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Chapter 1257 The Highest-Ranking Wounded Person

The battle in the north of Daguantou is drawing to a close...

Although the Tengshe Camp dispatched the two most valiant cavalry units in the camp, the number of men and horses was limited after all. There was neither artillery bombardment to assist nor extra infantry to expand the victory and attack the Chuang army camp.

Even though they had the advantage of attacking the enemy when they were unprepared, they were still evenly matched with the Chuang army who were only concerned with escaping. At first, they had the upper hand because of the Chuang army's chaos, but as the war dragged on, the Chuang army's military advantage became apparent.

Just like the more than one thousand knights in the rear were divided into two groups to deal with the two groups of cavalry led by Bai Minghe and Xie Junyou. They had no advantage in terms of manpower, and although they had the advantage of short-handed guns, they could only gain some advantage in the initial battle.

At this moment, the rebel army had also experienced the initial chaos. Although Bai Minghe was wounded, the cavalry and infantry soldiers in his camp were determined to survive. Even the young and strong men who had only trained for a few days were eager to return home. No one wanted to be a prisoner of the government army.

The 500 cavalrymen under Hu Dengwei's right command were completely unable to stop the enemy. On the other side, although the cavalry of Liu Dacheng and Xie Junyou inflicted heavy casualties on them, they only had a slight advantage and did not gain an absolute advantage.

What's more, there were thousands of foot bandits behind Xie Junyou. They were forming a tight military formation and were moving towards this side with a fierce look in their eyes.

Soon, the two cavalry groups of Bai Minghe and Xie Junyou joined together and fought on equal terms with the cavalry in the rear of the Tengshe Camp led by Ji Donglai. Surprisingly, neither side was able to defeat the other quickly.

On the other side, the front cavalry of the Tengshe Camp led by the black man Qiu Yingquan was hindered by the infantry, young and strong men and servants in the Baiminghe Camp. It would be difficult for them to rush over to help in the battle for a while.

Although it was almost a one-sided massacre when cavalry faced infantry, there was also a prerequisite, which was that the infantry had to be scared off first, and then they could be chased and killed all the way like chasing rabbits.

In fact, it is very simple to put it bluntly: "Cavalry chasing the defeated infantry is like chasing rabbits, it is a one-sided massacre." However, when facing infantry formed in a tight formation, the cavalry may not be able to gain the upper hand, let alone a massacre!

The biggest advantage of cavalry is the word "speed", so the cavalry's charge is not to break the formation. Its main purpose is to intimidate the enemy's infantry. Once they become afraid, they can be scared away without several charges, and then it will be a one-sided massacre.

However, the infantrymen in Baiminghe Camp were in a panic and failed to form a tight military formation. They were bombarded with two rounds of short guns from Ji Donglai's rear and Qiu Yingquan's front cavalry, and they were on the verge of collapse.

  The only belief that keeps them from collapsing now is that they don’t want to be prisoners of the officers and soldiers!

The infantry and cavalry in the rebel army were the same as those starving people. Although they were afraid of death, they hated the Ming army even more. They were usually unarmed and had no backbone of their own. When they saw the soldiers, they were like mice seeing a cat. They had no idea of ​​resistance and could only allow themselves to be slaughtered.

But now it is indeed different. They have become rebels of the Ming Dynasty court and are much bolder. They are no longer the lambs to be slaughtered like before. The consciousness of resistance has been deeply rooted in their hearts.

It was for this reason that even though Bai Minghe had abandoned them under the protection of the cavalry, this group of foot bandits, young and strong men, and starving people were still driven by hatred and fought hard...

  Although there were some cowards among them, the appearance of dozens or hundreds of deserters among thousands of people would not affect the overall situation. It was because they successfully tripped up Qiu Yingquan's front cavalry that gave Bai Minghe and his cavalry a chance to escape!

………… After the battle, the battlefield became extremely quiet. There was no more collision of weapons and roar of guns and cannons, and no more shouts and roars from the soldiers on both sides could be heard.

Only the footsteps of the soldiers cleaning up the battlefield and the neighing of the cavalry horses guarding the position in the distance could prove that this large area was not completely silent.

Occasionally, there would be one or two screams and wails. Whenever such sounds were heard, it must be that another wounded soldier of the Chuang army had been discovered, and when their bodies were moved, their wounds were touched, causing such tragic howls...

In this battle, the Tengshe Battalion of the Yongyi Army won a great victory, while the Bai Minghe and Xie Junyou battalions of the Chuang Army were badly defeated and retreated back to the camp, abandoning all the trench defense lines that they had captured with great difficulty in the previous days.

After a preliminary count, it was learned that no less than 500 cavalrymen of the rebel army were killed or wounded, and there were nearly 1,000 young and strong infantrymen, and there were 500 to 600 casualties among the starving civilians.

And this is not even counting the more than 1,600 captured bandits, which of course also included five or six hundred starving civilians, but even so it was still a real victory.

Compared with the results of the battle, the losses of the Tengshe Camp were so low that they could almost be ignored. In total, only five cavalrymen were killed and there were only 27 wounded. Although dozens of war horses were lost, they could be replenished from the captured horses of the Chuang army.

  Such a huge casualty ratio greatly inspired the morale of the soldiers on both sides. They all looked excited, with their heads held high and chests puffed out, feeling proud!

However, although they recaptured the positions lost a few days ago, they only had 2,000 troops in total. It was indeed difficult to restore the situation to its pre-war state, and they did not dare to use the newly captured bandits for the time being.

In the end, they had no choice but to abandon those lines of defense and divide their troops into three parts. One part was to guard the battlefield to prevent attacks by the bandits; the second part was to clean up the battlefield, bury the bandits' bodies and rescue the wounded. The most important thing was to get the injured and dead horses back to the camp.

  The third and most important thing is to rebuild the last line of defense of trench, low wall and flower hedge!

Qiu Yingquan led his troops to be in charge of alerting and clearing the battlefield, while the reconstruction of the defense line was personally under the charge of Jin Yong, deputy general of the Tengshe Battalion, because Ji Donglai, the captain of the rear unit, broke his left leg after falling off his horse. Although the injury was not serious, he still needed to rest.

Qianzong Ji Donglai thus became the highest-ranking wounded soldier in the Tengshe Battalion in the battle of the Northern Camp. This also became one of the few events in his life that could be used as a joke by everyone...

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On the other hand, the rebel army was filled with an atmosphere of dejection that lingered throughout the entire military camp.

In this battle, Bai Minghe was seriously injured, and the cavalry in his camp lost nearly 350 horses, which was slightly more than half of the cavalry. The infantry also lost more than half, and the 2,000 young and strong men newly assigned to him were almost wiped out.

Regardless of whether Bai Minghe himself can survive, his entire battalion of troops is completely destroyed!