Chapter 1213 Blood River Sunset
The natives in the front row were shot mercilessly, with layers of corpses, while the natives in the back were still screaming and rushing forward.
Some native warriors had no way to retreat, so they could only rush forward desperately, overturning their carbine guns, and rushing to the front of the ox cart, but they still couldn't escape the sharp crossbow.
Under the fierce attack from the front, the natives touched it from the side again, trying to climb up from the slope.
Cun En immediately dispatched part of the cavalry, let them condescend to shoot with bows and arrows those who tried to climb up.
The cavalry were condescending, arrows rained down, and there was no shelter in the ditch, so they could only be slaughtered mercilessly.
On the front, after several rounds of charges, the barbarians still couldn't find any breakthrough, and the powerful bow and crossbow strikes of the Luzon Army made their corpses piled up layer upon 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 corpses all over the ground, the natives retreated within two quarters of an hour of their attack.
"Coach, the barbarians have retreated."
Cun En nodded, at this time the morning fog began to dissipate, exposing the sun in the east.
Under the thin mist, you can see the natives retreating in embarrassment.
"Please Liu Hui and other knights lead five cavalry to attack, and don't give them a chance to regroup."
Cun En gave the order, and several great knights, who had already been eager to try, immediately led their cavalry and killed them fiercely.
The exhausted barbarians, whose morale was extremely low at this time, especially the few elite among them who had suffered heavy injuries in front of the chariot formation, were panicked and still hesitating whether to continue to attack, Tang Qi came over.
Two hundred and fifty rides.
Five teams charge.
There are not many of them, but for the barbarians, have you ever seen a unit riding such a tall creature? In particular, these cavalry are well equipped, with cotton armor and iron chain armor, and even horses have vests.
These cavalry were originally the knights entrusted by Qin Lang. The first condition to become a knight is to prepare a full set of knight equipment and horses, as well as a corresponding number of armored infantry. If the rank is high, they must also have armored cavalry.
Although it is said to be self-made equipment, in fact, in order to unify the equipment, the equipment of the knights 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 does not mean that they will find a blacksmith to build it. Weapons, and then all kinds of weapons appear on the battlefield.
Cavalry, the strongest unit 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 car formation, and almost all the other barbarians were captured.
A large number of corpses were scattered by the river in front of the battle, and even the river was full of corpses that could not escape, and the blood stained the small river.
"This river should be named Blood River."
"Wouldn't Blood River be too bloody, why not call it Red River?"
"The Jiaozhou River is called the Red River, or the Blood River. It's quite vivid and intuitive."
The Battle of Blood River lasted less than an hour before it was completely over. In the end, it took about an hour to capture all the thousand deserters who had fled from the battlefield.
"How many brothers have we lost?" Cun En asked.
"We are still counting, and it seems that no deaths have been reported yet."
Cun En didn't care, thinking that the numbers must have not been sorted out. Although the battle was short, it was so intense after all.
"Let the scribes of each team count the casualties as soon as possible, and the injured soldiers must be treated by the military doctor in the supply camp immediately."
"Also, let the supply camp prepare to cook, everyone is probably hungry."
In the marching organization of the Luzon Army, a small team of three people is implemented, a squadron of nine people is implemented, and a squadron of five is the basic organization of a large squadron. Flag, flag guards and scribes five people, forming a fifty-member brigade.
When fighting, the team leader should lead the battle in the first row, the team deputy Ti Modao is 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 scribe, who is responsible for the military documents, as well as military exploits, casualty statistics, etc.
"Coach, the statistics are out. In this battle, we beheaded 1031 enemies and captured 2257 people."
"What about our casualties?"
"We didn't die in battle, we weren't seriously injured, only three people were slightly injured, all of which were minor superficial injuries, and the military doctors had already bandaged them."
Qin Cunen was stunned.
"Only three people were slightly injured?"
"I was also very surprised when I first heard it, and I went to check it myself. Indeed, only three were injured. One guy stepped on our barbed wire by himself, and the other guy was hit by a stone thrown by the natives. A tooth was lost, which is considered the most serious injury, and another cavalryman was bitten when he was capturing a prisoner, and the skin on his hand was bitten and blood came out."
Qin Cun'en let out a long sigh after hearing this.
This casualty data is really unexpected. They fought against the natives on Shilong Island before. Although the casualties were light, they were not so exaggerated.
Sounds unbelievable.
Chun En personally visited the three unfortunate wounded soldiers, only to see that they were bragging to their companions, alive and kicking, even the guy with one missing tooth was still talking about getting a gold tooth in the future.
"Coach, do we have sick meals today?" The toothless guy asked with a shameless smile.
"You may have."
"Then do we have injury subsidies?" The toothless soldier pointed to his swollen mouth and the vacant tooth cavity, "Should I be seriously injured?"
"But it's not considered a serious injury. You will be subsidized according to a minor injury."
As for the other two guys, Cun En also promised to give them minor injury subsidies according to the rules.
After turning around, the supply camp also prepared meals.
Today’s meals are quite rich. When the barbarians came, they brought a lot of livestock and luggage with the army. These were originally brought out when they fled from the village, and now they have become their spoils of war.
Eating the delicious stew, Cun En discussed the next step with the team's top officers.
"I think this place is not bad. It is about 20 miles away from the Heisha River and less than 50 miles away from the camp at the mouth of the Heisha River. It is only 20 or 30 miles away from the southeast along the Blood River to the bay. Why don't we build one here? Set up a stronghold, and then build another stronghold at the mouth of the southeast river, and build another stronghold at the source of the river at the foot of the northeast mountain. With the three fortresses and castles in one line, you can control the area east of the Heisha River."
"When will the barbarians here come back?"
"This is not clear, maybe soon, maybe it won't come back."
Cun En thought that the barbarians would not be able to return for a while. They went to the north and were still planning to besiege San Francisco. If they really went to attack San Francisco, it would be their own death, and they might not come back at all. If they didn't go, they wouldn't be able to come back for a while.
But if they come back, they must pass through the valley pass in the northern mountainous area, so as long as they first seize that valley and build a fortress there, they will be able to strangle their way back.
"There is more than one river valley mouth leading to the Black Sand Plain."
"There are only three roads."
Except for these three main roads, other small roads over mountains and mountains can be ignored. As long as these three valley entrances are blocked, the barbarians who want to come back can only go along the bank of the Taal River in the east to the seaside if they want to come back. Then come along the coast.
So Yue Yin should seize the opportunity.
Finally, everyone decided to divide the troops.
After contacting the naval fleet of the middle road, they expressed their willingness to undertake the task of building a castle upstream and blocking the valley entrance of the middle road, and the east was handed over to Cun En's left army.
So Cun'en and the others split into two groups, one stayed here to build the Blood River Fort, and the other went down the Blood River to the mouth of the sea, where they chose a place to build a fortress, like the Black Sand Castle, facing the sea and facing the river. You can have a dock port.
"Victory to San Francisco!"
The Blood River victory was sent back to the Black Sand 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.
Hearing that Qin Jun and the others quickly occupied the entire Heisha Plain, Qin Lang was very happy.
After conquering such a large area, in several battles, nearly 2,000 enemies were wiped out, and four to five thousand were captured. As a result, none of them died and less than ten people were injured.
Happy Qin Lang also boldly swiped his pen and wrote back to Qin Jun.
He asked Qin Jun to set aside 200,000 mu of land on the Heisha Plain for him as a gift for the soldiers who went to war.
Zhanfu has nearly 7,000 people and distributes 200,000 mu of land.
An average of 30 mu can be allocated to one person, but this batch of land belongs to the granted land, which can be hereditary forever, but it does not belong to the fiefdom, that is, it does not enjoy the privileges of the fiefdom, and it does not have one-third of the tax revenue. There is also no obligation to dispose of military equipment for military service.
But after all, it is a permanent inheritance that can be passed on to future generations.
Especially compared to the smoothness of this conquest, with almost no casualties, but getting almost one-third of the land that was laid down, Qin Lang can be said to be generous.
Heisha Fort, Blood River Fort, White Harbor, Chiling Fort, Songgang City, five castle fortresses were also established with Qin Lang's approval.
New Heisha County was set up, five townships were set up, and five castles were used as the governing seat of the township.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land on the Great Plains, Heisha County also has many lands in the hilly areas of the surrounding mountains, which belong to the five townships.
If you are willing to purchase the conquest soldiers, you can give priority to purchase.
As for the captive barbarians, Qin Lang also agreed to save the way they agreed to deal with them, and stay there first to build castles and so on.
But after the castle fortress was repaired, Qin Lang said that there was no need to bother sending it to San Francisco, but that the internal auction was given priority. As long as the soldiers from Heisha want to buy it, they can participate in the auction to buy it, and try to give everyone more preferential benefits.
Qin Lang told Qin Jun that they don’t have to worry about San Francisco for the time being. Although the barbarians are still gathering troops and have started to attack some manors outside San Francisco, Qin Lang is not worried, he has already prepared his defenses.
He asked Cun En and the others to sweep and conquer the native villages on the Heisha side as soon as possible, and then build a few supporting strongholds fortresses, and then sweep the surrounding mountains next.
After the situation stabilizes, troops may be withdrawn in batches depending on the situation.
(end of this chapter)