In terms of casualty exchange ratio alone, there is nothing commendable about a victory compared to a cold-weapon battle.

Under the agricultural civilization, the ability of generals and soldiers' fighting skills, as well as the country's political and logistical support, jointly determine the final outcome of the war, so often the winning side of the field battle, ending in an overwhelming victory is more common, and the casualty ratio will be very large, but the casualty gap between the stalemate and the storming of the city is not obvious, and even the siege of the city is more than the death of the defender.

As a result, stalemate in field battles is rare, and most of the unfavorable side will choose to retreat to key passes and cities, so the field battle will either be a big victory or a big defeat, and the field casualties are more likely to occur during the pursuit and prisoners.

Therefore, the fleeing side is often killed to the point that the armor is incomplete, and it is common for the casualty exchange ratio to appear 1:3 to 5, and it is normal for a fourth-rate army such as Changsun Guo to play a casualty exchange ratio of 1:10.

Last night, Du Ruixun occupied the time, place, and people, and brought the tactical attainments of cold weapons to the extreme, playing a casualty exchange ratio of 3.8 to 1, if he called the second, no one in the Central Plains dared to call the third, even if Gongliangchen and Gongliangxiu went out in person, it would not be better.

Bai Liyan couldn't help but feel a little respectful, and he said to Wei Qi:

"Send someone to the Huwei River to inform Du Ruixun, the chief general of the guards, that our army allows 5,000 guards to come without weapons to collect the bodies of the guards before noon tomorrow."

"Subordinates obey."

As soon as Wei Qi's words fell, Xue Sheng hurriedly said:

"Deputy marshal, it's taboo for the warring generals of the two armies to exchange news."

Bai Liyan disagreed and said:

"It's not a big deal, this handsome's huge family business has hit the guards hard, can he still surrender to the enemy."

Xue Sheng laughed when he heard the news:

"Hehaha...... That's right......"

Generally speaking, the warring generals of the two armies are not allowed to communicate privately or even meet each other, and even if the envoys should be approved by the monarch and most of the principal military attachés and the supervising army, in order to prevent private gifts from being secretly bribed, even if they have an absolute advantage, they may be designed by the weaker side.

Thinking that Bai Liyan was desperate and faced a desperate situation, he had to design on the glacier to lead Mooney to meet, which allowed him to get out of danger, and more than once. Therefore, under the agrarian civilization where communications are not developed and ideas are bound, the meeting between the commanders of the two armies may not be a good thing.

The reason why Du Ruixun sent someone to take away the corpse was that Bai Liyan's idea was very simple, to delay time and hit the morale of the guards.

The guards left behind more than 60,000 people, and nearly half of the casualties who fled back last night were killed, and although the weather is cold now, when it rains constantly, it will rot and cause a plague over time, and someone needs to clean it up.

At this moment, there are less than 40,000 people standing in the Xian army, and cleaning up the corpses of 40,000 people is tantamount to looking for death. It is reasonable for Wei Jun to understand the name of his family's corpse, and at the same time give Du Ruixun a hot potato, even if he knows that there is fraud, he can only take it hard.

First of all, this is not to leave hundreds or thousands of corpses, it is 50,000 or 60,000 people, and if you don't collect the corpses of your own brothers, you can't say anything about it, even if the dead are untouchables, and the military attaches at the lower levels can't be suppressed, not to mention that this is 50,000 or 60,000 people, and there are people of all social classes, and if you don't bring the corpses back, you can't explain them to the country.

Secondly, the loss of 50,000 or 60,000 people in one night is undoubtedly a devastating blow to the morale of the guards, and at the same time, after the guards transport back the corpses, they will find that there are less than 20,000 people.

Although there were very few vicious incidents of collective executions of prisoners of war in the Xian army, the Wei army had a "tradition" of killing people in pits, executing them collectively, and even cutting off people's heads to "Jingguan", and Du Ruixun had to weigh the weight of 20,000 people from his own standpoint.

Third, Du Ruixun attacked all night, with 50,000 or 60,000 casualties, plus the previous artillery casualties, more than 600,000 of his horses and horses went to a quarter, and the casualties of the Xian army were only one-tenth of them.

In the end, Bailiyan only allowed 5,000 guards to carry 40,000 corpses without weapons, and the time limit was until noon tomorrow, not counting the notification and organization time, at best, the guards had one day and one night, and 5,000 people could not transport 40,000 corpses back to Huhuwan, which was forty miles away, in one day, at least two or three days.

After last night's fierce battle, the defenders have lost the confidence to continue the offensive in the short term, even if the Iwaki reinforcements arrive, before dark, the Xianjun reinforcements will also land by boat to reinforce Hukou Bay, at most restore to last night's situation, the two sides will kill again, the next morning the guards will leave down 350,000 corpses, the Xian army is only 10,000 casualties, and tonight may not be last night's heavy rain to help Du Ruixun.

Based on the above points, Du Ruixun no longer has the courage to continue the attack, and at the same time, he must bring the body back, otherwise he will not be able to explain to the officers and soldiers below, why he has inexplicably killed forty or fifty thousand people in one night.

At about four o'clock, a group of soldiers of the Xian army appeared east of the Huwei River guard camp on horseback and waving the handsome banner.

Almost all of the white flag surrender to ancient Europe and ancient China followed this special situation, in a sense, China appeared earlier, the earliest white flag was Liu Bang into Xianyang, Qin Ziying raised the white flag to show surrender.

Qin regarded black as the national color, so black was the color. Qin II died, and the provisional emperor Qin Ziying surrendered in the reverse color of the country to show surrender, and thus began to show white surrender as the iconic color of surrender.

But there is no such rule at the moment, and the military uniforms of the princes of no country are black, so there is no white flag in surrender, armistice, peace talks and battlefield negotiations, but they all default to the flag and the flag as a signal for negotiations between the two sides.

The news of the squad sent by the Xian army quickly reported that in the camp of Du Ruixun, due to the haste of retreating early in the morning after a fierce battle, Du Ruixun and the rest of the troops did not flee back to the Huweihe camp until midnight, counted the casualties and redeployed, and were busy for 578 minutes before taking a breath.

At this time, Du Ruixun, who was already boiling his eyes red and his face blackened, was not tired at all, on the contrary, when he retreated this morning, Du Ruixun made people arrest the two Xianjun alive and returned to the camp for interrogation at any cost.

When the guards were defeated and retreated, they successively snatched some guns and ammunition from the hands of the Xian army, a total of 17 long and short guns, and demonstrated through the interrogation of the Xian army's live confessions, all of which shocked the generals of the guards. What surprised Du Ruixun the most was that the continuous shooting of six consecutive bullets from the revolver frightened everyone, and before last night, no one in the whole country and the whole army knew about the secrets of the Xian army.

"General Qiyu Du, to the east of our army, we found a group of Xian troops coming with a handsome flag, and the word "hundred miles" on the handsome flag is less than five miles away from the front of our camp."

The soldier said quickly, Du Ruixun in contemplation was shocked, as if he had never heard clearly, and he asked:

"How many people!"

"There is only one team, about a dozen people, who are here under the banner of Bai Liyan, the commander of the Xian Army."

At this time, the protector Wang Xie came forward and said:

"The Xian army seriously wounded our army last night, and today it will rely on excellent equipment to come to seek battle."

"No, the Xian army killed all night last night, and today it has no strength to fight again. And my Iwaki reinforcements are about to arrive, and it is not wise for the Xian army to seek battle at this time. Although our army is not as good as the Xian army, but the Huwei River is more than 40 miles away from the riverside, the Xian army is beyond the reach of the earth-shaking fire, if Baili Yan takes the initiative to seek battle, now the heavy rain has stopped, if it comes in formation, our army can swarm bees, bed crossbows to shoot it. ”

Although he did not know what a grenade launcher was, Du Ruixun figured out the principle of killing and using the restrictions of the grenade launcher, and knew that the maximum range of the grenade launcher was only 200 steps, far away from the bed crossbow.

A swarm of bees to adjust the firing angle, or hide outside the Xianjun grenade launcher to suppress, just these two points, Du Ruixun expected that Bailiyan would not take the initiative to attack before getting the artillery.

"Go, give orders to the front camp, and bring the Xian army to us."

"General Du, this is a big taboo."

Wang Xie reminded that Du Ruixun was quite helpless:

"So far, our army has lost two battles in a row, and the gods and ghosts of the Xian army are unpredictable, and I am afraid that there is no chance of winning this battle......"

"Our army still has a small 500,000 horses to fight with the Xian army, why did the general say this!"

"Then General Wang, does he know how many soldiers and horses the Xian army on the other side is?"

Du Ruixun asked rhetorically, Wang Xie thought for a moment and said:

"At least 700,000!"

Du Ruixun shook his head and said:

"Although the general does not know the geometry of the Xian army, the four-wheeled baggage carriage used by the Xian army can carry 30 stones, even if there are only 5,000 accompanying troops, it can supply 200,000 troops to eat and drink for two to three months, and 200,000 troops need 800,000 to 900,000 people to transport, and the Xian army now only needs 5,000 carts to complete.

At present, the Xian army is stationed on the east bank, and the vehicles are only used for transshipment and do not accompany the army, and in March, the goods transferred are millions or even tens of millions of stones, and the manpower that can be moved is millions.

As far as I know, everyone in Xianguo can buy weapons and armor, and they are steel blades, and if you recruit new soldiers, you can get millions of people in one night. It can also be seen from the ordnance accompanying the landing of the Xian army, not only the firearms of everyone are equipped with spikes, but also short knives, iron kettles and iron cups, which alone shows the abundant equipment of the Xian army.

If it is as expected, I am afraid that there will be no less than two million Xian troops in front of our army! ”

Wang Xie was shocked when he heard the news, and he hurriedly said:

"The general said amazing words, for fear of criticism, please be cautious."

"Well, do as I tell you."

"This ......" Wang Xie was embarrassed, Du Ruixun ignored him anymore, and called the guards to give orders.

The interrogation of the prisoners of the Xian army touched Du Ruixun the most not with firearms, but the changes behind the secrecy measures of the Xian army and a series of deception plans.

As the saying goes, "soldiers and horses go first before grain and grass are moved", any wise general will give priority to logistics in war, and Du Ruixun is even more so. The Haar captives repeatedly mentioned the heavy use of four-wheeled wagons and boats to transfer baggage, and they soon realized that the logistics of the Haxian army had changed radically.

Previously, the Xianjun army also used four-wheeled carriages to transport materials, but at that time the load was only 156 stones, and the effect was not obvious, and the national holdings were only 20,000 vehicles, which could not be used in large quantities, so it could not reflect the logistics value. Since then, four-wheeled wagons with more than 30 stone have been installed, and the efficiency of logistics and transportation has been doubled.

Increased logistical efficiency means more manpower is saved for conversion. At this point alone, Du Ruixun suddenly found that what he was facing now was a monster at all.