"One hundred and twenty-two people were killed on the northern wall, and 366 were seriously injured. Two hundred and eighty people were killed on the southern wall, and 420 were seriously injured."
The guard captain replied in a deep voice: "There are so many minor injuries that there are no statistics."
"How come there are so many casualties on the South City Wall?" Liu Tie asked in shock, "What is Qin Fei doing?"
In Liu Tie's view, the enemies on the north city wall were more numerous, more ferocious, and under greater pressure, so he stayed at the north city wall all day today.
I didn’t expect the southern city wall to be so damaged in the battle!
"The height of the south city wall is too low, and there are too many enemies climbing up. General Qin's arm was stabbed in the afternoon, and he didn't have time to bandage it until just now," the guard captain replied.
Liu Tie couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.
Although the Eastern Barbarians in the north are fierce, the northern city wall is much taller, making it very difficult for the enemy to charge up.
The south wall is much lower, and the enemy can climb up with a ladder.
Thinking of this, Liu Tie frowned tightly.
Although the siege battles of the past few days did not suffer as much damage as today's battle, there were also casualties of bodyguards and female soldiers every day. Adding in today's siege, the total battle losses have exceeded 2,000 people.
Although most of the battle losses were serious injuries, the fact that they were classified as seriously injured by military doctors at least meant that their combat effectiveness had been seriously affected and they could no longer participate in the war.
The Northern Expeditionary Army only had 5,000 people in total, including 1,000 support personnel.
In other words, in the past few days of siege, the total battle losses have exceeded half of the combatants.
If it were those veteran soldiers from before Dakang, even if the battle damage reached 10%, let alone half, the city would have been lost.
It is not easy for bodyguards and female soldiers to reach where they are now.
"With so many losses in the battle, it will be difficult to fight next!" Mr. Tian sighed.
Even though the food and grass were burned, they were unwilling to retreat, which is enough to prove the determination of the Eastern Barbarian Chanyu to capture Yuguan City.
It was so difficult to defend the city when there were 4,000 men. Now that half of the combat effectiveness has been lost, and grenades and kerosene are almost exhausted, one can imagine how difficult the next battle will be.
"If you don't want to fight, you have to fight!" Liu Tie gritted his teeth and said: "If you want to write a letter to your family while you are a little free now, please leave a letter to your family!"
Since Jin Feng started literacy classes in the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau and the Zhenyuan Army, the number of literate escorts has gradually increased. Whenever there is a life-or-death battle, more and more escorts write suicide notes in advance.
Leaving a suicide note expressed the determination to die. Zhang Liang felt that this would help improve morale, so instead of prohibiting it, he expressed an encouraging attitude.
Gradually, writing suicide notes before the war became a custom among the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau and the Zhenyuan Army.
The guard captain nodded and went down to inform.
Soon, the soldiers from the logistics battalion walked onto the city wall carrying bundles of white paper and pencils.
With the development of papermaking technology, white paper is no longer a rare thing for escorts.
In order to help the Northern Expeditionary Army improve their illiteracy after training, many steam ships were sent there.
When the escorts and female soldiers saw the white paper and pencil, they immediately understood what Liu Tie meant.
The atmosphere on the city wall suddenly became solemn and solemn.
Most of the female soldiers in the Zhenyuan Army came from the refugee camp in Damangpo. At first, many female soldiers joined the Zhenyuan Army with the idea of dying and letting their families receive a pension.
But after arriving in Jinchuan, their ideas gradually changed.
No one in Jinchuan looks down upon them. Most of the villagers and female workers treat them no differently from other female escorts after seeing them.
After the initial training, Zhang Liang sent them out to suppress bandits and train troops.
Everywhere they went, the local people would welcome them with gongs and drums!
This gave the female soldiers an unprecedented sense of accomplishment, and they gradually began to forget their original experiences. The thought of dying became less and less, and they felt that their days were becoming more and more promising.
But who knew that now he would die in Yuguan City, thousands of miles away.
Many female soldiers thought of their family members far away in Sichuan and Sichuan and couldn't help crying.
"Yao Mei'er, don't cry, and don't blame Brother Tiezi, this is our fate!"
A girl of eighteen or nineteen hugged her cousin and wiped the tears from her face.
"I don't blame Brother Tiezi. If I hadn't joined the Zhenyuan Army, I wouldn't have died in a ravine. I've earned it by living so long and seeing so many new things."
The cousin's tears fell again: "I just miss my mother, and I don't know if she is doing well or not."
Some of the female workers in the refugee camp originally joined the Zhenyuan Army, and more joined various factories owned by Jinfeng.
"Aren't you still worried about Mr. Jin's factory? I'm sure he won't cheat my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law has such dexterous hands, she will definitely live a good life in the future."
The elder sister patted her cousin on the shoulder and comforted her: "Besides, it's not like you are really going to die when you write a suicide note. Haven't we never written one before?
Didn't Brother Tiezi say this morning that the enemy's food and grass have been burned by the pilot brothers, so they jumped over the wall in a hurry, as long as we persist for two more days, they will definitely withdraw!"
"The north is the territory of the Eastern Barbarians. Even if we beat them away this time, they will definitely come back next time!"
"They have people, but we don't have any?" My sister said: "Sir, if he knows what's going on here, he will definitely send people to reinforce us. Maybe the big ship that spits smoke will come tomorrow!"
"Yes, Mr. Jin will not abandon us!"
The cousin nodded heavily, spread the white paper on the bricks, and began to write a suicide note.
The same thing happened all over the city walls.
For a time, the city wall was full of people writing letters with their heads down. Some people also asked their companions next to them when they encountered a word they couldn't write.
This was not the first time for both the bodyguard and the female soldier to write a suicide note. After writing it, they consciously folded the letter, wrote their names on the back, and handed it to their squad leader.
The squad leader tied up the squad's suicide note with a rope, wrote his duty number and handed it to the deputy platoon leader.
The deputy platoon leader then took the platoon as a unit and put the suicide notes of all squads into a box and gave them to the deputy company commander.
In this way, they were handed over layer by layer. Half an hour later, the guard captain carried two large baskets and delivered them to Liu Tie.
According to regulations, if the bodyguard died in battle, the suicide note would be sent back to Sichuan and handed over to their relatives. If he did not die, he could take the suicide note back himself.
"Send them to the cellar." Liu Tie also threw his suicide note into the basket.
At this time, the north and south sides of Yuguan City were besieged by the enemy, and the dock on the east sea was also blocked by the enemy. The suicide note could only be hidden in the city.
After the capture of Yuguan City, Zhang Liang ordered his people to dig a cellar in a dignitary's courtyard to store the documents and important supplies of the escort agency.
Liu Tie believed that even if they all died in the battle this time and failed to defend Yuguan City, Jin Feng would definitely take back Yuguan City again in the future.
Zhang Liang knew that cellar and would definitely be able to find their suicide notes.