It was already dark, and the Ming army was still cleaning up the battlefield with torches.

The Qing army left too many discarded materials and scattered them on the mile-long mountain road, so the Ming army needed to search carefully to "pick up" the things one by one.

Ma Sizhong had a bonfire lit every hundred steps.

The bonfire not only provided light for the Ming army in the night, but also warmed their hearts in the cold wind, and at the same time, they were extremely relieved.

Undoubtedly, this is another exciting victory!

Under the command of Wang Wu, the Ming army in ambush annihilated more than 450 enemies and captured more than 700 prisoners at the cost of 58 casualties!

7 war horses, 19 sets of iron armor, more than 300 sets of usable cotton armor, more than 200 fire guns, more than 100 bows and crossbows, and more than 400 catties of medicine were seized.

The rest of the materials are also very much, so much so that Wang Wu and Ma Sizhong have to discuss with them to throw away some, otherwise it will become a burden.

After all, they are now going to break through to Laomugang, not to establish a base in the area from Suokou to Dachang and hold on to the enemy for a long time.

The fly in the ointment was that this ambush failed to annihilate the main force of the Qing army's Niu Wancheng Division.

It's not that there is any flaw in the deployment of the ambush, but that Niu Wancheng ran too fast!

As soon as this guy saw that the situation was not good, the soles of his feet disappeared as if they were smeared with oil.

But if Niu Wancheng hesitated a little and withdrew a little slowly, the results of the Ming army were estimated to be doubled.

Now, in addition to regrets, Wang Wu still has to have a headache for the existence of the cow.

According to the confession of the captives, there were more than 2,100 green battalions commanded by Niu Wancheng, and the results of the post-war inventory showed that the Ming army only killed less than 400 green battalion soldiers, and the captured green battalion soldiers were only more than 200 people, and the rest were rebels of Ma Tengyun's department, which means that there were about 1,500 green battalion soldiers who fled back to Dachang with Niu Wancheng.

This number of troops is still very heavy for the Ming army, which has won two victories in a row.

According to Tian Wen's statistics, there were 307 officers and soldiers killed and more than 150 wounded in the Ming army in the two wars, and the total casualty ratio was almost nearly one-third.

The Lao Shun army commanded by Ma Sizhong had more than 460 people before the war, and now there are only more than 270 people who can still fight.

The Ming army commanded by Wang Wu was 487 people before the war, and now only more than 380 remain.

The Suokou Ming army commanded by the Zhang Tianwang brothers had more than 650 people before the war, and now there are less than 500 people left.

There were no casualties among the family.

Therefore, nearly one-third of the casualties made the Ming army itself traumatic.

In terms of troops, it is also less than the Niu Wancheng Department who fled back to Dachang.

The newly replenished troops mainly came from the surrender of Ma Tengyun's army, which was still a voluntary principle, and a total of 120 people were willing to return to the Ming army and the Qing army to fight to the end.

Because the Lao Shun army suffered the largest casualties, Wang Wu handed over all the 120 horse soldiers to Ma Sizhong for command.

The other captives who were unwilling to continue their resistance to the Qing Dynasty only waited for dawn to return to themselves.

More than 200 people were also captured on the side of the Green Battalion, and there were disagreements within the Ming army about how to deal with these Green Camp prisoners.

Zhang Tianwang means that these green battalion soldiers are different from Ma Tengyun's department, which was only cleared not long ago, they have all been dogs for the Tartars for a long time, and they have participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army many times, which one does not have the blood of the Ming soldiers on their hands, so they must be executed, and they must not be allowed to be accomplices to the Tartars again.

Ma Sizhong and the others also supported the execution of the prisoners of the Green Battalion, for similar reasons as Wang Wu believed in the principle of "destroying the enemy's living forces as much as possible".

However, Wang Wu did not agree to kill the prisoners, he believed that the prisoners of the Green Camp should be treated the same as Ma Tengyun's soldiers, and it was also voluntary to go and stay, and they could not be treated differently because they had been in the Qing army for a long time.

“... These Green Battalion soldiers have made us lose our morale, and letting them go back will not pose much of a threat to us, but will be useful to us. ”

In order to let everyone sanitize the idea of killing prisoners, Wang Wu made an analogy.

That is, if a person has been bitten by a snake in one place, then he must pay attention to his feet when he passes through that place again for fear of being bitten again.

And when the snake that bit him does appear, the person must instinctively feel frightened and flinch.

Zhang Tianfang was thoughtful and uncertain: "Brother Wang means that those green camp captives will panic next time they encounter us, and they won't need us to beat them?" Scared of us? ”

"Pretty much."

Wang Wu nodded and said to everyone: "If we can defeat them once, we can defeat them twice, three times, countless times!" Therefore, there is no need for us to kill the prisoners, not only will no Qing army surrender to us in the future, but the Qing army will fight us to the death! ”

Wang Wu couldn't bear this consequence, and the Ming army, which was at a disadvantage, couldn't bear it.

After hearing this, everyone was thinking about the impact of release and killing, and the result of the reasoning was obviously what Wang Wu said, and he would no longer ask for the prisoner to be killed at the moment.

Seeing that everyone did not object, Wang Wu asked the blind man Wan Si to ask the prisoners of the green camp if anyone was willing to join the Ming army, and the result was a no.

This made Wang Wu can't help but smile bitterly, knowing that those green camp captives are not stupid, because the Ming at this time is probably about the same as the sun in his previous life four or five years.

Force!

Only by setting off a momentum can the people descend like clouds.

It's a pity that the victory in the two battles is far from enough for Wang Wu to set off this momentum.

There is still a long way to go.

However, there was good news from Tian Wen, who interrogated the captives, that is, Liu Tichun, the Duke of Wanguo, may not have been killed, but was still holding on to the rebels who were fighting in Laomugang.

This news made the Ming army breathe a sigh of relief.

Wang Wu is the same, he has been worried that Liu Tichun has been martyred, so that their gang of people desperately kill Lao Mugang is not only equivalent to throwing themselves into the net, but also making the morale of the army that has finally been mustered up drop to the freezing point in an instant.

All these efforts will inevitably be in vain.

Since Liu Tichun is not dead, the next war is on the agenda.

In fact, there is no discussion about whether to discuss or not, that is, to discuss how to take Dachang, an important stronghold leading to Lao Mugang.

That place was also an important stronghold of the Ming army in the past, and there was a perfect defense system, if Niu Wancheng's department was annihilated today, it would naturally be effortless to take Dachang.

The problem is that Niu Wancheng retreated to Dachang with the main force, which made the Ming army, who were eager to go to Laomugang to rescue Liu Tichun, have to gnaw back the hard bones.

This time, Ma Sizhong's opinion with Zhang Tianwang and others was unanimous, that is, while the cattle department was scared by them today, he would attack it early tomorrow morning!

No matter how many casualties are paid, we must open up this rescue lifeline!

Since Wang Wu commanded the Ming army to win two victories in succession, he had established his personal prestige in this lone Ming army, and everyone naturally hoped that Wang Wu would still command tomorrow's battle.

Wang Wu slowly glanced at everyone, picked up a wooden stick and stirred the fire in front of him, and said, "This battle is definitely going to be fought, but is there a possibility, can we still lure Niu Wancheng out and ambush him again?" ”

"What? Still ambushed? ”

Zhang Tianfang on the other side had a stunned expression.

His brother Zhang Tianwang was also in a state of confusion, and Ma Sizhong's expression was similar.

They all think that it is whimsical, that Niu Wancheng is not a three-year-old child, how could he be ambushed by the Ming army again!

"Don't look at me like that, I think it's possible."

Wang Wu got up with a smile and patted his buttocks, "Soldier, it's treacherous." In the art of war, it is said that victory cannot be restored, and it is emphasized that the enemy should be flexible and mobile because of the enemy's control and change, so the method of defeating the enemy should not be repeated... But today, my king is going to risk the great disapproval of the art of war, and use troops against the road, and he will go back to this place again! ”

The voice is unmistakable and confident.

Because he knows that a man will not be bitten twice by a snake in the same place, but an army will call someone to ambush twice in the same place!

The reason is not to believe in evil.

Everyone told Wang Wu to be stunned, and none of them knew what to say.

Half-loud, Xu Deyi scratched his head: "It's definitely good to lie down again, but what if Niu Wancheng doesn't come out?" ”

"He'll come out,"

Looking at the torches of the Ming army dotted with stars in the distance, Wang Wu said confidently: "People are curious. ”