"This, this guy just ran away?"

Looking at the distant Meng Guan team, Wen Yang was a little stupid for a while. But he soon came to his senses: just now his side lost the lead due to the reflection of the sun, and if everyone reflexively fought again at this time, it would be the Han army that had the advantage. For Meng Guan, a small loss to the well-trained Han cavalry would not cause a collapse, but if his militia encountered such a small loss, it would be easy to collapse. Therefore, it is the best choice to take advantage of it and quickly retreat.

"General, is our army pursuing?"

"Chase?" Wen Yang quickly shook his head: "Our army traveled more than sixty miles today to the foot of the Great Wall, but the camp didn't have time to stand up and fought a battle. At this time, both men and horses were extremely tired. Let's collect the troops and set up a village for the time being. ”

"Whoa!"

"As soon as the whole army settles down, the casualties for today are counted. Well, by the way, the casualties of the enemy army are also counted. ”

"Subordinates receive orders."

Soon, the battle damage report came out. After Wen Yang and Beigong Xiong listened to the report, their faces were very unsightly.

This encounter lasted less than an hour. Of the 10,000 cavalry of the Han army, more than 1,300 were killed and more than 800 were seriously wounded and could no longer fight. That's one-fifth of the troops gone. And in addition to this loss, more than 1,500 people were slightly wounded, which to some extent affected the subsequent march and battle.

And the most irritating thing is that the Wenyang team suddenly encountered the enemy, and the team quickly engaged in the battle, but the people who transported the grain and the livestock supported by Tuoba Xianbei were still behind. So at this time, the Wenyang team didn't dare to rest, and they had to quickly send all the soldiers and horses to pick up the grain team behind - otherwise God knows where Uncle Meng would run out of the sneak attack?

"General Wen, after cleaning the battlefield, a total of more than 2,800 enemy corpses have been found, and there are more than 1,300 wounded soldiers who are seriously injured and unable to move."

"Hmph, all the wounded enemy soldiers have been killed! Our troops are fighting far from the rear, and the general would not have had the energy to heal them. Our wounded soldiers, after the food team behind them came up, were first transferred to the Tuoba Department. ”

"Uh...... General, this time to send troops, Da Sima will ask to treat the prisoners well......"

"Yes, we should be kind to the prisoners, but how can our army treat them well now? I can't say it, all kinds of guilt are borne by me Wenyang alone. Left and right, tell to go down, be careful when cleaning the battlefield, check back and forth a few more times, and don't let go of a single live mouth! ”

"Whoa!"

"This ...... Hey~" With a long sigh, Beigong Xiong no longer stopped Wen Yang: "General, what is the next step for our army?" Uncle Meng has already abandoned the defense line of the Great Wall, will our army break through the Great Wall? ”

"Otherwise, our army will have less than 8,000 men left after this battle, and many of our brothers will be wounded, and our army will be all cavalry. In this way, our army's ability to attack fortifications is insufficient, and the risk of entering the hinterland of Youzhou is too great. Besides, the task given to us by the general is to contain the 20,000 people in Uncle Meng's time and ensure that the general's own team will not be harassed when attacking Gaoliu, so our army still has to send elite cavalry to look for Uncle Meng's army everywhere. Even if that guy was prepared in advance, the food he carried with the army was limited, and he could not maneuver long distances at all...... As long as he is found, Ben will definitely cut off this wingman's head next time! ”

"General Gaojian, Xiong bows to him!"

"Hey, anyway, our army has fought an ugly battle! What about the clerks in the army? Hurry up, I'm going to apologize to the Great Sima and the Great General. ”

……

After disengaging from the Wenyang team, Meng Guan led his troops to first turn westward, and then turned south when the sky began to darken. When the time came, the gray outline of the Yinshan Mountain Range once again appeared in front of everyone's eyes in the moonlight.

"Spread out the sentinels and set up a cordon. The rest of the soldiers, all dismount and rest! In addition, all officers above the rank of captain and veterans over forty years old are ordered to assemble in front of the general! ”

After arranging these, Meng Guan turned over and dismounted, but when he dismounted, he found that his back and shoulders were in sharp pain: in the end, he took the lead in charging into battle, and he also erected such a bright flag, so he naturally became the target of the opponent's concentrated attack, and it was really strange if he was not injured.

Calling the guards to remove their armor and treat their wounds has not yet been sorted out. The attendees are almost there.

"Everybody's coming? Very good, the ministries have counted the casualties...... Well, speaking of which, our army probably lost more than 4,200 brothers in this battle. Hey, it's only been two hedges. ”

No one said that there might still be wounded among the more than 4,000 people - everyone knew that since the side withdrew from the battlefield first, the wounded of the side could basically be counted as killed.

After being silent for a while, Meng Guan asked again: "How many minor injuries did those who followed our brigade all the way down?" ”

"Returning to the envoy, there are about 3,000 people. Simple bandaging is being carried out in all departments. ”

"Good, how much grain and grass does our army have?"

"Uh...... Since the envoy of this operation asked us to advance lightly, at present the whole army only has dry rations carried by each sergeant. Save a bite to eat, up to two days. ”

"Two days......" After a slight hesitation, Meng Guan smiled slightly: "It's enough." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Everyone, please come and see." Meng Guan drew his sword and slashed it on the ground: "Our army is now about thirty miles away from the Great Wall. From here, turn to the southeast, and if you can't go ten miles, you will rest on the enemy's water. There is a valley along the river, and the terrain along the shore is mostly flat, which is conducive to the advance of cavalry. In this way, the mountain situation of Yinshan will not have much impact on our army. In this way, we can quickly enter the Great Wall through the waters of revenge. After entering the Great Wall, go southwest for more than 20 miles to be Macheng. Before this departure, the official had already ordered the Minfu team to escort the grain and grass to Macheng. After we finished resupplying in Macheng, we went south along the inner wall of the Great Wall to Gaoliu and look for fighters again! ”

"I see, a distance of more than fifty miles, if you run with all your might, it will only take a day's work."

"yes, then there will be no problem with food."

"Make you high! I'll wait! ”

"Hey~~" Waving his hand, Meng Guan stood up, tidied up his clothes, and then solemnly saluted the dozens of veterans beside him: "In today's battle, Guan Chong is in the front, and the back road is not enough." If it weren't for your heroes, I'm afraid our army's losses today would be fifty percent more! Thank you very much! ”

It can be said that in the end, he was born in a small wealthy family, and Meng Guan did not have the problem of ordinary families not treating ordinary people as human beings. Therefore, this worship is very sincere.

No one is stupid, whether you are a show or a sincere thank you can actually be seen by anyone. Therefore, after Meng Guan bowed deeply, these dozens of veterans jumped up as if they had been electrocuted.

"Don't do this, it's really a frustration!"

"Yes, the envoy has been in charge of my Youzhou for many years, and he has treated the people of my Youzhou extremely preferentially.

"Not only that, although the envoy is the assassin of Youzhou, but the people of Pingzhou have received a lot of favor from the envoy. If there were no envoys, we would not exist in the world a long time ago, and today I would return my life to the envoys, and I should do it! ”

In the three years that Meng Guan was in charge of Youzhou, the entire Youzhou and Pingzhou were the big colander of the Jin State's taxes: the smuggling of a large number of Ji and Han commodities was mainly done through Youzhou and Pingzhou.

To create such a situation, on the one hand, it is really impossible to prohibit it: the border line is too long, and the Youzhou Army, which has limited troops, cannot control it at all. There is also the fact that the Xianbei in the north is indeed getting stronger and stronger, and it is not too exciting.

Faced with this unforbidden situation, Meng Guan chose to join very smartly.

The military is directly involved in smuggling, and special attention is paid to the participation and benefit of ordinary people along the smuggling routes. In the past three years, Uncle Meng has actually won the hearts of the people in Youzhou and Pingzhou.

This kind of thing is known to the Luoyang Imperial Court, but Pei Xiu and Jia Chong both persuaded Sima Yan to turn a blind eye: If you really want to forcibly prohibit it, you can't ban it, and the people in Youyan's place are fierce, so it's better to use Uncle Meng's current method to be gentle. After the military is involved in smuggling, the whole smuggling will become more controllable. Moreover, after the smuggling channel was changed to Sizhou and merged into Youzhou and Pingzhou, the trade route would be infinitely lengthened, which on the contrary promoted another prosperity of domestic commerce. As for the question of the elongation of trade routes and the rise in the value of goods? Hey, the family that buys these things cares about this?

There's no way around it. But because of this, Meng Guan was able to effectively control this army at this time. Moreover, with its own excellent military resources, after experiencing real battles, this army has begun to grow rapidly.