On April 8, the 26th year of Wanli, the second day of the simultaneous war between the north and south ends of the Ming Empire, Xiao Ruxun led the soldiers and horses of the four towns to kill Hukou and break the vanguard army of 30,000 in the north and south, annihilating 17,000 enemies and beheading 1,600, and the rest fled except for more than 1,000 people who were captured.

This was the first time that Xiao Ruxun directly faced the southbound cavalry outside the fortress, and used 20,000 infantry as the main force to form a formation against the northern cavalry, and after fighting with them for half an hour, Li Rusong led the cavalry to join the battle group and defeated the northern cavalry in one fell swoop.

Originally, Xiao Ruxun planned to rely on the city wall to kill Hukou to deal with the northern captives, but he didn't expect that the northern captives who had gone south before would destroy the killing of Hukou very badly, and it would be completely unusable for a while.

To tell the truth, since the expedition to Ningxia, he has never fought defensive battles, and has always been attacking and offensive, and defensive warfare is sometimes used to passively avoid war, and warriors who really dare to fight will not be afraid of field battles.

The Ming army in the later period with inferior firearms and dared to engage the Qing soldiers face to face, but as soon as they came into contact with the Qing soldiers, they were beaten and fled, and they had no ability to fight in the field, and the Qing army was also the same in the later period, in the face of the sharp firearms of the foreigners, the Qing army dared to shoot at the foreigners against the firepower, once the foreigners charged with bayonets, the Qing soldiers collapsed directly.

An army that does not dare to fight in the field is not an army!

Xiao Ruxun severely reprimanded the Yulin Taiyuan generals who questioned the field battle, named them and asked them to lead their troops out to face the Beiyu cavalry with him, and at the same time asked Li Rusong to lead the cavalry to find a suitable place outside the Great Wall, and then kill them to help the battle after receiving their own signal flares.

He wanted to polish away all the fear of the Northern Cavalry that had been imperceptibly generated by the nine-sided soldiers for a long time.

He wanted to let these soldiers and generals know that cavalry is not invincible, cavalry is not the natural enemy of infantry, and the trained infantry can compete with cavalry by relying on military formations!

So, Xu Guangqi, who stayed in the Great Wall, watched a thrilling battle of infantry against cavalry through a clairvoyant mirror, and saw with his own eyes the battle process that Xiao Ruxun said that the infantry could also fight against the cavalry.

Of course, in the end, it was the cavalry led by Li Rusong who completely defeated the Northern Captives, and they had enough mobility to chase and kill the Northern Captives who were repelled by the infantry, and the result was of course gratifying.

"It's a great battle! Now, Governor, these Northern captives should be honest! ”

Li Rusong looked fiercely at the direction of Beiyu's escape.

As Xiao Ruxun estimated, they built three Jingguan along the way, which did play a great role in deterring, and the scouts reported that the northern captives had left the team twice, once with more people and once with fewer people, and now the number of people has decreased by about one-fifth.

But the rest came, and again with a flood of rage.

They were extremely dissatisfied with the Ming army's behavior of beheading their compatriots to make Jingguan, and they were extremely angry that the Ming army, which had always been in a weak position, dared to treat them like this, and shouted for revenge, and demanded that the Han people pay the price, and directly killed them.

According to Xiao Ruxun's budget in advance, this group of soldiers who definitely have about 100,000 people at the moment has been killed by almost one-fifth, and there are still four-fifths of them, which is still not to be underestimated, and they will inevitably come again.

In fact, it is already the beginning of spring, and the north is not as cold as it was a few months ago, every day at noon, Xiao Ruxun can even feel that his body is warmed by the sun, very comfortable, according to common sense, those northern captives should have gone back a long time ago, but they didn't, they still went south.

Probably.

It doesn't matter, this is Xiao Ruxun's purpose, if these northern captives are not there, he, the governor, will soon be unstable, the Northern Expedition or something is just a lie, he needs enough time to deal with the Northern captives, and then wait for the arrival of the materials allocated by the imperial court, and then he can start the Northern Expedition.

Anyway, the goal of the Northern Expedition is Naturalization City, and between killing Hukou and Naturalization City, Xiao Ruxun will kill every Northern Captive who can still fight.

At present, these hundreds of thousands of northern captives who went south are camped on the grassland, looking like they want to seek revenge on the Ming army, and they will never give up if they don't take revenge, which makes Xiao Ruxun very satisfied, so that he has enough time to wait for the reaction of the imperial court.

After the war, Xiao Ruxun returned to Guannei, took a shower and changed into clean clothes, washed and changed his armor, and began to inspect the camp of the Hukou Ming army, and the first inspection point was the wounded barracks as usual.

One of the major characteristics of Xiao Ruxun's troops is that he is extremely concerned about the recovery of wounded soldiers, and when he was fighting in Ningxia, he tied almost all the doctors in Ningxia who were good at treating sword wounds to the barracks to form an ambulance battalion, and after arriving in Burma, it became a regular one.

Right now, the ambulance camp is also shining here.

From the healers rescued from the captured Han people to the people in the army who have some medical skills, all of them were summoned by Xiao Ruxun and handed over to the ambulance team that went north with the Zhennan Army to manage, and after a period of experience and supplementation, a field ambulance battalion of more than 400 people was raised.

All wounded soldiers, whether they are combatants or sick, will go to the ambulance camp for treatment, and before each battle, the soldiers will be checked for the presence of wounded patients, and only healthy soldiers are allowed to go to the battlefield.

After getting off the battlefield, he must try to treat as long as he still has a breath, and never abandon any wounded soldier, this is the iron law of Xiao Ruxun to lead the troops, and it is also the reason why he is so popular.

After this battle, the losses of the infantry were relatively large, more than 3,000 people were killed in the battle, and no less than 6,000 were wounded.

However, considering that these soldiers were forced to go to the battlefield by Xiao Ruxun without careful training, it can only be said that this is also a helpless thing.

In the current situation, how can Xiao Ruxun be allowed to train calmly?

"Governor, how long will it take to treat so many wounded soldiers?"

Xu Guangqi followed behind Xiao Ruxun, looking at the battalion full of wounded soldiers, listening to the constant screams and wails in his ears, and couldn't help frowning.

"No matter when the treatment is, I have to treat, veterans who have fought on the battlefield and have seen bloody killings are incomparable to the eggs of new soldiers, at a critical time, a veteran can withstand ten recruits, and many times recruits have to rely on veterans to increase the survival rate when they go to the battlefield.

Therefore, as long as the veterans still have a breath, they must try to help, not to mention that the vast majority of the wounded soldiers here are just one or two knife cuts, as long as a little herbs and some bandages can be successfully treated, if you give up and let their wounds suppurate and die, it will inevitably be too cruel. ”

"What does it cost...... Seems high? ”

Xu Guangqi asked.

"Consumption is not a problem, a handful of herbs, compared to a human life, what is a few dozen copper coins?"

Xiao Ruxun explained.

"I see, I see."

Xu Guangqi nodded.