Bai Qi took the letter from the messenger respectfully, but after reading it, his face became extremely ugly.
Seeing Bai Qi acting so strangely, all the generals looked surprised, while Zhou Yu asked cautiously: "General, what's going on?"
Bai Qi did not answer, but said in a deep voice: "Send the order to withdraw the troops immediately and return to Xiangyang."
"What?"
As soon as this statement came out, the whole army was in an uproar. Li Cunxiao's eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Old Bai, are you kidding me? It's easy for our army to capture Nanjun Jian now. How can we withdraw our troops at this time?"
"Yes, General, we must capture Nanjun if we want to retreat." Huang Zhong also interjected.
"Yeah yeah……"
The other generals also agreed and objected: "General, please take back your order..."
Bai Qi took a deep breath, then raised Qin Hao's edict and said: "My lord ordered again, ordering the entire army to return to Xiangyang immediately. No one can have any objections."
All the generals came together to watch, and after confirming, they all looked like they had seen a ghost.
"How is this possible? Why would my lord give up Nanjun, which is within easy reach?" Some generals said in disbelief.
This time when he went south to Xiangyang, Qin Hao led a total of 60,000 troops, and then surrendered more than 10,000 Ding Yuan troops. This means that the Qin army had more than 70,000 troops in Nanjun.
Against Liu Xiu, Bai Qizhi mobilized 30,000 troops, and finally completely crippled the Jingzhou coalition at the cost of nearly 10,000 casualties.
As a result, the Qin army still had 60,000 troops in Nanjun, while Liu Xiu's troops had been reduced to less than 20,000, and most of them were huddled in Jiangling.
Although Jingnan and Jiangxia still had garrison troops, because Huangzu Han Xuan was captured and Zhao Fan, Liu Du and Jin Xuan died in the battle, it was impossible to send troops to continue to fight against Qin Hao.
At this time, Jingzhou was not only empty of troops, but also all counties were leaderless. If they took advantage of this opportunity to march, it would be possible to unify Jingzhou, not to mention occupying all of Nanjun. Therefore, the generals really did not understand why Qin Hao wanted to withdraw his troops at this time.
Is it because Bai Qi held military power during this period and acted unscrupulously in many of his actions, so the lord was afraid that Bai Qi would become independent after he captured Nanjun?
Impossible, the lord cannot be so small-minded. Could it be that some villain is making slanderous remarks in front of the lord?
Suddenly, all the generals' eyes were focused on Bai Qi, and Bai Qi also noticed that some of the generals' eyes changed when they looked at him.
If he disobeyed the order at this time, Bai Qi was sure that he would be captured directly by these generals.
Seeing this, Bai Qi narrowed his eyes slightly, snorted dissatisfied, and then said calmly: "Send the order to withdraw the troops immediately."
The generals were relieved when they saw this. They were also afraid that Bai Qi would disobey the order and march forcefully, and then the lord would not be able to explain clearly.
Li Cunxiao stepped forward and patted Bai Qi on the shoulder, and said with a serious face: "Old Bai, no matter who is slandering you this time, I will testify for you when I get back, and I will never let you die unjustly, I promise.
"
Bai Qi glanced at Li Cunxiao and said calmly: "Get lost."
Immediately, Bai Qi turned around and walked out of the tent, leaving Li Cunxiao alone with his eyes wide open.
"This guy really doesn't understand good people's hearts. Forget it, considering that you were wronged, I don't have the same understanding as you." Li Cunxiao said with a dissatisfied look on his face.
Zhou Yu on the other side laughed bitterly. Bai Qi didn't even explain himself, so naturally there was no need for him to talk.
Zhou Yu was actually very curious in his heart, what kind of threat was it that made his lord give up even half of Nanjun? Could it be...
At this thought, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel a flash of excitement in his eyes, the age of great struggle was finally about to officially begin.
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In Xiangyang, shortly after issuing the retreat order, Qin Hao received a reward prompt from the system.
“Ding dong, the Battle of Yicheng is officially over, now we’re starting to take stock.
The Battle of Yicheng included: Yicheng offensive and defensive battles, counter-ambush battles, and the final decisive battle. A total of 55,000 enemies were killed, 350,000 were captured, and 10,000 casualties were taken...
After deducting the losses, the total reward is 800 summoning points, and the host currently has a total of 2900 summoning points."
During the last inventory, Qin Hao had 2040 summoning points, and the Xiangyang strategy before this war also contributed some summoning points to Qin Hao. When the two were superimposed, they even made up an integer, which made Qin Hao sigh.
What a coincidence.
This time, the five major princes of Jingzhou, plus the 30,000 Jingliang coalition forces, the six forces totaled 100,000 troops. However, not only were they defeated by Bai Qi's 30,000 troops, but in the end, less than 10,000 people escaped. The defeat was not too miserable, but this
This is also a reasonable thing.
Regardless of the commander, generals, equipment, soldiers' quality, etc., the Qin army is all superior to the Jingzhou coalition. If they still can't win, then Bai Qi will really kill him with a piece of tofu.
"What a pity, this time the total number of troops on both sides is only 130,000." Qin Hao said with some pity.
If the number of combatants is less than 200,000, it cannot constitute a battle, and naturally it will not be able to obtain campaign rating rewards, and campaign rewards are the main source for Qin Hao to obtain gold cards.
Just when Qin Hao thought the rewards were over, the system gave him another surprise.
"Ding dong, Bai Qi used 30,000 troops to defeat the 100,000 Jingzhou coalition forces head-on. The commander's attribute returned to 103."
"Ding dong, Huang Zhong shot three major princes in succession, Zhao Fan, Liu Du, and Liu Biao. His force increased permanently by 1, and his charm increased permanently by 5. The current base force is 102, and the base charisma is 95."
"Ding dong, Gao Shun led three thousand people into the camp. As the vanguard of this battle, he faced the Allied Forces Central Army head-on. He killed more than 10,000 enemies and suffered less than 500 casualties. The commander level was permanently increased by 1, and the force was increased by 2 permanently. Currently,
The basic commander is 93, and the basic force is 95."
Naturally, Bai Qi made the greatest contribution in this battle, but Gao Shunhe and Zhen camp played the biggest role. As for the most eye-catching person, neither Jiang Song, who fought three generals alone, nor Li Cunxiao, who killed four generals in a row, but sniped alone.
Huang Zhong killed three princes.
In this battle, Li Cunxiao killed Zhu You, Jian Tan, Ji Zun, and Wu Han. Jiang Song killed Geng Chun, Geng Yan, and Jing Dan. Yang Zaixing killed Xing Daorong, Bao Long, and Chen Yingsan.
General, and Pei Yuanqing killed one of Zang Gong's generals.
But the combined contributions of these four people are not as good as Huang Zhong's. After all, Huang Zhong killed three princes.
The princes are the lords, and the generals are the ministers. How can the ministers be compared with the king?
"Huang Zhong's basic military force has also been improved. This is the rhythm of the collective rise of the local military commanders of the Three Kingdoms." Qin Hao sighed.
At present, the local generals of the Three Kingdoms, in addition to Lu Bu, the God of War, Guan Yu's basic military strength has reached 103, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong have reached 102, and Dian Wei and Xu Chu have also reached 101.
Under the oppression of military generals throughout history, the local generals of the Three Kingdoms have burst out with great potential and achieved achievements far beyond their original achievements.
Qin Hao had a hunch that if this trend continued, Lu Bu would definitely not be the only god of war in the Three Kingdoms. Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others might all become the next gods of war.