That night, Yang Xuan crossed the river by boat, and the entire beach was in a mess along the way, stumps and broken arms could be seen everywhere, the war horses that had lost their owners were innocently neighing, and some uninjured people shouted loudly, supporting the injured soldiers to rush to temporary rescue points.

Luo Youxing, the palace servant in charge of the rescue of the wounded soldiers, shouted loudly, asked everyone to quickly set up a tent, and commanded everyone to send the wounded and sick to the tent for recuperation.

Wang Xiang shook his head with a blue face and said: "Lord Wang, although our army won the victory in this battle, the regiments suffered heavy casualties, the 3rd town had 8,000 people, more than 600 people were killed in the battle, more than 2,000 people were wounded, and its general soldier Guo Chonglie was also hit by 3 arrows, and now he is lying there"?

Yang Xuan nodded, walked over with steps, and saw Guo Chonglie lying on a stretcher with shouting, and when he saw Yang Xuan approaching, he panicked and wanted to get up from the stretcher.

Yang Xuan held Guo Chonglie's body, and said with a blue face: "The soldiers of the 3rd town fought bravely to kill the enemy, dared to fight the enemy horse, and with the strength of a town on the battlefield, they were suddenly attacked by two Manchurian Eight Banners Iron Cavalry after the fierce sprint, and they actually tried their best to keep it safe, which is also very heroic." ”

Everyone was stunned, and Qian Bangqi, the overseer next to him, smiled and said: "Lord Wang, the soldiers of the 3rd town are brave, and General Guo is the first soldier, and he is also a very rare tiger general." ”

Guo Chonglie's face was overjoyed, and he resigned again and again: "The army has been awarded, Guo is not talented, half his life is reckless, he is just a general flag in the army, fortunately he is appreciated by the prince, and now he has become a general soldier, of course, there is only one way to die on the battlefield to repay the kindness of the prince." ”

Yang Xuan sighed and said: "Lao Guo, you can work hard for me, to tell the truth, I am very moved in my heart, I can get three or five confidants in life, everyone creates a great cause together, life is like this, what more can a husband ask for?"

But Lao Guo, now it is different from the past, you are not a general flag in the army, but a tiger general who commands nearly 10,000 troops and is related to the great cause of the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition.

This king has always asked everyone to learn the war from the past war history, to learn the battle formation from the war process, you see, compared with Chen Huaixi, there is still a gap. ”

Guo Chonglie felt embarrassed, raised his head, looked at the other party puzzled, shook his head and said: "Lord Wang, you know that the last general was born recklessly, and he couldn't even hold a brush steadily in the past, but he was taught by the prince, and the last general can now write his full name, recognize hundreds of words, and understand some simple letters."

The last general has always warned himself that the lord is the benefactor of the last general, and without the support of the prince, there would be no prince today. ”

I don't know what's going on, especially those brothers who followed the earlier ones who kept calling themselves ministers and calling Yang Xuan the lord.

I don't know what happened, but those brothers who followed earlier kept calling themselves ministers, and called Yang Xuan the lord.

Yang Xuan sometimes asked angrily, everyone joked about marrying the eldest princess of course the princess's husband, so referred to as the lord, so Yang Xuan couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't know what to do.

Wu Yanghu, the commander of the army next to him, patted the other party on the shoulder and said: "General Guo, in the battle of Yiting that day, the naval army formed a military formation relying on the dock to defeat the Tartar iron cavalry, and afterwards the princes reported the whole army to commend them.

In the official award document, it is believed that Chen Huaixi defeated the Tartar Iron Cavalry, reappeared for Liu Yu's Cold Moon Formation, and summarized the key points of the Cold Moon Formation's attack and defense against the enemy.

Although the 3rd town crossed the Yangtze River this time, although it established a beachhead and formed an army formation, under the dash of the Tartar iron cavalry, the two sides blindly fought head-on, ignoring the many magic weapons we used to deal with the Tartar iron cavalry in the past.

Such as rational use of terrain

Like a car formation, retreat from the enemy

......

These, you think about it, isn't it? ”

Guo Chonglie looked up at the prince, and saw that the other party was staring at him, so he hurriedly patted his head and said, "Lord, these generals forgot about it at that time." ”

Yang Xuan sighed and said, "Old Guo, people need to grow, and generals are even more so. Therefore, there is a saying that the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent from the army.

But a general, a prime minister, after becoming a general and becoming a prime minister, if you only think about the affairs of the state department, it is not good.

In this battle of crossing the river, the soldiers of the 3rd town fought bravely to kill the enemy, so you can wait for the meritorious personnel to sort out and report.

As for you, your supervising army, the generals and sub-supervising troops below you, all have their merits and demerits, so you have no opinion, right? ”

How dare Guo Chonglie have an opinion, he struggled to sit up from the hospital bed and kowtowed to thank him.

This is the first time since the start of the war that the casualties of the loyal and righteous army have exceeded the Tartars, in the past, whether it was the defense of Shunqing City, the Mianzhou blockade battle, the battle of Hanzhong, or the battle of Yaoting, in the face of the superior Tartar cavalry, the casualties of the loyal and righteous army have never exceeded the Tartars.

Looking at the dense battle columns in front of the general soldiers of each town, the deputy generals and staff generals of each battalion, Yang Xuan's face was pale, and everyone seriously summed up the lessons of this battle, and finally formed 11 countermeasures to deal with the attack of the Tartar cavalry.

Expand the search area and search for the movement of the Tartar cavalry over a large area.

Before the operation, it is necessary to reconnoiter the surrounding terrain and respond urgently after temporary accidents.

Relying on the terrain, a battle formation is quickly formed.

Use two-wheeled vehicles and knife carts to quickly form battle formations.

When arranging the formation, the artillery team, the musket team, and the cold weapon team cooperate in the medium and short range.

When playing against each other, avoid panicking and use the terrain to form a mandarin duck formation and other formations

Make more use of earth-shattering thunder and flintlock pistols

…….

Yang Xuan discussed with everyone one by one, and sometimes even asked people to temporarily set up formations for drills, and asked Zhao Ronggui to organize the training department to conduct drills and select troops in various towns for promotion.

In order to expand the results of the battle, the navy made persistent efforts that night, from the mouth of the south bank of Hanyang to the mouth of the Wuchang embankment, and since then the loyal and righteous army has built pontoon bridges at the north and south ends of Wuchang City, and the army can rely on the pontoon bridge to kill Wuchang City.

Just when Yang Xuan led the army to Wuchang, the scouts came to report that after Yue Le fled back to Wuchang, he urgently recruited Cai Shiying, Tong Guolai, and Shi Tingzhu to come to discuss, and saw that the morale of the troops was low, and after this battle, all the troops suffered heavy casualties and decided to withdraw from Wuchang City.

Hearing this news, everyone was boiling, and everyone asked for battle and demanded to pursue the Tartars.

Yang Xuan was also quite surprised, and said with a smile: "In yesterday's battle, the casualties of the enemy and us can be said to be evenly matched, after this battle, Yue Le actually led his troops to withdraw from a big city like Wuchang, so from this point of view, this Yue Le is more difficult to deal with than Duoduo."

Zhao Ronggui said with a smile: "Lord Wang, Yue Le has now become a frightened bird, if you let the Tartar retreat so easily, it will inevitably cause endless disasters."

Yang Xuan pointed to the map in front of him and said: "Everyone, Yue Le wants to retreat to these roads, go north through Wusheng Pass and retreat into Henan, and when occupying Anlu Mansion, this king has already ordered Cao Zhang to lead the 15th town and the 7th town of Jin Tongwu to cross the Han River to form the Jiangbei Group, if this king's prediction is good, now they should have occupied Wusheng Pass, and then march to Dabie Mountain, occupy Dabie Mountain to threaten the Huaixi region."

From this point of view, Yue Le's only chance of life is to go down the river, pass through Ezhou and Huangshi and retreat in the direction of Jiujiang."

When everyone heard this, they all nodded.

On August 20, the 4th year of Yongli, Feng Youqing's 9th town and Liu Wenxiu's 12th town occupied Wuchang City, and Yang Xuan led a cadre of staff into Wuchang City early the next morning.