There is rain in the morning glow.

What the older generation said is not false at all.

As soon as the battle ended, raindrops fell in the sky.

At first it rained lightly, and gradually it turned into heavy rain.

The rain did not wash away the pool of blood that stretched for miles, but made the mountain road where the Ming and Qing dynasties fought like a blood stream, which also made the smell of blood in this valley stronger, and also made the chill in the air more sufficient.

A pit of length and width was filled with blood and water not long after, and it looked like a pool of blood.

In the pond, there are several severed limbs floating.

Under the action of the current, it sometimes sinks, sometimes floats.

On the edge of the pond, a severed palm stubbornly "picked" the soil under the rain.

No matter how the water hits, no matter how the rain beats, the five fingers are still firmly unloosened.

There was a group of Ming soldiers standing by the pond, no one spoke, only silently watching the soldiers and civilians passing in front of them.

The second group of soldiers and civilians commanded by the old marshal Yuan Zongdi had already passed through Gukou, and Hao Shuai was leading his troops to Gukou.

Just now, Yuan Zongdi sent someone to inform Wang Wu of an enemy situation, that is, Hao Shuai found that a Qing army was approaching Huangcaoping along the old road of Laomugang.

The preliminary judgment is that it is the Qing army in Shaanxi, and it is not ruled out that there are eight banner soldiers.

The death of Du Min, the deputy commander of the capital, will definitely make the Eight Banners garrison in Xi'an redouble their revenge on the Ming army.

In order not to be bitten by the Qing army in Shaanxi, Yuan Zongdi ordered to march in the rain, and he must not let the opportunity to break through the siege in exchange for the death of the soldiers of the Ming army on the Western Front be delayed by this heavy rain.

Wang Wu didn't think that the Qing army that came from Lao Mugang's old road was the Shaanxi Qing army, he thought that it should be his old acquaintance Deputy General Niu.

If nothing else, Lao Niu should take the credit for the occupation and recovery of Lao Mugang for himself.

Next, this thick-skinned Niu deputy general may also report a series of credits such as occupying the Yellow Lawn and recovering Yangma Village.

By the way, settle your losses one by one.

For example, there were two or three hundred casualties in Laomugang, and another one or two hundred casualties in Huangcao.

After several accounts, the losses caused by Wang Wu's two consecutive ambushes were naturally wiped out.

You can fight, and you have to be able to make accounts.

This is the basic quality that an excellent general should have.

The Huguang Green Battalion has been defeated and fought repeatedly in recent years, and its overall quality is probably the crown of the Qing army.

With the virtue of the old cow, there is no reason not to carry out the leakage to the end.

Therefore, Wang Wu was not worried that he would stupidly launch an attack on Hao Shaoqi, but he did not inform the two old commanders of the "rebellion" against Lao Niu.

After all, the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better.

Moreover, Niu Wancheng's talks will not be opposed by Wang Wuce, let alone "collaborating with the enemy", the two sides are only in the stage of mutual assistance.

In this battle, relying on the golden finger of "soil tanks" to resolve the Qing army's advantage in firearms, the Ming army had enough time to destroy the Qing army's pile defense line and achieve a major victory.

Yu Dahai, the hereditary governor of the left capital with the title of "Jingqi Nihafan", became the second senior general to be beheaded by the Ming army after Du Min, the deputy capital of Manchuria.

According to post-war statistics, more than 2,700 Green Battalion soldiers were killed (captured) in this battle, but the Ming army's own casualties also reached more than 1,200.

It can be said to be a pyrrhic victory.

The greatest losses were the front battalion under the personal command of Wang Wu.

Before the war, there were 1,000 officers and soldiers, but now there are less than 500, more than half of which have been lost.

The rest of the battalions suffered varying casualties, with Ma Changyuan's left battalion killed 256 killed and 172 wounded.

Zhang Tianwang's right battalion lost 170 killed and more than 140 wounded.

The rear battalion that came to reinforce afterwards suffered little losses, with only 26 killed and more than 30 wounded.

Yuan Zongdi's personal soldiers were killed in the battle, and the chief soldier Wang Yijia was wounded.

The casualty ratio accounted for a quarter.

That is, a battalion was knocked out, and the officer death rate also reached 30%.

This is undoubtedly more than worth the loss for the Ming army, which is simply unable to obtain supplementary troops.

However, this is the current situation of the Ming army.

One dead, one less.

Tactical victory only slows down the process of annihilation, not changes the final outcome.

Unless, stand out.

A change in strategy.

reproduce the miracle of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong!

Highlighting the war against the Qing army has always been Wang Wu's unswerving goal.

For now, he must cooperate with Yuan and Hao to bring the remnants of the Ming army on the Western Front to Li Laiheng's Maolu Mountain base area.

There were as many as 5,000 or 6,000 people with the families of the army, and if these people were not properly settled, the Ming army would not be able to carry out mobile warfare at all.

The captured Green Battalion soldier Wang Wu also had no intention of killing, and Niu Wancheng should be happy to receive this group of remnants in the future.

In the line of sight, the family members who were heading eastward were wading through the blood and water, braving the heavy rain to bury their heads in the east.

Everyone, including the elderly and children, is moving forward in silence.

There was no sound, no pause, even if there were their loved ones piled up on the side of the road.

On a high slope not far away, a group of Ming troops armed with broadswords were watching the green camp captives carrying the corpses below.

From east to west, there were dozens of piles of corpses.

Due to the heavy rain, the corpses of the fallen soldiers could not be burned, so the only way to drive the hundreds of green camp prisoners to pile up the corpses first.

There's no way to dig a hole.

However, Wang Wu believed that the old cow who followed behind his ass would return the favor to him.

From the captives, the top brass of the Ming army had learned that there was a second line of defense of the Qing army on the road to Maolu Mountain.

This line of defense was garrisoned by Mu Shenghui, the commander of Yunyang.

This man is known as a strange man.

It is said that he is superior in force, and he is good at using long knives, and he once killed dozens of Ming soldiers in a battle.

There is also the title of Tuosha Lahafan granted by the Qing court.

is a hardcore traitor who can fight.

At the beginning, Wang Wu was ready to send people to pretend to be defeated troops in the sea to infiltrate the Qing army's defense line and take the opportunity to sneak attack.

The sudden heavy rain forced him to abandon this tactic.

You can only take one step at a time.

After bringing people to the sheep and horse village where the army in the sea was located, Liu Heng, the prince of Anhui, was already waiting there.

The rear battalion has emptied all the materials that can be used in the village along with the food, and together with the previous cleaning of the battlefield, it has captured a huge amount.

After Liu Heng briefly explained the seizure, he handed the list of the dead of each battalion to Wang Wu.

Thick stacks of thousands.

Heavy.

Wang Wu, who felt uncomfortable, opened the list, but found that many people on it did not have names.

Or rather, only surnames.

Song Jia, Wang Jia, Zhang Jia, Li Jia

There are more than one-fifth of the fallen soldiers with unnamed surnames!

Turning to the last few pages, Wang Wu was even more distracted.

On the list, nicknames such as "Little Old Three", "Second Bastard", "Third Monk", and "Big Head Ghost" abound.

No name and no surname.

Perhaps, this is the truest portrayal of the soldiers of the Ming army who persisted in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty in the mountains and mountains of Yongli in the eighteenth year.

After carefully folding the list and putting it in his arms, Wang Wu said to Liu Heng: "At that time, the imperial court set up a monument to the palace of the Holy Emperor for the generals under the command of Hu Shuai, if we do not die to expel the Tartars and rebuild the rivers and mountains, we should set up a martyr's shrine for the martyrs who have been martyred since Jiashen because of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, so that future generations will never forget our unyielding people!" ”