Valley Emperor

The main enemy of the Tang Dynasty was the Ming army and other bandit gangs and other armed forces, and these Ming army and bandits were equipped with a large number of cold weapons. Even in the Ming army, cold weapons were the mainstay, and firearms were only a supplement. That's it.

In the face of such an enemy, if you have a heavy armored infantry on your side, you can completely ignore their bows and arrows and other cold weapons, and then tear their light infantry line of defense in a head-on battle.

There are also spearmen. If the spearmen, especially the spearmen in the front row, can also be equipped with a certain amount of armor, it can also effectively improve the protection ability of the troops.

It's just that although Li Xuan wants to do this, it is a pity that today's Datang Dynasty is still unable to produce large-scale self-made armor. Whether it is cotton armor or iron armor, these equipments are not so easy to come out. Those cotton and iron armors were all converted from cotton armor captured by the Ming army. As for a few iron armors such as chain mail, they could only be seized from the Ming army.

For today's Tang Dynasty, it is much more difficult to build an armor than to build a matchlock gun. This is not a matter of insufficient technology, but simply a problem of insufficient production capacity caused by insufficient manpower and raw materials.

The popularization of armor is more difficult than the popularization of muskets!

When Li Xuan listened to Qian Mengjiu's detailed battle history, he was thinking about how to improve the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Qian Mengjiu also talked about the casualties of the enemy and ourselves!

"In this battle, our army lost one person and wounded three people. The casualties of our army were all caused by the enemy's archers. Among them, the sword and shield team wounded one person, and the spearmen killed one person and wounded two people!" Qian Meng After a long time, he continued: "And the enemy army suffered a lot of casualties, eight people were killed and sixteen were lightly injured!"

Qian Mengjiu did not say whether the enemy had seriously wounded, because the seriously wounded were directly counted among the dead. They were seriously injured on the battlefield these days, and basically had no chance of life, especially the enemy who was wounded by the musket team. .

If a musket bullet hits a deadly part such as the head or torso, it goes without saying that it is 100% dead. Even if it is hit on a non-lethal part such as the hands and feet, it is difficult to survive, because the lead bullet is poisonous. If you are injured in a limb, you will have to amputate your limbs if you want to survive. The medical level is extremely limited these days, and it is not very difficult to survive after amputation.

"Forty or twenty-three prisoners, and a batch of other weapons such as swords, guns, bows and arrows!" After Qian Mengjiu finished speaking, Fang Dongquan and the others all smiled.

In this battle, although there was a small accident in the middle of the battle and was ambushed by the bandits, the danger was saved, and a great victory was achieved. No one was allowed to escape from the opponent. Whether it was young or old, all the young and weak were captured.

After listening, Li Xuan nodded slightly: "Yes, I have more than 400 people in the Tang Dynasty, and the foundation is deeper and the strength is stronger!"

After a simple report, the reception banquet was considered to be over, and everyone went back with festive expressions.

However, the Tang monarchs and ministers were drinking and eating meat to celebrate their victory, but the captive Li Zhaizhu and Old Man Xie were worried.

At this time, they and the main leader of the other captives were locked in a wooden house, and Li Zhaizhu sat cross-legged directly on the mud floor in the house, with a gloomy and terrifying expression on his face.

What happened after the surrender was different from what he expected.

Originally, he thought that after he surrendered, the people of Huang Zhushan would attach great importance to him.

But he didn't expect that after he was captured, the people of Huang Zhushan really valued him, but this kind of attention was strictly guarded, and there were no expected benefits at all. Even up to now, he has not been able to talk to a The senior management of Huangzhushan has spoken.

Did you make the wrong choice?

Li Zhaizhu didn't know that the people in Huangzhushan did not say that they would not give him an official position, but Fang Dongquan and the others did not have this right, so they would not make any promises to him during the day. Only Li Xuan has this right. this emperor.

Today, the time is tight, so Li Xuan naturally won't summon him in the middle of the night. This matter has to wait until tomorrow, of course, how to deal with Li Zhaizhu and the others in the end, Li Xuan also has to look at others.

And the old man Xie also sighed!

His initial plan was that when the two armies were at war, he would take advantage of the chaos to escape, and then run away with his family at the back.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Zhaizhu and the others were defeated so quickly, and they surrendered so simply. After only a quarter of an hour, Li Zhaizhu and the others surrendered neatly.

That's not all, but Butcher Chen and the others are right behind, so when Old Man Xie found his family and was about to escape with them, he ran into Butcher Chen and the others. captive.

And although the clothes on this old man Xie were a little tattered, the standard scholar's attire quickly caught the attention of Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan.

The scholars in the mountains are all very valuable. Before the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 scholars, but there were only four scholars, and this included Li Xuan himself.

So when he found out that the hunchbacked old man was still a scholar, he immediately enjoyed the same treatment as Li Zhaizhu and was taken care of alone.

I haven't escaped from this wolf's den, but I jumped into the tiger's mouth again, and it is still the big tiger's mouth of Huangzhushan Pseudo-Tang Dynasty, what can I do?

To this day, even the old man Xie, who has always maintained the self-cultivation of a scholar, is now frowning.

If he was caught by an ordinary gang, it would be fine. The big deal was that he would endure the humiliation for a few months, and then wait for an opportunity to escape, but now he is caught by the famous pseudo-Tang bandit army in the surrounding prefectures!

Nowadays, Zhengtai County and several neighboring counties have changed their color when talking about the pseudo-Tang Dynasty. Officers and soldiers have come to encircle and suppress it several times.

If he didn't give in, he would be killed directly.

But if you compromise yourself, then the next time the officers and soldiers go into the mountains to encircle and suppress them, you and your family will not be able to save their lives.

As a scholar~www.wuxiaspot.com~ he knows better than those foolish bandits how the court treats these rebels.

Needless to say, it is definitely going to be encircled and suppressed, and it will continue to be encircled and suppressed until it is successful. Don't expect the imperial court to suppress half of it and then stop it, it is impossible for such a thing to happen.

And the court basically has one attitude towards those who rebel, that is, kill!

At that time, can they still explain to the officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress that they were still caught and did not throw in the thieves?

Will they believe? It's stupid to believe it!

How did you survive if you didn't cast the thief? Are those pseudo-Tang thieves all big good people, if you don't vote for thieves, they will still be able to support your family well, just kidding!

At this time, old man Xie could basically imagine that he was caught by officers and soldiers, and then he was slashed as a rebel.

Regardless of whether it's a return or not, it's a dead word in the end!

Zhaizhu Li and Old Man Xie sighed, but the ordinary bandits who were captured and the old and weak were much better off.