After daybreak, some broken camp gates were full of corpses. Even if some wounded stayed behind, they would quickly die in the night's rain washing and continuous loss of temperature. The gully under the camp wall had long overflowed with water, mixed with the mud and diluted blood that had been trampled back and forth, and formed a large puddle of brown puddles in front of the camp.
The remaining enemies didn't even have much strength to escape, and they were trapped in the mud in the distance, like waiting to die in all sorts of horror. And let the rebels who walked in front of them make up the knife or capture them on the spot.
Although after the fight, I had to use garrisons that were not conducive to night battles to fill the gap; but it finally stabilized most of the camp, and did not completely turn into a real bad battle and exhaustion. See-saw.
Therefore, when the brightness and visibility gradually improved, the remaining apprentice team and the direct team of the patrol were assembled, riding on the other surprise soldiers from another door at dawn, and easily defeated the last formed enemy in a roundabout way. , This intermittent battle for the whole night was completely over.
Preliminary statistics show that the specific casualties in the battalion reached more than 400, most of which occurred in the battle inside and outside the battalion wall and gate. Among them, the more soldiers of the front team, the more than 100 soldiers, the rest are the losses of the garrison. ; But from a considerable range of vision, the enemy killed by this is at least several times more than ours;
Especially in the half-open camp gate, as a temporary trap and a preset battlefield, the temporary corridor left behind is almost filled with the corpses of people and horses, which can be called a flesh and blood alley; The horses used for riding, together with saddlery, captured more than twenty horses alive.
And in the trenches under the walls, there were many miserable enemy troops; most of them were unable to get up after being injured, and were immersed in waist-deep muddy water, drowning, choking, or bleeding without stopping. According to the remaining footprints, some enemies may have fled in the opposite direction, but based on the sparseness and messiness of the footprints, it is really irrelevant to the overall situation.
Through the on-site interrogation of the prisoners under the canopy, they realized that they were the officers and soldiers who broke out of the thick and rushed out of the city; Zhou Huaian also determined one thing from this, and he sent back and forth to contact the two groups of the big camp. The soldier happened to crash into the opponent; while he was killed on the spot, he also pointed out the target and direction to the opponent; but although the opponent forced a password and some general information, flaws in the specific address were exposed.
You should know that almost no one in the entire camp of Stormrage Camp does not know their identity, and they are habitually called "Guantou", "Head", "Campaign" or simply "Xu Shifu" and "Monk". , Rather than what other sub-campaigns use as "dutou"; even if there is, it shouldn't be among the messengers photographed.
However, Zhou Huaian still had some doubts in his heart as to how these enemies came here in this night when the rain was not ending;
Prior to this, due to the breach of the Chaoyang city wall, most of the troops from the former branch camp were also transferred, and they were strengthened to attack Chaoyang city. Therefore, on the east side of the Rongjiang River, only the rear was left. It was divided into camps to hold back several bridge crossings from under the city wall.
The most important one is undoubtedly connecting the two pontoon bridges on the banks of the Rongjiang River with a width of thirty or forty steps; and the location of the branch camp happened to be blocked at the key position between the two bridge crossings; and the upper end faces straight. The pontoon bridge on the opposite bank of the city wall, together with the guard guards, is still intact; the lower pontoon bridge that connects the south camp on the opposite bank has been cut off from here and lost its most basic traffic capacity;
And this question didn't get a little cleared until he rushed to repair the floating bridge at the lower end, and reconnected with the main camp outside the city in the afternoon. Afterwards, he was taken aback by the tragic situation in the southern camp.
In the past, the crowds were relatively tidy and the siege camp full of fireworks turned into a big mudflat full of rubbish; it can be described as a camp full of wounded soldiers and howling all over the field, overturning the deer village. He Juma, and a large torn down camp wall, there are figures leaning against, sitting down among the ruins and mud, dejected and soaked;
It took Zhou Huai'an a while to find a few specific people responsible for the scene, but they all knew very limitedly. The only reason was that the camp was in chaos due to an enemy attack, and he couldn't ask other people. It’s ugly; as for the loss of personnel, materials, and equipment, I don’t even ask three questions.
This inevitably made Zhou Huaian very disappointed and vigilant; this is the innate deficiency of the peasant army, which lacks the foundation and the inheritance of the organizational system, or it is also the common problem of most one-off troops of this era; of course, it is easy to have morale and fighting spirit in a downwind war, but most Can't afford to fail once or multiple times, nor have the ability to sum up experience and lessons in adversity and reorganize.
Therefore, the expectations and requirements for them really cannot be too high; but he can't let it go in the face of this situation, or let these bewildered survivors fend for themselves, I'm afraid they will soon follow up. A series of cascading consequences that caused secondary damage during the tide and rain, and even fleeing because of starvation.
Immediately, with the cooperation of the hundreds of people he brought, he beat gongs and drums to shout, while centering on the part of the still intact camp, he set up the flag representing the back camp and the squadron; rightly speaking, he quickly took over. The situation in which several battalions in this battalion belonged to each other was reorganized.
He kept busy until the sky turned dark, and then roughly reorganized the men and soldiers scattered everywhere to participate in clean-up, reconstruction, and alert; and began to let them use the tools and materials that he could find on his hand. Squeeze in a covered place to make a fire to keep warm, boil water to boil soup, and start to provide the first bite of hot food in turn;
At this time, Wang Pan, the general who led the troops to pursue the enemy, returned with exhaustion and mud. After Lok Ma saw Zhou Huaian, it seemed to be relieved, and he opened the chatterbox and began to talk endlessly.
"Monk, you finally came..."
"These thieves have pitted us miserably..."
"Song Mazi, Caitou Liu, and Gu Laowu are all folded inside..."
"A lot of old brothers are gone..."
According to his confession, compare the dictation of the prisoners again.
The remnant enemies who were trapped in Yacheng really broke through from the city overnight; and they protruded from the east side of Yacheng, which was negligent to guard. Because the rain is not conducive to the trip, the half-regiment soldiers staying upstairs are not on guard at all, and it is very likely that they even dealt with the sentry post; as a result, they were annihilated by the enemy with the desire to die. Most but only a few people who went to sleep in hiding escaped.
It’s just astonishing that these remnants of the army and the earth group that have been heavily encircled, after exiting the east gate, did not directly snatch the bridges leading to the opposite bank, but sneaked directly along the city wall all the way to the south. Taking advantage of the psychological blind spots and negligence of the Rebels in a certain sense in the camp outside the city {almost thought that the enemy could not come from outside, and the east is all due to the garrison of friendly forces}, he was caught off guard on the spot.
Since most of the relatively powerful combat power has entered the city, staying outside the city is a relatively weak and loose garrison. The leaders such as Wang Pan, who have the ability and qualifications to get an overview of the situation, happen to be out of the camp, and only one is left to recover. The Zuoying school lieutenant Wu Tai was on duty; as a result, he lost control of the situation when he couldn't deal with it on the spot, which caused the large-scale bombing incident that night.
After daybreak, the city returned to the division and restored the camp that had been completely out of control south of the city. However, the personnel stationed outside the city had caused nearly half of the casualties and missing persons; and, although it was raining Because of this, the grain, grass, and other things were not lighted up, but they were trampled and destroyed by the rampage of the official army.
Then, driven by the pervasive shame and vengeance, Wang Pan led the people who still had enough energy in the city to chase the thieves who broke through the city along the Rongjiang River overnight. But I didn't think it was still difficult to distinguish the direction and ran the wrong way, and traveled in a huge circle in the wild, only to find a hundred scattered enemies.
But I did not expect that most of this prominent officer and army turned to the east with a flick of a shot, and crossed the temporary pontoon at the lower reaches of the Rongjiang River; and cut it off again, and killed it to the point where it seemed to be the weakest. , And the position is the least important in front of the rear branch camp; I want to open a breakthrough from here and get supplements, but I didn't even think I kicked the real iron plate and fell into my own.
However, what made Zhou Huaian more distressed and disappointed was the support personnel staying in the southern city camp, as well as the team casualties in the operation of the siege equipment; almost from the first to fifth major teams, there were quite a few personnel. Loss of equipment; in addition to those ordinary servants, here is where he has worked so hard to collect and accumulate, and there is even no shortage of skilled personnel who personally participate in training and organizing.
In addition, there were thousands of young men and women who were held captive and punitive, and the reform team formed a majority of them. However, for the remaining people, for whatever reason, Zhou Huaian intends to give them a chance. And symbolic rewards; thus get rid of the coolie status of forced labor, and have the ration and treatment of normal labor.
Therefore, he really wanted to yell at Wang Pan, "Do you have a long-term mind, do you not learn a lesson?" What, but seeing that the other party was already extremely exhausted and depressed, it turned into blue-purple. In the end, he swallowed the words that came to his lips. Instead, he handed him a bowl of hot ginger tea with a rather mild taste.
"Have a hard night..."
"Take a sip of tea soup to moisturize your mouth..."
Wang Pan also sent it politely. After drinking several large bowls in one breath, he wiped his mouth.
"Monk, how is your place..."
"Okay.."
Zhou Huaian nodded helplessly.
"The thieves who rushed away should have all gone to me..."
"what..."
Wang Pan and the leaders on his left and right suddenly showed some unbelievable, unbelievable, or shocked expressions (end of this chapter)