The individual combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou soldiers should not be underestimated, and the desperate fighting on three sides made the Wei army's offensive difficult.

After paying a certain number of casualties, at dusk, Guo Peng ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, ending the day's siege and leaving it for tomorrow to fight again.

After collecting the troops and returning to the camp, Guo Peng ordered people to count the losses.

I learned that more than 600 soldiers were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in today's war, and the injured can basically be saved, and a small number of injuries are too serious, so there is really no way.

For this reason, Guo Peng personally came to the camp of the wounded soldiers to comfort the wounded soldiers, bandaged the wounds of the wounded soldiers with his own hands, fed them medicine, and also ordered to increase the food supply of the wounded soldiers and give them a better meal, so as to speed up their recovery and uphold the principle of heavy military as always.

Guo Peng didn't know how many Liangzhou soldiers he had killed, but he didn't think it was a loss.

The casualties of the Wei army were mainly concentrated in the hand-to-hand combat stage of Dengcheng, and the casualties at this stage were still relatively large and unavoidable.

If you really want to talk about the overall casualties, they were all long-distance strikes and wounds to kill and wound the Liangzhou soldiers before, and in comparison, the casualties of the Liangzhou soldiers were much greater than those of the Wei army.

In fact, this is also true.

After the Wei army Mingjin withdrew the troops, the Liangzhou soldiers on the head of Chang'an City were heavily relieved, Ma Teng held his hands on the battlements of the city wall and looked at the retreating Wei army, panting, and then walked a few steps before he could barely hold on, or Ma Xiu and Ma Tie supported Ma Teng.

Han Sui and Zhang Ji's side were no better, because of the bravery of the Wei army, Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing was even injured.

At the summary meeting in the evening, everyone counted the casualties and came up with more than 2,000 dead and more than 4,000 injured, which made Ma Teng, Han Sui and Zhang Ji speechless.

"This is the first day......

Ma Teng said in a low voice.

"After all, it was the first day, and none of us expected that Guo Zifeng would be able to attack the city with that kind of weapon that threw stones, and the biggest casualties were caused at that time."

Han Sui said slowly: "Starting tomorrow, we must pay attention to guarding against the blow of that kind of stone, as long as we can avoid the blow of the stone, there will not be so many casualties." ”

"I know that, too, but how do I hide? You can't stand on the city wall without people, once there are people, there must be casualties, this time we desperately pushed them back, what about the next time? Can you still push it back? With more than 2,000 losses in World War I, how many of us are there? If this continues, can Chang'an stay for a month? ”

Ma Teng shook his head: "How long can Guo Zifeng's grain and grass last, do you know?" Covenant? ”

Han Sui was silent, and Zhang Ji didn't know what to say.

"We have to find a way to come out, we can't sit still, if we sit still, in less than a month, Chang'an will be over, and we will be finished."

Ma Teng looked at Han Sui and Zhang Ji.

But who can come up with a good solution?

A group of people stay in a safe room, you look at me, I look at you, and no one knows how to make a suggestion.

Desperately defending the city?

Looking for foreign aid?

Out-of-town raid?

I've thought of everything in the conventional way, but I can't do it, and I can do it in the unconventional way, but I can't think of it.

A group of people brainstormed and came up with various ideas, but they never came up with a strategy that worked.

"Otherwise, let's break through and withdraw the army?"

Zhang Ji suddenly put forward such an idea.

Seeing Ma Teng and Han Sui looking at him with strange eyes, Zhang Ji hurriedly said: "It's just that from the current point of view, we are not opponents in a head-to-head battle, and defending the city is also a dead end, so in this way, is there any other way besides withdrawing the army?"

And according to my observation, Guo Zifeng doesn't want to fight us to the death, otherwise he will definitely besiege us to death on all sides, instead of surrounding three and missing one, this is leaving us a way to live, we should take advantage of the food and the soldiers still have physical strength, the horses can still run, retreat quickly, Chang'an is a dead place, and the lonely city cannot be defended. ”

Ma Teng and Han Sui, you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly I feel that what Zhang Ji said makes sense.

In the three battles in the past few days, the Liangzhou army lost ugly, not to mention the loss of soldiers, and even Chang'an became a dead place.

Now that Guo Peng has an absolute advantage, if he continues to fight, everyone may be trapped in Chang'an.

The frontal field battle is just and strong, and the offensive and defensive battles are not dominant, so what else can be done?

What Zhang Ji said was very reasonable, but Ma Teng and Han Sui were a little unwilling.

It's all come to this point, do you want to go back to your hometown in Liangzhou?

Moreover, can Guo Peng really withstand the food supply for so long and for so long?

Can you really keep going and not go crazy at the end?

If Guo Peng is just bluffing, in fact, there is no more grain and grass, then as long as everyone persists in persisting, they will definitely be able to hold on until Guo Peng runs out of food.

In terms of daily food consumption, it is an astronomical amount for Guo Peng, isn't it?

If this is the case, wouldn't it be a waste of time to retreat now and give up strategic points?

Once Guo Peng has gained a firm foothold, it will be difficult for everyone to return here again.

With such thoughts, Ma Teng and Han Sui were very entangled, and they were ambiguous about continuing to fight and withdrawing their troops, and they couldn't make up their minds.

"Don't say anything else, Pang Lingming and my nephew Ma Dai are still in Guo Zifeng's hands, I ...... How can I leave them alone and leave? ”

Ma Teng still didn't support Zhang Ji's opinion in the end, and Han Sui didn't support it very much, both of them still wanted to gamble again, betting that Guo Peng's logistics could not keep up, and they would soon withdraw the army.

I have to say, they still have some ideas and insights.

Because of such long-distance combat and a lot of consumption, it is not an easy thing for Guo Peng.

At least Jizhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou have been mobilized, and hundreds of thousands of young people are on the way to deliver grain.

In this regard, Rao is Guo Peng vigorously expanded the number of government personnel, and a large number of officials were selected and admitted to the Wei Mansion to do things, and the manpower was still tight.

There are too many things to do in Wei Guoshangshutai.

Because Guo Peng is committed to building a big government.

In the early days of the establishment of the General's Office, Guo Peng still gave a lot of power to the local government, and each state had considerable administrative power.

After the establishment of the Wei State and Guo Peng had enough power and prestige, he took back some local powers, especially financial power.

The budget could only be used after the approval of the central government, so as soon as the Wei State Shangshutai was established, government affairs were very busy.

Guo Pengda did not use Wei Shangshutai as a local authority in the first place.

The Wei State Shangshutai was built and used directly against the power center of a complete unified empire.

Cheng Yu's power is very great, which is equal to the de facto prime minister, and Chen Ji and Tian Feng, as the deputy ministers of the left and right, also have a lot of authority, and they are assigned layer by layer, with a lot of staff and very complicated things.

That is, Guo Peng built a large number of official roads and post stations in advance, and created a very complete transportation and communication foundation, so that Wei Shangshutai could have an impact on local administration from the beginning of its establishment.

Otherwise, I don't know what kind of big mess is going to happen, and a central authority is not so easy to build.

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