The battle in the northwest corner began and ended rather abruptly, and the whole battle lasted only about forty minutes. However, the casualties caused by the more than 40 minutes of fighting were really not small, not only the samurai of the Eight Banners suffered more than 100 casualties, but even the militiamen of the Hezhong Security Regiment also had more than 30 people who were shot or shot and fell to the ground, and even among those who were standing, there were not a few who were wounded.

A group of soldiers from the engineering battalion, under the command of the military medical officer, walked briskly on stretchers, examining the injuries of fallen soldiers and treating them. As for the injured Eight Banner warriors, everything was on their own, and the military medical officers did not have time to treat them.

After the battle in the northwest corner was over for a while, Mo Ming once again turned his attention back to the battlefield in the southeast corner, where the second barbed wire fence was being contested. After the fierce gunfire that had just erupted in the northwest corner, the barbarians on this side suddenly accelerated their attack, and they launched the fiercest attack of the night against the backmost barbed wire.

During this offensive, part of the second barbed wire fence was almost broken by the barbarians, and about 100 Eight Banner warriors who were responsible for intercepting it in front of them were overwhelmed by the enemy's fierce attack and bloody close-range fighting, and broke back, causing about 40 barbarians to rush into the camp. Fortunately, Mo Ming, who saw that the situation was not right at that time, immediately ordered Jiang Zhiqing, deputy of the 1st Company of the Army, who served as a reserve, to urgently bring four platoons of soldiers forward and quickly eliminate this barbarian force that broke through into the position.

After Jiang Zhiqing hurried over with 84 musketeers, he first fired a volley of guns, and then rushed over with a rifle with a bayonet. Finally eliminated the barbarians who crawled in through the gap. Then they didn't have time to reload their rifles either. Carrying bright bayonets, they lined up side by side in a tight formation. Desperately keep the barbarians out of the barbed wire. It wasn't until Liu Zhong rushed over with dozens of newly transferred Eight Banner warriors to take over their positions that Jiang Zhiqing led his soldiers to retreat to the back, unloaded their bayonets, and loaded their rifles.

The battle became more and more intense, and almost as soon as Jiang Zhiqing led his troops to clear out the barbarians who had broken through, another wave of barbarians scattered about seventy or eighty Eight Banner warriors in front of him and rushed into the camp. In desperation, Mo Ming once again ordered a senior platoon commander of the 1st Company to rush over with two platoons of riflemen and a platoon of grenadiers to extinguish the fire. After a volley of guns and bombardment. The barbarians who had broken through were wiped out again, and the breach was closed again with the help of the samurai of the Eight Banners, who had arrived to support them.

After these two firefighting teams were dispatched, only three platoons of army soldiers led by Chang Kaisheng and a group of staff officers and heralds were left around Mo Ming, and the situation seemed to have suddenly become tense. However, fortunately, the ferocious attack just now was also the return of the barbarian's last rays, and after the decisive attack regardless of casualties did not achieve the expected effect, the barbarian breathed out, and the offensive suddenly withered. In addition, the barbarians in the northwest corner were also defeated and retreated at this time, and the barbarian commander here saw that if he continued to attack, he would only increase casualties, so after a slight attack, he blew the horn of the withdrawal of the army.

After the horn of withdrawal sounded, the barbarians, who had been attacking like a wave, suddenly retreated like a tide. Only corpses and groaning wounded remained. The barbarians retreated, but the people of the East did not dare to take it lightly. Except for some soldiers from the baggage battalion and engineering battalion who were assisting the medics in searching for and treating the wounded, all the other combatants stood behind the second barbed wire fence and stared at the front. The artillery brothers also began to replace the artillery with explosive shells and began to fire reconnaissance at the dark place ahead, but unfortunately the visibility at the moment was too low, and it was impossible to see what kind of situation was in the distance.

This situation lasted until about half past eleven in the evening, and after the barbarians disappeared for nearly two hours, Mo Ming finally ordered the soldiers of the 1st Company of the Army to come forward to take over the 103rd and 104th companies, which were already extremely tired after half a night of fierce fighting, so that they could take a breath and have a good rest. Due to the short time of fierce fighting, Mo Ming did not let them withdraw, but let them rest in place. As for the defense of these two places, it was entrusted to the Eight Banner warriors under the command of Liu Zhong and Mo Wu.

The military medical officer quickly ran over to report to Mo Ming about the casualties of the battle in the past few hours tonight: "As of 11 o'clock tonight, 24 people have been killed, 5 wounded and killed, and 49 wounded in the Hezhong Security Regiment; The 103rd Company counted 10 killed, 3 wounded and 28 wounded; The 104th Company counted 12 killed, 4 wounded and 29 wounded; 2 killed, 1 wounded, 6 wounded in the 1st Company; In total, 61 people were killed and 112 injured, about a quarter of whom were seriously injured and required urgent surgery or amputation, and a significant number of them are likely to survive tomorrow, with the eventual death toll likely to be around 80. As for the casualties of the Eight Banner warriors, there is no accurate number yet, but the approximate casualty figure is more than four hundred, of which about half are dead. ”

Mo Ming waved his hand and motioned for the military medical officer to immediately treat the wounded. The casualties of the people on the east coast reached 173, which is a seemingly palpitating number, mainly because the barbarians actually used a large number of musket troops. The Hezhong Security Regiment, which was directly engaged with them, suffered heavy casualties by surprise, and its 78 casualties accounted for almost half of the total casualties of the army on the east bank.

As for the casualties of the Eight Banners warriors, they were selectively ignored by Mo Ming, and those servant troops were cannon fodder that could be sacrificed at any time in the eyes of the generals on the east coast. Moreover, he hadn't settled accounts with Mo Wu and Liu Zhong yet, at the critical moment of the battle, two groups of Eight Banner warriors in the camp in the southeast corner abandoned their positions under the desperate attack of the barbarians and broke back. This taught Mo Ming how to endure it?

The nearly 200 scattered Eight Banner warriors had already been confiscated by Mo and Liu and kept in separate custody. What awaits them will be a lifetime of hard labor in the local Changshan Forced Labor Camp, and their family property will be confiscated, and all their families will be reduced to slavery and relegated to the lower two banners.

After dealing with these things, Mo Ming began to comfort the wounded again, soothe their emotions, and commend them for their heroic fighting. After some tossing, seeing that it was already more than five o'clock in the morning, Mo Ming simply stopped sleeping and began to write a battle report. After writing the report, he hastily ate a bowl of gruel brought by the orderly, and the sky outside was already bright.

Mo Ming put on his military coat and walked out of the camp accompanied by several staff officers, looking at the battlefield full of corpses in front of him. What a shocking scene! The ground within the two barbed wire fences was densely covered with more than one layer of corpses, and the number of corpses inside and outside the barbed wire was particularly dense, most of the barbarians were killed by volleys of guns while climbing the barbed wire, and a few died from the spears of the Eight Banner Samurai. As for the control of a few cannons, it was a hellish scene, countless barbarians lay on the ground with holes, and some were beaten into a pile of rotten meat. The ground was littered with severed limbs, foul-smelling internal organs, and the heads of dead savages.

Rao is Mo Ming has seen the bloody scenes of the battlefield many times, and after seeing the scene in front of him, he still looks extremely uncomfortable, and the bowl of rice porridge he just drank is even more faintly churning in his stomach. And the young intern staff officers behind him couldn't help but bend over and retch there at this time, such a scene was too bloody for their group of young people who had experienced such a large-scale battle for the first time.

A large amount of blood pooled along the terrain and flowed into the nearby Berg River, staining a large area of the river red, as bright and dazzling as a river of blood. Mo Ming frowned and took two more steps, then waved his hand to call the person in charge of the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion who were in charge of cleaning the battlefield, and instructed them: "Dispose of the corpse as soon as possible, we don't have much time to waste here, maybe the battle is also fierce on the side of Fort Gouda." They had limited troops there and were in dire need of our support, so they immediately set out for Fort Gouda. Go dispose of the corpses, as soon as possible! ”

The leaders of the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion went to the call, and they had to clean up the camp, settle the wounded, prepare breakfast, load supplies on the ship, and clean up the battlefield, so they did not have much time to dispose of the corpses on the battlefield. After hastily collecting the corpses of their own side, they threw the dense corpses of the barbarians into the river, and immediately dyed the river red like a river of blood.

At ten o'clock in the morning on May 26, 1641, the assembled East Bank army left the camp where the night had been fiercely fought in the middle of the night, and continued its march towards Fort Gouda, in the upper reaches of the Berg River. The total number of barbarian deaths was finally counted, and the commander of the baggage battalion confirmed to Mo Ming that they and the engineering battalion had thrown about 2,700 corpses into Hanoi, and it was estimated that the final death toll of the barbarians should be more than 3,000.

At the same time as the departure of the large army, part of the ships of the baggage battalion were separated, and many wounded with limited mobility were placed on it. The River Security Regiment also dispatched 40 soldiers, together with about 300 Eight Banner warriors led by Mo Wu, while escorting the 200 Eight Banner soldiers who had broken up last night, and escorting these boats carrying the wounded to the river fort downstream. (To be continued......)