About an hour later, the camp of the Youzhou army had just been set up, and Li Yi was still busy in the Chinese army's tent, so he heard the report from the guards, and Liu Ding, the Taishou of Pingyuan County, came to visit the army with grain, grass, wine and meat, and some gifts.

Liu Ding looked like he was in his fifties, tall and thin, with a long face and long beard, two thick and thick eyebrows, and a pair of shining eyes, looking aggressive and very confident.

Liu Ding first apologized for the negligence of Li Yi and Youzhou Tieqi: "The thief army has just retreated, and the casualties in the city are also very large, and the lower officials have to make some arrangements for this, plus there are many things in the city that need to be dealt with urgently, so it is really rude to delay until now to come to see the general." ”

Li Yi said with a smile: "The envoy is too polite, and the apology is also Li Yi's apology." The envoy is a senior, and Li Yi should visit him. ”

After a pause, Li Yi said again: "Envoy, Li still doesn't know why the Yellow Turban Army suddenly retreated, I don't know if I can tell you?" ”

Li Yi was indeed very puzzled, because the Yellow Turban Army had a great advantage on the battlefield at that time. And it stands to reason that the situation of Gao Tang City is even worse, and the Yellow Turban Army has no reason to retreat at all.

Liu Ding smiled and said: "So that General Li knows that the Yellow Turban Thief Chieftain Zhang Jiao is attacking the city with all his might, and he sees that the city is about to be broken, but unexpectedly, Cao Cao, the captain of the cavalry, Cao Mengde, suddenly led the army to kill, and the ant thieves were unstable and retreated in defeat. The thief chief Zhang Jiao was furious and fell into a coma on the spot, and the yellow turban thieves were leaderless and had no choice but to retreat. ”

"Huh?" When Li Yi heard Liu Ding's words, he was immediately stupid.

Nima Cao Cao's kid is really pitted, he was looking for him everywhere before, but he didn't expect to let him come to the battlefield to pick up a bargain.

Last time, Liu Bei picked up a big bargain and saved Huangfu Song, which can be regarded as a great achievement. This Cao Cao is worthy of being a hero who can suppress Liu Bei, and he is not inferior in doing things. It didn't take much effort to win the great credit of saving Gao Tang City.

Don't look at Liu Ding as just a county guard, but he also has an identity, that is, a member of the Han family, and his identity is still very prominent, he is the grandson of Liu Kai, the filial piety king of Hejian, which is nothing. But another person is contacted. Then this identity is not simple. That is Liu Hong, the son of today, who is the great-grandson of Liu Kai, the filial piety king of Hejian. In other words, Liu Ding is Liu Hong's uncle, the authentic imperial uncle, and Liu Bei's imperial uncle who didn't know how many turns he turned was stronger than I don't know how many times.

Of course, Li Yi didn't know about these situations, but he couldn't hide Cao Cao's essence. His grandfather Cao Teng and father Cao Song are both close ministers of the Son of Heaven, and they couldn't be clearer about the situation of the royal family.

Li Yi shook his head, compared to heroes like Cao Cao and Liu Bei. He is still a lot worse, even if these two heroes are not very old now.

Let's take Liu Bei's rescue of Huangfu Song and Cao Cao's rescue of Liu Ding, in these two operations, didn't he go all out, and even risked the annihilation of the whole army, but in the end, these two people easily picked the fruit.

Compared to them, he is too kind.

Liu Ding didn't know what Li Yi was thinking, so he asked, "General." Previously, due to the chaos in the city, scouts were not sent to follow the traces of the Yellow Turban Thieves. Can you find out? ”

Li Yi nodded and said, "According to the scout's report, they are rapidly evacuating in the direction of Plains City. ”

Liu Ding sighed and said with a gloomy expression: "Thanks to the great rescue of General Li and Captain Cao, although Gao Tang City survived, the Yellow Turban Thief still dealt us a heavy blow. The Yizhou army was also lost. The situation in Yizhou ......"

He shook his head vigorously and lamented, "What a mess." ”

Li Yi was silent.

In this battle, it seemed that the imperial court had won a big victory, and Zhang Jiao's plan to take Gaotang and open up the passage to Qingzhou in the south was bankrupt, but after careful calculation, he did not take advantage of anything. Because Zhang Jiao's goal of severely inflicting heavy damage on the Youzhou Army's iron cavalry has been achieved.

After fighting with the main forces of Yang Feng, Chu Yan and Zhang Jiao of the Yellow Turban Army, nearly 4,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry were killed in the battle, and more than 3,000 were seriously injured, accounting for half of the total casualties. Rao is the elite of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, and he has suffered such heavy casualties, and it is difficult to launch an offensive against the Yellow Turban Army again in the short term.

In addition to the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, the combat power of the imperial court on the Hebei battlefield was almost exhausted. There are less than 1,000 defenders left in Gaotang City, less than 3,000 people left in Huangfu Song's department, and then Liu Bei, this guy still has almost 3,000 people. But this kid ran to Yangxin's beach all of a sudden.

Speaking of which, the backbone of the entire Hebei battlefield is now the army led by Cao Cao. There were almost no losses in the battle, and a relatively intact combat effectiveness was maintained.

Thinking about the situation on the battlefield in Hebei, Liu Ding and Li Yi were silent for a long time.

After a while, Li Yi asked, "Will Liu Yuanjun return to the city today?" ”

"Not back. I walked around the camp and took a look. I wonder why the Youzhou Iron Cavalry is so powerful, under the command of General Li, with only 15,000 horsemen, it defeated the army of hundreds of thousands of ant thieves. ”

………………

At night, in the big tent of the Chinese army, the atmosphere was relatively depressing.

After a busy day, the entire Gaotang battlefield has been cleaned, the remains of the soldiers on both sides who died in the battle have been properly disposed of, and the casualties on both sides have been counted.

In this battle, because of the retreat of the Yellow Turban Army, they were lucky enough to hold Gaotang City, but because the Yellow Turban Army prepared to organize more than 100,000 troops to encircle and annihilate the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, the army not only did not succeed in the surprise attack, but fell into a melee and suffered heavy losses.

Yue Fei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun used 3,000 men to block the 10,000 people of Chu Yan's front army of the Yellow Turban Army, but the 3,000 people were basically wiped out, and in the end there were less than 1,000 people left.

Gongsun Zhan's troops blocked Chu Yan's right flank enemy, with 3,000 cavalry against 20,000 infantry, but lost more than half of them and more than 1,000 soldiers were killed.

Li Yi personally led more than 9,000 people from Zhang Fei's Division, Zhang's Jaw Division, and the Guards Battalion to fight with 70,000 people from Yang Feng's Division of the Yellow Turban Army.

In the comprehensive losses, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry lost two soldiers, 17 commanders, more than 3,900 soldiers, and more than 3,300 wounded. Only less than 8,000 troops were now able to go into battle, and more than half of them had been lost.

If it weren't for the Yellow Turban Army taking the initiative to withdraw, Chu Yan's Chinese army and right flank would have been killed on the eastern battlefield one after another. Under the bloody battle, even if the Youzhou Iron Cavalry can successfully break through, there are only three or four thousand people left at most, which can be described as a very lucky victory.

It can be said that although Cao Cao picked up a bargain, he also indirectly reduced the loss of Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

Of the more than 3,000 wounded, very few were seriously wounded, less than 300. There are too many Yellow Turban Army, and under the fierce battle, there will be no room for survival. Whether it was the 3,000 men and horses led by Yue Fei and the others who temporarily served as foot soldiers, or the cavalry of other tribes, as long as they fell into the hands of the enemy, they were all killed. Only the seriously wounded who were lucky enough to be saved by their comrades survived.

After the preliminary cleaning of the battlefield, the Yellow Turban Army lost about 70,000 people, and if you add the losses of their siege, the Yellow Turban Army lost about 100,000 people. In this way, there are at least 100,000 people left in the Yellow Turban Army.

After Tian Feng finished talking about the specific numbers, he silently walked to the side. The hearts of the generals in the tent of the Chinese army were full of sadness, and many familiar comrades-in-arms were buried forever and could never be seen again.

Li Yi was also saddened alone, at this time, he didn't feel any joy at all about the more than 200,000 merit points he had just received from the system, because these merit points were all exchanged for the lives of the thousands of soldiers who died in battle.

These soldiers took them south by themselves, and now that they are all killed, how can they tell their relatives after they return to Youzhou?

………………

Guan Yu, who left halfway, suddenly ran in in a hurry. In front of everyone, he did not shy away from saying a few words in Li Yi's ear.

Li Yi's face immediately became very ugly. He silently flipped through the bamboo slips on the desk and was silent.

Liu Ding looked at Li Yi with a solemn expression.

The officers in the big tent all stared at Li Yihe and Guan Yu standing behind him, and they were all curious. Everyone wanted to know what was going on, but seeing Guan Yu's solemn expression and the appearance of rushing out to kill someone, no one dared to ask.

"Guorang, bring the map." Li Yi slowly rolled up the bamboo slips on the desk and said calmly.

As soon as Tian Yu took out the map from his bag, Guan Yu ran over. He hurriedly snatched the map from Tian Yu's hand, walked to Li Li Yi's case in a few steps, knelt on the ground, and spread the map on the case.

There was no one in the tent to make a sound, only the occasional crisp "crackling" sound from the torches used for lighting, and the atmosphere was tense and oppressive.

Li Yi slowly raised his head, looked at Liu Ding and asked softly, "Envoy Liu, can Gao Tang City provide me with ten days of grain and grass immediately?" ”

Suddenly there was a burst of cheers in the big tent, almost breaking the roof of the big tent.

Guan Yu stood up abruptly and shouted loudly: "Brothers, there is a war. ”

Dian Wei hammered his jaw fiercely and shouted loudly: "Okay, good, good, it's good to follow General Li, there are battles every day." Good. ”

A trace of doubt flashed on Liu Ding's face, but he still nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes." ”

"Maybe it's ready tomorrow morning?" Li Yi asked.

Liu Ding pondered for a moment and said resolutely: "As long as General Li needs it, I will immediately rush back to the city to raise it and transport it to the camp overnight." ”

"Thank you so much." Li Yi said gratefully.

Immediately, he waved his hand at his subordinates, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said categorically: "All the troops will go down and get ready, and the army will set off tomorrow morning and attack the city of Lecheng, the governance of the country between the rivers." (To be continued.) )