Kong Youde now understands Qi Jiguang's war loss. The average war loss ratio of the Qi family's army is as high as 10 to 50. I originally thought it was bragging, but now I think it depends on the situation in front of me.

The Qi family army's individual combat capabilities are even worse than those of the Japanese pirates, but their coordinated combat capabilities are strong. It is easy to defeat the loose-organized Japanese pirates on the front battlefield, and then the rhythm of chasing and harvesting people's heads. Basically, there will be no more casualties after defeating the Japanese pirates.

The army emphasizes coordinated combat, otherwise it will be no different from gangsters fighting. As long as the coordination is good, it doesn’t matter if the soldiers have almost no combat effectiveness. Although you can beat me two, we cooperate well and beat you one of five people in the local area, you have no temper at all.

Moreover, it is also a very important factor in the ability to bear casualties. This is a very important criterion when evaluating the strength of the army. The one who can withstand 30% of the casualties is definitely a strong army.

In modern times, the army can withstand 50% of casualties, and even a very small number of troops can fight to the last living person, which was unimaginable in ancient times.

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On the other side of the battlefield, Luo Zizhong, Cheng Molin and other senior officers were riding horses, following a few servants who also rode horses, and were too lazy to care about the scattered guards behind them. They just hoped that the faster they would run, the better. There would be no good end to be caught up by the rebels.

Now their hearts were filled with fear and anger. The fear was because they were worried that dozens of cavalrymen of the rebels would catch up, and the anger was because they were deceived by Bi Ziyin.

Although most of them have never been on the battlefield, they can still see that these rebels are not riots. Although they do look like new recruits, they are definitely army that often train for a long time. How could they beat the guards who have very little training?

Now that so many people have been lost, the court will actually be able to bear it if it blames them.

"Sir, look, there are cavalry in front, and it must be the former army sent by Hejian Prefecture to suppress the rebellion." Cheng Molin called happily. He saw a cavalry team of about two or three hundred people in front.

"It must be reinforcements from Hejian Guards, and we finally saved them." Seeing these cavalrymen, everyone was filled with ranks and no longer panic as before.

When Luo Zizhong saw this cavalry, he began to think about it and see if he could turn defeat into victory.

Although I am currently defeated, when reinforcements arrive, I have the opportunity to gather the defeated troops. There is no need to do too many. As long as I can gather 500 people, I can reorganize an army.

The rebels' front line was full of infantry, and they were almost broken through. If these cavalry charge, they would definitely be able to break through the defense line. Then 500 infantry would follow them to harvest, and there were 800 of them in the city, which might be considered a victory.

As for so many casualties, this is not a problem. The lives of ordinary military households are worthless. If you give some compensation, there will naturally be someone who supplements the dead military households.

There are 5,600 full guards, which does not mean that one person dies, but one person is less than one. In fact, one guard has 5,600 military households, and each household has a male family. If the male family is old or dead, the other male family in the household will be picked up by the other male family, whether it is ordinary soldiers, small flags, general flags, hundreds or thousands of households, it is the same.

"What's wrong. This is still so far from the rebels. What are they doing to raise their weapons?"

"Yes, they started charging at this time?"

"No, this is not reinforcements, they are coming for us, everyone should be dispersed."

Finally someone found a problem. The front did not look like an enemy army at all. Yes, these cavalry were the 300 cavalry led by Li Jiucheng. However, it was too late. The cavalry's degree had already been raised, and they couldn't even escape if they wanted to.

As the three hundred cavalry blew by like a gust of wind, none of them survived and were all knocked down.

Then, the cavalry scattered and played hunting games in this small place together with other cavalry lying on both sides.

The escaped guards fell into despair. They finally managed to escape by the bombardment of dozens of cannons. Now they are almost exhausted. A large number of cavalry appeared in front of them. Without saying a word, they all killed the Shangguans. They didn't want to know that they were rebels.

Under the instinct of survival, they began to run to both sides. Even though they were exhausted, they were still separated and persisting in order to survive.

Before they could run far, they saw rebel cavalry appearing on both sides. A small number of soldiers had given up escaping and lying on the ground, gasping heavily, obeying fate's arrangements, but most of them had not given up yet. When they saw the enemy, they immediately turned around and flocked like headless flies.

Some smart guards appeared, and they were quickly chased and killed by running around. The ones lying on the ground were safe and sound. Although they didn't know why the enemy did not kill them, they stopped escaping and lay down on the spot in order to save their lives. Then more and more people gave up escaping.

Not long after, there was no living person standing on this land. The lieutenant soldiers were tied into a string by the cavalry and led them back to the city.

Li Yingyuan and Cheng Xikong calculated the results of the battle. There were not many soldiers in the guards who were killed or finished shooting, only 625 people, and 903 people were captured. Comparing the casualties of 12 people on their own, the battle was completely won.

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Wuqiao County Government.

Kong Youde was looking through the various documents found by his personal soldiers. There were many documents of various types, hoping to obtain some useful information, and a Tang newspaper attracted his attention.

Although the official documents are not punctuated these days, and they are still traditional Chinese characters, it is quite uncomfortable to read, Kong Youde still understood the general meaning.

The Tangbao arrived five days ago, and it said that the imperial army and Jiannu fought fiercely in Daling River for more than three months. On October 28, General Zu Dashou killed He Kegang, who would rather die than surrender. Then he opened the gate of Daling River and led the generals to surrender the Nu Ketai. Nu Ke led the troops to welcome Zu Dashou and his party. Later Zu Dashou and Nu Ke came to the altar to swear to worship the sky, and the battle of Daling River ended.

Kong Youde was very glad to choose the road of rebellion. If he really continued to go to Daling River, the battle of Daling River would be over half a month ago and he would not be able to get anything after going. The Wang family would definitely take revenge on him. Even if Sun Yuanhua wanted to help him, he would not even have an excuse to win the merits.

At the same time, he also felt that Zu Dashou's surrender was strange. Although he had only a little understanding of history at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he still knew the Battle of Songjin in the 15th year of Chongzhen.

That was the last battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. After a long battle, the Ming Dynasty finally lost. The last elite border troops of the Ming Dynasty were almost exhausted, otherwise Li Zicheng would not have entered Beijing so easily...
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