"This guy just ran away?"

Looking at the Meng Guan team who was fleeing far away, Wen Yang was a little stupid for a moment. But he quickly realized: the party had lost the initiative because of the sunlight reflection. If everyone turned around and fought again, the Han army had the advantage. For Meng Guan, the well-trained Han cavalry would not cause a collapse if they suffered a small loss. If his militia encountered this small loss, it would easily collapse. Therefore, taking advantage of it is the best choice to retreat quickly.

"General, is our army pursuing?"

"Chasing?" Wen Yang quickly shook his head: "Our army has traveled more than 60 miles today to the foot of the Great Wall, but the camp fought a war before they could even stand. At this time, both people and horses were extremely tired. Forget it, let's withdraw the troops and set up a village."

"Here!"

"After the entire army settled down, we will immediately count the casualties today. Well, by the way, we will also count the casualties of the enemy."

"Subordinates receive the order."

Soon, the battle damage report came out. Wen Yang and Beigong Xiong looked very bad after listening to the report.

In less than an hour, this encounter took place. More than 1,300 people were killed in the 10,000 cavalry of the Han army, and more than 800 people were seriously injured and unable to fight again. This is one-fifth of the troops were gone. In addition to this loss, more than 1,500 people were slightly injured, which would somewhat affect subsequent marches and battles.

And what is most annoying is that the Wenyang team suddenly encountered the enemy, and our team quickly took up the battle, but the civilians who transported the grain and the livestock supported by Tuoba Xianbei were still behind. So at this time, the Wenyang team did not dare to rest, so they had to send all the troops to pick up the food team behind - otherwise, they would know where Uncle Meng would run out to attack?

"General Wen, after cleaning the battlefield, he found more than 2,800 enemy bodies, and more than 1,300 seriously injured soldiers who were unable to move."

"Hmph, all the enemy wounded soldiers are killed! Our army is far away from the rear and we have no energy to treat them. Our wounded soldiers will be transferred to the Tuoba tribe after the food team comes up."

"Uh...General, this time, Grand Sima has been sending troops to treat the prisoners well..."

"Yes, it should be treated well by the prisoners, but how can our army treat them well now? No, I, Wen Yang, take care of all kinds of crimes and responsibilities. Let's go and tell me to continue to clean the battlefield carefully, check back and forth a few more times, and don't let a living!"

"Here!"

"This...ah~" sighed, and Beigong Xiong no longer stopped Wen Yang: "General, what will happen to our army next? Uncle Meng has already given up the Great Wall defense line. Will our army break through the Great Wall?"

"Otherwise, after this war, our army had only less than 8,000 people left, and many brothers were injured. In addition, our army was full of cavalry. In this way, our army's ability to attack is insufficient, and the risk of entering the hinterland of Youzhou is too great. Besides, the task assigned by the general was to restrain the 20,000 men from Meng Shushi to ensure that the general's team would not be harassed when attacking Gao Liu. Therefore, our army still had to send out elite cavalry to search for Meng Shushi's army everywhere. Even if that guy was prepared in advance, the food he carried with the army was limited and he could not move for a long distance. According to my calculations, he would still have to move along the Great Wall... As long as he found him, I would definitely cut off the head of this staff member in his own hands next time!"

"General, please be convinced!"

"Hey, no matter what, our army fought an ugly battle! What about the documents in the army? Come up quickly, I will apologize to the Grand Sima and General."

...

After breaking out of contact with Wenyang's team, Meng Guan led his troops to turn west first, and then turned south after the sky began to darken. At midnight, the dark outline of the Yinshan Mountains appeared in front of everyone's eyes again in the moonlight.

"Spread out sentries and establish a cordon. All the soldiers will dismount and rest! In addition, order all officers and veterans over 40 years old to gather in front of me!"

After arranging these, Meng Guan turned over and got off the horse, but when she got off the horse, she realized that there was a severe pain in her back and shoulders: she was the leader in rushing to the battlefield and raised such a bright flag, so she naturally became the target of the opponent's concentrated attack. It would be really strange that she would not be injured.

I called my personal guard to remove my armor and treat my wounds. I have not been sorted out yet. Almost all participants have arrived.

"Everyone is here? Very good. The departments have counted whether there were casualties... Well, to put it this way, our army lost more than 4,200 brothers in this battle. Alas, we have only hedged twice."

No one said that there might be wounded among the more than 4,000 people - everyone knows that since our side evacuated from the battlefield first, our side's wounded can basically be considered dead.

After a while of silence, Meng Guan asked again: "How many minor injuries are there when we retreated along the way with our brigade?"

"Reporting to the envoy, there are about 3,000 people. All divisions are conducting simple bandages."

"Good, how much food and grass does our army have?"

"Uh... Since the envoy of this battle requires us to advance lightly, there are currently only dry food carried by each soldier in the entire army. Save some food for food, up to two days."

"Two days..." After pondering for a moment, Meng Guan smiled slightly: "It's enough."

"What does the envoy mean?"

"Please come and see, everyone." Meng Guan pulled out his sword and drew on the ground: "Our army is now about thirty miles away from the Great Wall. From this, we turn southeast, and if we can't walk ten miles, we will be able to escape the Great Water. There is a river valley in this water, and the terrain along the coast is flat, which is conducive to the advance of the cavalry. In this way, the mountainous landscape of Yinshan will not have much impact on our army. In this way, we can quickly enter the Great Wall through the Great Wall. After entering the Great Wall, we will travel more than twenty miles southwest to Macheng. Before we set off, we ordered the civilian team to escort the grain and grass to transfer to Macheng. After we completed the supply in Macheng, we went south along the inner wall of the Great Wall to Gaoliu, and search for opportunities again!"

"So that's it. If you run your entire journey for more than fifty miles, it will only take a day to run."

"Yes, there will be no problem with food."

"I'll be proud of you! I'll accept it!"

"Oh~~" Waving his hand, Meng Guan stood up, sorted out his clothes and saluted the dozens of veterans beside him: "In today's battle, Guan rushed forward and did not take good care of the back road. If it weren't for all the heroes, our army's losses today would probably be 50% more! Guan thanks you here!"

It can be said that after all, Meng Guan was born into a small wealthy family, and there was no problem that ordinary families did not regard common people as human beings. Therefore, this worship was very sincere.

No one is stupid. You can actually see whether you are showing off or sincerely thanking me. Therefore, after Meng Guan bowed deeply, these dozens of veterans jumped up like they were shocked.

"I must not do this, I am really in trouble!"

"Yes, I have been in charge of my Youzhou for many years and have treated the people of my Youzhou very favorably. At this time, I have something to do, so I should serve you!"

"It's not just that. Although the envoy is the governor of Youzhou, the people of Pingzhou have received a lot of favors from the envoys. If there were no envoys, we would have long been gone. Today, we should return our lives to the envoys!"

During the three years that Meng Guan was in charge of Youzhou, the entire Youzhou and Pingzhou were a colander for the tax revenue of the Jin State: the large-scale smuggling of Jihan goods was mainly done through Youzhou and Pingzhou.

On the one hand, this situation is indeed impossible to prevent: the border line is too long, and the Youzhou Army cannot control it at all. In addition, the Xianbei in the north is indeed becoming stronger and stronger, so it is not easy to stimulate it too much.

Faced with this unforbidden situation, Meng Guan cleverly chose to join.

The army directly participated in smuggling, and during the smuggling process, it paid special attention to allowing the people on the smuggling channel to participate and benefit. As a result, after three years, Meng Shushi was in Youzhou, and Pingzhou was actually very popular with the people.

Luoyang court knew about this, but Pei Xiu and Jia Chong both advised Sima Yan to turn a blind eye: It is impossible to force ban it. The people in Youyan are fierce and hard, so it is better to use the current method of Meng Shushi to be gentle. After the army participated in smuggling, the entire smuggling would become more controllable. Moreover, the smuggling channel was changed to Sizhou, Bingzhou to Youzhou, and after Pingzhou, the trade routes would be infinitely lengthened, which instead promoted another prosperity of domestic commerce. As for the issue of lengthening the trade routes and rising commodity value? Hi, will the aristocratic families who bought these things care about this?

There is no way to do this. But because of this, Meng Guan can effectively control this army at this time. Moreover, with the excellent military source, after experiencing real battles, this army has begun to grow rapidly.
Chapter completed!