With the abundant body accumulated by the constant standby, the 1,000 soldiers with spears in their hands rushed out only a hundred steps to catch up with some officers and soldiers who had already fallen alone and lost their fears.

For these people, the soldiers who attacked did not hesitate at all. Directly raised the spear and stabbed them in the heart.

Facing the defenders of the salt field who suddenly caught up behind them, the officers and soldiers who were already frightened became more panicked at this moment.

One by one, the soldiers, like lost dogs, kept speeding up their escape.

In particular, they saw that the weapons in the hands of the pursuing troops behind them were spears, not broadswords. The panic on his face was directly replaced by fear.

As officers and soldiers, they all know the truth that cold weapons are an inch long and an inch short on the battlefield. Fighting with broadswords and spears in the hands of the saltworks defenders is not a battle, it is a death.

Therefore, at this moment, in addition to escaping for their lives, they only have the ending of being stabbed to death by a spear in the heart.

However, after half an hour of siege battles with long hair, their limited bodies had long been consumed.

Even if they lose their weapons and armor on the way to escape, they are no match for the garrison behind them.

As time passed, more and more officers and soldiers were about to run out of strength. Before he could catch his breath, he was stabbed a bloody hole in his body by a spear from the back of his heart.

Then, with the despair before death, he threw himself forward and fell to the ground, turning into a corpse.

Wherever the defenders of the 1,000 salt fields went, they must have left the corpses of officers and soldiers everywhere on the ground.

This unilateral massacre. It lasted until the archers began to counterattack, and the saltworks began to attack the troops, and casualties began to appear. It ended with the order to withdraw troops from the salt works.

When the battle ended, the smoke that shrouded the battlefield slowly dissipated.

When the battlefield was full of corpses, slowly showing the sight of everyone on both sides, everyone was shocked.

As for the shock, he showed a diametrically opposite expression.

He Guozhong, the commander of the salt field garrison division, took a breath of blood in the air with a look of enjoyment. Yan Sù's face finally showed a look of joy after victory.

Although there is no way to find out the specific losses of the officers and troops outside the city. But what exactly is the battlefield of him. Based on visual inspection alone, it is certain that the corpses left on the battlefield by officers and soldiers are definitely more than 4,500.

Faced with this result. He Guozhong knows. He succeeded himself, and this battle plan, carefully developed by the chief of staff, succeeded.

As long as there are no accidents, with the current battle situation, I can definitely hold on until the arrival of the support of the Shanxi Governor's Mansion.

Thousands of soldiers of the garrison, with the joy of victory, took advantage of the temporary lack of strength to attack the officers and troops outside the city, and began to go out of the city to clean the battlefield and collect gunpowder that they urgently needed.

Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian. With a gloomy face, he greeted several generals who had withdrawn with a dejected face.

I saw that there were suddenly a few fewer generals in front of me. Zhu Dadian's brows furrowed, and he asked loudly: "How many people are there, don't you know that this official is gathering generals here, and they are not afraid of military law?" ”

The adjutant general standing beside him replied with a solemn face: "My lord, there are a few generals who have not yet come, except for one who has been seriously injured and has been sent to the rear for treatment, and the remaining three generals have all died on the battlefield..."

"...... killed in battle," Zhu Dadian asked with an incredulous expression.

In Zhu Dadian's impression, whether it is the battle against the Houjin Tartars or the battle against the rebels in the territory. With a large number of guards and officers, it is basically impossible to get hurt. No matter how fierce the battle is, they can get out of the battlefield alive.

However, in the battle in front of him, he lost several generals with more than 1,000 troops at one time, which had to be shocked by Zhu Dadian, and he was shocked from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, this shock was not for the fallen generals, but for the sharp firearms of the Haw Par Army.

Zhu Dadian, who witnessed the battle for two consecutive days, knew very well that in the face of the sharp firearms of the Tiger and Leopard Army, no matter whether it was an ordinary soldier or a high-ranking officer, he could not avoid death

After the shock, Zhu Dadian did not forget his purpose of gathering everyone together.

After forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart, he said decisively: "The attack failed again....As for the specific reason, there is only one, that is, the firearms of the defenders of the salt field are too sharp..."

"Not only that, but all of us standing here have been deceived by the Haw Par Army defending the salt works in front of us-...."

"They all think that the firearms of the saltworks defenders have run out of firearms, but in fact, they have hidden their firearms and dealt us a fatal blow at the most critical moment..."

"Now it seems that this fatal blow is really a big blow to us....three generals of more than 1,000 generals were killed on the battlefield, and one general of more than 1,000 generals was seriously injured... Hehe... What a loss..."

A mocking smile flashed across his face. Zhu Dadian, who was unwilling to fail, suddenly shot out two fine lights with a pair of eyes. Then, he said to his subordinates.

"Generals, the attack on Yanchang is the first military operation after this official took office as governor of Shandong....Shandong officialdom looks at us, the court looks at us, and the emperor also looks at us. Therefore, this military operation must not fail..."

"But if you want to win a battle, you have to know yourself. This officer now understands a truth, two attacks in a row, the reason why we failed is that we don't know ourselves and our opponents..."

"Now, this officer needs to know how many available soldiers we have left..."

Under Zhu Dadian's series of questions, all the generals lowered their heads and said nothing.

Seeing this, even if he had a premonition that the troops had suffered heavy losses, Zhu Dadian couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

A trace of bad premonition also appeared in Zhu Dadian's mind.

Under Zhu Dadian's gaze, the adjutant general standing beside him had to answer: "My lord, the several troops involved in the attack, except for the musketeers and archers, the four siege teams that attacked were almost completely lost. ”

"After statistics, of the 4,000 soldiers of the siege team, only less than 100 people retreated."

"The musketeers who were directly shelled by the Haw Par Army lost more than 500 people....The archers who were attacked by the Haw Par Army musketeers also lost more than 400 people..."

"The battle has been fought until now, except for the Weisho army that has not participated in the war today. Of the 10,000 garrisons you brought, there are 1,300 musketeers and 900 archers left....As for the ordinary soldiers, there are less than 800 left...."

"There are not even three thousand people, and they are all musketeers and archers who don't have much combat power..."Zhu Dadian asked rhetorically with a face full of incredulity. (To be continued......)