Looking at the corpses all over the city, Shi Langyi finally breathed a sigh of relief, this attack of the thief army was finally blocked, thanks to the timely appearance of his own cavalry behind, destroying their artillery position, otherwise his own city head has been causing the continuous shelling of the thief army, I am afraid that the casualties will be even greater than now.

According to rough estimates, the Taiping army sent at least 4,000 troops to attack the city this time, and the number of people who fled back will definitely not exceed 3,000, that is to say, more than 1,000 people fell under the Huzhou city wall, and the corpses of the Taiping soldiers and soldiers who were killed and wounded in the siege two days ago made the entire Huzhou city wall covered with corpses.

"This time, the thief army lost at least a thousand people, and their artillery team was also destroyed by our cavalry, I'm afraid they won't attack the city again in a short time!" Xu Peng'an approached and said to Shi Langyi.

Shi Langyi nodded: "Well, these thieves are not iron-clad, and I want to see how they attack the city with such heavy casualties!" ”

"Hehe, even if they want to rush again, I'm afraid they won't be able to find a place to put their feet by then!" Xu Pengan said with a smile while pointing to the corpses all over the ground outside the city.

Shi Langyi also agreed: "Yes, these corpses are somewhat useful and can be used as obstacles!" ”

Seeing the two senior generals of Yu Shengjun laughing and talking about the wind at a corpse outside the city, Qu Shengchao on the side finally couldn't hold back, and directly leaned over and vomited.

When he was fighting just now, Qu Shengchao was also arrogant, and took more than 50 of his strong men equipped with Linde rifles to the city wall to support Yu Shengjun in the battle, and at the same time let many young and strong people fight with Yu Shengjun, for example, after many Yu Shengjun soldiers were injured, it was these people who carried them off the city wall.

In the face of the siege of the Taiping army, several officials in other cities were able to properly arrange the city defense, and they were all stupid, either fleeing or committing suicide.

If you look at it from Lin Zhe's point of view, this Qu Shengchao is a thatched pit with stones, smelly and hard, and this unworn Huzhou prefect has brought a lot of trouble and containment to Yu Shengjun.

However, from the perspective of the local people in Huzhou, from the perspective of contemporary tradition: this Qu Shengchao is undoubtedly a good official.

In the face of arrogant generals like Yu Shengjun, he still fought on the basis of reason and did not give Yu Shengjun the opportunity to harass the people of Huzhou. When he opened the Huzhou Donation Bureau, although he was only an assistant, he still actively participated in the affairs of the Donation Bureau, and made every effort to prevent Lin Zhe from selling dog meat with a sheep's head and using the name of the Donation Bureau to extort places.

In the face of the Taiping army's siege, Qu Shengchao was able to let go of his personal antipathy to Yu Shengjun, and whispered to Shi Langyi, a person he looked down on in the past, in order to keep Yu Shengjun to defend the city, in addition, he used tough means to help Yu Shengjun collect defense funds and military supplies, which offended many people.

Of course, there are considerations for personal official hats, but I have to admit that many times, Qu Shengchao still cares about the people of Huzhou.

An official who can consider not only his own official hat, but also the interests of ordinary people, is one of the few in any era.

Qu Shengchao, who was busy assisting in defending the city just now, didn't pay much attention to it, even if he saw a large number of corpses outside the city, he didn't have much intuitive feeling.

But now that I heard the words of Shi Langyi and Xu Peng'an, and looked at the sea of corpses outside the city that seemed to have no end in sight, I couldn't help but vomit directly.

"Master Qu, are you alright?" Shi Langyi turned around and walked two steps.

Qu Shengchao still bent over, stretched out his hand and shook it: "It's out of the way!" ”

He said that it was not in the way, but soon he was helped down the city, obviously not very comfortable, when he went down the city tower, Qu Shengchao secretly said in his heart: "I have always heard that Yu Shengjun is different from other officers and soldiers, today is considered to be insightful, there is no normal person in this Yu Shengjun, all of them are crazy!" ”

He has been assisting in the battle at the head of the city, but he can see it very clearly, when the battle broke out just now, Yu Shengjun also suffered a lot of casualties, especially at the beginning of the intensive bombardment by the artillery of the thief army, from time to time there will be soldiers killed and wounded, and then the thief army approached the city, and also used muskets and even bows and arrows to suppress the shooting at the city, causing a certain number of Yu Shengjun soldiers to be killed and wounded.

However, what shocked Qu Shengchao now was that he remembered that after those Yu Shengjun soldiers were occasionally hit, the other Yu Shengjun soldiers around him would not even look at them.

He even saw that one of Yu Shengjun's artillery pieces was hit by a cannonball of the thief army when it was loaded, and three or four people were killed on the spot, and their limbs were covered with blood, but the artillerymen who were not hit did not blink their eyes, but continued to carry the shells and load.

He didn't think anything strange about these before, but after listening to Qu Shengchao and Xu Pengan's words for a while, and then thinking back to Yu Shengjun's appearance when he was fighting, he felt very weird.

And these weirdness was beyond his comprehension, he couldn't understand it!

Not to mention Qu Shengchao's thoughts, Shi Langyi and Xu Pengan still stayed in the city.

"It's a pity that those green battalions, there are more than 300 people, and they all died after the first battle!" Xu Pengan sighed and said, those green camps outside the city were even more cowardly than he imagined.

Originally, I was expecting them to play a role in the city, but I didn't expect that before the Taiping army began to charge, these soldiers of the green battalion began to scream and want to escape, the city couldn't enter, and they didn't dare to run towards the Taiping army, so they just fled towards both sides of the city wall.

Seeing these people fleeing without a fight, Yu Shengjun naturally would not be polite, and wasted some bullets to kill most of them on the way to escape.

The rest of those who did not dare to flee were also killed by the Taiping army or died under the guns of Yu Shengjun, and none of them survived.

"It's okay if they're dead, the province will have to deal with them in the future!" Shi Langyi didn't sigh at all, for these Green Battalion soldiers who escaped on the battlefield, he didn't plan to let them live, and letting them live one more day under the city was already a favor.

If it is a soldier of Yu Shengjun who escapes, he will be shot directly on the spot, and you will be spared your life there for a day.

"You watch from here, I'll go down and see the wounded first!" After Shi Langyi said that, he left Xu Pengan to arrange defenses at the head of the city, while he himself went down the city wall.

As soon as I got off the city wall, I saw rows of corpses lying on the ground under the city wall, some of them were wearing Yu Shengjun's military uniforms, while others were wearing ordinary people's clothes.

These are the soldiers of the Yu Shengjun who were killed and wounded in the city just now, as well as the people who were strong.

Shi Langyi's footsteps did not stop, but directly entered one of the courtyards, the smell of blood in the courtyard was stronger than the city, and there were a large number of wounded people lying or sitting in it, ** sounded from time to time, and occasionally there were cries of pain.

Seeing Shi Langyi come in with someone, a person wearing Yu Shengjun's officer's uniform, but a white burqa outside, stepped forward quickly: "Commander, you are here!"

Shi Langyi nodded: "Doctor He, how is the situation here?" ”

Doctor He immediately replied: "Our manpower and wound medicine here are strictly insufficient! ”

Shi Lang moved: "I remember that I had stockpiled a lot of wound medicine before the war, and I remember that there were a lot of medical officers in your military medical bureau?" Although we have some casualties in today's battle, there are not many, how can it not be enough! ”

At the beginning of the establishment of the Yu Shengjun, there was a military medical bureau, and the military headquarters directly under it was stationed in Shanghai, and later because a large number of troops were stationed in Huzhou, and the first mixed regiment was established at the same time, so Lin Zhe instructed the military medical bureau to set up the first branch of the military medical bureau in Huzhou, which was used to treat the sick on weekdays and treat the wounded in wartime.

It is worth noting that this military medical bureau and the first military medical sub-bureau are not battlefield ambulance troops, but an institution similar to a later hospital, with some military medical officers and more nursing soldiers.

As for Western medicine, Western medicine in this era is still in an extremely primitive state, and there is not much difference from Western medicine in the medieval bloodletting era.

Well, generally after surgery, 90% of patients die of infection, because scientists have not yet discovered the pathogenicity of germs and microorganisms.

However, in addition to hiring traditional Chinese medicine practitioners from the Military Medical Bureau, Lin Zhe also personally tried to train military doctors under the modern medical system.

Although he Lin Zhe is not a person with a medical background, even if he is an ordinary person, he knows that diseases are caused by viruses and germs, he also knows that alcohol can be disinfected to prevent infection, and he also knows that antibiotics are a big killer.

Even if it was something general, but it was enough for this era, he personally compiled a booklet, wrote down everything he remembered about modern medicine, and then let the newly recruited twenty or so teenagers study and experiment hard, and as for what level of voice he can cultivate in the end, only God knows.

So far, modern medicine is still in the early stage of theoretical research in the Yushengjun Military Medical Bureau, at most, it is to use ** for anesthesia and then cut off hands and legs, dig up bullets, shell fragments and the like, as for the rest, it is enough to choke.

Doctor He said with a bitter face: "Although there are not many casualties in our Yu Shengjun, there are many casualties among the people who assisted in defending the city, you see, most of them are these people here!" ”

Shi Langyi swept his eyes and found that there were few wounded people in the courtyard wearing military uniforms, and most of them were people in ordinary clothes.

"Later, I will send someone to negotiate with the prefect of Huzhou, and ask them to recruit Lang Zhong in the city to help treat the wounded!" After Shi Langyi inspected a group of people in the military medical bureau again, he went out.

On the way, a captain beside him reported to him: "The casualty figures have been counted, and so far, the people who assisted in defending the city have suffered many casualties, at least sixty-eight killed and two hundred and seventy wounded!" ”

Shi Langyi nodded: "Oh, what about my Yu Shengjun?" ”