The Southern Barbarian rout was frightened by the Tang Army, and only had the courage to flee and surrender, and it was impossible for them to take up arms again to fight. As long as www.biquge.info pen "Fun" Pavilion was intercepted, even if a few light horsemen blocked hundreds of routs, the latter did not dare to resist, so he crawled into the muddy water on the ground, crying and begging for mercy.

When the sun was setting in the west and the sky and earth were shrouded in twilight, the pursuit battle also came to an end.

Groups of men and horses lined up in a long line, scattered all over the mountains, surging with their backs to the setting sun, and converged towards the Tang army camp.

The battlefield under the sunset is desolate, looking at the surroundings from afar, Li Yi is also full of emotion in his heart, this is really a success!

The corpse is too late to be cleaned up for the time being, and it will have to wait until tomorrow, hoping that it will not rain again tomorrow, and it will be a sunny day.

Thinking of the weather, he suddenly remembered Zhuge Liang, looked left and right, but found that the young military advisor was gone.

Li Yi was a little puzzled, and was about to find someone to ask, but saw Zhuge Liang walking over in a hurry, and reported: "Your Majesty, General Zilong captured the vulture bone, General Gongming captured Dong Dana, and the minister interrogated him roughly, and found that there may be some problems......"

Li Yi's heart sank, knowing that Zhuge Liang was calm by nature and would not pretend to speak, he took a deep breath, then nodded and said, "Come on!" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "The matter is about Jiangdong......"

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On the morning of the second day of the battle, Li Yicai led the army back to the camp, but he did not have time to rest and ordered all units to report on the battlefield situation.

"Your Majesty, the battlefield is roughly counted, our army has won a great victory in this battle, killing more than 46,000 enemies, capturing more than 300,000 enemies, routing and trampling each other, trampling, and the dead are not counted! Capture the enemy general Vulture Bone, Dong Dana ......"

"On the part of our army, there were more than 150,000 infantry soldiers, and after the war, after the war there were casualties and attrition, and there were still 140,000 soldiers who could fight; In terms of cavalry, the 1st Army fought 18,000 and suffered nearly 2,000 casualties; The Imperial Guards rode heavily to fight against 6,000 ......"

"Although the enemy chieftain Southern Barbarian King Meng Shu escaped by luck, the left and right guards were all wiped out under the pursuit of General Yide, and he should have been unlucky. But he didn't want his brother Meng You to lead thousands of cavalry to respond, and he escaped from Shengtian. Fortunately, General Zilong arrived in time with his troops, and did not give him a chance to resurrect, so he blocked it in Ugo Cave. ”

"At present, in addition to the soldiers and horses of Meng Huo's lineage, there are still more than a dozen southern barbarian soldiers and horses gathered in Wuge Cave, with a total of about 20,000 people. In addition, more than 30,000 remnants of the dove department were blocked by Major General Yue on the north bank of Xiaoheishui. ”

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The military situation converged like a stream of water.

This is a big war of 700,000 people, and in a sense, the battle on the battlefield is only the beginning, and the end of the hand is often more time-consuming than the battle.

The number of generals of the Southern Barbarian Army who died on the battlefield was nearly five times the total number of Tang troops, and the total losses of more than 300,000 captured and those who escaped exceeded 400,000.

Even so, in the process of fleeing, the Southern Barbarian tribes still regrouped 50,000 soldiers and horses.

These remnants of the defeated army are nothing more than a flock of frightened birds, which is not much trouble. However, it is indeed not easy to take it down in a short period of time and to minimize its own damage.

Trapped beasts are still fighting, let alone people? With 50,000 soldiers and horses in the command of Meng Huo, even if the remnants of the army are defeated, they cannot be underestimated.

Moreover, the Tang army had just experienced a tragic battle yesterday, and even as the victorious side, the soldiers were very tired at the moment.

The only thing to be thankful for is that at the moment, Meng Huo and the Nanban tribes have been completely divided. It was Meng You who came to the rescue of Meng Shu, and the more complete dove staff no longer continued to regard Meng Huo as the king of the Southern Barbarians since they decided to escape.

If it weren't for this, the First Cavalry Corps of the Tang Army, which was divided into many routes, might not be able to completely block the remnants of the Southern Barbarians, at least it would be difficult to block the convergence of Meng Shu and the Dove Bureaucrats.

The scattered remnants of 50,000 Southern Barbarians are much easier to deal with than a combined army.

After reporting the military situation, Zhuge Liang took the lead and said to Li Yi: "Your Majesty, Meng was trapped in Wuge Cave, and the possibility of surrender is very low. ”

As the base camp of the former Ugo country, the terrain is very treacherous. Moreover, the vultures also hoarded a large amount of grain and grass there.

Now, the vulture of the lord of Ugo has become a prisoner of the Tang army, but Meng Shu occupies the Ugo Cave. With the previous savings of the vulture bone in Ugo Cave, the remnants of Meng Shu will definitely not be short of food and grass for three to five months.

It is inevitable that there are many dreams at night, and it is feasible to attack Ugo Cave quickly.

However, after listening to Zhuge Liang's words, Xu Maogong couldn't help frowning and questioned: "Although there is enough food and grass in Wuge Cave, it is a dead land after all, and the barbarians have abandoned the countryside and come far away, and the morale will be difficult to last. Instead of storming Ugo Cave, it is better to besiege it first, and then attack after trying to force land the remnants of the Dove Wing's army. ”

No matter how advantageous the equipment is, it will be quite difficult to attack the fortified position. Although Ugo Cave is not a strong city, it is more difficult to attack it than those fortified cities in the Central Plains. For no matter how strong a city is, it is built by manpower. But what about Ugo Cave, it is a natural danger, a masterpiece of nature, far from being comparable to a city built by manpower.

Because the terrain of Ugo Cave is too dangerous, even if the Tang army is outnumbered, it cannot give full play to the advantage of troops.

Therefore, if you storm Ugo Cave, you will definitely lose a lot of soldiers and horses.

What's more, more than 300,000 prisoners were captured in this battle, and with the number of prisoners captured in a series of previous major battles, the number of prisoners has reached three times that of the Tang army. Until these captives are properly disposed of, it is really not advisable to lose strength. There were not enough troops to suppress it, and if so many prisoners were to make trouble, the problem would not be ordinarily serious.

When questioned, Zhuge Liang, who has always been strong, did not mean to distinguish it, but sighed meaningfully, and said to Xu Maogong: "Maogong, you don't know something, now you have to rush to ...... time."

"But why?" In fact, before Zhuge Liang said this, Xu Maogong faintly sensed that something was wrong, and now think about it carefully, although it has been a day, after such a big victory, Li Yi and the generals who came later did not have much joy on their faces, which was obviously a little wrong.

Zhuge Liang turned his head to look at Li Yi, and saw that the latter bowed slightly, so he said in a deep voice: "There may be changes in Jiangdong." ”

"Koto?" Xu Maogong's heart "chuckled", took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the surging worries, and asked word by word, "Didn't the emperor make arrangements before he conquered Yizhou in the south?" Those deployments may not be foolproof, but they should also be nine out of ten? ”

He looked at Zhuge Liang, and then at Li Yi, and his heart was shocked.

Not only Xu Maogong was puzzled, but Liu Bowen and others were also the same.

"I may be a little underestimated." Li Yi sighed softly, "Kong Ming, you can tell everyone." ”

"Yes." Zhuge Liang bowed down to receive the order, and then explained concisely, "I learned from the mouths of the captured vulture bones, Dong Dana and others that before yesterday's battle, Sun Quan of Eastern Wu sent Lu Boyan to Nanban as a liaison officer. His main mission was not to urge Meng Huo to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible, but to make Meng Huo not rush to the battle of the whole army, but to maintain a state of confrontation. ”

"Is that so?" Xu Maogong was taken aback.

If today's unification is about to be unified, only a lone army in Jiangdong is left, and if you want to stop the Tang Dynasty from going south, no matter how you think about it, you should completely use the Southern Barbarians and consume the strength of the Tang army as much as possible, how can you persuade Meng Shu to adopt a steady and steady strategy?

However, judging from the expressions of Zhuge Liang and others, the oral supply of vulture bones and others should not be fake. If so, then something is not right.

If the Eastern Wu is attacking the Yangtze River defense line, it can be considered that the Eastern Wu is trying to contain Li Yi with the help of Meng Huo, and sooner or later they can break the defense line built by Xu Da, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others, and all it takes is time.

But at least five days ago, Eastern Wu had not taken any large-scale military action, and they demanded that Meng be stabilized, but what was their intention?

In the midst of his thoughts, Xu Maogong asked in a deep voice: "Is Lu Xun still in the Southern Barbarian Army now?" ”

Zhuge Liang replied: "Before the war, Lu Xun failed to dissuade Meng Yu, so he took his entourage out of the camp. His goal is small, and he is only afraid that he will be quick when he sees the opportunity, even if he stays on the battlefield for a while, he must not be in the chaos of the army, so he ......"

Zhuge Liang didn't finish his words, but how shrewd Xu Maogong was, how could he not hear the unfinished meaning of the former?

He gasped, gritted his teeth and said, "In this way, Sun Quan Ruo is really a hero who is rare in a century...... Then, during the emperor's departure, he must have a plan, a plan that can inflict heavy losses on our army without relying on the Southern Barbarian Army! That should be the way it can be understood, right? ”

This is the reason why Zhuge Liang is anxious to fight, presumably the emperor also held a military meeting overnight yesterday to discuss this matter, and came to a similar conclusion.

"Yes, yes." Li Yi nodded heavily. The expression was solemn.

In fact, Li Yi was very surprised that Meng Shu was able to unite the Southern Barbarian tribes so quickly, and he didn't believe that with Meng Shu's commanding ability and King Duosi's resourcefulness, he could do this thing so beautifully.

Let the Southern Barbarian tribes elect Meng Huo as the barbarian king, Li Yi believes that with the means of Meng Huo and King Duosi, he can barely do it. However, if you want to pinch together more than 500,000 rabble, then with the talents of Meng Shu and King Duosi, it is not enough. Because Li Yi queried the data of these two people from the military general system, Meng Huo's commander value will only exceed 80, and King Duosi's resourcefulness is only 80.

After getting Zhuge Liang's report, Li Yi finally understood that the real reason why Meng Shu was able to quickly integrate the 500,000 Southern Barbarian army was that Lu Xun's kid contributed to it.

Judging from Lu Xun's resourcefulness and commander of 97, it is not too difficult to do this.