According to the estimates of the staff department, the First Army, which was responsible for the task of conquering Yecheng and other tasks, suffered the most casualties. They suffered more than 3,500 killed and more than 7,100 injured, including more than 700 seriously wounded.

The total casualties were nearly 10,000...

Behind the First Army was Guo Zhiping's Third Division. They annihilated the Henan Army's Gaodingshan Division in the Battle of Sanchaling, and later attacked the Qi Army's Duan Yanfeng Division. About two thousand of them were killed.

There were more than 6,100 wounded, including more than 700 seriously wounded.

Ranked third is Peng Ce's Sixth Division, which mainly carried out auxiliary operations in the early stage, annihilating several local Xiangyong armed forces who wanted to rush to aid Yujing, and later attacked the Duan Yanfeng Department of the Qi Army.

, the casualties were relatively small, with only more than 1,000 people killed, more than 3,300 injured, and more than 300 seriously injured.

At the bottom of the list is Zhang Meng's 7th Division, which was the last unit of the Fengwu Army to be deployed in the Battle of Hebei and Yu. It was mainly a strategic reserve and was only responsible for the battle of Zhuoxian against the sudden attack of the Anqing Army's cavalry.

During the combat mission, about 700 people were killed and more than 1,900 were injured, of which only 200 were seriously injured.

According to a rough calculation based on this estimate, the number of people killed by the Fengwu Army in this battle has exceeded 7,000, and the number of injured is more than 19,000. Due to the limitations of medical conditions in this era, the seriously injured are basically

It is difficult to save them, so if the seriously wounded are included, the number of casualties of the Fengwu Army this time will be close to 10,000...

Before this battle, all the ministries involved in the Hebei-Henan battle followed Ye Mingsheng's order and absorbed some reserve soldiers into the battle order. Together with the number of rural warriors recruited, the total force invested was about 130,000.

, so the casualty ratio has exceeded 20%.

Realizing this, Ye Mingsheng felt distressed, but also very pleased. In the era of cold weapons, the casualty ratio of 30% was a red line. An army that has not collapsed beyond this ratio and can continue to fight can be called

For the most powerful army!

The Fengwu Army under Ye Mingsheng still maintained the ability to continue fighting after suffering more than 20% casualties. This undoubtedly shows that under Ye Mingsheng's hard work, Fengwu Army

The army has become a very powerful army!

Looking at Ye Mingsheng's slightly heavy expression, Ye Kui on the side also spoke to persuade:

"Sir, this is just an estimate by the staff. The real number of casualties is likely to be smaller. Don't take it too seriously. The soldiers all follow you to fight. They all look forward to following you to make contributions and create something new.

Peace and prosperity!"

In response to Ye Kui's admonition, Ye Mingsheng smiled and shook his head. He Jingyun was known to be serious in his work. Since he submitted this casualty report to himself, it meant that he felt that the estimated figures in the report were reliable.

, so even if there is a difference between the estimated number and the real number of casualties, it will not differ too much!

To be honest, in addition to asking for this casualty report and preparing a pension budget for casualties for the Financial Secretary, Ye Mingsheng also had another idea in his heart, which was to invade Qilu and calculate the total ledger with Cao Changping, the son of a bitch...

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Although he has annihilated 20,000 Qi troops, to be honest, Ye Mingsheng is still not very relieved. Of course, apart from his personal emotions, Ye Mingsheng still agrees with Luo Gang's thoughts in his heart. Cao Changping is just a guy.

Disaster, this time in the Hebei-Yu War, he and Cao Changping were completely at odds with each other. The temporary alliance of interests that they had formed because of their joint attack on Xu Zhaojie had also been completely broken down.

It can be predicted that when Ye Mingsheng and Shangguan Hongyuan have a decisive battle next year, Xu Zhaojie will definitely go north to intervene. Therefore, under Xu Zhaojie's instigation, Cao Changping is likely to act with him. When the time comes, he will face the Anqing Army and the Qi Army together.

The Fengwu Army would be under great pressure on the southern front, so it was a good choice for Ye Mingsheng to remove Cao Changping in advance and replace the defense with offense.

Although he had such an idea in his mind, Ye Mingsheng did not put this idea into practice because of the actual situation of the soldiers on the front line. Instead, he wanted to wait until he got the casualty report from the staff department to learn more about the casualties in this battle in Hebei and Yu.

Make a decision later.

Previously, because the fighting was still going on, the staff did not have time and energy to do statistical work on casualties. Therefore, although Ye Mingsheng knew that there were many casualties on the front line, he did not have a specific concept. Now that he understood this situation, Ye Mingsheng

Although it felt a bit pity, I still gave up the idea of ​​marching into Qilu for the time being...

Although the Fengwu Army can still continue to fight, there is no doubt that after suffering more than 20% casualties, the Fengwu Army is at the end of its strength. What the Fengwu Army needs now is to rest and recuperate, not to continue fighting. If

If we fight forcefully, there is a risk of collapse!

After thinking for a while, Ye Mingsheng seemed to remember something and asked Ye Kui:

"In addition to the casualty report, has the enemy annihilation report been sent by the staff?"

Faced with Ye Mingsheng's inquiry, Ye Kui thought for two seconds, then found a report among a large number of report materials and handed it to Ye Mingsheng, and said to Ye Mingsheng very apologetically:

"The commander is here!"

Seeing Ye Kui's busy and clumsy performance, Ye Mingsheng felt very helpless. In order to take care of Ye Mansion's affairs, Ye Mingsheng left his attendant Ye Cheng at home, and then took Ye Kui with him and asked him to

Make a temporary guest appearance as your own attendant.

However, although Ye Kui was loyal and could keep Ye Mingsheng's secret secret, he was a military commander after all, and he knew nothing about the aide's goods, which made Ye Mingsheng dumbfounded at times. Ye Mingsheng even thought about transferring Qi Dechao to

When he comes back, he will temporarily serve as an attendant for himself.

However, when he thought that Qi Dechao had done a very good job in the local area, and now transferring him back would greatly affect his work, Ye Mingsheng gave up the idea and continued to let Ye Kui hold the concurrent position of attendant. Although the official position was not big, it was

With almost all the secrets of the Fengwu Army, Ye Mingsheng is not at ease letting an ordinary person take this position. He must put a confidant he absolutely trusts...

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Opening the enemy annihilation report sent by the staff department, Ye Mingsheng's expression gradually relaxed. According to statistics from the staff department, in the Battle of Hebei and Yu, the Fengwu Army probably annihilated more than 130,000 enemy troops, of which the absolute majority were

It was the Henan Army. They killed more than 15,000 enemy soldiers and captured more than 50,000 enemy soldiers. The remaining 40,000 to 50,000 people took advantage of the chaos and escaped during the war.

Next, the Qi army killed more than 5,000 enemies, captured 10,000 people, and escaped with 3,000 or 4,000 people. Finally, the Anqing army killed more than 1,300 enemies and captured more than 4,500 people.

Only a few hundred people escaped.

Seeing that there were nearly 70,000 prisoners in the hands of the Fengwu Army, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but nodded slightly. Regardless of modern society or feudal society, population is a huge wealth, especially in feudal society, where machines are not widely spread.

time, when manpower is needed to undertake most of the work.

And the most important thing is that many of these prisoners are young adults, who are the backbone of social labor. According to the past practice of the Fengwu Army, these prisoners were tried and the black sheep among them were sentenced to death to warn everyone, and then all the prisoners were sentenced to death.

Sinners are set free.

However, due to the huge financial and military deficit of the Fengwu Army during this battle, the Chief Secretary and the General Staff had some voices, which probably meant that these prisoners should be allowed to stay in the labor force to build canals and roads, or absorb some of them into the army as soldiers.

With the emergence of these voices, Ye Mingsheng has also been thinking about the feasibility recently...

But now that he saw this enemy annihilation report, Ye Mingsheng gradually had an idea in his mind. He planned to deal with the captured Henan soldiers according to the original method. After the cleaning plan was completed, most of them were released and the Jiyu Feng army was captured.

What the military regime needs to do is to appease the people and ensure that the cleanup plan can fairly redistribute food and land in Henan.

The nearly 50,000 Henan army officers and soldiers captured were the soldiers in Hebei and Henan. Behind them were 50,000 Hebei and Henan families. These families were eager for their husbands and children to return to their families, so these people were allowed to

Going home will help appease the people and make the people of Hebei and Henan recognize the rule of Fengwu Army.

As for the prisoners of the Qi Army and Anqing Army, because the Fengwu Army has not yet attacked the territory of the Qilu Army and the Anqing Army, there is no need to appease the people. Ye Mingsheng plans to squeeze their labor force and let them participate in the Fengwu Army's territory as a road

, water canals, dams and other infrastructure construction, let them work in exchange for their food and accommodation.

As for absorbing these prisoners into the army, Ye Mingsheng completely rejected this idea!

At the beginning of the Fengwu Army, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army and eliminate the shortcomings of the local armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as low combat effectiveness, weak will to fight, and weak will to fight, Ye Mingsheng also followed the example of the Qi Army and recruited mainly farmers and miners from the source of troops.

Orion, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.

In order to expand the size of the army in the later period, although Ye Mingsheng relaxed some requirements, he still basically guaranteed the quality of the recruitment...

However, in the previous war at Youyan, due to insufficient troops to support large-scale operations, Ye Mingsheng adopted the advice of the staff and used captured Yan Army soldiers to form the Sixth Division of the Fengwu Army.

Although Ye Mingsheng had considered at that time that these prisoners of the Yan Army would have some bad habits of the local army, so he specially arranged instructors to reorganize them, but he was not able to fully come into contact with this hidden danger, so that in the following days,

, the Sixth Division had some cases of selling weapons privately, then falsely reporting battle losses, and buying and selling officials.

For this reason, Ye Mingsheng was also very angry and asked the Military Law Department to send a working group to the Sixth Division to investigate thoroughly. They chopped off 131 heads and dealt with more than 300 people before they could barely stop this unhealthy trend.

Having learned this lesson, Ye Mingsheng will naturally not make the same mistake again.

As for the gap in military strength, it can be absorbed from the reserves. Although it is slower than directly taking prisoners, it at least guarantees the quality of the Fengwu Army. Under the work of Xun Ke and others, the soldiers in the Fengwu Army reserve have not withstood the

Although they have experienced the attraction of war, their training level, especially the level of handling firearms, is still very high. After fighting a few battles and seeing blood, they are very qualified soldiers.

After re-examining his thoughts and feeling that there were no problems, Ye Mingsheng wrote his thoughts into handling opinions and asked Ye Kui to send them to the General Staff and the Chief Secretary to let them implement the work...

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After working all morning, just when Ye Mingsheng was about to take a rest, a personal guard hurriedly came to him and reported:

"Commander Director Huo and Director Gu are outside the mansion asking to see you, sir!"

Ye Mingsheng was stunned when he heard this. Although he didn't know why these two people came together, Ye Mingsheng naturally would not refuse the request of these two confidants, so he immediately nodded and said:

"Let them in!"

"yes!"

Because the war in Hebei and Yu has ended, Ye Mingsheng has already begun to plan to return to Yijing. This matter has been notified. I believe that Gu Sansi and Huo San are very aware of it, so even if they know that they will return soon

Yi Jing, these two people still had to walk hundreds of miles to find him, which is enough to show that both of them think this matter is very important and must let him know as soon as possible...

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Wanting to understand this, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but be very curious about what these two people were going to report to him.

Soon Huo San, Gu Sansi and two people appeared in front of Ye Mingsheng. After the two people, who were tired of the journey, greeted Ye Mingsheng, it was Gu Sansi who took the lead and said to Ye Mingsheng:

"Sir, Su Yi sent back an important piece of information from Licheng!"

"Su Yi? Is he still alive?"

Ye Mingsheng asked with some surprise. After the attack on Yi Jing failed, Xu Zhaojie sent an assassin to assassinate Su Yi and seriously injured him, forcing Cao Changping to break with him and completely embark on his chariot.

Because Licheng had blocked the news before, Ye Mingsheng only knew that Su Yi was seriously injured. As for the other news, Ye Mingsheng was not clear about it. Because it had not been reported back for almost a month, Ye Mingsheng already thought that his subordinate

The deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department has died young and died in a foreign country. We are going to ask Cao Changping for his bones so that his soul can be buried in his hometown...
Chapter completed!