Huang Zhongyuan's body leaned back and fell heavily to the ground.
Blood flowed across the body, and the body gradually lost its temperature and became cold.
There was a sudden commotion in the Qing army formation!
Seeing this, some soldiers from the Green Camp of the Qing Army simply threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.
But Huang Zhongyuan's soldiers went crazy and attacked the Liberation Army array!
Both sides continue to fight!
The Liberation Army relied on their superiority in armor and numbers to eliminate all Huang Zhongyuan soldiers who wanted to resist.
The battlefield is filled with corpses!
The flag of the Ming Dynasty was raised again over the Humen Fort.
…
Zhu Hongyu received the news that the Humen Fort changed hands!
He let out a heavy breath, holding the battle report in his hand, and a trace of physical pain clearly flashed across his face.
In order to break through the Humen Fort, the Liberation Army suffered casualties of less than 200 people!
This casualty is not unbearable!
Among them, more than 60 were killed in battle and more than 30 were disabled. The remaining wounded soldiers were all seriously injured and disabled who could not reach them.
But he also had to go to the wounded barracks and couldn't continue fighting.
This casualty is not unbearable!
You must know that for this Northern Expedition, the Liberation Army only mobilized a total of more than 6,000 troops.
Sure enough, the firepower is still insufficient!
If the artillery of the Liberation Army was powerful enough, there would be no need for marine troops to attack the beach. The battle could be solved by artillery alone.
In this way, there won’t be such heavy casualties when attacking fortifications in the future!
Zhu, a late-stage patient with a phobia of insufficient firepower, put down the battle report in his hand and began to think of ways to increase the firepower of the Liberation Army.
We still need to vigorously develop blooming bombs to reduce the cost of blooming bombs!
Now the Liberation Army’s explosive ammunition is no problem in terms of power or safety!
There is no problem at all when we say that our technology is a hundred years ahead of the world.
The only drawback is that it’s too expensive!
A round of five-pound field artillery shells costs five silver dollars and costs three silver dollars.
There are so many, even Zhu Hongyu can’t afford to use them!
If we really want to carry out a covering artillery bombardment, why can't we fire 10,000 or 20,000 shells in a battle?
Even if calculated based on the shells used in the cheapest five-pound field gun, that's still tens of thousands of silver dollars!
This is still being considered conservative!
The easiest way to reduce the cost of blooming ammunition is to replace labor with machinery.
In the final analysis, it is still a question of steam engines and machine tools!
Zhu Hongyu made a final conclusion. Sure enough, science and technology are the primary productive forces!
My ancestors will never deceive me!
Foshan craftsmen, I'm sorry!
Zhu Hongyu gave instructions to Zheng Jing beside him.
"Send the order to the person in charge of the logistics department and ask the logistics department to allocate the supply of logistics materials!"
"Try to ensure the nutritional intake of the wounded soldiers!"
"Meat, fresh fruits and vegetables are given priority to the wounded soldier camp!"
Zheng Jing bowed to accept the order, but he couldn't help but feel a little confused.
His Royal Highness Jian Guo's work made him a little confused.
In his understanding, when there were wounded soldiers in the army in the past, the most they could do was take care of them with a handful of herbs.
Some armies even directly deal with wounded soldiers!
Because in the eyes of many generals, wounded soldiers are worthless.
Once you are injured on the battlefield, whether you can survive or not depends entirely on your fate!
Not to mention preferential treatment, because food in the army usually has to be robbed, and injured soldiers may not even be able to eat ordinary food.
It is unknown how many wounded soldiers starved to death due to injuries and illnesses.
Most armies since ancient times have been like this!
But His Royal Highness the Supervisor does things really differently from others!
It’s okay to let the soldiers eat enough and eat meat. After all, on the battlefield, the soldiers are going to fight tooth and nail. What’s wrong if we don’t let them eat well?
But His Royal Highness Jian Guo actually gave the army priority to take care of those wounded soldiers who did not know whether they would survive or whether they could continue to fight on the battlefield even if they survived.
What an anecdote from ancient times to modern times!
Zhu Hongyu noticed the confusion on Zheng Jing's face, but he would not explain anything to Zheng Jing.
Just speak.
"You can go to the wounded barracks and have a look!"
As for whether Zheng Jing can understand something and whether he can understand Zhu Hongyu's profound meaning, it depends on his understanding.
Zhu Hongyu agreed to keep Zheng Jing by his side, and he really meant to cultivate him.
After all, he will be the next Prince of Yanping County!
However, if Zheng Jing really couldn't hold up the wall, Zhu Hongyu wouldn't bother too much with him.
At worst, in the future, the imperial court will just raise a prince for nothing!
Besides, to a certain extent, it may be more in the interest of the Ming Dynasty that the next Prince Yanping is a waste.
Zheng Jing bowed and said.
"I understand!"
Zhu Hongyu waved his hand and said.
"Go down and do your work!"
…
Wounded Barracks!
The seriously injured have just undergone surgery, and most of them are still in coma. It is not known whether they will wake up.
The military doctors of the Liberation Army have done everything they can!
Most of the seriously injured patients are still being kept in separate wards with dedicated personnel to take care of them.
But for the lightly wounded, the wounded barracks are not so particular.
Although basic health regulations must still be strictly enforced, due to tight conditions, many lightly injured patients are crowded into a ward with more than a dozen people.
The vacated rooms must be reserved for the seriously injured!
Wei Wu leaned on the head of the bed, kept counting his fingers, and let out silly giggles.
"Hey, hey hey!"
His chest was wrapped with a thick layer of gauze, and the bright red blood was very bright.
There were throbbing pains from time to time from the wound, but Wei Wu was in a very good mood.
The knife on his chest was inflicted on him by a soldier of Huang Zhongyuan when he was fighting with him.
The incision was so deep that one could almost see the ribs and internal organs.
It's just that he was lucky. The knife didn't hurt his vitals or cut his blood vessels.
It looks scary, but they are all flesh wounds!
But even so, the blow he received was not in vain, as the head of Huang Zhongyuan's soldier was beheaded by him himself.
Wei Wu couldn't help but show off to his comrades in the next bed.
"Hey, I didn't get this blow in vain!"
"This sword can be exchanged for ten acres of military land. In addition, I chopped off the heads of seven Tatars. In total, I can get at least eighty acres of good land from this battle!"
"Haha, eighty acres of land, plus my fifty acres of Anjia land. Damn it, my family can be considered a small landowner. This life is worth losing on the battlefield!"
The Liberation Army was quite generous with its rewards for military merit, with clearly marked prices, and no one could deceive them.
Behead the first level of Lvying, reward ten acres of land, or fifty silver dollars!
Behead the Han army at the first level of the Eight Banners, and reward him with twenty acres of land, or one hundred silver coins!
Behead the Eight Banners of Mongolia and be rewarded with thirty acres of land, or one hundred and fifty silver coins!
Behead the Eight Banners of Manchuria and be rewarded with fifty acres of land, or two hundred and fifty silver dollars!
The pension for the wounded was also very generous, ranging from ten acres for minor injuries, twenty to forty acres for disability, and fifty acres for those killed in battle.
Most soldiers want land rather than money when it comes to rewards for military exploits and compensation for casualties!
In their view, sooner or later the money will run out.
But fields can be passed down to future generations as the foundation for settling down a family.
You can imagine they will want that!
But Zhu Hongyu lacks everything now, except land.
There are a lot of good fields in the central plains of Luzon.
As long as it can be cultivated, it will be fertile land with three crops a year!