By daybreak, some of the dilapidated camp gates were littered with corpses, and even if some of the wounded remained, they would have died quickly in the night's rain and constant hypothermia. The ravines under the camp walls had long since overflowed, mixed with the trampled mud and diluted blood, and formed a large brown puddle in front of the camp.

The remnants of the enemy didn't even have much strength to escape, and they were stuck in the mud in the distance, as if waiting for death. And let the rebels who came to the front mend the knife or capture it on the spot.

Although after the battle, it had to be used to use the garrison that was not conducive to night battles to fill the gap; However, it finally stabilized most of the frontal camp, and did not completely turn into a real war and a tug of war and consumption.

Therefore, when the brightness and visibility gradually improved, the remaining apprentice team and the direct team of the patrol camp were assembled, and another strange soldier who came out of the other gate in the morning easily defeated the last group of enemies in a roundabout, and the battle that had been intermittent for a whole night was completely over.

According to preliminary statistics, the specific casualties in the battalion reached more than 400, most of which were generated in the battles inside and outside the camp walls and gates, of which more than 100 soldiers of the front team were more than 100, and the rest were losses of the garrison; However, from a considerable range of vision, the enemy killed by this is at least several times more than ours;

Especially in the half-open camp gate, as a temporary trap and a preset battlefield, the temporary corridor left behind was almost filled with the corpses of people and horses, which could be called a flesh and blood alley; Just the war horses for riding, more than 20 horses were captured alive and with saddles.

And in the trenches under the wall, there were many enemy soldiers who were in a miserable state; Most of them were injured and unable to get up, and were soaked in waist-deep muddy water, drowning, choking, or bleeding to death. Based on the remaining footprints, there may be some enemies who have fled in the opposite direction, but depending on how sparse and messy the footprints are, it really doesn't matter the overall situation.

Through the surprise interrogation of the prisoners under the canopy at the scene, I learned that they were the officers and Tutuan soldiers who broke through the thick siege of the city and rushed out; Zhou Huai'an also determined one thing, the two groups of soldiers he sent to contact the battalion happened to bump into each other; While being killed on the spot, he also pointed out the goal and direction to the other party; It's just that although the other party forced out the password and some overviews, it showed flaws in the specific title.

You must know that almost no one in the whole camp of the Fury Wind Battalion does not know their identity, and they are habitually called "Guan Tou", "Tou'er", "Ying Guan" or simply "False Master" and "Monk", rather than the "Dutou" used by other sub-battalions; Even if there were, it shouldn't be among the messengers that were photographed.

But in this night of heavy rain, how did these enemies come over, Zhou Huai still had some questions in his heart;

Prior to this, because of the breakthrough of the Chaoyang City Wall, most of the men and horses of the former sub-battalion were also transferred, and they were strengthened to attack the Chaoyang City, so on the bank of the Rongjiang River in the east, only the rear sub-battalion was left to hold a few bridges from under the city wall.

The most important of these is undoubtedly the connection between the two pontoon bridges on both sides of the Rong River, which are thirty or forty steps wide; Then the position of the sub-battalion happened to be blocked at the critical position between the two bridges; The pontoon bridge at the upper end facing the shore wall, together with the garrison fortifications, is still intact; At the lower end, the pontoon bridge connecting the camp in the south of the city on the other side has been cut from this side and has lost its most basic traffic capacity;

This question was not solved until the pontoon bridge at the lower end was repaired in a hurry, and the main camp outside the city was re-established in the afternoon. Then, he was shocked by the tragic situation in the camp in the south of the city.

In the past, the crowding and relatively neat, full of smoke and fire of the siege camp seemed to have become a big mudflat full of garbage; It can be said that the wounded soldiers are full of camp and wailing, overturning scattered deer and rejecting horses, and in the large camp walls that have been torn down, there are everywhere leaning and stumbling among the ruins and mud, dejected and soaking wet;

It took Zhou Huai'an a while to find a few specific people in charge of the scene, but his knowledge was quite limited, and he only said that he had encountered an enemy attack and the camp was in chaos, and he couldn't ask about other people; As for the losses in personnel, materials, and equipment, they are even more ignorant of it, or it is inferred that they are still in the process of gathering and scattering, and it is impossible to count them.

This inevitably made Zhou Huaian very disappointed and vigilant; This is the congenital deficiency of the peasant army that lacks the heritage and organizational system inheritance, or it is also the common problem of most disposable armies in this era; Although it is easy to have morale and fighting spirit, most of them cannot afford one or more failures, nor do they have the ability to sum up lessons and recover from adversity.

Therefore, the expectations and requirements for them cannot be too high; However, in the face of this situation, he can't let it go, otherwise if these dazed survivors are left to fend for themselves, he is afraid that he will soon cause secondary damage in the subsequent rain, and even a series of collateral consequences of fleeing because of hunger.

Immediately, with the cooperation of the hundreds of men he brought, he beat gongs and drums and shouted in all directions, while centering on some of the camp tents that were still intact, and erected the banner representing the rear battalion and the baggage team; justifiably quickly took over the current situation, and reorganized the situation of several parts of the battalion in this camp, each doing its own thing.

He kept busy until it was dark, and then he roughly reorganized most of these scattered men and soldiers to participate in the cleanup, reconstruction, and vigilance; And with the utensils and materials they could find, they began to huddle them in a covered area to make a fire for warmth, boil water and make soup, and began to take turns serving the first hot food;

At this time, the head of the general, Wang Pan, who led the troops to pursue the enemy, returned with exhaustion and mud. After Luo Ma saw Zhou Huai'an, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and opened the conversation box and talked endlessly.

"Monk, you're finally here."

"These thieves have made us miserable."

"Song Mazi, Caitou Liu, and Gu Lao Wu are all folded in it."

"A lot of the old brothers are gone."

According to what he said, and then according to the dictation of the captives.

The remnants of the enemy who were trapped in the city of Tooth broke through from the city overnight; And it protrudes from the east side of the unguarded Tooth City. Because the rain was not conducive to travel, the half-regiment of volunteers stationed on the gatehouse was not at all guarded, and it was very likely that even the sentry post was coping; As a result, most of them were annihilated by this enemy who wanted to die, and only a few who hid and slept escaped.

It's just surprising that the remnants of these officers and regiments who have stood out from the encirclement come out of the east gate; Instead of directly snatching the bridges leading to the other bank, he sneaked all the way south along the city wall, and took advantage of the psychological blind spots and negligence of the rebels in the camp outside the city (almost thinking that it was impossible for the enemy to come from the outside, and the east was full of friendly troops), and was caught off guard on the spot.

Since most of the relatively elite combat forces entered the city, they remained outside the city with relatively weak and loose garrisons; Wang Pan and other leaders who had the ability and qualifications to overview the situation also happened to be not in the battalion, and only one left left captain Wu Tai was on duty; As a result, it lost control of the situation before it could respond on the spot, resulting in a large-scale bombing of the camp that night.

After the dawn, the division returned to the city and re-suppressed the large battalion that had completely lost control in the south of the city and calmed down, but the garrison that remained outside the city had already produced nearly half of the casualties and missing; Moreover, although because of the rain, the grain and grass were not lit, but they were also trampled and destroyed by this rampaging official army.

Then, driven by the general shame and revenge mood on the left and right, Wang Pan led the men and horses in the city who still had spare strength to pursue these thieves who broke through the city along the Rongjiang River overnight. But he didn't think about it, he still couldn't find the direction and ran the wrong way, and went around in a huge circle in the field, only finding a few hundred or ten scattered remnants of the enemy.

But he did not expect that most of this prominent officer and army would turn east with a false shot, and cross the temporary pontoon bridge in the lower reaches of the Rong River; He cut it off in a wrecked manner, and killed it in front of the rear sub-battalion, which seemed to be the weakest in strength and the least important in position; I wanted to open a breakthrough and get replenishment from here, but I didn't think about it, but I kicked the real iron plate and collapsed here.

However, what made Zhou Huai'an more sad and disappointed was the casualties of the auxiliary personnel who stayed in the camp in the south of the city, as well as the casualties of the team operating the siege equipment; Almost all of the 1st to 5th Heavy Squadrons suffered a considerable loss of personnel and equipment; In addition to those ordinary servants, here are the ones he has worked hard to collect and accumulate along the way, and there is even no shortage of skilled people who personally participated in the training and organization.

In addition, there were thousands of young men who had been captured and punitively coerced, and most of the reform teams formed by them had been scattered; However, for the rest of the people, for whatever reason, Zhou Huai'an intends to give them a chance and a symbolic reward; In this way, he was freed from the status of a coolie who was forced to work and had the ration and treatment of normal husbandry.

Therefore, he really wanted to scold Wang Pan and scold, "Do you have long eyes, do you have a lesson?" "What, but seeing the other party's face, which was already extremely tired and lost, and turned purple, finally swallowed the words that came to his mouth. Instead, he handed him a bowl of hot ginger tea with a rather light taste.

"It's been a hard night."

"Let's take a sip of tea soup to moisten our mouths first."

Wang Pan also sent it over unceremoniously, and after drinking several large bowls in one go, he gasped and wiped his mouth.

"Monk, you're okay there."

"It's okay."

Zhou Huai'an nodded helplessly.

"The thieves who rushed away should have run away to me."

"Hah...

Wang Pan and the leaders around him suddenly showed some kind of incredulous or unbelievable, or frightened expression

(End of chapter)