Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

In that battle, over a hundred thousand Yuan soldiers either died or fled. Even those who escaped as routed soldiers had little chance of fleeing hundreds of miles back to Yu Province. Most of them scattered throughout Jing Province, becoming bandits.

This greatly weakened Yuan Shu, and he has yet to fully recover. This matter is no secret in Yu Province.

Therefore, these words caused many Yuan soldiers to feel fear. Ji Ling, for a moment, didn't know how to refute this fact.

Before Ji Ling could speak, Li Ji continued, "Heaven cherishes life. My lord takes benevolence as the foundation. You are helping the tyrant Cao thief to attack Xu Province. I can give you a chance to repent."

"Surrender now, and you may be spared. Otherwise... I will ensure you do not see the sun tomorrow!"

As Li Ji's repeated words echoed on the battlefield, the setting sun in the west cast its remaining light on Li Ji and the ninety thousand Yuan soldiers.

This blatant threat made all the Yuan soldiers feel apprehensive. Ji Ling, as the main general, was both shocked and angry.

But the more confident Li Ji seemed, the more uneasy Ji Ling felt. A sense of crisis arose, and he felt that after the last rays of the setting sun disappeared, there would be ambushes coming from all directions.

After hesitating for more than ten breaths, Ji Ling finally didn't utter any more harsh words to Li Ji. Instead, he waved his hand and ordered.

"Withdraw!"

Taking advantage of the fact that it hadn't completely darkened yet, Ji Ling prepared to temporarily leave the battlefield and return to the camp to make further plans.

Watching the slowly retreating Yuan army, Li Ji didn't order a pursuit, which surprised Zang Ba and the others within Pengcheng.

Is this the prestige of the National Scholar, Li Ji?

Just by raising his banner, he made Ji Ling, who led an army of ninety thousand, afraid to act rashly, even retreating and withdrawing his troops.

"Quick, send someone to contact the National Scholar and see if there is anything we need to do."

Immediately, Zang Ba quickly corrected his attitude. Before Li Ji sent anyone, he took the initiative to lower a trusted aide from the city tower with a吊篮.

Soon, as the trusted aide returned, he relayed a sentence spoken by Li Ji himself to Zang Ba.

【General Zang, guarding the city diligently is a great contribution. Please rest in the city for now. The outcome of the battle outside the city will be resolved before sunrise tomorrow. Do not worry.】

Zang Ba couldn't help but reveal a look of admiration upon hearing this.

Is this the National Scholar, the crown of strategists in the Great Han?

He is truly full of boldness and admirable.

Unlike Zang Ba, who was filled with emotion and unconsciously relaxed, Ji Ling retreated all the way, but remained tense, guarding against Li Ji's pursuit or ambushes from all sides.

Therefore, even though Ji Ling had led his army to distance himself from Li Ji, who was waiting in place, he still didn't dare to relax in the slightest, constantly sending out scouts to the surrounding areas to check for ambushes or traps.

Even though Ji Ling knew that this possibility was very slim.

In a flat plain, it was almost impossible to set up an ambush against an army of ninety thousand.

However, just as Ji Ling led his army to retreat slowly and returned to the original camp six miles away, he keenly noticed something was wrong.

"Halt!"

Ji Ling, who was accustomed to leading troops in the front, felt his heart sink as he looked at the seemingly normal gate of the camp.

The gate guards of the camp were guarding their positions, showing a stern and sharp demeanor, which was admirable and flawless.

But in Ji Ling's view, this was the biggest problem.

Even if Ji Ling was incompetent, he still had a general understanding of the overall abilities of the soldiers under his command.

It was shameful to say, but Ji Ling knew that the three thousand Yuan soldiers he had left in the camp to guard were not so elite at all.

Immediately, Ji Ling observed the details of the gate from afar and immediately discovered some clues.

Even after being covered up, Ji Ling could still see many traces of knife cuts and spear thrusts around the gate, as well as subtle traces of blood.

'The camp... has fallen into enemy hands!'

Ji Ling's heart turned cold, and he felt a chill and fear, followed by lingering fear.

Now that the sky was about to completely darken, Ji Ling relied on the last few rays of light to see the traces of the gate and the flaws that the camp had been taken.

But if he had entangled with Li Ji for a while longer, and the army became more and more exhausted, and the sky had completely darkened, wouldn't returning to the camp without noticing be falling into the enemy's ambush?

At this moment, Tian Yu, who was behind the gate, was peeking at Ji Ling outside through the cracks, knowing that Ji Ling must have become suspicious, even seeing the flaws, which made Tian Yu feel relieved.

Li Ji's instructions to Tian Yu were to lead the White Horse义从 to assist the infantry in breaking through the Yuan army's camp and block the surroundings to prevent the news from reaching Ji Ling's ears in advance.

Then, after occupying the Yuan army's camp, Tian Yu would lead the White Horse义从 to hide in it and wait for Ji Ling to withdraw his troops.

Li Ji had made separate arrangements for the two different situations of Ji Ling's withdrawal and return.

If the sky was not dark, then deliberately reveal appropriate flaws at the gate to make Ji Ling suspicious;

If the sky was dark, then let one or two White Horse义从 in the camp pretend to be hidden Yuan soldiers and loudly remind "There is an ambush".

In short, this required Tian Yu to adapt to the situation and make appropriate arrangements to scare Ji Ling, but also not to let Ji Ling really break into the camp, which had few ambushes.

Lest the two armies fight and Ji Ling see through the reality of the ambush, and instead take the opportunity to recapture the camp.

As for why not really set up a heavy ambush in the camp, the lack of troops was one thing.

More importantly, if an ambush in the camp could lure and kill the main general Ji Ling, that would be good, otherwise, at most, a few thousand or ten thousand people would be ambushed.

With Li Ji's appetite, he wanted to eat more.

As Ji Ling hesitated outside the camp for more than ten breaths, Tian Yu knew that the time had come, and immediately ordered the White Horse义从 hidden behind the gate to fire a rain of arrows in the direction of Ji Ling.

"Bang bang bang! !"

The familiar sound of bowstrings trembling rang out in unison, and a large swath of dark arrows rose from the camp and then drew an arc towards the Yuan army.

"Puff puff puff!"

Suddenly, the unprepared Yuan army was shot down and killed in pieces.

This made Ji Ling suddenly come back to his senses and repeatedly shouted "Retreat"!

This caused a large-scale riot to appear in the Yuan army, which had originally thought it would soon be able to return to the camp to rest.

After a day of siege, even if the various units fought in shifts, it was enough to make the soldiers up and down the Yuan army feel deeply tired.

Seeing that the camp where they could rest was at hand, but they couldn't enter, the blow to the morale of the Yuan army can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)