Mu Wu came to Tai Shuhong's side, hurriedly intervened to give a salute, and said breathlessly: "The last general is too late to save the driver, so the prime minister is frightened!"

At this time, Mu Wu was covered in blood, the original color of the armor was completely covered with blood, and his body was also scarred, and the armor in many places had also been broken and fallen off, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

"General Mu, don't say that, if you don't lead the army back in time, I'm afraid I will be in the city gate. ”

Mu Wu sighed secretly in his heart, if this is the case, he will not be able to escape the involvement! He breathed for a while, raised his eyes to look at the city wall on the other side of the city gatehouse, grabbed the halberd of the open sky, and said: "Prime Minister, there are still enemy troops remaining in the city, and the last general will go to retreat from the enemy!" After speaking, he looked back at the soldiers behind him and shouted: "Brothers, kill the enemy with me!"

"Kill—"

At this time, the confidence of the Jin army was getting stronger and stronger, and the morale was getting higher and higher, and the people shouted in unison, followed Mu Wu, and killed the city wall on the other side.

This battle, from the morning to the evening, during the period, the You army has attacked the city several times, but was successfully counterattacked by the Jin army several times, the two sides of the city wall has been fierce to the extreme, after the battle, the casualties of the two armies have been too many to count, inside the city, outside the city and on the city wall, the corpses are stacked, piled up.

So far, both the Jin army and the You army have suffered heavy casualties, and the soldiers are exhausted. Even Nie Lin, who was so fierce and tough, couldn't fight anymore, and the sky was getting dark, so he reluctantly ordered the whole army to suspend the attack and retreat back to the camp.

You Jun did not camp outside Hecheng at all, because people firmly believed that one day was enough time to capture Hecheng, and it was a waste of effort to set up camp, but I didn't expect it. The defenders of Hecheng resisted so stubbornly that they did not let their own side enter the city.

The retreating You army was too tired to walk, but even so, people had to finish camping before they could rest.

The battle is over, and both sides are seizing the time to recuperate. At the same time, the respective casualties are counted.

Today's battle, not lightly wounded, only seriously wounded and killed soldiers, the Jin army has more than 23,000 people, and the You army is also above 20,000, after a battle, the Jin army's combatable personnel have been sharply reduced by half, and the losses of the You army are close to one-third, so it is not difficult to see the intensity of this battle.

The casualty ratio on both sides was close to one to one. It is completely acceptable to be the attacking side, but the You army has been invincible and invincible since the Jinjin battle, and this is still a setback.

On the first day, they barely blocked the attack of the You army, but Tai Shuhong, Xiao Xuan, and Mu Wu were not happy, they knew in their hearts that the battle would be fought tomorrow. With the remaining forces of his side, it is difficult to resist the attack of the You army.

After the retreat of the You army. The Jin army began to clean up the battlefield, and the corpses of You Jun on the city walls were directly outside the city, and the corpses of their own soldiers were collected inside the city.

By this time, the stone bricks on the walls were no longer gray, but had turned black-brown, the color of blood clotting.

Tai Shuhong inspects the city wall. frowned, whether this battle should be fought in the end, whether Hecheng should stick to it, his heart was also shaking. But where there is still a way out, Mu Wu will definitely choose to give up without hesitation. But the problem is that now there is no way to retreat, withdraw from Hecheng, and then Wancheng, Wancheng is much larger than Hecheng, and the enemy army is easy to attack, which is by no means defended by 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Tai Shuhong's heart was hesitant, and the mood of Mu Wu, who was following him, was not high, and the latter was also worried, thinking about how to fight the next battle.

While the two were walking, they inadvertently found that Xiao Xuan was silent beside him, and Tai Shuhong turned his head to look at him, only to see Xiao Xuan looking at the sky, not knowing what he was looking at.

Tai Shuhong also raised his head and looked at the sky, the night sky was dark, and he couldn't even see a star, he asked, "Lord Xiao, what are you thinking?"

Hearing Tai Shuhong's question, Xiao Xuan came back to his senses, smiled indifferently, and said, "Xia Guan is thinking of a way to retreat from the enemy. ”

Tai Shuhong's spirit was invigorated, and he knew that Xiao Xuan had always been resourceful, and his military talent was not inferior to that of the generals in the army. He hurriedly asked, "Did Lord Xiao think of it?"

Xiao Xuan frowned slightly, looked at the sky again, and then pondered for a while, grinned, and said, "Tomorrow, the enemy army will retreat!"

"Oh?" Mu Wu stepped forward and asked, "How did Lord Xiao know that the enemy army would retreat tomorrow?"

Xiao Xuan smiled and said: "General Mu just needs to arrange a sentry post to prevent the You army from attacking the city at night, as for whether the enemy army will retreat tomorrow, and what will be the reason for retreating, we will know when the time comes." ”

Mu Wu looked at Xiao Xuan inexplicably, not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd. Today, the You Army has suffered a setback in its attack, but its strength is still there, so how can it be possible to withdraw its troops for no reason? Unless the commander of the You Army suddenly dies, this is an impossible thing to happen.

Xiao Xuan didn't say much, turned his head to Tai Shuhong and said, "Prime Minister, aren't there still 2,000 cavalry in the city? ”

Tai Shuhong raised his eyebrows, looked at Xiao Xuan with strange eyes, and muttered in his heart, could it be that the battle during the day was too fierce and dangerous, which frightened the brain of this Lord Xiao, right?

He completely took Xiao Xuan's words as a joke, put aside a laugh, and said softly: "Lord Xiao is also tired, go and rest!"

How could Xiao Xuan not see Tai Shuhong's thoughts, he looked up and smiled, and said: "Prime Minister don't worry, the lower official's mind is very clear, the lower official said that the enemy army will retreat, the enemy army will definitely retreat, as long as the enemy army retreats, it will be extremely difficult, if our army does not chase and kill, won't it be a waste of great fighters?"

"Then you make it clear, why did You Jun retreat!"

"Hehe!" Xiao Xuan smiled weirdly and said, "Come to think of it, it's God who helps me not to die!"

Tai Shuhong and Mu Wu glanced at each other, and the two of them once again wondered if Xiao Xuan's mind was really as clear as he said.

Of course, the You army will not retreat for no reason, and now that they have approached the capital of Wancheng, victory is close at hand, even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of them, Nie Lin will choose to continue to charge forward.

However, something unexpected happened.

In the first half of the night, the wind and waves were calm, and in the second half of the night, the wind and clouds changed suddenly, the night sky was overcast, and the northwest wind blew wildly.

You Jun is lightly armed, the camp tent is not only thin, but also the number is insufficient, many soldiers are sleeping in the open air, the cold wind blows, even the soldiers in the camp tent are shivering from the cold, and the people who sleep outside the camp tent can be imagined.

In such a cold weather, where can people still sleep, one by one with their necks bent and arms around the ground, looking for dry firewood, trying to make a fire to keep warm, but outside the city is a plain, where can there be dry firewood?

Unfortunately, the cold wind blew more and more violently, and then it snowed heavily, and snowflakes like pieces of paper poured down with the cold wind and blew on people's faces, as if they had been cut by a knife.

This heavy snowfall came too suddenly for You Jun, it was spring at this time, and no one including Nie Lin of You Jun thought that Jin Guo could still fall this heavy snow in the spring, people couldn't prepare, they were frozen so miserably, even the armor on their bodies was frozen hard, making it impossible to move.

Since the You army entered the gold, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, almost seeing what to rob, but they just did not rob the most worthless clothes, at this time the temperature plummeted, the cold wind was fierce, the blizzard was overwhelming, people did not even have some preventive measures, gradually, people have begun to be frozen stiff, lying motionless in the snow, letting the snow slowly bury their bodies.

Now, the soldiers of the You army would rather exchange all the jewels they have stolen for a cotton coat, but unfortunately, no one will make such an exchange with them.

Nie Lin in the sleeping tent was also awakened by the cold, he was wrapped in an outer tent, frowned and walked out of the tent, and when he went outside, Nie Lin was startled, and exclaimed in his heart Why did it suddenly snow so much?

Outside, it was snowing heavily, the north wind was howling, and Nie Lin couldn't stand it anymore after only a few seconds, and hurriedly went back to his tent.

It was cold in the tent, but at least it was able to withstand the cold wind. (To be continued......)