Zhao Feng glanced at Huang Zhong, who was walking towards him, and reported the situation to Zhao Yun.
"Let's go, follow me to meet Brother Han Sheng."
Hearing that Huang Zhong was coming, Zhao Yun took Zhao Feng and met Huang Zhong directly.
"Huang Zhong is incompetent and failed to achieve the strategic goals set by the general. Please ask the general to punish him."
Huang Zhong knelt down on one knee and saluted Zhao Yun in front of him.
"I hope the general will punish you."
"I hope the general will punish you."
"I hope the general will punish you."
Huang Zhong knelt down, and all the captains behind him followed him and knelt down in front of Zhao Yun.
"General Han Sheng, how can you say that? Everyone, please get up."
Looking at Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun quickly helped him up. Huang Zhong and his lieutenants must have tried their best in this battle. He had not been able to complete the strategic deployment here, so how could he have the nerve to ask others to do anything.
"Thank you, General."
Huang Zhong stood up, and the people kneeling on the ground behind him also stood up one after another.
"Okay, what was the result of this battle?
It stands to reason that their elites are all in the front army and the middle army. Why is it so difficult for the rear army? What kind of enemies have you encountered?"
Zhao Yun pulled Huang Zhong inside and asked him what was going on.
"Don't mention it, the main force of the soldiers in the rear army are not soldiers and horses of the Kushan Empire at all, but mercenaries under the command of Baqi Mu, a great merchant in Daxia Province. Roman mercenaries and Parthian mercenaries are all elite.
If we want to force a breakthrough, even if we can capture the enemy, our losses will be huge, so I will take the lead in retreating."
Hearing Zhao Yun's inquiry, Huang Zhong couldn't help but shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't want to win the opponent, but that the loss was too great and the gain was not worth the loss. There was nothing he could do about it.
"Well, you are right. War is never about fighting for a short period of time. It is about getting closer to gain and retreating when it is not. That is what you think, and I think so too. One hundred thousand cavalry is China's most precious wealth. It cannot be
Easily defeated in our hands."
Zhao Yun glanced at Huang Zhong. He was doing the right thing. The cavalry under his command were China's precious treasures, and there was no way they could exchange them for unequal value with the other party's infantry.
"So what do we do now?"
Zhao Feng glanced at the two people on the side. What he wanted to know now was nothing else but what he should do.
"It's easy to do now. I'll take half of the cavalry to meet with His Majesty. Brother Han Sheng, take the remaining cavalry, including the troops under the city, to escort the nightmare. Everyone knows the defense of Bakrat City and we need it."
Zhao Yun looked into the distance. He saw the defense of Bakrat City. If they really relied on trebuchets alone, it might be difficult to defeat the opponent. So all they can do now is rely on Yuan Shu's army and nightmare trebuchets.
Strong attack power.
"General, someone is looking for you."
Zhao Yun was discussing with Huang Zhong what should be done now, when he suddenly heard that someone was looking for him, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"who?
Don’t you see that important matters are being discussed here?”
Zhao Feng saw Zhao Yun frowning and glared at the person who came to report the news.
"I dare not not come. General Yan Liang and Staff Officer Zhou Yu are here."
Facing Zhao Feng's scolding, the scout also felt aggrieved. How could he not know the current situation, but he couldn't afford to offend this person.
"General Yan Liang is here, please come in quickly, or follow me to greet him."
Zhao Yun was surprised and then happy when he heard that Yan Liang and Zhou Yu were coming. Although Yan Liang's arrival could not solve the current dilemma, he had a large number of heavy armored infantry under his command.
If you can move flexibly, you can definitely set up a barrier to separate Bakrat City from the reinforcements.
"Zilong, what a grand occasion, it's so difficult even for me, a Polu general, to see you."
Seeing Zhao Yun coming over, Yan Liang couldn't help but curl his lips, his eyes full of teasing.
"Brother, you are mocking me right now because you are preparing to wait for me to complain to His Majesty."
Glancing at Yan Liang, Zhao Yun bumped into him directly. Their relationship was not a simple one. When he went to Luoyang with Yuan Shu, he, Wen Chou and Yan Liang were called three brothers.
"Okay, what's the current situation? I brought Zhou Yu with me, so I quickly told him the general situation."
Yan Liang was just joking. In the current situation, he also saw the army's surprise attack, but it was obvious that he did not get any benefits, so now it depends on Zhou Yu.
"General Polu is joking. How can Zhou Yu be so capable?"
After hearing Yan Liang's words, Zhou Yu on the side also smiled slightly.
"Okay, here's the current situation."
Zhao Yun glanced at Zhou Yu on the side and directly told the current situation.
"Zhou Yu, do you have any ideas?"
Yan Liang glanced at Zhao Yun, frowned involuntarily, and then turned his attention to Zhou Yu.
"General Yingyang chose the right time, and there was nothing wrong in dividing his troops to attack. The other party was not captured because the other party was elite, so he was able to survive. Now that the other party has become a frightened bird, it is impossible to attack in a sneak attack.
Already."
Zhou Yu glanced at Zhao Yun, and saw that the opponent chose the right time and place, but failed to capture the opponent and instead lost nearly ten thousand cavalry. This was a failure of fate.
"This is something that everyone has seen, so don't talk about it. Now I want to hear something that I can't think of or see."
After hearing Zhou Yu's analysis, Yan Liang couldn't help but feel depressed. There was no need to talk about what was happening on the surface. He now wanted to hear the countermeasures. How could he defeat this group of nearly 100,000 enemies?
"Whether this is difficult or not easy depends on whether the generals can do it or not."
Zhou Yu also knew what Zhao Yun and the others wanted to hear now, and he did not sell out.
"Tell me, this group of people is going to fight anyway. Rather than letting them into the city, it's better to capture them in the wild."
When he heard Zhou Yu ask whether he wanted to do it or not, Zhao Yun felt depressed for a while and directly asked the other party to hurry up and tell him.
"General Yingyang, the reason why you don't have much success in this battle is not because you can't defeat the group in front of you, but because you are afraid of losing too much if you capture them. Using cavalry to replace infantry with the opponent is more than worth the gain. I'm not wrong, right?
.”
Since Zhao Yun said so, Zhou Yu also had something to say.
"Yes, I am indeed afraid of excessive losses. If an unequal replacement is made and China's elite cavalry is compensated, the gain will outweigh the loss."
Zhao Yun nodded. His failure to defeat the opponent was not because he was not capable enough, but because he was afraid of losing too much.
"Now I suggest you go back and fight the enemy with real guns and swords. Even if you can't annihilate them all, you can still cause them to suffer heavy losses."
Zhou Yu didn't have anything else to say. He just said that he was going back to fight with the enemy.
"What do you mean?"
Huang Zhong was also stunned. He had just grasped the distance between the opponent's front, middle and rear armies, which led to the current result. The enemies must have gathered together now, and he thought that if he broke through, the losses would be even greater.
"General Han Sheng, there is no need to doubt. We have brought 20,000 elite infantry here this time. This time, the infantry is the forerunner and the cavalry is the rear. The hard bones are left to the Polu army to gnaw. As long as we can kill them into the enemy,
Combined with the power of the cavalry, the enemy can definitely be severely damaged in one fell swoop."
Zhou Yu knew that replacing the cavalry with the opponent would be a loss-making deal for him, so let the infantry do it. With the Polu Army and the Shesheng Army here, as long as he can tear the enemy's line apart, combined with the impact of the cavalry, he can definitely do it in one fell swoop.
tear each other apart.
"This is equivalent to using the lives of the Polu Army and the Shesheng Army to fight against each other."
Huang Zhong still frowned. Both the cavalry and the Polu army were the elite of China. Do they really want to be replaced by each other like this?
"There is no immortality in a war. If you want to take down the opponent's 100,000-strong army, you can only do this. Although they cannot defeat His Majesty's army after entering Bakrat City, it is still good to annihilate them in the wild."
Zhou Yu also knew that this was the case. If he didn't fight the opponent desperately now, he would have no choice but to fight with his life.
"Okay, Your Majesty has an order to let the opponent's troops enter the city. If we fight now, even if we can win the opponent, we will be punished by Your Majesty."
Zhao Yun is not prepared to adopt Zhou Yu's strategy. If he works hard now, even if he can really win the opponent, he will probably not get good results when facing Yuan Shu.
"General Yingyang, this is an opportunity. If you give up, it will be difficult to seize it."
Hearing that Zhao Yun was not prepared to adopt his idea, Zhou Yu couldn't help but frowned. This was an opportunity. If he gave up fighting Bakrat, it might be even harder.
"It's okay. His Majesty's army has already passed the Amu Darya River and is advancing towards the city of Bakrat. It won't take long to arrive. By then, hundreds of thousands of troops will besiege the city. It will be impossible for the enemy to resist."
Facing the opportunity mentioned by Zhou Yu, Zhao Yun also knew what the situation was, but he couldn't do anything to let the Polu army be used as bait.
Although the sacrifice of 20,000 infantrymen is likely to be exchanged for the enemy's 100,000-strong army, every Chinese soldier is a precious asset of China, and he will not make a desperate choice unless he has to.
"but."
Although Zhao Yun said so, Zhou Yu still didn't want to give up.
"Well, since His Majesty has ordered the other party to enter the city, it means that we are confident that we can take them down and don't cause trouble."
Zhou Yu didn't want to give up, but Yan Liang frowned. Now was not the time to argue, and he didn't want to use his elite to fight the other party if he could.
"promise."
Hearing Yan Liang's words, Zhou Yu could only nod. He was just a consultant, with only the right to make suggestions but not decision-making. This was the only way this meeting could be done.
"Alright, General Han Sheng, you immediately bring 50,000 cavalry to escort the Nightmare Catapult. It will be an important weapon in attacking Bakrat. There must be no mistakes."
Now that Zhou Yu's idea has been rejected, the hard steel Bakrat is needed. Since the nightmare trebuchet is crucial, there must be no mistakes.
"I will immediately bring someone over to escort the Nightmare Trebuchet. I will definitely not let the Nightmare cause any damage."
Huang Zhong directly clasped his fists at Zhao Yun, ordered 50,000 cavalry to leave, bypassed Bakrat City, and ran wildly in the direction of the Nightmare Trebuchet.
"What do we do next?"
Yan Liang glanced at Huang Zhong who was leaving and asked what they should do now.
"Now, let the other side enter Bakrat City through the passage. We are ready to welcome the arrival of His Majesty's army."
Zhao Yun glanced into the distance. There was only one thing they had to do now, which was to prepare for Yuan Shu's army.
"Okay, then the entire army will temporarily evacuate and wait for His Majesty's arrival."
After hearing Zhao Yun's words, Yan Liang nodded and directly ordered the soldiers to leave.
After receiving the order, the Chinese army evacuated from Bakrat City like an ebbing tide, leaving only the soldiers all over the city wall in a daze.
"Hurry and report to the Prince that the enemy has withdrawn."
Seeing the enemy's retreat, the defender on the city wall directly sent people to report the situation to Bulwit.
"The enemy has withdrawn?"
Upon hearing the news from the guard, Bulvitt stood up directly, his eyes full of doubts.
"That's right, we withdrew so quietly."
The scout knelt on his knees, his eyes filled with confusion.
"Follow me to the city wall immediately, and ask Delhui to come to the city wall to answer me."
Bulvit did not stop and left the prince's palace directly under the escort of his personal guards and came to the city wall. Delhui did the same and ran all the way to the city wall.
