In addition to the 1,200 intact Eight Banners soldiers, there are only 18,000 remaining troops in the camp, and at least 60% of these 18,000 are auxiliary troops.
There are two types of auxiliary soldiers under the command of Dorobel Lekedhun. One is the soldiers in the baggage camp, who are responsible for transporting grain and grass, cooking, repairing armor, building camps, building siege equipment, etc.
The other type is the domestic slave of the Eight Banners soldiers, who is responsible for assigning armor to the Eight Banners soldiers, serving as a mounting stool. During battle, they carry spears and charge behind the Eight Banners soldiers.
Of course, there are only about two thousand domestic slaves of the Eight Banners soldiers, and these people barely have some combat effectiveness, which is a little better than the soldiers in the transport camp.
But in this way, the camp of Dorobelek Dehun can be said to be at its most empty.
Once Nanming discovered that the Qing army's camp was empty, the consequences would be disastrous.
You must know that this camp is not only a resting camp for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but also stores the food and grass needed by the 200,000 troops on the nearby front for three months, which is equivalent to an extremely important granary on the front line.
If this place is captured by the Nanming Army, it means that 200,000 soldiers and horses will be without food and grass in a short period of time.
The army had no food and fodder and collapsed. As a result, even if Luck Dehun was the cousin of Emperor Shunzhi, he would not be able to escape the fate of Caishikou.
Therefore, he hurriedly ordered the troops and horses of Geng Jingzhong and other surrendered generals from behind to replenish the strength of the camp, and at the same time, let the surrounding Qing troops move closer to him, so as to prevent the Nanming Army from taking advantage of it.
While Dorobelek Dehun was busy mobilizing troops to defend against the sneak attack of the Nanming Army, the Nanming Army was celebrating grandly.
Killing nearly ten thousand people in one battle was undoubtedly great news for Nanming, which had suffered repeated defeats in the past two years.
Whether it was Li Dingguo and others who had already invested in Nanming and were closer to a cooperative relationship, or the bandits, rebels, and military households from all over the country who had been recruited from everywhere, they all sincerely expressed their most sincere congratulations to the new army of Nanming at this time.
At night, wine jars that were reluctant to take out in the past were piled up in the center of the military camp. Hundreds of bonfires were scattered everywhere. Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered together to enjoy the rare victory and joy.
This battle gave them hope to persevere.
It can be said that because there is no hope, they used to be like walking zombies.
The reason why we still insist on this front is simply because of several reasons.
Either for the official title given by the Nanming court, which is most effective for those bandits who fell into the trap and turned into bandits. After all, as former common people, after they turned into bandits, they actually felt very uncomfortable in their hearts.
I have disgraced my ancestors and brought shame to them.
Therefore, after receiving official positions and titles from the Nanming court, they would feel much better, and they would feel that they had honored their ancestors and were no longer a despised gangster.
Of course, these former bandits may also be the most wavering. If the Qing army gives them greater official positions and titles, they may immediately rebel and surrender.
As for those military households from various places, what they valued more was the money and food given by the court, which could enable their families to live longer and prevent them from starving to death.
Apart from that, they have nothing to pursue, and the worst they can do is die on the battlefield.
And Li Dingguo, the bandits who cooperated with Nanming after the fall of Daxi, can be said to have sworn hatred with the Qing army. In fact, they are the most determined anti-Qing faction.
At this grand celebration banquet, the twenty instructors from Xinghai Kingdom became the targets of heroes from all walks of life vying to get close to them.
No way, in the eyes of these guys with various thoughts, they see the key point.
The reason why these new Nanming armies were able to defeat the Qing army so sharply was all due to the powerful guns and artillery provided by Xinghai Kingdom!
In troubled times, it is a joke for a guy who can climb to a high position of power to say he has no ambition.
Besides, even if you don’t have ambitions, what can you do to save yourself, your family, and your subordinates in this troubled world?
It’s not about relying on force!
As a result, these instructors quickly became the favorites at the banquet.
The guerrillas, lieutenants, and generals gathered around these instructors one after another. They took advantage of the opportunity of drinking and chatting to express their goodwill towards the Xinghai Kingdom. The underlying meaning of their words was how to buy these guns.
These instructors had received instructions from the country before setting off, so naturally they would not reveal it easily at this time. They just stated that they would report their cooperation intentions to the country. As for the domestic reaction, they did not know.
After this news was spread back to Xinghai Kingdom, it immediately caused a controversy in the Senate.
The main point of debate is whether to sell arms to these guys.
The elders who opposed the sale of military arms to those forces under Nanming identified many disadvantages.
For example, after those forces obtain advanced arms, they will not be too honest, and may cause the anti-Qing front to collapse. Besides, if some of them surrender to the Qing army, the arms sold will most likely fall into the hands of the Qing army!
The elders who agreed to sell the arms were more motivated by the benefits contained therein.
If the arms are sold, Xinghai Kingdom will definitely be able to gain greater support within Nanming's sphere of influence, and the immigration plan will be more likely to succeed.
In addition, with the new arms export route, it can also better defeat the Zhaowu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty. After all, selling goods to one family is definitely not as good as selling goods to hundreds of companies.
However, it was obvious that the Senate could not reach a consensus on this matter in a short period of time.
This is not to say that the Senate system has failed.
But a bill like this that may cause a major strategic change does not need to be resolved in a short time. What's more, this time in the Senate, the number of senators holding two views is almost the same.
Under such circumstances, Sister Qian Lihong, the chief elder of the Senate, could only temporarily shelve the bill.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.
The South China Sea Island is currently celebrating the harvest.
After the chemical industry system was initially established, urea was promoted on Nanhai Island.
Especially the new farms established by Xinghai Kingdom in various places must use urea.
Well, in fact, at the initial stage, the naturalized farmers and workers on the farm were not optimistic about these white and pungent-smelling particles.
In their somewhat old-fashioned thinking, only human and animal feces and urine are the best fertilizers in the world.
But what they never expected was that after these white particles were released into the farmland, the crops grew particularly well.
As a result, at harvest time, crop yields more than doubled compared to before.
This is because the output of the chemical workshop is limited and the urea quota allocated to each farm is insufficient.