At the end of October of the second year of Xiangxing, the Longque Army and the Southern Expeditionary Yuan Army suddenly lost the Hague Department for the first time. Hit the Yuan soldiers with a barrage wall and muskets, and wiped out more than 300 people from the Han army headquarters in his left battalion. Suddenly lost The Hague and fought and retreated, and was broken off by the new annexed army of the right battalion.

As a result, before the new annexed army could form a formation, it was routed by the musketeers of the Dragon Bird Army's broken camp, and all of them were scattered, biting the tail of the rank in The Hague and pursuing.

When Zhao Lie heard the news, he also opened the city gate, and Jiang Fenglie, Ouyang Guanhou and other generals used a few more than 50 war horses to form a cavalry team, taking advantage of the victory to pursue more than ten miles, killing many Beiting elite cavalry who covered the escape of The Hague on the way, and did not collect troops until the front of the Yuan army camp.

In this battle, he suddenly lost The Hague and led 3,000 soldiers to fight, and when he returned to the camp, he was less than 1,000. In the days that followed, some four or five hundred soldiers and miscellaneous servants returned to the camp one after another. According to the final statistics, more than half of the losses in this battle were mostly combat-effective soldiers. Suddenly, the 8,000-strong army in The Hague had only more than 3,000 soldiers, and it lost 30% of its troops in the first battle.

suffered such a fiasco, lost a lot of troops, lost a lot of baggage, but did not even touch the wall of Wan'an Military City, the Yuan army can be said to be exhausted, and dare not come out again. In the army, they talked about the color change of muskets, and they all talked about the battle of Lingshui and Blood Bridge.

Suddenly, The Hague sat in the camp every day, picking up the pen and pulling his hair, not knowing how to put down this military report, but in a few days, a lot of thick and curly beautiful brown hair fell out.

When the Hague was suddenly lost and the hair was competing, the Wan'an military city was full of joy from top to bottom.

In the military city meeting hall, Zhao Lie sat on a rosewood wide chair in the middle of the hall, and the generals on both sides were lined up, with the mountain system on the left, the original Zhongshun military department on the right, and a civil official Zhao Ruohe. The process of creating any army is indispensable for absorbing all kinds of armed forces, which also leads to factions and hills, which are inevitable. The prestige of the commander can only be relied on to balance the interests of all parties.

At this time, the generals were pressing their excitement and listening carefully to Jueyuan, who was also the general of the personal guard and also the general of logistics preparation, announced the results of the battle.

"In this battle, our army killed a total of 731 enemies and captured 566 enemies, of whom 32 were wounded and died. Five pieces of Tieluo ring armor, eleven pieces of chain mail, six pieces of scale armor, and seventy-three pieces of leather armor were seized. Five hundred and sixty-two knives, spears, axes, and hammers, one hundred and ninety-seven bows and crossbows, and no arrows were counted. There were 23 intact horses, 211 horses, cattle, mules, pigs and sheep. Two flags of 1,000 households, nine waist flags of 100 households, and a number of horns were seized. Two hundred and twenty-eight taels of gold, three hundred seventy-nine taels of silver, twenty-five thousand two hundred and thirteen taels of money, and a hundred horses of silk and cloth. 200 stone of grain and rice, 300 catties of meat noodles. In addition, various military assets such as gunpowder, kerosene, white ash, clothing, tents, and stoves are not counted. ”

After Jueyuan finished speaking, he bowed to Zhao Lie and the other officials with a calm expression, presented the list to Zhao Lie, and stepped aside. As a general of the personal guard, Jueyuan was originally not suitable to serve as the chief logistics officer. It's just that the logistics are rich in oil and water, and it is a fat gap that everyone is hot, and if it is not entrusted to people, it is easy to bring about bad morale in the army. Jueyuan, a "former monk", although he is still vulgar, still maintains a pure and pure heart and a mentality of few desires, and uses him to manage logistics, rest assured. So whether it's suitable or not, let's do it first. The army was hastily created, manpower was short, and there was no way.

In fact, less than half of the killings mentioned by Jueyuan were killed by the dragon sparrow army and the pursuit kills that followed, and most of them were killed by the ignorance of The Hague to prevent the rout from charging into the formation, and the trampling of each other after the collapse of the army formation.

Zhao Lie is more concerned about gunpowder, after all, it is something that is urgently needed at the moment. When Jueyuan talked about the number of gunpowder, he used "no calculation", but Zhao Lie had already learned the detailed data - twelve barrels, 2,400 catties. After refining, about 1,600 catties of propellant can be obtained, which can be used by more than 800 musketeers in our army to shoot seven or eight projectiles per person, which is a combat base of such intensity as the battle of the horse wall, which is not bad, at least the ammunition consumed in this battle has basically been replenished.

The data reported by Jueyuan, the generals listened to it a lot, but when they heard hundreds of gains, everyone smiled. In particular, the generals of several troops participating in the battle, such as Wan Zhong, Shen Pingbo, Chang Tai and others, even calculated how much they could get from each brother according to the three components of the captured.

Under normal circumstances, the above generals must be prepared at least in the council hall to attend, but this time the situation is different, it is the harvest day of the inventory of seizures. In order to show openness and transparency, Zhao Lie suggested that the officers of the team should participate in the participation so that they could know the specific capture data, so that the soldiers would be convinced and would not question the superiors withholding the rewards they deserved. Since then, the Dragon Bird Army has formed a rule, and whenever there is a capture, the generals of each team must be present.

Of course, some people are happy and some are sad. Hong Siniang regretted that her Chijiao camp was not on the wheel.

Zhao Lie noticed that Hong Siniang looked depressed, beckoned Ding Xiaoyi, and whispered a few words to her.

Ding Xiaoyi nodded, walked behind Hong Siniang from the back row, leaned over and whispered.

Hong Siniang's eyes lit up, and she greeted Zhao Lie, her blue indigo face full of thorns and smiles.

Zhao Lie's head responded, turned to the generals, and smiled: "This battle has this result, thanks to the strength of the monarchs and the soldiers. After this defeat, Yuan Rebellion suddenly lost The Hague, and only had the strength to defend, and there was no ability to attack. The crisis in Wan'an Military City can be regarded as resolved. ”

All the generals roared up, and they all saluted Zhao Lie: "Thanks to the power of the general." ”

Shi Yang grinded his teeth: "That's it?" I haven't even had a good time. ”

Hong Siniang's brother, Chijiao Camp was ready to put Hong Lao Wu very upset and said, "Shi Dalang, you haven't enjoyed it yet?" So what should I do with the Red Jiao Camp? ”

All the generals laughed and sneered.

Zhao Lie pressed his hands lightly, and waited for the generals' laughter to gradually stop, and his expression darkened: "Regarding the casualties of our army, Jueyuan, you can tell me." ”

Jue Yuan bowed out of the ranks, and didn't look at the other list in his hand, and opened his mouth to come: "Our army lost seven people and wounded nineteen people, most of them were killed and injured by the counterattack of the enemy's Beiting elite cavalry during the pursuit. ”

The generals whispered, their faces were more happy than sad, and they achieved such a huge result, but with more than 20 casualties, it is almost unimaginable, how many years has there not been such a battle with a low casualty ratio?

Zhao Ruohe, the magistrate of the county, praised: "Xin'an Hou is really talented!" Muskets are really sharp weapons! Sergeant Dragon Sparrow is really a tiger! If I have a clan in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is such a strong weapon, why worry that the Tartars will not be destroyed, and the mountains and rivers will not be restored? Hahaha! ”

All the generals laughed, the literati are not ordinary, and the export is full of chapters.

Zhao Lie just smiled, and he didn't know if it was Zhao Ruohe's habitual literati exaggeration, or if he had seen too much of the defeat of the Xing Dynasty over the years, and suddenly got an amazing victory and was overly excited. With his army of 2,000 men and muskets, he has not been able to form an absolute superiority in weapons, and it is uncertain whether he can defeat Ali's army in The Hague - destroy the Tartars and recover the mountains and rivers...... It's too early to tell!

Zhao Ruohe was worried about the safety of the Yacheng Xingchao, and urgently suggested: "Our army should take advantage of the victory to attack the Yuan army camp, pull it out, sweep away the obstacles, and then lead the army to the sea and go south to rescue the Xingchao." ”

Adjutant General Ma Guangde echoed repeatedly.

Jiang Fenglie and Ouyang Guanhou glanced at each other, and stopped talking.

Shi Yang, who has a deep understanding of the performance of firearms, glanced at Zhao Ruohe, this civil official is a civilian official, and if he doesn't know about military affairs, he knows how to shout. Can this assault camp be the same as a defensive counterattack? It's like eating rush grass.

Zhao Lie said slowly: "The Yuan army camp is going to be attacked, but you have to wait. ”

Zhao Ruohe hurriedly asked, "What are you waiting for?" ”

Zhao Lie looked across the lobby and bet on the direction of the Yuan army camp in the south, smiling unpredictably: "Wait for them to collapse." ”