Compared with the loss of ordinary soldiers, the loss of officers of the armed battalion is difficult to replenish, and at present, the formal training of a grassroots officer requires at least basic primary education, and even intermediate education.

After three years, they will be transferred to the grassroots level, and they will be transferred back to the military battalion for further study in such disciplines as drawing, campaigning, and strategy, depending on their service situation, and will be promoted to middle and senior military attachés.

In the case of emergency training, it is necessary to draw backbone soldiers from the grassroots level for one or two years of training. In either case, on the one hand, the lost officers are promoted from the grassroots soldiers, and some need to be replenished from the armed battalions, and in reality, they rely more on the replenishment of the armed battalions.

The establishment of the armament battalion is more than 12,000 people, but there are more than 4,000 technical seed instructors in combat and various disciplines, more than 1,100 instructors in the army's general staff headquarters, intelligence agencies, tactical and strategic instructors, scientific research, and medical personnel, 1,200 in the juvenile battalion, and less than 4,000 people are currently in training.

In the more than 20 years since the establishment of the armed battalion, nearly 19,000 officers of various types have been trained regularly and urgently.

However, the officers who have truly received modern education and have scientific literacy have also been trained in the last four years since mathematics began to be popularized, and more than 1,800 of them have graduated in the last four years, most of them are in the Seventh and Eighth Town Armies, as well as the artillery, mapping, and staff officers of the various armies.

In view of the shortage of manpower at the ambulance station, Bai Liyan immediately asked the navy to fly to Xiaqi, 20 miles away, and transport another batch of medical personnel and medicines across the river.

At this time, the main forces of the Xian army were all assembled to the west of Feixiaqi to conceal, and the logistics section of the baggage battalion and the armed battalion should rush to repair the temporary wharf on the day after the vanguard landed, and start erecting pontoon bridges after consolidating the beachhead. The field hospital was set up 20 miles west of Feixiaqi to facilitate the evacuation and rescue of the wounded after the landing.

It is rare for the two armies to have more than 200,000 people facing each other head-on, and nearly half of the casualties in the small half of the day, and most of the time the casualties are as high as 20 or even 30 percent, and the morale of the army will begin to waver.

Since the width of the battle line and the efficiency of the use of troops determine that all troops cannot be put into combat at one time, but continuous high-intensity wave impacts, so the actual situation is the casualties caused by the combat structure.

As a result, more than 5 to 70 percent of the casualties actually put into combat will be lost, and with such a high casualty ratio, the entire organization will collapse, and the army that is not firm in its will to fight will lose two or three percent of the casualties in the combat structure.

At this time, the troops put into combat lose their organizational nature, and they also lose the basis for battlefield dispatch and coordination, and finally completely lose the ability to fight, so that their morale collapses, which in turn affects the whole army.

Therefore, if any combat officer is the core and the officers are there, the basic operational organizational structure is basically intact, and once the officers are lost, the army will quickly disintegrate.

In cold weapon warfare, the death of a junior officer is more damaging than that of a modern army officer. The modern army has military ranks, officers are killed by sergeant major and non-commissioned officers, and sergeant major and officer deaths are commanded by the soldiers with the highest military rank, and the top-down leadership system ensures the integrity of the army organization.

Due to practical conditions and political reasons, Bailiyan did not implement the military rank system in the Xian army, but implemented the length of service and sergeant major system in disguise. Ordinary soldiers have army green stripes sewn on their left and right arms, and a bar is added for one year of service, changed to a medium-wide bar after five years, and a widened bar is used for ten years, and so on.

At the end of each period of service, the army will try its best to keep the veterans with excellent performance, increase their salaries, and increase the benefits for their families accordingly, so as to retain talents, and at the same time have the veterans who are guaranteed to study in the military battalion and other conditions.

For veterans who cannot become officers, but have outstanding abilities, chest spikes and collar flowers are set up in the army to serve as "flag leaders", that is, sergeant majors. The flag leader wears a red, yellow, and black cloth tassel on his right chest.

Red is the lowest, black is the highest, and the neckline is stamped with a copper collar as a second identifying feature. The red tassel is equivalent to the centurion, the yellow is equivalent to the chief, and the black is equivalent to the commander, who can take the command of the commander if necessary.

Among them, the red flag leader has the most, followed by yellow and black. In addition to the red flag soldiers, the yellow and black flag soldiers are usually transferred to the commander's account to listen to the use, so that they can be replenished at any time and ensure the organization in wartime.

In last night's fierce battle, the system of sergeant major and length of service greatly stabilized the battle line and maintained the combat structure that was almost collapsed. In the traditional military system, even if the Xian army used firearms, the Xian army had to be defeated long ago in the face of the fierce offensive of the guards who were not afraid of death, had tactical flexibility and a variety of weapons.

In a sense, last night's victory was a victory for the military system, with weapons accounting for at most forty percent.

It is not difficult to see from the results of successive feedback that last night's heavy rain affected the play of firearms, and the firing rate of revolvers and grenade launchers reached 90 percent, shotguns were only 50 percent, and Yongxing rifles were less than 30 percent.

The last hand-to-hand combat and the earth bombs of the guards caused most casualties, and blade injuries were still the main factor of death and disability, and forty percent of the casualties and serious injuries were caused by the Overlord cannon and bed crossbow.

The armor of the new army is lined with light leather armor, and the chest, abdomen, back, and waist are covered with chain mail, which can effectively deal with the damage of bladed weapons and ordinary blunt weapons, but it has little effect on the conscienceless cannon and bed crossbow.

In addition, there were not a few people who were killed by their own people, and at least 360 people died in the chaos at the guns of their own people.

It is worth mentioning that the guards used white phosphorus, although the injuries caused by white phosphorus accounted for only a very small part, but the injuries were fatal, severe and extensive burns and penetrating burns could not be treated at all, and the only thing that could be done was to use sedatives to relieve the pain, and sedatives were not conducive to the treatment of the burns themselves.

Around noon, the seriously wounded began to be transferred to the ship, and the wharf that had been temporarily built on the riverbank yesterday afternoon came in handy at this time. Due to the use of a combination of floating and fixed structure, the wharf can be extended to tens of meters in the water, which can be used to dock small boats below 3,000 stones, which greatly facilitates the transfer of the wounded and the replenishment of supplies.

The floating dock is designed for the rapid erection of the pontoon, the use of large wooden barrels filled with beer wrapped in clarification and drying, three or four strung into a group, dozens of hundreds of groups in series in advance into a chain, orderly into the river, under the guidance of the ship, quickly build a base frame on the river surface, and then reciprocate until the two banks are connected, and finally lay wooden planks, tighten the rope chain, open the pontoon.

In order to facilitate landing and disembarkation, steel components were custom-made, and a floating dock was erected using ready-made components of the pontoon. The pontoon bridge is then connected to a temporary fixed pier, and at the same time, ropes are tied to the onshore fixed piles to increase the strength.

The floating wharf is built in the morning and then dragged behind the big ship to land together, and after going ashore, a temporary wharf can be directly fixed in series, so as to speed up the construction of the wharf.

From beginning to end, it is full of institutionalized efficiency and convenience, which would have been unimaginable thirty years ago.

At six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, the battle damage report was sent to Bailiyan, and the Xian army lost 4,329 casualties, and the new ones were found and rescued one after another, of which 131 military attachés were killed, 59 officers of the armed battalion were killed, 37 were assigned to graduation, and the remaining 22 were supplemented by the officer corps of the armed battalion in the last six months, and another 39 were lightly and seriously wounded, most of them were centurions and officers, equivalent to the company and battalion commanders of the five regiments all killed.

Of course, these are all officers who are distributed in different formations of various armies and battalions, and they are not concentrated, and if they are concentrated in one large establishment, it is equivalent to the formation of two brigades being completely disabled.

The casualties of the guards were unexpectedly much larger than those of the Xian army, and the preliminary statistics showed that there were 20,000 minor and serious wounded, and more than 40,000 were killed in battle, and the main reasons for the casualties were also very complicated, and the damage from bullets accounted for only 40 percent, and it was also shotguns, and the damage from rifles accounted for less than 30 percent of the damage caused by bullets.

The remaining sixty percent of the injuries were explosions, stabbings, burns, and the guards' own accidental injuries, some were shocked and fainted, and some were trampled to death in the chaos, with a casualty exchange ratio of 1 to 10 and a casualty exchange ratio of 1 to 3.8.

In addition to physical injuries, the casualties of the guards are closely related to the level of medical care and the timeliness of rescue. The vast majority of the corpses and wounded of the attacking side could not be transported out of the line of fire until they won, and the wounded could only wait for death or be wounded a second time.

The Xian army was on the defensive, had established a sound medical system and first-aid measures, and had sufficient basic medicines and equipment, which greatly saved the deaths caused by the trauma that would not have been fatal, and at the same time, the popularization of blood transfusion technology made blood loss a major cause of death.

It is worth mentioning that under the constraints of technology, blood transfusion can only be collected and transfused at the same time, and cannot be stored for a long time, and there are no conditions for establishing a blood bank.

The personnel of the blood collection group are all young and middle-aged people who have undergone handsome selection and strict physical examination, and their daily training is different from that of ordinary soldiers, and the intensity is slightly lower, and at the same time, the diet and living hygiene are guided by medical personnel, and their families need regular physical examinations to ensure the physiological health of blood donors to the greatest extent and there are no infectious diseases.

The blood collection regiment is only responsible for the vigilance and emergency transfer tasks of field hospitals and health stations, and due to the limitation of duties, it is not allowed to go into combat in most cases. In case of emergency, the use of blood sources other than blood collection groups is also permitted, but the quality may not be guaranteed.