The generals of the Cao army were very concerned but they did not dare to say anything to Cao Cao, in the eyes of many people, whether they recruited troops or not, as long as there was another war in the future, they would never be the opponents of the Liangzhou army.

The army suffered too many losses.

When they withdrew from Runan, they still had 20,000 soldiers and horses, and although they did not have much rations, their strength was terrifying. The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the weakness of the Cao family is only relative to the Yan family, but compared to other princes in the world, there are still 20,000 soldiers and horses left in the continuous defeat, who has this confidence except the Cao family?

Look at Liu Bei, who invaded Yizhou, even if he covers a state, his soldiers and horses may not have this number.

This is also the basis for the Cao generals to still firmly follow Cao Cao even after the situation is getting worse and worse, because it seems that they are not impossible to win.

But after the first battle outside the city, many people's minds were different.

Seven thousand, they still have more than seven thousand left, and the once huge army is now only seven thousand back. More than half of the casualties were lost in one day, and the casualties were unbearable, and both morale and morale were dealt a major blow.

On this night, Cao Cao slept peacefully beside Mrs. Bian, and rode through the laxly garrisoned city defense to the north.

In one day, nearly 100 middle- and lower-ranking officers in Cao's army were killed and wounded, and that was not a position that could be assumed by a strong man like a commander or a chief, but a general and a general who commanded a few hundred people or nearly a thousand in the military formation, and was the backbone of an army.

There are only more than 100 generals in Cao's army, more than 30 generals, and only more than 10 people at the level of military horses.

Although they seem to have rations for soldiers, and there is naturally no shortage of soldiers in their hands on a piece of land, what is the use of this? Whether an army can win a battle or not depends mostly on the ability of the commander to judge the right time, place and people, and Cao Cao has no problem in this regard; But whether an army can fight a war depends on these insignificant middle and lower-level generals, and they can communicate with the soldiers only with their military orders in charge.

The current Cao Jun does not have this ability.

Their generals must take the lead when morale is low, and almost all of them were killed in the short charge of the Liangzhou cavalry, and the flag officer who carried the flag and understood the flag language was the primary target of the Liangzhou cavalry...... A child with a weapon cannot defeat a young man with a weapon under the same conditions, not to mention that the child is also disabled.

The soldiers at the bottom were happy because they had meat soup to eat tonight, forced away the strong enemy in Liangzhou, or escaped death on the battlefield, and their morale was raised at night, and the singing of the big camp in Qixian County was heard far away in the night. But the upper-level generals and colonels did not feel the slightest relief about this, but hid a deeper despair behind the smiling faces.

Ma Chao's battle took away the backbone of the Cao family, and the generals knew the situation of the army better than the soldiers, and the Cao army would definitely not be able to recover without four or five months, not to mention that even if the army was reorganized, the Cao army was not the Cao army that had conquered the south and the north in the past.

Use the newly recruited Xiangyong and the newly promoted Tun General Qu General to fight against the battle-hardened Yan Army?

Cao Cao's enemy was not Ma Chao, if it was Ma Chao's army alone, they could be happy, and with Cao Cao's command, even if they could not win, they would not be killed. Their enemy is Yanbei, and Yanbei means that Ma Chao of Fuli, Xu Huang of Xuzhou, and Zhang Liao of Yuzhou are all their enemies...... Will these people give them up to half a year to recuperate?

What's more, even if Ma Chao, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao are all defeated, so what? There are also Jiang Jin, Lu Yi, Zhang Jaw, etc., etc., the Yan clan has an incomparably vast land of thousands of miles, and the Yan clan has countless battle formations, can they beat it?

Yan can lose once, twice, three times, or even ten times, what impact can it have on Yan? But what about them, can they still endure a defeat?

In the eyes of many generals of the Cao family, today's war does not matter whether it is lost or won, the difference is nothing more than losing today's death, winning tomorrow's death, as long as you are in the Cao family, Yan's butcher's knife is hanging around the neck, when to remember when to take a knife, anyway, sooner or later it will be unstoppable, is it necessary to be happy for sooner or later?

Many things can't help but be worried, before thinking about it, people only care about the present, and rush forward with a stuffy head and a sense of courage in their chests; Once you think about it in the distance, most people's spirit is gone.

Can't compare.

Cao's, Yan's, it sounds similar.

But Cao's family is in Qi County, which is an inconspicuous small county in the middle of Peiguo, Yuzhou, with a land of no more than 100 miles and only a few thousand people. Yan's ...... People don't know how big the Yan clan is, and no one has really measured the land controlled by the Yan clan with their feet, only that the Yan clan is from east to west, which is more vast than the entire territory of the Han Dynasty in the past; And from south to north, that is, to the north where their feet are stepping down, how far people can think, the Yan clan can control as far as they want.

As for the northern grasslands, it is not in the imagination of Cao Jun and others.

How many people from the Central Plains have been to the Western Regions? Those who have been to Youzhou are rarer than those who have been to the Western Regions.

People say that the Yan clan has tens of millions of people under its jurisdiction, but no one can tell how many tens of millions of people there are under the Yan clan, and in this indescribable tens of millions of miles, as long as Yanbei has this idea, one-tenth and twelve are soldiers that the Yan clan can recruit.

If Yan Bei knew what others were guessing about him, I am afraid that his front teeth would have burst with laughter, and the Yan family in others' imagination must not be his Yan family, although it is true that there are nearly 20 million people under his rule, but he will definitely not recruit a million soldiers.

Because if a million soldiers are raised, the Yan clan does not need others to attack, as long as they can hold themselves back for three and five years, the Yan clan itself will fall apart due to civil strife. Raising a million male soldiers is incomparably majestic, but in fact, all Yanbei can do is raise 400,000 soldiers in the whole world. One million soldiers means that Zhao needs to keep at least four million sets of ordnance, 400,000 war horses, and countless corresponding donkeys, mules, cattle and sheep in the arsenals of various places, so what else can he do?

It is true that the world gives the authority of the Yan family to obey the order, but the obligations of the same nobles are also relative. Yanbei is not a prince who divides a place, nor is it a wild general like Liu Bei in the past and Cao Cao in the past who is wandering around with thousands of soldiers and horses, and the obligations on his shoulders are much heavier than these two.

However, Cao Cao listened to some of his subordinates discuss the next day, and suggested that he learn from Liu Bei and take the rest of his troops into Yizhou.

"Into Yizhou?"