"Our army lost a hundred and sixty casualties in this battle, most of them were temporarily conscripted men; Two hundred and seventy-seven people were injured, and another ninety-five suffered severe frostbite or contracted wind chills..."

The total number of men is more than 500, which is not a small number of casualties compared to the short time of fighting, and the number of non-combat attrition is relatively large, but the results achieved are also very impressive.

"Our army has killed more than 230 heads, killed and wounded more than 300 people, and captured another 4,312 people..."

Now there is no need to worry about the shortage of engineering manpower in the territory.

When Pan Xiaogu heard the number of prisoners, he immediately thought of the projects in the territory that were progressing slowly due to lack of manpower.

However, he was about to lead a large army to attack Canalan, and he couldn't allocate too many troops to take care of these prisoners, especially since there were still masters of battle spirit among the more than 4,000 people.

"Dingbang, take people to screen out those who are warlike and the leaders and officers among the captives, in the name of giving them the corresponding treatment of their status."

Of course Pan Xiaogu would not be so kind, he actually wanted to separate these people from ordinary soldiers, especially those who would be warlike, Pan Xiaogu planned to take them away with the army.

After all, there are still a thousand defenders and tens of thousands of residents in the city of Canalan, and only by dispatching all the main forces can we ensure that there are no accidents. In this way, it is necessary to ensure that these prisoners do not go into chaos, and the separation of officers and soldiers is the most basic, as for taking away those masters of war spirit with the army, it is because only the inheritors in the army can suppress these people.

The result of the screening was very surprising to Pan Xiaogu, among the 4,000 Persian prisoners, there were actually more than 100 who knew how to fight, and this was still the relationship between most of them and Rykmund who fled together. Originally, the ratio of masters to ordinary soldiers was close to 1:30, which was much higher than the ratio of 1:70 in the Tang Army.

You must know that the elite of the northern Persian army has been withdrawn, according to Pan Xiaogu's estimate, the proportion of masters in the Persian army should be about one to twenty, which is more than three times that of the Tang army.

Pan Xiaogu put aside the messy thoughts in his mind and admonished Lu Dingbang

"The captives were not allowed to enter the city, they set up a separate camp outside the city, they were not guarded by too many people, they were controlled with food, and they were given food once a day. Usually you can't let these people be idle, find them something to do, open up wasteland, dig trenches, let the people in the city be overseers, and look for those who died and injured in the family when defending the city, but remember to take back all the tools every day. ”

Pan Xiaogu wasn't sure how long it would take this time, so he explained very carefully.

After explaining the matter of the prisoners, Pan Xiaogu immediately took the Chinese army and the screened prisoners and set off to catch up with the main force of the army that had already set off.

During the march, in order to ensure the physical fitness of the whole army, Pan Xiaogu was rare and generous, and for the first time, he provided the servant army with dough mixed with Linggu.

After tasting these breads and experiencing the miracles of these cakes, the servants of different religions worshiped this cake as a sacred object given by the gods, and at the same time, they were even more in awe of the soldiers of the Five Rivers Army, seeing them as messengers of the gods.

However, if it is said that the five people in Zhichong Mansion are the most touched, especially the few people who helped Panjiabao train before, they finally know why those recruits were so durable, it turns out that the secrets are all in this inconspicuous cake.

Especially Luda, when he thought of the housekeeper who always smiled and told him to eat wine every time he had a meal, he was angry - he dared to love that it was deliberately set up by people to ensure that the secret of the cake was not discovered, and he always felt that the housekeeper was good, and he always thought that when he went to Panjiabao again, he would invite that guy to eat and drink.

Compared with Luda's feeling of believing in you and being deceived and feeling tired and unloved, Cheng Yun and Yang Zhenbang, who were born in Jiangmen, thought more.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and the most important thing in the march is the grain and grass.

This kind of cake in Wuhe Town, a piece of which weighs less than one pound (Tang), can ensure that a soldier does not starve all day long, can also restore the fatigue of soldiers, and ensure the soldier's continuous combat ability, which can be called a heavy weapon of the militaristic state.

The two of them also thought of the war horses of those gods in Wuhe Town, they went out with the Five Rivers Army many times, and found that almost all the war horses ridden by the Five Rivers Army could be called thousands of horses, and the two had been very strange before, obviously these horses were not much different from the Anxi military horses, why were their abilities so much worse. Now that I think about it, it should be because of the forage specially prepared for war horses in Wuhe Town, the people of Wuhe Town must have mixed something into the forage of the horses, so that the forage has the same magical effect as the military rations of the Wuhe Army.

Cheng Yun and the others felt that the more they understood Wuhe Town, the more mysterious Wuhe Town and the forces behind it became.

The secrets of Linggu will be exposed sooner or later, especially the people in the territory have a large number of Linggu, after the Panyin River thaws, there will be a large number of merchant ships from the Cheng Yang family to visit the territory, and those who come with the ship have frequent contact with the people, and sooner or later they will discover the secrets of Linggu, so even if it is exposed now, it is nothing.

And after this expedition to Persia, he opened up a new territory in Persia, and his strength was enhanced, although it was not as good as the Anxi Tang Army, but self-protection could still be done, as long as the Anxi Army did not hold the idea of burning jade and stones, and the iron heart came to deal with him, his territory was safe, and the people who came to Anxi would not be so unthinkable.

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Pan Xiaogu's army went west to attack Canalan City, and it turned out that Redmond, the actual controller of the city, was leading people south.

There are now only more than 300 people left around Redmond, and the more than 1,000 people who originally broke through with him are now basically scattered, and most of the families of those people stay in Canalan City, and after the breakthrough, these people plan to go back to reunite with their families.

Now following Redmond, in addition to the thirty or so servant knights, most of the rest are mercenaries recruited by Redmond from the south, and they still follow Redmond not because of loyalty, on the one hand, because they are just on the way, and on the other hand, because Redmond still owes them the final payment, and the mercenaries are afraid that he will run away with the money.

Redmond himself is a mercenary, although he has been appreciated by the former governor, became a Persian general, and has been out of the mercenary world for several years, but he knows very well what the mercenaries are thinking in their heads, if he now tells these mercenaries that he is unable to pay their salaries, maybe these guys will immediately pounce on him and his men and tear them to pieces, and use their equipment and horses to pay off the debts - although according to the regulations, the employer can not pay the final payment of the mercenary if he is defeated, can the mercenaries be expected to obey the rules?

"Captain Hassan, what are your plans for the future?" Redmond called the mercenary leader and asked.

Hassan, a middle-aged man with a big beard, cautiously kept his distance from Luckmond's people, stared at Rykmund's eyes vigilantly, and replied with a sneer

"Of course, I plan to take the reward that my brothers deserve and go home." Hassan deliberately accentuated the words "deserve and reward" as his right hand pretended to unintentionally resting on the hilt of his sword.

Redmond pretended not to see Hassan's movements and continued.

"I'm defeated, Canalan City must have been lost, and now I don't have the money to pay you and your brother, but I have a way to get rich, Brother Hassan, are you willing to follow me?"