Kong Rong was happy, but Liu Yi was about to explode!
He originally wanted to behead all the generals of the western and northern battalions in public display, but he thought that now was the time to recruit people, so he had to suppress his anger and give them a chance to redeem themselves and make meritorious deeds.
The camp in the north of the city was better, only losing more than a thousand horses and 3,000 civilians. The number of company soldiers and civilians in the west camp actually lost more than 6,000!
Of course, not all of these people were captured or hacked to death. Many of them got separated because they did not change direction in the night or because they were smart enough not to retreat with the large army.
According to past experience, as long as you wait three or four days, at least half of the people will come to the main force.
After all, he had nothing to eat or drink outside, and it was not easy to survive just by robbing people.
But now Liu Yi can't wait three or four days!
If reinforcements from the south arrive in three or four days, and the morale of the soldiers defending the city in Duchang is high, they will go out of the city to respond and attack from the front and back, which will be enough for me to drink!
Moreover, the trash in the west and north camps have lost their food and grass! Now, although there are more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians, only one-third of the food is left!
Liu Yi must get the supplies sent from the south!
However, this time Liu Yi did not dare to break camp and withdraw his troops without authorization. Instead, he rested for a day, gathered some remaining troops, and made plans the next day.
Taishi Ci in the city was not idle either. He sent out several troops to search for the fleeing enemies in the west and north of the city, and directly recruited them to surrender.
Naturally, those with two legs could not run as well as those with four legs. Seeing that they could not join the large army, these separated soldiers and civilians surrendered decisively.
In these times of war and chaos, if you have breasts, you are a mother. If you have food to eat, I will do it with you.
loyalty? What is loyalty? Can it be used as food or clothing?
Early the next morning, Liu Yi decided not to wait any longer and began to break camp and prepare to retreat.
In order to prevent the enemy from suddenly coming out of the city to harass them again, Liu Yi personally sat in the rear and led 5,000 troops to wait for the people in the city to come out and fight.
To his disappointment, the gate of Qamdo City was closed in the distance, and he didn't even want to talk to him!
Of course, ignoring him is also temporary.
After only half a day's work, a group of cavalry suddenly came out from the flank and fired indiscriminately at the unprepared leading force, causing Liu Yi's army to panic for a while.
When Liu Yi came over with his cavalry, these gangsters slapped their horses and whipped their whips and ran away!
After finally resting for a while, the rear army was bitten by a group of cavalry again!
Liu Yi hurriedly chased after him again, shouting at the enemy's horse's butt:
"Where did this rat come from! So shameless! If you have the guts, just have a fight with me in an upright manner!"
Who knew that this voice would actually have an effect!
Taishi Ci shouted, and his two hundred cavalrymen reined in their horses and began to adjust their formation!
Liu Yi is overjoyed! How dare someone like this dare to be tough with me? You should stay calm and wait for the enemy to attack first, and then your cavalry and infantry will go up together to greet you. If you fire a volley of arrows, how many of you can't be shot down?
Because he was busy, he fixed the string on his crossbow and hid behind the cavalry.
Seeing that Taishi Ci was getting closer and closer to him, Liu Yigang was about to order the cavalry to step aside to let the crossbowmen greet him. Unexpectedly, Taishi Ci had already bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot an arrow towards him!
Taishi Ci's soldiers also fired arrows one after another.
It's just different from Taishi Ci's direct shooting. They don't have that much strength and strong bows, so they choose to shoot from the top.
Seeing the arrow shoot towards him rapidly, Liu Yi was shocked: This guy has great arm strength!
He hurriedly waved his pistol and blocked Tai Shici's arrow. The cavalry alongside him did not have such good luck. After several screams, it was obvious that someone was unable to block the arrow.
Before the crossbowmen could get to the front, Taishi Ci fired a round of arrows, whistled, and led the cavalry in another ninety-degree turn to harass the flank again.
When the crossbowmen finally pushed to the front, they could only vent their anger by randomly firing a few arrows at Taishi Ci's horse's butt.
Seeing that he couldn't hit the target at all, Liu Yi was so angry that he cursed, but there was no good way.
All I could do was curse words like villain, shameless, coward, etc. over and over in my mouth, without any new ideas at all.
After the harassment during the day, this group of people refused to stop at night. They were still beating gongs and drums outside the camp or setting off a few rockets in an attempt to set Liu Yi's camp on fire!
When people chased them out, the gangsters shot several more people to death, and then disappeared into the darkness in a swarm!
After struggling for a day and night, Liu Yi also learned to be smart, or in other words, he was able to sleep peacefully.
Arrange the crossbowmen in the army evenly among the troops. Even when setting up camp, crossbowmen were always on the outside ready to fire arrows!
As long as Taishi Ci's small group of cavalry comes to harass them, they will shoot indiscriminately without caring about everything!
Although he still couldn't hit a single hair, it at least stabilized the morale of the soldiers a little.
However, this also greatly slowed down the marching speed. It only took two days to cover fifty or sixty miles. Every day in the afternoon, they had to set up camp and bury pots to make food. They also had to put in a lot of spies to prevent gangsters from stealing the camp.
tired! Tired! My heart is so tired!
Liu Yi sat on Hu's bed and pressed his aching temples with his hands.
At this time, a scout came to report: "General! A troop escorting baggage was found twenty miles ahead..."
"Oh! What have you discovered? Please tell me in detail..."
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Twenty miles away, Taishi Ci was talking to Zhang Liao about the battle experience of the past few days, and his pride was beyond words.
"Now Liu Yi's men have become frightened. I don't know how many of his crossbow arrows are left. Anyway, Liu Yi's men will fire arrows randomly when they hear the sound of horse hooves. You should be careful about this."
Zhang Liao smiled and nodded: "I know, thank you for reminding me. I will be careful!"
Taishi Ci added: "Ji Ling is reorganizing his troops and will arrive soon with about 8,000 people. Ziyi, you have another 5,000 elite soldiers.
Although Liu Yi's troops are now large in number, they are tired. Moreover, they suffered heavy setbacks during the withdrawal and lost a lot of food and grass.
I have taken a closer look, and the number of earthen stoves where they bury pots and cook rice after setting up camp every day obviously does not match the number of people.
In other words, they definitely don’t have enough pottery cauldrons, and they might have to take several shifts to cook the porridge!
The soldiers under my command are all holding their breath and want to have a good fight with them!
Let's just go all out and fight Liu Yi head-on, saying that we can definitely win with less..."
"Well... let me think about it again..." Zhang Liao replied.
Why doesn't he want to fight a good battle with less to win more?
But he has concerns! I was afraid that Lu Bu would be unhappy if he missed such a fun event!
This is not because Lu Bu wants to take credit or show off, but because of Lu Bu's character, he is too controlling. He hopes that everything will be under his control and that everything will be done according to his plan.
