The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"At that time, we will send people to contact General Ma Dai and General Xu Chu. After the troops are assembled in one place, we will make another plan."

At this time, Xu Shu had no other choice but to let Zhang Fei retreat temporarily.

Hearing what Xu Shu said, Zhang Fei also nodded.

"Okay, then it's settled like this, Ming Jin withdraws troops, retreat, first send all the luggage away, don't let Liu Zheng's people get it, if it can't be transported, it will be burned on the spot."

Zhang Fei was so cruel that he could only choose to retreat first.

At this time, the battle began to gradually turn into an end.

Liu Zheng looked at Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses, and after retreating, he didn't let his troops pursue them.

It's not that Liu Zheng's men didn't pursue them, but that Liu Zheng's troops were not many. On the one hand, they had to garrison Handan City, so it was impossible to send them out to chase Zhang Fei.

Anyway, Liu Zheng's goal this time is not to wipe out Zhang Fei, but to divide their forces.

After some of Zhang Fei's [-] soldiers were wiped out by Liu Zheng, and he had no absolute strength to fight Liu Zheng, Zhang Fei retreated by himself, and would never stay to fight Liu Zheng.

When the sky was slightly bright, Liu Zheng had already ordered his troops to attack, but when the battle on the battlefield calmed down, it was already noon.

The scorching sun shone on the earth, drying up the blood all over the ground, and emitting a stench.

A lot of flies and rat ants were attracted.

Liu Zheng had the battlefield cleaned up, and the wounded who were still alive on his side were brought back to the city for treatment. As for the wounded of the enemy army, Liu Zheng did not kill them directly, but brought them back together for treatment.

For those who were not seriously injured, Liu Zheng took them as prisoners and temporarily detained them.

Liu Zheng can't be regarded as a kind person, but these soldiers on the battlefield are actually innocent.

They were not willing to go to the battlefield themselves, they were all soldiers conscripted forcibly, and the young and middle-aged were directly arrested for military service, so their life and death were sometimes beyond their control.

In this era, there are very few people like Liu Zheng who can independently choose whether to serve as a soldier.

Many princes were forcibly recruited, otherwise, the short history of the Three Kingdoms in just a few decades would not have allowed the population of tens of millions at the end of the Han Dynasty, and only a few million were left behind.

War makes the population less than one out of ten.

It is conceivable how many casualties caused by the war.

Save one if you can.

In the afternoon, the affairs outside Handan City were almost over.

The generals sent by Liu Zheng finally returned to the city of Handan to report to Liu Zheng the results of this battle.

Of course, what surprised Liu Zheng the most was that Lu Bu brought back another person. ?

The first thousand and 160 chapters

"General Fengxian, in today's battle, we defeated the enemy army. Congratulations."

"Your Majesty, if I, Lu Bu, are on the horse, it's nothing to worry about mere enemy troops. Look, I've brought back another enemy general."

After Lu Bu finished speaking, he asked his men to bring up Ma Dai who he had captured.

The person Lu Bu captured was none other than Ma Dai who fought against Lu Bu.

After Ma Dai met Lu Bu, although he thought about fighting Lu Bu, but after seeing how powerful Lu Bu was, Ma Dai gave up his plan to fight Lu Bu.

He wanted to escape from the battlefield, but how could Ma Dai escape from Lu Bu's hands?

Although he retreated back, he still couldn't run away from Lu Bu's men. He was led by Lu Bu, chased and intercepted him, and was captured.

After being arrested, Ma Dai, who looked depressed, was naturally taken to Handan City to see Liu Zheng.

However, Lu Bu did not kill Ma Dai directly, but brought Ma Dai back alive.

Knowing that he will not die for the time being, Ma Dai is not so afraid.

So happy to follow Lu Bu back to see Liu Zheng.

At the same time, he also has some expectations in his heart, because his elder brother Ma Chao seems to be under Liu Zheng's subordinates, and he also wants to know whether the news is true or not.

"who are you?"

Liu Zheng saw Ma Dai and became interested for a while.

After Ma Dai saw Liu Zheng, he didn't say much at all. He just looked at all the people present in front of Liu Zheng.

After recognizing these people clearly, Ma Dai turned his gaze to Liu Zheng.

"Under Ma Dai."

Ma Dai didn't know whether Liu Zhengting had heard of his name, but he still said it honestly.

Thinking about it, since Liu Zheng was able to keep his elder brother Ma Chao, he probably had heard of him.

Ma Dai's thinking is also correct.

After all, Liu Zheng's ability to keep Ma Chao must be due to his understanding of Ma Dai.

Sure enough, after Ma Dai said his name, Liu Zheng nodded, as if he understood.

"Ma Dai, Ma Chao's cousin? I seem to remember such a person."

"You have actually heard of my name. So, my eldest brother is not dead yet. Under your command, is this news true?"

"Ok?"

"Where did you get the news from?"

Liu Zheng glanced at Ma Dai in surprise. Ma Dai knew that he had captured Ma Chao, so he was still a little interested. But after thinking about it, it was normal. Liu Zheng didn't completely block the news. Back then, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and others , If Ma Chao's body was not found on the battlefield.

Later, if you follow this sign, you should be able to find the news that Ma Chao is under Liu Zheng.

"I got the news from General Zhao Yun."

"Zhao Yun? How did he know? Forget it. No matter how he knew, he must have escaped somewhere by now."

Liu Zheng said something to himself.

"My elder brother Ma Chao, is he really under your command?"

Ma Dai is not very interested in Liu Zheng. What he is most interested in is the news of his elder brother. He has been inquiring about it before, but now that Liu Zheng has captured him. Naturally, Ma Chao is still the one he cares most about.

"Ma Chao is indeed here with me, and the widow treats me with delicious food and drink."

"Since you're here too, let's stay here with the widow. When the widow's army reaches Xiliang that day, invite Ma Teng to reunite your family."

Liu Zheng's interest in Ma Dai is only average, it's better to have something than nothing. After letting Lu Bu take him down, he began to wait for other people's reports.

After the battle was over, Xu Huang began to report their casualties this time.

The battle this time was divided into three parts, among which the cavalry under Xu Huang's men mainly suffered a lot of losses against Zhang Fei's men and horses on the main battlefield.

Nearly 2000 cavalry were killed and injured, and Lu Bu also suffered some losses in order to deal with Ma Dai's Xiliang iron cavalry, but it was not big, only a few dozen.

After all, after Lu Bu took action, most of the Xiliang iron cavalry fled with Ma Dai. Those who were killed or injured were injured by the enemy's Xiliang iron cavalry when they were chasing them.

Then, the soldiers and horses of the headquarters led by Pin were fighting Xu Chu's. There were still more soldiers and horses killed and injured here.

After all, both sides are infantry, the strength is not much different, and the difference in strength is not much.

The hired side lost more than [-] people before they barely blocked Xu Chu's attack.

In this way, the soldiers and horses that Liu Zheng brought over to Handan City this time lost several thousand, 2 troops, and only more than [-] people remained.

However, the loss of these people was not completely useless, but they repelled Zhang Fei's army.

Now Zhang Fei has retreated thirty miles, and has shrunk to the vicinity of Yecheng at this moment. According to Liu Zheng's next plan, he will attack Yecheng and take back Yecheng.

In this battle, judging from the corpses on the battlefield, Zhang Fei's losses on the main battlefield exceeded [-], and the combined losses of Xu Chu's side and Ma Dai's side also exceeded [-].

Zhang Fei, who has an army of 4, has less than [-] left at the moment.

With this amount of manpower, if you want to go out of the city to confront Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, I'm afraid there will be no chance.

The only chance is to rely on Yecheng's city walls to resist in Yecheng.

Only in this way, with a delay of some time, can Liu Zheng transport food and grass for thousands of miles, which is not easy, and finally chooses to retreat.

However, the battle on Liu Zheng's side in Handan City didn't end long.

None of Liu Zheng's soldiers continued to pursue Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei in Yecheng received a piece of news that shocked him extremely.

At this moment, he is hesitating whether he should continue to fight Liu Zheng here.

Yecheng.

Zhang Fei, who had retreated from Handan City, summoned the returned troops to conduct a post-war summary.

I want to know where I lost this battle.

Although, I already understood some things from Xu Shu's mouth before.

However, Zhang Fei still doesn't know the specific battle damage and other details about the battlefield, and needs to hear it from other generals.

"Did you find out, where is General Ma Dai?"

Zhang Fei asked the scouts beside him.

The scout answered Zhang Fei awkwardly.

"General, we found out. The soldiers and horses who fled back from General Ma Dai said that General Ma Dai was chased by the enemy's cavalry and did not escape. He should have been captured by the enemy."

The small book booth that book lovers used before has been hung up, and now they are basically using \app \ .

The scout's words made Zhang Fei's already dark complexion even more gloomy.

The first thousand and 160 chapters and two bad news

"General Ma Dai was also arrested by Liu Zheng?"

Zhang Fei took a deep breath.

But before Zhang Fei could calm down, the scout spoke again.

"Not only that, those Xiliang iron cavalry under General Ma Dai were wiped out."

There was another shock. After Zhang Fei heard it, he almost lost his footing.

Ma Dai is gone, although Zhang Fei is not indifferent, but Ma Chao himself was arrested, and if Ma Dai is arrested again, it means that there will be no more tickles and no more lice.

But the thousands of Xiliang iron cavalry are gone, which means that an important combat force is gone.

Thousands of Xiliang cavalry are much more important than one Ma Dai.

In Zhang Fei's mind, he was still thinking that Ma Dai and Ma Chao were gone, so he could send someone to take over the cavalry.

But now that he heard the news, Zhang Fei's expression turned ugly.

Fortunately, although Ma Dai's cavalry were all killed, the troops assigned to Ma Dai by Zhang Fei have all returned.

At least the losses here can still be stopped.

"Xu Chu, what about your loss?"

Zhang Fei glanced at Xu Chu again.

Xu Chu's complexion is also not good-looking, not only is it not good-looking, he also has some minor injuries on his body, which are left over from the fight with Pin on the battlefield.

If Zhang Fei hadn't ordered the retreat and made Xu Chu leave early, Xu Chu might have had a [-]-round battle with Pin outside Handan City.

"General, my losses here are not small, thousands of people died."

"So, we were attacked by Liu Zheng this time, with more than 2 casualties? It's really abominable. Liu Zheng, a bastard, looks down on me so much. He unexpectedly attacked at this time. If it was later, our soldiers and horses would not As for being so passive."

Zhang Fei cursed depressingly.

Xu Shu could only comfort Zhang Fei.

"General, I'm also to blame for this matter. I didn't think about it in advance. General Zhao Yun is not here. Our army lacks combat power. We should have taken precautions in advance. That's why Liu Zheng's people took advantage of the loophole."

Xu Shu originally wanted to take the blame for this crime under his command, but Zhang Fei was not a person who was unwilling to admit defeat.

"Forget it, military advisor, I can't completely blame you for this matter. Liu Zheng's use of troops is inherently tricky and unpredictable. We suffered a loss this time, and it's also our fault that we didn't figure out Liu Zheng's strength. If we had known earlier, We are not hungry enough to be so passive.”

Zhang Fei really didn't blame Xu Shu. After all, there was no way to completely blame Xu Shu for this kind of thing. Xu Shu was only human, and it was impossible to fully predict when Liu Zheng would attack.

After Zhang Fei learned of the loss of troops on his side, he was already worried about the next battle.

However, fortunately, there is a piece of good news coming back at this time.