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Under Xia Yun's command, the pursuit lasted for two days and two nights.

In the end, Xia Yun's army of 330,000 won a great victory and successfully wiped out all the barbarian troops within 200 kilometers of Shuoxi City!

But this does not mean the end of the war.

Although the battle of Shuoxi City has ended, hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops have not been completely annihilated.

Among them, there were still nearly 100,000 barbarian troops fleeing in the three directions of east, west and north.

On this day, Xia Yun led his main force back to Shuoxi City.

"General, according to the latest intelligence from all sides, about 30,000 barbarian troops fled to the west, 20,000 barbarian troops fled to the east, and another 50,000 barbarian troops fled to the north."

Xia Yun, who had just entered the city and set up his commander's tent, immediately received a report from Qin Tianye.

At this time, Xia Yun was still wearing military uniform. In the past two days and two nights, he had been at the front line of the battlefield, so he never took off his armor.

A large amount of blood and mud were clearly visible on the surface of his armor.

“Pass on my order. Order Xiang Wentian to lead a hundred chariots and thirty thousand elite troops to immediately pursue the enemy to the north. Make sure to annihilate all the barbarian troops fleeing northward in the Mobei Mountain area!”

Xia Yun acted promptly and issued the first pursuit order.

Although he had already deployed 50,000 troops in Mobei Mountain in advance to block the remaining barbarian troops fleeing north.

But the number of barbarian troops fleeing northward this time reached as many as 50,000.

With 50,000 against 50,000, under normal circumstances, if the barbarian generals still had a little bit of rationality left, they would be able to avoid being completely wiped out.

"Order Chong Heihu to lead 20,000 cavalrymen to the west to reinforce Xu Tianlei. Make sure to annihilate all the barbarian troops fleeing westward!"

"All other troops, after a day of rest, will follow me back to Menghan City to annihilate the barbarians who have fled eastwards, as well as all the remaining barbarians in the Menghan area!"

Immediately afterwards, two more orders came out of Xia Yun's mouth.

Thanks to his sufficient preparations in advance, the great battle in the Hexi Corridor had actually lost all suspense by now.

The 400,000 barbarian troops are destined to be completely annihilated by Xia Yun in the Hexi Corridor!

"As you command, I will convey the order right away!"

Qin Tianye responded and left Xia Yun quickly.

But soon after, Chen Jingzhong came to Xia Yun again.

"General Chen Jingzhong, meet the Marshal!"

The moment he saw Xia Yun, Chen Jingzhong fell to his knees with a thud, his eyes slightly moist.

"General Chen, there is no need to do this. Please stand up quickly."

Seeing Chen Jingzhong coming, Xia Yun hurried forward and helped Chen Jingzhong up from the ground.

"You are a meritorious general. You deserve the most merit in this battle in Hexi. I have already recommended you and appointed you as a third-rank cavalry general."

Xia Yun spoke successively, patting Chen Jingzhong on the shoulder before speaking.

With only 100,000 troops, the enemy held on to Shuoxi City for a whole month while facing a heavy siege from hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops!

This achievement is truly rare even when looking at the entire Daliang Dynasty.

You should know that Shuoxi City is located west of Gansu. It not only lacks water and food, but is also isolated and helpless from the surrounding areas.

During the period when Chen Jingzhong's troops were defending Shuoxi City, they could not even get in touch with the outside world. The despair they faced in their hearts could definitely not be reflected by just a few simple words in the merit book.

"Thank you very much, Marshal, for your promotion!"

Chen Jingzhong, who had just stood up, immediately bowed respectfully to Xia Yun again.

"Marshal, our army lost more than 48,000 men in total during the attack on Shuoxi City. Another 600 were seriously injured, and more than 7,000 were slightly injured. I hope you can allocate medical supplies as soon as possible to treat our wounded."

The first thing Chen Jingzhong did after receiving the early reward was to ask Xia Yun for the allocation of medical supplies.

During the time he held Shuoxi City, the shortage of medical supplies was always a concern for him.

And just two days ago, all medical supplies in Shuoxi City had run out.

If Xia Yun had not led the army to arrive in time, all of the more than 7,000 wounded soldiers under his command would have died.

"Come here, pass on my order to immediately allocate a batch of medical supplies from the military supplies and hand them over to General Chen to treat the wounded! This matter cannot be delayed, the supplies must be in place before dark tonight!"

After learning about Chen Jingzhong's predicament, Xia Yun did not hesitate and immediately gave the order.

"I obey my orders!"

The chief clerk of the army in the big tent immediately responded, quickly drafted an order on the table, and personally handed the money to Chen Jingzhong.

"General Chen, can you send someone to take this order to the military treasury and get as many medical supplies as needed?"

Zheng He, the chief clerk of the army, was originally an official under Lei Zhenning.

Since Lei Zhenning was promoted to the position of Minister of War, Zheng He also turned to serve under Xia Yun.

"Thank you."

Chen Jingzhong nodded solemnly, then carefully put away the order.

With this order, the survival rate of the more than 7,000 wounded under his command will be at least over 90%!

……

In the evening, when Chen Jingzhong led his troops to carry medical supplies from the military treasury.

Qin Tianye appeared in the big tent with the battle report that had just been compiled.

"In this Shuoxi City battle, our army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, including more than 7,000 cavalry casualties and about 3,000 regular troops. There were no casualties in the elite and motorized troops."

"In terms of weapons and ammunition consumption, about 300,000 bullets were consumed, and more than 12,000 horses were killed..."

With Xia Yun's approval, Qin Tianye spoke one sentence after another, all of which were about the casualties and material losses in this war.

About a quarter of an hour later, Qin Tianye finished reading the dozens of pages long battle report.

After listening to the report, Xia Yun sat quietly on the armchair, and a very deep light quietly revealed in his pair of eyes as dark as the night.

In this battle report, what he was most concerned about was naturally the number of our soldiers killed in action.

The enemy suffered about 200,000 casualties and ours about 10,000. This seems to be a casualty ratio of 20 to 1. If it were any other general, he would probably be very excited.

But for Xia Yun, this number of casualties has exceeded his psychological expectations.

Unlike ordinary troops, the army under Xia Yun is equipped with 50,000 elite troops!

The weapons used by these 50,000 elite troops are all modern automatic rifles!

In the battle between the hot weapons army and the cold weapons army, the hot weapons army almost has a crushing advantage.