At the beginning of the establishment of the defense line of Manggu Mountain, the casualties were all-round, a large number of soldiers were killed, most of them were ordinary soldiers, the casualty rate was as high as a terrible point, the original troops of more than 300 people, when Jiang Yugang crossed to Manggu Mountain, more than 200 people had been killed, some of them died in the battle on the spot, and some soldiers were seriously wounded, retreated to the rear, or died after being rescued, and finally there were some people, accounting for a small number of casualties among the soldiers, who were injured and difficult to recover. But he didn't die, and he actually withdrew to Mengyang City, and then some of them, fortunately, caught up with the opportunity to retreat, and retreated to the rear defense line that was further back, such as Longchuan or Nandian.

In the end, there were only more than 50 soldiers left who could continue to hold on to Manggu Mountain, and this is the situation when Jiang Yugang had just crossed over to the Ming army's Manggu Mountain defense line on the Luchuan battlefield in the thirteenth year of Ming Yingzong's orthodoxy.

At the beginning, what surprised Jiang Yu the most was the overall death rate of the Manggu Mountain defense line in the Luchuan battlefield, generally speaking, in order to ensure the normal organization and operation of the army, the death rate has reached the limit at one-third, and a higher death rate will have an impact on the overall army organization, either withdraw the army or collapse as a whole.

However, the death rate of the Manggu Mountain defense line has exceeded five-sixths, and only a very small number of soldiers remain, and these soldiers will have a serious shortage of manpower when doing some of the most basic resistance tasks, but miraculously, this force did not retreat.

They didn't even receive much supervision, and there weren't many people who were really responsible for supervising this force, using force to prevent them from retreating, or to avoid them falling into chaos, and there weren't even many officers in this force, and it was originally barely a thousand-level army, although the number was far less than the rated standard of a thousand households, but it was not comparable to a hundred units with a full establishment of 100 people, a small flag that managed ten people, a general flag that managed fifty people, and a hundred households that managed a hundred people, Theoretically, there should still be a considerable number of officers.

However, when Jiang Yugang crossed over to Manggu Mountain, not to mention that there were only more than 50 troops left, the most exaggerated thing was actually the death of officers.

When Jiang Yugang crossed over to Manggu Mountain and came to learn about the situation of this garrison, what surprised him the most was not the astonishing casualty rate of this army, but the casualty rate of the officers was terrifyingly high, which was even more exaggerated than the casualty rate of ordinary soldiers.

Baihu and the General Banner, which should have been the highest-ranking garrison troops in Manggu Mountain, were all killed, compared to more than 300 casualties to more than 50 people, and this unit still stubbornly maintained the armament of the defensive line, although only more than 50 people remained, but it was impossible to find an officer who managed more than 50 people, and all the officers above the general banner were killed in the battle.

This made Jiang Yu sigh at the tenacity of this army, in addition to tenacity, more and more powerful, only a strong enough force has the fighting instinct to persist in fighting in such a serious casualty situation, only a strong enough force, its officers can do the absolute first, this is the absolute trust in the soldiers and commanders, as well as the army itself, believe that the Ming army can win, believe that the Ming can continue to maintain his authority.

The outcome of the Battle of Luchuan, strictly speaking, was a victory for the Ming army, and it did not live up to the expectations of these soldiers, but Jiang Yugang did not think that this level of victory could make the souls of all soldiers rest in peace.

Perhaps from a higher point of view, the Battle of Luchuan can even be regarded as a said victory in the Yingzong period, but Jiang Yugang still can't agree with this degree of victory.

He felt that these soldiers deserved a greater victory, and if the investment in the Battle of Luchuan at that time had been greater, perhaps they would have been able to overcome many difficulties and achieve more brilliant results, and it was not impossible to completely conquer Luchuan.

This is a force with the glory of the empire, when the glory of the empire is about to fade, this army has actually developed to its peak, with the firmest will to fight, the most rich combat experience, participated in this important war, this is a war related to the future prestige of the Ming Dynasty, they relied on themselves to achieve victory.

Although there were many advantages in other aspects, Jiang Yugang still wanted to give all the credit to the soldiers themselves, and when he really walked into the jungle of the Manggu Mountains in Luchuan and saw the firmness of the Ming soldiers in the face of the enemy, he was even more convinced of his judgment, this is a glorious and glorious army, and it deserves a greater victory.

Sometimes Jiang Yuyan was thinking about how he started from a small camp in the defense line of Manggu Mountain step by step, and gradually controlled the entire cottage and mountain forest of Manggu Mountain, and he was also thinking, maybe he did not play the most important role.

If it were not for this elite Ming army defending the Manggu Mountain defense line, he would not have been able to achieve such results even if he had the knowledge and history of modern people to rely on.

If he was given an ordinary unit of the Luchuan Army, he would not have the ability to get the things he was getting now.

Therefore, Jiang Yugang actually faced the establishment of Mang Castle very calmly, and the foundation of Mang Castle was not until the end of Yingzong's orthodoxy These outstanding and battle-hardened Ming soldiers relied on them to have the later Mang Castle.

But from Bai Qianfan's point of view, the matter of the defense line of Manggu Mountain is completely different, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there has been a qualitative change.

From the initial establishment of the Manggu Mountain defense line, he invested his subordinates' most elite veterans and the most potential recruit troops, and arranged excellent officers to be in charge of command, but in just one or two months, under the sporadic Luchuan army attack, heavy casualties, to what he learned, almost all the casualties, almost all the officers were killed, only a few young Xiaoqi survived, I think it was because of the lack of qualifications, did not undertake a relatively important defensive task, this survived.

Bai Qianfan didn't complain too much about the situation in Manggu Mountain, because on the one hand, he couldn't find anyone to complain at all, and all the officers sent were killed in battle, and if he wanted to complain, it was Qianhu who was recruited by him to complain to him.

And whether it was Qianhu who had been transferred to elite subordinates, or Bai Qianfan himself, they all knew how much of a threat the guerrilla warfare capabilities of the Luchuan Army were to the Ming army in the mountains and forests of Mengyang.

These Luchuan battles are familiar with the terrain and fighting methods, and at the same time hidden in the vast villages in the mountains and forests, when attacking the Ming army's defense line of battle, these Luchuan troops incarnated as guerrilla fighters, and when they withdrew from the battlefield, they became villagers in the cottage, and the bamboo basket behind their backs was a mountain knife, bow and arrow and fresh hunting, when the Ming army chased, they could only see the simple faces of the mountain people who acted alone and the indifferent and full of rejection expressions of the mountain people in the brigade, no matter what the situation, there was no room for the Ming army to take action against them, As a result, it also fell into a completely passive beating situation.

In the battle in the mountains and forests, because of the capricious weather, the firearms of the Ming army often had to face the situation of failure, and in various special circumstances such as night raids, the Ming army in a melee situation also suffered huge casualties under the numerical advantage of the Luchuan warriors' surprise attack.

And the long-term battle in this situation, the result is that the manpower of the Ming army is getting smaller and smaller, and the situation is more and more inclined to the side of the Luchuan army, and the Ming army cannot see any reversal.

Bai Qianfan did not think of other ways to solve the crisis in Manggu Mountain, and even thought of Jiang Yugang's method, starting from going deep into the village, step by step to solve the active guerrilla situation of the Luchuan Army relative to the Ming Army.

On the other hand, the form of the Mengyang City defense line is complex, and the troops attacked by the Luchuan Army are not only on the side of the Manggu Mountain Defense Line, but also on the other hand, there are other places that may not be inferior to the Manggu Mountain Defense Line in importance, or even more important in terms of importance.

For example, Heping Town, Longdong Village and other places, once these places are lost, it is not an exaggeration to say that Meng Yangcheng is directly encircled by the Luchuan Army, and the remaining main defense line is the small and medium-sized camps near Mengyang City, and the news of the Luchuan Army gathering everywhere is endless, because of the backwardness of the intelligence level, Bai Qianfan can not get the exact news, and can only be blurred by the truth and falsehood of the vast majority of his energy, and there is no mind and ability to solve the problem of Manggu Mountain.

In addition to opportunities, the most direct obstacle to Bai Qianfan's factor is manpower, Meng Yangcheng's task is not just to simply hold the city, more importantly, it is the transportation hub and operation center of the entire Ming Army Front, he is responsible for resource allocation, he does not have a lot of power, and even has no qualifications for resource allocation, but completely obeys the orders of the upper commander of the Chinese army battalion, and more tasks exist as a transit guide, which brings him a heavy task burden.

Because Mengyangcheng is actually a dualistic military base, the general military base is either in charge of military or logistics, just like the large battalion on the front line and the grain and material transfer base in Longchuan and Nandian in the rear.

But because of Mengyang's important geographical location, the tasks it is responsible for are dualistic, Bai Qianfan does not have the extra energy to make more changes, and he is informed that he will make military attempts, and as a garrison, his power is too small.

Finally, the most fatal point, and the biggest limitation, is that although Bai Qianfan, as the supreme commander of Mengyang City, the material transfer center, can obtain some resources from it, maybe redundant, or not redundant, but he is also limited by resources, that is, the types of abundant resources, he can get more, and here is the most important grain and grass, which is also the key to the large amount of grain and grass that he was able to provide to Jiang Yugang in the Mang Ancient Castle for development and popularity.

But the type of lack of resources, he is also lacking, here is naturally manpower, the battle of Luchuan itself has launched most of the Ming army to participate, and those who are sent to the front line are all troops with sufficient combat effectiveness after complex mobilization, and 130,000 troops are also a limit of mobilization, and there is no larger-scale mobilization, so Bai Qianfan does not have more soldiers.

In addition to the soldiers, Bai Qianfan certainly has a large number of people available, but on the one hand, these people are not qualified soldiers, and it is difficult to say the pros and cons of being sent to the battlefield, on the other hand, Meng Yangcheng also needs a lot of people to work, and at the most critical moment, they will not use the people as soldiers.

Therefore, although Bai Qianfan also transferred some people to supplement manpower in the later period, most of them continued to be responsible for the transfer of materials.

Under the constraints of these tasks, unless Bai Qianfan made a desperate bet to keep the defense line of Manggu Mountain, he had no chance to do this.