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Chapter 140 Casualties

After the third battalion successfully attacked the mountain, Zhou Shixiang ordered Hujie Camp to control the main roads of Guifeng Mountain and dispatched two teams of troops to pick up the guard camp that was escorting the grain convoy.

After dawn, Shao Jiugong and Ge Zheng and others sent people to report that the three battalions had completely occupied Yutai Temple. Except for a Han army flag leader, the other Qing soldiers, together with General Wu Jinzhong, were killed, were killed. The battalions were now searching for and suppressing the hidden Qing soldiers everywhere in the mountains.

Upon hearing that Wu Jinzhong was dead, Zhou Shixiang was a little disappointed. He wanted to strip the murderer who killed his wife and children alive, but he didn't expect that he died in the chaos, but he was a favor.

After a brief disappointment, Zhou Shixiang arranged for Zhu Er to lead the remaining cavalry team to search and guard the Xinhui direction, leaving one personal army and three teams to guard the Qing army camp and the civilians, and led the other two personal guards up the mountain.

The battle to go up the mountain was really shocking. The bodies of the Qing army and Taiping army were intertwined and stacked together, with swords and spears slashed, guns and stones smashed, and all kinds of death were unbearable.

When we reached the hillside, a team of engineers from the camp were cleaning up the mountain road, gathering the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle in one place, and the other Qing army corpses were thrown directly to the mountain. There were many undead wounded soldiers in the pile of corpses. The people in the camp were very straightforward to deal with these wounded soldiers. The people in the camp were carried aside and carefully bandaged them, while the enemy was thrown to the foot of the mountain as dead people. No matter how they begged, it was useless.

Seeing Zhou Shixiang leading people up, the leader of the team leader hurriedly brought a few small flags to salute. Zhou Shixiang signaled that they didn't have to care about themselves and quickly sent the injured people to the foot of the mountain to settle. Zhou Shixiang expressed his understanding of the way his subordinates treated the Qing army wounded and corpses and gave them absolute support, because he had seen too many corpses buried by the Qing army at the foot of the mountain. He saw too many corpses of children who could never open their eyes, and saw too many streams stained with blood.

When dealing with animals, use the same methods to deal with animals, and treat these murderers who kill the elderly, weak, women and children. Zhou Shixiang will never tell them any kindness and morality, nor will he use any dog ​​to bite people. But people must not bite dogs. If people also bite dogs, wouldn’t they become the same bastard logic as dogs to persuade themselves to be moral and righteous, and then use the best medical conditions to treat them and feed them with the best food.

If a dog bites a person, he cannot bite it the same way, but he can beat it to death. He will never give it a chance to bite people again.

The Qing army, who slaughtered thousands of elderly, weak women and children in Guifeng Mountain, is now a dog.

After seeing Duke Xiang of Song and others at Daxiong Palace, Zhou Shixiang said nothing, only asked about the casualties. The numbers he heard made his heart feel like a knife.

When Luoding set out, the total number of residents in the camp was 10,200. Along the way, some people were "persuaded" to join the Taiping Camp. In addition, some people who voluntarily followed the Taiping Camp, the total number of residents was nearly 13,000. Now, only 4,625 people are alive. More than 90% of the remaining 4,625 people are women and children. The number of men is pitifully small.

As the only established warrior in the rear battalion, Zhao Sihai's 300 warriors are now only 26; the security team members with a 400 before the war are now only 42; the Turkish Army with a 350 before the war are now only 29. Before the war are, there are 2400 male soldiers in each battalion, and now there are only 159 left.

The number of casualties in the rear camp was nearly two-thirds. Zhenlu, Xiongwei, and the third battalion of Shanzhen also suffered a considerable loss in the battle to go up the mountain to attack the Qing army. Ge Zheng's Zhenlu camp had a total of 520 people before the battle, and now only 230 people were left. Shao Jiugong's Xiongwei camp suffered a lot of losses, but it was better than the Zhenlu camp, and now there were only 300 people left. The losses of Shanzhen camp were the least, with less than a hundred casualties.

Just as Zhao Sihai and Duke Xiang of Song organized male soldiers from the rear camp to tangible killing and killing the Qing army based on favorable advantages, the third battalion was also killed and injured by the condescending Qing army when they went up the mountain. On the contrary, they suffered very little casualties after attacking the mountain. Another reason for the heavy casualties of the third battalion was the long-distance marching to rescue the rear camp. During the two days and one night of marching, the officers and soldiers of the third battalion were seriously overdrawn their physical strength. As a result, many people were killed due to exhaustion when fighting with the Qing army.

The specific amount of casualties of the Qing army has not been counted yet, because there are still a small number of Qing army hiding everywhere in Yutai Temple. In addition, there are Qing army corpses on the mountain and down the mountain that have not been found, so it is impossible to make effective statistics for a while.

After visiting the injured Zhao Sihai, Zhou Shixiang asked Duke Xiang of Song to immediately arrange for the women from the rear camp to cooperate with the front camp to clean up Yutai Temple and organize people to try their best to rescue the injured soldiers. The seriously injured naturally cannot be cured. However, the slightly injured should be cured as much as possible so that their wounds will not become inflamed and lose their lives due to the inability to heal.

When Duke Xiang of Song organized people to treat the wounded, the old monk Qilin from Yutai Temple suddenly came to him with a group of monks, saying that there were many golden medicines in the temple, which were quite effective for knife injuries, and monks would also have some medical skills to save people. Seeing that there were many wounded soldiers in the army, it would be really unbearable if the monks did not help, so they asked Lord Song to let the monks do their best.

The monks were naturally overjoyed when Duke Xiang of Song was able to help save people. He agreed immediately and asked someone to lead the monks to the place where the wounded were placed to help.

After the war, everyone was hungry. Although the monks kept the food hidden by the back camp, they were still eating tightly these days. As the saying goes, there are too many people and less porridge, so they can only barely starve to death. This will escape from death. After being extremely nervous, they suddenly relax and their stomachs will naturally scream. But looking around, there is no food to eat. Fortunately, there is a lot of food in the Qing army camp at the foot of the mountain. Zhou Shixiang asked Duke Xiang of Song to organize some people to go down the mountain to settle the Qing army camp, and organize people to carry some food to go up the mountain, so that everyone can eat full at noon.

Inside and outside the temple, there were abandoned weapons everywhere on the mountain. After searching for the east of Yutai Temple, the Zhenlu Camp was transferred out by Zhou Shixiang to clean up the battlefield and concentrate all the weapons and sort them out. Because Wu Jinzhong's subordinates had a Han army flag team, Zhou Shixiang specifically told Ge Zheng that all the muskets thrown by the Han army flag on the mountain should be collected, and medicine should not be missing.

Half an hour passed, and the Xiongwei Camp and the camp's search for Yutai Temple and the mountains and the mountains had ended. Together with those who surrendered, more than 400 Qing army prisoners were captured, including 46 flag soldiers, and one of them was lying on the ground to pretend to be dead. As a result, when the Taiping Army was carrying it to throw it down the mountain, he shouted loudly that the officer was found. According to the captains, this person was Lin Youxian, the Qian Zong, under Wu Jinzhong.

"Qianhu, how to deal with these clear dogs?"
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