Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

Not long after Zheng Kezang's order was issued, about [-] new attached troops poured out from the six main combat passages. Although almost half of these new attached troops were from Hubei Green Camp that had fought several battles, they saw With brains smeared on the ground and blood forming a shallow pool, everyone's face was extremely pale.When he was ordered to strip off the armor from the corpses and load the complete and incomplete corpses onto the cart, many pale-faced Qian Xiangyong vomited.

When the new attached army was busy, Zheng Jun was not idle. Some rejected horses rushed out from the rear were hung on the "concave" open space between the horse faces by erecting booms on the horse face forts, and the damaged doors A few barriers have been erected at the fortress, and the collapsed low and high walls are also being repaired with concrete blocks and cement.

The Zheng army is working in full swing, and the Qing army is not idle, and the number of casualties in various battalions has also been counted.

“川北镇战殪千总以下240一员、湖广提标战殪守备以下380七员、大名镇损失220五员、郧阳镇报损190二员、河标战殪三百另七员、漕标战殪330四员、曹州镇损失110员，南阳镇战殪一千420九员。”以上的数字实际上是包括遗弃在前线的重伤员的，至于轻伤者都已经跑了回来。“各镇、营另报损失红夷炮七位、大将军炮两位、大发贡十二位、大佛郎机炮四位。”

In just one morning, more than 3000 people were lost in two attacks, almost equivalent to half of the entire army. More than half of the people in Nanyang Town were killed and injured, and the battalion heads of Hebiao and Caobiao were completely disabled. What is the gain in exchange for casualties?It's just that a few sections of the moat have been filled, but they haven't been completely filled to death. As for the gates that have been fought over and over again, none of them have fallen into the hands of the Qing army. Therefore, when the number of casualties was announced, everyone present fell into a state of silence.

"The lower official is incompetent, and the loss of the teacher humiliates the country." After a long silence, Xu Dingjiang went out and fell to his knees. "Also please be careful with the commander."

Naertu looked at Shanahai, who was watching his eyes, nose, nose, and heart, and then at Xu Dingjiang, who was pretending to be haggard. He was very tired, but at this moment he couldn't help but say: "Xu Zongbing doesn't have to be like this, winning or losing It's a common thing in military strategists, and Haini won by luck with the advantage of the terrain, but it's not because you didn't do your best."

Speaking of this, Naertu waved his hand: "Get up, Nanyang Town, together with (Hebiao) Huaihe Camp and Caobiao Zuo Camp, temporarily retreat to Jingzhou City to rest, and the king will allow you to recruit troops on the spot in the city to make up insufficient."

Xu Dingjiang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately swore: "Your Highness is magnanimous, and I feel admiration."

Xu Dingjiang retreated into the ranks, the military discussion continued, and he heard Naertu ask: "Hai Ni guns are sharp, and the gate is even more of a trap. I wonder if you adults have a good way to defeat the enemy?"

"My lord." Hubei's Yunyang Town also lost [-] troops in the morning's attack, but the commander-in-chief Gao Zhicheng insisted that this loss was acceptable compared to fighting for the gate. "From my humble opinion, although the Haini cannon is powerful, the casualties caused by the ants everywhere are not too great. It can be seen that it cannot expel our scattered soldiers. Therefore, it is the best policy to continue to fill in the water barrier and open more passages."

Nie Yongjing, the commander-in-chief of Daming Town, also felt the same way, but his suggestion obviously went a step further: "My lord, I thought that the landfill could be carried out late at night. I think the accuracy of the sea-reversing guns at night will be far less sharp than in the daytime. This way we can do more with fewer deaths.”

When Nie Yongjing said this, he obviously didn't consider whether there was night blindness in the green battalion. The situation of the battalion soldiers is slightly better because they want to be facades.

Since Nie Yongjing couldn't think of it, Shanahai and Naertu couldn't even think of it, so the proposal was naturally accepted by them.

But before Shanahai assigned the task of filling the soil at night, a fourth-rank military inspector hurried in and knelt down to report: "I want to report to the commander, Haini has set up two flags outside the camp."

Naertu and Shanahai walked quickly to the watchtower in the camp. When they got to the top floor, a group of deputy commanders and general soldiers came to the second floor. Everyone looked around and saw two white flags standing against the wind. "Please take back the remains of the dead" on one side, and "This is where the wounded are located" on one side. Under these two pale flags, some new attached troops who have not changed their robes are busy moving a large number of people from the cart. wounded and corpses.

When Shanahai saw this scene, he felt chills all over his body, and subconsciously groaned: "This is Haini messing up our army's morale!"

Shanahai's words caused some people to misunderstand, and a Mongolian king standing behind Naertu said loudly, "Pingjun Wang, let me attack and kill these southern barbarians."

"No," several general soldiers who heard this were determined to persuade them. Among them, Ji Tong, the general soldier of Chuanbei Town, climbed to the top floor and pleaded with Naertu. "My lord must not send troops."

The speaking Mongolian king pointed to the figure of the newly attached army and said, "Do you want to surrender to those southern barbarians like them?"

Ji Tong subconsciously took half a step back, and then looked at Shanahai with innocent eyes, Shanahai coughed lightly: "The king of the left-wing county of Etuoke is serious, Ji Zongbing was born in the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army, how could he attach Rebellion, as for the other general soldiers who are also loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, these remarks must be out of public interest."

Naertu also came back to his senses, glanced at this Mongolian county king who only knew how to use brute courage, and said in his heart that this is the level, no wonder the Yuan Dynasty was driven out of the Central Plains by the Han people.

But slander belongs to slander, but on the one hand he is a slave and on the other hand he is an ally, he can still tell which is more important, so he immediately yelled at Ji Tong: "Who told you to come up, get out!"

Naertu's scolding made the faces of the Mongolian princes who had received a handful of cold water look so much better, so that they ignored Ji Tong, whose face was as swollen as a pig's liver, and walked back downstairs cautiously.

The Mongolian prince was appeased, but the problem had to be faced directly, so Naertu asked, "Lord Sha, what do you think about this?"

Shanahai thought for a while, and then slowly said: "Hai Ni has already sent the dead and wounded, and if you reject them, you will lose the morale of the army. Let Nanyang Town bring everyone back, and the wounded soldiers will also be sent to Jingzhou for treatment. As for the dead Hurry up and find a place to bury it, otherwise there will be a disease."

The defeated soldiers in Nanyang Town were driven out to clean up the situation. Although the crowd complained, who made them losers? Besides, one of the wounded might be his brother Pao Ze, not to mention the other battalion leaders. They all watched covetously, not allowing them to play tricks in the middle.

The wounded were finally gathered together, and the dead were buried with great pains, but there was no need to fight for the rest of the time.Although I didn't see the bloody scene with my own eyes, the vivid rumors still made a large number of green battalion soldiers tremble with fear.It was with this in mind that Shanahai did not immediately carry out the night attack plan at night, allowing both sides to spend the thrilling night of the first day of the war with peace of mind.

Since the night attack was going to be carried out, the Qing army did not launch an attack early the next morning. Several battalion heads went to collect soil from a distance. A large number of cloth bags and straw bags were also mobilized from Xiangyang and Jingzhou, and they were quickly piled up in the camp. Rise up like a mountain.In addition, the Qing army also felled wood to obtain materials, rushed to make siege equipment such as ladders and sprinters, and was so busy that they did not launch an attack for another day.

Since the Qing army was not attacking, the Zheng army naturally had time to rest and rotate.Since Zheng Jun's line of defense was built around the entire Shatou City, the soldiers who moved to the rear could still live in private houses, sleep on fumigated wooden beds, eat hot soup and hot meals, and their morale was of course very high.At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army to renovate the siege equipment, the blacksmiths and carpenters accompanying the army rushed to make a considerable amount of equipment, and the armor from the corpses was also used. As for the clothes of the Qing army, they were also cleaned and ironed straps.

In the early morning of the third day, the Qing army still did not attack. If it hadn't been for not observing the division of the Qing army, Zheng Jun thought that the enemy in front of him had turned to Jianli and Mianyang, but this situation of not fighting began to make some senior generals Worry and anxiety appeared, and those who knew it were afraid that the Qing army had already noticed the abnormal situation on the Eastern Front.

Although Cui Ping was standing beside Zheng Kezang, Cai Qi'an, the commander of the first division of the Wuwei Army, couldn't help but suggested, "Your Majesty, should it be time to order Wang Zongbing to carry out the strategy of enfeoffing the Marquis?"

"It's not in a hurry over there!" Zheng Kezang didn't predict that Kangxi would call in expensive reserve troops, but wanted to consume a little more energy from Naertu's army so that he could seal his throat with a sword. "On the other hand, the possibility of a night attack by the Qing captives is getting bigger and bigger, and there are countermeasures on the front line."

"A batch of big bamboo has been transferred from the front line of the public security, and a considerable number of bamboo sticks have been produced by the craftsmen accompanying the army. Taking advantage of the Qing army's two days away, the brigades on the front line have sent people overnight to set up the surrounding water barriers." Zheng Ke replied Zang's problem was Cui Ping. Although he didn't know what Fenghou Fanglue was, Wang Xinhua's name fell into his ears, and it still gave him a hint. Since there was movement on the eastern front, he, as Zheng Kezang's staff, naturally The Prime Minister Zheng Kezang must do better on the western front, otherwise he will lose his military power and trust, and he will be empty-handed in the future. "In addition, simple bamboo stone catapults were also arranged in each horse-faced fort. The stone cannot be thrown, but the illuminated grass fireball can be shot seventy or eighty steps away. You can definitely spot the night attack of the Qing soldiers."

Of course Zheng Kezang knew what Cui Ping wanted to hear, so he praised: "Qing's two ideas are good. If it can really defeat the Qing captives, Qing should take the lead."

Looking at Cui Ping with a slightly happy face, Zheng Kezang's expression suddenly became congealed: "After all, the Qing captives are powerful. If casualties are not counted, they will be able to fill up the ditch and approach the wall sooner or later, so we must make it clear to the divisions. The days are in the future, so as to save a group of arrogant soldiers and generals from being full of ambitions, it doesn't count if they suffer, and ruin the important matter of Gu."

Cui Ping and Cai Qi'an shuddered, and immediately leaned over and said, "Your servant understands."

Not even a monthly pass is horrible.