After Pang Juan's death, 20,000 Jin soldiers completely gave up resistance and became prisoners of the Qin army.
Afterwards, in the camp.
Cao Ren suggested to Yue Fei: "Twenty thousand men is too many. Our army has limited food and fodder. How can we feed them?"
In ancient times, when marching and fighting, the most feared thing was taking too many prisoners.
If you take prisoners and don't give them food, letting them starve to death, it will be an extremely shameful thing if it is recorded in history books.
But if there is not enough food, chaos can easily occur.
But if you don't take the prisoners and kill them all, and the matter is reported to the court, the emperor will be furious.
Because they all want their army to be a benevolent and righteous army, an army of kings.
Not only do you have to defeat your opponent with fists, but you also have to gain the upper hand in logic.
But in ancient and modern times, there is no such thing as having the best of both worlds.
Xun Yu stroked his beard and said, "Or, should we take those surrendered soldiers south to build the canal?"
Letting them do the hard labor is indeed a good idea.
However, it was quickly rejected by Cao Ren.
"Sir, you are wrong. The war is intense right now. If we split up our forces to escort these prisoners, no one will be able to bear the consequences if something goes wrong along the way."
If there was any chaos during the escort of 20,000 people, and the news reached Xianyang, it would definitely cause panic among the people.
Yue Fei said, "Keep them under guard first. Report the matter of the captives to Wu'an Jun and let him make the decision."
The nominal commander-in-chief of the Shuozhou Campaign was not him, but Bai Qi.
Therefore, for some specific matters, we still have to listen to the latter's opinions.
"This is the only solution for now." Xun Xu nodded.
Cao Ren asked, "General Yue, Xiahou Yuan and my brother are defending our forces in Daizhou. Could you please send reinforcements?"
Yue Fei said without hesitation: "There are 30,000 cavalrymen in the army, all of whom are under the command of the general. They should rush to Daizhou.
This general will take the remaining troops and rush there day and night, hoping that everything will not be in time."
Even for cavalry, it would take about half a day to travel from Shuozhou to Daizhou.
As for the main army, even if they travelled day and night, they would still arrive by noon tomorrow.
Daizhou had no strategic location to defend, and the enemy force Xiahou Yuan and his men faced was four times their size.
If we don't race against time, the 50,000-strong army will be in danger of being wiped out.
Fortunately, Xiahou Yuan and his men held on for two days.
If it weren't for these two days, the enemy reinforcements would have arrived long ago, and Pang Juan would definitely be living a comfortable life now.
Cao Ren clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, General Yue. I'm leaving now!"
After saying this, he went to lead the troops.
Yue Fei looked at Xun Yu and said sternly, "I hope the military advisor can coordinate the rear, take stock of our gains from this battle, and then report to the court."
The latter nodded and said, "It is my responsibility. I hope the general can make new achievements."
Afterwards, the former took 100,000 soldiers to Daizhou.
In addition to the 30,000 elite cavalry given to Cao Ren, Xun Yu also had 30,000 armored soldiers who were responsible for guarding the prisoners and transporting food and fodder.
In other words, a logistics soldier.
In the Battle of Shuozhou, 40,000 of the 200,000 new troops brought by Yue Fei were killed.
There are still more than 10,000 defenders on the other side of the city.
In other words, the Qin army paid a total price of 110,000 deaths.
Nearly 250,000 Jin troops were completely wiped out.
This is already a big victory.
The premise is that the 50,000 troops on Xiahou Yuan's side will not be wiped out.
If all 50,000 people died there, then the Battle of Shuozhou would be downgraded from a great victory to a small victory.
After all, the Qin army's strength was already inferior to that of the Jin army.
If there were more casualties, it would mean killing one thousand enemies but losing eight hundred of our own.
It was because Zhu Di had settled this account that he risked the annihilation of Xiahou Yuan and others and went to stop the enemy reinforcements.
Late that night.
Daizhou.
The Jin army launched another attack.
Now, Xiahou Yuan's troops only have more than 10,000 people.
They knew very well that they might die here tonight.
More than 30,000 casualties resulted in a nearly one-to-one loss ratio.
In other words, at least 30,000 Jin soldiers were killed.
Being able to achieve this feat with only 50,000 men against 200,000 is enough to show that both Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong have the potential to be good generals.
In fact, if Pang Nuan was not in a hurry, he could have exhausted both of them to death at the lowest cost.
However, because we are in a hurry, we have to charge forward regardless of the casualties on our side.
Xiahou Yuan tightly gripped his weapon, looking at the wounded soldiers before him. After hesitating for a moment, he finally said the words he didn't want to say:
"My fellow comrades, tonight, I am honored to die with you.
After this battle, the descendants of the Great Qin will remember that their ancestors fought bloody battles with the enemy in a place called Daizhou!
Cao Hong immediately shouted, "Well said! Brothers, take up your weapons and let us die together!"
"We will die together!"
"We will die together!"
In an instant, all the soldiers shouted these four words one after another.
"kill!"
As the enemy army approached, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong quickly attacked.
They had no more arrows to use.
Can only fight hand-to-hand with the enemy.
In the moonlight, you can clearly see that the ground is covered with corpses, both from the enemy and our side.
The soldiers stepped on the corpses and charged forward.
Cao Hong was very brave in killing the enemy. Whenever a Jin army soldier appeared in front of him, he would start to hack him down.
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