caused nearly 3,000 casualties among the defenders, but still kept half of the defending artifacts, and Zhao Yun won a very great appreciation in Liu Feng's heart. But this is obviously not the time to say words of appreciation, with less than 100,000 troops against the enemy's 300,000 troops, there is no room for mistakes, even if a big victory is achieved at present, but if it cannot be maintained in the future, let Yang Xiu break Wancheng, take Nanyang, and go straight to Xiangyang, Liu Feng, the land of Jingzhou, is still a very critical situation.

"Immediately send a capable person back to Xiangyang to transport the things defending the city, and the equipment and arrows in the city must be able to deal with the attack of the Wei army with a scale of more than 100,000 people on Wancheng."

Obviously, Liu Feng is very cautious in this matter, although with his understanding of Yang Xiu, he will not forcibly attack the city like Xu Huang, but whenever there is a little possibility, Liu Feng will also strangle that possibility in the cradle, at this time send people back to Xiangyang to get the equipment and arrows to defend the city, although it will take at least two days to transport it back and forth, However, Liu Feng was sure that Yang Xiu and Zhang Liao led the army to rush here, and after seeing that the 80,000 vanguard army that had been alive and active before was led by Xu Chu and Xu Huang, only half of the morale was left in two days, and they would definitely not rush to attack the city.

This time the battle of defending the city is very different from the previous war led by Liu Feng to participate in the soldiers, due to the scarcity of the previous territory, congenital insufficiency, so Liu Feng appeared on the battlefield as an attacker, this role was replaced by a defender, Liu Feng had to remind himself from time to time that it was the king to defend his city with the smallest casualties.

After Liu Feng and others sent a team of men and horses to Xiangyang, they were intensively arranged in the city, how the defenders were placed, Xu Chu and Xu Huang outside the city naturally did not know, but they knew that the next day just after dawn, the scouts sent out reported that the corpses of those Wei soldiers who died in the west wall of Wancheng last night had been disposed of by the defenders of Wancheng, and the blood stains on the city wall had also been washed away, as if there had never been a war there.

Xu Chu knew that it must have been the defenders in the city who buried the bodies of those soldiers who died in battle overnight and washed away the traces of war.

Liu Feng's purpose in doing this is undoubtedly to clean up all the traces of the war, after all, there is only less than one day left before Yang Xiu leads the arrival of 200,000 troops, once Yang Xiu and Zhang Liao lead the army to Wancheng, seeing tens of thousands of their robes die tragically under Wancheng, how can they bear a breath of anger in their hearts, in case the revenge cannot be suppressed at that time, needless to say it will be a tragic offensive and defensive battle.

For Liu Feng, 40,000 people can still resist attacking the city at one city gate, but more than 200,000 troops and 40,000 people are not a concept, more than 200,000 troops can surround the entire Wancheng, and then trap the defenders in the city, in case of another attack from all directions at the same time, even if more than 100,000 of them can be wiped out, this Wancheng will no longer need to be wanted, and most of the nearly 100,000 troops in Liu Fengcheng's city will not be spared.

Therefore, in order to avoid completely angering Yang Xiu, who was originally calm-minded, had eyes above the top and disdained the method of attacking, the scene of corpses all over the field was naturally not allowed to be seen without letting him see it.

As Liu Feng expected, Yang Xiu and Zhang Liao's large army obviously got the news of the defeat of the vanguard troops in Wancheng, half a day earlier than the original planned date to rush to Nanyang.

Because the goal of more than 200,000 troops is too huge, so Yang Xiu and Zhang Liao discussed the way of scattered camping for these soldiers, there are forty or fifty thousand soldiers in each camp, and several camps are also at an angle with each other, so that they can not only explore Nanyang County, especially the suburbs of Wancheng, on a large scale, but also will not be broken by a small number of defenders.

From Xu Huang's mouth, Yang Xiu learned how the two had lost about 40,000 sergeants as soon as they fought the enemy. Obviously, there are wise people in the defenders, taking advantage of the fact that Xu Chu and Xu Huang did not lead a lot of troops after they divided their troops, and they temporarily lost contact with each other and could not communicate with each other.

Although the unfavorable start also made Yang Xiu feel a little hazy in his heart, he was full of confidence when he thought that he still had an army of nearly 250,000 under his command, and the surrounding area of Wancheng was not a place where mountains and mountains were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"It's really as General Gongming said, I'm afraid that there are still a lot of new reinforcements in the city, otherwise how dare they rashly lead tens of thousands of soldiers out of the city to set up an ambush? If what I expected is good, if Zhou Yu has arrived in Wancheng, it will be Liu Feng who has come in person! ”

Although Yang Xiu is not proficient in the strategy of war, but he is a good hand at speculating on people's hearts and observing the situation, through the encounter between Xu Chu and Xu Huang, he has vaguely guessed in his heart that since Liu Feng can relocate his court to Xiangyang thousands of miles away, then the gateway of Xiangyang, Wancheng, has such a crisis, how can he sit firmly in Xiangyang City, Diaoyutai?

"Since Liu Feng is very likely to be in the city, there will not only be Zhao Yun who wants to defend the generals, then Ma Chao, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and others, I am afraid that most of them are also here, these are all famous generals in the world, we must not underestimate the enemy, when using the advantage of numbers step by step, slowly try to figure it out."

After listening to Yang Xiu's analysis, Zhang Liao, who had been beside him without speaking, finally said his opinion, he deeply knew that although in terms of troops, his side occupies an overwhelming advantage, but this is likely to be all the advantages of his side, although I don't know how many defenders in the city there are, who commands them, but it is an indisputable fact that they have lost more than 40,000 elite soldiers in a few hours, if such a battle comes again, then this huge military advantage will come to naught, Once this happens, it will be difficult to say the outcome of this expedition.

"General Wenyuan's words are indeed reasonable, but the enemy army occupies Wancheng, not far from Xiangyang, and Nanyang is a large county, heavy grain and grass, I don't think there will be a shortage, besiege but not attack, obviously not a good policy, what do you think?"