Of course Shang Yi knew that the victory over the Qing army this time was mostly due to the favorable terrain around Mulingguan, as well as the low morale and exhaustion of the Qing army after they were unable to attack the city. Although it is worth celebrating after a great victory, it must not stop there.
I thought that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was nothing more than this. If it were in a plain area, I am afraid that even the three thousand men and horses behind Bu Sagui would not be easily defeated. The Qing army only needed to contain the front, while sending troops to the two sides behind the Muling army.
, although the Muling Army may not be defeated, but if they want to win, they may have to pay a high price.
Therefore, Shang Yi immediately ordered a reconnaissance team to go to Yishui County to inquire about the movements of the Qing army. He then ordered people to clean the battlefield, count the losses, record the captured trophies, and other tasks.
However, the entire cleanup work took three days to complete, and this was the result of the dispatch of more than 5,000 city residents. Can the grain and grass supplies carried by the 26,000 army be a small amount? Now in Muling Pass, even
There were less than 12,000 soldiers, and the number of residents outside the north of the city was only more than 5,000 or 6,000. It was still much smaller than the Qing army.
After the final statistics, a total of 3,673 people were beheaded and 378 people were captured in this battle. Among the prisoners, there were 73 full Eight Banners soldiers, including one Niu Lu Ezhen.
There are five white-armored soldiers, eight horse soldiers, twelve combat soldiers, eighteen infantrymen, and twenty-nine auxiliary soldiers. There are one hundred and sixty-six Han soldiers. The rest are followers.
The loot captured was even richer, including 1,643 pieces of iron armor, 837 pieces of chain mail, 2,621 pieces of cotton armor, and 1,835 pieces of leather armor.
There are 474 compound bows, 2923 shields, more than 6000 swords and guns, 35 large flags, 133 back flags, and 1200 tents.
Seventy-three heads, 1,547 pieces of felt, 267 large and small vehicles, 382 horses, 675 donkeys, 368 oxen, pigs and sheep
There are more than a thousand livestock.
In addition, there are 6,600 shi of grain, 1,200 shi of flour, 380 jars of wine, 1,500 sheaves of silk cloth, more than 83,000 taels of silver, and 2,500 taels of gold. Others
There were more than 800 gold and silver vessels, more than 500 animal skins, and 438 dead horses.
In this battle, the Muling Army lost 238 soldiers and 57 others were injured. The casualties were less than those in the previous battle. This was partly because after the previous battle, Mu Ling's army lost 238 soldiers and 57 others were injured.
The soldiers of the Ling Army gradually matured a lot. On the other hand, they also benefited from Shang Yi's full preparation before the battle and his use of correct tactics and on-the-battle command during the battle.
It can be said that this time the Muling Army achieved a great victory and a great harvest, including weapons, horses, livestock, materials, food, and money. It almost exceeded the harvest of the Muling Army after previous battles.
Shang Yi has always had a headache due to the population problem. More and more residents are fleeing to Muling Pass. Not only do they have no place to live, but the food gap is also getting bigger and bigger. Now the food in Muling Pass is only enough for more than two months.
, it is still more than a month before the Qing army withdraws in another time and space, but with this batch of food, it is completely enough for Shang Yi to tide over the current difficulties. Not only that, it can also accept another group of refugees. And Jin
Although the silver is useless now, after the Qing army retreats, Muling Pass will have to be rebuilt and residents' homes will have to be rebuilt. By then, large sums of money will be needed.
Looking back now, since the establishment of the militia, Shang Yi seems to have used a small amount of the materials he produced himself. Most of them were robbed, first from bandits, then from rogue bandits, and now from the Qing army. The more they rob, the bigger they get, the more they rob, and the more they rob, the better. Naturally, the Qing army has the most and the best stuff.
This also reminds Shang Yi of the classic guerrilla song more than three hundred years later in another time and space. Although the current Muling Army does not fully use guerrilla tactics, it is still used on this army. It's quite appropriate.
Military songs are actually one of the foundations and deposits of an army. Even in ancient times, there were military songs from various eras, such as "Qin Feng? Wu Yi" in "The Book of Songs" and "National Sorrow" in "Nine Songs". , the "King of Qin's Breaking Formation Song" in the Tang Dynasty, the "Triumph Song" in the Ming Dynasty, and even the later Beiyang Army's "Instigation Song", not to mention that in the history of the Republic, a series of classic and catchy military songs were produced. Song.
Although the size of the Muling Army is not large now, the basic skeleton has been formed. It not only needs to train the soldiers' combat capabilities, but also needs to strengthen the soldiers' spiritual and ideological understanding. Chinese historical experience has proven that any military with outstanding combat effectiveness The army is definitely an army with faith and spiritual power. This is true for the Yue Family Army and the Qi Family Army. Soldiers must have faith and know why they fight desperately. Shang Yi has also consciously guided in this regard in the past. , but we need to carry out traditional education in the future.
Then Shang Yi ordered that the whole city celebrated the victory and used all the more than 400 dead horses for cooking. At the same time, ten cows, twenty pigs, and forty sheep were slaughtered. Three hundred jars of wine were also opened. Every household, whether in the city or outside the city, was given a portion of meat and a jug of wine, and every household could drink and eat as much as they liked.
In such a turbulent period, you can still eat meat and drink wine. The residents of Mulingguan, especially those who were rescued from the Qing army, were very excited. Some even cried. Others answered. After the feast, they couldn't help but bow in the direction of Mr. Qian's Yamen. The residents who had earlier moved to Mulingguan further understood how happy they were to live a stable life now, and they also expressed their gratitude to Shang Yi who had brought this kind of life to them. Full of gratitude.
At the same time, Shang Yi arranged a banquet at Qianzong Yamen to celebrate this great victory with the generals. At the banquet, Shang Yi asked the soldiers of the Youth Corps to sing a guerrilla song that he had slightly modified.
In fact, there is no big problem in using the whole song in this era. Shang Yi only changed the third sentence "In the dense woods, comrades' campsites are arranged everywhere" and changed the word "comrade" to "comrade". "Companion", the sixth sentence "There is no gun, no cannon, the enemy made it for us" was changed to "knife". Others include the first sentence "We are all sharpshooters, every bullet destroys an enemy" Nothing has been changed.
The lyrics of this song are simple and easy to remember, full of optimism, and the melody is light, smooth, lively and lively. After the youth team sang it, it immediately aroused great interest among the generals, because the fifth and sixth lyrics, It is very consistent with the situation since the formation of the Muling Army, and the last two sentences are "We grew up here, and every inch of land is our own. No matter who wants to occupy it, we will fight with him to the end!" It is based on Mu Ling's army. On the basis of the fact that the Ling Army defeated the Qing army's attack twice, it resonated with the generals. Therefore, at the banquet, everyone unanimously agreed to designate this song as the military insignia of the Muling Army. Of course, the name was also changed to Song of Muling Army.
Xiao Wenjun and Han Zhi couldn't help but look at Shang Yi with admiration. They didn't expect that he, a martial artist, could actually know the music and compose his own songs. Although this song was written straightforwardly, it also had a heroic temperament. Therefore, the two of them He praised Shang Yi again.
Even Shang Yi himself found it funny. If he had traveled back in time during the Tang and Song dynasties, he could have pirated ancient songs, famous poems, and gained a reputation as a talented scholar, and maybe even seduced a few talented women. Pirating ancient songs, famous poems, and famous phrases has been a common practice since ancient times. Traveling through time is a must-have tool for seducing girls. It’s a pity that I traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the end of the Ming Dynasty. Since this era, famous poems and terms have almost disappeared in the classics, and even three of the four major Ming works have been published, leaving I only have one copy of "Dream of Red Mansions" left for me.
In another time and space, the song "Spring Snow in the Garden" by Taizu of the Republic could be called a classic. However, Shang Yi knew that if he threw out this poem now, he would probably lose his reputation if he wrote it. My head was chopped off. But after I go back, I can look up Taizu's poetry selection and see if there are any other suitable ones.
After the celebration banquet, the next day, Shang Yi also received a report from the scouts about the movements of the Qing Army.
After the defeat, even though they still had nearly 20,000 troops, Turge and Bolo did not dare to attack Muling Pass again, and even did not even dare to enter the mountains. But they held back their anger and lost so much. There is a lot of food, grass, materials and money, so I have to find a way to make up for it. Otherwise, it will be difficult to go back to see Abatai like this.
So the two of them vented their anger on several counties near Yishui County. They led the army to wander around southern Qingzhou, slaughtering more than a dozen villages and killing thousands of people. Only then did they vent their anger. Some. Then they successively captured Zhucheng, Rizhao, Mengyin and other counties. They looted all the counties for a while. When they left, they set fire to all the county towns and robbed a lot of food, materials and money. At the same time, nearly 20,000 more people were arrested. This was able to make up for some losses, and the two led their troops back to Yanzhou Prefecture.
After Shang Yi learned of this situation, he had no choice but to do so. The current Muling Army could only defend Muling Pass and the surrounding mountainous areas, and could not even protect the nearby Yishui County. Although the Muling Army attacked twice The Qing army retreated, but it was based on having a solid city to defend and being familiar with the mountainous terrain. Once they left Muling Pass and walked out of the mountainous area, the combat effectiveness of the Muling Army would inevitably be greatly reduced.
Therefore, Shang Yi could not control the affairs outside the mountain, so he could only protect his three-thirds of an acre of land first.
However, the Qing army burned, killed and looted in southern Qingzhou, creating many refugees. After hearing that the Muling army defeated the Qing army again, they all fled to Muling Pass. Now the food and material reserves in Muling Pass are also It was enough, and Shang Yi was much more confident, and he accepted all the refugees without hesitation.
It's just that there is really no room for accommodation in Guancheng, so the refugees who fled later were arranged to live outside Beiguan. Fortunately, this time they grabbed a lot of tents and felts from the Qing army, which happened to be used. At the same time, Shang Yi Orders were given to select young men from the refugees and add them to Muling's army.