Yang Zhen attributed the success of this battle to the joint efforts of everyone. In fact, it was really not a high-profile statement, nor was it simply to continue to win over the few people who were with him now.

Zu Keyong's troops, including Zu Keyong himself, totaled 101 people. In the end, those who were withdrawn alive, including Zu Keyong, were left with 70 people. Thirty-one of them were either lost in the Tartars.

In the sub-camp, they either died in battle during the retreat.

These people are not the Mongolian soldiers under Xu Changyong, nor are they the boatmen and oarsmen under Yuan Jin who have never been on the battlefield.

These people under Zu Keyong were all elites in Zu Dashou's army. The death of each of them had several people behind them.

Without the hard work and casualties of these people, the musketeers under Yang Zhen would not only not be able to play a big role when facing the organized Tatars and Tatar Aha, but even self-protection would become a problem.

Even though Xu Changyong's troops and Yuan Jin's troops were unable to organize effectively during this night attack and had been in a state of stragglers, they actually played a very important role.

These people were running around in the Tatar camp, running wherever there was no one around, setting fires while running, and grabbing whatever they could.

Not only were a lot of haystacks and grain stores burned, but also the stables without any war horses, and even many tents where the Tartar Aha camped were also burned.

Their random fighting initially confused the Tatar Beizi Ye Lotto, who was confused about who was hijacking the camp, where the main force was, and what their purpose was, which delayed the time to make a correct response.

This is tantamount to creating a rare opportunity for the grenadiers, the main force under Yang Zhen's command.

Especially the tung oil provided by Yuan Jin and the fleet provided by Yuan Jin, both of which are strategic. Without these two conditions, no matter how good Yang Zhen's plan is, it will not be implemented smoothly.

Of course, these things that Yang Zhen thought of were not things that ordinary people in this era would think of. In the eyes of those people, they only looked at who charged forward and who retreated behind, and used this to judge the credit.

If we look at it from this aspect, it was Yang Zhen's grenadiers who blew up the Tatar camp. The first to cross over into the camp was Zhang Chen's musketeers, and the last ones stayed behind to block the enemy for others.

The most important ones are the artillery and musketeers under Yang Zhen.

If calculated based on the merit of "killing generals", then the team that killed the Tatar general Lotobez with a gun in the Tatar camp was still the gun team under Yang Zhen.

Regarding this point, Xu Changyong and Yuan Jin could pretend to be confused, but Zu Keyong was aboveboard and made the distinction very clearly.

In the second half of that night, the generals led their ministries back from a hard battle. After a short meeting to celebrate the victory, everyone returned to the camp, counted casualties, calculated gains, and took a quick rest.

It dawned early on the beach. It took about just over an hour before the sky broke. The red sun was already halfway above the sea level in the east.

After last night's night attack on the camp and the burning of food and fodder, the soldiers in each department had confidence in their hearts. Everyone knew that this battle would not last long, so they slept very soundly.

The fire-headed soldiers in various ministries are no longer stingy with food, and they are no longer taboo about cooking smoke and fire, as they will be discovered by enemy patrols, so they start cooking pots and boiling water early in the morning.

, those who make porridge make porridge, those who bake pancakes, they are very busy.

Although the sun is very bright, it is still cold in the morning, and the sea breeze is not strong, but it still feels biting when it hits the face and blows on the body.

Yang Zhen woke up from his deep sleep and was still in his shack when he heard several people talking outside.

I heard a loud voice say: "I'm talking about Zhan'ao, is Brother Yang awake? Don't go to sleep if he's not awake. Go and wake him up quickly! We still have things to discuss!"

Yang Zhen heard the voice and knew it was Xu Changyong, so he said in the shack: "No need to scream! Get up now!"

In a moment, Yang Zhen climbed onto the ground from the shack.

The rising sun was so bright that he couldn't open his eyes for a while.

In the past few days, he always moved at night and slept during the day, as if he was used to the night, but was not used to the daylight.

Not long after Yang Zhen came back last night, he fell asleep. The so-called "wash and then sleep" that later generations were accustomed to has now become a distant memory in dreams.

Now, his entire body stinks. His clothes have never been changed since he left Ningyuan City, and there is no one around him who would do this.

Not only have the clothes never been changed, but also the hair has never been washed.

Fortunately, men in this era, although their hair is long, are always gathered on the top of their heads and tied into a bun, just like the bun that was once popular in later generations.

As long as he tied it tightly and didn't let it go, he wouldn't be able to smell the oily smell.

Although Yang Zhen was now dressed in rags from head to toe, and his whole body was extremely dirty and dirty, no one could deny that he had an air of awe and inviolability about him.

The most important thing is that almost everyone in the advance camp is like this. As the saying goes, if the eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother, no one needs to laugh at anyone else.

As for the Mongolian soldiers under Xu Changyong's command, they are even worse than Yang Zhen's filthiness. After all, everyone is equally dirty. Who are you laughing at!

Yang Zhen looked like this when he walked out of the shack. His bun was a little loose, dirty and miserable, like a beggar leader who had been begging for a living for many years.

However, Xu Changyong, Yuan Jin and Zu Keyong, none of them paid attention to the superficial things. When they saw Yang Zhen, they all bowed and saluted with fists in their hands.

After the salute, Xu Changyong said: "Brother! I went back to camp last night and did some counting. Among the 300 Mongolian soldiers under my brother's command, plus more than 30 personal soldiers and servants, only 208 people came back alive! I didn't pay attention at the time.

, but when I thought about it, I realized that this was a loss of more than one-third!

"There were some seizures, but not a single head was brought back. The brothers only brought back some gold and silver, Dongzhu's valuable items! Brother, do the math, it's worth about a thousand taels of silver! Brother, you said before the war

However, everything seized this time belongs to the public and must be divided uniformly! As an elder brother, you can’t be ignorant! Someone will bring it to you in a while, let’s divide it!

"In addition, my brother, Brother Yuan, and Brother Zu also made a brief summary! It is better to report the merits sooner rather than later! On the other side of Ningyuan, we are looking forward to it day and night, hoping that we can make some noise! ​​This time we made a noise

It's so big, we can't let them know about it as soon as possible! Marshal Zu and Governor Fang have to give an explanation to the court, right? If you don't have any objections, let's ask Brother Yuan to send a boat today and go back to report the victory quickly! As for reporting the victory, how about reporting the victory?

Let’s discuss how to retaliate!”

When Yang Zhen heard Xu Changyong's words, he sighed in his heart. Where did he go? The rescue of Songshan was like just drawing a stroke of the horoscope, and then he started thinking about retribution.

However, before he started to speak, Zhang Degui, who was standing on the same side, said: "Xu Guoqi! Our Yang Xiezhen is the leader of the advance camp! Yang Xiezhen hasn't spoken yet, and you have decided on these things?

!It’s a bit too unkind to do this!”

Everyone could hear the unhappiness in Zhang Degui's words.

"Don't! Don't! Don't! Brother Zhang! Don't be upset first! Xu Youyi - Brother Xu didn't mean this! We were on the way here just now, and we just bumped into each other, just took a look! Last night, we

It’s a meritorious service! There’s no problem with that, it’s all true!

"But if you don't report this credit quickly, you might not know whose head it will be in the end! We are also protecting Brother Yang! We are also protecting ourselves! We will fight to the death, fight to the death, and survive.

If you don't survive in the end, will you be worthy of your dead brothers?!

"Especially my brother's naval camp, before setting off from Ningyuan, there was no military order to participate in the war! Now more than a hundred brothers have been killed and injured, and the bodies have not been brought back. If we don't make this matter clear to the superiors quickly, how will we report to the superiors in the future?

Doctor Yuan gave an account! How could Doctor Yuan explain to the court?

"Of course, at this point, I have to talk about the seizures! We didn't bring back any of the heads, not even the little pigtails full of Tatars! But just like Brother Xu's men, the water
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