(0725) Xu Xingxia stood behind the city wall, silently looking at the entire battlefield. 【】

The walls of Yangguan Fort have long been dilapidated after repeated attacks by the cavalry. He roughly counted the gaps that could accommodate two war horses, and there were as many as seven or eight. And there are at least twenty gaps that can accommodate the passage of a war horse. Without the help of grenades, it would not have been easy for the White Coats to close these gaps.

In fact, even with the help of grenades, the whites paid a considerable amount. The latest statistics show that in previous battles, more than 50 of the whites were killed and more than 100 wounded. Most of them were killed and wounded by the arrows of the captives. I have to admit that those damn Jianyu, their archery skills are indeed quite good.

If the white-clothed army was not equipped with Han-style rifles and grenades, but only equipped with Yueyue guns, they would not be able to defend Yangguan Fort at all. It is estimated that the first attack of the blue flag will be defeated by the white-clothed army. The attack with the blue flag is actually very fierce. From a technical point of view, the Yueyue gun and the Han-style rifle are not an era at all. As for grenades and mortars, they are even more against the sky.

Now, inside these gaps, there are a large number of corpses of Jianyu cavalry. A large amount of blood stained all the surroundings of Yangguan Fort red. In some places, the corpses of people and war horses even overlapped each other. Some of the Jianyu who had not yet died, and some of the war horses that let out a low neigh, were struggling in pain in a pool of blood. Some people are struggling like this, slowly losing their breath. Others, looking around helplessly, hoping that they could be saved. Even the bravest people, at this time, are weak.

However, what awaits them is often a sharp bayonet. Mao Wenlong and others, all holding Han-style rifles, searched for the wounded in the pile of corpses. If you find anything alive, go up and take a bayonet. This is the most direct, simplest, and most ruthless way to deal with the wounded on the battlefield. It is said that the Mongol army of that year also had a special killing knife, which was a bit like the three-edged bayonet of later generations. No matter who is stabbed, they will not survive.

After the explosion of a large number of grenades, the entire city wall of Yangguan Fort appeared more dilapidated and crumbling. The explosive power of the grenade was already fatal to this kind of city wall without cement, steel bar, and stone. The city wall of Yangguan Fort is the simplest of kinds, with red bricks on both sides and rammed earth in the middle. Once the red bricks on both sides are smashed, the rammed earth inside will pour out on its own.

In addition, some chasseur warriors threw cluster grenades too close together, and as a result, they caused huge damage to the city walls. In many places, the red bricks on the surface of the city wall were directly blown off by grenades, and more than half of the rammed earth inside was also blown off. The remaining half is naturally crumbling. To be honest, the city wall of Yangguan Fort has been able to hold on until now, and it has not completely collapsed, even Xu Xingxia thinks it is a miracle.

However, Xu Xingxia could not give an order to repair the city wall immediately. He must continue to maintain the status quo of the city walls. For, if he repaired the walls to the point where they were impregnable, Nurhachi would have turned away. He's not a fool and won't hit his head on a rock. Now, the biggest reason why Yangguanbao can attract Jianyu, and why Nurhachi and others are still unwilling to leave, is that the city wall of Yangguanbao has already fallen down with a push, and it has almost no effect. This gave hope to the Dajin Army.

In the eyes of the Dajin Army, the city wall of Yangguan Fort has completely lost its blocking effect. The current Yangguan Fort is actually a plain wilderness. Therefore, in the next battle, they could continue to use cavalry. Perhaps, a large number of cavalry charges can flatten the entire Yangguan Fort. As for the role of cavalry, the Dajin army was convinced.

Of course, they were even more convinced of the arrival of the Mongol cavalry. The Mongols did not have much of anything, but a lot of war horses. If the Mongol cavalry support arrived, Nurhachi could dispatch tens of thousands of cavalry to ravage the Yangguan Fort dozens or even hundreds of times until there were no creatures left.

...... "My lord, it's so enjoyable to fight like this!" Mao Wenlong said excitedly.

They had just returned from searching the battlefield in front, and the bayonets in each of their hands were half-congealed blood. I don't know how many wounded people were killed by their bayonets. Anyway, if they fall into the hands of Jianyu, they will definitely be worse than dead. For their part, they will never be forgiven for these executioners.

"Our price is not small." Xu Xingxia said slowly.

When Mao Wenlong and the others heard this, they all lowered their heads silently. In the battle just now, Mao Wenlong and the others were very active, and they kept throwing grenades at the Jianyu cavalry, blowing them up to the ground piece by piece. However, the arrows of the Jianyu cavalry also caused them some damage. Of the more than 20 men, four were killed and five were wounded. Kong Youde and Liu Xingzhi were both shot by arrows and sent to the rear for treatment.

However, such a price, in Mao Wenlong's opinion, is already incredible. It's not that the casualties are incredibly huge, it's that the incredibly small casualties are too small. Mao Wenlong didn't know how many Jianyu cavalry they had killed and wounded, and it would definitely not be less than three hundred anyway. Mao Wenlong himself threw more than thirty grenades in a row in one go, and until now, his arm is still sore, and he can't even hold chopsticks.

They killed 300 cavalry, and they paid the price of less than 10 casualties. Such a ratio is simply unprecedented. If it weren't for Mao Wenlong's personal involvement, he wouldn't have believed such data at all. Such data is also too exaggerated. In fact, this number, if it is reversed, is about the same. The Ming army that had been dispersed before was often the casualty ratio when it encountered the pursuit of Jianlu. Maybe even a little more exaggerated.

After Mao Wenlong and the others finished counting the battlefield, the most active ones were naturally the porters from the rear. What they were carrying was not ordinary things, but the corpses of Jianyu. The white-clothed army needs to rest, recuperate, and prepare for the next battle, and it is true that they do not have the time and energy to clean up the battlefield. In fact, Jianyu's corpse is indeed a little more. What's more, there are also a large number of corpses of war horses. Although there were three hundred people from behind, so many corpses of Jianjiao, and a large number of corpses of war horses, it was enough for them to be busy.

Xu Xingxia resolutely disagreed with letting Jianyu take back his own corpses. His basic principle is that as long as it is what Jianyu wants to do, the white-clothed army will resolutely oppose it. As long as it is something that Jianyu does not want to do, the white-clothed army will resolutely implement it. Anyway, it definitely can't go as you want. Nurhachi sent people to negotiate with Xu Xingxia several times, hoping to take back the corpses of the warriors of the Dajin Kingdom and bury them properly, but Xu Xingxia refused mercilessly.

Xu Xingxia, who has a lot of money, is not stingy at all with these special porters. The wages he offered were very high. As long as you carry the corpses of five prisoners, you can get a reward of one or two silver. More work gets more, less work gets less. The price is fair, and there is no bullying for children.

In fact, even if there is not a penny of silver, those people will be very active. Because, most of the people who were responsible for carrying the corpses of Jianyu were ordinary people who fled from Liaodong to Shandong. Each of them had one or more relatives and friends who died at the hands of Jianyu. Therefore, they hated Jianyu very much. Now, so many Jianjiao have been killed by the white-clothed army, not to mention how excited they are in their hearts.

According to Xu Xingxia's meaning, the corpses of these Jianyu were directly pulled back to Shandong, visited by the suffering people of Liaodong, and then found a place to make a mass grave and buried them all collectively. Jianyu massacred a large number of Han people in Liaodong and created a number of mass graves, and the white-clothed army returned a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood, and was also preparing to come to such a mass grave.

In order to clear the battlefield as much as possible, even the boatmen came ashore to help. These boatmen, naturally, do not have the slightest good impression of Jianyu. Some people deliberately let go of Jianlu's body when carrying it, and threw it into the sea. The white-clothed soldier next to him also pretended not to see it. Jianyu's corpse, where to throw it is not the same?

In addition to the corpse porters, on the battlefield of Yangguan Fort, there was also a group of very active people, that is, the soldiers of the artillery battalion led by Yun Qifeng. They finally got the order to use mortars. This makes them feel more excited than ever, and no matter what they do, they are fast and energetic. This is the first time that mortars have been used in large-scale real combat. In the future, whether the artillery battalion will eat or drink porridge, it will all count on them.

They lifted all the mortars out of the bunkers, set them up in the positions, and carefully measured the data. A large number of shells were placed next to the mortars. As long as Xu Xingxia gives an order, the artillery battalion can go berserk. The first target that the artillery battalion aimed at was the artillery position that had been built. According to the general opinion of later generations, the first enemy of artillery is always the enemy's artillery. The battle began, and it was necessary to find a way to take out the enemy's artillery.

Xu Xingxia estimated that this was the last attack of the Dajin army. Mortars are no longer necessary to hide. On the contrary, the artillery battalion should inflict the greatest possible damage on Jianlu in the next battle, and completely break Jianlu's backbone. He wanted to make all the Jianyu, as long as they heard the three words of the white-clothed army, they shuddered and their legs trembled.

(To be continued)