When you go into battle and kill the enemy, your soldiers and armor can be occupied to a large extent.

The reason why bandits are bandits is that they often suffer from their own weapons and armor compared to the official army.

A soldier wearing armor and holding a sharp blade can handle several bandits with insufficient armor on the battlefield. Putting on a good piece of armor can make the soldier and general have one more life on the battlefield.

"How many bandit soldiers are there to pierce armor?" Wang Hu looked serious.

Wang Liang recalled for a moment and said, "It's hard to say, but everyone the bandits saw were pierced armor, most of which were cotton armor, and almost all the cavalry were iron armor."

"When you go to Yanmen Pass this time, you see the leader of the thief army?" Wang Hu frowned.

Wang Liang nodded and said, "I asked specifically that the person I saw was a Shizheng named Wang in the thief army. This time the thief army attacked, he was the commander of the army."

"In this case, the bandit soldiers you see are either the opposite personal soldiers or the central army camp. It is normal for many bandit soldiers to pierce armor. If the bandit army defeated the two border troops of Xuanda, they must have obtained a lot of soldiers and armor. There is no big problem with equipment for thousands of people." Wang Hu's expression relaxed.

It is determined that the bandits Wang Liang saw at Yanmen Pass were all elites among the bandits. Although everyone was a bit exaggerated to pierce armor, it was not completely impossible.

Wang Liang said hesitantly: "Did the thief army specialize in playing a play in front of Xiao? It made Xiao feel that they are strong enough to force the general to come and vote?"

"It's not impossible. However, it is not uncommon for the bandits to defeat so many soldiers in the imperial court, and it is not surprising that they get some armor. What surprised me is that the bandits were equipped with a large number of muskets." Wang Hu rubbed the short beard on his chin with his hands.

The Ming army also had a special firearm battalion, but the main weapons used in the army were ordinary weapons such as swords and guns.

Wang Liang said: "Building a musket is much more expensive than building a knife wall. The small bandits who saw at Yanmen Pass each had a musket, and the small ones noticed that some bandits' muskets were connected to the top of the muskets, which seemed to be used as long spears."

"The thing you mentioned is called a bayonet." Wang Hu explained.

The short blades of the Ming army's muskets were at the tail and could be used to kill the enemy in close combat. The bandits reversed their ways and pressed the sharp blades on the head of the gun, making them look like long spears.

"Battle?" Wang Liang said in confusion, "Can it be that thing that can be used to assassinate the enemy? It's really like a spear."

The body of the musket is relatively long, and a blade is installed at the top, which is no different from a spear.

Wang Hu said thoughtfully: "It seems that the thief army is really not short of silver. The army is equipped with so many muskets, and the amount of silver is not enough. It seems that the rumors that the tiger flag has a sea of ​​gold and silver are not because others are joking and exaggerating."

"The thief army must be short of money. Didn't it mean that the accumulation of the Dai royal palace in the past dynasties has fallen into the thief's hands?" Wang Liang added.

After the bandit army captured Datong, news about Liu's thief gaining the wealth accumulated by the Dai Prince's Mansion over the years had spread. Moreover, the Dai Prince's Mansion began to be built since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. It was built during the Hongwu period and was one of the first vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty.

The first generation of kings was first the prince, then the uncle, and then the brother of the emperor. The wealth accumulated in Datong for many years was far greater than that of ordinary vassal kings.

Since the Dai Palace fell into the hands of the bandits, countless generals in Shanxi wished to lead a large army to wipe out the bandits' army in one fell swoop and regain the jealous wealth left by the Dai Palace.

"What a pity, it's all cheaper for the thieves." Wang Hu sighed.

The wealth of the Daiwang Mansion is really jealous.

Wang Liang said: "General, what should we do next? We really have to guard here and wait for the thief army to attack?"

"Do you want to go back to Daizhou City?" Wang Hu glanced at him.

Wang Liang shrank his neck in fear and hurriedly explained: "The little one doesn't mean that. The little one thinks that there are too many soldiers and horses in the thief army. It is difficult for us to defend the Thousand Houses here with just our little ones."

"Hmph, it's true that we can't defend it, and Daizhou City can't defend it either." Wang Hu snorted coldly.

Hearing this, Wang Liang raised his eyebrows and said in confusion: "Daizhou City is high and thick, and there are thousands of soldiers from Zhenwu Guards inside. Facing tens of thousands of bandits, even if he can't hold on in the end, he can still hold on to the reinforcements from Taiyuan Prefecture to come to the aid."

"Just with the disrepaired walls of Daizhou City, if they can really be kept, how could I take you out of the city?" Wang Hu curled his lips disdainfully.

After so many years of peace in the border areas, Daizhou is no longer the Daizhou that was decades ago.

As a general of Zhenwuwei, he could see clearly.

The military is loose, and many of the military equipment in Zhenwu Guards have long been resold out and replaced by silver to the head of the army. Most of the military households in the guards make a living by farming. Rather than being soldiers in the army, they are more like people who only know how to farm.

In addition to the personal soldiers and servants of each family, there were some remaining military forces, the serious soldiers were either too old or ordinary civilians selected from the military households temporarily.

It seems that there are many people, and it has almost recovered a little bit of the past. In fact, these ordinary soldiers wielded hoes far better than swords and guns.

Such a group of soldiers who can only hoe the ground, even if they are given swords and guns, will only serve as a number of people when they go to the battlefield, and the effect of killing the enemy is not very good.

"What should we do? Could it be that we really have to agree to the harsh conditions proposed by the thieves' army?" Wang Liang's brows squeezed together.

As a member of the Wang family and the leader of Wang Hu's personal soldiers, he had accumulated a lot of land in his family. Faced with the request of the bandit army to divide the land, he naturally did not want Wang Hu to surrender to the bandits.

Wang Hu thought for a while and said, "The bandits cannot surrender. Their demands are too excessive. Even if we surrender, there will be no benefit."

He had sent someone to contact the bandits at Yanmen Pass before. He wanted to speculate and take the opportunity to get benefits. Now he learned that the bandit army not only did not give him any benefits, but also wanted to deprive him of what he now had, so he naturally stopped the idea of ​​surrendering to the bandit army.

After all, he was also an assistant minister of Zhenwuwei and a military general of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the Ming Dynasty is still there for one day, a noble family like him will continue to exist. Staying on the Ming Dynasty is more promising than following the thief.

Unless Liu Thief in Datong can change the world, he only has Liu Thief in the two palaces, no matter how he sees it, he doesn't think he can change the world.

"What should we do if Daizhou City cannot be defended? General, do you really have to defend Daizhou City to the death?" Wang Liang saw that Wang Hu believed that Daizhou City could not be defended, but was unwilling to follow the thief, and was a little confused about the other party's thoughts.

Even a city like Daizhou City with city walls and thousands of defenders could not be defended. He did not think that the Thousand Houses where they were now able to block the army of bandits.
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