Chapter 416: Retreat

Seeing this, Sima Dejiao and Luo Cheng frowned.

At this moment, the performance of the Luoyang army seemed to be similar to what they saw for the first time.

I don't know what stimulated them.

However, the Luoyang army has a strong fighting spirit, but their Sui army's fighting spirit is stronger than it, after all, they only fought a big victory not long ago.

Now, with the arrival of the Luoyang army, the two of them immediately led a group of Sui troops to meet the enemy.

The two sides fought together, and in a short period of time, they were red-eyed,

At the same time, it lasted for a very long time, and it was only temporarily ended from daytime to late at night, and when the two armies retreated, they saw that the ground was full of corpses, some of the Sui army, and some of the Luoyang side, and there were almost no intact ones.

From this point alone, we can roughly see the fierceness of this battle.

Late that night, Ming Jin withdrew his troops.

Sima Dejiao and Luo Cheng, who retreated to the barracks, panted and reported today's results to Yang Guangyu.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry, we couldn't fight this battle, and the Sui army lost at least more than 5,000 people." Sima Dejiao looked at Yang Guang, his face full of guilt.

Luo Cheng also bowed his head and said nothing.

Yang Guang's face was grim, and after a moment of silence, he asked faintly, "What about Luoyang?" How much do they lose? ”

"About 10,000 people."

"The two-to-one battle loss ratio is barely okay, and it can be regarded as a triumphant return." Yang Guang's brows eased slightly, and he comforted: "The two of you don't have to have too heavy a psychological burden, on the battlefield, life and death are unpredictable, and you can't control it." ”

"The last general didn't feel that he had lost the battle, but that he felt that the Luoyang army could suddenly become so brave, as if he didn't have the slightest fear of our Sui army." Sima Dejiao looked a little worried.

"Isn't that obvious?"

Yang Guang sneered: "After knowing our details, he Wang Shichong is naturally full of confidence, don't forget, this is his territory." He's a local snake, can he still be afraid of our strong dragon? ”

Cheng Biting Jin said hatefully: "It's all to blame on that inner ghost, if it weren't for him, how could we lose more than 5,000 soldiers in vain?" Your Majesty, have you figured out the identity of this person? ”

"Nope!"

Yang Guang shook his head: "Judging from the current known situation, it should be that the deputy generals you brought have a problem." ”

"Your Majesty, do you mean that the inner ghost comes from among the lieutenant generals?" Sima Dejiao was shocked.

"That's right, apart from the adjutant general, who else can know so much about the details of our Sui army?" Yang Guang asked rhetorically.

Sima Dejiao thought about it when he heard this, but he also felt that Yang Guang's words were reasonable.

"Adjutant General...... However, there are more than ten adjutant generals in the military camp, and it is a bit difficult to accurately find out the inner ghost among them...... "Qin Shubao made a mistake: "Unless we are ruthless and lock up all the deputy generals." ”

"There is no such condition for the time being."

Sima Dejiao interjected: "After dawn, the Luoyang army may come over to attack our military camp, and we still need these deputy generals to lead the troops to fight at that time, otherwise how can we command the remaining 70,000 troops with just a few of us?" ”

The others all nodded secretly.

On the battlefield, these generals are responsible for coordinating the overall situation, but it is those deputy generals who can implement specific combat plans. Without them leading the soldiers to fight the enemy, the soldiers will become headless flies due to the lack of effective management, which will greatly affect their combat effectiveness.

Although there are some commanders mixed among the soldiers, the role that the commanders can play is very effective after all, and they who do not know the slightest tactics are still difficult to compare with the lieutenant generals.

"If we don't attack those lieutenant generals, how can we stay in this barracks? Do you want to fight a positional battle with the Luoyang army here? With our current strength, I am afraid that it will be difficult to sustain itself. Luo Cheng said with a wry smile.

"Yes, that's right! There is also a problem with grain and grass, and if they take the opportunity to destroy the granary, then our situation will be even more dangerous. Sima Dejiao added by the way.

For a while, everyone's eyes fell on Yang Guang.

Obviously, they are going to transfer this burden to Yang Guang again.

Yang Guang didn't care about this, in fact, he already had a preliminary idea in his mind.

It's just that he didn't say this idea for the first time, but rubbed his eyebrows in pretended distress: "It seems that it is indeed difficult for us to consume with the Luoyang army, rather than defending the barracks, it is better to retreat." ”

"Retreat?" Cheng Yanjin was slightly surprised: "Your Majesty, do we want to admit defeat?" ”

"Cheng bites gold!" Sima Dejiao glared at him fiercely, how could Yang Guang, as an emperor, easily say the word admit defeat?

However, to be honest, Sima Dejiao was actually very inclined to retreat temporarily, after all, judging from the current state of the Luoyang army, they should choose to avoid its edge, rather than having to fight hard.

After the opponent's momentum has subsided a little, the price paid for killing him again will definitely be much smaller than now.

"Okay, listen to Your Majesty." Cheng Yanjin felt speechless, so he had to shut his mouth stupidly.

Yang Guang smiled and waved his hand: "Actually, Cheng Yanjin is right, our current situation is weaker than others, and the internal problems cannot be solved in a short time, so we can only choose to admit defeat as a last resort." ”

"In this way, tomorrow the war will be suspended, hang up the war exemption card, and at the same time send a letter of surrender to their generals, and ask him to tell Wang Shichong that our Sui army has surrendered."

“…… Retreat is retreat, as for this book, you don't have to, right? Everyone present immediately looked at each other, especially Sima Dejiao, who felt that he couldn't accept this matter, and he would rather die in battle than write a surrender letter.

As for Luo Cheng and Qin Shubao, the eyes in Yang Guang's eyes were a little weird, they couldn't believe that such words would come out of Yang Guang's mouth.

Because, this is not at all consistent with the confident and domineering emperor they are familiar with.

If Yang Guangzhen chooses to surrender, then it will undoubtedly hit the morale of the Sui army hard, and even the entire Great Sui will be affected. Including the matter of this royal driving expedition, it will probably spread all over the world overnight and become a joke in the mouths of others after dinner.

"I said to send a letter of surrender, then you can follow my order and send a letter of surrender, how can there be so much nonsense?" Yang Guang glared: "In this tent, is it listening to you or listening to me?" ”

"Naturally, you have to listen to Your Majesty."

Sima Deji's expression froze, and he clenched his fists and hung his head and said dejectedly: "Since Your Majesty insists on writing, then write it, the general will not care!" ”