Zhu Hongyu will lead the Liberation Army from one victory to another!
Never stop and keep moving forward until the chants of driving out the Tartars and restoring China once again resound across the entire land of China!
Zhu Hongyu looked through the battle results and battle damage reports in his hand and reviewed them casually.
During this battle, the Liberation Army suffered a total of 143 casualties.
Among them, sixty-four were killed in battle, forty-seven were injured and disabled, and the rest were all lightly injured.
It consumed 7,000 kilograms of gunpowder, 8,000 pieces of lead bullets for guns, 40 solid cannonballs, and 2,400 kilograms of cannon shot.
One cannon, thirty-six muskets, forty-three bayonets, one hundred and thirty breastplates, seven shields, and twenty-three steel knives were damaged.
This was the price paid by the Liberation Army, but the food consumption during this period and the consumption of medicinal materials for treating the wounded were not included in it.
Further down, are the results and captures of the Liberation Army in this battle.
More than 3,200 enemies were killed, including more than 700 Spaniards, and the rest were all natives.
There were more than 300 Spanish prisoners, but not many natives.
Because the natives ran too fast, it was not easy to capture the native prisoners of war.
More than a thousand muskets were seized, all of which are Spanish heavy matchlocks with guaranteed quality.
In addition, there are also some cold weapons equipped by the indigenous people.
However, the quality of these cold weapons is relatively rubbish. In the Liberation Army, they are all remade and turned into iron ingots.
In addition to these, the Liberation Army also seized a lot of food and money.
The Spaniards worked hard to transport the food into the mountains, but in the end it was a benefit to the Liberation Army.
The money was also found by the Liberation Army from the Spaniards who died in battle or were captured!
In total, there are about seven or eight thousand silver coins!
Not a small amount!
Of course, the Liberation Army could have captured artillery from the Spaniards. The Spaniards brought a total of ten artillery pieces into the mountains, including eight light cannons and two heavy cannons.
However, Colonel Robin ordered the artillery to be blown up during the retreat, preventing the Liberation Army from capturing it.
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongyu couldn't help but frown and curse in his heart.
"Damn red-haired ghost!"
"What a fucking thing!"
However, it doesn't matter how disappointed Zhu Hongyu is.
The Liberation Army can now cast light cannons themselves, especially after using the iron film casting method. The Liberation Army can cast cannons at a speed beyond everyone's imagination.
As long as there is enough iron, Zhu Hongyu can produce a large number of light cannons at any time.
Although the heavy artillery is still exploring the technology of using iron film to cast the cannon, it will be possible to do so sooner or later.
Among the craftsmen of the Liberation Army, there were quite a few senior gunsmiths.
Besides, at present, the Liberation Army has no need for heavy artillery.
To fight the natives in the mountains, light artillery is enough.
After leaving the mountain, if you want to attack the Spanish bastion, siege in the cave is more reliable than using heavy artillery.
Before the technology of explosive ammunition matures and is put into use on a large scale, artillery really cannot hit the bastion!
The walls of the bastion are relatively low, and the artillery hit rate is not high. In addition, the thick walls have a certain tilt angle, which can remove the kinetic energy of the artillery shells.
To put it bluntly, a solid bullet is just a big iron ball.
It’s really impossible to defeat the bastion!
After reading this, Zhu Hongyu ordered the entire army to repair and prepare to continue the attack.
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After two days of repairs, the Liberation Army, led by the Crocodile Tribe and other Igorots, advanced towards the location of the Giant Wood Tribe.
Along the way, there were crocodile tribesmen leading the way, helping to guard the surrounding areas and transporting food, grass and baggage. The Liberation Army marched very fast.
This time the Liberation Army entered the mountains to clear out the natives, and the troops were divided into three groups.
But it's not like dividing the troops to attack together, but each fighting his own way.
There are only about a hundred people along the way, the strength of a company!
Because this time to clear out the indigenous people, the main force in the battle was not the Liberation Army, but the Igorot tribe who wanted to annex their enemies and grow stronger.
All the Liberation Army has to do is to use firearms to attack the enemy and help them open up the situation.
The rest of the close combat, clearing out the enemy's remnants, and hunting deep into the mountains and forests will be done by the crocodile tribe and other Igorot natives themselves.
Wu Laoliu returned to the team after recovering from injury.
His injury was not serious in the first place, it was just a superficial wound. After three to five days of recovery, the injury had recovered.
However, although his injury was not serious, it was really painful to disinfect the minor injuries with alcohol. Cleaning the wounds was really painful!
Wu Laoliu changed his dressing several times and gritted his teeth several times at the native who shot him.
After he recovered from his injury and returned to the team, he heard that this trip into the mountains was to encircle and suppress the indigenous people, so he stepped forward and volunteered to participate.
Even if it's not for meritorious service, I still have to give up this bad breath!
Wu Laoliu strode forward with a musket on his back, and a few thunderbolts on his waist. As he walked, the shaking thunderbolts would collide with each other from time to time, making a tinkling sound.
The breastplate on his body was very heavy, but Wu Laoliu was reluctant to take it off.
Because facts have proven that this breastplate can indeed save lives on the battlefield.
Wang Gao, who had been watching with him on the bastion before, was saved by his breastplate on the battlefield.
Wang Gao was shooting at the Spaniards at the top of the city, but unfortunately he was hit in the chest by a lead bullet.
If the breastplate hadn't blocked him, Wang Gao wouldn't have had his ribs cracked by the kinetic energy of the lead bullet and ended up in the wounded barracks.
Wu Laoliu wiped the sweat from his forehead, but he was thinking in his heart that it was already almost November, and this damn place in Nanyang was still so damn hot.
Compared with Nanyang, my hometown in Fujian is warm in winter and cool in summer!
When I was in my hometown, I despised the poverty of my hometown, the typhoons that hit every year, the inability to grow food in the fields to survive, the landlords who bullied people, and the exorbitant taxes of the Ming Dynasty.
But when I arrived in Nanyang, I realized how good my hometown was.
There are no four seasons in this hellish place like Luzon. It is hot all year round, dry and hot in the dry season, hot and humid in the rainy season, and there are red-haired ghosts bullying people.
No matter how much the landlord in my hometown bullied people or imposed excessive taxes, he was still not as ruthless as the red-haired ghost guy!
If it weren't for the fear of keeping a money rat's tail and not being able to see his ancestors after his death, Wu Laoliu would not have gone to Nanyang!
The general wants to restore the Ming Dynasty, drive out the Tartars, restore China, and fight back to his hometown.
Wu Laoliu thought it was unrealistic at first. In his impression, the Eight Banners soldiers full of Tatars were very fierce.
They massacred so many cities, killed so many people, and defeated so many soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Even the surnamed master was defeated, lost Kinmen, and retreated to Dajuan Island.
Officials all say that if the Eight Banners are less than ten thousand, they will be invincible if they are full of ten thousand.
How can they beat it?
But it has been a long time since the army was launched, and the general led them to attack the red-haired people and the natives. They always used less to defeat more, and they were invincible.
The victory after victory built up the self-confidence of the soldiers of the Liberation Army, making everyone in the Liberation Army full of pride, feeling that they were the best soldiers in the world.
Wu Laoliu gradually began to feel that under the leadership of the general, they might really be able to return to their hometown one day and rebuild the Ming Dynasty.
To put it in the words of the future president, by then Wu Laoliu will no longer be a poor peasant in the countryside.
Rather, he is the hero of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty and the noble man who retired with the Ming Dynasty and the country!