Chapter 279: Not Talking About Martial Virtue_2

The battle raged for nearly three hours until dawn when the Tatar army finally retreated completely, leaving behind twenty to thirty thousand corpses outside Jizhou City, the stench of blood reaching to the heavens.

On the third evening, the Tatar cavalry once again organized their forces and attacked.

Although the Tatars high-level officers had spent an entire day investigating, they hadn't been able to figure out exactly how the artillery positions were bombed, but through the previous night's battle, they had probed the actual strength of the Jizhou garrison, which made them believe their strategy of deception had been effective.

So even without artillery cover, they had to take Jizhou Town before reinforcements arrived, to sever the Wei's nine-border defense system in two!

A strategic shift?

There was no room for maneuvering anymore!