Chapter 369: The Battle of Xingkou (4)

After Wei Zheng left, Gao Yuan ordered to immediately clean up the battlefield, collect the prisoners, count the losses, and collect the spoils of war.

After counting and counting, a total of 753 soldiers were killed and 1,685 were wounded, of which 512 were killed and 1,127 were wounded, of which more than 300 were seriously wounded, and the entire battle was reduced by more than 800 people, 300 mandarin duck formation squads, and 83 squads were short of troops. It can be said that this is the largest number of casualties in a battle since the formation of the Mandarin Duck Formation from the plateau.

On the battlefield, the Qin army left nearly 4,000 corpses, of which more than 2,000 were left by the Qin army during the withdrawal, and 387 people were captured, but most of the prisoners were wounded.

Considering that this was only the result of sorting out from the battlefield, because the Qin army would definitely take away some of the corpses of the soldiers, the actual casualties of the Qin army should be around five thousand, and the number of wounded soldiers would not be less than the number of soldiers killed. From this point of view, this time the Qin army has indeed suffered heavy losses, at least in a short period of time, it is impossible for the Qin army to attack Xingkou again. This also gave Xingkou a period of preparation.

Gao Yuan also specially reminded the soldiers who were guarding the captives that they should be strictly interrogated to see if there were any soldiers of the Nanyang Army inside, because there were too many puzzles on Han Teng and the Nanyang Army, and Gao Yuan hoped to take out some useful things from the mouths of the prisoners of the Nanyang Army.

After counting the results of the battle, Gao Yuan also immediately ordered the wounded soldiers to enter the city, recruited Langzhong in Xingkou City for treatment, and then ordered the Dai army to establish a camp three miles to the left of Xingkou, and Xingkou City became a horn, and built camp fortifications. Moreover, the city defense of Xingkou Castle was reinforced, in addition to establishing a position on the city wall where trebuchets and bed crossbows could be placed, and at the same time, the same fortifications as the camp were also arranged outside the city.

Because the Dai army defeated the Qin army, the Wei army's soldiers were much higher, and they were also very active in carrying out the orders of the plateau. Lu Renjie ordered to recruit people in the city to join in the work, and in the afternoon, about 2,000 people joined in the work, which also made Gao Yuan very satisfied.

At this time, the scouts reported that the Qin army was in a place thirty miles away from Xingkou, and the plateau was naturally unable to attack the Qin army's camp now, so he only ordered the scouts to closely monitor the movements of the Qin army, and stationed in Xingkou City, waiting for the arrival of follow-up men and horses.

By the next day, the Dai army's Changjie army, auxiliary army, and Chu army all rushed to Xingkou, and Yuan Xuan and the Xiang brothers entered the city to meet the plateau, and Xiang Dong first apologized to the plateau for what happened to the Chu army on the march.

It turned out that after Gao Yuan led the Dai army to leave, Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo led the Chu army to find a place to shelter from the rain and stayed for two days, but they arrived with the follow-up people led by Yuan Die and Xiang Dong.

Seeing the Chu army camping on the side of the road, Yuan Xuan and Xiang Dong were very surprised, and after asking about the situation, of course Yuan Xuan couldn't say anything, but Xiang Dong was furious, he was a few years older than Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo, and he had seen some of the world, of course he knew that this matter seemed to be small, but the impact was very vicious, and he delayed the military plane and didn't say it, he couldn't walk if it rained a little bit? What's more, it's not that they are allowed to walk, or the infantry is also on a chariot, and they can't even endure this little hardship, how can they expect to fight with the Qin army. This time, the Chu army threw people home, it can be said that they were thrown from Chu to Wei.

What made Xiang Dong even more angry was that Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo, as the commanders of the whole army, not only did not stop the unreasonable demands of the soldiers, but on the contrary, they also boosted their arrogance.

Therefore, Xiang Dong immediately ordered Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo to be heavily punished with fifty military sticks, and took the lead in beheading the three generals who asked Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo to stop the march, and the twelve generals who assisted him were each beaten with eighty military sticks, and at the same time reiterated to the whole army that the order would be stopped, and anyone who dared to disobey the generals in the future would be guilty of the same crime as everyone today.

This time the whole army of the Chu army was shocked, if it was the army of the Chu State, the main general would use this kind of tough means, it is estimated that most of them would flee immediately, but this Chu army is actually the private army of the Xiang family, and most of the people's parents, wives and children live in the fiefdom of the Xiang family, they dare not flee lightly, plus Xiang Dong still has some prestige in the clan, so the soldiers of the Chu army are also nervous, it seems that this time the battle to aid Wei is real, but it can't be so casual.

After listening to Xiang Dong's speech, Gao Yuan also nodded, it seems that Xiang Dong is still a little bold, much stronger than Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo, the sentence of strict management of the army is not a matter of saying, it must really be ordered and prohibited, and must not be sloppy, it is an unreasonable request for soldiers, and it must be resolutely stopped, and it is not enough to use a sentence not to blame the public, and the soldiers who provoke trouble must be severely punished, so as to respect and follow You, otherwise what soldiers will bring.

Gao Yuan said: "Doctor Xiang, you came just in time, now the Qin army is thirty miles away from Xingkou, but after the last battle, we suffered a lot of casualties, so we are unable to attack the camp of the Qin army, after you come, our strength is enough, but you have just arrived in Xingkou, do you want to rest for a while, and then attack the Qin army?" ”

Xiang Dong hurriedly said: "Wu Anjun said that he only walked a few dozen miles, do you still need to rest?" What's more, the fighter plane is easy to lose, so I think it's okay to set off immediately. ”

Gao Yuan nodded, and didn't have time to meet Yun Yao and Jian Wuji, so he only ordered someone to send them into the city to rest, and then immediately ordered that the Fan Yong Army and the Changjie Army attacked, leaving Yuan Xuan to lead the Beiwei Army and the auxiliary army to garrison in the camp, while the Chu Army dispatched 300 chariots, 1,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry troops, because Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo had just been beaten with military sticks, they could only lie on the bed and could not move, so Xiang Dong personally led the team.

The total number of people in the army of Dai Chu was about 24,000 people, and at the same time it also brought 3,000 Wei troops, which was almost twice as much as the Qin army.

After the group set off, under the leadership of the scout, they went to the Qin army's station, and before they reached the Qin army's station, they received a return from the scout, it turned out that the Qin army had set up camp and retreated westward to join the army behind.

It turned out that in the first battle of Xingkou, the actual losses of the Qin army reached more than 5,700 people, and the wounded soldiers were close to 4,000, of which the Nanyang army lost 371 people and wounded 256 people.

Therefore, although the Qin army camped more than 20 miles away from Xingkou, Han Teng knew that the Dai army could be killed at any time, and the current state of the Qin army was difficult to be the opponent of the Dai army, and it would take a few days for the successor army to catch up, so after only resting for one night, Han Teng ordered to pull out the camp and retreat backwards, and join the Qin army's brigade, and then really how to attack Wei.

And now the Qin army's army is still sixty miles away, plus it is carrying a lot of baggage, and it will be at least three days later to kill Xingkou again, and the Qin army will also build a camp and a village, so Xingkou has enough time to build fortifications. In this way, although there was a little unexpected at the beginning of the war, judging from the current situation, the development of the war has basically entered the track of its own vision.

Since the Qin army retreated, of course, Gao Yuan would not attack the Qin army, but immediately turned back to Xingkou and continued to build fortifications to meet the Qin army. However, he could not just return to Xingkou in disgrace, and Gao Yuan announced to the soldiers that the Qin army was afraid of fighting him, so he retreated early and fled, being scared away by himself.

Because in yesterday's battle, the Dai army defeated the Qin army, so Gao Yuan declared this, and the soldiers were also convinced, and at the same time let out a burst of cheers, even the soldiers who did not participate in yesterday's battle shouted a few times. Only then did Gao Yuan announce the return of the army. So the whole army returned to Xingkou as a victor.

After returning to Xingkou, Gao Yuan asked the soldiers to declare again that the Qin army had been scared away by themselves, so after the soldiers and people in Xingkou heard this, their morale also increased greatly, and they finally swept away the previous state of low spirit and low morale. Then he took Yuan Xuan, Xiang Dong and other major generals to inspect all the construction sites, and everywhere he went, the plateau encouraged the soldiers who were stepping up their work to improve the morale of the soldiers.

Yuan Xuan had long been accustomed to this kind of practice on the plateau, and he didn't think it was strange, and Xiang Dong was the first time to see such a general, very new, in the Chu State, there had never been a master general who had such a morale boost to the soldiers. Because the leading generals of the Chu State are all controlled by the wealthy families, they are all people who are high above the top and have eyes on their heads, and the vast majority of the soldiers are composed of civilians, and the people of the wealthy families are not even interested in saying a word from them, which will encourage them in this way.

After turning around, Gao Yuan returned to Xingkou City and met with Yun Yao and Jian Wuji.