The moonlight was bright and shining everywhere, but for Lu Longjun, it was bleak.

It was late at night, and the fleeing military horses had already gathered up what they should be gathered up, and what they should be returned should have come back. At this point, those who have not returned yet, basically they can't come back or will not come back.

Twenty thousand cavalry went on the battle. At this time, less than eight thousand cavalry were still here, and many of them were even lost, with bare hands and bare hands, with almost nothing but a war horse. If it were other times, such soldiers who had even lost their weapons would be untolerated, but at this time, the officers only thought they had not seen it.

There were piles of bonfires burning in the wilderness, and soldiers surrounded the fire and roasted their wet clothes. They were dejected and silent. Thousands of people gathered here, but they rarely heard people.

Occasionally, a sleeping soldier suddenly jumped up and ran away in panic. He was not able to wake up until he was beaten to the ground by the officers.

The battle is over.

He is a nightmare.

Such a situation occurs from time to time under the wilderness night sky.

"Uncle, it has been confirmed that in addition to General Zhang Xing's death on the spot, General Pan Feng from the left wing was also killed in battle while blocking the Wuwei cavalry. Some left wing cavalry who fled back witnessed General Pan Feng's death with their own eyes." Zhang Zhongwen's son Zhang Pu whispered to Zhang Zhongwu.

Zhang Zhongwu stared at the fire in front of him with eyes intently. Zhang Xing was his fellow villager, a partner who grew up in a village, and Pan Feng was also one of the earliest people to follow him. This battle caused him to lose two of the most capable and loyal generals. His heart was really painful. Such losses were not like those soldiers who could be replenished at any time. If the losses were lost, they would be gone and could never be found.

Looking at Zhang Zhongwu's somewhat lost appearance, Zhang Pu whispered: "Uncle, although we have lost the Tai Centaur, the eight thousand soldiers are not without the power of a battle. If we revive the troops and kill one of them, we might be able to perform a great achievement."

Zhang Zhongwu smiled bitterly, raised his head to look at his nephew: "Pu'er, do you think I've become confused because of this failure?"

"No!" Zhang Pu said with his head down.

"It's useless." Zhang Zhongwu shook his head and said, "Look at our soldiers, do you still have the fighting spirit at this moment? No more, they all lost their souls. Without a few months of buffering, this nightmare will not be eliminated in their minds. They will be afraid when they see the Wuwei cavalry."

"We are indeed not as good as before, but Yixian will be on guard and relax after a big victory. With just one victory, we can get back all this. There must be brave men under the heavy reward. After defeating Yixian for three days, the soldiers Xu plundered them all for three days, and keeping them one by one is as excited as if they were injected with chicken blood."

"How do you know that the other party will relax their guard? Do you take it for granted?" Zhang Zhongwu said: "What if the other party is very cautious? At this time, Li Ze must have retreated into Yi County. With our sneak attack this time, we will definitely remind Li Ze that if what I expected, Zhenzhou, Zhaozhou and other places must have begun to mobilize the government troops on a large scale. Even if we bypass Yi County, we will not have any major results."

"At least it can make them uneasy." Zhang Puqiang defended.

"What is the meaning?" Zhang Zhongwu asked back: "What should we do when we go deep into the enemy territory? The looting can indeed be supplemented by some, but are the thousands of cavalry under Li Ze's commands a good meal? In this situation, do we dare to divide our troops to plunder everywhere? If we really dare to do this, Li Ze dares to eat the troops we divided, and his infantry brigade will surround us from all directions, and finally we have no way to heaven and no way to enter the ground, and we cannot escape the fate of defeat."

"Are you going to admit defeat?" Zhang Pu said unwillingly.

"I am willing to accept the loss." Zhang Zhongwu laughed, "I still have this idea. Li Ze, like me, has the same idea. He wants to decide the outcome in one battle. If I lose, he won. It's that simple. But losing this time does not mean that I have given up on the loss. Back then, when I first came to Lu Long, I was much more miserable than now. In the worst battle with Yelu Abaoji, there were only eight hundred cavalry left by my side."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but look up and stared at the starry sky for a while before he continued: "At that time, among the surviving people, there were Pan Feng, Zhang Xing, Shi Yi and Fei Zhong. You were in the rear to raise logistics for us at that time. Even though the entire army was almost destroyed, I did not fall into a slump. In the end, I won. Yelu Abaoji didn't know where he ran to now!"

"We still have eight thousand cavalry now!" Zhang Pu also became excited. "What do you mean is that if you keep the green mountains there, aren't you afraid of burning firewood?"

"Of course. I still have eight thousand cavalry and I still have several states." Zhang Zhongwu said proudly: "It doesn't matter if I get frustrated for a while. As long as I can persevere to the end, there will be no chance of turning the tables."

"It's because my uncle is far-sighted and does not judge success or failure because of temporary gains and losses." Zhang Pu nodded repeatedly. "But Li Ze's son is proud of for a while, we will eventually get back."

Listening to Zhang Pu's words, Zhang Zhongwu fell silent: "Li Ze is the most difficult opponent I have ever encountered in my life, much more difficult than Gao Pian. In the battle like today in the daytime, Gao Pian's Hedong Army could not hold on. At most one hour, we can destroy their infantry formation and open the door to victory."

Thinking of Li Ze's three infantry formations, blocking the attack of his 15,000 cavalry for half a day, and finally making Lu Long's last warning when he was in sight of victory and Li Ze succeeded, Zhang Zhongwu felt a little excited.

From this point of view, we can see that Li Ze has absolute control over the army under his command. If an army suffers more than one-third of the casualties, it will basically lose its combat effectiveness. If it loses more than half, it will definitely be defeated. However, the Mo Dao soldier standing in the front and the auxiliary soldiers behind them are still fighting under such circumstances, which is something that Zhang Zhongwu could not imagine. And he couldn't do it even if he asked himself.

From this point of view, Li Ze is much better than him and Gao Pian.

Only looking at the current situation in Hedong, Gao Pian immediately fell apart as soon as he died. His generals had their own thoughts and respected their own troops, and no one could submit to each other.

As for Wuwei, I am afraid it is definitely the same as them. Now Li Ze has no descendants yet. If he kills him, he may be able to do it once and for all. If he has an heir, I am afraid that even if he kills him, Wuwei will not fall apart.

"That's because of the strong tincture oil. Uncle, we also have strong tincture oil, and now we are also refining this kind of thing." Zhang Pu said.

"This is just one of the reasons for our great defeat, not just the whole thing." Zhang Zhongwu shook his head and sighed: "Pu'er, you rushed back to Youzhou overnight and told your father that he would prepare as soon as possible and transfer our strength to Pingzhou. Youzhou will be handed over to Fei Zhong to take care of it."

"Give up Youzhou?" Zhang Pu was shocked: "Uncle, Youzhou is our fundamental place. Now Zhuozhou is resisting. As long as we keep Zhuozhou, we can defend Youzhou."

"For this battle, I took time out the main cavalry of Zhuozhou. Now the main force of Wuwei is besieging Zhuozhou. I am afraid that Zhuozhou will not be able to defend it. If Zhuozhou is lost, Youzhou will be difficult to protect. In case of precautions, we must prepare early. Tell your father that he retreated to Pingzhou. After you have done a little rectification, you will lead your troops into Goguryeo and merge with Yelu Yuan. You are the main and Yelu Yuan is the deputy. I didn't care much about Goguryeo before, but in the future, I am afraid that there will be a logistics supply place for our strategic depth. After all, Yingzhou and Liaozhou cannot provide us with long-term combat supplies."

Zhang Pusisu said: "In this way, after we enter Goguryeo, the first thing we do is to help the Goguryeo king kill Tan Daoji."

"Did the King of Goguryeo always ask us to send troops to quell the rebellion? Then it's as he wishes, but you have to remember to defeat Tan Daoji, but you can't kill him all, and you still have to keep him in a certain amount of strength."

"I understand. If Tan Daoji is really killed, I'm afraid that King Goguryeo won't need us anymore." Zhang Pu laughed.

"That's it." Zhang Zhongwu nodded.

"Uncle, I'm leaving, what are you going to do next?" Zhang Pu asked.

"Reorganize the troops and understand that when going to Zhuozhou, no matter whether Zhuozhou can be defended or not, I have to find a way to preserve some of my strength and retreat to Youzhou. In this way, I can also enhance some strength for the future battle of Youzhou." Zhang Zhongwu said. "Even if Youzhou is not protected, he will be a big city after all. Even if he will be taken down by Li Ze in the end, I will make Li Ze collapse half of his mouth and teeth. I will also let him have no spare energy to advance north in a short time after taking down Youzhou, so that we will have more time to operate in Pingzhou and other places."

Zhuozhou, the gateway to Youzhou, is now surrounded by a large army led by Shi Zhuang and Wang Sili. As Li Ze expected before the battle, once Shi Zhuang knew that Li Ze was in danger, he would inevitably want to withdraw his troops to rescue Yi County. Even if Shi Zhuang knew that this was not in line with the overall interests of Wuwei, he would do so.

Cao Xin's arrival stopped Shi Zhuang's actions, and the Wuwei army immediately strengthened its attack on Zhuozhou.

The main attacker was Shi Zhuang's troops. Zhuozhou, as a strategic center of Lu Long's army, even though Zhang Zhongwu had already taken away all the elite cavalry, the infantry who stayed to defend the city should not be underestimated. With continuous attacks, Zhuozhou looked shaky, but he could not bear it.

Under the big flag of Shi, Shi Zhuang held a horse spear and stood upright with red eyes. In front of him, a group of generals led by Li Bo were burning with torches. The torches were burning, and the city of Zhuozhou in the distance was also brightly lit.

"Li Bo, next use your troops as the pioneer and charge again. If you can't rush to the top of the city, you don't have to come back." Shi Zhuang said with a ferocious face.

"Die, I will die on the top of the city." Li Bo roared loudly, lifted his horse spear, turned around and strode away.

"Central Army is ready!" Shi Zhuang roared: "Once Li Bo breaks to the top of the city, the Central Army will follow me to make the final fatal blow."
Chapter completed!