"They're withdrawing just like that?" Liu Mang's eyes widened as if he couldn't believe that Sun Ce retreated so easily. Impossible. Today, although Liu Mang killed more than 10,000 soldiers of Sun Cejun, he also knew that those soldiers were not the main force of Sun Cejun. Sun Cejun's main force was the Danyang soldiers and also the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that were in the camp.
In the past, Sun Ce would definitely continue to attack until the sky was dark. Liu Mang thought that Sun Ce would let the troops that he didn't want to show up, but in the end, Sun Ce retreated!
Now, there was still a long time before the sky turned dark. It was enough time to attack the city again. Tomorrow, the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry would arrive. Were they not afraid? On the plains, cavalry was the king, not to mention the heavy cavalry of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. When they arrived, Wancheng city would be safe.
"Is there a trap?" Liu Mang's brows wrinkled. He was the defender of the city. If it was a siege or a field battle, then there would be an ambush. Liu Mang would think that there was an ambush. But now, it was impossible for Liu Mang to go down the city wall and fight with Sun Ce. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't. The city gate was sealed. How could Liu Mang go out?
He really couldn't understand. Liu Mang thought about the benefits of having Old Man Chen. If Chen Gong was here, Liu Mang wouldn't have to rack his brains. Old Man Chen would definitely guess what Sun Ce was thinking.
Forget it, forget it! Liu Mang shook his head. He was tired. Today, not only did he have to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but he also had to command the Black Flag Army. So, Liu Mang was tired. No matter how Sun Ce planned, Liu Mang couldn't escape. He could only deal with the situation by remaining unchanged. Now that Sun Ce left, the soldiers who had been fighting for the whole day could rest.
"Sun Ce retreated!" Huang Zhong stood at the side. He didn't make a move today because he was afraid that Sun Ce would send out some generals. Huang Zhong would be easy to deal with. Otherwise, it would be very dangerous to let these generals attack the battle formation. No matter how elite the soldiers were, they would not be a match for the generals.
Once a hole was torn, it would be difficult to close it again. However, Huang Zhong had been standing there for the whole day. Liu Mang's City Guard, Xu Sheng's Black Flag Army, and even his son, Huang Xu, faced an enemy general who was using a bow. Only Huang Zhong didn't make a move.
"Everyone, rest! Divide into groups and stay in groups. Everyone else, go down the city wall and rest. Prepare hot food! " Liu Mang ordered. In ancient times, there were very few battles at night. Even stealing a city at night was difficult. The city wall wasn't a big tent. It was more than ten meters high. Ordinary enemies couldn't climb in. Even if they climbed up, the visibility at night was very low. How could they fight if they couldn't see anything?
Therefore, a quarter of the soldiers were left on the city wall. The rest went down to rest. It was difficult to rotate in the middle of the night.
As soon as they heard Liu Mang say that they could rest, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Many people didn't care at all and sat down. They were too tired. Defending a city required endurance. They had to withstand waves of attacks from the opposite side. Liu Mang didn't have any follow-up troops. He could only rely on the less than three thousand Black Flag Army and the hundreds of City Guard. Today's battle had reduced their numbers again. Out of the three thousand Black Flag Army, four hundred had died in battle. More than three hundred City Guard had also died. The soldiers on the city wall shrank again.
The soldiers didn't care about the blood and corpses that were still flowing on the ground. They directly lay down and closed their eyes. Some people even started snoring. They were too tired and didn't want to move. There was a more intense battle waiting for them tomorrow. They directly threw down their swords and armor and fell asleep just like that.
"No, stand up. Everyone stand up. If you want to sleep, eat first before you sleep!" Liu Mang couldn't let these soldiers sleep like that. Although it was almost summer, the cold air on the city wall was still very strong at night. There was so much blood on the ground. These soldiers were also soaked in blood and sweat. If they slept like that, they would definitely catch a cold. Moreover, they hadn't eaten hot food yet. How could they fight without strength?
"Young Lord and the others are tired. Let them sleep!" Xu Sheng walked to Liu Mang's side and said to Liu Mang. Xu Huang was also very tired. He had already changed his swords several times. The number of enemies that died in his hands was no less than three digits.
"How can you sleep on the ground? You will catch a cold!" Liu Mang didn't listen to Xu Sheng's words. He directly pulled up a soldier from the Black Flag Army. This soldier had two eye-catching cuts on his left chest. Liu Mang could see that if the cuts were to go down a bit, his arm and chest would have been directly cut open. The wound had not stopped bleeding and was still bleeding. This soldier didn't feel any pain and just lay down and closed his eyes.
"If we don't sleep on the ground, where should we sleep?" Xu Sheng didn't understand. As soldiers, they already treated the sky as their quilt and the ground as their bed. As long as they didn't lie down on the ground, they would be able to sleep.
"Of course, we will sleep in the city tower!" Generally, big cities had a large city tower. This was the place where the general lived and observed the enemy. Wancheng city was the administrative center of Lujiang. Sun Ce had also worked here before. Naturally, there was a city tower.
"Enter the city tower?" Xu Sheng looked at Liu Mang and didn't understand. The city tower was reserved for Liu Mang to rest. It was the general's resting place. How could soldiers like them enter? Even if they could enter, their blood would dirty the floor of the city tower.
"Enter the city tower! You will definitely catch a cold if you sleep here! " Liu Mang's words were irrefutable. He pulled up the soldier from the Black Flag Army who had closed his eyes and personally bandaged his wound. Then he pulled him to the city tower to rest.
"General, this city tower!" The soldier from the Black Flag Army was still a bit hesitant. This city tower was where the general lived. He was just a small soldier. How could he have the good fortune to live in it? Not to mention, he was just a humble servant.
"Why can't we sleep here?" Liu Mang was a bit dissatisfied. "This city tower is dirtier than the city walls!" Liu Mang couldn't prepare a house and bed for these nobles. So he could only let them sleep here. Although there was no bed in the city tower, at least they could block the cold.
"But, but!" The soldier from the Black Flag Army was really embarrassed. His face blushed. The elite of the Black Flag Army who killed people without blinking during the day actually blushed now. "General, that, that, I will sleep here. If we enter the city tower, we will dirty the floor!" The soldiers from the Black Flag Army didn't want to go in.
"Dirty the floor?" Liu Mang chewed on this sentence. They! Looking at the Black Flag Army who had woken up, their eyes were filled with an expression that said that they would dirty the city tower. No matter what Liu Mang said, they didn't want to go in. They were dirty? In order to protect Wancheng city, they sacrificed their last drop of blood. They were the saviors of Wancheng city and the people of Wancheng city. If they were dirty, there would be no clean people in this aristocratic family. If it wasn't forbidden now, Liu Mang would have arranged a bed and quilt for each of them to sleep well.
"Don't you listen to the military order!" Liu Mang knew that he couldn't explain it clearly. Instead of wasting his breath, it was better to directly order them to go in.
"General!" This brother from the Black Flag Army looked at Xu Sheng with a troubled expression, hoping that Xu Sheng would say a few words to him. He was originally a servant of the Zhou Family. When Zhou Cheng brought them out, he didn't even let them enter the hall because he disliked their dirty and heavy armor. Naturally, they were sweaty and smelly. If he dirtied the floor, he would really die a thousand times over.
"What are you looking at! If the Little Lord wants you to go in, then go in! "Xu Sheng could not understand what kind of person Liu Mang was.
"Yes!" When the soldier from the Black Flag Army heard Xu Sheng's words, he could only enter the city tower with a bitter face. When he left, he was very careful, for fear of dirtying the floor. If he dirtied the floor, he wouldn't be able to afford it.
"Wait a minute!" Looking at the cautious appearance of the Black Flag Army, Liu Mang felt a pain in his heart. They were also human, they were elite soldiers. Why did they have to be so careful even in the hall?
"General!" The soldier who was called back had a trace of joy on his face. He thought that Liu Mang changed his mind and disliked him for being dirty.
"Go eat first! Go rest after eating! "If he didn't eat and rest, how would he have the strength to stop Sun Cejun tomorrow? How would he have the strength to patrol the city at night?
"Oh, oh!" After hearing Liu Mang's words, the soldier took out a hard thing wrapped in cloth. It was black and yellow. Because of the battle just now, it was stained with blood and had a red color. "General, do you have any water?"
"What do you want to do?"
"Eat! Eat and rest! "The Black Flag Army soldier said as a matter of course.
"Just eat this?" Liu Mang's face was gloomy. The Black Flag Army soldier was holding a hard steamed bun. Saying that he was a steamed bun was flattering him. These things were made with a little flour, wild vegetables, and various kinds of husks and weeds.
Liu Mang knew that this is called army provisions. Lu Bu's army had also eaten it before. However, they only ate it when they were on the march. But now, they are defending Wan Cheng. Wan Cheng lacks many things, but it does not lack provisions. Liu Mang had already prepared hot food outside the city walls. Liu Mang let the people who survived the turmoil in Wan Cheng help cook food for the army. Originally, this food was meant for 8,000 soldiers. Who would have thought that they would die in one day. Now, with the addition of the Black Flag Army, they have less than 4,000 soldiers.
"Go down and get the food. After eating, go rest!" Liu Mang was not stingy to the point that he would not even give these soldiers a hot meal. They were in a precarious situation. Maybe today or tomorrow, they would die on the city wall.
If they could not eat a hot meal, they would have to eat cold steamed bun to fight a war!
"Zhou Cheng let you eat this?" Liu Mang pulled Xu Sheng to the side and asked.
"Yes!" Xu Sheng nodded his head. "Young lord, no, Zhou Cheng, he said that the food is limited, so we have to eat bread to satisfy our hunger. After we take down Wan Cheng, he will reward us!"
"Fart!" Liu Mang suddenly roared in anger, making many soldiers look askance. There was too much food in Wan Cheng. Lujiang was a productive land. Last year was a bumper harvest year. Even if Lü Bu sent the army to destroy the granaries of many soldiers, those were all on the surface. In the dark, Lü Bu could not find them. But when Liu Mang slaughtered these nobles, it was much simpler. Only those who were of value could live, the rest were beheaded.
In the end, the food confiscated from these nobles' houses was twice as much as what Lü Bu wanted. How could Zhou Cheng not have food? If there was no food, where would the bread come from? This Zhou Cheng was reluctant to spend the money. Eating bread and eating corn were two completely different things.
Eating bread could also satisfy hunger, but it was the army's food that they had no choice. The Zhou family really wanted the horse to run, but they also wanted the horse not to eat grass.
"Xu Sheng, you also go down! Go down to the city wall and drink a hot meal to rest! Tomorrow, we will rely on you to defend the city! " Liu Mang did not need to think about Zhou Cheng anymore. Zhou Cheng was already dead and the Black Flag Army now belonged to Liu Mang. "As long as I, Liu Mang, am willing to do it, I will not let you guys eat anything! Thank you! "
"Thank you, little lord!" Xu Sheng was really confused. What kind of person is this Liu Mang? You can say that he is kind, but he is a demon that kills people without blinking an eye. In Wan Cheng, tens of thousands of heads fell to the ground. The walls of Wan Cheng were also designed so that more than 10,000 Sun Cejun soldiers did not even have the chance to surrender and were beheaded.
But if you say that he is a bad person, he seems to only be ruthless to the enemy. He cares about his soldiers from the bottom of his heart. How can a general pay attention to whether the soldiers are resting or not? To some of you generals, soldiers are just stepping stones on the road to success. Soldiers are just a number. As long as you have money, you can get them anywhere. This concept is even more so for the nobles. In their eyes, there are only benefits. With benefits, they can do anything.
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