In Yang Xiu's heart, he had his own bottom line for the number of casualties of these sergeants led this time. The original army of 300,000 has already lost nearly 40,000 people, although there are still 250,000 left. But these are the elites that Cao Zhi chose from thousands of choices in the Wei army, if he failed to capture the land of Jingzhou and suffered too much loss, he was afraid that he would not be qualified to serve as the commander again on the next expedition, in the end, most of the cheaper ones were still Sima Yi, so Yang Xiu was still very concerned about the casualties of the soldiers, and he was absolutely very happy to bring back some more people.

Therefore, according to the previous discussion between Yang Xiu and the generals, once the casualties in this siege battle exceeded 10,000, and there was no flaw found that would allow them to capture Wancheng this time, Yang Xiu would withdraw his troops.

Although for generals like Zhang Liao and Xu Chu, who have long been accustomed to seeing life and death on the battlefield, the number of 10,000 casualties may not make Liu Feng believe in the determination to attack the city this time, but in this matter, Yang Xiu is unusually persistent, Zhang Liao and Xu Chu naturally don't want the people under their command to think that they don't take the lives of the sergeants seriously, and they don't care about the safety of the sergeants under their command like Yang Xiu, so they naturally didn't insist.

Although the result is so, but for the two who had followed Cao Cao to participate in the Battle of Chibi in the early years, if this little casualty could make Liu Feng willingly drill into the later strategy, it would really be considered a big luck, and Zhang Liao disagreed with Yang Xiu's indecisiveness and the benevolence of some women, if Cao Cao was like such a woman's benevolence back then, I am afraid that the battle of Chibi would make him die of grief and anger.

Once the horn of the siege is blown, it cannot be easily stopped, Yang Xiu has seen such a statement more than once in the book of war, five attacks on it, these short four words, naturally not written casually by the sages, that is not known how many sergeants lost their lives to sum up, and now, Yang Xiucai used troops alone at this level for the first time, and when the soldiers under his command rushed to the ladder that was finally erected on the wall of Wancheng, he finally understood deeply, Why do you have to have five times the enemy's strength to launch a strong attack?

There were soldiers who fell from the city wall, some were hit head-on by arrows, some were hit by stones falling from the sky without knowing it, and some had already climbed the city wall vigorously, but they did not resist the spears in the hands of the defenders on the city wall, and some people finally killed the enemy army at the head of the city with a knife, but they were killed by the people who came up in the next second......

The defenders of Wancheng will not panic because of the occasional one or two Wei soldiers who rush to the head of the city, they have already prepared a well-structured position, and a fine division of labor, just like a war machine, running in an orderly manner, harvesting the lives of Wei soldiers.

Yang Xiu knew that it was almost impossible to wait for the defenders of Wancheng under Liu Feng to make a mistake, and the defenders in the city did not cherish the use of the city defense equipment in their hands, and everything was to cause the greatest damage to the Wei soldiers as the first task. He looked at it for a while, and made up his mind in his heart, so he did it according to his previous strategy, since he could use strataggers to win the war, why waste the lives of the sergeants here in vain, Liu Fengcheng obviously also had an army of seventy or eighty thousand, which was more than enough to hold on.

"Let's find out, how many casualties are there on each of the three sides?" In less than half an hour, Yang Xiu sent his subordinate generals to count the number of casualties.

How dare the general slack off on the matter of human life, he quickly went to the front line of the siege, and after a while, he hurriedly returned to Yang Xiu's side and reported: "The north gate has the largest casualties, there are already five thousand, and the east and west gates are slightly better, but they each exceed two thousand ......."

Just over half an hour has passed, and such casualties are obviously a bit large, Yang Xiu paused slightly, and then asked, "Does the enemy have any losses?" ”

The man obviously knew something about this, and replied: "Because of the direction of the wind, General Xu Huang of the East Gate can suppress the defenders of the city by putting arrows under the city, so the East Gate has already caused nearly 1,000 casualties to the enemy, but the North Gate and the West Gate are not very optimistic, and only killed less than 500 enemy troops in total......"

After saying this, the general peeked at Yang Xiu, and saw that he was really pale, and stopped speaking at the moment.

Yang Xiu calculated in his heart, even if all the troops were concentrated at the east gate where the wind direction was relatively better at this time, it would be a situation of killing five hundred enemies and losing one thousand, so even if all the seventy or eighty thousand troops in Liu Fengcheng were wiped out, how many soldiers would be left under his command? With an army of 300,000, he could only capture a mere Wancheng and recapture the land of Nanyang County, such a result was nothing glorious to say, so in the next second, Yang Xiu decisively issued an order to withdraw...... Unbeknownst to him, he missed a good chance to win.

An hour later, with the loss of more than 10,000 men and the defeat of less than 2,000 enemies, the soldiers of Wei withdrew to their camps.

Zhang Liao and Xu Chu and others did blame Yang Xiu for withdrawing early, but at this time, no one said anything to ask Yang Xiu, indeed, having said that, Liu Fengcheng's counterattack was too fierce, even Xu Chu, who has always been known for his courage and fearlessness of death, was also a little surprised by the strong aggressiveness of the defenders.

Only Xu Huang is relatively better, because of the direction of the wind, the arrows they shoot under the city can reach the city wall, but the arrows shot down from the city are not so powerful, which allows the Wei soldiers under Xu Huang to kill the city, but even so, when they reach the city, they can always encounter the fierce siege of the defenders, and they do not have the ability to open a gap in the city, which makes Xu Huang also feel that there is no practical point in attacking like this, because even if he is relatively better here, To achieve such results, it is conceivable what happened to Xu Chu, who had no wind advantage on the other side.

But what they didn't know was that at this time, Wancheng Liu Feng's mansion was a relieved situation.

"God helped Yang Xiu, but he didn't grasp it, God wouldn't give him a second chance." Pang Tong said first.

"Indeed, I am already in a cold sweat on the city, so if Yang Xiu concentrates all those elite soldiers at the east gate today, I will probably not be able to hold out for two or three hours......