Chapter 709 Heavy Losses

After listening to Zhao Yun's introduction, although Su Zhi was mentally prepared, he still took several deep breaths. Then he said: "The meaning of the Lord and the military advisor..."

Zhao Yun shook his head. His lord and military advisor were probably also considering how to arrange the movement of the army. Judging from the current situation, Dong Zhuojun and Jiang Peijun probably have other plans, but they don't know it yet.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun said: "My lord and the military advisor have not yet reached a conclusion, but the first thing is to safely withdraw your 30,000 troops to the camp, and then make arrangements after the troops are gathered together. But..."

Afterwards, several people shook their heads. Everyone was in command of the troops. Thirty thousand infantry, guarded by less than 10,000 cavalry, wanted to retreat to a hundred miles under the eyes of 20,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry. No matter how easy it is.

At this moment, the general in charge of arranging the army in the camp came in and reported the situation to the commander-in-chief, Su Zhi.

Seeing the casualties, Su Zhi's face suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot, and then respectfully handed the statistical results to Zhao Yun.

After three days of fighting, the 30,000-strong army suffered huge losses and were already exhausted.

Of the 10,000 soldiers in the dragon camp, more than 3,000 were killed and more than a thousand were seriously injured. The remaining only 2,000 archers were intact, and a full 2,000 soldiers were slightly injured. The casualties were basically all sword and shield soldiers. In the end, less than 500 of the 4,000 sword and shield soldiers were alive, and about 1,500 pike soldiers were uninjured.

Of the 15,000 soldiers guarding the camp, more than 3,000 were killed and more than 2,000 were seriously injured. Only the 3,000 archers were basically unharmed, and more than 4,000 other soldiers were slightly injured. As for the 5,000 people in the baggage camp, only more than 1,000 people were lost, and the others were fine.

In other words, of the 25,000-strong army, nearly 7,000 have been killed so far, more than 3,000 have been seriously injured, and more than 6,000 soldiers have suffered minor injuries. There were only nine thousand people who were truly uninjured. There were also five thousand people including the transport camp and captives. The three thousand civilians had basically no losses. More than a thousand prisoners died, and there were still a thousand people.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Yun also fell into deep thought. There were only less than 10,000 soldiers who could fight out of the 30,000 people. Although the entire army was not wiped out as expected by their lord and military advisor, there was basically not much combat power left, and it was still unknown how many people these people could bring back to the camp.

After a long silence, Zhao Yun said: "General Huyan, immediately send someone back to the camp, report the situation here to the lord, and then ask what should be done."

After hearing this, Hu Yan immediately took the order and went out to make arrangements. Although he is Huangfu Chaobo's personal guard general, he is now accompanying Zhao Yun in battle, so he must follow the general's arrangements.

Next, both Huangfu Chaobo's camp and Su Zhijun's camp were constantly reinforcing the camp's defenses, and then waiting for Huangfu Chaobo's final decision.

To the north of Anyi, inside the Sizhou Army camp, Huangfu Chaobo, Pang Tong and Yang Feng were carefully discussing how the army would retreat.

Now, the situation has become clear. There are only two ways for the army to retreat. One is to capture Lengkou Town, open up Chijing, and return to Hanoi. The second is that the only way to exit Hedong is to take the Yellow River waterway. There are several ferries on the Yellow River in Hedong, from Fenglingdu in the south to Pubanjin, and then to Hejin in the north.

If you go to the southeast, Lengkou should have a large army gathering by now. If it cannot be captured as soon as possible, Dong Zhuo's army and Hedong army will swarm behind it. By then, your own army of hundreds of thousands will be trapped in Lengkou town. . Moreover, according to the news from the scouts, the general of Lengkou Town was named Xu, and he was a general who used a large axe. Huangfu Chaobo knew who it was after thinking about it for a while, Xu Huang.

With the fortified city of Lengkou plus an army of 10,000 to 20,000 people, and if the leader is Xu Huang, Huangfu Chaobo really doesn't have much confidence that he can open up the blazing path as soon as possible.

However, if we take the water route, Feng Lingdu will definitely not think about it. In the case of Pubanjin, the county seat controlled by Jiang Pei in Puban County will definitely be garrisoned by a large army and must be excluded. So in the end, only the port of Hejin was left. But it’s not easy to get from Anyi to Hejin.

Once the army decides to go north, it must cross the Su River, then pass through the Hedong Basin, then cross the Fen River, capture Pishi County, and then board a ship from Hejin Port to return to Luoyang.

There is no problem with this route, but the problem is how the army can reach Pishi safely under the watchful eyes of 20,000 Dong Zhuo Army cavalry. You must know that there are not only two big rivers in the middle, but also the Hedong Basin that is more than a hundred miles wide. If If we're not careful, we don't know how much of this army of more than 100,000 people will be able to bring back.

Therefore, Huangfu Chaobo and Pang Tong couldn't decide in a moment how to decide between the two routes. Another reason why it was difficult to decide was that neither of them was sure whether their army could successfully return to Hanoi through Chi Path.

If, just in case, Huangfu Chaobo thought in his mind, if the dead horse of the dead horse family, who is "an eagle and a wolf," also comes in to intervene, with the old fox Li Ru and the little fox of the dead horse family, , the two young men Pang Tong and Xu Shu might not be able to do it, either intentionally or not.

Now I know that Li Ru is an outstanding person who can support the entire Dong Zhuo power by himself. Although the evaluation in history is not very good, his ability is indeed impeccable. Just as Xu Rong was severely weakened in history, Li Ru was also severely weakened.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo felt even more uneasy. After some discussion with Pang Tong, they decided to wait for news from Hanoi before making final plans.

Although Pang Tong felt a little surprised, he did not object. After all, the situation of Su Zhi's 30,000 troops is still unknown, and it will take a day or two to wait for the situation on their side.

However, waiting does not mean waiting here. First of all, Wenxi has captured such a large army and must be guarding the only city in the east of the river. In addition, the defense of the camp must be strengthened, and the pontoon bridge on the Suishui River and the camps on both sides must be guarded. Furthermore, the situation at Lengkou needs to be investigated again. Now two routes have been determined, but in the end, no matter which one is taken, the clearer the information, the better.

After clarifying his thoughts to Huangfu Chaobo one by one, Pang Tong calmed down and thought about how to break the situation.

Huangfu Chaobo also sat there quietly, thinking carefully about something.

Yang Feng sat on the side and took the initiative to ask for orders: "Lord, why don't you lead the people to the Fen River to explore the situation there?"

Huangfu Chaobo thought about it, so he asked Yang Feng to lead more than ten soldiers of the Tiebei Battalion to the Fen River to investigate and determine the marching route of the army. Although Yang Feng came from Hedong, he had left Hedong for a day or two. years, and in the past their activity areas were mainly in the northern mountainous areas.