What is called a meat grinding field, what is called a human meat grinding plate, if you have seen the tragic scene in Xiangyang City, you may have a deep impression of it.

The weather is getting hotter, and the death of soldiers on both sides is just the blood that flows out, the blood stains that condense, and then gradually in the hot weather, the stench produced can make people retreat.

As for the corpses of more fallen soldiers, the Hong Dynasty army and the Ming Dynasty army had a tacit understanding that while resting the army, they would also send laborers to the battlefield to retrieve them and properly resettle them.

The Hong Dynasty army had the habit of preserving the corpses of their own fallen soldiers, and they would arrange these soldiers according to the number of their respective army affiliations, and then directly cremate them and transport them to the martyrs' mausoleums exclusive to the Hong Dynasty army for burial.

The Ming Dynasty army recycled the corpses of its own soldiers, but it was afraid that the accumulation of too many corpses would cause an uncontrollable plague and cause greater non-combat attrition of their army.

The Ming Dynasty army was already numerically victorious, and if there was a plague on the battlefield, their military camp would inevitably suffer far greater losses than the Hong army; Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had few doctors with the army, and the sanitary conditions were very different from the Hong Dynasty army, and when it came to controlling the epidemic or saving the wounded, the Ming Dynasty army could not be compared with the Hong Dynasty army.

Sun Chuanting is not a short-sighted person, so in between battles, he does not forget to ensure the safety of his army in details.

If it weren't for the tacit understanding between the two sides to collect and dispose of the bodies of the fallen soldiers, otherwise Xiangyang City at this time would be full of mosquitoes and flies, and the plague would be rampant.

A week has passed since the first and second armies of the Hong Dynasty overcame the bad problems of their army and attacked the root of the northern and eastern city walls of Xiangyang City.

In this week, the Ming Dynasty army organized troops countless times to try to regain the lost territory, frontal attack on the position of the Hong Dynasty army, night sneak attack and other means to the extreme, but in the end it still failed to achieve the goal, but its own soldiers suffered great losses.

After a week of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the two armies of the Hong Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty squandered the blood of more than 50,000 soldiers on the land of Xiangyang City, which covers an area of only dozens of square miles, and finally soaked in the battlefield where the fierce battle was fierce.

In the end, the result was to push the position of the Hong Dynasty forward for about a mile, forcing more than 100,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty to retreat to the southwest of Xiangyang City, although it still occupies most of the country of Xiangyang City, it can be seen from the battlefield data that the Hong Dynasty army has more advantages.

"Lao Li, let's smoke a cigarette!"

Tobacco, a new crop brought from the Americas, gradually became popular in the land of the Hong Dynasty, especially in the military, a high-intensity, high-risk occupation that needed to calm the excitement after the war, but tobacco quickly became the standard for everyone.

Li Tianyang naturally knows that tobacco is harmful to the human body, but the army of the Hong Dynasty has strict military discipline, and everyone rarely acts as a traitor and criminal, but this does not mean that they do not have any hidden dangers, if they are not allowed to vent their negative and gloomy emotions in their hearts for a long time, no one can guarantee what kind of situation they regret the most.

Therefore, in the army of the Hong Dynasty, the officers encouraged the soldiers to learn one or several hobbies, such as chess, playing ball, juju, etc., so that they could vent the hidden dangers in their hearts through everyone's hobbies, and at the same time, Li Tianyang also promoted tobacco in the army, so as to eliminate some hidden dangers after the war.

Of course, the vast majority of the soldiers of the Hong Dynasty army smoked cigarettes, and most of them were directly supplied by the army, and each person would have a benefit of one tobacco per month, after all, Li Tianyang did not need to make money through tobacco, but regarded it as a bitter medicine with side effects.

However, the magic of tobacco is still as strong as that of later generations, although the Hong Dynasty government did not have the intention to promote it, but it did not

"Now, come on!!"

Lao Li took out a box of kraft paper wrapped in a small box of tobacco from his arms, took out two tissue paper sticks to wrap the slender tobacco, threw one to his companions, and held the other in his mouth.

"Borrow a fire!"

Cai Wanshou, a companion next to him, continued to lick his face and pasted it, seeing that Lao Li wanted to dodge with disgust, but he couldn't stand the shamelessness of his companion, and finally sent the fire over.

"Phew!!"

"Hoo !!!"

After taking a long puff of tobacco, after echoing in his chest and abdomen, he slowly spit out the white cloud from his mouth, and a heavy sense of satisfaction appeared on Cai Wanshou's face.

"This battle is really miserable!"

"I heard that the brothers of the third regiment have lost most of them, and after they withdraw from the city to rest, the pickpockets will merge with the other regiments!"

While smoking, Cai Wanshou chatted with Lao Li on the topic, trying to forget the purgatory-like position in front of them, and the stench that even the smell of cigarettes could not hide.

"Who's to say it isn't!"

Lao Li also sighed, before joining the Hong Dynasty army, he Lao Li was just an ordinary person, and later after the Hong Dynasty occupied the northern territory, he couldn't help but be attracted by the rich conditions given by the Hong Dynasty army when recruiting soldiers.

After joining the army, he spent the first half of the year in the recruit camp, receiving rigorous training from the recruit instructors, and was finally assigned to the Third Army.

On the first day of the company, he was separated from Cai Wanshou next to him, and the two have since become a life-and-death friendship that can be entrusted to their backs.

Later, from the nervousness and fear of the first battle on the battlefield, to now becoming a veteran in the eyes of others, facing the indifference of life and death, now even if they have just experienced the vicious battle of a few companions who died by their side, but now it is rare to take a break, they can also deal with it calmly, chat with each other.

"I don't know how long this war will last?"

Lao Li sighed in his heart, although he looked down on many things in the battle formation, but it was the first time he had experienced such a fierce and cruel battle since he joined the army, and he didn't know how long he could hold out, and where his luck would let him go.

"The Ming army is here again, prepare for war!"

Hearing this shout, Lao Li greedily took a few puffs of cigarettes in his mouth, until the tobacco leaves burned to the corners of his mouth, then he spit out the tobacco leaves, picked up the musket in his hand and squatted his head out, looking at the figures rushing towards his own position one by one in front of him.

"Musketeers prepare!"

"Shoot!!"

"Bang bang bang!!"

The sound of gunfire meant that another fight began.