Chapter 332 Casualties
At the same time, in Caoyuan Village, although Ye Jinghong and Li Ce were still able to move, Zhou Xu was not so devilish as to let these two injured people work.
At present, all affairs within the village are handled by him, which of course includes the work of counting casualties.
This job was a heavy burden for Zhou Xu. In the process of transporting the wounded, he had actually experienced firsthand how serious the casualties were this time.
He ignored the grassland elves for the time being. Considering Silk's current mental state, it was obviously not convenient for him to ask. As for the centaurs.
Before the war, there were only seven Centaurs left, led by Drogo. Two of them died in this battle. Among the remaining five, all of them were seriously injured, and two of them were seriously injured.
The casualties are basically clear at a glance.
As for their own side, they have to take into account the previous casualties.
In order to deal with this battle, their grassland village assembled a total of forty regular troops, twenty of whom were rattan armor soldiers equipped with rattan armor, belonging to the elite team, and the remaining twenty were ordinary regular troops.
In the ordinary regular army, fourteen people were killed in the battle and six were left. All of them were seriously injured. Two of them did not make it back to the village and died of their injuries.
Just now, when he was counting his own casualties, the medical team came to report that another regular army soldier died after failed rescue efforts. There were three left, two of whom had been rescued and needed to be further observed, and one was still being rescued.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that these twenty ordinary regular army soldiers were all wiped out! As for the remaining twenty rattan armor soldiers, the situation was much better. The rattan armor on their bodies ensured that the rattan armor soldiers could resist fatal attacks many times.
Among the twenty rattan armor soldiers, four were killed in the battle, seven were seriously injured, and the remaining nine were also seriously injured.
In addition, as for the war horses, taking into account those killed in battle or seriously injured and unable to be treated, the total number was seventeen. In the chaos of the battle, five horses were accidentally lost, and it is not known whether they can be found again.
"call--"
Zhou Xu let out a long breath and felt so heavy-hearted after finishing the casualty statistics that he even found it difficult to breathe.
“Boom boom boom.”
"Enter."
The next second, a member of the kitchen walked in.
"Chief, the hot soup is ready. I've brought you a bowl."
"Thank you for your hard work. Just put it aside."
"yes."
After drinking a bowl of hot soup, Zhou Xu felt a little better.
At the moment, he has finished dealing with the things on hand and has arranged everything that needed to be arranged.
In fact, he could even sleep.
But the worry in his heart made him unable to sleep at all.
In the end, he simply held his forehead with one hand, leaned back in his chair and stared blankly.
Until that figure approaches...
“Ouch~”
Hearing the voice, Zhou Xu, who was in a trance, came back to his senses and looked at Qiansui, who had fallen down at his feet without him noticing. Zhou Xu reached out and touched Qiansui's head, and smiled bitterly.
"Chitose, you are still the best. You don't have any troubles."
“Ouch~”
He has too many troubles now and needs someone to talk to, but no one is the right person.
Too many people died in this battle, and the people in the village are now in panic. If he reveals his anxiety again, it will only make the villagers even more frightened.
He is the leader, he must be strong! No choice!
This situation put a lot of psychological pressure on Zhou Xu, and finally his gaze fell on Qiansui again.
"Chitose, why don't you just listen to me talk for a while."
Although Qiansui is very intelligent, he cannot speak, so he happens to be the best person for him to confide in at this time.
The pressure that had been invisibly accumulated in his daily life suddenly burst out at this moment, causing him to talk to Qiansui a lot in a disjointed manner.
And Qiansui just lay quietly at his feet the whole time, rubbing his head against him from time to time, as if to comfort him.
"Thanks, Chitose."
Zhou Xu would never have imagined that the little guy he picked up from Dagu's corpse would now become his spiritual sustenance and the object of his confession.
After venting the accumulated pressure in his heart, Zhou Xu felt a little better.
Rubbing his cheeks vigorously, he began to tell Chitose about his next troubles.
"Population is a big problem. Many people died this time. If we continue to conscript soldiers, the labor force will be reduced. This is simply a vicious cycle."
Waging war is never an easy option.
Looking at the history of China, it is not uncommon for the next emperor to work diligently for decades or even his entire life to make up for the losses caused by a war launched by the previous emperor.
Such a huge dynasty is like this? What about Zhou Xu's small family? Right now, the population problem needs to be solved. To put it bluntly, there is only one way, that is to annex more tribes.
As for the option of increasing the number of children born internally, it is not very feasible at present.
It has been less than two years since he was summoned.
During this process, the tribes in this world experienced famine and cold winters. In this harsh environment, only strong young and middle-aged people could survive. The risk of death for the elderly and children was particularly high, and there were not many women left.
This undoubtedly further aggravates the difficulty of internal fertility.
And even if the baby is born successfully and is lucky enough to be pregnant for ten months, the baby will be born.
Can this little kid work as soon as he is born? No! And there is a risk that he will die before he grows up.
If he takes the fertility route, it will take at least a dozen years for him to get a new round of labor force.
Although Zhou Xu likes to make long-term plans, the current situation is almost unbearable. Do you still have the heart to think about what will happen in ten years?
After talking about the population problems, Zhou Xu turned around and talked about the lizard people.
Obviously, the existence of the Lizardmen is his biggest trouble now!
"What's annoying me now is that I don't know what the situation is with the lizardmen, and I don't dare to get close to them easily."
Whenever this matter was mentioned, Zhou Xu felt as if his head was getting bigger.
During this time, Qiansui called out again. Seeing that Zhou Xu ignored him, Qiansui stood up again and gently nudged him with his head, attracting Zhou Xu's attention.
"What's wrong, Chitose?"
Looking at Qiansui's reaction, Zhou Xu was confused.
In the brief eye contact that followed with Chitose, he seemed to realize something.
"You mean to say that you should go and confirm the situation with the lizardmen?"
Hearing this, Qiansui nodded.
“…”
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