In one day, the Ming army suffered more than two thousand casualties, and the Qing army doubled.

Among the four thousand generals in the Zhizi Camp, one was shot by arrows and died of death. The other was hit by fragments of the shells and was seriously injured. The remaining two were also slightly injured, but it was not serious. The general and general flags were killed in battle, and countless small flags were even more.

The new recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time suffered even heavier losses. They didn't know how to avoid bows, arrows, artillery, or how to face the enemy. As soon as the cannon sounded, they ran around; and when the Qing army attacked, they attacked blindly, and the proportion of casualties was as high as 70%.

But after such a tragic battle, many of the people who survived can be tempered into experienced and experienced elite soldiers in a very short time in the future.

The city was covered with dead bodies, and a strong smell of blood drifted over the city with the wind. Tomorrow, the battle will continue, and neither side has more energy to restrain the bodies of the dead at this time.

The night was dark. Every twenty steps in the city, there were lit bonfires, illuminating the entire sky like daylight.

Nearly two thousand people were walking back and forth on it, extremely busy. The injured were carried away by them during the battle and healed them. Now the bodies of the dead were left on the city wall, including the Qing army and the Ming army.

They needed to carry all these corpses down the city, and special personnel distinguished which soldiers were from the Ming Dynasty and which soldiers from the Qing Dynasty.

The body of the Ming army would be placed in a centralized place and would be buried after the war was over. However, the Qing army, except for some of the higher-ranking identities, the heads would be cut off, and the rest would be burned directly.

The peeled armor is piled up in one place like a hill, and the weapons can be used are placed aside. The broken swords and guns will be collected and transported to the blacksmith in the city. After they are melted, they will recreate new weapons.

Plasterers and carpenters were also busy on the city walls, knocking and pounding. They had a whole night to repair the gaps in the city walls, using stones, bricks, and even hardwood, and were definitely not as solid as before. But at critical moments, they could save the lives of countless soldiers.

There were nearly a thousand soldiers left on the top of the city. They ate supper directly on the top of the city and were responsible for monitoring the movements of the Qing army outside the city in the middle of the night. Most of the remaining troops stayed in the barracks at the corner of the city, where they would eat and rest. Once they received warnings from the soldiers on the city, they could go to the city to help with defense as soon as possible.

While the Qing army was mainly attacking the North City, it also sent soldiers to attack the east and west city walls. However, compared with the North City, they invested very few people, less than a thousand people. The two sides basically shot each other along the city walls, and the losses were not great, and the effect of the connection exceeded the actual significance.

After the Qing army retreated, Zhou Xian summoned all the generals to come to the north city.

Some generals proposed to go out of the city to attack while the night was dark, but some generals had different opinions.

Zhou Xian believed that although the Qing army's strong attack in one day was weak, its strength remained. And under such circumstances, they could not be without any precaution. Finally, they made a decision that the entire army would stay in the city tonight to rest and prohibit anyone from leaving the city.

In the city, 1,500 soldiers were transferred from the defenders of the south, east and west walls, and quietly moved to the north city under the night. At the same time, the young and strong men in the city who had not yet been trained were put on armor, pretended to be elite soldiers, and climbed onto the east and west walls. They also placed more flags on it to mislead the Qing army.

After the discussion was completed, the generals had supper together. They discussed the current situation, although they were still a little worried. At the same time, everyone was very optimistic.

Huang Fei still stayed in the North City, and the others dispersed. Although the Qing army had little chance of launching a large-scale attack at night, the dark night was extremely beneficial to a small group of soldiers attacking the upper city. At this time, it was more dangerous than the strong attack during the day.

After Zhou Xian went to the city for a walk, he went to the school ground accompanied by a team of personal soldiers, which is now the place to accommodate the wounded.

Today's bloody battle drew many wounded people. Although Zhou Xian was psychologically guarded against this, the number of people was still a bit beyond his expectations.

When he set off from Denglai, Zhou Xian summoned fifty medical officers and a large number of herbs, thinking that it should be enough. But according to the current situation, he was a little optimistic at first. The conditions were not good and the medical officers were short. Although all the wounded soldiers were carried down, some of them would still die tonight.

The barracks were filled with all kinds of moans, and the few medical officers were busy helping them to stop their injuries. From time to time, someone let out a loud scream, which was because someone accidentally touched his wound.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes health preservation, while Western medicine emphasizes treatment.

Traditional Chinese medicine officials have very limited ability to deal with such external trauma. Most of the time, they just stop bleeding first, then cover the wound with herbs, and add boiled decoctions to allow it to heal itself slowly. Then, they provide these wounded soldiers with enough nutritious food to help them recover as soon as possible.

And this is as fast as possible, perhaps more than ten days, or dozens of days. It is indeed much slower than Western medicine. But traditional Chinese medicine also has its own advantages, which is that its side effects are smaller. And although the main purpose is to treat injuries, a pair of herbs can have a lot of effects. Often after a period of time, not only the wound heals, but other minor diseases will also heal, which is also considered an unexpected gain.

What surprised Zhou Xian was that there were not many medical officials, but there were many people who assisted in their treatment. This really required thanks to Haoge, who sent cavalrymen to massacre the people of the surrounding villages and forced them to enter Jinzhou City.

Although this brought some pressure to the supply of food and other aspects of the city, they provided more help from the Ming army. Not only because nearly a thousand of them voluntarily joined the army, but also because of the people who were still in the school field. They took the initiative to gather together to help take care of the injured, help boil medicine, and cook for the soldiers guarding the city and the wounded. The assisting role they played was also of great significance to the Ming army.

Zhou Xian saw that everything was going very orderly and felt that he could not help. After going to see the injured soldiers, he left before he was not long.

He returned to his residence and took a hot bath. The fatigue of the day disappeared completely in a flash. Then he put the stained armor with special personal soldiers and asked him to clean it up and then he could go to rest without waiting for himself.

The personal soldier nodded, smiled and walked out with his armor.

Zhou Xian then put on a white long gown and walked into his study. At first, it belonged to Li Lutai, with a small area, but there were many books of various types.
Chapter completed!