In an instant, Jian Chen noticed that the unconscious person seemed to have seen Zhao, and he immediately said, "Wait a minute. The www.biquge.info cavalry looked at him, waiting for his orders. Chen Jian rode his horse and asked, "Who is lying on the ground?" ”

"Our master."

"What's it called?"

"Song Ersuniko."

"You also ride horses?" Chen Jian tilted his head and saw the whips pinned to the waists of several bandits, obviously this was a horse whip for horseback, so he concluded that these people were also cavalry, could it be that the big boss who led a thousand cavalry but was defeated by himself was the one in front of him?

A minion said: "Yes, we are horse bandits in eastern Henan. ”

"Yudong's." Jian Chen nodded, "It's a little interesting, it seems that we have quite a lot of opponents." He glanced at Song Erhezi contemptuously and said, "His command is not good, more than a thousand people have been beaten like this." ”

The minion argued: "My lord, it's not that we are in charge of the house and won't fight, we are from the river. There were only more than 300 brothers from the south, more than 200 horses, and only 300 people were gathered together with horses and mules, and the rest were all stockades in northern Anhui. Although we are in charge of the cavalry, no one listens to us. After all, we are outsiders, and if it weren't for Chang Da's face, who would have handed over his cavalry to our command. ”

Chen Jian shook his head and said: "When fighting, the most taboo is this kind of chaotic command where soldiers don't know generals and soldiers, and sometimes it's better to keep the elite." But that doesn't mean that you're in charge of commanding, he just hasn't met an opponent. The minions originally wanted to refute two sentences, but when they thought that they were defeated, they didn't even have the ability to resist, and they were chased all over the mountains like rabbits, so they could only bow their heads and accept criticism.

Jian Chen asked, "What about your war horses?" ”

The minion said, "Our horses were robbed by other stockade owners, and they killed a few of us, so we only have these brothers." ”

"! Why are they still killing each other. Chen Jian was even more disdainful, bandits are always bandits, they have won the uneven distribution of spoils, they shirked their responsibilities when they lost, and they did it for their own lives in order to survive, "Brothers, pull a few war horses over and bring them along." Follow me, don't be a bandit, my cavalry is gone, and there is no one in the army who can ride a horse. ”

Several minions looked at each other, and some of them were moved, but one of them said, "Thank you for your kindness, sir, but you have to save us first." ”

"Yes." Jian Chen nodded.

In this bloody battle that took place in the small stream beach of the vortex river, whether it was the 18 bandits in northern Anhui or the 24 mixed associations, both sides suffered heavy losses. The battle and pursuit lasted for three days and three nights, and countless bandits were killed, and hundreds of thousands of people were affected. At this time, the Qing army and patrol battalion in northern Anhui came out, as if they had won the battle, and they followed behind the 24 mixed soldiers one by one to chase and kill the bandits, and first to get the credit.

However, under the strong force of Wang Yongtai, any troops who grabbed merit did not dare to act rashly, and the sailor battalion of Shou County ignored Wang Yongtai's opposition, and preemptively launched an attack on the bandits who had participated in the bloody battle of the vortex river in Shou County, and in one fell swoop broke through the bandit water village like a bird of terror, but then Wang Yongtai ordered the army to shoot at the Shou County Sailor Battalion, killing and wounding more than 30 people on the spot, and the Shou County Sailor Battalion was so frightened that it ran to Wuhu in the south of the Yangtze River overnight.

Wang Yongtai's arrogance was unbearable, but no one pursued it, not even the pipe belt of Nashou County, after all, the bloody battle of the vortex river was too cruel. On the third day after the war, Wang Yongan ordered Fang Xianwu to count the casualties of Xiaojian Beach, and Fang Xianwu drove the Qing army in northern Anhui to be responsible for the inventory and convergence, and found 837 24 mixed soldiers killed in the corpse mountain and sea of blood.

Of the 837 mixed soldiers, 207 were killed in cavalry, 21 in artillery marks, 131 in baggage marks, 110 in guards battalions, and 368 in 1st infantry marks. Among them, the cavalry standard with the heaviest casualties was the cavalry standard, which was all wounded by the cavalry standard of 300 people before the war, and half of the 93 people who survived were seriously injured and retired, and half of them were infected after the war. After careful investigation by Fang Xianwu, among the 368 people killed, 11 people were killed by the bandits' bullets in the morning defensive battle, and 192 people were killed in the bayonet hand-to-hand combat during the pursuit, but because Gurry used heavy machine guns to disperse the melee crowd to rescue Yang Zhenshan, he killed as many as 165 of his own people, including nine officers.

When Fang Xianwu handed over the list of his own dead and the detailed list to Wang Yongtai, Wang Yongtai's body was in a trance, and he almost fell to the ground, holding the list in his hand and crying bitterly, more than 800 brothers died here, that is more than 800 brothers who get along day and night.

"My lord, actually...... Many more fighters have died one after another due to wounds and diseases. Fang Xianwu sighed and said in a low voice, these wounded soldiers infected and killed on the battlefield were more painful than dying on the spot, some were alive and painful, and some were asleep and died on the hospital bed.

"What about the medics? What about Dr. Yue? Wang Yongtai said, "Call him and ask him if he can prevent any of the soldiers from dying again, and I can't lose them anymore." ”

Yue Wenzheng soon came from the field hospital, his face was full of exhaustion, and when he heard Wang Yongtai's inquiry, he could only sigh and say: "I estimate that a quarter of the seriously wounded can't hold on, alas...... Don't report General Fang's casualty figures first, because there will be people ...... next."

Wang Yongtai leaned against the wall with a sad face, and a line of turbid tears remained.

"There are also wounded captives, what should be done?" Yue Wen was busy asking.

Wang Yongtai's eyes widened, and he said coldly: "They? They don't care what we do, they hand it over to Wei Daofeng to take care of the prisoners, and the injured ones will be benevolent and righteous to give some gauze to stop the bleeding, hmph, how can our herbs be used on animals. Then Wang Yongtai asked with concern: "Where did Chang Ergou go?" ”

General Gao led the troops to pursue to the Yangtze River, they crossed the Yangtze River to southern Anhui, and General Gao inquired that Chang Ergou took a few henchmen to the lake. North. Zhang Maocai, deputy commander of the guard battalion, said hurriedly.

"By the way, Lao Fang, how about the casualties of the bandits?" Wang Yongtai asked again.

Fang Xianwu smiled bitterly: "It's almost impossible to count, if you want to count completely, it is estimated that the corpses are all decomposed." About how to dispose of the body, whether it is burned or buried in place? ”

Wang Yongtai sneered: "The bodies of our army are killed, bury them, as for the corpses of the bandits, throw them into the vortex river after they are counted." ”

"Huh? Thrown in the river? Fang Xianwu was shocked, "The lower reaches of the Vortex River is the Huai River, if the corpses float down the Vortex River, the Huai River will be full of corpses......

"So what?" Wang Yongtai said unruly, "I just want the people who integrate northern Anhui to see what will happen to those who oppose me Wang Yongtai, they have been cold to us in the past few months, I want to see their faces now!" (To be continued.) )