On the afternoon of the fifth day of October, in this battle where the Jin people used cavalry charge for the first time, they seemed to have exhausted all their strength.
In the past two days, the Jin people would have launched more than two attacks in one afternoon.
But today, when the battle ended at around two o'clock, the Jin army simply withdrew its troops and returned to the camp; the soldiers of the New Army, who had fought so hard, could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, naturally, he was busy cleaning the battlefield, treating the wounded, and sorting out the defense lines, all these troublesome things.
Anyway, after this battle, all netizens, including Hu Biao, went down to the three infantry divisions on the front line.
There are too many things that need their help...
It's night! At seven o'clock in the evening, after the sky completely darkened, the surviving netizens on the Zhuxian Town battlefield barely finished handling various chores and gathered together again.
It's a temporary meeting to discuss all the messy things that need to be dealt with after today's big battle.
At the beginning of the meeting, Barong, a rookie who acted as Hu Biao's assistant secretary, reported a series of data:
"In today's battle, the specific losses of our army were.
The First Infantry Division in the Chinese Army's position suffered a total of 312 casualties and 137 serious injuries. According to Lao Hu, those who were slightly injured will not be counted in the future, as long as they do not affect the firing and loading of muskets.
The Second Infantry Division on the left wing had a total of 298 killed and 151 seriously wounded.
The 3rd Infantry Division on the right wing suffered a total of 2,177 casualties and 865 serious injuries; among them, the division commander Xu Feng was seriously injured and fell unconscious, and the deputy division commander Fan Zhu died on the spot.
Two regiment commanders were killed and one was seriously injured. For the officers of the battalion, company and platoon, the casualty rate reached a terrifying 60%.
If the combat effectiveness of the previous few days is taken into account, the current casualties of the Third Infantry Division Commander have exceeded half, and he is basically completely disabled.
So now the Third Infantry Division is facing two key problems.
First, should we send the second or fourth infantry division to replace them, so that they can evacuate and rest for a while.
Secondly, who should be sent to serve as the chief and deputy commander of the Third Division? What should we do with such a large officer vacancy?"
After hearing this, except for Hu Biao and several other people who had gone to the right wing position this afternoon, they knew the situation in advance.
Other netizens, even though they had made some psychological preparations, were still deeply saddened by the shocking casualties in the Third Division.
But no one opened their mouths to say anything, because Barong's story continued:
"Of course, we are not stupid.
After killing so many of us, the losses on the Jin side will only be greater; according to our inference, the Jin side's casualties have reached about 70,000.
Among them were 60,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry.
After completely occupying the Liao Kingdom, the medical level of their army has indeed improved significantly, but in essence it is nothing more than recruiting some doctors from the private sector to accompany the army.
There are basically no good treatments for wound infections or even lead poisoning caused by lead bullets entering the body.
Therefore, among the 70,000 people, if 10,000 people can survive in the end, it is already considered as the smoke coming out of their ancestral graves, which is the best situation.
In addition, it can also be emphasized that:
In today's battle, we captured a total of 761 fine war horses. Unfortunately, in a short period of time, we can't find so many warriors who can ride horses to form a cavalry force.
In the process of cleaning the battlefield, a total of more than 4,000 killed horses were obtained.
This stuff is literally hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fine horse meat. Even if the army lets go, it won't be able to eat it all. It won't be able to finish it at all.
You can ask the fleet to take some back at night so that the people in Kaifeng City can eat some meat..."
In this way, Barong spent more than ten minutes to explain the situation clearly.
Then, a group of netizens started a fierce dispute over whether the third division should be withdrawn and who would temporarily take over this mess.
During the most intense moment, the two sides with different opinions almost came to blows.
The main reason is that the battle is like a flesh-and-blood grinding mill, and the result is that one can only win but not lose, which makes everyone's heart full of pressure.
As time went by, as this pressure continued to accumulate, it became more and more alarming.
Fortunately, everyone had some calculations in mind, so in the end there was no fight; it was decided to let Hu Biao, the commander, make the final decision.
It was exactly like this that Hu Biao spoke up after everyone shut up completely:
"So far, the second division and the fourth division should be well hidden. In order to make the Jin people more confident and create the illusion that they can still fight, they must not move.
In this case, Corn and War Dog, you two will go to act as the commander and deputy commander of the Third Division.
I will give you another 3,000 civilians who have received certain training, and fifty headquarters who can serve as staff officers for the officers. You can organize the third division overnight.
If there are not enough officers, then we can promote some officers to the front line, and we won’t have to worry about that many.”
Under Hu Biao's order, Corn and War Dog opened their mouths and cursed something in a voice that only they could hear.
But in the end, he nodded and agreed...
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Such an emergency meeting ended in a hurry when it was held around 8:30 pm.
The main reason is that for Corn and War Dog, the Jin soldiers might launch another ferocious attack after dawn tomorrow, and the target will still be their weak point.
If they want to reorganize the crippled Third Division and restore its combat effectiveness, the two of them will stay up all night, which is also a huge challenge.
After everyone left, Hu Biao took out a small notebook.
After turning to the page recording the establishment of the new army, on the line for the 3rd Infantry Division, cross out the names of Xu Feng and Fan Zhu and replace them with Corn and War Dog.
On this page, we can also see some other content like this:
The 1st Infantry Division, commander Chang Hei, deputy commander Fengche.
Second Independent Artillery Brigade, brigade commander Er Pang, deputy brigade commander Huang Yizhi.
The staff and troops are upright and elegant.
Mobile personnel, Hu Biao, AT, singer, imperial concubine, Barong.
It seemed that there were several mobile personnel above, but Hu Biao himself knew that even the concubine might be dispatched in less than two days.
It's amazing to say that Hu Biao just thought about the fact that this girl, "Noble Concubine", will become a division commander or deputy division commander in the future.
Amidst the rapid footsteps of "Dang, Dang, Dang~", the singer ran in quickly, with a gossipy expression on his face:
"Hey, Lao Hu, guess what I just saw?"
"What! It seems to be quite exciting." Hu Biao immediately looked excited, and the depression just now disappeared.
As if he had found an itch in his heart, even though there was no one in the room, the singer came over and whispered in a voice that only two people could hear:
"I just saw the imperial concubine secretly sneaking out of Yang Zaixing's tent. Not to mention wearing a pair of fishnet-style socks, her face was still red."
But when he heard this statement, Hu Biao suddenly lost interest.
He started shouting: "I thought it was such a big deal, but someone also saw this situation yesterday.
I also asked the imperial concubine this morning, and she said that Yang Zaixing is her idol, so she went to talk about poetry and poetry, which is a very pure kind."
"There's no need to wear fishnet socks, it won't look right when you show up." The singer pointed out the key point in his mouth.
"Then next time something like this happens again, you can secretly go outside and listen." Hu Biao suggested this...
The child had a cough, so I took him to the hospital for a checkup in the evening, which delayed him a bit.
