My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Jiang Li was shocked when he learned about the casualty rate. You know, the US Army had a regulation in later generations that as long as the death toll of a troop exceeded 30%, they could surrender directly on the spot.

And now, with such a ragtag group of troops and such heavy casualties, they didn't collapse at all. This really made him feel weird, so he hurriedly asked about the situation.

After asking this question, he found out that these guys had wanted to retreat since they reached the first line of defense, but as soon as they left the cover of the stone wall, they were beaten so badly that they had to hide behind the stone wall and continue fighting.

When Shen Quan's cannon sounded again, they lost the courage to escape. After all, the supervisory team had shot them when they ran away just now. If they ran again, he would shoot them with cannons.

With no other choice, they could only continue fighting. Fortunately, the enemy could not withstand the artillery fire and collapsed faster than them, and Jiang Li's support troops arrived in time.

When they saw that they had won the battle, they were no longer timid and cowardly. They immediately turned into tigers and attacked the bandits. Together with the support troops, they attacked the stronghold and killed all the bandits.

Seeing so many wounded, Jiang Li immediately called the medical team and asked them to bandage the wounded and stop the bleeding. However, because Jiang Li wanted to ensure that other groups of people also had medical teams, he directly divided the medical team into four.

Now he only has a dozen medical staff here, but there are more than a hundred wounded. They are so busy that they are dizzy. Finally, with the help of some soldiers, they successfully completed the disinfection and bandaging of all the wounded.

Jiang Li looked up and saw that it was getting late. He wanted to rest for a night before leaving.

But when they thought of the more than one hundred wounded soldiers, they finally decided to return to Guyang County overnight and give them further treatment as soon as possible to prevent these veterans who had experienced the war from suffering further losses.

He asked his men to pack up the spoils, and then took the women with him to Guyang County. It was almost dark when these several hundred people finally arrived at the county town.

After returning to the newly built military camp a few days ago and settling down, he ordered his men to take the wounded for further treatment. He then killed some captured livestock and gave the soldiers a good meal.

He went to bed early because he had been dealing with reports from various towns in the past few days and today he led his troops to travel dozens of miles to eliminate bandits, which really made him very tired.

Silent all night.

The next morning, the other three teams also returned one after another, and each team had seized some spoils, which clearly showed that they had successfully completed the first phase of the bandit suppression mission.

After seeing the battle report they submitted, Jiang Li was speechless, because his side suffered the greatest casualties, while the other three teams only had forty to fifty people at most.

It's not that Jiang Li was not a good commander, but the 200 surrendered soldiers there were too weak, and the 300 bandits were numerous and ruthless, and the key was that they had the advantage of terrain, which caused the group of surrendered soldiers led by Jiang Li to suffer heavy casualties.

Summarizing these reports, the first phase of the bandit suppression campaign yielded a total of 110,000 yuan, 43 kilograms of gold, 380,000 kilograms of grain, 376 intact guns, and 90,000 rounds of bullets.

There were more than 400 livestock of various kinds, and 120 women who were captured on the mountain were rescued.

But seeing that many of these people had dull expressions and distracted eyes, he could only keep them temporarily.

Then he called a meeting of all the company commanders and said, "The first phase of the bandit suppression has been completed. Almost all the bandit strongholds that should be killed in Guyang County have been eliminated. I would like to thank everyone for their efforts on behalf of the people of Guyang County."

"But according to intelligence, there are still more than a dozen bandit gangs in the county. However, these bandits no longer need to be wiped out like the ones we eliminated before."

"We should mainly try to appease them, and if that doesn't work, we should resort to force to eliminate them. Do you understand?"

Everyone agreed when they heard this, and then discussed the second phase of the bandit suppression mission together.

After discussing what words and conditions to use to persuade the enemy, they each went to prepare.

In order to prevent the bandits from getting the news and running away early, they did not even give them rewards or rest, and continued to lead their men on the journey.

After half a month, all the bandits in Guyang County were finally pacified and eliminated. Jiang Li also stationed troops in various towns to prevent the recurrence of banditry.

Speaking of which, General Zhang Tiande's surrendered soldiers suffered heavy casualties in this bandit suppression campaign, with the number of deaths and serious injuries reaching 100. Among the 800 surrendered soldiers, only 500 are intact, and there are about 200 wounded.

But after such a battle, those who remain are all capable of being used. As long as you filter out the smokers and ruffians among them, break them up and assign them to company commanders for a little training, you will be reborn and be able to defeat Zhang Tiande's original troops.

After a screening, four hundred people were left. Together with the fifteen hundred people he brought this time, he now had nearly nineteen hundred troops in Guyang County.

After leaving two platoons of sixty people in each of the eleven towns, they left another three hundred and fifty people in Guyang County, and then prepared to return to Tengteng County with the spoils of war, as well as the horses, gold and silver.

As for the grain, it was indeed not moved. After all, nearly 400,000 kilograms of grain were seized from the bandits, and more than 10 million kilograms were seized from the landlords. It was simply unrealistic to transport all of it away.

So he cleaned up a few yards to store the grain, just like before, and used it directly as military rations for the dozen or so towns around.

But just as he was about to set off, he suddenly thought of a problem. That is, the women who had been abducted to the mountain before were still recuperating in the military camp. If they were not arranged to go home as soon as possible, there would be a lot of trouble in the future.

However, since all these women had been raped by the bandits and many of them were pregnant, they did not dare to reveal their home addresses.

After all, the feudal ethics of those days were extremely strong. If they really went back home, they would most likely die.

He had no choice but to give them a try and spend more time to settle them down, so he simply gathered all the women together and listened to what their plans were.

Looking at the two or three hundred young women below, he shouted loudly, "Sisters, I think you know me, so I won't waste any more time talking nonsense here. I just want to ask you one question today: have you ever thought about where you will go in the future?"

The women were all very confused when they heard this. After a period of rest, most of them had recovered a little bit of their spirits, but when they heard Jiang Li's words, they had no idea how to answer.

Seeing that they were silent, Jiang Li simply said bluntly, "I understand your situation. You definitely can't go home. Why don't you follow me to Tengteng County? I'll arrange some work for you."

"No one knows you there. You can start a new life here. What do you think?"