Chapter Ninety-Five: Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers

The typical barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes.

As for whether the imperial court can exterminate the traitors......

It's hard to say, Wang Qinghai is really unsure.

The Great Song Dynasty had just suffered a fiasco in the north, and the military suffered heavy losses, Tong Guan, Seed Master Dao, Xin Xingzong...... It's all planted.

It is said that now the city of Tokyo is in turmoil, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are wrestling, taking the opportunity to shuffle power, where can they take care of a rebellion in the border wilderness.

It is said that there is also chaos in the south, and the White Lotus Sect has revolted again, and the leader seems to be called Zhong Xiang, Yang Mo......

It seems that this Great Song Dynasty is really in a posture where the number of qi has been exhausted!

Wang Qinghai gritted his teeth, looked at Ma Liu and said.

"Okay, done, I'll do business with you!"

Wang Qinghai still failed to defeat the businessman's instinct to pursue profit in the end!

Even if he knew that he was risking killing his head, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Salt Iron ......

It's really profitable!

Otherwise, the government would not have been taken over by the official camp.

According to statistics, the population of the Northern Song Dynasty reached about 130 million at the end of the year, not including the hidden escapees.

The people of Li all over the world are inseparable from salt and iron, and even if they can only earn one copper coin from one person, the total number of them is more than 10,000.

No wonder Wang Qinghai, a businessman, is tempted!

As Ma Liu said, compared with the profits that can be generated by salt and iron, everything else is really just an addition.

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Fold and inside the city!

After the war, the mess was cleaned up by the captive army, and the corpses of the enemy were piled up, sealed with soil, erected monuments, and cast a view of Beijing.

The huge Jingguan stands outside the city of Zhehe, shocking people's hearts!

Chen Yan and a group of high-level officials of the Dang Capture Army used Jingguan as a tribute to pay tribute to the heroes who died in battle, and set up the mountains and rivers of Yongzhen Monument, which engraved the names of the Dang Prisoner Army and begging soldiers who died in battle.

The bodies of the soldiers killed in the war were sparked and then loaded into the golden altar, ready to be transported back to their hometowns for burial after the war.

"Governor, the results of the battle have been counted."

Zhou Lide stood beside Chen Yan and said, holding a stack of white paper in his hand, and dense words were written on the white paper.

"Speak."

Chen Yan rubbed his eyebrows and said.

"According to statistics, 1,347 soldiers were killed in the battle, and 2,052 were wounded, of which 813 were disabled and veterans, and 1,239 soldiers could be returned to their original establishment."

"The battle loss rate is as high as 30%."

"I begged for the army, 9,464 soldiers were killed in battle, 16,341 soldiers were wounded, 5,400 soldiers were disabled and veterans, and 10,873 soldiers returned to their original establishment."

"The battle damage rate is as high as 20%."

Zhou Lide's voice was full of shock, an army can hit such a battle loss rate, and it can continue to fight, this is an absolute elite.

Even if the battle loss rate is almost all concentrated in the wounded, there are more than 10,000 soldiers killed in the battle of the Dangling Army and the Beggar Army.

Fortunately, Li Fengzhen beheaded the Western Xia coach Richard Geha, otherwise if he continued to fight, the outcome would be unpredictable!

Even Chen Yan had a layer of cold sweat behind his back.

Chen Yan was not surprised that the Dang Capture Army could fight to such a point, but it was just that the beggar army could withstand such high casualties, which made Chen Yan feel a little incredible.

Fortunately, the beggar army held on, otherwise, maybe this battle of Zhehecheng would have been defeated by the side of the Dangling Army.

It's just that after this big war, the beggar army is really a strong army, they can already be regarded as veterans of the war, and the acceptance rate of casualties will obviously increase a lot.

Just pay close attention to military discipline and training, and then equip them with weapons and armor.

Soon a strong army will be born!

Next, Western Xia should be unable to fight back, Chen Yan is ready to capture Xingqing Mansion, but he is also in a hurry, the army needs to be repaired, and he needs to wait for Anping's supplies and reinforcements to be sent.

Including the 3,000 recruits of the Sweeping Army, artillery, muskets, earth-shaking thunder, as well as a large number of gunpowder and lead cannons, even medicinal herbs, grass-roots officers, etc......

If you want to train tens of thousands of beggars, it is indispensable to have enough qualified grass-roots officers, and they have been reluctantly replaced by non-commissioned officers who have been captured before.

But not now, Chen Yan wants to make the beggar army have strong combat effectiveness, and all the details can't be improvised!

When everything is ready, Chen Yan will lead the army straight to Xingqing Mansion, but before that, he must train his troops first.

As for the object of military training......

Chen Yan discovered those large and small tribes of Western Xia.

Their strength is not strong, just let the beggar army first become proficient in the combat methods of the captive army.

"What about the Western Xia Army? What were the casualties of the Western Xia army? ”

Chen Yan asked.

"According to statistics, the Western Xia army is divided into four parts, namely the Yuanzhi and the city garrison, the Song-Xia border garrison, the Xia-Liao border garrison, and the army of the royal capital."

"Among them, there are 43,000 defenders of Yuanzhehe City, 37,000 garrisons on the Song-Xia border, 53,000 garrisons on the Xia-Liao border, and 10,000 troops on the Wangdu army."

"In the first battle of Zhehecheng, our army annihilated 17,000 defenders of Zhehecheng, 9,000 garrisons on the Song-Xia border, 14,000 garrisons on the Xia-Liao border, and 6,000 troops on the Wangdu army."

"A total of 46,000 people were annihilated, of which 2,000 iron harriers were completely destroyed, 800 were killed by 1,000 Poxi troops, and 5,000 Buzi were completely destroyed."

"In the end, 51,000 captives surrendered to the Western Xia army, and the rest of the Western Xia army all fled!"

Zhou Lide reported a set of data again, and Chen Yan's eyes narrowed slightly.

I have to admit that the Western Xia army's will to fight is really strong.

The total number of 140,000 troops, more than 40,000 killed close to 50,000, more than one-third of the total number of troops, before the army collapsed and surrendered, worthy of the elite division of Western Xia.

Chen Yan was sure that if he faced the Song army, let alone death, even if the casualties were close to 10%, it was estimated that he would collapse.

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The Dang Capture Army took root in Zhehe City, and with the help of the materials and food hoarded in Zhehe City, they began to reorganize the army.

The staffing of the beggar army was bloated and its combat effectiveness was uneven, so Chen Yan carried out layoffs and retired some of the soldiers who were old, too young, or physically disabled.

Chen Yan dispersed the begging army, transferred elite soldiers, plus 3,000 recruits transported from Anping, to form the second to fifth battalions of the Dangju Army.

Chen Yan took the concept of being fine but not more than many.

All of a sudden, the original 30,000-close to 40,000-strong beggar army became a army of only about 20,000 people, and nearly half of the soldiers were eliminated.

At this moment, the Dang Capture Army finally barely gathered an army, with an establishment of almost 30,000 people.

However, although the number of people in an army is almost complete, the weapons and equipment are seriously insufficient, only one-third, and the equipment is equipped with the standard equipment of the Danglu Army, and the rest can only be equipped with the equipment of the Western Xia Army first.

Although in this way, the number of the Dang Capture Army has decreased compared to before, but the combat effectiveness has not improved by a little bit.