Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2242 Daoji Finally Defeates the Wise Teacher, Yellow Robe Angrily Slays Three Heads

Even though Yue Fei himself had participated in that battle, he ultimately failed, falling just short of successfully breaching the city.

However, in the end, it still fell short by a hair's breadth.

Having endured the pain of losing his daughter, Xuanyuan Huang's combat power increased dramatically. Relying on the sharpness of the Xuanyuan Sword, even Li Cunxiao had to retreat repeatedly to avoid its edge.

Meanwhile, after killing Tian Jianxiu, the commander Yue Fei was ambushed by Xuan Zan and Xuan Yuan Zhang Hui.

Fortunately, Yue Fei himself was very skilled at archery, and his arrow defense was also quite good. Even when the two of them worked together, he only suffered a minor injury to his arm.

But the injury to their key player has touched the hearts of many.

Ultimately, as more and more soldiers on the city wall died, the Han generals had no choice but to slowly retreat.

However, the deaths of the two great generals of the Great Yan, Xuanyuanba and Chang Xian, as well as a group of powerful generals and experts such as Xu Muyun, Xue Rengao, Gu Wanfang, and Qin Yue, directly depleted their strength.

The death of Xuanyuanba, a top general, further dampened the morale of the Great Yan army.

In addition, Xuanyuan Huang, Xuanyuan Xuanxiao, Zhang Churang, Xue Ju, and others all had injuries of varying degrees.

In particular, Zhang Xuance, a local general of the Heavenly Rank, was so badly injured that even the divine physician Qi Bo could not save him, and he died from his injuries that very night.

Of the eight thousand Yellow Turban warriors, two thousand were lost in just one battle today.

Of course, the Han army wasn't having an easy time either.

The god-level general Yao Xing died in battle, as did the three heaven-level generals Wang Deren, Ning Luchen, and Hong Jin.

Pei Yuanqing and Wang Feng are seriously injured and will probably be unable to fight again for two or three months.

Yue Fei, Xiong Kuohai, and other generals suffered minor injuries, and the Beiwei Army also suffered considerable losses after a day of bloody fighting with the Yellow Turban warriors.

It was precisely because of this battle that both sides suffered considerable losses, and neither side was in a good position.

Therefore, after that battle, Yue Fei unusually slowed down the siege and allowed his soldiers to rest for three days.

Within those three days, news finally arrived that Tan Daoji had defeated Zhang Jiao.

Undoubtedly, compared to Yue Fei and Guo Ziyi, who took three days and seven days respectively to overcome their obstacles, Tan Daoji took nearly a month and a half, which was obviously quite a long time.

Fortunately, this victory means that Tan Daoji's 60,000-strong army will soon be able to officially join forces with them, further increasing the pressure on Yanjing.

Yes, Tan Daoji now only has 60,000 troops left. In order to defeat Zhang Jiao, he lost 20,000 troops, which is a considerable loss.

It should be noted that Li Jing's army, which successively captured the Heyang Road and Guangyang Road, suffered a combined loss of less than 20,000 men.

Even if Li Jing hadn't yet organized those prisoners into an army, and if he had, along with the more than 100,000 soldiers of the Zhennan Army, he would have...

It can be said that after six months of fighting, Li Jing's troops not only did not suffer any losses, but almost doubled in number. As for Yue Fei, in the series of battles in Qingnan Road, he only lost about 30,000 to 40,000 men in total.

Therefore, in order to defeat Zhang Jiao, Tan Daoji lost 20,000 men, which was a very large loss.

However, the East Sea Road was indeed the one with the strongest resistance encountered by the Han army in attacking the four routes of the Great Yan. Even though Yanjing has not yet been captured, the losses have already far exceeded the total losses incurred in attacking the other three routes.

Tan Daoji's 80,000 troops suffered a loss of 20,000 men, and Zhang Jiao, who was defending the city, was in an even worse situation.

Although he was the one defending the city, his 20,000 troops were only the weakest of the remaining troops of the Great Yan Dynasty, and the civilians he mobilized later were even less capable in combat.

After all, although Zhang Jiao had mobilized the people, he couldn't provide them with all the necessary weapons and equipment. Some even took their farm tools to fight, so the losses were bound to be significant.

Even without detailed statistics, it is only a rough guess that Zhang Jiao's initial 20,000 troops, plus the civilians he mobilized later, suffered losses of no less than 60,000 in the nearly one and a half months of fighting.

In addition, the Han army, which had suffered heavy losses in the fierce fighting over the past month and a half, was in a state of high morale after the city fell, which led to some serious incidents.

After all, the Han army's losses in this battle were so enormous, and this was inextricably linked to the people in the city.

After a month and a half of fierce fighting, the remaining Han soldiers were naturally filled with hatred.

The casualties during the breaching of the city, plus the heinous events that followed.

As a result, the number of soldiers and civilians lost in the city where Zhang Jiao was stationed during this battle exceeded 100,000.

This number is also quite large!
Despite the large number of troops lost by the Great Yan in the Battle of Qingnan, most of them were actually prisoners of war; only a small portion actually died in battle.

The number of Dayan soldiers who died in the entire Qingnan battlefield was less than the number of people who died in Zhangjiao's city alone.

During this month and a half, Liu Pi and Gong Du, who were defending the city alongside Zhang Jiao, were killed by Deng Jiugong in three moves after the city was destroyed.

During the month and a half of attack and defense, Peng Tuo and Liang Zhongning both perished in the oil spill while leading fanatical followers of the Celestial Masters Sect in a desperate charge using oil to drive away Deng Jiugong or Huang Pao who had climbed the city walls.

Cheng Yuanzhi, Bo Cai, Zhao Hong, and others also did not escape well after the city fell. Bo Cai, the most important one, was directly captured by Huang Pao and thrown down the city wall.

Cheng Yuanzhi and Zhao Hong were stabbed down by the burly Han soldiers who rushed into the city, and then countless soldiers trampled on them, killing them to death.

However, the city fell because Zhang Jiao, who was the main defender at that time, had already died from internal injuries during the fall of the city.

He was not among the captured Yan generals; only Zhang Jiao's younger brother Zhang Bao, and his disciples Zhang Mancheng and Zhang Yan were captured.

Huang Pao, filled with grief and indignation over the heavy losses suffered by his soldiers in this battle, did not even bring the three men to the side of his commander, Tan Daoji, upon seeing them. In a fit of rage, he directly killed all three men with a single stroke.

In fact, the reason why the man in yellow robes was so furious was simply because these three people were implicated by Zhang Jiao.

If Zhang Jiao hadn't organized the people in the city, the Han Dynasty wouldn't have suffered such heavy casualties in this battle.

It's even quite possible that, like Yue Fei or Guo Ziyi, they could break through the obstacles in just a few days.