Chapter 174: The End of Suffering
When the sun illuminates this land again, the chaos in this area has completely subsided.
At this time, in the morning light, looking at the original defense line of the Guards Firearms Brigade, it had become scattered.
The corpses of the Tartar warriors, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and the clothed minions were scattered everywhere above and below the remaining broken breasts, inside and outside the trenches.
Even the breastwork on both sides of the wall collapsed in some sections at this time.
The breastwork wall made of dirt and stone was stained with the blood left by the Tartar soldiers and clothed minions, and even the air here was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The officers and men of the Royal Guards Firearms Brigade were a little tired after several fierce battles in a row, and they did not get enough rest, and their nerves remained in a state of high tension.
After seeing the collapse and retreat of the Tartar army, many of the logistics officers and soldiers of the Firearms Brigade of the Guards Army, who had been fighting fiercely all night, sat down directly on the rain.
Some leaned against the chest wall and fell asleep without drumming.
Now here, there are only 5,000 logistics troops, responsible for the aftermath and staying behind.
The rest of the soldiers of the 10,000-strong firearms brigade had already split up to pursue the scattered Tartars and clothed minions, collecting as many horses as possible and taking prisoners in order to expand the results of the battle.
On the remaining positions, after the inventory of the staff clerks, the Guards Firearms Brigade paid the price of nearly 200 casualties in this night.
Although most of them were lightly wounded, many were seriously injured, and even more than a dozen soldiers were unfortunately killed in battle.
The casualties were not insignificant, which made several staff officers jump to their feet in distress.
But comparatively, the casualties on the Tartar side were much greater.
When they attacked the breastwork of the firearms brigade soldiers, they were stopped by crazy super artillery.
Then it was calculated by the brigade commander Huang Jingyi, and the Tartars naturally caused a rout.
And before the super cannon launched the bombardment, that time was the most anxious time of the war.
Most of the casualties of the Guards Firearms Brigade were inflicted at that time.
Although these baby soldiers and soldiers do everything they can, plus they are more and more fully armed, and they are constantly shooting with crossbows and muskets.
Sometimes, dozens of explosives were even thrown out, killing and wounding a large number of enemy soldiers.
In addition, their volleys of guns and crossbows at night, although they were blind shots, also caused huge casualties to the army of traitors and slaves who were frantically attacking.
Especially at the moment before the final battle, the tens of thousands of traitors and slaves attacked wildly, so they caused casualties among some guards soldiers.
Fortunately, at the most critical moment, the Tartars launched a general attack and were bombarded by crazy super artillery, so the tide of the battle was reversed in an instant.
The Tartars and traitor soldiers, after a fierce battle this night, left at least fifty or sixty thousand corpses in front of the Guards Firearms Brigade.
After dawn, the battle ended, and Huang Jingyi, the brigade commander of the firearms brigade, immediately sent logistics troops to clean up the battlefield again.
Previously, because it was night, after the enemy army broke down and fled, in order not to cause accidental battle damage to the soldiers, the battlefield was only hastily sifted, but now of course it has to be cleaned up again.
The officers and men of the logistics of the firearms brigade kept in mind the lesson of the former "virgin" of the Guards, whether the Tartar died or not, it was a knife or a shot.
Then, the logistics soldiers of the two thousand-man detachment dug several huge pits next to the battlefield, buried the bodies of these Tartars and traitors, and then compacted them with thick soil.
There is no way, it is late spring, and it is easy to cause a plague, and the corpse of the Tartar must be properly disposed of.
"Your Majesty!"
Huang Jingyi, the commander of the brigade, strode to Zhu Youxiao's side, and asked with a little puzzle: "We really don't need to quickly go straight to Anshan Station and Liaoyang City?" ”
After the battle was fully over, he divided the soldiers of the firearms brigade into thousands of troops, went around capturing prisoners and horses, and he himself stayed here to command the whole situation.
Although he had just led the soldiers to a big victory, he felt that he was not happy at all, so he wanted to lead the soldiers to march quickly and capture Naanshan Station and Liaoyang City as soon as possible.
"No, I don't."
Zhu Youxiao waved his hand calmly, without the slightest hint of urgency, "You have to save a breath for these Tartars, you can't push them too hard, lest they jump off the wall in a hurry." ”
In the new army of the Ming Dynasty, people with a discerning eye know that Huang Taiji and Houjin are like grasshoppers in autumn, and they can't jump for long in Liaodong and the Great Northeast.
In the case of the Ming Empire's four-way army, they are powerless to return.
If you want to save your life and the warriors and people of the tribe, you must leave the vast northeast region as soon as possible
Otherwise, no matter how much they escaped, they would not be able to escape the fate of death and annihilation.
Zhu Youxiao did not lead the army to pursue as soon as possible, in fact, there was one more important factor.
That is, in the Tartar-ruled area north of the Liaoshen Great Plain, those people have no home blessing for the Ming Empire at all
Only by pushing forward horizontally, while sweeping all the villages in the area here, and cleaning up all the current areas of these Tartars, can we cut off the thoughts of Huang Taiji and these Diao people.
Otherwise, even if you quickly occupy all the territory that the Tartars occupy now, it will be useless.
The kind of people who are in Hanying and have their hearts in gold are not what Zhu Youxiao wants, but there will be many hidden dangers.
Therefore, now while advancing with a large army, it is the right way to demolish and abandon all the villages along the way, and to advance the two basic national policies of the Ming Empire at the same time.
Since in this Liaoshen Great Plain, at least more than half of the people are hardcore traitors.
That's easy to do, sweep and clean up all these guys, arrest them all after screening, send them to the iron mines of Goguryeo, and give them all to Lao Tzu as miners.
An unstable and hidden northeast region is absolutely not good.
Therefore, now the speed of the four-way army's northward advance must be slowed down, and it must be advanced simultaneously with the Royal Construction Brigade
Only in this way can we break the foundation of Huang Taiji and Houjin Tatar in the entire Great Northeast, so as not to bury hidden dangers in the future.
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After the salvo of the +3 super cannon that was so powerful that it was terrifying, nearly 30,000 warriors of the clan collapsed in an instant under that special terrain.
When the tide of battle was reversed, Yue Tuo and Ao Bai knew that the general trend had gone, and immediately decisively led their subordinates to run away immediately.
Seeing that unsightly tragedy, both of them knew that if they didn't run away immediately, they wouldn't even have a chance to escape.
The two of them, including the generals who escaped the catastrophe around them now, didn't know that this was the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao, who deliberately let them go.
Otherwise, I would have taken out the Super Short Hammer, shot them one by one, and sent them to the west.
After a night of running, and while running, he ordered to rescue the clansmen and clothed minions under his command with all his might.
Everyone was so busy that they couldn't breathe, they were tired and out of breath, and now that the night was over, they didn't run far.
However, not far in front of them, it was the town of Anshan Station, and everyone was immediately relieved.
At this time, the color was already bright, and there were no more pursuers of the new army of the Ming Dynasty behind, so it was time to breathe a sigh of relief.
By this time, Yue Tuo had completely lost his strength, and he immediately ordered to stop the army and rest, and the most important thing was to count the number of people.
He, Ao Bai and the others were very anxious, wanting to see how many clansmen and warriors had fled with the team, and how many losses they had.
A quarter of an hour later, the preliminary statistical results of the emergency were already out, Yue Tuo and Ao Bai took the report and looked at it, and immediately screamed in unison, almost fainting to the ground!
This time, the whole army attacked, but failed to shake the enemy's defense line by half a point, and suffered an unprecedented crushing defeat.
Now there are only more than 10,000 coated minions who are following the army!
Of the soldiers with red flags and yellow flags, more than 10,000 people are still safe and sound.
In addition, there are more than 1,000 lightly and seriously injured people in the two banners, some of whom are seriously wounded, and on the way back with their wounds, they have also died of exhaustion, and most of the remaining seriously injured are estimated to not be able to survive for long.
The biggest losses are still war horses and supplies.
The previous army of more than 100,000 carried so many materials with the army!
Now it's good, even the original military camp is the enemy's spare.
Ninety percent of the military supplies and the thousands of craftsmen in those temporary camps also fell into the hands of the Ming New Army
In terms of war horses, there are less than 20,000 left, including some horses.
You must know that just yesterday, there were more than 80,000 war horses in his temporary camp, and there were even more other cattle and sheep horses, hundreds of thousands!
Now there are less than 20,000 war horses and horses left, and the rest of the cattle, sheep, grain and grass and other materials have all been lost!
This was already a fiasco that was close to the total annihilation of the army.
This miserable situation has led to the morale of the soldiers and horses under his command to decline to the extreme.
All of them hung their heads, all of them had a bitter face, and they couldn't afford to fight anymore.
So Yue Tuo had no choice but to order to continue to run, and at the same time sent someone back to Liaoyang City to report to Daishan, asking his unscrupulous father Daishan to quickly send reinforcements to support and respond.