As the defensive side, the Phoenix Legion has a strong civil wall as a defensive support, all the casualties are in the barracks, the casualties are only more than 500 people, most of them were shot by stray arrows, after timely treatment, it didn't take long to recover and return to the team, it can't be regarded as a real battle damage, and there are only more than 300 soldiers who are really killed and seriously injured.

The outside of the barracks was full of the corpses and wounded soldiers of the tribesmen, and the ground was full of shambles, shocking, and there were as many as 15,600 people, not counting the wounded soldiers who were carried down for treatment.

The migrant workers on both sides first picked up the weapons and equipment abandoned in a place in a very harmonious manner, loaded the car and pulled it away, and then began to carry the corpses and wounded soldiers, and finally, the young and strong migrant workers of the Phoenix Legion happily carried the horse corpses into the car and pulled them back to the camp for processing, six or seven thousand horse corpses, just drinking horse bone soup can be drunk for several days, so cool that I can't say, I really want to send a pennant to Yue Tuo to express my gratitude.

It didn't take long for the entire barracks to fill the barracks with the fragrant, mouth-watering smell of meat, and everyone couldn't help but swallow their saliva and wait for the feast of horse meat.

After all the soldiers were full of food and drink, except for the soldiers on patrol duty, all lay down to rest, after all, the whole night of fighting, although all the troops took turns to fight, taking turns to rest, but the rumbling guns and earth-shattering roars have been ringing, the resting soldiers still feel nervous, no one dares to really close their eyes.

Lu Hongniang wanted to pull the artillery out to bombard the city of Ganhot, but she also had to send the infantry to form a formation to protect it, seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, she had to dispel this idea, she herself had not closed her eyes all night, and she was indeed a little sleepy, arranged for the officer on duty, and after explaining the work, she hurriedly washed her face and lay down with her clothes.

Li Qing, as one of Lu Hongniang's henchmen and think tanks, still had bloodshot eyes open and several male staff members and officers of the Operations Staff Office lying in front of the military map to study.

Compared with the jubilant atmosphere of the Phoenix Legion, the miserable scene in Chagantehao City, the crying shook the sky, and the patriarchs and elders of the various tribes were gloomy and gloomy, sighing, this battle suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and for the Guanwai clan, whose population base was already small, this battle was really painful.

The casualties were huge, the fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers were killed in every household, the family members wept bitterly, and the whole city was full of heartbroken cries, and the word miserable was not enough to describe the miserable situation of the whole city.

While being sad, many people are dissatisfied or suspicious, surnamed Yue, will you lead troops to fight? The cavalry troops of our tribe are all the same, known as invincible in the field, and they used to beat the Ming army to all kinds of sourness, and they all cowered in the city and did not dare to come out to fight in the field, how can this be the case now? A reasonable explanation must be given, an account must be given to all the warriors who died in battle.

This will, Yue Tuo hid in the room and drank alcohol, and the war he had high hopes for was lost, and he suffered heavy losses, he couldn't sit still as the governor of the Horqin grassland, not only the patriarchs and elders of the tribes were dissatisfied with him, but those political enemies who had already seen him unhappy would definitely take the opportunity to make trouble, all kinds of impeachment, even if Huang Taiji trusted him, he couldn't bear the pressure, someone had to be responsible, this pot, he was determined.

Early in the morning, the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion got up early, and after a full meal, the army poured out of the barracks and lined up on the flat ground below the city, the artillery set up cannons, and the logistics auxiliaries were busy repairing the damaged civil walls and other fortifications.

"Open fire." Lu Hongniang rode on a tall horse and held a telescope to observe the movement in the city.

Boom, boom, nearly 30 Franc cannons roared one after another, breaking this rare harmony and calm with the rumbling sound of cannons.

One after another, the shells were shot out of their chests, or flew into the city, blowing up a ball of fire, or smashed on the city, blasting into a burst of rubble, flesh and blood flying, and most of the shells smashed on the city wall, bursting out of balls of fire and billowing gunsmoke, not that the shells hit the head, but that the artillery was ordered to bombard the city wall.

The prairie is endless, green grass is like fungus, natural pastures, but the big stone forest is very little of these natural building materials, it is difficult to collect these raw materials to build a solid and sturdy stone city, and the cost of manpower and personnel costs is terrifyingly high, even the Great Khan outside the pass can not afford to play, some powerful tribes outside the pass, their camp fence is only made of mud, Chagantehao City is the royal city of the North Plains, but there are many sections of the city wall are also mud mixed with glutinous rice, clay and other east and east to build the city, The sturdiness and solidity cannot be compared with the stone town of Daming, and the days are long, the sun and rain have weathered and cracked many places.

Lu Hongniang ordered the artillery to bombard the city wall, just to tear down the wall, which is also one of the strategic purposes of the Horqin Grassland, but the number of artillery carried by the Phoenix Legion is a bit small, and when the main army of Liaodong Governor Hong Chengchou arrives, all the artillery will be bombarded indiscriminately, how long can the wall of Chagantehao City last?

However, the artillery only bombarded a dozen shells to stop the shelling, collect the troops and return to the camp to rest, this expedition, the Phoenix Legion is carrying a large number of flowering shells, but at least to hold on here for about a month, Lu Hongniang did not dare to waste too much shells, have to leave some to deal with the Jin army's camp battle, according to the scout's report, Huang Taiji personally led 150,000 troops to reinforcements, and had the intention of swallowing her bait.

Because of the heavy losses, because the morale of the tribe was low, and because he was destined to take the blame, Yue Tuo was a little passive and slacking off, so he just ordered to guard the city of Chagantehao, and sent several cavalry troops to roam around the barracks of the Phoenix Legion, and did not send troops to launch a camp attack or night attack, Lu Hongniang was also happy to be idle, and pulled the artillery out of the camp every two or three days, and returned to the camp to rest after bombarding a dozen shells at the city, and the two sides temporarily fell into a state of confrontation.

In the rear of the Phoenix Legion, the camp of the main army of the Ming Army, as the governor of Liaodong, Hong Chengchou, the commander-in-chief of the three armies who sent troops to the Horqin Grassland this time, was so idle that he made a fire to boil water to make tea, in order to kill time.

He is a big shopkeeper who shakes his hands and is relaxed and leisurely, his soldiers and logistics auxiliaries, as well as tens of thousands of migrant workers who have been conscripted, are busy with anxiety, chickens and dogs jumping, building a fortress is a big project, all are pure manual labor, hoe digging, shovel shovel, loading baskets and transporting away, hand-mixing cement slurry, pebbles, pouring mold is also manual stirring, after pouring the mold, it also takes ten to fifteen days to sprinkle water maintenance, the workload is large, the progress is slow, it is conceivable, fortunately, there are tens of thousands of migrant workers, plus tens of thousands of logistics auxiliaries and soldiers, In half a month, half of the two-meter-high outer wall of the fortress has been built.

In addition to the 5,000 cavalry of Man Gui to guard the logistics and transportation lines, the other 3,000 cavalry were cruising in the nearby camp to hunt and kill the scouts of the Jin army, and now the only battle took place between the scouts of the two sides, and there were casualties among each other.

Gao Jie's Royal Guards Independent Division was also busy in charge of logistics and transportation, and after a large number of military supplies arrived, he only rested for one day, and immediately set off to return to Guannai, transporting the second batch of military supplies, and investing so many troops to protect the logistics and transportation lines was also a last resort.

There was no fighting on all fronts for the time being, and it seemed calm and harmonious, but everyone knew that a more powerful storm was brewing.