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"General, should we retreat?"

The vice general came to Zu Zhi and asked in a low voice.

As Zu Zhi's trusted lieutenant, seeing Zu Zhi's face, he more or less guessed what he was thinking.

"What's your opinion?" Zu Zhi said solemnly.

"The last general thought that we should withdraw our troops."

The lieutenant looked at Zu Zhi cautiously, and said, "Huo Qubing's army has already attacked once before our army's combat strength has fully recovered. Thanks to the general's display of the Zhenshen Banner, the enemy can be repelled."

"But General, it will take more than a month for you to display the banner of the town god for the second time, but the enemy can go back and regroup and come back again."

"It will take at least five days for our army to fully recover its combat effectiveness now."

"Five full days is enough for the enemy to attack."

"So the last commander thought that we should withdraw our troops now, avoid the edge for a while, and wait until the fighting strength of the army recovers before fighting!"

"retreat?"

Zu Zhi heard it, sighed softly, and said, "Where to retreat?"

"Behind us is the Dongbo Mountain Range. If the army retreats into the Dongbo Mountain Range, we don't need Huo Qubing to lead the attack. It won't take long for our army to suffer heavy losses due to the cold environment."

"If we retreat again, it will be Lansuiguan, and we will be in an absolute defensive position."

"For the war between two great powers, whoever is in the defensive position is the disadvantaged side. This is unacceptable to me, and it is not acceptable to the dynasty."

"So, we must not withdraw our troops!"

If the troops could be withdrawn, Zu Zhi naturally wanted to withdraw, because he knew very well that Huo Qubing would definitely not give up, and would soon lead the troops to attack again.

However, you cannot withdraw!

Once the troops are withdrawn, everything Ice and Snow Dynasty has done will be useless, and the lost soldiers will also be lost in vain.

And when Yuzhou is in chaos in the future, the Ice and Snow Dynasty will also lose control of the northern grasslands, which is something that the Ice and Snow Dynasty cannot accept.

So, never withdraw!

"That……"

The lieutenant looked at Zu Zhi and said with a wry smile: "General, now our soldiers are no match for the enemy in frontal combat!"

Zu Zhi heard it, but was silent for a long time.

He naturally knew that if the morale of the army was high, he was very confident in defeating Huo Qubing's iron cavalry, but now, the morale of the soldiers was low and their combat effectiveness was weak.

Under such circumstances, it would be a fool's errand to defeat a well-trained elite cavalry.

After pondering for a while, Zu Zhi took a deep breath and said solemnly: "You go down and tap the number of casualties immediately, and at the same time send an order to the soldiers below to immediately build a crossbow array on the spot!"

"Remember, we don't have to build fortifications to block the infantry, but the crossbow array must be as good as possible, and there must be no mistakes!"

The lieutenant was shocked and said, "General, are you going to give up infantry defense and focus on cavalry defense?"

Zu Zhi nodded and said: "In this situation, if we build the fortifications according to the previous rules, it will be too late, so we only need to build the crossbow array, and we don't have to do anything else!"

"This……"

The lieutenant did not know what to say.

The normal barracks defense is divided into two types: infantry defense and cavalry defense, ensuring that the enemy can be effectively blocked regardless of whether the enemy is attacking by infantry or cavalry.

Among them, the cavalry fortifications are the simplest, which is to build a large number of crossbow arrays.

Because the cavalry charges, they cannot raise their shields. As long as there are enough crossbow arrays to cover them, the enemy troops who come to charge can suffer heavy losses.

But generally speaking, it is definitely the infantry who attack the battalion.

The cavalry fortifications are not very useful to the infantry, because there are shield soldiers in the infantry, which can definitely resist the shooting of the crossbow array, so the barracks defense will also be matched with enough infantry fortifications.

Now Zu Zhi ordered that only cavalry fortifications be built. If the enemy army uses infantry to raise shields to attack, block all the crossbow formations, and the cavalry charge again, it will be dangerous!

"General, this is really..."

"I know what you're worried about.

Zu Zhi interrupted the lieutenant general and said, "But this is the northern grassland, and the Southern Yan Kingdom has only cavalry, not infantry. We don't need to worry about that, let's go down and follow the orders!" "

The lieutenant listened with a wry smile in his heart, no infantry?

When the cavalry dismounts, is it not the infantry?

It's just that Zu Zhi's will has been set, and he can't change it.

And also understand that, as Zu Zhi said, there is not much time left for them now, and they cannot build complete fortifications.

Not surprisingly, Huo Qubing's next attack will definitely come within two days!

Soon, Zu Zhi got the battle damage statistics reported below.

This battle damage statistics made his already ugly face even more gloomy.

It was just a charge of the enemy army, and the loss of the Ice and Snow Dynasty's army turned out to be more than 800,000!

And that's not counting the wounded soldiers.

If the soldiers who were seriously wounded and lightly wounded were added, the number would add 400,000.

Three million troops, just one attack by the enemy army, caused 1.2 million soldiers to lose their combat effectiveness.

This result is something that Zu Zhi has never met in the past decades!

In fact, he can also understand when he thinks about it, this battle loss is a figure within the normal range in the current situation.

The Ice and Snow Dynasty army had just come out of the Dongbo Mountains and had not yet adapted to the outside environment. The combat effectiveness of the soldiers had dropped a lot, and the barracks had not yet been built.

The enemy army is charging with iron cavalry, and there are even more holy warriors charging into the battle.

If it weren't for the fact that he blocked Huo Qubing, I'm afraid this number would have to be added to 800,000 or 900,000, or even over one million.

A holy general, leading the charge, no one knows how much damage can be caused.

Faced with this result, Zu Zhi didn't want to accept this result, but he had to accept it.

He can only pray in his heart, hoping that Huo Qubing's next wave of attacks will come slower and give himself more time to build defenses.

As long as the fortifications are in place, you can operate it yourself, and at the same time stick to the defense until the reinforcements from the dynasty arrive.

When the time comes to fight again, he still has confidence in himself.

...

On the other hand, Huo Qubing led the troops back to Manjiao City at night.

In this battle, he brought 100,000 elite iron cavalry to the battle, and he brought back more than 93,000 people.

He only lost more than 6,000 people.

This is entirely because the enemy was unprepared, morale was low, and he was caught off guard, so he could have such a record.

"General."

Seeing Huo Qubing leading the troops back, the lieutenant immediately greeted him.

Huo Qubing nodded, looked at the lieutenant general, and asked, "How are the fortifications of Manjiao City?"

"Everything can be used, we only need to put in the strength to become a fortified city." The lieutenant said immediately.

"it is good!"

Huo Qubing immediately said: "You lead 300,000 troops to guard Manjiao City, and the remaining 700,000 troops will go out with me tomorrow morning!"

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