In the second half of the night, the battle tended to be white-hot, and the Xian army concentrated on using grenades to drive away the guards, and the guards also used flying thunder bullet rope cap guns, flat hand guns, overlord guns to counterattack the Xian army, and even used white phosphorus.

Flying thunderbolt is a kind of thunder bolt tied to a rope and thrown by flicking, using a clay bottle or a bronze shell, filled with fire oil or black powder, the guards have been able to produce white phosphorus, and also mix white phosphorus into black powder to enhance the explosive combustion effect.

Using the rope to swing can fly nearly 50 or 60 meters, and the strength of the energy can still be 100 meters to 123 meters, there have been guards strong men, once threw more than 150 meters of ultra-long distance.

Although much less powerful than the standard grenades of the Xian army, the Wei army was able to dispatch hundreds of thunder bombers to carry out a large number of bombing and destruction behind the Xian army after its infantry engaged, which was a great threat and once penetrated the defense line of the Xian army.

The battle lasted from the time to the end of the Yin period, the guards broke through the northwest and southwest flanks several times, and were blocked back by the Xian army several times, the defense line changed hands several times and recaptured several times, the rain gradually eased around seven or eight o'clock in the Yin hour, but the offensive of the guards was still unabated, the casualties of the Xian army increased sharply, and the fatigue was to the limit, and the psychology was on the verge of collapse.

At the same time, Du Ruixun rode on the horse expressionlessly, feeling almost desperate. The indomitable will and sophisticated weapons of the Xian army made him clearly aware of the disparity in combat effectiveness of the enemy he was facing.

At the beginning of the day, the heavy rain gradually stopped, the sky was slightly dizzy, and the salty warships on the river could be vaguely seen sailing back and forth, Du Ruixun had to make the most difficult decision in his life at this time, he wanted to withdraw his troops.

The original plan was to retreat after inflicting heavy losses on the Xian army, but now that tens of thousands of dead soldiers have been left behind, it is really difficult for him to give up.

"Wang Xie, Mingjin collects his troops."

"General Du, the Xian army will soon be unable to support it, and in another hour, the Xian army will collapse, and at this time, I am afraid that the previous efforts will be wasted!"

Wang Xie persuaded, Du Ruixun gritted his teeth and said:

"If the Xian warships loom on the river, if they do not withdraw, it will not take an hour for the Xian army to fire at our army, and even if the Xian army is annihilated at that time, our army will be completely annihilated. Go and pass it on! ”

"Yes!"

Wang Xie was unwilling to say, Du Ruixun sternly ordered:

"Go!"

"Alas, obey!"

Affected by the curvature of the terrain and the refraction of light, the ground can find the target before the water surface. Du Ruixun faintly saw the outline of the Xian army ships on the river in the dark, and he knew very well that it would only take two quarters of an hour at the latest, and the Xian army on the river could use binoculars to identify the location of the guards.

At that time, there will be no waiting for the Xian army to encircle and annihilate Hukou Bay, and the artillery will be opened on the river, and all the horses and horses must be withdrawn before the Xian warship guns can clearly see and identify the ground target, and they will have to ride horses.

When he was young, the golden drum sounded loudly, and the morale of the front-line fighting guards dropped when they heard the news:

"Collect the troops, and the armies quickly collect the troops......"

"Withdraw, withdraw quickly......"

"Run......"

Hearing the golden drum of the guards, Bailiyan still did not dare to relax, but was afraid that it was Du Ruixun's trick, so he strictly ordered not to pursue, and at the same time repaired the defense line, allowing riflemen grenade launchers to shoot freely and kill more guards.

"Deputy marshal, the guards have retreated." Xue Sheng said happily, as if he had won an unprecedented victory.

Bailiyan was not happy, and he said:

"Although the guards retreated, I still must not slack off, immediately organize manpower to treat the wounded, look for survivors after dawn and send them to the ambulance station as soon as possible, whether it is our army or the guards, but anyone who is alive will be treated, and the guards shall not be arbitrarily disposed of and killed, and the heads shall not be beheaded."

"Deputy Marshal, our army can't be saved, so why bother to treat the guards."

"There are enough people who have died, a few more deaths and a few fewer deaths, and you and I will not be promoted to a few ranks, but if one more person dies, a family will be ruined. To be kind to others is to be kind to yourself, not to mention that the war is over, and there is no point in killing. However, there is one point, priority is given to the treatment of our officers and soldiers. ”

Xue Sheng blushed when he heard the news, and hurriedly raised his hand respectfully and saluted:

"Under the command."

After explaining Xue Sheng, Bai Liyan took the escorts to various places to understand the battle losses, half an hour later, the sky brightened, and the Xian naval guns began to shell the guards, at this time Du Ruixun had already led the troops to retreat to the Huwei River on horseback, due to nearly half of the casualties last night, there were more horses than people this morning, the guards retreated very quickly, the artillery fire did not spread, after a symbolic salvo of several cannons, Bai Liyan decisively ordered to stop the shelling.

At the end of the day, Bailiyan was almost spread out on the marching bed, with a fever, and after taking a few pills of medicine (i.e., aspirin), he rushed to the ambulance station non-stop.

More than 600 medical personnel who landed with the vanguard were mainly debrided and bandaged with ordinary external injuries and ordinary open injuries, and had the ability to perform simple surgical operations, but could not deal with critical injuries. Therefore, after the seriously wounded were bandaged, they still had to be transported on a small boat and transferred back to the East Coast medical camp for surgery.

Although the medical conditions are very different from those of 30 years ago, the scarcity of drugs and the lack of advanced medical equipment make the operation uncertain, and the mortality rate of major trauma, especially organ injuries, is very high. Of course, both medicine and technology take time to practice, and something is better than nothing.

At this time, the ambulance station was overcrowded, and the lying and sitting and standing were crowded inside and out, and the only resort had to temporarily increase the barracks to accommodate the wounded.

Blood and medical waste littered the ground, severed limbs were everywhere, and wails and screams were heard endlessly, mostly by the wails of the Guards.

The Xianjun army generally used anesthetic and sedative injections, and hundreds or even thousands of syringes were prepared in advance to be sterilized and cleaned, and the syringes for extracting the medicine were used for backup. The soldiers of the Guards were not so lucky, and they had to finish the turn of the Xian army before it was their turn.

Bai Liyan sent a task to Wei Qi and ordered him to stay in the ambulance station to count the casualties, he was the first time to fight, and he couldn't help but feel a little bloodsick and uncomfortable. And last night when it was dark, the sound of gunfire and explosion was still fun, the sensory stimulation was not obvious, after the sky was bright, a large area of blood and human stumps brought visual sensory impact made him vomit no less than four times, when he saw him, his face was as white as snow, and his expression had changed greatly.

"Are you scared?" Bai Liyan said casually, very calmly.

Wei Qi nodded stunned and stammered:

"It's good to die, it's good to die, so many people ......"

"Ben Shuai was in the army at the age of fifteen, Jiang Jie was also in the army at the age of fourteen, and the dead were tired of millions of corpses, and now that you are twenty years old, you should feel fortunate to live five years longer than Ben Shuai."

"Yes, my subordinates remember." Wei Qi said tremblingly, and it was obvious that his hands trembled involuntarily.

"Okay, hurry up and report it, our army has suffered casualties."

"Up to now, the ambulance station has treated 16,573 soldiers of our army, of whom 4,095 were killed, 3,827 were seriously wounded, 5,531 were lightly wounded, 3,120 were slightly wounded, and another 176 were missing, of whom 4,820 could be immediately returned to the bandaging place. There may be other casualties arriving one after another, which has not yet been recorded. ”

"It seems that there were quite a few casualties in the fierce battle last night. What about the guards, received the young guards? ”

"Of the 8,637 men of the guards who were sent to the ambulance station, of whom 5,327 were seriously wounded, and the rest were minor, minor and blast wounded. However, there are many guards, and our army has not yet cleared the battlefield, and there should be more guards and soldiers sent to the ambulance station in the future. ”

Wei Qi handed over the briefing, Bai Liyan looked at it carefully, frowned slightly and said:

"Why are there no casualties among the military attachés of the armament battalion?"

"Oh, it's the subordinates who are negligent, and the subordinates will count it immediately."

"Go!"

"No!"

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