"Thank you to the general for coming to the rescue, Yongzhou is grateful."

The red flag of the empire has been planted at the head of the city, Yongzhou has been saved, and Su Mian took the officials of all the cities and saluted Feng Sanhu sincerely.

It stands to reason that the guest army from other places rescued the old and young in the city, and Yongzhou should prepare some ceremonial gold, and then treat the army with pot pulp.

However, Yongzhou was surrounded by thieves for 80 days, the water source was cut off, the food was eaten, and the only wealth in the city had already been used to reward and recruit warriors who dared to go out of the city to fight, and even most of the houses were demolished and burned as firewood.

Therefore, Su Mian couldn't even take out the money and food for the army, so he could only verbally express his gratitude to the Chinese army for coming to the rescue.

In this regard, Feng Sanhu waved his hand very generously:

"Naturally, our rewards are reviewed and distributed by the Imperial Cabinet, and not a penny is missing. Since Master Su also agreed that Yongzhou City should change its flag and join Huaxia, then this is the land of Huaxia, and the people are also the people of Huaxia. ”

"It's just that the war is not over yet, so we can't relax there." Feng Sanhu reminded: "I am a soldier, and the matter of fighting can be left to me." Before the cabinet issued the order, Lord Su was still the magistrate of Yongzhou, so there were some things that Lord Su had to cooperate. ”

"General, please speak up."

"First, I heard that before we appeared, some thieves chased the barbarians who broke away, and there were nearly 10,000 thieves in Kunlun Pass, so my people had to continue to attack, and the corpses of the thieves all over the ground under the city of Yongzhou had to be disposed of."

Feng Sanhu did bypass Kunlun Pass, not because he couldn't fight, but because he didn't want to waste time.

Now that Yongzhou is saved, it is natural to turn back and clean up those thieves who are not in Yongzhou, but in this way, Su Mian will be responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.

"This is natural, this is what Yongzhou should do." Su Mu agreed to come down.

"It's not that simple, Lord Su." Feng Sanhu said: "The work of cleaning up the battlefield is very important, and it cannot be solved by digging a big hole. ”

Cleaning the battlefield was a delicate and oily job, because it was possible to collect the wealth on the corpses, no matter how poor the thieves were, a little change, a small amount of dry food and a rag were always available, and there were also dead mules and horses, which needed to be skinned and cut for meat. For the lowest creeps and ordinary people, it is also a lot of wealth.

For the empire, in the process of cleaning up the battlefield, it is necessary to carefully count the number of enemies destroyed (the general staff especially needs this kind of data), treat their own wounded, collect the corpses, the victims of our army must be carefully buried or cremated and the bones can be retrieved to bring back to their hometowns, and the corpses of the enemy must also be incinerated and buried in a deep way, which has caused the epidemic - in a southern city like Gui Province, which has a relatively long summer, epidemic prevention work is not inferior to the top priority of war.

"Please gather the scholars in the city and help us count the numbers, and at the same time boil some horse meat porridge for our wounded."

After Feng Sanhu explained, he said politely but firmly:

"The spoils of war, in addition to weapons and important utensils, can be distributed by the soldiers, Yongzhou can take 30% as a reward."

"This ......" Su Mian hesitated, he was the kind of traditional Confucian scribe, no matter how good the local governance is, no matter how good the level of governance is, he can't change this, so he has a lot of resistance to making a fortune from the dead.

"Don't shirk." Feng Sanhu said with a smile: "Master Su doesn't want it himself, this Yongzhou City has been robbed like this, and the common people always have to earn something to recover in the future, even if it is a rag, it can always be used as a dirt bag or patch to sew clothes." ”

Feng Sanhu estimated that the empire would allocate funds for Yongzhou's restoration work, but the people could not rely on the empire alone, and at this time, even a penny more would be good.

"Okay, then do as the general says." Su Mian thought about it, and could only agree, at most, he didn't stretch out his hand.

"Also, please keep an eye on the captives." Feng Sanhu was still smiling, but Su Mian felt that when he said this, his smile completely turned cold: "According to our military regulations, after the war is over, we have to kill another batch to set an example." ”

……

In the territory of the Yue Kingdom, the capital city of Thang Long Mansion is under the city.

A big war is nearing its end.

A huge war elephant was bleeding all over, screaming and falling to the ground on its side, several Vietnamese soldiers on the elephant's back were thrown down, one unlucky egg was directly crushed to death by the elephant, and several others were also smashed to pieces.

Chinese naval sailors and marines surrounded the elephant with rifles with bayonets, and some stabbed the bayonets into the necks of the elephants, while others mended the knives of the Vietnamese soldiers one by one.

On the temporary watchtower not far away, Xu Shiyang looked at the battlefield coldly and said nothing.

In the face of more than 1,000 Chinese troops, the self-proclaimed Dayue Jiaozhi people still dared to resist!

This is already the third counterattack launched by Thang Long Province against the Chinese army, with about 10,000 people and more than 30 war elephants.

Of course, they had to face the 150 Guards soldiers, 600 marines, and 350 sailors ashore of the Chinese army, a huge force of 1,100 men, and the counterattack naturally failed.

In the battle, the Chinese army lost three people and seven were wounded, and as for the number of casualties of the Vietnamese army, there is no statistics for the time being, but it is probably between 1:150 and 180.

After all, the navy does not specialize in land warfare like the army, and this exchange ratio is acceptable.

There is no problem with military rations, and the food and grass of more than 1,000 people can be grabbed from the surrounding villages of the Jiaozhi people.

Even the more than 20 elephants lying on the battlefield are enough for the Chinese army to eat for some time.

However, the shell consumption of the deck guns was very large, and the navy did not have enough pack animals, so it was not easy to drag six deck guns and one and a half base shells to Thang Long Province, and after several major battles, the average remaining ammunition for each gun was only two or three rounds.

Therefore, this counterattack of the Vietnamese army has achieved at least a great result - although the field hammer enemy, it is impossible for Xu Shiyang to attack Thang Long Mansion with the little strength around him.

It's really disappointing.

"Forget it, let's do it this time." Xu Shiyang muttered to himself: "This city, wait until next time." ”

As a result, at the end of the month of 1795, when the New Year was about to be ushered in, the Yue State took advantage of the fall of the Great Zhou Dynasty to invade Gui Province, and the revenge of the Chinese Empire after that had basically ended.

In the direction of Yongzhou, after learning of the collapse of the main force, the Vietnamese troops who were pursuing the barbarians immediately turned south and fled, and Feng Sanhu, who had lost all his horses, was also suffering from fighting again and did not give the order to continue the pursuit.

It's just that when the Vietnamese army at Kunlun Pass tried to retreat, they were intercepted by him and the whole army was annihilated.

During the entire war, almost 100,000 people in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, which were occupied by the Vietnamese army, were killed or plundered, and countless economic losses were lost.

During the Yongzhou hold and the Chinese counterattack, the Vietnamese army lost almost 40,000 people, half of whom were captured. The barbarians lost about 50,000 soldiers, including 20,000 prisoners.

Feng Sanhu ordered the execution of half of them, a total of 20,000 people, and the rest of the captives were transported to the north as slaves.

On the road from Haiphong to Thang Long Mansion, the troops led by Xu Shiyang burned all the way, causing a total of about 100,000 casualties on the battlefield, and the economic losses were also incalculable.

Judging by the losses of the people, the two sides seem to have a draw.

Of course, from a military point of view, the main force of the Vietnamese army has actually been destroyed, and they will inevitably not be able to withstand the harsher retaliation of the Chinese army in the future.