Chapter 464: A Great Victory

Another Zhang Liao's deputy general is also a general who has followed Zhang Liao on the battlefield and died many times, as soon as he heard this, he realized their current situation, he looked at the Wei army that was still fighting his side, after such a long time of fierce fighting, the number of Wei troops at this time has been sharply reduced from the previous number of 15,000 to seven or eight thousand, more than half of the loss, but they also caused more than 5,000 casualties to the Wancheng defenders under Liu Feng, which is not as good as the Wei army of Wancheng defenders in armor and weapons, It's a remarkable achievement.

But with the addition of Zhao Yun's army, it is obvious that the Wei army can no longer maintain the same efficiency as before, the deputy general thought for a while, and then thought about the instructions that Zhang Liao had given him when he left, and finally gritted his teeth and said to his companions: "Quickly tell the soldiers, break through in the direction of the dense forest, once you reach the edge of the dense forest, sneak into the forest, wait until the defenders of Wancheng withdraw, and then return to the camp!" ”

"Then we won't wait for General Wenyuan's reinforcements?" Obviously, the other general did not agree with such a decision, and couldn't help but ask.

"When General Wenyuan rushes back to the camp and then tells Yang Xiu about the matter, I have already been wiped out by the defenders of Wancheng here, and the remaining seven or eight thousand people, under the siege of Zhao Yun, I am afraid that they will not be able to kill even two thousand enemy troops, in this case, it is better to withdraw the army, these sergeants are the elite of our Wei army, how can they be so easily lost here?"

This time, his companion finally agreed with the retreat, nodded firmly, and began to inform the sergeants around him of the withdrawal.

Just when Zhao Yun joined the battle group and was on the rise, he suddenly found that those Wei troops were attacking the direction of the forest, Zhao Yun and Liu Feng naturally realized that the Wei army wanted to evacuate here, so Zhao Yun, who was mainly blocking the Wei army at this time, hurriedly asked Liu Feng: "Looking at the situation, these Wei troops want to evacuate here, will we bite them and try to annihilate them here?" ”

Liu Feng listened, looking at those Wei troops who were desperately resisting and retreating backwards, although their formation was a little scattered, but at this time there was still a momentum of fighting to the death, so Liu Feng only thought for a while and then ordered Zhao Yun: "The main task of our team tonight is to transport these siege equipment back to Wancheng, these Wei troops have a maximum of seven thousand, if they have to be annihilated, our Wancheng defenders will have a lot of casualties, let them go, preserving strength is the first priority of our army at this time!" ”

Liu Feng's words were naturally irrefutable, although Zhao Yun was still a little enjoyable not to kill, but he still ordered not to pursue those Wei troops again, first carry those siege equipment back to Wancheng, and then say anything else.

The defenders of Wancheng did not desperately chase after them, but relieved the generals of the Wei army who ordered the withdrawal, although they were determined to die before coming here, but after this battle, they only lost half of their manpower, and at the same time took the lives of the same number of soldiers of the Wancheng defenders, and in the end, not only Zhang Liao successfully retreated, but even they basically survived, in this battle to Jingzhou, such a result is undoubtedly the best one.

Seeing that Liu Feng and the others were slowly leaving with those siege equipment, they dared to walk through the forest again and go in the direction of their camp.

At this point, the sky has gradually released a slight light, and there will be a morning sun in another hour, but the change in this night is the biggest one since Yang Xiu led the army to Wancheng...... Except for Ma Chao, who was still taking Yang Xiu's army around the outskirts of Wancheng, everything had already settled.

When the Wei army, who had just escaped from the Ascension to Heaven at the hands of Liu Feng and others, returned to their camp, the situation in their eyes made their originally proud mood fall to the bottom in an instant.

Almost all the camps no longer existed, and there were traces of fire everywhere, and there were a lot of corpses of Wei soldiers on the ground, and some limping lightly wounded soldiers were carrying the corpses of those soldiers to the edge of the river embankment outside the camp for burial, and it was Zhang Liao who commanded these people to carry the corpses.

Seeing that half of the soldiers who he thought would be killed or wounded in the hands of the defenders of Wancheng returned safely, Zhang Liao was almost moved to tears, but when his lieutenant asked him why this was the case here, Zhang Liao was a little at a loss how to speak.

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Liao said to them: "When I was waiting for the ambush in the forest, Yang Xiu and Xu Chu were already mostly attracted to the unknown place by the suspicious soldiers arranged by Liu Feng, and it was because of this that Liu Feng and others dared to go to the depression to carry siege equipment in a big way, he just didn't think of the differences between me and Yang Xiu, this time, our Wei army was completely defeated, even if we saved some face for our army, but it was already useless." ”

The deputy general also knew that most of what Zhang Liao said was the truth, and this matter was not what Zhang Liao wanted, the root of everything lay in Yang Xiu, no matter how disappointed they were, they could only accept the end of failure, the 300,000 army had been damaged by nearly half by now, and the morale was completely lost.

Therefore, at this time, the deputy general hurriedly called the soldiers who had just survived the bloody battle to help the wounded soldiers before carry the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle, so as not to leave it for a long time and cause infectious diseases in the army.

It wasn't until after dawn that Zhang Liaozheng led thousands of soldiers to bury pots and cook in some of the camps that had been temporarily rebuilt, and Yang Xiu finally led an army of more than 100,000 to roll in.

The number of the army has not changed much this time, but as soon as Zhang Liao saw Yang Xiu's expression, he knew that things must be the same as he guessed.

On the Wei army's side, at this time, it can already be described as mourning, but in Wancheng, it is very happy, Liu Feng carried those siege equipment back to the city when the sky was about to dawn, but fortunately, there was no damage to those equipment, and when the sky was bright, Ma Chao also returned to the city, which made Liu Feng breathe a sigh of relief, this time, he can be said to have won a big victory.

More importantly, Xu Shu was also very excited after seeing those siege equipment with a complete appearance, and immediately assured Liu Feng that with these samples, plus the technology he had mastered before, he would be able to make siege equipment that was sharper than that of Wei in half a year at most!