Chapter 329: Taking Stock of Gains and Losses

"This time, 36 enemy 8,000 jin red-coated cannons were captured, 110 8,000-jin red-coated cannons were captured, 21 4,000-jin red-coated cannons were captured, 120 red-coated cannons were blown up, 110 red-coated cannons were seized, 39 red-coated cannons were blown up, 30 800-jin Furang machine guns were captured, 36 were damaged, 223 were blown up, 330 were damaged, a total of 220,000 catties of iron and 100,000 catties of copper."

After speaking, You Haibo said to Zhang Qiang: "Governor, after this war, we will not have to worry about iron and copper for a year, and we can make more agricultural tools, weapons, and armor." ”

Zhang Qiang smiled and pushed him, "Don't be happy too early, those cannons are very heavy, how can you pull them back, and those cannons need to be refined first, generally iron refining does not take much effort, but the overall cannon refining, but it requires a lot of firewood and coal, we don't have that technology yet."

It is necessary to have people smash these cannons into scrap iron first, and then put them into the blast furnace to refine a few procedures, which is very costly and effort-consuming, in fact, it is better for us to directly buy refined steel materials to refine and build cannons. ”

You Haibo said with a smile: "Governor, I have good news for you, Your Excellency Sebastian, great results have been achieved, I heard that a lot of different furnaces have been built, what is called a hot blast furnace, which has directly improved the temperature and efficiency of steel refining, and now refining a furnace of molten steel is faster than before, saving time and materials." ”

"Hahaha, okay, I didn't expect that when I was busy fighting and expanding my territory these days, those technicians were not idle, it seems that our Huaxia Army still has a positive atmosphere!"

You Haibo said: "Yes, the Metropolitan Governor, the whole territory is in full swing to build our homeland. ”

"Okay, yes, let's report." Zhang Qiang said to You Haibo.

"Okay, this is about the capture of the enemy's artillery, the next is the capture of the enemy's arquebus, the intact arquebus, the enemy also calls it a bird gun, two meters long, a range of 110 meters, an effective range of 70 meters, and today's bows and arrows with the same quality and combat power, slightly worse than our Jingai 1 arquebus technical indicators."

Carefully took a closer look, "The quality is more than twice as high as the Ming army's firearms, there are very few people who blow up the chamber, and they can fire more than 200 rounds in a row without exploding the chamber, and the captured batch is about 1,500 strokes, seventy percent to the old city to the new 510 strokes, fifty percent of the new 320 strokes, thirty percent of the new more than 490 strokes, and the quality of the remaining more than 200 strokes is worrying." ”

"Number and put it in the warehouse first, and when you have the opportunity to find a good buyer, sell them." This is Zhang Qiang's usual method of dealing with the enemy's weapons.

You Haibo bowed, expressing his agreement with Zhang Qiang's disposal method, and then continued: "The other captured shotguns are unusable, about more than 4,000 rods, and other Ming army guns, about 800 rods that can be used, have been put into storage, and the other more than 3,000 rods, most of which are damaged or unusable, have been sent to the musket dismantling plant for dismantling, wood as firewood, iron materials to the ironworks for ironmaking, and other materials to make the best use." ”

"Well, what other weapons are captured, pick some good quality, ninety percent of the new ones will be issued to the newly formed Fujian militia troops, as well as the village guards, and form the regime as soon as possible, You Haibo, He Jin is fighting on the front line, you are also taking on the duties of your Minister of Academic Affairs, while running Fujian here, you are the highest governor here, understand?"

You Haibo hurriedly bowed down and said: "Governor Xie trusts, the minister will definitely do his best to restore the stability of Fujian Prefecture and make Fujian Prefecture prosper quickly." ”

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly and motioned for him to continue reporting.

You Haibo had a smile on his face, and the report was faster, this was the first time Zhang Qiang appointed the governor, previously because the territory of the Huaxia Army was small, so there was only a prefect at the level of the governor, and there was only a division between the core area and the non-core area, this time, the whole territory of Fujian was about to be liberated, Zhang Qiang appointed You Haibo as the first governor of Fujian Prefecture.

The real power of the feudal official, the first feudal official of the Huaxia Army was born, or is he You Haibo the first to pick peaches, can he not be happy?

So the voice of the next report was raised, and the tone was frustrated, which simply turned a report into a poetry recitation, and Zhang Qiang almost couldn't keep up with his rhythm and train of thought.

"Three million taels of silver were seized, 10,000 taels of gold, agate jewels, 10 million taels of jewelry, 30 million taels of calligraphy and paintings, and antiques, 1,500,000 stones of grain, 3,000,000 quintals of horse material, 250,000 quintals of salt, 100,000 catties of iron, 4,500,000 taels of silver for all kinds of goods, more than 100 enemy warships, 1,300 fishing boats, 25 traitors such as Shang Kexi, and 150 Qing army generals, including 15 Manchu generals, 23 Mongolian generals, and 50 Han army banner generals. There are countless generals in the Green Battalion. ”

"Another ......" He looked up at Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang turned his head to look at him, You Haibo lowered his head and continued: "Captured the general of the Manchu Qing clan, the general of the Qing army in this southern expedition, Bolobele, but he was seriously injured and died. ”

Zhang Qiang patted the table, "Nima's, this is cheap, he was injured once and escaped, this time he was injured and died, and the blood debt of tens of thousands of people in Jinhua was easily escaped by him." Did you catch Hong Chengchou, that old thief? ”

You Haibo flipped through the account book and shook his head, "No, it is said that General Huang Tao is going deep into the territory of the Qing army and is quickly catching up." ”

Zhang Qiang stood up and said to his guard: "Come on, send someone to chase Huang Tao quickly, let him retreat, and go deep alone, once I fall into the scheme of Hong Chengchou's old thief, won't I lose my soldiers?" Retreat to the south bank of the Yangtze River, reorganize the troops and horses, and in the coming day, we will have a long and short battle with the Qing army, and this time the battle is over. ”

After speaking, Zhang Qiang came to the side of the case, wrote a letter, and sealed it with fire paint, "Go, hand it over to Lord Milin and let him dispose of it." ”

The reporting work is long and boring, and Mi Lin still has a lot of things, so he will deal with things first, Zhang Qiang can only pass the news to him through letters, and he can't say in front of so many people that Mi Lin should contact Tian Bin quickly, isn't that exposing Tian Bin?

Zhang Qiang was thinking about Tian Bin, who was deep inside the enemy, and there was no news of Tian Bin yet, so he must have fled with the enemy and continued to lurk inside the enemy.

This line cannot be broken.

After arranging, Zhang Qiang said to You Haibo: "Go on." ”

You Haibo continued: "This time the capture of 30,000 enemy horses, to make up for the lack of our army's horses, our army lost about 10,000 horses before, and the horse farm left by the Chahar Mongols is not enough, now there are about 40,000 horses, but most of them are war horses that have just grown up in recent years, young age, insufficient training, not enough to be used as cavalry mounts, our cavalry is now riding most of the temporarily recruited pack horses and horses, only the previously captured enemy 15,000 war horses are available, The rest of the horses were all in Wei Wuji's army. ”

"Haven't you sent this year's war horse from Mongolia?" Zhang Qiang asked.

You Haibo put down the account book, "My lord, the war horses have been transported from Mongolia for thousands of miles, and they have to pass through many enemy areas, there are many war-torn areas, and many no-man's lands, although there are contact points and caravan caravans established by Huang Tao to relay, but there are still seven-tenths of the war horse losses, this time on the road is forcibly requisitioned by the Qing army to take all the war horses, and in the future, the Qing army that our army is looking across the river will not allow our army to obtain war horses, and it will be more difficult." ”

Zhang Qiang rubbed his forehead, "Okay, this time to get such a large territory, the new land of the two provinces, it can be regarded as making up for our shortcomings, the war horse is slowly drawing, don't worry, the current war horse is enough, in the future, six new cavalry brigades, a total of ten cavalry brigades, each important direction to put a field brigade, a cavalry brigade, enough to give the Qing army a headache." ”

Picking up the teacup beside him and taking a sip of tea, moistening his throat, Zhang Qiang continued: "With the extension of time, each cavalry brigade of our army is only 6,000 war horses, at most 7,000 war horses per army, with the current situation, it can still be supplied, but the defense is more than enough, the attack is insufficient, the Mongols and the Qing army are mostly one person with two horses, or one person with three horses, if our army is only defending, without so many war horses, it can still be with the enemy in a short distance." ”

"You go on," Zhang Qiang sat down, and without waiting for You Haibo to speak, Zhang Qiang said again: "Order Zhang Mingzhen, when the Jinling Battle is over, he, the Minister of Agriculture, will set up livestock farms in all territories, encourage every household to raise horses, cattle, and sheep, and increase the number of horses and pack horses in our army. Bad horses that could not be ridden could also be used to transport supplies. Make the most of it! ”

"Your Excellency is wise." You Haibo looked at Zhang Qiang's face, admired, far-sighted, and followed the master.

After Zhang Qiang repeatedly signaled, he continued: "Our army captured 70,000 enemy green battalion soldiers, including 40,000 wounded, 50,000 Han army banners, of which 35,000 were wounded, 17,000 Mongolian cavalry, including 8,000 wounded, 8,000 Manchurian Tartars, of which 6,700 were wounded, and 31,000 people were captured, of which 8,000 were wounded and sick, 2,000 were old and weak, and 1,000 were once veterans of the Ming army. ”

Zhang Qiang smiled bitterly, Hong Chengchou is really not a worry-free person, he threw all the burden and drag to himself, and then escaped by himself.

With so many wounded, old and weak, it is definitely a burden for the Huaxia Army.

What's more, this time Zhang Qiang's own Huaxia Army has sent troops to 120,000 troops, and the militia and people have also reached 780,000, and his own losses, since this morning, he has obtained a rough statistics, the militia has suffered 40,000 casualties, the infantry, musketeers, and artillery of the Huaxia Army have lost 30,000 casualties, and the cavalry has lost 17,000 people, and the wounded are 2,000 people. The others were either killed in battle, or were captured by the enemy and killed.

In a battle in high-speed movement, the cavalry had no chance to deal with the wounded and rescue the prisoners, and the enemy's cavalry was even more powerful than them.

"All the wounded are placed on the spot, and the indoctrinated soldiers are sent to educate them, so that our wounded can be mixed with them, and the old is brought with the new, and when they are well, the wounded who can return to the team will be brought back, or they will be incorporated after the formation of the newly formed troops, and those who will not repent will be sent to the prisoner camps, and the Manchus and Mongols will be sent to the hard labor camps. The cunning Han army banner and the green camp generals who had committed major evil deeds, and the soldiers were also sent to the hard labor camp and worked to death. ”

You Haibo said: "This time our army almost killed nearly 300,000 enemies, captured more than 100,000 people, and the enemy fled only 70,000 or 80,000 people. ”

After speaking, he and Zhang Qiang glanced at each other, and the two of them looked up and laughed together.