After Wen Ping collected the army and returned to the camp, he ordered his subordinates to check the soldiers and horses under his command, after learning the specific casualties of the Jingzhou Army in this battle, Wen Ping's heart was shocked and painful, this big battle, the Jingzhou Army actually suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 1,300 killed, more than 500 seriously injured, and more than 400 people lightly injured.

However, there were also a lot of casualties among the pro-guard troops under Ling Tong's headquarters, and after today's big battle, the pro-guard troops also suffered nearly 500 casualties, of which more than 200 were killed, more than 100 were seriously wounded, more than 100 were lightly wounded, and the 5,000 pro-guard troops also lost more than 300 people.

If he continues to fight with such casualties, I am afraid that before the enemy camp is defeated, his soldiers and horses will be killed and wounded!

The 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command are the absolute main force of the soldiers and horses of Nanjun, if this army of soldiers and horses is killed and wounded, even if the enemy camp is captured in the end, what can he do? At that time, he could only watch Yuan Yao lead the main army to capture Jiangling City and take the land of Nanjun for himself!

When Wen Ping thought of this, his mind also loosened a little, and he also let go of the plan to storm the camp of the Ling Tong Army in his heart, and began to have other ideas.

Early the next morning, Wen Ping continued to lead the army to attack the camp of the Ling Tong army, and at the same time asked people to go to check the surrounding people, go up the mountain to find out if there is a small road that can cross the mountains and forests into the other side of Huarong Road, if it can cross from the path to the other side of Huarong Road, and then he personally led the main army to entangle the attention of the soldiers of Ling Tongjun, and then let the partial division take advantage of the situation to launch an attack.

The Jingzhou army finally found the path when Ling Tong led the army to attack Huarong County at night, but this path has been guarded by Ling Tong's soldiers and horses, and the Jingzhou army could not pass at all.

After the Jingzhou army figured out Wen Ping's attitude again, it no longer had the strength to attack the camp of the Ling Tong army, and the battle on the front line of Huarong was also deadlocked.

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Jingzhou, Nanjun, Gong'an City.

Yuan Yao personally led an army of 35,000 to capture the military fort posts around Gong'an City, and failed to challenge the enemy generals, so he led the army back to the camp for rest, in order to prevent the Jingzhou army from attacking the camp at night, Yuan Yao also specially arranged 3,000 soldiers and horses outside the camp as an ambush, but Wang Wei is indeed as stable as an old dog, and he has no intention of sending troops to rob the camp at all, after all, he also knows that Yuan Yao started by playing, and it is strange that Yuan Yao did not preset soldiers and horses when he was stationed to prevent the enemy from robbing the camp!

Yuan Yao's ambush waited for a long night, and finally did not wait for the ambush of the Jingzhou army, early the next morning, Yuan Yao ordered the ambush soldiers of last night to garrison the camp to rest by the way, and he personally led the rest of the soldiers and horses to go straight to the Gong'an City, intending to start attacking the Gong'an City today.

After yesterday's challenge, Yuan Yao also knew that the Jingzhou army would definitely not go out of the city to meet the battle, so he didn't say much, and after the army set up a position, he began to attack.

The moat outside the public security city is extremely wide, and the water flow is also very turbulent, if the moat is not filled, Yuan Yao's army will not be able to touch the wall of the public security city at all, and today's war has just begun, Yuan Yao's army can only fill the moat outside the public security city first.

Yuan Yao gave an order, all kinds of long-range weapons in the military formation began to exert their strength, all kinds of catapults and giant crossbows began to slowly move forward to launch an offensive, and the crossbowmen also moved forward under the cover of the shield, intending to suppress the Jingzhou army crossbowmen in the city.

However, the southerners have always been good at archery, and there is naturally no shortage of archers in the Jingzhou army, seeing Yuan Yao's army moving forward, the soldiers of the Jingzhou army also began to fight back under the cover of the female wall.

Taking advantage of the long-range attack forces of the two sides to shoot at each other, Yuan Yaojun soldiers also began to use the cover of shields to fill the moat, and every moment the soldiers of both sides fell to the ground with arrows, and countless sandbags were filled into the moat outside the public security city every moment, and the soldiers of the two sides began to consume each other around the front line of the moat.

The moat outside the public security city is not so easy to fill, and if Yuan Yao's army wants to fill the moat outside the public security city, it will take at least three or five days, and the war outside the public security city can only be temporarily stalemate, falling into each other's attrition.

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Jingzhou, Jiangxia County, Jingling City.

Just when the battlefield battles in Jingzhou were in full swing, the Xiangyang Xinye coalition army led by Liu Qi, Cai Mao and Liu Bei finally reached the outside of Jingling City.

In the past few days, Liu Qi, with the help of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, also promoted some generals loyal to Liu Biao's lineage, and barely controlled the Jingzhou army of about 20,000. Although Cai Mao is extremely dissatisfied with this, Liu Qi is Liu Biao's eldest son after all, and Liu Qi raised the 100,000 Xiangyang soldiers and horses in the name of Liu Biao, and Liu Qi can be regarded as Cai Mao's 'king'!

In addition, under the guidance of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, Liu Qi did things every time, and he didn't give Cai Mao a chance to attack at all, so he gave the matter down, so although Cai Mao was dissatisfied with Liu Qi, he was helpless!

Liu Qi and the others also know the truth of what is enough, after all, there is still Yuan Yao's great enemy in front of them, and now is not the time for them to fight, now it is the best choice to join Cai Mao to attack Yuan Yao, otherwise if Cai Mao is in a hurry, then Cai Mao will directly come to fight back and knock down Yuan Yao, then they will be dumbfounded!

Although Cai Mao had led the army to attack Jingling City several times before, and he was an old rival with Yuan Yao, Liu Qi and others believed that with Cai Mao's influence in Jingzhou, if Cai Mao sincerely surrendered, Yuan Yao would definitely be overjoyed, at least on the surface, he would treat him as a guest!

The combat power of Yuan Yao's army already has the upper hand, and most of the Jingzhou army is in the hands of Cai Mao, if Cai Mao serves Yuan Yao, then the land of Jingzhou must belong to Yuan Yao, and they have nothing to fight for.

In this way, Liu Qi and others did not dare to press Cai Mao too hard, and after mastering 20,000 soldiers and horses to ensure their own safety, Liu Qi also stopped fighting for power and profit, and temporarily compromised with Cai Mao.