Chapter 1213 Blood River Sunset
The natives in the front row were ruthlessly shot and killed, with corpses stacked up, and the natives behind were still roaring and raising their courage to rush forward.
Some native soldiers had no way back and could only rush forward desperately, overturned the rifle and rushed to the ox cart, but still could not escape the sharp crossbow.
Under the fierce attack on the front, the natives touched it from the side and tried to climb up from the ditch.
Cunen immediately sent some cavalry to let them shoot and kill the Fanzi who were trying to climb up with bows and arrows from a high place.
The cavalry were condescending, arrows falling like rain, and there was no cover in the ditch, so they could only be ruthlessly massacred.
On the front, after several rounds of charge, the barbarians still could not find any breakthrough, and the powerful crossbows attacks from the Luzon army caused their bodies to accumulate layer by layer.
The barbarians behind finally knew the situation ahead, which gave the barbarians in front a chance to escape, and they began to turn around and retreat.
Leaving the corpses all over the ground, the natives retreated before they lasted for two quarters of an hour.
"Teacher, the barbarian has been defeated and withdrawn."
Cunen nodded, and at this time the morning mist began to dissipate, revealing the sun in the east.
Under the thin fog, you can see the natives retreating in a mess.
"Please ask Liu Hui and several other knights to lead five teams of cavalry to attack, and don't give them a chance to regroup."
Cunen's order was issued, and several great knights who had already been eager to try were immediately led their cavalry and rushed out.
The exhausted barbarian was extremely depressed at this time, especially as the few elites suffered severe damage in front of the chariot formation. At this time, he was still hesitant to continue the attack, the Tang cavalry came over.
Two hundred and fifty riders.
Five teams charge.
The number is not large, but for the barbarians, have you ever seen a military force riding such a tall creature? Especially these cavalrymen are well equipped, with cotton armor and iron chain armor, and even horses have vests.
These cavalry were originally the knights conferred by Qin Lang. The primary condition for becoming a knight is to bring a full set of knight equipment and war horses, as well as a corresponding number of armored infantry. If the level is high, armored cavalry must be armored.
Although it is self-built equipment, in fact, in order to unify the equipment, the knights' equipment is provided by Qin Lang, and the knights are responsible for paying the money. This is actually similar to the soldiers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is not said that they will find blacksmiths to build weapons, and then all kinds of weapons appear on the battlefield.
Cavalry, the strongest military in Luzon.
When they started to attack, the barbarians were completely crushed. In less than half an hour, more than a thousand corpses were left near the chariot formation, and almost all the other barbarians were captured.
A large number of corpses were scattered by the river in front of the formation, and even the river was covered with corpses that could not escape, and the blood stained the river red.
"This river is named Blood River."
"Is the Blood River a little too bloody? Or is it called the Red River?"
"The big river in Jiaozhou is called Honghe, or Xuehe, it's quite vivid and intuitive."
The Battle of Blood River lasted less than an hour and it ended completely. In the end, it took another hour to capture all the more than a thousand deserters who fled on the battlefield one by one.
"How many brothers have we suffered?" Cunen asked.
"We are still counting, and it seems that we have not reported the death to the battle for the time being."
Cunen didn't care, thinking that the numbers must have not been sorted out yet. Although the battle was short, it was so intense after all.
"Let the bookmakers of each team count the casualties as soon as possible, and the injured soldiers must immediately get the military doctors of the baggage battalion to treat them."
"Also, let the baggage battalion prepare to cook, everyone is probably hungry."
In the Luzon Army's marching organization, three-man and one squadron, nine-man and one squadron, and the fifth squadron was the basic organization of the first squadron. The brigade was 45 people, plus the team leader, the team deputy and the army judge, the flag bearer, the flag guard, the flag guard and the bookkeeper, forming a fifty-man brigade.
During the battle, the head of the team must lead the battle in the first row, and the deputy team will take the Modao in the last row to supervise the battle, and the flag bearer and two flag bearers are in the second row.
Each team has a bookkeeper who is responsible for the military's documents, as well as military achievements, casualties statistics, etc.
"Teacher, the statistics have been released. In this battle, we will kill 1,031 enemy heads and capture 2,257 people."
"Where are our casualties?"
"We were not killed in battle, not seriously injured. Only three people were slightly injured. They were only minor injuries on the skin. The military doctor has bandaged them."
Qin Cunen was stunned.
"Just three people were slightly injured?"
"I was surprised when I first heard it. I went to check it myself. I did only hurt three. One guy accidentally stepped on our caltrops. One guy had a tooth smashed by a stone thrown by the natives. It was the worst wound. Another guy was a cavalry when he was catching a prisoner. He was bitten and a little skin was broken on his hand and some blood was revealed."
Qin Cunen sighed after hearing this.
This casualty data is really unexpected. They fought against the natives when they were on Shilong Island before. Although the casualties were minor, they were not so exaggerated.
After all, this time it was a tough battle, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies and captured more than 2,000 prisoners, but three were injured?
It sounds unbelievable.
Cunen personally went to comfort the three unlucky wounded soldiers, but saw them bragging to their companions, jumping around, and even the guy who had a tooth was still saying that he would have a gold tooth in the future.
"Teacher, do we have a sick meal today?" The guy with toothless teeth asked shamelessly.
“Can you have it.”
"Then do we have an injury subsidy?" The missing tooth soldier pointed at his swollen mouth and the vacant tooth hole, "I should be considered very injured, right?"
"But it's not considered a serious injury, and you'll be subsidized by minor injuries."
As for the other two guys, Cunen also agreed to give them minor injuries subsidies according to the rules.
After a walk around, the baggage camp also prepared the meal.
The food today was quite rich. The barbarians came and brought a lot of livestock and supplies to the army. These were originally carried out when they fled from the village, but now they have become their spoils.
Eating the delicious stew, Cunen discussed the next step with the top officers in the team.
"I think this place is not bad. It is about twenty miles away from the Heisha River and less than fifty miles away from the Heisha River Estuary Camp. You can go straight to the bay along the Blood River to the southeast, and only twenty or thirty miles. Why not build a stronghold here, then build another stronghold at the southeast estuary, and build another stronghold at the source of the river at the foot of the northeast mountain. Three fortress castles in one line, so that the area east of the Heisha River can be controlled."
"When will the young and strong man here come back?"
"This is unclear, maybe soon, maybe not back."
Cunen believed that the barbarians would not come back for a while. They went to the north and were still trying to besiege San Francisco. If they really attacked San Francisco, it would be a dead end and they might not come back at all. If they didn't go, they would not come back for a while.
But if they come back, they will definitely have to pass the river valley pass in the mountains in the north, so as long as they seize the valley first and build a fortress there, they will be able to hold up the passage for their return.
“There is more than one valley entrance that leads to the Black Sand Plain.”
“There are only three main roads.”
Apart from these three main roads, other small roads that cross mountains and ridges can be ignored. As long as these three valley entrances are blocked, the barbarian wants to come back, except from the sea, and can only go along the Taal River bank to the east to the seaside, and then along the coastline.
Therefore, the more you should seize the initiative.
Finally, everyone decided to divide the troops.
After contacting the Central Navy fleet, the other side expressed their willingness to undertake the task of building a castle upstream and blocking the entrance of the Central River Valley. The east side was handed over to Cunen's left-road army.
So Cunen and his team divided into two groups, one by one, stayed here to build the Blood River Fort, and then the other route went down the Blood River to the mouth of the sea, and chose a place to build a fortress there, which was like a black sand castle, so that they could have a dock port.
"Report San Francisco's victory!"
The Blood River Victory was sent back to the Heisha Camp by the Knights, and then Qin Jun sent a speedboat back to San Francisco, more than a hundred miles away, to report the victory.
Qin Lang received the news that day.
Qin Lang was very happy to hear that Qin Jun and his team quickly occupied the entire Black Sha Plain.
But after conquering such a large area, he killed nearly two thousand enemies and captured four or five thousand, but he did not die and injured less than ten people.
The happy Qin Lang also waved his pen generously and replied to Qin Jun.
He asked Qin Jun to set aside 200,000 acres of land on the Heisha Plain as a gift to these soldiers who went to war.
Nearly 7,000 people were killed and 200,000 acres of land were distributed.
On average, one person can get thirty acres, but this batch of land is granted land and can be hereditary forever, but it does not belong to fiefdom, that is, it does not enjoy the privileges of the corpsal territory, nor does it have the income of one-third of the tax, nor does it have to bear the obligation to deal with the military service.
But after all, it is a permanent career that can be passed down from descendants.
Especially compared with the success of this expedition, there were almost no casualties, but almost one-third of the land was captured. Qin Lang was generous.
The Black Sand Castle, Blood River Castle, Baigang, Chiling Castle, Songgang City, and five castle fortresses were also approved by Qin Lang.
Heisha County was newly established, and Wuxiang Township was established, and Wucheng Castle was used as the village capital.
In addition to hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land on the Great Plain, Heisha County is divided into five villages.
If the soldiers who seek to buy the purchase, they can purchase it first.
For those captured Tumans, Qin Lang also agreed to the disposal method agreed by Cunen and others, and stay there to build a castle, etc.
But after the castle fortress was repaired, Qin Lang said that there was no need to send it to San Francisco in trouble, but gave priority to internal auctions. As long as the soldiers on Heisha want to buy, they can participate in the auction and try to give everyone more discounts and benefits.
Qin Lang asked Qin Jun and the others not to worry about San Francisco for the time being. Although the Tumans are still gathering their troops and have begun to attack some manors outside San Francisco, Qin Lang is not worried. He has already made arrangements.
He asked Cunen and his friends to wipe out the native villages and communities in Heisha as soon as possible, and then build several supporting strongholds and fortresses, and then sweep the surrounding mountains in the next step.
Chapter completed!