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As night fell, torches were lit at the Yingzui Peak Pass, and piles of bonfires were also burning blazingly.
The First Banner Regiment of the Qinghe Army took turns to attack fiercely, and after a brutal fight, they captured this important throat going south.
Because the camp of the 20th Corps of the People's Army was set up on the south side of the mountain pass, the troops of the Qinghe Army's banner regiments were exhausted after days of marching.
Therefore, after capturing the mountain pass of Yingzui Peak, Chen Ziang and the others did not continue to attack overnight, but guarded the mountain pass, preparing to recharge their batteries and fight again at dawn.
The mountain pass no longer had the chaos and hustle and bustle of fighting in the daytime. The piles of corpses, incomplete weapons and blood-red soil showed the brutality of the fighting in the daytime.
The tragic melee battle caused a lot of losses to the First, Second and Third Banner Battalions under the First Banner Regiment.
Although the brothers who were seriously injured had been sent to the camp on the north side of the mountain pass to be treated by military doctors, almost all the brothers who stayed in the mountain pass were injured.
"General!"
"General!"
In the light of a torch, Chen Ziang, surrounded by a group of generals, walked to the mountain pass stepping on the bloody mud. Along the way, groups of soldiers sitting on the ground and resting got up to salute one after another.
Seeing these soldiers, who were covered in blood and mud, with tired faces, still tried their best to stand upright and salute, Chen Ziang, the general of the hussars, also stopped from time to time to greet them.
Behind Chen Ziang, Liang Guanlin, the director of the Military Supplies Department, followed closely behind with a large number of logistics soldiers carrying hot meals.
"Thanks for your hard work."
From time to time, Chen Ziang took the food from Liang Guanlin behind him, and handed it to the brothers who had been fighting for a day.
When these bloody brothers saw that Chen Ziang had come to the mountain pass to deliver food to them, they were also very moved.
In addition to handing some brothers hot meals with his own hands, Chen Ziang also occasionally said a few words.
"Brother, did you kill the enemy?"
"Three!" The soldier replied proudly.
"Well done, you are worthy of being my Chen Ziang's soldier!"
Chen Zi'ang thumped the brother's chest and praised loudly, making the soldiers around him envious.
When Chen Ziang walked all the way towards the mountain pass, while distributing hot meals to his brothers, Zhou Ba, the head of the first banner, also came down from the mountain pass with four banner battalion commanders.
"Meet the General!"
Zhou Ba and the others quickly walked up to Chen Ziang, and hurriedly stood up and made a military salute with fists clenched.
"eat first."
Chen Ziang took out a few bowls of rice from the basket behind him, and handed them to Zhou Ba and others with his own hands.
After Zhou Ba and his team failed their first attack during the day, they were not depressed by it. Instead, they became more and more frustrated, and finally captured the mountain pass before dark.
Chen Ziang, the regiment commander, had been watching the battle from behind. Although he didn't say anything, he knew that Zhou Ba and the others had done their best.
After all, Zhou Ba's First Banner Regiment claims to be the most effective infantry banner regiment of the Second Legion, but at least half of the banner regiments are recruits.
These recruits have only undergone brief military training in the provincial capital of Luyang, and have not yet participated in actual combat.
Zhou Ba and his First Banner Regiment were able to crush the elite militia composed of wealthy private soldiers and defeat the opponent when half of them were recruits. They are already very remarkable.
Chen Zi'ang originally thought that it would take at least two or three days for Zhou Ba's First Banner Regiment to capture the mountain pass, so he ordered a large army to camp on the north side of the mountain pass, preparing for Zhou Ba and the others to practice their troops in actual combat.
In fact, Zhou Ba's performance was excellent, which greatly exceeded Chen Ziang's expectations. Without the support of heavy weapons, they captured the mountain pass in less than a day.
"Have the casualties of the brothers been counted?"
Chen Ziang took advantage of Zhou Ba and the others devouring their meals, and began to ask about the casualties of the First Banner Regiment.
"General, the statistics have been calculated." Zhou Ba put down his job with a sad face.
"A total of 3,520 people were killed in the first, second and third banner battalions, and 530 people were seriously injured."
"Among them, the first banner had the most casualties, with 1,700 killed."
"Two generals of a thousand soldiers were killed, six generals of a thousand soldiers were killed, thirty-one generals of a hundred soldiers were killed, and twenty-five generals of a hundred soldiers were killed."
Hearing Zhou Ba report the number of casualties, although Chen Ziang was heartbrokenLi had already made preparations, but still felt a pain in the flesh.
Although what he heard now was just a series of cold numbers, behind each of these numbers was a living life.
They followed him to fight on the battlefield, and now they lost so much in one battle, Chen Ziang felt like a big rock was pressing on him, and he was panicked.
Losing so many brothers in one battle made him ashamed to face their parents, wives and children. They all died under his command.
"General, general?"
Seeing that Chen Ziang didn't speak in a daze, Zhou Ba wisely stopped talking.
"Have the names of the fallen brothers been registered?"
Chen Ziang withdrew his thoughts. Although his heart was heavy, he also knew that kindness does not lead soldiers. If wars are not stopped, there will be countless deaths in this world.
This is the deepest dark night before dawn. In the dark night waiting for dawn, they will pay the price of blood and life, but he firmly believes that dawn will definitely come.
It's just that the heavy casualties this time made Chen Ziang also realize that if he just relied on the troops to fight hard, even if they killed one enemy after another, they would pay a heavy price.
As if he had an epiphany, Chen Ziang is now eager to develop weapons and equipment. Only with excellent equipment can they further reduce casualties.
If they had all kinds of weapons such as trebuchets in this battle, I am afraid there would not be so many casualties.
Chen Ziang has already made up his mind secretly, that is to urge the artisan battalion as soon as possible to get out these weapons and equip the troops as soon as possible, so as to reduce casualties in the next battle.
"General, Master Banner, the cremation ceremony of the fallen brothers will begin immediately."
When Chen Ziang and Zhou Ba were talking, a soldier came from not far away holding a torch.
"Let's go, I will personally preside over the cremation ceremony for the brothers." Chen Ziang also stood up.
The corpses of more than 3,000 brothers who died in battle have been piled up on the mountain pass. There are more than 20 seats, and dry firewood is set up underneath, ready to be burned.
At the very beginning, the soldiers in the army were unwilling to be cremated. They felt that the body, hair and skin of the parents had to be buried completely.
But if there is no cremation, the brothers' corpses are likely to be excavated by the enemy and killed, and their relatives will not be able to see the ashes. After some things, cremation has become the second army after every battle. A ceremony, solemn and solemn.
"Brothers, go all the way¡ª"
After Chen Ziang personally read the eulogy to the fallen brothers, he toasted them with a bowl of wine, and then ordered the fire to be lit.
The flames of the bang sprang up, and soon, more than 20 raging fires burned on the mountain pass, and thousands of brothers who died in battle returned to heaven in the flames.
"The cloud follows the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, and fame and wealth abound in dust and earth."
When the fire was burning in thunderbolts, soldiers sang softly in the distance, it was the battle song Chen Ziang made up for them.
"Looking at the world, the people are suffering, and thousands of miles of fertile land are barren"
"Good man, don't leave your parents, only for the common people and not for the master!"
More and more soldiers joined in the chanting, and the low-pitched war song sounded from the camp in the distance. This sound gathered into a powerful force, piercing through time and space, resounding through the sky.
"A strong man drank all the wine in his bowl! He will never look back on a journey of thousands of miles!" (Remember the website of this site: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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