"Victory, victory! The coalition forces of Sun and Liu escaped!"
On the city, the moment Zhao Yun turned around, Cao Jun's formation erupted with cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami.
Many people cried with joy, and many kissed the repeating crossbows in their hands. Although some people's fingers were bloody from being pinched by the bowstring, without this repeating crossbow, they would never have been able to defeat such a large number of enemy troops.
Xu Chu stabbed the knife heavily on the ground, turned around, and laughed at Cao Cao on the city:
"Prime Minister! Prime Minister! We have won! We have won!"
After hearing Xu Chu's honest laughter and shouts, Cao Cao, who was standing on the edge of the city wall, let out a long breath.
He looked up to the sky. In the night sky, apart from the stars, the only thing that could be seen was the slowly floating sky lantern.
Cao Cao laughed.
Le Jin, who was laughing and cursing, was so excited that he even took the lead in waving the banner with the Chinese character Cao in the wind.
"Wen Qian, be careful where you are, don't slip and fall..."
"And gentlemen, don't let down your guard. The other side still has tens of thousands of remaining troops. Tonight is just their first round of offensive..."
Even so, Cao Cao no longer knew how to describe the joy at this moment.
"It'll be good if you win... It'll be good if you win..."
Cao Cao walked slowly across the city wall, like a kind elder, patting the soldier on the shoulder and nodding to the other soldier.
However, after a moment, Cao Cao seemed to have remembered something. He turned back suddenly and looked in the direction of the city, looking for something anxiously.
"Prime Minister...what are you looking for?"
Le Jin couldn't hide the smile on his face and walked to Cao Cao. He was covered in sweat, but he still only held the flag in his hand. It seemed that he would not let it go easily tonight.
The soldiers beside them went to clear the battlefield at Xu Chu's call from the city. On the battlefield, many enemy troops fled in panic. There were leftover weapons and war horses. The weapons could be recast after being collected, and the war horses were even more.
An extremely valuable resource.
The soldiers howled excitedly and passed by Cao Cao. Soon there were less than a hundred people left on the city wall. They looked at Xian Mountain in the distance, always paying attention to the enemy's counterattack.
Cao Cao, standing on the city gate tower, seemed quite lonely and melancholy at this moment.
"Brother Yi...where have you gone?"
"Oh... If it is Mr. Yi, he should be discussing future strategies with the military advisor at this moment. This is what the military advisor told me before."
"That's fine... By the way, remember to call Wen Yuan and ask him to go to the east of the city and help a bunch of people to pay filial piety to them."
When Cao Cao said this, his energy was already a little sluggish. He was really tired tonight. When he was highly concentrated, it was easy for him to become like this once he relaxed.
Seeing that Cao Cao was shaking a little while walking, Le Jin, who was about to take the order to leave, and the soldiers on the side quickly stepped forward to help Cao Cao.
Before he could say anything, Le Jin actually heard the sound of sleeping snoring coming from Cao Cao's mouth and nose.
Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help laughing in unison.
However, even though Cao Cao had fallen into a deep sleep, he was still murmuring:
"Brother Yi...I was saved by you again..."
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According to later statistics of the Battle of Xiangyang, only the battle losses on the first day were calculated. Cao Jun's casualties were quite slight. It seems that if added up, the number of casualties definitely did not exceed 300, and most of the casualties were caused by Huang Gai's army's stray arrows.
hurt.
As for the main battlefield in the south of the city, it was a one-sided massacre.
Two generals, Chen Wu, Huang Gai, and Chen Wu were killed by the Sun and Liu coalition forces. They were beheaded by Xu Chu with a sword. I heard that Dong Xi knelt in front of his brothers' parents for three days and three nights... Of course, this is all later.
talk.
Huang Gai's death was unexpected by everyone.
There were 30,000 elite naval forces. After this battle, less than 15,000 were left. As for the battle damage to the warships, I heard that after hearing the report that night, Zhou Yu screamed several times and vomited blood and fell into a coma.
Not awake.
Jiangdong has been working hard for more than ten years, and hundreds of large and small warships, including extremely expensive building ships, were all stranded in the Fan River outside Xiangyang City due to Yi Xiaotian's unconventional plan of "closing the gates and cutting off the water".
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Although the Fan River flowed back again later, Cao Ren, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and others, who acted very quickly, took advantage of the darkness to destroy the keels of all the warships in Soochow. After the baptism of arrows and destruction, everything in the Soochow Water Battle was
Reliance is gone.
Cao Cao's navy was burned to the ground in Chibi, but the result was not good. Within half a month, Soochow became a duck on dry land. It seems that after the battle between Chibi and Xiangyang, the combat effectiveness of the entire navy in the late Eastern Han Dynasty dropped by an entire level.
But for Cao Jun, this is definitely not bad news.
Only Huang Gai and Chen Wu died in battle, which was the most unacceptable thing for the people of Soochow.
According to the final statistics, the navy suffered 15,000 casualties, all warships were destroyed, and the navy was basically wiped out. In the land battle, the number of Sun and Liu Lian's soldiers who died under repeated crossbows finally reached 20,000.
One night... 35,000 soldiers and horses disappeared completely, and two generals were killed. The next day... Led by Liu Bei, the remaining 50,000 soldiers of the Liu Company camped for days, surrounded by three and one, and reoccupied the large battlefield outside Xiangyang City.
Of course, due to the trenches in the west of the city, without the reminders of Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, Liu Bei was once again harassed on a small scale by Le Jin... Le Jin won a small victory, killing hundreds of Sun and Liu Lian's troops, and walked away, leaving only a face.
The confused Liu Bei couldn't believe their situation at this moment.
If you ask Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, where are they now?
Well...
In a military camp near the foot of Xian Mountain, in a rather grand tent, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang were sitting on the ground.
Zhou Yu's face was pale at the moment and his eyes were dull. He kept covering his chest. Every time he breathed, it seemed that people would feel that he would vomit blood in the next moment...
Zhou Yu was sick, so he looked very bad.
On the other side, Zhuge Liang, sitting opposite Zhou Yu, was lighting the fire for the tea stove in the room.
However, if only viewed from behind, these figures with disheveled hair would never make anyone think that he was none other than Zhuge Wolong, who had previously had a verbal battle with Jiangdong celebrities without losing.
Zhuge Liang was mechanically adding firewood, his hands were blackened, and the look in his eyes showed that he had not put his mind on this aspect at all.
The clear water on the stove was boiling and continuously flowing down the wall of the clay pot. When it touched the hot furnace body, it made a hissing sound.
In the cold tent and the cold atmosphere, the sound of steaming water was the only source of vitality.
What about the lupine?
Oh, it turns out that the firewood in the furnace at this moment is Zhuge Liang's cherished feather fan. He even used the feather fan as firewood and added it to the furnace. How can you ask him to strategize?
God knows how much hurt Yi Xiaotian suffered from these two men who were famous for their unparalleled resourcefulness because of this devastating defeat.
