He said that, after fighting for a night, the soldiers were exhausted, so it was naturally impossible for them to continue fighting.

It is just to avoid the task of cleaning the mountains and forests from Zhang Bao during these ten days, and at least three days must be carried out.

"Brother, the battle report has come out..." The next day, Liu Tao had just slept and started to recover, and Lu Yan came over with three points of fatigue. It was obvious that he had been busy since the second half of the night.

After clearing his throat, his throat was a little dry now. After two hours of busyness, he almost never drank a sip of water.

"Don't talk first, drink some water." Liu Tao obviously noticed this and handed over the skin around him.

"Thank you brother!" The latter said thank you and started drinking. He was indeed too thirsty.

"Drink slowly, the slower the thirst, the slower it will be, otherwise the water will not be absorbed." Liu Tao reminded. The latter slowed down his drinking speed after hearing this, and that was the only thing. He also had to report that he could not waste too much time drinking water.

"Okay, continue with the topic just now..." Lu Yan quickly finished drinking, and then picked up the document, "In the battle last night, the losses in weapons and armor were not counted. Our army suffered 145 soldiers, 33 disabled, most of them were spear soldiers, and some were sword and shield soldiers. As for more than 300 wounded soldiers, the worst ones have stabilized today, and the minor injuries have recovered."

After a pause, he continued to report: "The enemy's casualties were 3,623, including 975 wounded soldiers. Should we be incorporated?"

"No need, this part has no value for incorporation, kill them all." Liu Tao shook his head. The thieves here are all the backbone of the Yellow Turban thieves and will not surrender at all. Even if they surrender, there will be problems.

"Okay... Also add to the soldiers..." Lu Yan tried to ask. Before coming, Guan Yu came over and told him about this. In addition, although Liu Ge stammered, his meaning should be the same.

The main ones who died this time were the two men's troops. On the contrary, Zhang Fei's cavalry troops did not suffer much loss.

"Have you pleaded with me?" Liu Tao reacted.

"……………” Lu Yan did not answer directly, but just returned a helpless look.

"Tell them, no!" Liu Tao thought for a while, "There are more than 2,800 soldiers in the war, and now there are more than 2,500. Not to mention cleaning up the thieves in the woods, it would be no problem to say that Xia Quyang was defeated..."

He paused and continued, "I also said that this is our final battle. In other words, after fighting this battle, no matter how many soldiers we have, it doesn't make much sense. The materials that can be paid cannot be missing, and this is a waste."

At least until there is a fixed land that can provide food and grass and taxes, too many soldiers will only be a burden.

The key is that there is no way to expect the court or Liu Yan to support his army unless he completely surrenders to him and becomes his subordinate. He may not say that he will go to Bashu with him in four years.

Yizhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but it is also difficult to get out at the same time. There are also few horses in Dianchi Lake. Even if the Dianchi horse was famous in later generations, it can only be regarded as a mountain transport horse, which is not suitable for plain charges, let alone a poncho.

Since he had already produced stirrups and horseshoes in advance, at the cost, he had to choose a territory that could get horses from the north. Liangzhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou are the first choice. Yizhou is definitely not within his reference range.

"Brother's considerations make sense, I will communicate with them." Lu Yan nodded, mainly because he did not consider this factor. Now he also feels that there is no need to replenish his troops.

With the combat effectiveness of this army, especially the spells Liu Tao can do, unless it is a major decision-making mistake, it is almost impossible to cause them to suffer a large number of casualties.

"In addition, since we have arrived in Julu County, we can just find a teacher after we report the merits in the future!" Liu Tao continued.

"The premise is that I have to send someone to Wuji County first and get some lime... Three thousand heads are not easy to make nitrogen." Lu Yan shook his head, mainly because this process is cunning, but there is no way. The calculation of military merit is based on the head.

"Anyway, we are not in a hurry. Let's take a few days off, explore the mountains and forests one after another, and eliminate the thieves." Liu Tao replied.

"That's right..." Lu Yan smiled knowingly and left the camp. He really needed to go back and rest.

Zhang Fei and Liu Ge were somewhat disappointed when they heard that they would no longer replenish their soldiers. But Lu Yan also informed the two of them, so it was natural that they could not continue to get entangled. They could only go back and reorganize the soldiers, but there were less than 500 people, and the square formation was a bit not very good-looking.

Zhang Bao was able to stand his composure. In the next three days, he did not send anyone out of the city. The only move was to transfer all the soldiers from the villages in the east back to the city, depending on the situation, he planned to defend himself.

"Is it useful to defend the enemy?" Zhang Fei came back from the horse. He had just gone over to investigate, "We can go south directly!"

"Then he came over with his head, that's all." Guan Yu looked further, "and he could even continue to go north... There were only one thousand warriors in Lunu County."

Why did Lu Zhi ask them to go south? Not only did he not allow Zhang Bao to go south to support him, but he mainly did not give them the possibility of going north. So they destroyed Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang in Guangzong, but Zhang Bao went north to a corrupt place, so the matter would not be over.

So it is obviously impossible to go south or something. They are destined to go south before they can destroy Zhang Bao.

"Hiss... Third Brother, do you think Zhang Bao realize this too?" Zhang Fei was a little worried.

"So what if you realize it?" Lu Yan came over unknowingly. He had also discussed this issue with Liu Tao in the past three days. "Unless he is not worried about his brother and third brother, he will never go north easily."

"At the same time, I guess I will do whatever it takes to defeat us." Jian Yong also came over to join in the fun, "In theory, there should be thousands of war soldiers under his command, so why don't he come out to fight us?"

Even if it is five thousand, five thousand to two thousand five hundred, he is the only one who has the advantage.

"It's probably because he doesn't have cavalry under his command..." Lu Yan said with a smile.

Just as several people were discussing this matter, a war report was sent to Lu Zhi at the same time. At the same time, earlier, the heads of the thieves who killed the thieves when crossing the Hutuo River were also sent to the military camp.

The day before yesterday, a war report came to the north, saying that when Liu Tao crossed the Hutuo River, he defeated three thousand bandits and killed two thousand enemies. The key battle damage was too low, and Lu Zhi didn't believe it, but he transported more than two thousand heads today.

"There is really almost no war damage?" Lu Zhi saw another battle report from the north, so he had to ask.

"If it were the Hutuo River that time, there were indeed not many people who died. At most, some soldiers were disabled and could not be retired." The messenger replied quickly.

"What about this time?" Lu Zhi looked at the battle report and couldn't believe it. He crossed the river and launched a surprise attack, with 2,800 battle reports, attacking more than 5,000 thieves on the other side. As a result, his army was killed and disabled and killed 3,000 thieves...

"The head level will be delivered in about two days." The messenger replied affirmatively.

"Is this Deran... a natural talent?" Lu Zhi couldn't help but sigh at this moment.
Chapter completed!