At this moment, Gangu Town, a Han general, bearded, stocky, head like a radish fattened, two arms as long as an ape, carrying a mandarin duck knife from the end of the Ming Dynasty in his waist, wearing a five-grade military general's uniform, standing there with a knife and shouting loudly.

This was already the ninth day of their battle with the Ninth Field Division of the Huaxia Army, for the town at this intersection, they worked hard, nearly 10,000 Han army flag soldiers managed 80,000 Goguryeo soldiers, more than 30,000 dead and wounded, Han army flag soldiers also killed and wounded more than 3,000, but no one on both sides could help anyone.

The 3rd Brigade of the 9th Field Division, which fought with the Qing army for the first time, paid the price of 3,000 casualties in these nine days to hold the valley and set up a camp to confront Gangu Town, which was only 4,500 casualties for the 3rd Field Brigade, which had 75 percent casualties, and they were naturally replaced.

They were replaced by two regiments of the Second Field Brigade, a battalion of the cavalry regiment, a squad of the militia elite brigade, and the rest of the troops were guarding the nearby hills for more than ten miles, and these hills were also the focus of contention between the two sides.

Fortunately, however, the 3rd Field Brigade paid heavy casualties, blocked the enemy outside the mountain pass, and set up a camp in front of the enemy to defend the enemy, and waited until the arrival of reinforcements, blocking the enemy in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture from the north and south, and could not pose a threat to the mountain pass, so that the supply convoy could quickly supply the 2nd and 1st Field Brigades from the foot of the mountain pass along the newly opened road, and transported some of the supplies to the 10th Field Division.

The 1st Field Brigade of the 10th Field Division has entered the periphery of Yulin County, and has fought several battles with the soldiers and horses sent by Wu Sangui, although it is bumpy, but it is still approaching Yulin County step by step, relieving Gao Zhixiang of danger, their arrival makes Wu Sangui's more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, who lack troops and major generals, not have so many troops to besiege Yulin County, and the intensity of the daily attack has decreased.

Yu Chenglong arrived at another town on the outskirts of Gangu Town, which was only five kilometers away from the front line, where a 10,000-strong Mongolian cavalry was stationed, and the remaining 8,000 soldiers and horses of the Mongolian cavalry were stationed in the villages outside the town.

There was an atmosphere of defeat everywhere here, the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry lost 8,000 soldiers and horses in the first few assaults, and 4,000 soldiers and horses were killed and wounded in the battle of Gangu Town, and only 2,000 wounded soldiers were rescued.

The co-ordinators of Gangu Town also came to visit him, and the rest of the co-ordinators also rushed from the defense areas in other regions after receiving the news of his arrival, and everyone paid homage to him together, after all, he was the governor of Shaanxi Prefecture, and he was in charge of the people and the army in this wartime, and he had monopoly power.

Here is responsible for commanding the entire army is a general soldier, there are several town commanders below, the general army in the Ming and Qing dynasties is actually equivalent to the deputy commander of a military division, why is it the deputy commander? Because there is also the commander of the admiral, the actual commander is the general army, and the general soldier may be the largest officer of an army, may be the general leader of several armies, and of course may be the commander of thousands of soldiers and horses, so now it is possible for a general soldier to command several thousand town commanders.

This general soldier is a Han official, of course he doesn't have so much confidence to talk to Yu Chengchan, if he is a Manchurian general, then Yu Chengchan really doesn't dare to reprimand him and talk to him.

The general soldier lowered his head, and in 11 days there were more than 60,000 casualties and more than 10,000 casualties, and in the face of a field brigade of the Ninth Field Division of the Huaxia Army, which had only a few thousand troops, plus a regiment of the Second Field Brigade, plus 3,000 soldiers and horses of the garrison brigade, he had 110,000 troops, and he could not block a small mountain pass, and he also suffered heavy losses in the attacks in other sections, but did not inflict heavy losses on the enemy, which made him feel uneasy.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, once the governor is in charge of the army, it is all three levels, even if these generals are several levels greater than the rank and position of the civil officials, they have to be carefully served, the civil officials are big, such a big loss, according to the practice of the Manchu Dynasty, that is, the chief official was dragged out in front of him to behead the capital, he was afraid that Yu Jackie Chan would behead him.

So he immediately poured bitter water, "My lord, although those Goguryeo soldiers are hard-working, but once they win a battle, they will be proud to go to the sky, many times it is not good to restrain them too much, once there is a mutiny, their soldiers and horses are more than us, now the Mongol cavalry is not used at this time, three thousand people charged, the enemy just fought the musket in his hand several volleys, can make the cavalry collapse, and then their cavalry came out to pursue, the Mongols dispersed. ”

When he said this, he quietly raised his head and glanced at Yu Chenglong, Yu Chenglong touched the black eight-figure nonsense on his lips without saying a word, and his eyes did not look at him, but closed slightly, which made the chief soldier not understand Yu Chengchan's thoughts, so he could only continue to speak.

"Those Mongols are no longer the Mongolian cavalry of the Great Yuan Dynasty under the leadership of Genghis Khan, they have long lost their wildness, once they suffer setbacks, they keep drinking, fighting, the lowly pro-soldiers can't even suppress them, they have injured the lowly pro-soldiers several times, and the whole camp is full of chickens and dogs, and now they are full of wounded soldiers, not to mention the recent two thousand wounded soldiers, and the more than 1,000 wounded soldiers who were wounded before have died one by one, which is a more serious blow to their morale, and they have become a force that can only eat, The cumbersome soldiers and horses who can't fight, it's better to give more soldiers and horses with the banner of the Han army, and the Mongolian cavalry is simply useless to the extreme. ”

Yu Chenglong opened his eyes and looked at him, and said in a deep voice: "Don't talk about those useless, give the official a letter, when will the passage to Yanmen County be opened, do you know that Hejin Mansion in Shanxi Prefecture in the rear has also been occupied by the Huaxia Army?"

If we want to return to the army, we must open the passage as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to hold Shanxi Prefecture with the original soldiers and horses of the Dajin State in the capital of the state, once the capital of the state falls, then our 500,000 soldiers and horses will become a lone army, in Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture, so many soldiers and horses are not a small amount of food and clothing, and now the entire army has begun to cut back on food and clothing, and they are waiting for your news.

I don't care what method you use, open the way for me, otherwise we can only go north and return to the capital from the prairie, and there will definitely be few of these hundreds of thousands of sons and daughters who can survive by then, of course, this does not include you.

By the way, you have so many soldiers and horses, can you bring enough grain and grass from the coastal provinces? ”

The general soldier tightened his muscles, he was really afraid of something, this grain and grass must not be enough, this place where birds don't in Shaanxi Prefecture, in addition to the loess is the plateau, in addition to the mountains is the remnants of the Dashun army who are not afraid of death, then what kind of food is there, this time the 500,000 army crossed, it can be said that the food of the villages and towns along the road has been looted, and they are gathered in the coastal provinces, if it is not for their own troops to open up the road, they will not give themselves enough food, But those Manchu uncles who followed put most of the grain in the Manchu barracks, what do you say about the 2,000 troops who want more than 100,000 stone grain?

His soldiers and horses can only eat rice bran, rice husks to survive, many generals can only hastily intercept some grain for their own use, a small half of the grain for more than ten days to maintain the use of the army, now it has reached the point where it can not be opened, but he can't say that this is the Manchu ancestors who are greedy for food, they also called 10,000 of the 20,000 people who supported this time to carry grain for them, so that their side can only use the soldiers to carry grain, grass and war materials, and half of the military strength is consumed on this, Today, there are less than 30,000 soldiers who can fight.

He really wanted to tell Yu Chenglong, yes, but not in his own hands, in the hands of those Manchu generals, if you don't have silver in your hands, those people won't give you half a grain of grain, and he can't do anything now.

So he smiled and said, "My lord, enough is enough, enough is enough." ”

Yu Chenglong frowned, he is the governor of the money and food is his main responsibility, how can he not know whether the food of the soldiers and horses is enough or not, he is bent on not treating these soldiers who want to open up the back road of the army, so he has not opened the road for the general army Now let it go, first supply them with a batch of grain and grass, improve their morale, and give others enough food to make others work for themselves, this is the truth of thousands of years, you can't eat, you starve half to death, you can't get military salary, who will give you your life?

But now the general soldier told him that there was enough food and grass?

110,000 combat troops, 20,000 people, the grain and grass he allocated before was only enough for 80,000 soldiers and horses for half a month, which he really gave more when he really had no choice, but he knew that this still could not meet the needs of the war, and the daily consumption was still increasing, so he thought about giving them a chance and letting them take the initiative to mention it, but he didn't expect this general soldier to say that it was enough.

He stared at the general soldier motionlessly with a scrutinizing eye.

The general soldier was embarrassed to touch his nose with his horseshoe sleeve, put it on his hand and put it on, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he knew that he couldn't hide it for a long time before he said: "Originally, the half-monthly use of 80,000 soldiers and horses must not be able to supply the cost of 130,000 horses, but in the past ten days, we have killed and injured more than 60,000 people, and now there are more than 40,000 Korean soldiers, more than 6,000 soldiers and horses of the Han army, 12,000 soldiers and horses of the Mongolian cavalry, and more than 60,000 soldiers and horses have been lost. I'm afraid I'll have to die 30,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses in the future, so ...... down. ”

He realized that he had leaked his mouth, and he also felt that it was inappropriate, so he quickly stopped his mouth.

Yu Chenglong rolled his eyes, what does this guy mean, is he going to die another twenty or thirty thousand to save the population? How can the remaining troops be able to fight through the rear when the enemy is constantly increasing their troops?

This chief soldier is stupid, what logic?

(End of chapter)