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The gains of the Mawei Army in this battle can be said to be quite large, but the biggest thing is not how many Qing troops were annihilated, but the battle of Tongguò, and the belief that Jiang's new army of the Mawei Army will win has been erected. From the very beginning, when the Mawei Army was training, it was instilling in the soldiers "I am the strongest!" Loyalty, bravery, tenacity, I am invincible! Previously, during the battle, the arrows and lead bullets of the Qing army flew over, and thousands of officers and men of the Mawei Army were shot by arrows, and there were no longer a few who died on the spot, which was a great psychological test for the officers and men of the new army who had been trained for six and a half months and had just formed the army and had only been in the army for two months.

At that time, the pressure on the hearts of the front-line soldiers was indeed huge, and fear involuntarily rushed into their minds, but fear did not suppress reason, and the soldiers still clearly knew in their minds that their proud horsetail soldiers, as the official sergeants of the horsetail army, the sense of honor did not allow them to show their timidity, at this moment, they thought a lot, their own honor, family expectations, and so on. Of course, not everyone in the new army thinks like this, and there are many who are eager to fight, and Jiang is simply out of the way, and he is very wild on the front line of the battlefield, with a steady heart and hands, and almost no bullet can accurately hit the enemy. It is precisely because of the drive of many such fighters that the overall morale has not decreased at all, but has increased more and more in the bean-like shooting.

In the evening, the total casualties of the Mawei Army in this battle were counted, and the exact death toll reached three hundred and ninety-one, which was extremely close to four hundred. Five hundred and seventy-five were seriously wounded. A quarter of them were officers. From squad leaders to battalion commanders. However, most of them are grassroots squad leaders, and there is only one battalion commander. As for the lightly injured soldiers, there are also a lot of arrow abrasions and lead bullet jumping injuries, but there are no major problems, just need a little rest for a day or two, and some are not necessary to rest at all, bandaging can still be alive and well.

This casualty ratio made Zeng Yangxing and other generals of course happy and worried, and the soldiers who died in this battle did not care about it. Even the seriously injured officers actually accounted for such a large proportion, which also shows that the officers of the Mawei Army can take the lead, and this expression can also greatly boost the morale of the soldiers, but it is really a pity that the grassroots backbone that has been painstakingly cultivated has been lost in this way. The loss of weapons in this battle of the Mawei Army was also very strict, there were a lot of old rifles in the hands of this batch of new troops, and the speed of new gun manufacturing still did not catch up with the increase in sergeants, so two hundred and twenty rifles were damaged at once in this battle, in addition, the artillery battalion of the Mawei Army also damaged three guns, but fortunately they were all general guns. Two doors of six-pound and one of eight pounds of small caliber.

The ammunition consumption of the whole battle is the most staggering, and it is just this hour. Although nearly 10,000 Qing troops were wiped out, more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition were used, and one-fifth of the total number of ammunition brought by the fleet had been consumed. The consumption of shells is also staggering, and about one-fifth of the total number is used, which if there are a few more battles, the officers and men of the Mawei Army can only carry their swords to fight hand-to-hand.

The medical teams that accompanied the army were concentrated in a temporary health center, and all the soldiers who were wounded in the battle were sent here for unified treatment. The soldiers who died in the battle were wrapped in horse leather, and the corpses should be gathered in one place, and then placed on the shelves one by one, and the firewood was poured with fire oil and burned, and only the ashes could be brought back, and the corpses could not be stored on such a hot day. In fact, even in the cold winter in the north, the corpses of fallen soldiers on the battlefield were disposed of in this way. The rest of the soldiers who had been seriously or lightly wounded were all concentrated in the clinic, and more than 1,000 people were crammed into this small place, and forty or fifty makeshift military tents were overcrowded, and all the medical staff were busy.

This is the busiest place in the Mawei Army camp at the moment, this tent is full of seriously wounded people, and fortunately, this tent is big enough, and ten people in each room still seem loose, but in addition to the medical staff of five to ten people in each room and a row of first-aid equipment and medicines, it seems to be crowded. Outside the tent, there are also a large number of medical soldiers who are urgently busy, boiling hot water, washing gauze, boiling medicine, etc., all of them are very busy. As for the soldiers who were slightly injured in the battle, hehe, only a small number of less than 20 medical soldiers were helping them disinfect and bandage their wounds, etc., but although there were fewer people here, if they lined up one by one, the speed was also quite fast, and before dinner, all the soldiers who were slightly injured were all dealt with.

"Old general, Tula's vitality should be said to be a big injury, and we can take Jiashan County in one go early tomorrow morning!" Tian Junjie said happily as he looked at the map. Today's battle went very smoothly, and their own side annihilated tens of thousands of Qing troops with very few casualties, causing Tula to lead the remaining Ivan people to retreat. Tomorrow, their Mawei army will enter the city, and it should not be a big problem to take Jiashan County at that time.

"Don't worry, Zheng Jun's men haven't arrived yet! What was said was to let Zheng Jun run behind the Qing army to harass and contain the strength of the Qing army, but it seems that until now, the Zheng army has sent a small force of only 3,000 people out of the city, but they did not go to Jiashan County at all, but went back after a big circle outside the city. What does that mean? Jiashan County and Jiaxing City are only forty miles apart, and a team of soldiers and horses can arrive in half a day's effort, is this how they cooperate? Zeng Yangxing thought that Zheng Jun did not send troops as required, and he was very depressed and said to Tian Junjie angrily.

Tian Junjie heard that Zeng Yangxing was concerned about this matter, and the smile that had already been restrained was revealed again: "The old general is too worried, Shi Lang is not an incompetent person, although he did not send a large army out of the city, but you have also seen today's situation, the Qing army still left most of the men and horses to defend the city, if most of the Qing army goes out of the city to fight with our army, it will be difficult to determine the victory or defeat!" ”

"However, today's defeat of the Qing army killed by our army must be to shrink the force. Also, behind them is Zheng Jun, Tula is not a stupid person, he should have thought that our Mawei Army and Zheng Jun will join forces, so we must prevent him from abandoning the city and escaping. After all, this Jiashan county is just a small city, and it is a garrison used by the Qing army to attack Jiaxing. Now things have changed. It is likely that Tula will lead the Qing army back to Suzhou. ”

"Haha. Just as I was about to tell you about this, our army and the Zheng army joined forces, and the strength overwhelmed the Qing army, according to my estimate, Tula would withdraw from Jiashan County in nine out of ten. Therefore, we had to run ahead of them before dawn and block their path. At the same time, the Zheng army was quickly notified to send troops to Jiashan County, and the armies of both sides flanked the Qing army. In this way, all the Qing troops can be annihilated in one fell swoop. Zeng Yangxing grinned and said with a smile, this battle can basically lock in the victory.

"According to the intelligence, on the way to Suzhou, the water network was dense, the roads were not easy to walk, and many places had to cross bridges, so his subordinate Jian Yì immediately sent a force with explosives bags to blow up some of the nearest bridges, so that it was impossible for the Qing army to cross the river and return to Suzhou. As long as the Qing army withdraws, morale will be greatly discharged. Our army just took advantage of the victory to cover the killing, but there was no need to run in front of the Qing army in advance. Let's block Tula's way. In the end, it will only make him desperate to attack us, and we will inevitably have large casualties at that time. Tian Junjie analyzed, and at the same time looked at Zeng Yangxing: "The order given to us by the Governor of the Metropolitan is to destroy the Qing army in Tula, and then occupy all the areas north of Jiaxing, and all these places in Zhejiang will be ceded to the Zheng army, and we only need the territory of Jiangsu." And if we blow up these bridges, after destroying the Qing army, we will be able to draw a line with the Zheng army in a short time. ”

Zeng Yangxing is also thinking quickly to measure the feasibility of this plan. A few fingers kept tapping on the table, and suddenly, Zeng Yang stopped moving. "Okay, just do as you say! Without the bridge, he would not have been able to escape. But it is still necessary to ambush in advance, from this intelligence map, the Qing army must withdraw through this road, this is the Yuanjue Temple, is the only open area left, and further on, there are rivers and ponds everywhere, and the army can not be used at all. If we occupy this Yuanjue Zen Temple, and the sergeant keeps shooting condescendingly, do you think"

"It makes sense, if they want to retreat to Suzhou, they must go all the way north, and they are ambushed by us on the way to retreat, Tula will not be in love with the war, and will definitely drive the army to continue to march north, but the army rushed to the river and found that the bridge has been completely destroyed, and the morale will be exhausted to the end, the soldiers have no morale, they will have no fighting spirit, our army will continue to cover up and kill, and we will definitely be able to defeat the Qing army, maybe we will capture Tula alive!" The more Tian Junjie said, the brighter his eyes became, although this was a bit taken for granted, but it was not impossible to achieve, as long as the planning and arrangement were good, it was not impossible to achieve such an effect

As Zeng Yangxing expected, Tula did want Jiang's army to withdraw from Jiashan County. There is no need to hold on to this place at all, this is not a strong city, nor is it a military place, just to facilitate the attack on Jiaxing City, now the Qing army is attacked on both sides, and it is very dangerous to continue to stay here, so it is better to quickly withdraw to Suzhou City. As long as they can retreat into the city of Suzhou, the enemy has an army of 100,000, and he is confident that he can defend it.

Although Tula's command lost 13,000 men during the day, 8,000 were killed in battle, and more than 2,000 were scattered, only about 3,000 returned. But combined with the other troops, there are still 36,000 people under his command at the moment, and it is not a simple matter for so many troops to withdraw, Tula had to give up a lot of unnecessary things in order to hurry, such as grain and grass baggage, he only carried three days' dry food, and all the others were abandoned, and they were burned down, and a qiē post could return to Suzhou City as quickly as possible.

The army of nearly 40,000 people, all out of the city was pulled into a dragon-like team that stretched for nearly three kilometers, because there was not much baggage, so the march of the whole army was very fast, the march set off at dawn, this was not yet noon, the forced march for two hours came to the place less than two kilometers away from the Yuanjue Temple. But when it comes to the speed of marching, if the Mawei Army is called second, then no army in this world dares to call it first. In the initial training, the officers and men of the Mawei Army practiced running, that is, after they officially became the army, this is also a daily must-practice, what is a five-kilometer cross-country, a ten-kilometer cross-country. That's all routine. That's still a lot of weight-bearing off-road. The weight of a gun weighs nearly ten catties, how can you care that the new army is twenty or thirty kilometers away in one night, and two battalions of two battalions of the eighth division of the Mawei Army have already occupied this Yuanjue Temple in the middle of the night.

The march was a big deal for an ancient army, but in modern interpretation it was a simple transfer of an army from one place of deployment to another. There are two requirements that are essential. The first requirement is that the army be comfortable and avoid needless consumption of forces that could have been effectively used; The second requirement is that the movement be accurate and the army reach its destination without error.

Just like the Qing army at this moment, an army of nearly 40,000 people formed a column and marched along this road without stopping. Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for the Qing army to reach its destination in Suzhou on the same day. In this case, the Qing army is to quickly reach the destination of Suzhou, which is also very difficult, so it has to advance relatively slowly, plus the column is very long, the rear troops have felt overworked in this morning, when has the Qing army experienced such a rapid march, the usual training is a five-day exercise, so it is often procrastinated, after the sun hits the brain, the rear army part is already about to fall into a state of chaos rhythm.

As a matter of fact. During the march, if you are organized into a column, the fewer people you are. It will be easier to march, and the more accurate it will be. It is therefore necessary to distinguish the forces of force, but this distinction is different from that which is made for the purpose of dividing the disposition, although in general it is divided into marching columns according to the needs of the disposition of the army, but this is not the case in every specific case. In order to concentrate a large army in a certain place, it is necessary to divide it into several columns when marching.

Even if the march is divided according to the needs of the split configuration, it may sometimes be based on meeting the requirements of the configuration, and sometimes it will be based on meeting the requirements of the march. If, for example, an army is disposed only for rest, and not for a battle to be waited in rest, then the main thing is to meet the requirements of the march, which is to choose good and well-built roads, so that people sometimes choose the road according to the situation of the camp and camp, and sometimes the place of camp and camp according to the condition of the road. If an army is going to engage in a battle, and the most important purpose is to reach a certain place, then it must take the most difficult path if necessary. On the contrary, if the army marches in brigades to the theater of operations, it should choose the nearest avenue for each column and, as far as possible, look for places to camp and camp in the vicinity of the avenue.

The Mawei army felt in advance that it occupied this Yuanjue Zen Temple, and it was inevitable that traces would be left along the way, and the vanguard of the Qing army had not yet reached the edge of the temple, and the people of the villages along the way had already discovered the abnormality. And the closer you get to the side mountain of Yuanjue Temple, a large number of footprints left by the army after the march are also found on the main road.

"General, the Yuanjue Temple in front has been occupied by the rebels, if we don't take them, we won't be able to cross the river back safely, let the lowly position, the small Yuanjue Temple can't hide many people, and the lowly position will definitely screw off all the heads of the thieves in front of you to avenge yesterday!"

"Alright! It's up to you, I'll give you two quarters of an hour, take your subordinates to take it down for me, and if you can't get it, you won't have to come back after graduation! ”

The 3,000 men of the Qing army were quickly assembled, and it was obvious that there were a lot of archers, and it seemed that this group of Qing troops wanted to win from a distance with bows and arrows, but they forgot about the strength of the horsetail army's rifles.

"Shhhh

"Rifle fire!"

"Fire!"

One by one, squad leaders and squadron leaders gave orders to open fire.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

Bursts of white mist rose in the air, and Mini bullets flew out of the chamber of the gun under the impetus of the kinetic energy of gunpowder. The sudden shooting of the rifles caught the Qing army by surprise. When there was a sound of "snapping" rifles on the temple wall, the Qing army archers who were standing under the temple wall swaggering calmly and calmly firing arrows at the temple wall finally tasted the evil fruits that other Qing soldiers had tasted yesterday, and a row of guns rang out, and immediately more than 20 Qing soldiers archers were hit by lead bullets and fell to the ground, and the archers who were hit by lead bullets only felt a strong force coming from their bodies, and then a sharp pain spread all over their bodies. Those archers who were shot in the head and died on the spot were better, but those who were shot in the chest or abdomen could not die for a while, and could only lie on the ground with a howl and roll in pain, and some archers were shot in the abdomen and had a big hole in the abdomen, and even the back intestines flowed out, and the blue-gray intestines dragged on the ground after rolling all over the ground under severe pain, which looked extremely terrifying.

"Quick, quick, reload!"

Although the Qing army under the city was taken by surprise, the remaining archers still stubbornly shot upwards in an attempt to suppress the riflemen on the temple wall. And the riflemen on the temple wall quickly drew out the gun strip after firing, cleaned the barrel, and immediately began to reload. (To be continued......)