"No conscience cannon" doesn't sound so good, but it fully demonstrates its essence.

In fact, the high-level of Hongmen has already restrained the destructive power of the conscienceless cannon, otherwise the lethality it shows will be even more terrifying and cruel.

In Hongmen Medicine's research, it was found that the lethality of glass fragments to the human body even exceeds that of iron balls and iron bullets, even if it is only as thin as a hair, glass residue, as long as it enters the human body and is unfortunately inserted into the blood vessels, it will take a human life within a few hours.

And now in Hongmen, glass manufacturing is already a mature process, and its cost is much cheaper than that of iron balls and iron bullets.

However, it is precisely because of the injurious nature of glass fragments, which are almost impossible to salvage with the existing technical strength, that the Hongmen high-level leaders, at Li Tianyang's insistence, gave up the use of low-cost glass fragments and other high-cost bottles, such as iron balls and iron bullets, as anti-personnel ammunition for "unconscionable artillery".

In fact, the cost of a conscienceless shell is not even as high as the cost of a 48-pounder gun, but the damage it causes to the enemy's army is several times or more than ten times that of a solid shell!

Of course, the focus of these artillery pieces is different, the Hongmen specification cannon has a strong destructive power for cities and fortifications, while it relies on shock waves and solid bullets to hit the track to cause damage to the army's human body; The damage caused by the "conscienceless cannon" shells to the fortifications of the city is even less than that of a 24-pounder gun, but it can kill at least two feet of living creatures standing within a radius of at one time, and the lethality of mortals is amazing.

As long as Hongmen provides enough steel, then the Gun Manufacturing Bureau can even produce hundreds of "unconscionable cannons" in one day.

Moreover, these "unconscionable guns" are extremely lightweight, and they can be split and stacked together after the improvement of the R&D Institute, and a ox-and-horse cart can carry more than ten or twenty guns, but they are rare and excellent equipment in field warfare.

Before, the "conscienceless cannon" was only used once in the field battle with the Qing Dynasty Dolgon's army, so the Ming Dynasty did not have the intelligence of these improvised weapons for scouts and spy organizations, and now when Kong Youde brought it to the battlefield and used it in a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty army, it suddenly made it stand out on the battlefield and became an excellent weapon that changed the entire battle situation at one time.

This is also the reason why Kong Youde abandoned the fortifications of Jinan City at that time and led the army out of the city to fight, because only on the wide plain outside Jinan City, the "conscienceless cannons" could play their huge role and deal a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty army.

After losing more than 30,000 people, the Ming Dynasty army resolutely issued an order to retreat, which was a little dissatisfied with Kong Youde, who was willing to continue to expand the results of the war, but he also had some scruples and did not dare to send a large army to continue the pursuit.

First, Hongtang really played an important role in the main force of the enemy or the musketeers, and if he wanted to give full play to the powerful power of the muskets, the three-stage shooting formation played an important role.

As a result, their musketeers, at least in this era, were more positional than pursuit, as it was almost impossible to maintain a full formation in pursuit.

Second, there are still more than 60,000 people in the main army of the Ming Dynasty, and if Kong Youde sends soldiers out to pursue, in addition to the army left to guard the rear artillery position, Kong Youde will not be able to draw more troops to pursue.

The combat effectiveness of one or two hundred thousand Hongtang soldiers is certainly not bad, but if the Ming Dynasty army suddenly comes to another Jedi counterattack and fights this pursuing team with a superiority of more than three times, even if the Hongtang army can hold out until the follow-up reinforcements arrive, it will inevitably be a situation of heavy losses.

"Clean up the battlefield!!"

Kong Youde issued the order rather regretfully.

"Yes!"

"Brothers who are cleaning up the battlefield on the front line, remind me, but all the soldiers who still have a breath will be saved by Lao Tzu!"

In fact, without Kong Youde's explanation, the front-line soldiers of Hongtang will not turn a blind eye to the disabled soldiers left by the enemy on the battlefield, they have long developed the attitude of fighting for life and death in wartime, but they can let go of hatred after the war.

Because, Hongtang's military education told them that as grassroots soldiers, the soldiers on both sides are actually just chess pieces, fighting for each other's interests, even if hatred follows, they are just obeying orders, and the duty they show is to obey orders.

Hongmen has always cherished every population in their hands, and until now Hongmen has not been able to get rid of the defect of insufficient population base, so they are willing to rescue and Zhao'an at any cost for every population that may be used for their own use, so as to enhance their own strength.

Such an action has unintentionally established a good image for Hongmen: no matter what mistakes and things he has done in other places before, as long as he lives in a down-to-earth manner after arriving at Hongmen's territory, Hongmen will not be guilty of the past.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who were hostile to the Hongtang army, already knew that when they were cornered, as long as they put down their weapons, then the Hongtang army would no longer use weapons against them; Even when his life is dying and he is deeply injured, as long as he can still hold on to the idea of living, the military doctors of the Hongtang army will spare no effort to treat him and pull him back from the line of death.

These scenes, placed in the Ming Dynasty or other forces, are basically impossible.

Although there are also doctors and doctors in the Ming army, it is almost impossible for the Ming Dynasty to spend a huge amount of money after the war to try their best to save the lives of the wounded soldiers in their army.

Not to mention the number of medicinal herbs and bandages hoarded in the Korean army, and the number of doctors and soldiers accompanying the army, just to treat the wounded, the heavy logistical pressure and burden brought by the Ming Dynasty official government could not have done their best to rescue them.

Every time there is a battle, the soldiers who are rescued from the battlefield in the Ming Dynasty army, in addition to basically bandaging and treating, whether the wounded soldiers can get out of the wounded barracks alive depends on their own survival willingness and luck.

“…………”

Bai Guangen, who went out with the army, was still a little worried about Kong Youde's decision to go out of the city and face off against the Ming reinforcements.

However, it turned out that his worries were superfluous, and what shocked Bai Guangen even more was that the Hongtang army defeated the 100,000 Ming Dynasty troops so cleanly, and in less than a day, they let the other party flee.