Chapter 807: Deliberations

After encountering a strong resistance, those fierce beasts could not get close to the position where the night army placed the ordnance and the archers, and could only continue to die under the night army's spears.

Those elites of the night army often wandered between life and death when they fought bloody battles on the battlefield, and even the enemy troops who were far outnumbered by them were not afraid, let alone these low-level beasts with extremely low intelligence and huge bodies. When fighting fiercely with fierce beasts, they all show their brave side, no one cares how many fierce beasts they have in front of them, as long as they are not allowed to stop, they will fight to the end.

There were thousands of fierce beasts attacking the rear army camp, but the fierce battle between the two sides was not long, and the thousands of fierce beasts were not enough for soldiers to practice. After clearing the threat of the fierce beast, Fang Quyin received a message from Zhang Jiutian asking for reinforcements.

In fact, before receiving the information, Fang Quyin and some generals had already thought that the former army was likely to encounter the same situation, and the sudden appearance of those fierce beasts was by no means without reason, so the information brought by the secret agent only made Fang Quyin and the other generals even more worried. However, because of the distance between them, Fang Quyin and the generals were deeply touched by Zhang Jiutian's four words of "discretionary handling".

Since the number of fierce beasts attacking the front army is limited, judging from the current situation, it is presumable that the battle over there will also end early before they send reinforcements. With 40,000 troops against thousands of fierce beasts, it is not difficult to rely on the opinions of Fang Quyin and the generals, I am afraid that there will be ambushes. If an ambush appeared while the chaos appeared, Lin Xuanzhong was likely to be in danger.

However, according to the news sent back by their spies from Sword City, the ambush soldiers could not be from Sword City, but if they were still robbers in the mountains, there would naturally not be many of them, and I am afraid that they would only be people from the city closure. Because there has been no news from the secret agents on the side of the lockdown recently, they naturally have no way of knowing the situation of the lockdown, so the words "discretionary" contain too many meanings.

"General Fang, do you want to send reinforcements?" In the camp tent, a general looked at Fang Quyin with a suspicious expression, hoping that Fang Quyin could make up his mind as soon as possible, and whether he sent or not, he could not delay the military plane.

"General Li, you lead five thousand foot soldiers first. General Wen, you take 5,000 foot soldiers and then the two of you take care of each other, if you encounter an ambush attack in the middle, you must not fall in love with the battle, and judge whether to continue to rush to the camp of the front army or turn around and return according to the situation. ”

"Yes. ”

"Yes. ”

The named generals surnamed Li and Wen agreed one after another, and after confirming that Fang Quyin had nothing else to explain to them, the two went out directly to be responsible for mobilizing troops.

Fearing a possible ambush, Fang Quyin decided to send reinforcements, but the front and rear armies were twenty miles away, so they could only do their best. Now after the two generals left, Fang Quyin had to deal with the aftermath of the war, and there were not many fierce beasts attacking the camp, but they still caused some casualties.

The wounded soldiers need to be treated, the soldiers who died in battle need to be buried, and the corpses of the beasts need to be cleaned up. Considering that they are in the mountains, the smell of blood here is likely to attract more fierce beasts, Fang Quyin and other generals also have the meaning of pulling out the camp overnight, but whether to pull out the camp or not, Fang Quyin needs to investigate the military situation before making a decision.

On the other side, in the front army, as soon as Fang Quyin received the news, the battle on this side was over. Worried that Fang Quyin might send reinforcements there, Lin Xuanzhong had no choice but to send a few spies to ask Fang Quyin not to send reinforcements, and then officially started to deal with post-war matters. As expected, the beast attack did not cause much damage to the front army, but it did cause a lot of trouble.

When Lin Xuanzhong went out to inspect, in the northern melee area, many soldiers sat on the ground and hummed bitterly covering the bloody wounds on their bodies, and there were some silent and cooling soldier corpses next to them, almost every fierce beast corpse had the corpse of a soldier next to it, Lin Xuanzhong also saw some people dressed as officers in those corpses, and it seemed that his own casualties were more than originally imagined.

"General, there are too many wounded soldiers, Xue Yin should also go over to help," walked forward more than a dozen steps, and after seeing that there were too many wounded soldiers, Xue Yin directly asked Lin Xuanzhong for instructions.

"No, if there is something that can't be treated by ordinary military doctors, you can help," Since Xue Yin refined the high-grade giant soul incense, Lin Xuanzhong knew that Xue Yin's medicinal skills were extraordinary, but today, these soldiers are basically traumatized regardless of the severity of their injuries, so they don't have to let Xue Yin do it himself. Unless it's those who are on the line of life and death, and ordinary pharmacists can't heal, then maybe Xue Yin can try.

"Assist General Zhang in counting the casualties as soon as possible," after ordering General Qi, who was traveling with him, Lin Xuanzhong looked at Xue Yin again and said, "Let's go back." ”

Lin Xuanzhong was upset when he heard the painful cries of those soldiers, Lin Xuanzhong didn't want to see them suffer like that, but things were not up to Lin Xuanzhong to decide.

In half an hour, the specific casualties were counted, and tonight there were 816 dead and 1,737 wounded. At this moment, both the seriously injured and the lightly injured had been treated in time, and after ordering people to bury all the people who died in the battle, Lin Xuanzhong arranged for people to continue to be on guard. Regardless of whether there will be a fierce beast or unknown person attacking tonight, the area around the camp must be on guard, and they will not receive the news until the fierce beasts have rushed to the front as before.

Due to too many wounded soldiers and the poor state of the army, Lin Xuanzhong finally decided not to pull out the camp tonight, and the rest method of the soldiers tonight has changed greatly, half of the personnel rested in the first half of the night, and the other half of the personnel were responsible for guarding, as for those ordnance, they were still placed on the periphery of the camp. After the front personnel had rested for three or four hours, and then the other half of the people had rested, Lin Xuanzhong planned to postpone tomorrow's march so that the rear army could catch up as soon as possible.

When Lin Xuanzhong was dealing with the aftermath of the battle, the two cavalry sent by Fang Quyin before turned around halfway.

During the fierce battle with the fierce beast, there were no signs of ambushes lurking, and Lin Xuanzhong didn't think that the reinforcements would encounter ambushes on the road, so tonight's fierce beast attack seemed to be done by a small number of people on the surface, and it had nothing to do with the royal family of Yangguo. It's just that what Lin Xuanzhong didn't expect was that when his own strength was far stronger than that of the fierce beast, there would be more than 2,000 dead and wounded.

Such casualties were so serious that they were beyond Lin Xuanzhong's imagination, and when he heard Zhang Jiutian report the specific figures, Lin Xuanzhong had a very surprised expression on his face. The decision not to pull out the camp had a lot to do with the casualties.

Now that the post-war affairs have basically been dealt with, Lin Xuanzhong has gathered all the generals who have nothing to do to discuss tonight's events and discuss countermeasures to deal with similar situations. From the beginning of the order to arm, to the intermediate information transmission, and then to the entire process of dealing with the problem, there were many things that made Lin Xuanzhong dissatisfied.

At the beginning of the discussion, Lin Xuanzhong did not directly say the things that made him dissatisfied, but asked the generals to express their opinions on the issue of saving the casualties first, and asked those generals to find out the problems one by one. When he felt that those generals had found enough problems, Lin Xuanzhong made a summary and stated the reasons for the excessive casualties one by one, and then asked the generals to judge whether their analysis was correct or not.

There are several key points in Lin Xuanzhong's analysis: First, the army is not well prepared to prevent emergencies, and if the distribution of personnel had been properly adjusted earlier, there would not have been an improper use of manpower. The second is that the information obtained by the sentinel is not accurate enough, and if the approximate number of fierce beasts can be determined, it will not affect morale. The third is that the generals below are not capable enough to make corresponding adjustments according to the actual situation during the war.

Of course, there is still the problem with Lin Xuanzhong himself, if the military orders can be more understood, maybe the generals below will be more capable of doing things. After explaining the problems in all aspects one by one, Lin Xuanzhong asked the generals to put forward suggestions for improvement. It's just that in terms of improving the capabilities of the army, the generals don't have many opinions. However, when it comes to ensuring the safety of the army, the generals speak their minds freely.

Some generals spoke of joining forces, and in their opinion, the gathering of 100,000 night troops in one place would be more intimidating to the enemy. On the contrary, some generals suggested that the division of troops should be maintained, and in their opinion, it was very likely that the other side did not dare to attack the front army in one fell swoop because they were afraid that the front and rear armies would take care of each other, otherwise tonight would not be as simple as a beast attack.

The generals had different opinions, and Lin Xuanzhong got more and more opinions. Due to the original emotional disturbance and limited ability in many aspects, the opinions put forward by those generals now just make up for some of Lin Xuanzhong's ideological shortcomings, combined with the opinions of the generals, Lin Xuanzhong can consider deeper issues.

"General, if the Yang side intends to deal with us, why do you want to be sneaky?" At the critical moment, after integrating thoughts, Yang Shifeng thought of a key question.

"The generals might as well think about this matter for themselves first, they will not be able to make up their minds for the time being. Tomorrow Japan will go to General Fang's place, during the period when the general is not in the army, all military affairs will be represented by General Zhang, if there is any dissatisfaction, it will be dealt with by military law, "Calculate the time, it is already late at night, if there is any more discussion, it will affect the rest of the generals, so Lin Xuanzhong looked at the generals and said: "You all go back to rest, there are still some problems to consider." ”

"This ......" Seeing Lin Xuanzhong let them go, Zhou Wenfeng raised his eyebrows and wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, he only felt that the discussion had not yet come to an end.

"Yes," Zhou Wenfeng's question was quickly drowned out by the voices of the other generals, and in the end he could only answer with the others.