At the same time, Yun Zheng and his men’s casualties and battle results were also counted.
In this battle, not counting those with minor injuries, nearly nine thousand people were killed or seriously injured.
Three generals commanding more than 3,000 troops were killed in the battle.
Except for the beast Qin Qihu and Jia Yao and Shen Luoyan who had many personal guards, almost all the main generals who participated in the battle were injured. Fortunately, their armor was very good, and except for Fu Tianyan who was slightly seriously injured, the others were only slightly injured.
For a siege, such casualties are actually very low.
However, there were still 10,000 enemy soldiers in the city who were not fully armored, and more than 5,000 cavalry rushed out of the city to burn their food and grass.
Moreover, they launched a surprise attack, catching the enemy off guard.
Calculated this way, the casualties are definitely not low.
As for the results of the battle, they captured more than 16,000 enemy soldiers and beheaded more than 15,000 of them. Only a small group of enemy cavalry managed to escape in the chaos.
Thanks to Chen Luoyan who led his troops to find the granary in time, only about 15% of the enemy's food and grass were burned.
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If the casualties of the Guiyi Army and Beihuan were not counted, they would surely have won a resounding victory.
But if the casualties of the Guiyi Army and Beihuan are taken into account, it can basically only be said to be a small victory.
However, as long as we capture Turtleback City, it will be something worth celebrating.
After expressing his feelings, Yun Zheng gave another order: "Order all troops to rest on the spot! Kill all the seriously injured horses and reward all the soldiers!"
Everyone fought hard in this battle, and they deserve to be rewarded.
"Shouldn't we press on to win?"
Shen Luoyan asked Yun Zheng in surprise.
"What are you chasing after?"
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "We have suffered a lot of losses, and many soldiers are still injured! Let's rest for a few days first, let those who are slightly injured recover, wait for news from Gule and Yiwu, and make some more dry food."
"Why don't you send troops to besiege Yiwu?"
Jia Yao was puzzled. "If you send troops to attack behind Yiwu now and completely cut off the retreat of the Yiwu defenders, I'm afraid none of the Yiwu defenders will be able to escape."
Yun Zheng looked at Jia Yao with a smile, "I will send the Beihuan cavalry, will you go?"
"I..." Jia Yao was speechless and stopped talking.
Beihuan's losses in this battle were not great, with the total number of dead and seriously injured being nearly 1,800.
The casualties were much smaller than she had expected.
But she was unwilling to surround the defenders of Yiwu and increase her own casualties.
"Isn't this the end?"
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "You have blocked all the roads ahead and behind. Won't others fight you to the death?"
"So we're just going to let all the enemy troops escape?" Qin Qihu was a little unwilling.
As long as they block the retreat route of the Yiwu defenders, they will be meat on the chopping board!
It’s a bit unreasonable not to eat the meat right in front of you!
"Just run!"
Yun Zheng smiled indifferently, "If they want to abandon the city and flee, they can't take the food with them, right? When they are starving, can't we slowly capture prisoners? Besides, even if all those people really escape, it doesn't matter!"
"Why?" Shen Luoyan was puzzled.
"fool!"
Yun Zheng tapped Shen Luoyan's head gently and said with a wicked smile: "Lou Yi has sold everything he has for this battle! Even if the Yiwu defenders are all evacuated safely, what does it matter? As long as they are hungry, they are our helpers!"
Without food, those defeated soldiers will become a disaster!
Let’s wait for the Dayue Kingdom to go into civil strife first!
They rested, gathered the staff from various departments, and then slowly cleaned up the mess.
In this way, their casualties would definitely be much lower than if they directly surrounded the Yiwu defenders.
Listening to Yun Zheng's words, Jia Yao couldn't help but admire him: "You are so insidious!"
It has to be said that it is lucky for these soldiers to meet a coach like Yun Zheng.
Even at this time, Yun Zheng was still considering the issue of casualties and wanted to take down the Dayue Kingdom with a soft knife.
With such a commander, how could the Northern Army not be strong?
"Can you speak?"
Yun Zheng looked at Jia Yao with dissatisfaction, "I call this a strategic vision, it's called boiling a frog in warm water, it's not called insidious!"
"Yeah!" Jia Yao smiled, "You do have a strategic vision. In your own words, your strategic vision is dozens of blocks ahead of ours."
"That's more like it."
Yun Zheng smiled with satisfaction, and then instructed the generals: "Hurry up and count the achievements of each unit! Qin Qihu, Lu Xing, the two of you will lead the Blood-clothed Army to meet up with Gao He's troops immediately and force the Gule defenders to surrender as soon as possible!"
"yes!"
The two of them gladly accepted the order and ran out happily.
In yesterday's siege, the Blood-Clothed Army showed great power, suffering the least casualties but killing the most enemies.
This battle finally established the reputation of the Blood Shirt Army.
It would be even better if we could achieve success in Gule.
Just as Yun Zheng was about to tell everyone to disperse, Li Cheng suddenly rushed in, "Your Highness, a military report has been sent from Xing'an Fort!"
Yun Zheng immediately took over the military report and asked General Shen Luoyan to read it to everyone.
The content of the military newspaper is very simple.
It is to report the situation of the attack and defense of Xing'an Fort.
The enemy's attack on Xing'an Fort was not fierce, and was completely unworthy of the name of an army of 150,000.
Tong Gang judged that the enemy's actual strength should be only about 100,000.
Moreover, there should be quite a few slave troops.
If the enemy continues to attack Xing'an Fort in the current way, it will never be possible to capture Xing'an Fort.
When Shen Luoyan finished reading, the generals already had a plan in mind.
"It seems that your judgment is correct."
Shen Luoyan looked at Yun Zheng with a burning gaze, "It is very likely that the tribes in the western desert are feinting to attack Xing'an Fort, waiting for Zhao Ji in the northwest to take the initiative to attack, so as to give Zhao Ji a hard blow!"
"It should be almost right!"
Yun Zheng nodded and said, "After all, defeating Zhao Ji will bring more benefits than defeating us."
Shen Luoyan nodded, "Besides, they might be thinking that beating Zhao Ji should be easier than beating us."
Although there are 200,000 troops in the Northwest, their combat effectiveness is indeed worrying.
If Emperor Wen had not held Yun Zheng down, the total number of cavalry in the northwest would probably be less than five thousand.
If such a force is used to take the initiative to attack, it will easily fall into the enemy's trap if it is even slightly reckless.
"You all should go down and rest first! I have to write an urgent report to the Imperial City!"
Yun Zheng signaled the generals to withdraw, and then ordered Shen Luoyan, "Go check on Miaoyin and make sure she doesn't get too tired! Also, send someone to tell Deng Bao to go outside Lingzhou to find doctors and send them to the front line! If they don't come, just capture them!"
They had less than a hundred doctors accompanying the army.
There are so many seriously injured people, and there are simply not enough doctors.
"good!"
Chen Luoyan stood up and immediately went to do what Yun Zheng had asked him to do.
After all the generals had left, Yun Zheng immediately began to write the military report.
By the way, include the good news that they broke through the southern defense line of Otsuki.
In this way, the old man will be happy when he sees it.
Just as Yun Zheng was about to put the written military intelligence report into a special envelope, he suddenly stopped.
After thinking it over carefully, Yun Zheng burned the military intelligence report he had just written and started writing again...
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