Chapter 960: Trust Link, Trust Kong Ming
"Each unit calculated the losses and retreated slowly."
After making sure that the Kushans had calmed down, Guo Ziyi breathed a sigh of relief, while Cheng Yu instantly became dispirited.
Although he was in good health, his mental strength was extremely empty. If it were not for the need to stabilize the morale of the army, he would have collapsed long ago. However, Chen Gong and Guo Jia fell first, so he could only hold on with great difficulty.
Soon the Han army's casualties were calculated. The Iron Cavalry had the most brilliant results but also suffered the heaviest losses, with more than 1,500 people killed.
As for Feixiong, they lost more than a thousand people. They were in a supporting position before, and even though their strength was slightly weaker, their losses were much lighter than those of the Divine Iron Cavalry.
There was no way. Even if the Divine Iron Cavalry was unparalleled in attacking, and had the Flying Bear to assist on one side, if they had to fight against so many abnormal legions, even the Iron Cavalry would inevitably vomit three liters of blood.
Fortunately, it is not a problem for the Iron Cavalry to replenish troops now.
However, Li Que had already thought it through. He decided to use Fei Xiong's Fei Xiong to replenish the troops. Anyway, when the time came, he could just use Fei Xiong to quickly form a group and then transfer them over.
Although it is a bit cumbersome, it is easy for the military soul to replenish soldiers, but it is difficult for them to replenish soldiers.
Even if the matter was brought to the attention of Li Ru and the general, he would still be in the right, because it was them who suffered such heavy losses this time.
"We have lost more than 2,000 people in total." Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu said with dark faces, "No one was injured."
There's no harm at all. With the Ruishi's fighting style, either nothing will happen to them, or they will be killed directly. Of course, the polarization is serious.
"The Kushans had an Imperial Guard behind them, shooting at the sharp soldiers. All the casualties occurred at that time."
Cao Zhen said with a frantic look on his face that the death rate of Rui Shi was not so high before, because the cover of Changshui and Shesheng was very strong.
But this time they didn't bring too many long water and shooting weapons, and the terrain was narrow and it was someone else's territory.
It was fine at the beginning and no one paid attention to Rui Shi's situation, but when he was noticed later, the opponent targeted Rui Shi and killed him.
If it weren't for Cao Ren's reliable legion talent, he would have been able to share the shield guards' defensive power with the Ruishi for a period of time, allowing the Ruishi to evacuate the opponent's killing range.
Otherwise, almost all the warriors would have been shot to death.
"Three thousand people died on my side and more than two thousand were injured." Li Dian sighed. He was leading Danyang.
After all, Danyang is a unique soldier that is very reliable in close combat, conventional medium and long range. Moreover, if he conducts covering shooting within the conventional range, his shooting accuracy is very high due to the full field of vision brought by the force unloading. Even when his comrades are killing people, Danyang can continue shooting. Danyang's field of vision bonus is too strong.
Although there is no beyond visual range, Danyang's vision, unless it is the light and shadow manipulation like the Fifth Skylark, theoretically there is no way to block it if there is a boulder in front. Although it is not perspective, because too many soldiers observe from different angles, the vision of Danyang's elite soldiers is no different from that of a perspective plug-in.
Anyway, as long as one person can see it, many Danyang elites have seen it. Relying on this ability, the archery skills of the Danyang elite soldiers are no different from those of the top archers with precision shooting.
The cross-positioning method allowed Danyang's accuracy to reach an outrageous level, so much so that Danyang was often used as an elite archer. In fact, none of Danyang's own talents were related to archery.
It is only relying on the shooting accuracy brought by the precision talent and the power sharing brought by cooperation that makes the power of his arrows particularly exaggerated. In fact, to be honest, Danyang is actually a melee soldier, but the level of long-range and melee is almost the same.
But no matter what level you are at, you have to fight desperately in this kind of terrain, and the casualty rate is quite high, especially in the later stage when shooting against the opposing archer corps, you will suffer a lot.
Not bringing too many shooting weapons and long water weapons was their biggest mistake in this battle.
"The Wolf Riders lost more than 1,600 people." Lu Bu looked at Cheng Lian, who had a broken hand, and hesitated about how to treat him. He also found that the number of old friends who had followed him for many years was decreasing.
First Wei Xu retired from the army, then Hao Meng, and now it’s Cheng Lian?
He was becoming increasingly powerless. Now he could no longer influence the outcome of the battle as he used to, and there was very little he could do.
"Marquis Wen, it seems that I am not close to reaching my limit!" Cheng Lian was very open-minded. Compared with those brothers who died, he could still enjoy his old age, which was good.
"Wei Xu and I will all be in Luoyang from now on. After Marquis Wen returns victorious, he can come and have a drink with us old subordinates!"
Cheng Lian was grinning. He had tried his best in this battle. He killed three people whose internal energy left their bodies and seven people whose internal energy formed into Gang in the battle. This would have been simply a fantasy in the past during the Hulao Pass period.
It wasn't enough trouble for him to go up and add food to the internal energy leaving the body, but now he can kill so many.
God knows how he did it, even he himself doesn't know.
But in that situation where everyone was suppressed and disabled, he fought desperately and achieved his goal. Even if he retired, it would be a decent retirement and the court would not treat him unfairly.
When I get my retirement pay, it would be a good idea to find a place to open a shop and live there in my retirement.
Soon, each legion reported the number of casualties, and it was found that they had lost more than 18,000 men, all of whom were elite soldiers. However, in a battlefield like this where everyone's lethality is extremely high, accidents can easily occur.
Whether it is Cao Zhen, Li Dian, or Yu Jin, the defense of their own army does not have the confidence to take on the opponent head-on. Once they enter a decisive battle where their side is doomed to die and they have to drag the opponent along, as long as the opponent's lethality exceeds a certain limit, it is easy for something to go wrong.
"Five hundred people were killed in the battle, and the rest were injured!" Gao Shun sighed and fell silent.
He felt a little guilty, and was a little obsessed with the fact that he could not enter the miracle. In the previous battle, if there were no golden-armored warriors, the vanguard formation that had burned out the military spirit would have been unable to resist the glowing legion on the opposite side.
Moreover, he was shocked by the performance of Li Que and his men. In his eyes, both the Flying Bear and the Heavy Cavalry were sure to win, and their Bingzhou Army always had the upper hand over the Liangzhou Army.
But this time, the strength of the Divine Iron Cavalry and Arvind's personal guards brought him tremendous pressure.
The one who was under greater pressure on the other side was Zhang Liao. He was not blind. He knew the biggest weakness of the Wolf Cavalry and Iron Cavalry was the Wolf Cavalry.
They had too few wolf riders who had reached the third level of talent, so few that they could not even fully staff their troops. They had a huge reserve force but were still unable to take the last step.
The pressure he bore was even greater than that of Gao Shun. After all, he was still the direct leader of the Wolf Cavalry, while Gao Shun had long since become the direct commander of the independent Vanguard Army.
"Take it slow. After the Kushans blocked this road, it will probably take a long time for us to come here next time. So remember the route." Guo Ziyi sighed, and then there was a real collision.
More importantly, next time we go through the Kabul Valley, it will probably be impossible to launch a surprise attack like this time.
The next time I want to get in here, I'm afraid I can only use all my strength to fight my way in, and then fight my way out. This road is not easy!
Fortunately, even though they paid a heavy price, they achieved their goal this time and successfully attracted the Kushans' attention from the south.
In this way, the war in southern Kushan will be easier.
Guo Ziyi looked at the sky helplessly. In such a mountain pass, his command of a large army could be of little use.
How can we lure out all the Kushans and force them to fight the Han Dynasty in the wild?
"You'll have to call in next time."
Hua Xiong sighed lightly. He had not experienced the Kushan War before, so he did not have any special feelings. But after experiencing it this time, Hua Xiong understood that there was indeed no small fish in the empire that could be called an empire. This road would be difficult to travel in the future.
"Yes, before, the Kushans only blockaded Khyber. Next, the Kushans will probably blockade the entire Kabul Valley. Anyway, they can do it with the Kushan military strength. Now it has completely become a strategy of attacking Sichuan." Guo Ziyi said with a headache.
There are only a few ways to enter Sichuan, and the passes are all blocked. Many times, under that kind of terrain, tens of thousands of troops cannot defeat one-tenth of the opponents.
It seems that the only official road to enter Kushan from the north is Kabul. Next, Kushan will definitely reinforce the pass and block it. After all, being beaten to the Khyber Pass is really too humiliating.
"Let's go back first. The three military advisors are all exhausted. I think the Marquis of Wei has already built a temporary camp. Let's take a break before we discuss the follow-up!"
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On the other side, Yu Ji returned to Luoyang with the battle report of the Kushan War. He joined Cao Cao's army, Zuo Ci joined Liu Bei's army, and Nanhua joined Sun Ce's army, all in order to transmit the most accurate information of the battle back to Luoyang.
To facilitate the court in Luoyang to conduct comprehensive approval.
The news of the return was quickly delivered to the Executive Yuan, but at this time the Executive Yuan was much emptier. When Cao Cao and Liu Bei left the Central Plains, they took away too many bigwigs, so that now the Executive Yuan is not even full.
"Lord Chen!" Yu Ji bowed and greeted Guo Hao.
"Oh, Master Yuji, please sit down."
Guo Hao still has great respect for the immortals. It was hard to say in the past, but since they surrendered to the imperial court, the three immortals have achieved fruitful results, and their achievements could not be described in three days and three nights.
Seeing Yu Ji running over, he pointed at the seat and said with a smile, "It's been a few days since we last met. I wonder how things are going? Have Gongtai and the others made any breakthroughs?"
"I'm here to report this matter." Yu Ji bowed and other civil officials who were working in the government office also stopped. "I recorded everything that happened over there, and you will all know it when you see it." Yu Ji began to play the video.
There was nothing much to say, Yu Ji decisively started playing the video.
Under the leadership of Chen Xi , all the civil servants in the Executive Yuan turned their attention and began to rest and entertain themselves between work.
Soon, the entire Khyber War was over. After all, the battle lasted only a few hours. Although the quality of the participating legions was very abnormal and the intensity of the battle was very high, the overall time spent was not long.
Yu Ji's video is mainly from Guo Ziyi's perspective. After all, only Guo Ziyi can overlook the overall situation to a certain extent.
However, there are still many areas that are not taken care of, but it is already the most comprehensive observation.
It also allows people to clearly feel how difficult this road is to pass. After all, compared to oral narration, video is much clearer. As for some missing parts, they can be easily supplemented by the intelligence of this group of people.
"You can only use your wits to defeat him, not use force!" Chen Xi rubbed his brows helplessly. This was too difficult to fight.
"From now on, we can only wait and see. It will take a long time for the Marquis of Wei to move there. But there is no need to rush. For a war of this scale, it may take a year or two to get an accurate picture of the situation."
Chen Xi said indifferently that he had prepared himself for a twenty-year war and the Kushans were obviously not easy to defeat.
Especially the Beigui Pass, this is too outrageous. Even so, they occupied a rare position and caught the Kushans off guard.
Once the Kushans send in their troops, the pressure on Cao Cao and his men will not be too small.
"Not necessarily. Cao Sikong may be a little eccentric sometimes, but he is generally reliable. But I don't believe that there will be no unexpected events." Guo Hao suddenly spoke, while Chen Xi and Jia Xu were silent for a while and nodded silently.
This is a true statement. Cao Cao is generally a very reliable general, but he is not a very reliable boss, so some accidents are inevitable.
Fortunately, Cao Cao is always very reliable when the wind is against him, and he only gets sick when the wind is in his favor. However, the problems are usually minor, and at most he will suffer casualties, but not a complete loss.
And Xun Yu is by his side, and this time Xun Yu has the power to control Cao Cao to a certain extent.
The current situation is absolutely against the wind, so there shouldn't be any major problems.
Thinking of this, Chen Xi felt a headache for some reason. It was really hard to say, but then he put the matter behind him.
There is no other way. Things are like this now. Why struggle? There is no one left. We can't release Yuan Shao to deal with the pressure.
Cao Cao is at least reliable. As for the others, there is no one to replace them. Just use them as they are. Even if something unexpected happens, Chen Xi feels that he can handle it.
"But there are indeed some people who are not available now. Cao Sikong also has a certain gap in the side, and the same is true in the south."
Seeing Chen Xi's expression, Jia Xu silently changed the subject. He also knew that no one could replace Cao Cao and Liu Bei's positions now.
"Let's make the South our main attack direction for now. It's meaningless to fight to the death with Northern Guizhou. After all, there is room for maneuver in Southern Guizhou." Guo Hao waved his hand and said.
"Trust Kong Ming, he will give us surprises!"
Guo Hao went straight to the belief stage, but there weren't many options. What else could he do at this time except believe?
All their reserve forces were used to prepare for the battle of Pamirs, and they were ready to send troops to fight Parthia at any time. Even if the Kushans lost on the battlefield, they would have to endure it.
Rome and Parthia have already started the front-line battle, and it is estimated that a full-scale war will break out soon. That will be the best time for the Han Dynasty to intervene.
The Huns must die!
