The second battle between Song Yingchangjun and Wang Shengrongjun was even more tragic than the first.

In the first battle, Song Yingchang's army had nearly 80,000 people, and in the battle, Song Yingchang's army killed or captured nearly 10,000 people, wounded more than 1,000 (excluding minor injuries), and less than 70,000 people could continue to fight.

At that time, Wang Shengrong's army had more than 63,000 people, and in the battle, Wang Shengrong's army had more than 2,000 killed and nearly 1,000 wounded (excluding minor injuries), and more than 59,000 people could continue to fight.

In the second major battle that just ended, Song Yingchang's army had a strength of 100,000, more than 34,000 killed or captured, more than 2,000 wounded (excluding minor injuries), and more than 63,000 soldiers who could fight.

Wang Shengrong's army had more than 65,000 people, and in the battle, Wang Shengrong's army had nearly 11,000 killed and more than 3,000 wounded (excluding minor injuries), and there were more than 50,000 soldiers who could fight.

In the second battle between Wang Shengrong's army and Song Yingchang's army, the ratio of casualties between the two armies was almost one to three, but the degree of decline in the combat effectiveness of Wang Shengrong's army seemed to be no worse than that of Song Yingchang's army, which had more casualties.

There were more than 5,000 men in the four regiments of the advance troops, with more than 3,000 dead and wounded, and nearly 4,000 men in the three regiments of the grenadier unit, with more than 2,000 dead and wounded.

Even the three infantry battalions of the firearms unit, which did not suffer many casualties, fired so many shots on the battlefield, the barrels were seriously worn, and their combat effectiveness also dropped significantly.

More than 14,000 people were killed and wounded, which can be said to be the largest number of casualties in a major battle since the People's Army raised its flag, but this is not the end, and perhaps there will be more casualties in the future.

After the war, Wang Shengrong reflected on the battle, and he felt that he had made a big mistake, that is, the grenadier unit was too small.

Before the war, Wang Shengrong's grenadier unit had three regiments and nearly 4,000 people, because the grenades were relatively heavy, and all the grenadier soldiers carried a sufficient number of grenades, accounting for a little more than one-third of Wang Shengrong's grenades.

The grenadiers carried by the grenadiers alone brought more than 10,000 casualties to the Ming army, and if the size of the grenadier unit were doubled, the number of casualties on the battlefield would also be doubled, and the People's Army would be able to defeat the Ming army with a smaller number of casualties.

The past is irreparable, and Wang Shengrong has made a decision in his heart to expand the size of the grenadier unit as soon as possible, up to two brigades, even if all the grenades in reserve are thrown out at one time on the battlefield, as long as the enemy is defeated with fewer casualties.

At present, the strength of the People's Army has dropped greatly, but Wang Shengrong is not worried that a large-scale battle will break out with the Ming Army in a short time, the number of casualties of the Ming Army is several times that of the People's Army, and the strength has also dropped significantly, and the Ming Army is the losing side, and the morale will drop sharply, and it will take a while to restore morale, and the People's Army has enough time to restore its combat effectiveness.

There is only one thing Wang Shengrong is more worried about, the Ming court is too strong, this time the Ming army has more than 30,000 casualties, and more Ming troops may be mobilized in the future, and the people's army led by him cannot increase too many troops.

Wang Shengrong could only hope that more tiger head guns and grenades could be sent from the rear, so that he could lead the People's Army to block the steady stream of Ming troops.

Wang Shengrong was also very emotional about the performance of the Ming army in this battle.

At the beginning of the battle, tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded under the attack of the grenadier units of the People's Army, and they did not retreat, and they withdrew only when more than 30,000 people were killed and wounded and reached one-third of the total strength, and the Ming army's tenacity surprised Wang Shengrong.

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The Ming army camp, after determining the number of casualties on his side in this battle, Song Yingchang sat motionless.

Song Yingchang knew that the Ming army would have more casualties in this battle, but he did not expect that the number of dead and wounded would be as high as more than 36,000, accounting for more than one-third of the total strength of the Ming army.

Recalling the course of the Great War, Song Yingchang soon discovered the reason for the defeat of the Ming army.

This time, the Ming army's plan to besiege the People's Army on three fronts was itself a very good tactic, and Song Yingchang and a group of Ming army generals had a relatively large confidence in defeating the enemy, and it can be seen from the situation that the Ming army was about to gain the upper hand on the frontal battlefield and the eastern battlefield in the early and middle stages of the battle, and if it were not for the people's army's firearms units to support the frontal battlefield, the Ming army would have a greater possibility of completing a breakthrough on the frontal battlefield.

It's a pity that Song Yingchang didn't expect that the firearms unit of the People's Army would be put on the battlefield on the west side, and the Ming troops on the left and right roads did not carry heavy artillery and chariots in order to march quickly, and under the attack of the firearms unit of the People's Army, the Right Route Army was defeated in this way, and if the People's Army pursuing the Right Route Army had not withdrawn, the number of dead and wounded of the Right Route Army would not have been only about 10,000.

If the three-way siege plan was more sufficient, the victory in this battle must have belonged to the Ming army, but the war had passed, and the Ming army was defeated, and time could not go back to before the war.

Faced with more than 36,000 casualties and a devastating demoralization of the Ming army, Song Yingchang understood that the Ming army would not be able to engage in a new battle with the People's Army in a short period of time.

Song Yingchang understands better that the number of casualties in this battle is so much more than that of the Ming army in the previous battle, and when the news reaches the capital, his position as the commander of the army will definitely be replaced, and it is not unlikely that he will be sentenced to death, Song Yingchang can only hope that his family will not be affected.

But now Song Yingchang is still the commander of the army, he did not give up the idea of the army, loyal to the emperor, he did not want to see the People's Army defeat the Ming army, take away the Ming Dynasty, the more this time, the more Song Yingchang has to lead the Ming army to hold here and resist the People's Army.

At this time, Song Yingchang also thought of the three battlefields of Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi, and before the war started in Jiangxi, Song Yingchang sent it to let the Ming army in the three places drag the people's army.

The strength of the People's Army is unimaginable, the 100,000 Ming troops in the Jiangxi battlefield have been defeated, and the situation in the other three battlefields does not know what it looks like, Song Yingchang can only hope that the Ming troops in the three battlefields will only drag the People's Army, instead of gathering a large army to attack again.

In fact, the situation of the Ming army on the three battlefields of Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi was as Song Yingchang hoped, and it was also the last battle that allowed the commanders of the Ming army in the three places to see the true strength of the people's army, and this time their goal was only to drag down the people's army on the opposite side, and they did not blindly defeat the people's army on the opposite side.

Before and after the war between Song Yingchang's army and Wang Shengrong's army, several small-scale battles broke out between the Ming army and the people's army on the three battlefields of Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi, and the total number of Ming troops killed and wounded was less than 5,000, and the number of people's army casualties was only more than 1,000.