Chapter 899: The camp broke and the army retreated
Knock knock!
Under Cao Cao's clothes, the green tendons on his arms were exposed.
Over the years, Cao Cao's health has not been as good as it was back then, and the time when the war drums only beat a cup of tea has been a little unbearable.
However, Cao Cao was still insisting, and he tilted his head to look at Cao Jun in front of him.
Whether or not you can break through the Zhao army camp depends on this wave.
In this wave of strong attacks, Cao's army suffered heavy casualties.
Cao Cao personally beat the drums, whether it was those generals or soldiers, it was like beating chicken blood.
Looking at the charging soldiers in front of him, constantly dying under the crossbow arrows, Cao Cao's heart was dripping with blood.
"Quick, faster."
The drums beat like a torrential rain.
Cao Cao was in a hurry.
The rain of arrows has not stopped, and it is already the seventeenth wave.
Cao Cao had already lost hope that the arrows of the Zhao army had been exhausted and the archers' arms were weak.
What he wants now is that Xu Chu and Guan Yu will kill them.
Cao's casualties were increasing rapidly, and they were about to exceed 10,000.
"Kill!"
The Cao army beside Xu Chu suffered heavy casualties.
But their vigor has not yet dissipated for the time being.
Xu Chu's bravery was fully displayed, and no one on Zhao Jun's side was his opponent.
Even if there was a crossbow arrow to suppress it, he was still killed by Xu Chu and did not leave a piece of armor.
"I can't hold it."
Xun Chen was worried, even if he ordered the crossbow arrows to cover it, but Cao Jun's morale was now high and he couldn't stop it.
Cao Cao personally beat the drum, which made Xun Chen and Xu Shu not expect.
Cao Jun's morale has completely overwhelmed Zhao Jun, whether it is Xun Chen, Xu Shu, or Guan Hai, they can't improve their morale in a short period of time.
"It's broken."
"Kill it!"
"Cao Jun has come in."
Xu Chu took the lead, and he took the lead in breaking the Zhao military camp.
led Cao Jun, who was following behind, rushed in, and Guan Hai was about to go over to resist with a long knife.
However, the camp was breached, and the morale of Cao's army was raised again.
Before Guan Hai could take a few steps, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others on the other side also attacked.
"Strategist, how's it going?"
Guan Hai came to Xun Chen's side.
With the Cao army attacking and killing, the morale of the Zhao army dropped again, even if these soldiers were elite, but at this moment, they had no will to fight, and the intention of retreat rose in their hearts.
They are all elites, so they haven't collapsed yet, but if Xun Chen and Xu Shu can't give orders in time and can't reverse the situation, the collapse situation is just around the corner.
"Kill!"
Yu Ban Cao Xiu Lejin also led their own armies and rushed into the Zhao army camp.
"The archers listen to the order and fire a volley."
Behind the camp, Xu Shu held the order flag.
Instead of having 10,000 archers shoot in batches, everyone bends their bows and shoots arrows together.
wants to use a dense rain of arrows to suppress the morale of Cao Jun.
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
In six breaths, three waves of arrows were shot in a row.
But it failed to stop Cao's army, and the camp was like a broken river embankment, and after a hole was torn open by the flood, this gap would become bigger and bigger.
Then the entire embankment will be washed away.
Kill!
Cao's army poured into the camp like a flood.
"Withdraw!"
Xun Chen gave the order to retreat.
Faced with the current situation, they have no power to return to the sky.
can't stop Xu Chu Guan Yu from rushing and killing these fierce generals.
If this order is not given, the 70,000 Zhao army will also be defeated by itself.
The losses will be even greater then.
There is no need for them to fight to the death now.
These soldiers should not have died in vain.
If the morale is still there, Xu Shu Xunchen will not retreat, but now that there are no generals in the army, morale is low, and the so-called persistence will only make these soldiers become the targets of slaughter.
Retreating now, although it is inevitable that Cao Cao will be chased and killed, but it can minimize the losses, at least so that some soldiers can escape the fate of dying in battle.
"Withdraw!"
Xu Shu also began to command the archers to retreat.
"Everyone, don't let the bow and arrow fall."
After three shots in a row, plus the previous dozen or so waves, the archers were now tired.
"Don't mess around, retreat according to the formation."
Now that the morale of the Zhao army is completely lost, what Xu Shu is most afraid of is not how many people will be killed by the Cao army.
But when they were afraid of retreating, the formation was chaotic, and the soldiers trampled on each other, and as a result, the brothers who died in the hands of Cao Jun did not kill as many as their own people.
"Disturb the formation, kill!" Xu Shu shouted.
"Kill those who disrupt the formation!"
Orders were given layer upon layer, and those centurions and even chiefs were watching over their own people.
The retreating Zhao army barely maintained its formation.
Fall back! Xu Shu and Xun Chen had already prepared.
The archers, who were already in the rear, withdrew first, and the shield guards remained last.
There were also a thousand hoplites, who followed behind the archers.
When Dian Wei set off to support Xu Huang, he didn't take them with him.
The speed of the hoplites was too slow.
They were now wearing heavy armor, and they were also pulled by the carriage, and they followed behind the carriage.
With these thousand heavy armored infantry, Xu Shu couldn't dare to let them be damaged.
Although they are powerful, they do not have Commander Dian Wei now, and their morale is low, even if Xu Shu sends them to play, they are not Cao Jun's opponents.
In the end, it was only to destroy all the 1,000 heavy armored infantry that had spent countless money to build, and the heavy armor on their bodies would become Cao Cao's trophies.
"The Zhao army has retreated, and they all follow me to kill!"
Xu Chu still rushed to the front.
In the army, Cao Cao returned to Liu Xie's side and rode on the Shadow, he wanted to follow the charge, but looking at Liu Xie in the imperial car, Cao Cao dispelled this thought.
The Zhao army has all withdrawn from the camp, and under the maintenance of Xu Shu Xun Chen, although the formation of the Zhao army is not neat, the formation is not chaotic.
Cao's army pursued and killed five or six miles behind, and then Cao Cao withdrew his troops.
Cao Cao didn't dare to chase too deep.
Whether it is Zhao Hui or Dian Wei, as long as they encounter it, it is enough for Cao Cao to drink a pot.
Dian Wei should have arrived a day or two later than Le Jin, but it is also possible that Dian Wei was also in a hurry overnight.
Breaking through the Zhao army camp is already a victory.
If the Zhao army is defeated, it will be a big victory.
Cao Cao could only say in his heart that it was a pity.
In this battle, the casualties of the Cao army were greater than he expected, and the number of Zhao troops killed was less than he wanted.
Although the Zhao army camp was attacked, the results did not satisfy Cao Cao.
Cao Cao began to clean up the battlefield, and Cao's army suffered more than 12,000 casualties. Half of them were killed and half wounded, and most of them were wounded by arrows.
After breaking through the Zhao army camp, the Cao army had almost no casualties.
"Zhao Jun's corpse, please order?" Cao Cao asked.
"At present, the number of counts is twenty-five thousand, and the error will not exceed one thousand."
Of the 25,000 people, some of them were only injured and they were still alive, but they could not escape death.
When Cao Jun counts, he will make up for them easily.
Compared with the Cao army's casualties of 12,000, but only half of the casualties were killed, the Zhao army's side was completely killed in 25,000.
Following Xu Shu's safe retreat, there were still five or six thousand people who were physically injured.
Seventy percent of those killed and wounded in battle occurred after the camp was breached.
Fortunately, even if Xu Shu Xun Chen ordered a retreat, and the formation was not chaotic, otherwise this number might have to be doubled again.