Chapter 668: A Battle to Determine

You know, they have been leading the cavalry behind them. In the first round of fighting with the Xianbei elite, although the players' cavalry were ordinary cavalry, they were still in a battle with the Xianbei cavalry, which was already in a state of collapse. The battle loss was almost two to one.

It is conceivable that if under normal circumstances, the elite Xianbei cavalry engages with the ordinary cavalry in the hands of the player, it can basically reach a state of one versus four or even five versus five. But Baima Yicong is different. Whether under the command of Gongsun Zan or Zhao Yun, he can almost be said to be the elite cavalry of the Xianbei people. This is the power of a famous general.

After generals Zhao Yun led various cavalry units into the Xianbei camp, they were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, killing all directions. After entering the Xianbei people's camp, the army was divided into several parts, and in units of a thousand people, they headed towards the place where the Xianbei people gathered in the camp and killed them.

Except for the tens of thousands of troops who left 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry on the periphery to encircle the Xianbei cavalry who were trying to escape, the rest of the army followed them into the camp.

For a time, killing cries rang out from everywhere in the Xianbei camp, interspersed with the sound of swords clashing, the neighing of war horses, the screams of the Xianbei people, and the "Abandon your weapons and kneel down" sounds from time to time by the Han cavalry. Those who surrender will not be killed."

Half an hour later, there were finally no Xianbei people standing on the entire battlefield. Suddenly, cheers from the Han cavalry rang out everywhere.

Seeing that the entire battlefield was completed and under control, Gongsun Zan and Huangfu Chaobo looked at each other and saw a look of relief in each other's eyes. The next step is to count our own casualties and gains from this battle.

Soon, the casualties of both sides were counted, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief. Although this was a battle involving more than 100,000 cavalry, the losses on our side were not very large. Mainly because generals Zhao Yun broke through the Xianbei army in front, plus more than 10,000 white horse Yi Cong and the two generals' personal guards, it can be said that this battle was won easily.

Huangfu Chaobo sent out troops this time for 5,000 white-horse righteous followers and 5,000 assault cavalry, plus more than 3,000 personal guards and horses around him. After the war, the Baima Yicon suffered the greatest losses, with 40% of the casualties, among which more than a thousand cavalry were killed, more than 500 were seriously injured, and more than 300 were lightly injured. This shows that the cavalry losses in battle were huge. Once engaged, the battle would be Far more died than could be recovered from minor injuries.

As for the five thousand assault cavalry under Huyandu, since they were basically on the periphery, they lost less than a thousand cavalry, and a few of them were slightly injured and could recover after a period of rest. As for the more than 3,000 personal guards and horses, since they were basically guarding Huangfu Chaobo, their losses were less than 20%.

Generally speaking, Huangfu Chaobo's losses in this battle were about 30%, and this was because his soldiers and horses were all elite soldiers and horses of the eighth level or above.

Gongsun Zan's army suffered much more losses. In this battle, Gongsun Zan sent out a total of one thousand elite white horse Yi Cong, five thousand ordinary white horse Yi Cong, and 20,000 ordinary cavalry. But in the end, after counting, the white horse Yi Cong lost nearly half, and More than half of the ordinary cavalry were lost. Of the 26,000 cavalry, the loss reached more than 13,000, of which less than 2,000 were able to be recovered.

The losses of the players' cavalry were even greater. Twenty thousand players participated, and less than six thousand were left in the end. Many players ended up with only themselves as mere commanders. Most of these were losses during the initial battle with Xianbei's elite cavalry. At first, everyone rushed forward with the idea of ​​taking advantage. Who knew that the skinny camel was bigger than the horse, causing the players to suffer a big loss.

The losses have already been incurred, and now it depends on the harvest this time. By evening the entire harvest had been accounted for. This Xianbei camp is a large camp of 100,000 people, of which there are about 40,000 young and strong men, and the remaining 50,000 people are old and weak women.

Nearly 10,000 of the 20,000 elite soldiers and horses who initially engaged in the battle outside the camp were killed, and the remaining more than 10,000 were captured and captured. As for the ordinary cavalry outside the camp gate, although there are more than 30,000 cavalry, those on the outermost edge are basically old people.

Behind them were ordinary young men, while the women and children were protected within the camp.

This is also a common practice among nomadic people. Once the tribe's survival is at stake, the first to fight are the most elite soldiers and horses, and then the old and weak. They must use their own deaths to buy time for the tribe's survival.

In this way, Huangfu Chaobo and Gongsun Zan took a big advantage. Except for the elite and young people who lost 20,000 of the 100,000 Xianbei people, the remaining 20,000 people who lost were basically old and weak. Women and children were essentially taken captive.

With this base population of 50,000 to 60,000, plus the population of captives who came along the way, together with Lombard Lombard, it is estimated that we can gather around 100,000 people, enough for Huangfu Chaobo and Gongsun Zan to build a city each. As for the population of the city built by the player, who cares about it.

In addition to the large population, the next biggest harvest is horses, cattle and sheep. According to rough statistics, the number of horses harvested in this camp alone reached 200,000. This does not include those that escaped during the chaos and were taken away by players fishing in troubled waters.

Among them, there are 120,000 ordinary horses, and about 80,000 can be used as war horses. Most of these horses will be divided between the two people, and the reward players will probably have thousands of war horses and more than 10,000 ordinary horses.

There were also a lot of cattle, sheep and gold and silver harvested. Except for the less than 10,000 that were taken out to reward the players, the rest was also divided between the two.

After a day of rest in the Xianbei camp, Huangfu Chaobo did not stay any longer, and took the captives, horses, cattle, sheep and property that were distributed to him, and set off on the way back.

As for Gongsun Zan and his troops, they still need to stay here, waiting for the craftsmen from Liaoxi, while arranging their own troops and the players' troops to clean up the surrounding Xianbei camps of all sizes. Gongsun Zan's army will stay here until the city is built before returning to Liaoxi. As for future matters, Gongsun Zan is going to hand it over to his younger brother Gongsun Yue.

A few days later, on March 25th, Huangfu Chaobo's team arrived in Pingquan. After more than 20 days, this place has become a small town-level territory. Of course, this is Gongsun Zan's own. According to his plan, Pingquan will become the first defense point of Gongsun Zan's army outside the Lulong Fortress.

Huangfu Chaobo did not stay in Pingquan for long, but continued to move forward after a short rest. However, after passing Pingquan, the army did not continue to go south to the Lulong Fortress, but turned west.