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Although Ji Ling finally threatened the lives of the people and finally defended the sour dates, his use of the people as shields was undoubtedly a confirmation of the order he had given to order a great plundering of the sour dates, after all, Sergeant Cao thought in his heart that it was absolutely normal for a shameless person like Ji Ling to give this order.

Therefore, even if the sour jujube was not captured in the end, the morale of the Cao soldiers did not drop much, and the morale of the Yuan Shu soldiers who successfully held the sour dates did not improve much, after all, although the Cao soldiers did not capture the sour dates, but in that short period of time, thousands of Yuan Shu soldiers died.

This time, the battle between the two armies of Cao Jun and Yuan Shujun was not long, and it took four hours from beginning to end, compared to other large-scale wars that often took more than ten days or even one or two months, this time it can be described as a very short battle.

But although the time was short, the Cao army still brought huge casualties to Yuan Shu's army in this short period of four hours, not to mention the tens of thousands of Yuan Shu's soldiers who finally surrendered, on the battlefield and the subsequent siege, Cao Jun annihilated more than 80,000 Yuan Shu's army.

That is to say, this time Ji Ling's battle, after being defeated, the 250,000 Yuan Shu soldiers under his command, at this time, only 1120,000 were left, and the loss reached half, and the elite 50,000 soldiers also lost more than 10,000, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

When these news reached Ji Ling's hands, the general, who was appointed by Yuan Shu as the commander of the 300,000 army, spurted out a mouthful of blood at this time, grabbed the hilt of the sword tremblingly and said: "180,000 troops, the entire 180,000 army, the loss is so great, what kind of face do I Ji Ling have to go to see the lord!" ”

Of the 180,000 troops, 50,000 were actually the soldiers who were sent out. However, with Cao Junbing's sour dates, these 50,000 soldiers have long been considered dead by Ji Ling.

300,000 troops, in just about a month. Unexpectedly lost most of it, only 120,000 left, Ji Ling didn't have to think about it to understand how angry Yuan Shu would be when he got the news. Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that this defeat made Ji Ling feel pain in his heart, and he thought that he had lived up to Yuan Shu's expectations.

"General, the general must not be like this, this is not a crime of war, the last general and others all know that most of the 300,000 troops are untrained recruits, and the general can and use this to stop the 150,000 tiger wolf Cao army. In this way, according to the last general, the general is not guilty, but has an attack, not to mention that Cao Jun's soldiers are in the city, and the general commits suicide, wouldn't it be even more disappointing to the lord's high hopes! ”

Ji Ling committed suicide, if it was changed to another time, he Li Feng would not bother to care, but now it is different. Now Zhang Xun has been captured by Ji Ling and placed under house arrest in the house, under Ji Ling is him Li Feng, if Ji Ling commits suicide. Then the charge of defeat this time will undoubtedly fall on his head, which made Li Feng frightened and hurriedly stopped Ji Ling's excitement of wanting to commit suicide.

After Li Feng stopped Ji Ling, the rest of the generals also began to persuade, some of them did not want Ji Ling to become a scapegoat after he died, and some of them were really worried about the crisis that Ji Ling said would bring about after Ji Ling's suicide.

The persuasion of the generals. Ji Ling, who didn't have much desire to commit suicide in his heart, got a step down, sighed, put down the sword in his hand and said: "In this case, then Ben Jiang will temporarily stay in this guilty body, and wait until he has made meritorious contributions, and then commit suicide to thank the lord!" ”

After a rather ridiculous farce came to an end, Ji Ling, after instructing the guards of the four city walls of Sujuju, quickly passed the news to Yuan Shu in Nanyang, and asked for reinforcements.

"Report, back to the lord, the messenger of Yuan Shujun has left the sour jujube and headed for Nanyang!"

Yuan Shujun's fast horse broke through the blockade of Cao Jun in the dark of night and headed towards Nanyang, but the messengers of Yuan Shujun, who thought they were lucky, did not understand that their breakthrough so lightly was not their luck at all, but that Cao Jun deliberately let it go.

In the Cao army camp, Cao Cao, who was waiting for the news, smiled and waved his hand to let the Cao army spy go down, and then turned his head to look at the generals with some doubts and dissatisfaction on their faces.

"Lord, why did you let Yuan's messenger break through the blockade of our army, so that the number of enemies that our army said it would face will increase again?"

Cao Ren's doubts are also the doubts in the hearts of many other generals, since ancient times, most of the besieging sides have been strictly defended, and they will never let the enemy messenger break through the blockade and go for reinforcements, but Cao Cao came the other way around, and let the Yuan Shujun messenger easily break through the blockade of the Cao army, which made Cao Ren and other generals wonder why.

"You say, what will happen to Yuan Shu if he gets the news here?"

"Needless to say, of course the troops are coming."

Cao Ren and other generals didn't want to answer, so Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "That's what I want, Yuan Shu raised 300,000 troops, and today, there are only 120,000 left in the 300,000 army, of which less than 40,000 are elite soldiers, and the rest can be said to be a group of untrained people, it can be said that the 120,000 army under Ji Ling's command is not to worry, as long as I want to, then our army can attack the sour jujube at any time!" ”

The civil and military forces in the tent all nodded, but the situation is as Cao Cao said, today's sour jujube was almost killed by Cao Jun, in addition to the previous reasons, Yuan Shujun's good and bad are uneven, is the biggest reason, as long as Cao Cao ignores the people of sour jujube and attacks sour jujube, it has been successful.

Seeing that all the civil and military nods in agreement, Cao Cao's face turned stern, and said: "But what I Cao Cao wants, far more than one sour jujube, I want the entire Yuzhou, after Yuan Shu receives the news, he will inevitably be angry and send troops again, and this time, even if Yuan Shu sends more troops, it will definitely not exceed 200,000, most of them may also be recruits, if you can eliminate Yuan Shu under the sour jujube city, then the entire Yuzhou, can be passed on, so, this time, what I Cao Cao has to do is to surround the point and send reinforcements!" "If Cao Cao didn't dare to do this before today, then after today, Cao Cao, who saw the combat effectiveness of Yuan Shujun's combat effectiveness with his own eyes, can be said to have no pressure to implement this strategy.

If according to Yuan Shu, the greatest possible way to send 200,000 troops to join Ji Ling, who was sour and jujube, Cao Cao would face an army of 320,000, but the calculation is not like this. (To be continued.) )