Chapter 433: Strange Things
The afterglow of the setting sun was faintly scattered on this land that had been full of peace and tranquility two hours ago, and at this time, the dry and cracked ground seemed to have been soaked with blood, and the fallen soldiers were carried out one by one and loaded into the body bags sent by the logistics troops, and one by one loaded into the wagon, waiting to be transported back to the camp.
Although it is inevitable to sacrifice in battle, under Liang Qiming's construction, all the fallen soldiers were transported back to the main camp for burial as much as possible, which was supported by Qin Duan to form a system, and no one thought that it was this mention that greatly inspired the spirit of all the soldiers, maybe in their opinion, being able to return to their homeland and settle down is an affirmation of a soldier's struggle. As for the corpses of the enemy, they are not so particular, and they hastily dig a few big pits, which is their safe place.
The battlefield had calmed down, and Mingzhu Town, a few miles away, didn't seem to be aware of the big battle that was taking place here, and it seemed to be so orderly. The captives were lined up in order and left the battlefield one by one under the watchful eye of the vigilant soldiers, leaving only the soldiers of the logistics department still cleaning the battlefield.
"Yanagihara, have the results been counted?"
The question was naturally Chen Deming, the commander-in-chief of the battle, and it seemed that he was not too happy with such a big result in this battle, which made the few people next to him feel a little strange.
"There is no big difference, our side has lost 685 casualties, 979 minor and serious injuries, and the total casualties are less than 1,700. A total of more than 2,200 opponents were killed, more than 5,800 were captured, none of them escaped the net, and 3,800 war horses were also captured. Ling Fox Wing replied.
"This time we can be regarded as a big victory, I don't know how the Punjabi will react when they learn about the situation?"
Liu Wu, the deputy beside Chen Deming, looked to the west, and the light of longing for another battle jumped in his eyes. Obviously, this asymmetrical battle is not tasteful enough.
"What else can you do? In both cases, either a large army will be thrown into battle with us, or an envoy will come to negotiate with us, but I think the Punjabi people will be frightened after this battle. Ling Foxwing shrugged his shoulders and pouted disdainfully.
"Boss Chen, you don't seem to be satisfied with our battle?" Yanagihara saw that the coach had something on his mind and asked.
Shook his head. Chen Deming seemed to want to say something, but as if he was still thinking about something, he finally didn't say it.
For a moment, several people fell silent, and everyone didn't understand what the tough and calm coach was thinking.
After a long time, Chen Deming said: "Have you paid attention, what is the main part of our damage?" ”
The manager's words immediately attracted the attention of several people, and everyone was silently thinking about the meaning of the manager's words.
"It seems that the main part of our losses is due to the part that is in the rear of the enemy army." Still made Fox Wing observe carefully, hesitated for a moment and said.
"I carefully observed the fighting. The enemy should be composed of two parts, the private soldiers of the nobles account for the vast majority, and everyone has seen their combat effectiveness, but the enemy's rear army is their regular army - the escort army, and the one who just fought with Yanagihara is probably the main general in the escort army this time, don't underestimate this force, I think their combat effectiveness is not much worse than our troops. ”
"We've just learned, and this time they only dispatched two thousand cavalry escorts. Presumably to facilitate the struggle for the spoils of war, their resident generals placed the convoy in the rear. If it weren't for the fact that the army in front of them was first disrupted by us and stirred up the rear army, I believe our losses would have at least doubled. Chen Deming said his opinion unhurriedly.
The words stirred up a thousand waves, and several other people recalled the scene on the battlefield while carefully recalling the words of the boss.
"But this escort force is only 2,000 men, and it still inflicts such a great loss on us in a very passive situation, and the entire Punjab escort army is 50,000 men. You can think about it, what is the prospect in front of us? Chen Deming's tone of voice was low, obviously not optimistic about the prospects.
Seeing that several of his subordinates looked a little arrogant after the battle, Chen Deming felt that it was necessary to remind these confident subordinates, so he had those words. But his words are not an exaggeration. The Punjab tribal guard did have 50,000 men, and it was quite strong. But even Zhuge Fang didn't know that the two thousand guards were actually the elite of the 50,000 guards, and Na Mosuo was also a famous warrior in the guards, and it was a special task force specially sent by the chieftain of the Punjab people in order to snatch Nayun Beng.
"So what do we do now?" Liu Wu raised his head and asked with some unconvinced, the purpose of this battle is to completely annihilate the enemy army, and now that the battle has been fought, it is impossible to put all the prisoners back and ask for the other party's solution, right?
"Respond to change with the same. We have captured important people among the Punjabs, and I think there are a few captives whose status among the Punjabs is not low, and they must not want to see the end of these people as a gallows, right? Not to mention the fact that there are several thousand soldiers. Smiling slightly, Chen Deming's eyes narrowed half-narrowed.
Somewhere on the embankment site along the Taiping River outside Hanzhongfu in Kansai County was like a fried pot, and it was noisy.
"Look, what a bronze man, how can he only have one eye?" A topless man smacked his lips.
"Well, it's been a thousand years, right?" While touching the rust on the bronze figure, an old man over half a hundred years old said curiously.
"I'm afraid it's been thousands of years, I think it's an old antique!" Another middle-aged man answered, a hint of color flashing in his eyes.
"Huh? It looks like there's a word on it! Pushing back the dirt that had wrapped around the bronze man, a young man said in amazement.
"Lao Tian, Lao Tian, you still know a few words, come and take a look." A group of people gathered there hurriedly greeted an old man standing outside the circle.
"Let me take a look."
Parting from everyone, the old man snorted and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and then leaned down and carefully examined the life-size bronze figure.
"Well, it looks like two lines of poetry!" The old man blinked and looked at it seriously.
"Then read it to us."
More and more people heard the news and gathered around the embankment. This was originally a government to recruit people from all over the country to repair the river embankment that was washed away by the flood, and some of them were originally imprisoned prisoners, but the poor food and high-intensity labor have made these people complain, but under the whip of the officials, they had to suppress the dissatisfaction in their hearts, and when they saw that there was something new on the embankment, they didn't take the opportunity to rush up, they could steal for a while, not to mention that the officials had already hid in the shade to rest. (To be continued......)