The shouts of killing all over the mountains receded, Ao Guanhai breathed a sigh of relief tiredly, found a piece of ground that was still a little wet, and sat down regardless of whether it was dirty or not, and then lit a pipe for himself with trembling hands.

Not far away, there was a sky-high fire, it was a gentry's Zhuangzi, and finally more than 100 Qing soldiers hid in it and resisted, most of them were even full of Mongolian Eight Banners. These men were skilled in battle and had a stubborn will to fight, and some of the officers and men of the Fourth Division of the newly built army suffered heavy casualties when they attacked, so they began to attack in a fit of rage. At this time, it was almost over, and the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division, who had fought an old battle in Shandong, were waiting for the battle, and the spears outside Zhuangzi were like a forest and arrows were like rain, and all the Qing troops who broke through the encirclement were killed on the spot.

Li Dashan, a local gentry who secretly took refuge and led the way for the Qing army, knew that he was unlucky, so he set himself on fire after killing his wife's family, and most of the hundreds of members of the family died, only some wives and concubines did not want to die and escaped, but the fate waiting for them was also very miserable, and the women's team outside Yinxian County was their future destination.

"This battlefield has finally been cleared, but it's a pity that fifty-seven more samurai have died, and it's not easy to explain to the banner master when I go back." Oguanhai, who was already a big Clar of the Eight Banners of South Africa, sighed sadly, took another puff of his cigarette, and then walked towards the field hospital set up in a clan ancestral hall in the countryside.

Field hospitals are full of sick and wounded patients (infectious diseases are isolated separately), and thanks to the increasingly advanced medical technology on the east coast, the survival rate of the sick and wounded is getting higher and higher. The application of medical means such as disinfection technology, anesthesia surgery, hanging bottle infusion, and painkiller drugs (opium). Supplemented by the help of some Chinese medicine doctors who were forcibly "invited", this field hospital set up in Xikou Town was finally reluctantly opened.

As of today, 579 wounded have been admitted to the hospital. 201 cases underwent surgery; Of the 32 patients who were admitted, most of the rest were unharmed, either returning to the team or recuperating elsewhere. We can see from this that the establishment of field hospitals is of great significance in reducing undue casualties and in maintaining the morale of the soldiers. To exaggerate. More than 3,500 officers and men of the Fourth Division of the New Army, with the assistance of more than 700 heavy infantry of the South African Eight Banners, were able to break through the Qing army of up to 2,000 people who broke through to Xikou Town in one fell swoop. This field hospital accounts for at least 20% of the credit.

By the way, this Qing army that suddenly appeared in Xikou Town came from Xinchang County and Shengxian County in Shaoxing Prefecture through the mountain road, and they abandoned the armor such as iron armor that hindered the crossing of mountains and mountains, and did not bring any baggage. Each person carried five days of dry rations, walked along the rugged mountain road, and finally succeeded in reaching Xikou Town after a great deal of hardship -- thanks to a well-known landlord, Li Dashan, who was afraid of the land division policy carried out by the people on the east bank in Yinxian County, so he made a decisive move this time, and sent his henchmen to contact the Qing army, leading them through the mountain trails to break into Xikou Town, Fenghua County, which was regarded as a safe rear by the people on the east bank.

Their joint efforts were very successful from the very beginning, and Li Dashan also organized his own family. The united Qing army smashed the regimental training bureau set up in the town by the people on the east bank, defeated more than 100 vulnerable regimental drills, and killed one "puppet regimental training director with thieves", one "vice president of the puppet stability maintenance committee with thieves", and three "pseudo section chiefs". After doing this. This Qing army began to entrench itself in Xikou Town, building fortifications and collecting grain and grass on the one hand, and sending people back over the mountains to report the situation and ask for reinforcements to quickly increase the situation -- thanks to the fact that the Qing army did not trust Li Dashan who was the leader of the party before, so they only sent 2,000 people to test the water lightly, and the large army was still raising grain and grass in Shengxian County.

Fortunately, the East Coast people were not slow to react. After receiving an urgent report from a wealthy businessman who was a member of the Stability Maintenance Association in Xikou Town, Huang Yi, who was still transporting tea in Fenghua County, immediately took over the command urgently. Then the newly built Fourth Division of the Army, the Eighth Banner New Army Supplementary Battalion, and some local regiments were mobilized to train troops in the county town (imitating the local anti-riot troops set up by the "Bangbang Army" in Busan, and the combat effectiveness was very limited), and they rushed to Xikou, and then after a day of fierce fighting, under the artillery bombardment at any cost, the Qing army entrenched in Xikou Town finally collapsed.

Lacking ordnance and armor, they simply could not fight against the well-fed East Coast Army, and the Chen Zhilong Division of the Fourth Division of the New Army was an old unit, often acting as a vanguard when fighting in Shandong; With their full cooperation and under the cover of the fire of the artillery brothers, this unit with about 4,300 soldiers defeated most of the Qing army's green battalion after a short and fierce battle, and then compressed the two or three hundred people with the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners as the core into one place, and finally annihilated most of them in Li Dashanren's mansion, and captured more than a dozen people, who seemed to be generals, and they would soon be handed over to the gendarmerie for interrogation.

After annihilating this Qing army unit that rushed in from the mountain path, the army on the east bank did not dare to slack off, so it could only continue to stay here in case of accidents. In the southern county town of Ninghai, the Sixth Division of the newly built army is also dealing with the aftermath of the landlord clan rebellion, and it is estimated that it will have to be delayed for some time. As a high-ranking officer in the local East Coast Army, Ao Guanhai has no obstacle in learning and understanding Chinese for many years, and he is not absent from every combat meeting, so he is naturally clear about these news.

This time, the Qing army found a mountain road from the Siming Mountains to break into Fenghua, and in Ao Guanhai's view, it was actually a very strict thing. Because this means that the Qing army has found a new breakthrough, there must be more than one mountain path, and it is difficult to say where the Qing army will attack next time. Isn't the county seat of Yinxian County, which is now only defended by hundreds of troops on the east coast, extremely empty? I'm afraid that Chief Liu of Shangguo is going to transfer the more than 1,000 student soldiers stationed in Dinghai County, right?

Those student soldiers Ao Guanhai have also seen it, to be honest, the elite Cheng Dù has only seen it in his life, almost everyone is equivalent to a senior non-commissioned officer, and the formation of combat effectiveness is actually very fast if they are used as the backbone to expand the troops, but I am afraid that Chief Liu does not dare to do this, because it seems to violate the "organizational discipline".

There is still a shortage of major generals! Okukanhai sighed. Turned around and walked out of the field hospital.

The sky at the mouth of the river is high and blue, just like the sky in my hometown in South Africa, except that the land here is much more fertile than in South Africa. The water source is even more incomparable to the arid hometown, and all in all, it is comparable to South Africa. There are still two years to end in the service period, and it is self-evident how to choose at that time, South Africa's Eight Banners Clal really has nothing to do, even if it is not interesting to be the son-in-law of the flag owner. After several years of fighting abroad, I have seen the vast world outside and a civilized and rich society. Naturally, there is a lack of interest in the arid and barren grasslands.

If you retire by virtue of your merits, you can obtain the official nationality of the East Coast Republic of China without accident. But he has little interest in the unfamiliar East Coast homeland. On the contrary, he had more affection for the Far East after several years of war, and in the future, if possible, it would be better to stay in the Far East and settle down in the Far East -- of course, it was unlikely to be Ningbo, but he should go to the Heishui area to live with the wounded veterans of the army -- and from then on he became a colony of the East Coast Republic of China.

There was a sound of horses' hooves ahead, and it was some officers of the 6th Division who had come to the hospital to visit the sick and wounded. They gave a military salute towards the Aoguan Sea. Then he poured into the hospital, whispering about the military situation as he walked. O' Guanhai knew what they were talking about, it was nothing more than the news that the naval gunboats had brought back from Baling County.

It is said that since the Qing army defeated the Dashun army in the area of Dengzhou, it began to attack the territory of Huguang. Their combat methods were the same as when they first entered the customs, when the Manchurian army pressed the formation, and the green battalion acted as the main force of the operation, and the number of Liu Fangliang of the left battalion of Dashun and the first division of the right battalion of Yuan Zong of Dashun were fiercely fought. The two sides fought in Xiangyang first, re-fought in Gucheng, and fought three times in Chengtianfu, and the Shun army was defeated three times and lost tens of thousands of soldiers. Not to mention the loss of the city and land, the left and right battalions were also divided by the Qing army -- at present, the left battalion has been defeated and retreated to Yunyang Mansion, and the right battalion has retreated to Jingzhou Mansion.

However, the Shun army is not without records. At least the Manchurian army turned the tide of the war at critical moments several times, and the losses accumulated many times were hundreds of soldiers. Coupled with the attrition of non-combat factors, the Manchurian army entered Hubei to fight for only a few months, and the losses have exceeded 1,000, which makes the Tartar court, which has now lost part of the replenishment outside the Guan, heartbroken.

This mentality above will naturally affect the thoughts of the people below, plus the number of years in the customs. The Manchurian soldiers were no longer as vigorous as they used to be, and now they were faced with a large number of Dashun armed groups that had built fortifications in some key areas. Whether the Qing court can win as lightly as in the past is also a question. After all, there are still about 200,000 soldiers in the left and right battalions of Dashun, and there are also 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers in the former battalion, so it is not easy to eliminate them. All that can be done now is to concentrate forces and advance slowly, and never let the Manchurian army suffer the heavy losses of the fierce battle with the yellow-clothed thieves in the past.

The situation faced by the Qing army in Sichuan was similar to that of Huguang. The Qing army led by the Shaanxi-Gansu-Luying, Wu Sangui and other Han troops, under the pressure of some Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, entered Baoning Mansion through Hanzhong, and fought with Zhang Xianzhong's troops, who led the troops to this place. Zhang Xianzhong fought hard in this battle, but was still defeated by the superior Qing army, especially the thousands of horses based on the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, a battle broke Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army, Zhang himself was wounded, and his son Ai Nengqi died desperately, and tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and wounded, and they retreated all the way to Chengdu Mansion.

However, the Qing army also suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded in the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and thousands of casualties were also killed and wounded under the command of Li Guohan of Gushan Ezhen, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and others. In addition, some Tusi who were interested in the Ming Dynasty on the flanks fished in troubled waters and made trouble, and the Qing army was unable to pursue for a while, which objectively gave Zhang Xianzhong a chance to adjust his deployment. However, if the situation deteriorates like this, Zhang himself has obviously lost the power to return to heaven, and all he can do now is to survive.

"These Ming Army, Shun Army, Western Army or something, their combat effectiveness is so unbearable that they can't even have an advantage in the battle against the Green Battalion. The samurai I brought from my hometown, after putting on heavy armor, if they set up a dignified battle formation with the same number of people on both sides, and our army can win eight times out of ten against these green battalions, I really can't figure out how they can fight, and they will lose in successive battles! Ao Guanhai shook his head, a little puzzled: "Maybe their armament, food and grass are not very sufficient, their morale is also very low, and the local government has no support for them?" Perhaps there are also factors such as the Manchurian Eight Banners, although I disdain these Manchu pseudo-flags, I can't underestimate them. If the two armies are in a stalemate, these people will find the right time and entry point and fight from behind, and they will not be able to turn the tide of the war in one go. If my samurai were to face each other, most of them would not be able to please me......"

"Forget it, I don't want to worry about it! I have just heard that Commander Liu's application to expand the number of officers and men of the Fourth and Sixth Divisions has been approved, and these two divisions will be able to support 5,000 troops in the future. Ao Guanhai pondered the news with some excitement. The Fourth and Sixth Divisions of the newly built army are now bombing the ground in Fenghua and Ninghai counties, and Marshal Shao of Shandong has allowed them to recruit more troops, which is definitely a major benefit. (To be continued)