Chapter 176 The end of the second battle
"The right-road army was defeated? Why did the right-road army be defeated so quickly?" Song Yingchang kept muttering. He couldn't figure out that the right-road army, with a force of up to 30,000, had been defeated so quickly.
Song Yingchang once thought he had heard it wrong, so he asked again, and after confirming that the right-wing army was really defeated, Song Yingchang felt a little dizzy.
Song Yingchang's dizziness did not last long. He quickly realized that the right-road army was defeated by the enemy so quickly, and it was very likely that the enemy put the elite troops on the west side. In this way, there would not be many elite troops on the front and east sides. As long as the middle and left-road army quickly defeated the enemy, the victory of this battle would still belong to the Ming army.
But Song Yingchang's idea didn't last long in his mind. The changes in front of the front battlefield suddenly changed Song Yingchang's face. The front battlefield where the Ming army should have an advantage suddenly fell, and the Ming army's casualties increased significantly.
"Damn it, it's the enemy's musket soldiers. No wonder they didn't meet the enemy's musket soldiers just now. It must be the enemy who put the musket soldiers on the west battlefield. No wonder the right-road army was defeated so quickly. Without a chariot, it would be difficult for the right-road army to rush to the enemy."
The right-road army was defeated, and the number of casualties in the middle army increased rapidly, but it was difficult to make a breakthrough on the front battlefield. Song Yingchang had the idea of withdrawing troops, but Song Yingchang temporarily suppressed the idea of withdrawing troops. He wanted to wait a little longer to see if the left-road army could complete the breakthrough.
The front, east and west sides, three infantry battalions of the firearms unit were on the west battlefield, and the People's Army easily defeated the enemy. However, before that, even if the People's Army had grenades on the front and east sides battlefields, under the continuous enemy impact, the grenades were completely consumed, and both battlefields were in a bloody battle.
In a short period of time, the death and injury ratio of the People's Army and the Ming army was almost one to one. However, with the death and injury of the First Army, the Grenadiers and Cold Weapons successively entered close combat, and the number of casualties in the People's Army increased rapidly.
As the firearms troops supported the frontal battlefield, the situation on the frontal battlefield was greatly alleviated, but the east battlefield did not support it, and the People's Army could only rely on human lives to fill it.
Fortunately, after the last battle, the recruits were exposed to such a tragic battlefield for the second time and would not be easily frightened. On the battlefield on the east side, the People's Army could still block the left-road army of the Ming army.
"kill!"
A soldier from the People's Army fell down, and the soldiers behind quickly made up their positions, swung their knives or holding spears to kill the enemy opposite. Their comrades died in battle and would not be afraid. They were full of the idea of avenging their comrades.
To avenge your comrades, for the People's Army, and to allow your family to continue to live a good life, the People's Army used all its strength to kill the enemy, rather than take a step back!
Wang Shengrong, who is concerned about the situation on the battlefield on the east side, has his eyes covered with blood. Today's battle is the most tragic battle since the People's Army raised the flag. No matter how tragic, how many people died, the People's Army must win!
As time passed, the number of casualties in the middle army remained high, and the left army was unable to break through for a long time. Seeing so many casualties in the Ming army, the idea of withdrawing was aggravated in Song Yingchang's mind.
As the People's Army, which had been pursuing the Ming army's right-road army for a distance, returned to the battlefield on the east side, the last straw in Song Yingchang's mind was overwhelmed.
"Ming Jin to withdraw the troops!" The four words were spit out one by one by one by one by Song Yingchang.
The Ming army suffered such heavy losses but failed to defeat the enemy, which was a crushing defeat for the Ming army.
How many Ming soldiers were frightened by the cruel battlefield in front of them and turned around to escape, but were ruthlessly killed by the officers or generals' personal guards.
Finally, the gong sounded, and the Ming army on the front battlefield began to retreat first. Not long after, the Ming army on the east battlefield also began to retreat.
Seeing the retreating Ming army, the People's Army did not pursue it. After a big battle, the People's Army was also exhausted, not to mention that the Ming army only retreated, not to be defeated, and had the strength to continue fighting.
Only the firearms troops continued to fire at the Ming army, and the lead shells fired from the tiger-headed guns and solid shells shot from the artillery were sending off the Ming army to retreat.
"Finally win!"
"We won!"
"Victed!"
On the battlefield, the People's Army cheered, and amid the cheers, many People's Army soldiers shed tears.
In the battle just passed, I don’t know how many comrades died, and I don’t know how many organizations were completely disbanded. The People’s Army paid too much for the victory of this battle.
"I finally won." Wang Shengrong muttered, and felt a little relieved.
But Wang Shengrong felt very uncomfortable when so many people's army soldiers died. Those were life, but they would always fall on this battlefield. If possible, Wang Shengrong really didn't want to have a war or see so many people die.
However, for the common ideal of all people in the People's Army, Wang Shengrong could only suppress the sadness in his heart and continue to lead the People's Army to fight against the Ming Army!
The battle was over, and the People's Army soldiers who did not leave the battlefield and were able to act were busy on the battlefield, restraining the bodies of their comrades and gathering the bodies of their enemies, and giving them a pleasure to the seriously injured and dying Ming army. However, they would use all methods to force the seriously injured and dying people on their own, even if the possibility of rescue is very low.
Battlefield epidemic prevention is a very important project in the People's Army. If the battle is over, it is easy to cause epidemics without dealing with corpses on the battlefield.
In this era, it is impossible to effectively prevent and treat epidemics, and people will die if they are not careful.
After consolidating the bodies of our own personnel, the People's Army began to evacuate the battlefield and sent people to the Ming army to inform the Ming army that they could come back to consolidate the bodies of the Ming army's dead.
Similar incidents also happened after the last war between Song Yingchang's army and Wang Shengrong's army. The deaths were the most serious. At that time, Song Yingchang was not worried about being deceived by the People's Army, so he sent a Ming army to bring back the bodies of those who died in battle. Even if he was deceived by the People's Army, the number of casualties in the Ming army would not increase too much, and this incident could be used to "attack" the People's Army.
This attack refers to the use of public opinion on the People's Army in the Ming Dynasty ruling area bordering the People's Army. Because it is too close to the territory of the People's Army, the people in these areas basically heard some things about the People's Army.
Some poor people fled to the territory of the People's Army by their families, and some helped the People's Army collect information from the Ming army. If they had the opportunity to touch the People's Army, Song Yingchang would never miss this opportunity, but this opportunity was not put into Song Yingchang's hands.
After the battle, Song Yingchang led the large army to retreat, but a small army was left on the edge of the battlefield. When the people of the People's Army came, the army entered the battlefield and used a car to pull the bodies of the Ming army's dead back.
Chapter completed!