Valley Emperor

When the large-scale and cruel strategic battle of the Bronze Drum Acropolis came to an end, most of the soldiers of the New Tang Army who had been fighting and chasing the Ming army all day began to gather and prepare to rest.

However, there was only a part of the rest. The vanguard led by Hao Bainian and the cavalry force continued to pursue the Ming army. According to the latest information, the vanguard led by Hao Bainian went north for more than ten miles.

In the Bronze Drum Fortress, it has now become a sea of ​​the new army of the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 4,000 new army of the Tang Dynasty crowded in the city, and there are a large number of the new army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city.

In a former Ming military office in the Bronze Drum Acropolis, Li Xuan was listening to Zeng Ziwen and a group of officers' post-war report.

According to rough statistics, as of an hour ago, our army killed and seriously injured more than 3,000 puppet Ming thieves, and captured 5,600 people. The remaining part of the Ming army fled several ways. We are continuing to pursue these Ming army rout soldiers! The other part has completely turned into scattered soldiers and fled bravely. At present, the Chinese army has also sent a number of small-scale troops to search, clear, and capture these fleeing Ming troops around! "

"There is no doubt that this is a great victory, an unprecedented victory!" Zeng Ziwen was not at all ashamed when he said this, because for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, this was an unprecedented victory.

"It is worth mentioning that in this battle, our army defeated most of the enemy cavalry, killed and wounded more than 400 enemy cavalry, captured more than 300, and captured more than 1,300 horses of various kinds, of which about four Hundreds of horses can be used as riding horses, and with this batch of horses, our army's logistics transportation capacity and cavalry strength can be greatly improved!"

The new army of the Tang Dynasty has a huge demand for horses. Officers need horses to ride, messengers need horses to ride, artillery troops need a lot of horses to transport artillery and ammunition, not to mention cavalry troops, they need a lot of high-quality horses. Horses for riding.

Even the logistics and baggage units have a huge demand for horses!

With the addition of this batch of horses, the demand for horses in the new army of the Tang Dynasty can be greatly alleviated.

Maybe in the near future, there will be hundreds of more cavalry in the new army of the Tang Dynasty. If Cao Mingda, the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion, was here, he would definitely be laughing from ear to ear.

Zeng Ziwen's words continued: "More than 40 large and small bowl-mouth cannons were seized, and three artillery pieces ranging from 300 jin were captured. However, according to the feedback from the artillery unit, these three 300 jin artillery pieces were outdated and the quality of the barrels was poor. Worrying, after inspection by colleagues in the artillery unit, they believe that the barrels of these three artillery pieces are no longer important, and if they are used forcibly, there will be a great risk of blowing up their chambers. There are few gunners in our army, so it is not suitable to use them at risk!"

"Although some Wankou guns also have the problem of too small caliber and poor quality, after selection, about 20 Wankou guns can still be selected to equip the troops!"

Compared with the Ming army, the artillery units of the Datang New Army are too strong. They are equipped with 800 catties and 500 catties of heavy artillery, and in the future, the Datang New Army artillery units will be equipped with 800 catties of heavy artillery in batches. It doesn't look normal.

On the other hand, those Wankou guns are used to launch shotguns anyway, and the quality requirements of the guns are not too high. Moreover, the infantry unit has a huge gap for the 150-pound battalion guns, so there are Wankou guns as a supplement. It can also be used as a transition.

Zeng Ziwen continued with a thick report: "In the process of cleaning the battlefield, 250 pieces of iron armor, 1,000 leather armor and cotton armor of various types were seized. Although some of them were damaged, but All can be repaired. After the repair, these iron armors can effectively increase the combat effectiveness of our army's heavy armored infantry. After reviewing the captured cotton armor, colleagues of the Ordnance Department believe that these armors should be able to be the same as the previous cotton armor after modification. Converted to cotton iron armor, and then equipped our army."

Li Xuan nodded slightly after listening to it, and said it hard, the new army of the Tang Dynasty lacked everything, horses, guns, even cold weapons and soldiers, and even food, clothing, and nothing was lacking.

So when cleaning the battlefield, it's like a devil entering a village. You want everything, even if it is a broken weapon, you will pick it up. Why pick it up? Naturally, it is melted and used to create new weapons!

This iron is a strategic material that the Tang Dynasty focused on collecting!

The armor, which is of great tactical and even strategic value, naturally cannot be ignored. Needless to say, the iron armor is time-consuming to build. There are actually not many iron armors made by the Datang New Army. It can even be said to be very few. Most of them are Repair armor captured from Ming army.

In fact, cotton armor also takes a lot of time. The Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty has not made many cotton armors by itself. They are all converted from cotton armors captured from the Ming army into cotton iron armors.

Therefore, capturing the armor of the Ming army is an important way to expand the heavy armored infantry of the new Tang Dynasty.

Bows are also included here. The manufacture of military strong bows takes more time than armor and artillery. Therefore, most of the bows and arrows used by the new army of the Tang Dynasty also came from capture. This time they also captured a batch of Ming army bows. Needless to say, these bows and arrows, Together with those archers of the Ming army who surrendered, they will form a new archer unit of the Tang Dynasty.

It is also interesting to say that most of the archers and cavalry in the new army of the Tang Dynasty were actually prisoners of the Ming army!

The new army of the Tang Dynasty who cleans the battlefield is like a locust, pulling everything back. In addition to the more important horses, armor, bows, and artillery, cold weapons such as swords and spears are also the focus of recycling, because the cold weapons of the new army of the Tang Dynasty are also recycled. , It is actually the same system as the cold weapons of the Ming army. As long as it is not of poor quality, it can basically be used directly.

However, these Ming armies are all Ming armies in the inland areas. They have been in peace for a long time, and their combat readiness is slack. Most of the weapons they use are dilapidated, especially swords and spears. All are unusable and need to be returned to the furnace for recasting.

After Zeng Ziwen had said all the results of the battle, everyone present was full of joy. This seizure can greatly alleviate the current shortage of various strategic materials for the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Especially after capturing a large number of horses, it can greatly improve the maneuverability of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, which is very important.

After talking about the results, Zeng Ziwen also took out another report. After opening the report with the last handwriting, Zeng Ziwen's expression became heavy.

The people next to him saw his appearance, and then looked at the word "war damage" at the beginning of the report in his hand, and they could guess why Zeng Ziwen looked serious.

After Zeng Ziwen opened the report, he said with a slightly solemn expression, "Our army has achieved great results in this battle, but our soldiers also paid the price in blood for this!

According to the incomplete statistics submitted by various ministries, the casualties of various ministries of our army are relatively large! "

Having said this, he paused, and then looked around the crowd. At this time, even Li Xuan, who was sitting on the first dragon chair, was showing his respect for the dead and wounded soldiers.

Zeng Ziwen took a deep breath and said, "The list of officers killed in this battle is as follows:

Major Liu Longquan, deputy battalion commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Captain Xu Gou, captain of the 3rd platoon of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Lieutenant Song Xu, platoon leader of the 3rd platoon, Lieutenant Wang Erwa, deputy platoon leader, Wei Er, platoon leader of the 3rd platoon Second Lieutenant Niu, Second Lieutenant Xu Yang, deputy platoon commander of the fourth row...

Lieutenant Shao Hong, deputy captain of the second team of the second infantry battalion, and second lieutenant Lu An, the first platoon commander of the third team.

Captain Wang Dayi, officer of the second team of the 3rd Infantry Battalion...

As the names were reported according to the troop number, the atmosphere in the hall became heavier and heavier. In the end, everyone's breathing became heavier, and many people clenched their fists!

Especially when Zeng Ziwen mentioned some familiar names, there would always be some people who could not help but take a deep breath, clench their fists, or look sad, because in this batch of dead lists, some people were not only their subordinates, but also their own. My brother and nephew~www.wuxiaspot.com~ When Zeng Ziwen mentioned Zeng Zike, the captain of the 5th Battalion of the 8th Infantry Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, his own tone couldn't help but paused, because this Zeng Zike was him 's cousin.

The Zeng family has now been forced to fully rely on the Tang Dynasty. As a family of generals, most of the family's children are basically in the army, and now is no exception. In addition to Zeng Ziwen's younger brother Zeng Zisong, there are more than ten. Several cousins ​​and cousins ​​served in the army, and most of them were concentrated in the 3rd and 5th Infantry Regiments.

This Zeng Ziwen was still a cousin who died, but when Zeng Ziwen said that Lieutenant Huang Yaoshan, the deputy platoon commander of the Third Artillery Battalion of the Artillery Battalion, was killed, Huang Xueren almost choked, because the name Zeng Ziwen said was a Is his own son.

Huang Xueren has only two sons in total. Both sons are serving in the army without exception. The eldest son serves as the captain of the fourth team of the 1st Infantry Battalion, and he was born in the Guards. Speaking of his future, he is actually better than him. Lao Tzu is even brighter.

And his youngest son, who is still relatively young, is only sixteen years old this year. Although he joined the Datang New Army last year, he has always been studying in the Wuxuetang, and then he entered the Imperial Academy and became a member of the Artillery Division. a student.

Originally, according to Huang Xueren's plan, he planned to let his young son continue to study for a period of time before he could officially enter the army. However, during this period of time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty has expanded its army, and the shortage of personnel, especially the officers who have undergone systematic study, is even more in short supply. Therefore, his youngest son completed his studies last month, and then entered the artillery battalion under Xie Ziwei to become a deputy platoon leader.

But there will be people who think that he just entered the army and officially served, he died in battle, how can this make Huang Xueren not heartache.

War is always so cruel!