Zhao Feng couldn't think of any better way to deal with it in a short period of time, so he groaned for a while and looked at Xiong Da: "Order Wei Yan, early tomorrow morning, allocate 5,000 recruits and 5,000 cavalry, and send reinforcements to Xinzheng!" ”

Xiong Da bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

Then he withdrew from the Chinese tent with the sentinels.

Zhao Feng was also helpless, there was no good way, so he could only use the old way to deal with Cao Cao's catapult.

Even if all the 5,000 cavalry died, as long as they could destroy one-third of Cao Cao's catapults, they would be considered dead.

After all, if the catapult is not destroyed, Xinzheng will not be able to hold it for a few days.

And Cao Cao has 100,000 troops on his side, whether it is a surprise attack of 5,000 cavalry or a surprise attack of 10,000 cavalry, the result is not too much.

The next night, Tai Shici also sent someone to report on the battle.

At the same time, yesterday's casualties were sent, and in yesterday's battle, Tai Shici's side lost more than 3,000 people, injured more than 4,000 people, and consumed a lot of baggage.

Judging from the corpses under the city, the number of dead in Cao's army should be around six or seven thousand, and the casualty ratio of the two armies is about the same.

Although it seems to be about the same, in fact, it was Tai Shici's side who suffered a loss, because when the Cao army retreated, it was already late, and many wounded soldiers were not brought back.

As long as Cao Cao collects his troops a little earlier today, the casualties will be reduced.

In order to demolish the morale of Cao Jun, Tai Shici did not send someone to clean up the corpses under the city.

The advantage is that it can slowly wear down the morale of the Cao army, and the disadvantage is that it is easy to break out of the plague.

Today's battle is not much different from yesterday's, and the expected casualties are not too much.

And Cao Cao really adjusted the time of collecting troops, and it is estimated that the losses of Cao's army will be lower than yesterday.

This is still the result of Zhao Feng's addition of 5,000 soldiers, otherwise, with the fierce attack of Cao's army, Xinzheng may be lost at any time.

And the five thousand cavalry, Tai Shi Ci did not use it today, and prepared to destroy some catapults as much as possible at a critical time.

Otherwise, with this situation, continuing to send troops to Xinzheng will not solve the fundamental problem.

And once Xinzheng's city defense is exhausted, Tai Shici may have more than twice as many casualties as Cao Jun in the case of refusing to defend the city!

Fortunately, for the consumption of rolling wood and stone, you can take the opportunity to go out of the city at night to recover some back, in addition, Cao Jun also used catapults to 'send' a lot of stones, but the loss of rolling wood is still huge.

And the weight of fire oil and hay is to use a little and a little less.

Hay can also be replenished from the rear, and strategic baggage such as fire oil is really used a little, a little less.

For this situation, Zhao Feng was also helpless, and ordered Xiong Da to let Wei Yan send 5,000 recruits and 5,000 female soldiers to continue to reinforce Xinzheng tomorrow.

In addition, in order to alleviate the congestion situation in Xinzheng and the morale of the army, let the sentry ride go back and tell Tai Shici that tomorrow all the wounded soldiers will be sent to the Zohou Pavilion where Zhao Yun is located.

Then a small number of cavalry escorted these wounded soldiers to the forest forty miles north of the Zohou Pavilion to recuperate from their wounds.

On the third day, Tai Shici sent someone to deliver the battle report of the day as usual, and also reported the casualties of the next day.

On Tai Shici's side, more than 3,000 people were killed and more than 4,000 were injured.

On Cao Cao's side, because he collected his troops a little earlier, he rescued a lot of wounded soldiers.

Although the specific casualties of the Cao army were not counted, judging from the corpses under the city, the Cao army should have died about 11,000 people.

In other words, in the battle the next day, Cao Jun rescued more than 1,000 wounded soldiers because he had a little more time.

Therefore, Tai Shici estimated that the Cao army only lost more than 4,000 people the next day.

The ratio of the two armies to the dead is further reduced!

In this case, the defenders have no advantage at all.

And today's battle situation, although there are no specific statistics, Tai Shici feels that the pressure is much less.

Tai Shici estimated that after three days of frantic throwing, there should not be enough stones in Cao Jun's catapults.

This is also considered to be too many catapults, the only flaw.

After all, in this era, if you want to open a mountain and quarry, it will also consume manpower and material resources.

Seeing this, Zhao Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

If you really want to keep attacking like you did two days ago, it will make Zhao Feng scared.

According to the usual practice, Zhao Feng asked Xiong Da to send an order to Wei Yan and continue to send 5,000 new soldiers to reinforce Xinzheng.

On the fourth day, three quarters of the hour.

A sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, General Taishi, let your subordinates send a battle report!" ”

After speaking, he presented the battle report in his hand with both hands.

Zhao Feng was slightly surprised, it stands to reason that someone should be sent to deliver the battle report tonight, and then report yesterday's casualties and today's general battle situation.

Fortunately, he was not surprised for too long, and Xiong Da took the battle report from the sentry rider and then handed it over to Zhao Feng.

After Zhao Feng opened the battle report, he carefully read it.

The opening chapter is still yesterday's casualties, yesterday Tai Shici lost more than 2,000 people killed, and more than 4,000 wounded.

It shows that Tai Shici's feeling is right, and there are indeed some problems on Cao Jun's side.

Of course, it may also be that Cao Cao deliberately did this, in order to make Tai Shici relax his vigilance.

And the number of Cao Jun's dead is not much different from before, it should be more than 4,000 people.

Because Tai Shi Ci visually inspected the corpses under the city, there should be more than 15,000 corpses.

As for the wounded soldiers, Tai Shici is not easy to judge, but it will definitely not be less.

In the end, he explained that the reason why he sent someone to deliver the battle report so early today was because Cao Cao did not send someone to attack the city today.

Instead, he sent a messenger saying that the dead were great, and that the soldiers should be buried in peace.

Tai Shi Ci wanted to ask Zhao Feng whether to let Cao Cao transport the corpses of Cao Jun's soldiers back, or whether to continue to stay in the city.

After Zhao Feng finished reading, he rubbed his temples.

In some ways, Zhao Feng should naturally respect the dead and let Cao Cao send someone to transport the corpses back for burial.

In addition, Cao Cao sent people to clean up the corpses, which could also avoid the outbreak of the plague.

However, the existence of these corpses can indeed disintegrate the morale of Cao Jun, which is of great benefit to Zhao Feng.

Moreover, as there are more and more corpses, it is a sign that the soldiers of the Cao army will come to attack the city, and the end will be a dead end.

A few days earlier, when there were not many corpses, the soldiers of the Cao army might still think that there were so many people besieging the city anyway, and it was not necessarily me who died.

But now that there are more than 15,000 corpses, I am afraid that there are only a few soldiers who still think so.

Most soldiers probably think that he may be the next to die.

In this way, the soldiers of the Cao army can be war-weary!

Once Cao's army became war-weary, Cao Cao could only temporarily stop fighting and repair the army to restore morale.

And what Zhao Feng is most happy to see is to delay time!