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The two battalion officers Hu Wang and Wu Si reported the losses of their subordinates to Zhao Qiang. The guard battalion killed 107 people, injured 96 people, and 97 people were able to fight. [] There were only 21 soldiers left in the Han army, 42 from Oroqen, 15 from Hezhe, 7 from Daur, 3 from Mongols, 5 from Ewenki, and [-] strong men who said they were not of any ethnicity.

The blunderbuss battalion lost slightly less, because most of them were arrows, so the death rate was much lower than that of the guard battalion in close combat. Only 57 people were killed in battle, but 114 people were injured, and 147 people were able to fight.

When Qi Zhuang's cavalry battalion entered the valley, there was basically no resistance from the Qing army. Therefore, except for one person who fell off his horse and was trampled, there were no casualties.However, all the strong men of various ethnic groups in the battalion who served as reserve cavalry were lost. This loss does not mean that they were all killed in battle, but that most of them ran away, and the number was probably between forty and fifty.

After hearing the number of casualties reported by Hu and Wu's 100 households, Zhao Qiang did some calculations, and even the dozen or so Han soldiers of Guo Feishou in Shouyi City and the few wounded in Songshan Fort, the number of Han soldiers was less than [-].There are only more than [-] Oroqen people and strong men of various ethnic groups left, which means that Zhao Qiang lost half of his troops in the battle of Tuerling.A veritable victory in this battle!

After a brief meeting with Hu Wang, Wu Si, and Qi Zhuang, Zhao Qiang made a decision to incorporate all the Oroqen people who had not escaped, the strong men of various ethnic groups, and the Han soldiers from the gun battalion into the cavalry battalion. Shouyi City will make arrangements again, and what needs to be done now is to clean up the battlefield thoroughly.

Ma Long, the general banner of the cavalry battalion, had been ordered by Qi Zhuang to lead his men to chase those strong men who fled before the battle. Because Zhao Qiang had ordered them not to kill them, so when Ma Long led his men to chase these deserters, he did not kill them all, but only cut them. A few who still wanted to escape, the rest were brought back, and they were temporarily kept together with the Red Flag prisoners.

Qi Zhuang brought back more than 600 Mongolian war horses from Songshan Castle, and when he came to Tuerling, he beat the rabbits and drove the more than 200 war horses of Zhenghuang Banner into the valley, including the [-] or so horses he had.The number of war horses has reached [-], but nearly [-] of them have been completely scrapped due to ankle injuries, and less than [-] horses were killed in the chaos, and dozens of horses wandered around, not knowing where to go I went, so the remaining available horses are about [-].

The weapons captured by the Qing army are countless. The number of long knives, spears, sabers, bows and arrows can allow Zhao Qiang to expand a thousand-man team.But there are no guns and medicine.In addition, the leather armor and a small part of the iron armor of the dead Qing army were stripped off.Zhao Qiang's order is to search for everything that can be used by me, and nothing can be left behind.For this order, the soldiers carried out very thoroughly, and the corpses of many Qing soldiers were even stripped, not even a cover cloth was left behind.

Lack of supplies, and no own arsenal or logistics supply point, everything can only be obtained from the enemy.Looking at the corpses of the Qing soldiers who had been stripped naked, Zhao Qiang was not in the mood to laugh or cry at all.All he can do at present is to support war with war, just as the guerrilla song of later generations sings: without food, without clothing, the enemy will send us to the front; without guns, without cannon, the enemy will make us...

Grab, grab yourself strong enough, we are an invincible army

What made Zhao Qiang happy was that Wei Xiaojiang was not dead. When the sound of the blunderbuss rang out, he cleverly rolled aside, then climbed up the hillside when the Qing army was in disarray, and kept hiding there, not participating in the battle.It wasn't that he was timid, but that he was unarmed, and he couldn't go downhill to kill the enemy.Hiding there like that, waiting until the victory was decided.

"Xiao Jiang, you are a hero"

This was the first sentence Zhao Qiang said after seeing Wei Xiaojiang, and then let him stay by his side, let Chen Wei and Yan Qian take him with him, and make arrangements in the future.

Although Zhao Qiang didn't say anything to Wei Xiaojiang, it was enough to say that you are a hero. I have never been such an officer who is so pleasant, not harsh, and willing to speak his mind.

The gun battalion was responsible for transporting the wounded, so they temporarily made dozens of stretchers. The seriously injured were all transported back on the stretchers. stacked together.Although Zhao Qiang had said that he would bring back the corpses of the brothers who died in battle, the weather was too hot and there was a serious shortage of manpower. If he waited until he returned to Shouyi City to send someone to carry the corpses, the corpses would have already stink.Therefore, after Zhao Qiang led a small banner and kowtowed three times to the body of the dead, he gave the order to be cremated, and then collected the ashes together and brought them back to Shouyi City.

Zhao Qiang had already thought about the arrangement of the ashes. He wanted to choose a cemetery near Shouyi City to bury the war dead. Regardless of whether they were Han or not, all the war dead would be buried there. tomb".

Out of the consideration of the plague, Zhao Qiang did not allow the corpses of the Qing army to be exposed to the wild and eaten by wild beasts, but they were also piled up for cremation.The ridge was ten miles long, and the bodies of some Qing soldiers who climbed up the slope were not found and gathered together because of the forest. Time was limited, and Zhao Qiang didn't care too much.Besides, the Qing army of the two banners suffered such a big loss, and someone will definitely come to investigate afterwards, and they will deal with the cremated corpses of the Qing army.

The remnants of the guard battalion were in charge of escorting the weapons and the escaped captives, while the strong cavalry battalion was in charge of the rear.

The return process went smoothly. The cavalry battalion at the back of the palace did not find any Qing troops following them. Because there were too many wounded, the whole army moved slowly. It took four days to return to Shouyi City.Guo Fei and Wei Ji, who had long been trusted, commanded the women in the fort and the family members of Wu Jun to properly arrange the wounded.Most of the wounded who were able to return to Shouyi City were injured by knives and arrows, and they were flesh wounds. They did not hurt the vitals. As long as they take good care of them, they can easily recover.During these four days, more than 30 seriously wounded died. Their bodies were brought back, but instead of being cremated, they chose to bury them in the ground.

After returning to Shouyi City, Zhao Qiang couldn't wait to convene a meeting of officers of the General Banner and Israel, and formally ordered that the blunderbuss battalion and the guard battalion be merged into the cavalry battalion. The treatment, and can serve as a small banner officer, and the promotion of accumulative military merits in the future will not be restricted by birth.

This order is actually a certain degree of integration. It is an adjustment made by Zhao Qiang to his previous policy. This adjustment fully refers to the process of the rise of the Qing Dynasty, and will continue as a policy that will never change.The sense of belonging is what Zhao Qiang wants to achieve through this policy adjustment.

Those strong men of various ethnic groups who fled before the battle and the captured Zhenghongqi Qing army were used as auxiliary soldiers. They were inferior in terms of food and accommodation. They were semi-slaves and had no personal freedom at all. The hardest life and the most tiring life are the punishments Zhao Qiang gave them.However, Zhao Qiang still gave them hope, that is, as long as they made military achievements, they could obtain the status of regular soldiers, and they would no longer be the humblest slaves.

The cavalry battalion has 200 horses, and can prepare [-] pure cavalry. With the weapons of the Qing army, Zhao Qiang does not have to worry about the shortage of weapons.But now there are less than [-] soldiers capable of fighting, so Qi Zhuang and Hu Wang were first arranged as officers of a hundred households to lead [-] soldiers each.The remaining [-] horses will be used after the wounded return to the team, and will be used as guards directly under Qianhu.

The Battle of Tu'er Ridge not only made Zhao Qiang realize his own shortcomings, but also taught him a big lesson, that is, no matter when, where, or under any circumstances, a mobile reserve team must be in hand.

Wu'er Leng and the strong men of various ethnic groups who went to pull the heads could not come back for the time being, so Zhao Qiang allocated all the soldiers who could fight to Hu Wang and Qi Zhuang, and then gave them an order, one to the east and one to the west, As long as they see living people, they will all be captured, no matter men, women or children.

"I don't care what methods you use, I just want people"