"Why are there so many casualties?" Huang Degong was a little surprised.

Although these Guanning cavalry were not elite, they were much stronger than the ordinary Ming army.

Wang Yongji had a total of 3,000 troops, with more than 300 casualties, accounting for as high as 10%.

If it were an ordinary army, it would have been defeated long ago.

Wang Yongji replied somewhat helplessly: "Jingnanbo, my brother Huang! Your soldiers chop melons and vegetables, while my soldiers fight tough enemies. Li Chuang's cavalry consists of elite troops from the old camp and Ming troops from the three borders of Shaanxi and Xuanda who surrendered."

"They just don't have strong equipment, but their skills and tactics are no worse than the Guanning Army!"

Huang Degong nodded.

That’s right, although the Ming border troops had been seriously in arrears of pay before, their training had not been neglected.

Take the border troops of Xuanfu and Datong as an example.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, the salary arrears reached 17 months, and the food and wages were barely enough to eat, which meant that people were neither full nor hungry.

Even so, the border troops in Xuanfu and Datong can train for up to two hundred days a year!

pity.

The border troops are more than just one person, they also have families.

Just because they are not starving doesn't mean their families won't be starving. In order to keep their families alive, the soldiers have to find every possible way to make money.

Extorting merchants, exploiting the people, selling food and fodder, weapons and armor, war horses, and even intelligence.

Everything that can be sold has been sold. It would be strange if we could remain undefeated on the battlefield.

So you can see in history that after the Ming army entered the battlefield, they symbolically shot three arrows, howled twice, and then turned around and ran.

After Wang Yongji reported the casualties, Gao Jie, Qiu Yue, Weng Zhiqi and others reported one after another.

Li Xingzhong was the last to report. He looked gloomy and spoke in a sad tone: "In this battle, our troops suffered 3,000 casualties and lost 200,000 taels of silver."