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Chapter 1305 Salt

North of Poole County, the win came easily.

The enemy troops who had been besieging the city for more than a month depended on the first battle. Muye Zuoying chased the first leader of the army into the camp, so that the enemy troops had no time to take away all the food, grass and supplies, and forced the enemy's central army to be deceived and defeated. Can bypass the camp and flee eastward.

"Why do they run east instead of west?"

In the Chinese army tent, Ying Ming, who was looking at the decorations and luxurious ornaments that the earl brought when he traveled to avoid the plague, touched and touched, asked the general flag of his subordinates.

He saw that the cavalry general flag chasing the enemy army had a glove gone somewhere, and the hand was covered with dried and coagulated blood: "We have seen the enemy to the west, and they have hundreds of people there, and they can completely re-establish the defense line—— Basin, wash your hands."

"Do they have more troops to the east?"

The chief cavalry banner officer shook his head, washed his hands in the silver basin painted with religious patterns, and said, "General, there are not hundreds of them in the west, and the people who tortured the prisoners have already learned that they are stationed in Leitou Township. The baron brought more than a thousand troops, and before the battle, several nobles who thought this was not a good time to start the war also led their troops to the west."

"The enemy army in Leitou Township now has at least 200 [-] people, and they may also receive reinforcements from the nobles from the west; as for why the defeated army fled eastward, it may be because they think that many nobles have fled eastward, and there is the Queen of Tuyi over there. aid."

It should be clear that this army has a more difficult self-awareness than other Beiyang Banner troops. They have dual official positions, and under the dual official positions, they face different people and derive different identities.

In the Beiyang system, they are Baihu, General Banner, Small Banner, and Banner Army, and in the Kingdom of Alan, they have become generals such as commanders and Qianhu. Even ordinary Beiyang cavalry has hundreds of troops in that land Master Hu's identity.

High status and high treatment made them look down on anyone in the world outside of Daming.

"Send scouts to see them, and when they receive news that the besieged soldiers have been defeated, what will they do?"

Ying Ming put these things aside with a smile, folded his arms and asked intently: "Have you got the statistics of the war profit? For equipment and salt, Li Yuxi asked me for salt. If there is not enough salt in the camp, he will take the captured nobles to England. people for salt."

Armor is the most important thing. It doesn't matter what kind of armor it is, such as plate armor, armored clothing, or mail armor. Ying Ming believes that this counter-offensive battle is a good proof of the fighting courage of the Muye Army. He must equip every soldier under his command with protective equipment. .

Whether the armor is the best is not important, the lack of armor is the most important thing.

Even fully armed plate armor warriors will still be killed, and soldiers wearing mail armor have a chance of surviving. In the military education Ying Ming received, veterans are the most important figures in the army. A veteran who has seen many battles can inspire the courage of ten recruits around him.

Ying Ming just asked his own question, looked at the untouched furnishings in the earl's tent, and felt that this was funny, and immediately waved his hand and said: "Transport everything into the city, go to the city to count the supplies, the naval battle is still going on. , Divide up the troops to guard the main roads, let's go back to the city to visit the wounded soldiers."

Before the war, Puli County made sufficient preparations. Nearly [-] wounded soldiers were placed in the open space under the city wall. One battalion prepared the general army and more than a dozen ship doctors under the city to treat wounded soldiers. They were not like Beiyang military doctors. So professional, but better than nothing.

There were a lot of wounded soldiers in the third battalion of Muye, especially the right battalion which was directly attacked and trampled by heavy cavalry. By the end of the battle, 63 soldiers had died before reaching the end. Together with the second battalion in the left middle, 110 soldiers had died in battle.

Looking at this number alone, this battle is a big victory for them; but this is only the first batch of casualties, and then more war-wounded soldiers will die due to blood loss, wound treatment and other problems, plus those who are permanently retired due to injuries As a soldier, Ying Ming felt that the loss of his subordinates would reach the strength of a battalion.

This battalion is one of the battalions of the Ming Dynasty. There are four sentries and one battalion, with 400 people.

However, he did not intend to revoke the establishment of the Muye Right Battalion. He also planned to organize the three battalions participating in the battle into a town according to the Miao people's habits, and draw troops from other Muye Battalions to use as the main force for the next battle.

After walking out of the army tent, the order has been conveyed. The soldiers of each battalion who were not wounded in the battle were led by the battalion general to drive the prisoners to deliver supplies to the battalion. Among the survivors who surrendered on the battlefield, 44 people with titles were captured, and 330 [-] people without titles were captured.

It's almost time to catch up with Yingming's total number of participants in the battle. There are three muye battalions, one merchant artillery battalion, two hundred heavy cavalry and heavy infantry, and a combined army of one thousand eight hundred.

By the way, there are more than a hundred merchant musketeers under the tunnel. They first killed more than a hundred people leading to the city, and then dragged down more than 300 people in the enemy camp. They were invincible in the narrow tunnel with three-eyed guns. The long musket could not be deployed in the tunnel, and the crossbow would be blocked by the shield. No one had the strength of their firepower, and the tunnel was blocked by corpses.

In the end, there were corpses at both ends, and I couldn’t get up even if I wanted to go up. I was almost blocked inside. Thanks to the Baojia soldiers who collected the spoils, they moved the corpses from the tunnel to collect their armor, weapons and belongings, and then moved the tunnel through. , let them see the light of day again.

Also captured was Sir Miller who had the same experience as them. At first, he rushed out of the tunnel to defend the house. After being besieged, the muye soldiers refused to attack, and he couldn't fight out. There was really no way to lead more than a dozen surviving men to return through the tunnel. , It turned out that the tunnel was blocked by the corpses of reinforcements, so it was easy to move a gap and was immediately suppressed by muskets, and retreated out in fright.

When he finished this repeated jumping, the battle outside the city was over, he was disheartened, and he was persuaded by the Alan horsemen who came to recruit him to surrender.

After the battle, it was time for Li Yuxi to fulfill his promise. Although the naval battle was still going on, since Du Kelu led the Jinjiang ship into the sea, the overall situation of this water battle was settled. Now all that is left is to surround the enemy ships Let's see when they surrender.

After all, it was really thankless to use artillery to sink the Galen ship abruptly. The shells washed the deck and the mast was interrupted, and there was nothing to do except surrender the enemy.

Li Yuxi's promise was to send the bodies of all the dead soldiers back to Muye, so he needed salt to embalm the fallen soldiers—he was probably the last person in the whole battle who didn't want casualties in the Muye camp.

Earl Charles, who was knocked off his horse by throwing a spear and then drowned by the infantry, was tortured by the Ming army. He thought that the Ming army would press him for some important military information, or propose an unacceptable proposal to him. ransom price.

Of course, it is also possible that these brutal people who have no habit of ransom will kill him directly, but he did not expect that the first question the Ming army asked him was to ask him in jerky words: "How much salt do you think you are worth as a nobleman?" ?”

(End of this chapter)