The large battalion of marines, seeing that the Japanese did not continue to attack, a group of soldiers did not dare to slack off, busy with all kinds of inspections, before the truce order, they must make all kinds of pre-battle preparations, ready to meet the next round of attacks, today's battle, for every soldier, is a new test, this gang of Japanese bandits, much more difficult to deal with than the Spanish and Dutch.

Lin Wei didn't expect that this gang of would-be wouldn't be afraid of death, no wonder they could cause trouble on the south coast of the Yangtze River back then, and he wasn't sure if this war had completely ended, he looked up at the still dark sky, and he asked in a sullen voice: "What time is it?" ”

The officer next to him immediately replied: "It's six quarters on weekdays, and it's about to be dawn." ”

Fu Anding rushed over at this time, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, I'm looking forward to the dawn?" What about troop casualties? ”

"It's still counting." Lin Wei said rather depressedly: "Naturally, we are looking forward to the dawn, and this style of play cannot give full play to our advantages at all." ”

"These pirates are afraid of our firearms, so they fight at night, no, when they see that the sky is almost dawn, they retreat." Fu Anding smiled and said, "It's dawn, it's time for us to take the initiative." ”

Fuhan had just come over, and when he heard this, he asked, "Do you still have enough ammunition for your artillery?" ”

"A big war of this magnitude can happen twice." Pay the way of stability and self-satisfaction.

Fuhan asked in surprise, "Why did you bring so much ammunition?" Is it any wonder that so many supply ships are loaded with ammunition together? ”

"You don't know." Fu An said proudly: "The dean said, after fighting Edo, there is still a negotiation, this time is not short, the Japanese are the most insidious, we have to prevent them from mobilizing reinforcements to continue the war, this ammunition naturally can't be less, but it's a pity that the fireworks are less." ”

Lin Wei glanced up at Fu Han, and saw that he had the leisure to talk around, so he put his mind at ease, Fu Han went to count the battle losses. This look, there should not be much loss, but. He still asked, "What about the battle damage?" ”

"It's okay, much better than I expected." Fu Han said in a deep voice: "According to preliminary statistics, twenty-three were killed in the battle and more than two hundred and forty were wounded. ”

"The pirates didn't even cross the trench. How could there be so many casualties? Fu An was puzzled.

"Most of them were wounded by bows and arrows." Fuhan explained: "The main casualties came from the left and right corners and the first line of firing trenches, and the pirates in front were mixed in with many archers. ”

"Be content, you, it's dawn, look at the corpses on the battlefield, there are not ten thousand. There are also eight thousand. Lin Wei stood up with a smile and said, "I'm afraid I won't dare to come again, but when it's dawn, it's time for us to take the initiative, go see if breakfast is ready, and hurry up to start eating." ”

*

The whole of Edo, up to the shogun's family and his mother, Moonlight Temple. Down to the common people. No one could sleep, and since the sound of the cannonballs, all of them looked for a high place to look at the battlefield, and although it was not clear how the battlefield was clear, the progress and intensity of the battle could be roughly inferred from the light and sound of the shell explosions, the intensity of the gunfire, and the free fireworks.

When the sound of the cannon gradually subsided. When the battlefield was quiet, the familiar cheers were not heard. Everyone knew the outcome of the battle, and the whole of Edo was then in a state of extreme panic. The wealthy merchants immediately took the gold and silver that had already been packed up and left the city in the dark, and some ordinary people also packed up their belongings and fled in a hurry, hoping to avoid the scourge of war.

The feudal lords of Edo Castle hurried to the outside of Edo Castle with their retainers, and as feudal lords, they fled when foreign enemies invaded, and the congregation rebelled, in this case, the shogun must have summoned them into the castle to hold on to the castle to wait for help, and all the officials in Edo Castle were samurai, and like the samurai and ronin in the castle, they valued their reputation more than their lives, so they naturally refused to flee, and gathered in the castle town of Edo Castle to wait for the shogun's orders. …,

After the division of the house hastily collected the troops, he didn't have the heart to count the battle damage, and returned to the mansion of the Ma Xiang Niu Jiu family with a heavy heart, sat down and pondered, it was dawn, how should this battle be fought? It is certain that the Seikoku sailors attacked Edo, how can they be stopped from entering Edo? How can the artillery of the Qing Navy Division be restrained?

*

Little by little, the sky in the east was white, and the sky finally dawned.

When the situation of the entire battlefield was slowly and clearly displayed in front of everyone's eyes, everyone was shocked, including Lin Wei, Fu Anding, and Fu Han, their eyes widened in surprise, and they looked at this extremely shocking scene in front of them in disbelief.

From the trench outward, the whole ground is covered with corpses, there is almost no open space, within a hundred yards, the corpses are layered, looking into the distance, there are still endless corpses, there are many corpses of war horses, the whole battlefield is extremely quiet, except for the occasional sorrowful sound of war horses.

After coming back to his senses, Fu Anding chuckled and said: "I finally know what a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood is today, no wonder the dean said that the artillery is used intensively, and the power is amazing, and it is so." ”

"You're a war-torn boy." Shi Shibiu's voice suddenly came from behind.

Lin Wei and the others looked back and saw Yinxiang, Shi Shibiao, and Long Keduo coming over with a group of officers, and hurriedly greeted them and saluted, Yinxiang opened his mouth and asked, "How are the casualties?" ”

Lin Wei immediately replied: "Report to General Shi and the Thirteenth Master, our department killed twenty-three people in the battle and injured more than two hundred and forty people. ”

Hearing that the casualties were not large, Yinxiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, nodded slightly, and said: "The deceased will be handled according to the rules set by the prince, and the injured will be transferred to the battleship immediately and handed over to the military doctor for treatment." ”

"Yes!" Lin Weili stepped forward and replied loudly.

Long Keduo glanced at the battlefield and said with emotion: "There are really a lot of people on a small island in the Japanese country, and so many people can die in one battle. ”

"There are indeed a lot of them, but there are 30 million people in the land of projectiles." Yinxiang said disappreciably: "How many people did they die in this battle?" Twenty thousand? Thirty thousand? They have gathered more than 100,000 people, so how should this battle be fought? ”

*

Next, how should this battle be fought? The room is also stuffy in the hall and thinking hard, fighting the sea of people tactics, and using human lives to fill it? Will the Qing Guo Sailor still give this opportunity? After a big battle, they certainly saw the power of the Qing artillery, but the Qing people also knew enough about them, would they go deep alone to give them the opportunity to encircle them on all sides?

Moreover, even if there was a chance to encircle them on all sides, with the power of the firearms of the Qing Navy, how could they trap them? Edo was a flat river, but there was no suitable place to stop them, and their artillery could attack from a distance and defend at close range, which was really tricky. (To be continued......)