Chapter 57 The dust of the Great War has fallen

Previous Chapter

After a day of fierce fighting, in the evening, the Shu army finally took full control of the situation and began to clean up the battlefield. The remaining 100,000 Wei troops were exhausted, killed or wounded, and surrendered one after another.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the largest decisive battle on the plain, the Battle of Luoyang, ended in the final victory of the Shu army.

Since the siege of the Five Roads, Shu Han has successively lost the general Guan Xing, the general Fu Jian of Pingdong, the general Dai Ling of the rebel army, Ding Xian, the general of the left guard army, and the general Guan Yan of the Zhonglang army of the rear protection army. In addition to the more than 10,000 soldiers killed in the Tiger Prison Pass, although a large number of enemy troops were killed and wounded in the decisive battle of Luoyang, their own losses were not small, and they were killed or wounded before and after, with a total of 50,000 casualties. This is also a big trauma for the narrow and sparsely populated Shu Han.

However, fortunately, Shu Han obtained the initiative in the future war through the decisive battle of Luoyang, and completely gained a firm foothold in Luoyang, and no longer had to worry about Cao Wei's counterattack.

At the same time, Shu Han also obtained a large number of Wei soldiers as a soldier supplement, Zhuge Liang screened and eliminated hundreds of thousands of soldiers, in addition to the reservation of the secluded and sudden cavalry into the formation, another 50,000 elite soldiers were selected, and the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled, unwilling to be a soldier, were all put back to the township. This move not only supplemented the high-quality soldiers, but also won the hearts of the people for Shu Han in the Central Plains. The people cheered and cheered, eating pot pulp, and looking forward to the king's master. It can be said that killing two birds with one stone, everyone admires Zhuge Liang's clever move.

As for the Wei State, the 150,000 Eastern Crusade army was almost completely wiped out, and only a few thousand Tiger Guard infantry escorted Cao Rui to flee in disarray. This is equivalent to abandoning the Central Plains in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but this is also a helpless move, the Central Plains troops have been exhausted due to the Eastern Expedition, and there is no spare strength to resist the Shu army.

The governor of the Wei army, the governor of the Chinese army, Sun Li, the governor of the left capital of the former army, Zhu Ling, and the army Jia Chong and Cheng Wu, were killed in battle. Tian Yu, the right governor of the front army, Chen Tai and Chen Qian, the left and right governors of the rear army, Xiahou Ba, the partial general Xiahou Wei, and Sima Xiahou and Xiahou Hui were all captured. Hundreds of other lieutenants were killed or captured.

In addition to the previous four-way siege army, in addition to Sima Fu and Sima Wang in the north, Lu Qian and Liu Shao in the southeast attacked the Luoyang checkpoint in vain and returned without much loss, the northwest Pujin ferry commander was killed in battle, and the cavalry general Qin Lang and Shaofu Yang Fu were only spared, and only three or four thousand remnants of the 40,000 army remained. At the foot of the Qinling Mountains in the southwest Hanzhong, the 20,000 troops of Shangyong Taishou Shen Yi were annihilated, and Shen Yi committed suicide in fear of crime. It can be said that except for the Jingyang Theater that has not yet participated in the war because of the defense of Eastern Wu, and the north still has a certain number of troops left to defend against Gongsun Yuan, there are few soldiers left in the Wei State that can fight.

In the end, after several months, the Wei Five-Way Army's plan to besiege Luoyang failed, and Cao Wei lost more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, including the world-famous elites such as the Youhe Raider and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and the strategists and soldiers were also lost. More importantly, Xuchang was lost, the guard general Xu Yi was killed in battle, the Yan king Cao Yu fled in a hurry, and a large number of Chinese Wu Gongqing, including the Wei prince Cao Fang, Sikong Chen Qun, the imperial servant Chen Jiao, and the families of the generals were captured, the Wei imperial court system was basically empty, and Cao Wei's decrees were no longer passable in the Central Plains.

Since then, the situation in Wei and Shu has been reversed, and only time is left for Wei.