The Liberation Army began to clean up the battlefield!
The corpses, weapons, and property scattered on the battlefield were counted one by one.
The bodies of our own soldiers were properly disposed of, and those with missing arms and legs were collected and placed next to the corpses.
The corpses of the Spaniards were piled up haphazardly like trash, with no one taking a second look.
Zhu Hongyu personally went forward and sorted out the remains of the Liberation soldiers who died in the battle one by one.
Not long after, his hands and body were covered in blood.
Liu Liu, the captain of the medical team, said beside Zhu Hongyu.
"General, this is really dirty. How can you do this yourself? Let us do it!!"
Zhu Hongyu waved his hands, shook his head and said with a very serious expression.
"Not dirty, not dirty at all!"
"I want to send my brothers off in person!"
Everyone around him was moved when he heard this.
As the saying goes, a good man should not be a soldier, and a good man should not twist nails.
Since the two Song dynasties, the literati have been in power. They have said that they are inferior in everything, but only those who are good at studying are good men.
As a result, soldiers who used weapons to defend their home and country have become a humble profession.
During the Song Dynasty, the country was unjust. In order to maintain their rule, they valued literature over military affairs and exalted the status of literati.
From then on, the literati began to be superior, and the status of the soldiers plummeted.
This will be the case for thousands of years, and it has become a matter of course to emphasize culture over military affairs!
This was true even for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a foreign dynasty, except that the Manchu Qing had a large number of bannermen leading the troops.
It is not so obvious that the Bannermen, who are superior to all Han people regardless of civil or military status, value civil society over military affairs!
After all, even if you, a Han Chinese, achieve the rank of Six Ministers and Nine Ministers, you are still just a slave!
These so-called literati are despicable and shameful!
Those who protect the country are devalued as worthless by them.
Moreover, when the country faces war and alien invasion, they are the ones who kneel the fastest.
For example, in Donglin in the late Ming Dynasty, they called themselves Donglin gentlemen.
However, in the face of the wave of dynasty changes, there are many people who sacrificed their lives to serve the country.
Such as Zhu Dadian, Shi Kefa's generation!
But more of them are servile servants who kneel down to welcome the new dynasty, such as Hou Fangyu, Qian Qianyi and others!
What's even more shameful is that they knelt down twice in a row, once to Li Chuang and second to Manqing!
The bones are softer than noodles!
Moreover, after they kneel down, they will also say that those who understand the current affairs are heroes, to decorate their appearance.
The low social status of soldiers has already become the consensus of everyone, including the soldiers themselves, who regard themselves as worthless bastards.
But now, they feel the long-lost respect!
In hundreds of years, has there ever been a superior person who respected and valued them so much?!
Zhu Hongyu, the general of the Liberation Army, ignored the dirt and personally arranged the remains of the soldiers who died in the battle.
How could they not be moved by this?!
With a pop, Shi Yongxin knelt on one knee in front of Zhu Hongyu and said loudly.
"I am willing to die serving the general!"
Seeing this, everyone knelt down on one knee beside Zhu Hongyu and said loudly.
"We are willing to die for the general, and our bodies will be broken into pieces, no matter how hard we die!"
Zhu Hongyu said.
"Don't say anything about death!"
"Don't even die!"
"I will take you back to the Central Plains, rebuild the Ming Dynasty, and enjoy the glory and wealth with you!"
Everyone laughed loudly when they heard this!
On a battlefield with rivers of blood, the smell of gunpowder smoke, and broken limbs everywhere, the atmosphere was not at all gloomy and dignified.
The morale of the Liberation Army, which had just experienced a bitter battle, was at a boiling point!
…
The battlefield was cleaned up, and the Liberation Army captured a large amount of supplies in this battle.
About two thousand kilograms of gunpowder, five hundred and thirty-four muskets, six hundred spears, one thousand kilograms of lead bullets, five thousand kilograms of grain, etc.!
There was also gold and silver money found from the Spanish soldiers, totaling almost five thousand Spanish silver dollars.
Of course, what is more important are the five artillery pieces that Kayal brought into the mountain!
The five are all short-barreled 300-pound copper light cannons, which are not good enough for sieges and battleship bombardments.
But if used in field battles, it can be regarded as a great killer!
The short barrel increases the rate of fire of the artillery and makes it much lighter, although it greatly limits the power of the artillery.
But it also makes it just right for use in the field!
When it comes to sieges or battleship bombardments, you still have to look at long-barreled ship-borne cannons.
The long-barreled ship-borne cannon is the prototype of the so-called red cannon imitated by the Ming Dynasty!
With the same caliber, the weight of this short-barreled field gun is half or even less than that of a ship-borne long-barreled cannon.
A 300-pound short-barreled light cannon weighs no more than 400 pounds with its mount, and it can be carried by two or three people.
This is also the reason why Kayal can transport these light cannons into the mountain!
Zhu Hongyu planned to transport these five artillery pieces back to the river valley. When the fortress in the river valley was repaired, and before they cast the cannons themselves, these five artillery pieces would be the city defense artillery of the river valley fortress.
Zhu Hongyu ordered.
"Renovate on the spot for a day, let the wounded take a rest, and then make a few stretchers for the wounded, and return tomorrow!"
"promise!"
Everyone took orders and did it.
…
In the mine, the corpses of the Liberation Army soldiers who died in the battle were neatly arranged on a pile of firewood.
Eyes focused on Zhu Hongyu who was standing in front of everyone.
Zhu Hongyu held a torch and stood next to the firewood with a solemn face.
"Brothers, have a good trip!"
Everyone behind him shouted in unison.
"Brothers, have a good trip!"
"Brothers, have a good trip!"
"..."
"Shot!"
Li Guangyuan followed the arrangement and ordered a row of Liberation Army soldiers beside him holding muskets.
The soldiers of the Liberation Army received the order and pointed their guns at the sky.
"put!"
Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang!
All of a sudden, a burst of gunfire rang out.
Smoke and fire erupted from the muzzle, but no lead bullets flew out.
Because they were emptying the gun, they only loaded it with gunpowder, not lead bullets.
They are using this method to send off their robes.
After the gunshots were fired, Zhu Hongyu personally lit the firewood with a torch.
The dry firewood was poured with kerosene, and it started to burn with just a flick of the torch.
The blazing flames swallowed up the remains of the soldiers who died in the battle in the blink of an eye!
"The clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, fame and fortune follow the dust and dirt."
"Looking at China, the people are suffering and the fertile land for thousands of miles is barren."
"Look at the world, there are no barbarians, and only one man can make up for the defects in the way of heaven."
"A good man, regardless of his parents, only cares for the common people and not for the Lord."
"Hold the ninety-nine steel sword and kill all the men before stopping."
"..."
Amidst the loud military songs, the flames grew stronger and stronger, as if they were going to burn everything.
Everyone’s faces were solemn!
What may seem like an overly artificial scene to outsiders is, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Liberation Army, solemn and heavy.
Since ancient times, when soldiers died in battle, they dug a hole and buried them casually.
Never before has it been so valued!
The general personally sorted out the remains of those who died in the battle, and the whole army came together to see off the deceased Paoze!
Who doesn’t want to receive such treatment after his death?
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