In seven days, there were only 8,000 combat effective infantry soldiers left in the Changying army, of which more than 70% were archers, crossbowmen, and light infantry, and the real heavy infantry was only 2,000 people.

There is no need to be on the battlefield in person, or even to be introduced by his subordinates, just from the number of losses of the front-line soldiers, Guo Rong can infer the battle situation on the battlefield and the degree of casualties.

Although Guo Rong was afraid that the battle would be very tragic from the beginning, such casualties still surprised Guo Rong very much.

It is clear that from the very beginning, the rebels ignored the casualties, ignored the losses, ignored the damage caused by the eight-bull crossbow, the catapult, the strong bow, and the crossbow, and took a fighting posture.

The traditional battle formation of the Tang Army, which was born from the tactical thinking of the Changying Army itself, is still essentially based on the idea of winning by coincidence, winning by surprise, seeking undefeat first, and then seeking victory, so the Changying Army itself is an army that is good at defense.

Guo Rong, the commander of the Changying Army, is himself a general who was born in heavy infantry and is better at defense than attack.

The old foundation of the Changying Army when it was founded was the veterans who survived the defense battle of Xingqing Palace.

There is the foundation of the Tang Army, based on the recruitment system of the post-Anshi era, and moderately improved according to the equipment of the Changying Army, and its strength in defensive warfare is only strong and not weak.

It is good at defensive warfare, coupled with the high-intensity training of the Changying Army, the extremely sophisticated equipment, and the sufficient supplies, in the field of defensive warfare, the Changying Army has almost reached the peak of the Tang Army.

Of course, Guo Rong knew that the losses of the Changying army were still so heavy, so the casualties of the rebels did not need to be said, and the fact was the same.

According to the judgment of the front-line sergeants and scouts, the rebels lost at least 40,000 men in four full days in order to take the most prominent camp.

In front of the second camp, where the fighting was raging, there were at least 10,000 corpses of rebels, and countless more wounded.

According to the estimates of the Changying Army, the rebels have been seriously killed and wounded in the battle so far, and the number of troops that have lost their combat effectiveness should have exceeded 70,000.

Listening to the figures given by Luo Chinese, Guo Rong made a simple calculation in his heart, in this short period of less than ten days, the total number of people lost on both sides has reached 100,000!

100,000 people!

Sure enough, it's another meat grinder, an apocalypse-level battle.

Shaking his head helplessly, estimating the time, Guo Rong asked.

"How's the battle going?"

"Oh, General, according to the military report just sent earlier, before noon, the intensity of the opponent's attack decreased slightly, but after noon, the intensity of the attack recovered!"

"What part of the camp is guarding now?"

"A mixed infantry regiment led by Meng Zhonglang, two equipment battalions, a logistics battalion, plus a part of the Xuanwu Army, the total number is about 20,000 people."

"According to your experience, how many days can Meng Qian hold out in the prosperous camp?"

Luo Chinese, Huang Hankai, Ouyang Liang and other officers looked at each other, and finally Luo Chinese responded.

"General, do you mean that the blessing will persist at most, or will it persist when it is guaranteed that the whole army will not be wiped out?"

"Hehe, you, how can you play such a little trick, let's talk about both."

"If we can't get support from our rear, we will hold on to it for two days at most, and the soldiers and horses left behind will be wiped out after two days!"

"If we can get support, then Meng Qian should be able to hold out until the defense facilities are basically destroyed, about four days."

"In other words, not counting today, Meng Qian's side can support for two more days at most."

"Yes, General!"

"Well, the first one is four days, and the second one is five days, it seems reasonable~"

Several people present were stunned for a moment, and then nodded one after another.

In fact, the reason is also very simple, although Meng Gan can still carry it for two days, and if he grits his teeth, he can even hold on for four days, but the rebels cannot know the details of Meng Gan.

A little bit of preparation, a day in advance, is completely reasonable, five days is supposed to ensure absolute safety, can evacuate everyone who did not die in battle.

After all, in that kind of apocalypse, meat grinder-level battle, where it's easier to die than to live, collapse is the norm.

As it is now, it is an abnormal state to carry a death rate of 30%, 40% or even 50%, and keep colliding and sending people to death.

"Yes, if the other party maintains this intensity and does a certain amount of camouflage, it is indeed not too difficult."

"Well, four, five, six days seems appropriate, but don't you think it's a blow to the other party's morale?"

As soon as Guo Rong's words came out, several people present were stunned again, of course, Li Yan and Guo Rong's staff Wu Shaoxiong should be excluded from these people.

However, the few people who were able to stay at the scene, whether they were staff officers or military academies, were all carefully selected heroes, and Guo Rong's words were also very fast.

The reason why everyone thinks that the number of days of holding the camp for four, five, or six days is normal is that they have preconceived the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cadres and their units and turned it into a quantitative amount.

Under the condition that the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cadres is constant, with the improvement of the defensive facilities, the distance from the large battalions in the rear is reduced, and the supply lines and defense lines are shortened, the actual support that can be supported can naturally be moderately increased.

But how many such armies are there in the Changying Army?

How many armies are there that are all killed, and who will not retreat?

The combat effectiveness of the Xuanwu Army-Huaixi Army, which cooperated with Mo Lingjun in the battle, was not weak, but it held out on the battlefield for a day at most, and it must be evacuated after sunset.

Because, in this situation where the average survival time of the soldiers does not exceed a quarter of an hour, no one dares to let them fight continuously, otherwise once they collapse, they will be completely lost at that time.

Just when a few people were thinking, Guo Rong raised his head and looked around the entire Chinese army's big tent, and more than a dozen staff officers in the probationary period were busy and looked at him with their heads probed.

If it were replaced by the old staff officers of the former Changying Army, when they encountered this kind of analysis of the battle situation and the formulation of a plan at a critical moment, if the matter at hand was not urgent, they would definitely have come over a long time ago.

Now these newcomers accepted from Chang'an are obviously too young, but this is also a common problem of literati, and their skin is too thin.

Although their future potential is much higher than that of those who were born in the early days, they still have to be strained by the immediate.

So he beckoned directly.

"You guys, don't eavesdrop there, tiptoe, like mice, you just get close to listen if you want to listen, now you have only seen Staff Officer Xi, but I believe that maybe you will really affect the duties of the whole army in the future, like Li (Yan) Zhonglang and Chief of Staff Luo."

Hearing Guo Rong's voice and seeing Guo Rong's movements, a group of trainee staff officers surrounded him embarrassedly, while Guo Rong continued.

"Hey, sometimes, it's better to use the older tricks, anyway, we don't need to hold on for so long, as long as we can drag the other party to receive the battle report from the direction of Bianzhou, since that's the case, then it's better to learn Sun Bin again."

"Sun Bin ~"

Hearing Guo Rong's words, a satisfied smile hung on the corner of Wu Shaoxiong's mouth, and Li Yan and Luo Chinese were also stunned, but many of the staff officers who were listening on the side had doubts.

After understanding Guo Rong's thoughts, the rest of the army quickly began to refine the follow-up plan according to Guo Rong's prompts.

But those staff officers who already knew nothing were stupid, and the others were okay, and these trainee staff officers were the same age, and they had a good relationship with Zhu Muyu, looking at these stupid geese who didn't get started, and they were anxious.

"Reduce the stove to lure the enemy! A sucker! ”

A reduction to lure the enemy, instantly wake up these staff officers with stupid geese.

"Four days at first, three days next, and two more days......

This time, there was no need for others to explain, everyone present understood the brilliance of Guo Rong's idea.

Obviously, the defense facilities are getting more and more perfect, the supply is getting easier and easier, the number of soldiers is increasing, and the speed of losing the defense is increasing, under normal circumstances, this can only mean one point, in the brutal battle, the morale of the soldiers and horses against the rebels has been on the verge of collapse, or has collapsed......

This is similar to the battle of Sun Bin Maling, reducing the focus to lure the enemy.

While Guo Rong was discussing countermeasures, the rebels maintained a little offensive intensity, and at the same time, the main commander was conducting a unique military discussion.

In the big tent of the rebel army, Zhang Shaozhang, the commander of the Wei Bo army, Zhong Xianjun, the commander of the Chengde army, Pei Mingren, the commander of the Lu Long army, and Zhen Bingliang, the general of the Lu Long army, who led more than 10,000 cavalry to flee from Zhuzhai back to Bianzhou City, etc., almost all of the rebels were qualified.

It's just that compared to the relatively restful and relaxed atmosphere of the longer Yingjun, the state of the rebels is obviously much worse, and the entire Chinese army tent is obviously crowded, but there is no sound coming out, and the atmosphere is tense and depressing......

Although it is only an estimate based on the scouts and the return from the front, it has to be said that the estimate of the losses of the rebels by the Changying Army is very different.

In seven days, a full 70,000 people were damaged!

The average of 10,000 casualties per day makes everyone frightened!

Even if there are many rebels, even if the rebels have the support of the vast land of the three towns of Hebei behind them, the soldiers will not make up for it in a short period of time.

Judging from the loss of 10,000 people a day, it only takes a month for the army of more than 300,000 to disappear.

Of course, no one really thinks their own people will make it that far.

On the current battlefield, it is not so much about equipment, supplies, and training as it is about the willpower and mental strength of both sides.

They don't know how long the soldiers and horses of the imperial court can last, but if these rebels continue to fight at the current level, they may collapse in a few days at most.

Ten days ago, just when the rebels under the city of Bianzhou were happily wreaking havoc in the Central Plains, Zhen Bingliang, a close confidant of Tan Zhong, a veteran of Lu Long, suddenly led more than 10,000 cavalry troops and suddenly appeared under the city of Bianzhou.

At first, no one cared about this army that looked a little tired, a little sad, a little lonely, a little confused.

It's just that no one expected that the news brought back by this army was nothing else, but that the 120,000 Hebei rebels were wiped out, and the veteran Tan Zhong died on the battlefield.

After this news was confirmed, the entire rebel army, from the lowest soldier to the most senior commander, was shocked on the outside and on the inside.

The veteran Tan Zhong is not one of those stunned young people, he will not be easily hot-headed, and he will not take the initiative to die, under his command, the battle may not be able to win beautifully, but even in the most extreme situation, Tan Zhong can maintain his strength to the greatest extent and will not lose too badly.

Tan Zhong's hands are not cannon fodder.

100,000 Lu Longjun, that is the elite of the Liu family and his son for three generations, and the other 20,000 are called auxiliary, which is actually surveillance, but the strength is not lost to the elite of the Lu Longjun at all.

In addition to these, Tan Zhong also has tens of thousands of civilians who are coerced as cannon fodder.

This kind of power, in ordinary times, is already a force that can destroy the country!

Yet this force has been almost wiped out, how can one dare to believe that this is the real truth?

Except for the more than 10,000 people brought back by Zhen Bingliang, the rest of the army was wiped out, and even Tan Zhong went directly into it, which was like a bolt from the blue for all the soldiers of the Lu Long Army.

Lu Longjun's coach Pei Mingren fainted on the spot, and it took a whole hour to regain his sanity and thinking.

The ordinary Lu Long soldiers were almost in a desperate situation, after all, Tan Zhong's qualifications were too old, his merits were too great, and his style was too stable.

Compared with Lu Longjun, Wei Bojun and Cheng Dejun's reactions were completely different.

Although there are also rabbits and foxes who are sad, but more of them are gloating, ridiculing and sarcastic words everywhere, and gradually there are all kinds of rumors and criticisms, such as ......

"Tan Zhong, this old guy is over sixty, it's good to pee without wetting his pants at this age, if you have to do it, you really deserve it!"

"This old thing, the old lake is painted, you have to go deep alone, isn't this just waiting for death?"

"This old guy won't have defected to the imperial court, otherwise how could he completely bury the army of more than 100,000 in one morning."

"It's not like it, this old thing ......"

At that time, although Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun did not spread rumors like ordinary soldiers, after learning the news that Tan Zhong was killed in battle and Lu Longjun was defeated, the two of them were indeed a lot happier, and even secretly had a drink.

However, now, the two no longer have leisure and leisure, otherwise they would not have held a military meeting with Pei Mingren in advance when the battlefield attack was not over.

"Zhen Bingliang, now you retell the process of the battle of course, don't miss anything!"