several people were discussing this matter, at the same time, a battle report had been sent to Lu Zhi. At the same time, earlier, the head of the thief who had been killed when crossing the Hutuo River was also sent to the barracks.

The day before yesterday, a battle report came from the north, saying that when Liu Tao crossed the Hutuo River, he defeated 3,000 thieves and killed 2,000 enemies. The key battle losses were too low, and Lu Zhi didn't believe it, so more than 2,000 heads were shipped today.

"Is there really almost no battle damage?" Lu Zhi saw that another battle report was sent from the north, so he had to ask.

"If it was the Hutuo River, there were indeed not many casualties. At most, some soldiers are disabled and cannot be discharged. The messenger hurriedly replied.

"And what about this time?" Lu Zhi looked at the battle report, he couldn't believe it, he crossed the river at night and launched a surprise attack, 2,800 battle reports, attacking more than 5,000 thieves on the other side. As a result, less than 200 of our troops were killed and wounded, and 3,000 thieves were killed......

"The first level will be delivered in about two days." The messenger replied in the affirmative.

"This Deran...... Could it be that he was born a general? At this moment, Lu Zhi couldn't help but sigh.