The main enemies of the Tang Dynasty were the Ming army and other bandit gangs and other armed forces. These Ming armies 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 all.
Facing such an enemy, if you have a heavy armored infantry, you can completely ignore their bows and arrows and other cold weapons, and then tear apart their light infantry defense line in a frontal decisive battle.
There are also spearmen. If the spearmen, especially the spearmen in the front row, can be equipped with a certain amount of armor, it can also effectively improve the protective capabilities of the troops.
It's just that although Li Xuan wanted to do this, it's a pity that the Tang Dynasty is not able to produce its own armor on a large scale. Whether it is cotton armor or iron armor, these equipment are not so easy to produce. The existing equipment of the Tang Dynasty
Those cotton armors were all modified from cotton armors captured from the Ming army. As for the few chainmail and other iron armors, they could only be captured from the Ming army.
For today's Tang Dynasty, making an armor is much more difficult than making 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 description of the battle, he was thinking about how to improve the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, Qian Mengjiu also talked about the casualties between the enemy and ourselves!
"In this battle, one of our troops was killed and three were injured. All of our casualties were caused by the enemy's archers. Among them, one of the sword and shield team was injured, and one of the spearmen was killed and two were injured!" Qian Meng
At this time, Jiu continued: "The enemy suffered heavy casualties, with eight people killed and sixteen slightly injured!"
Qian Mengjiu did not say whether there were any seriously wounded soldiers in the enemy army, because the seriously wounded soldiers were directly counted as dead. Those who were seriously injured on the battlefield these days basically had no chance of survival, especially the enemies who were injured by the musketeers.
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Needless to say, if you are hit by a lead bullet from a musket in a fatal part such as the head or torso, it is 100% fatal. Even if you are hit in a non-fatal part such as the hands and feet, it is difficult to survive because the lead bullet is poisonous.
If you were injured in a limb, you would have to have it amputated if you wanted to survive. However, the level of medical care these days is extremely limited. It is not that difficult to survive after amputation.
"Forty and twenty-three people were captured, and the remaining weapons were weapons such as swords, guns, bows and arrows!" After Qian Mengjiu said this, Fang Dongquan and the others all smiled.
In this battle, although there was a slight accident in the middle and they were ambushed by bandits, the danger was saved and great results were achieved. No one from the opponent was allowed to escape, and everyone, young and old, was captured.
After hearing this, Li Xuan also nodded slightly: "Yes, with more than 400 people joining us in the Tang Dynasty, our foundation is deeper and our strength is stronger!"
After a brief report, the reception banquet was over, and everyone went back with joyful expressions.
However, the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty celebrated their victory by drinking and eating meat, but the captives, Leader Li and Old Man Xie, were worried.
At this time, they and the main leaders among the other prisoners were locked in a wooden house. Leader Li was sitting cross-legged on the dirt 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 Huangzhushan would attach great importance to him and would definitely offer him various prices in order to win over him, such as offering him a position as a general or even a prince.
But he didn't expect that after he was captured, the people in Huangzhushan really valued him, but this kind of attention was strictly guarded, and there were no expected benefits at all. Even until now, he has not been able to get along with a person.
The senior management of Huangzhushan has spoken.
Could it be that my original choice was wrong?
Leader Li didn't know that the people in Huangzhushan didn't mean not to give him an official position, but that Fang Dongquan and the others didn't have this right, so they wouldn't make any promises to him on their own during the day. Only Li Xuan had this right.
This emperor.
As time was running out today, Li Xuan would naturally not summon him in the middle of the night. This matter would have to wait until tomorrow. Of course, Li Xuan would also have to wait and see how to deal with the leader Li and the others in the end.
And old man Xie also sighed!
His initial plan was to break away during the chaos between the two armies, and then escape with his family behind.
But what he didn't expect was that Leader Li and the others were defeated so quickly and surrendered so neatly. In less than a quarter of an hour, Leader Li and the others surrendered cleanly.
Not to mention, Butcher Chen and the others were right behind them, so when Old Man Xie had just found his family and was about to run away with them, he bumped into Butcher Chen and the others. There was no doubt about the outcome. Old Man Xie and his family had been fooled once again.
captive.
And although the clothes on this old man Xie were a little tattered, his standard scholar attire quickly caught the attention of Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan.
The scholars in the mountains are very precious. Before the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 people, but there were only four scholars, and this included Li Xuan himself.
So when he found out that this hunchbacked old man was actually a scholar, he immediately enjoyed the same treatment as Village Leader Li and was put under separate supervision.
I haven't escaped from the wolf's den, but I have jumped into the tiger's mouth again, and it's the big tiger's mouth in Huangzhushan Puppet Tang Dynasty. What should I do?
Today, even old man Xie, who has always maintained the qualities of a scholar, now has a sad face.
It wouldn't matter if he was captured by an ordinary gang. At worst, he would have to bear the humiliation for a few months and then wait for an opportunity to escape. But now he is captured by the famous pseudo-Tang bandits in the surrounding counties!
Nowadays, Zhengtai County and several neighboring counties have changed their colors because of talk of the Puppet Tang Dynasty, and officers and soldiers have come to encircle and suppress them several times.
If I don't submit to the situation through humiliation, I'm afraid I will be killed directly.
But if I compromise, then the next time officers and soldiers go into the mountains to encircle and suppress me, my life and that of my family will not be saved either.
As a scholar, he knew better than those ignorant bandits how the imperial court treated these rebels.
Needless to say, there must be an encirclement and suppression, and the encirclement and suppression will continue until the success is achieved. Don't expect that the imperial court will stop the suppression after half of the suppression. This kind of thing is impossible to happen.
Moreover, the imperial court basically had the same attitude towards those who rebelled, which was to kill them!
Will he still be able to explain to the officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress him that he was still captured and did not surrender to the thieves?
Will they believe it? They would be stupid if they did!
If you didn't surrender to the thieves, how did you survive? Those pseudo-Tang thieves are all really good people. If you didn't surrender to the thieves, they would still be able to support your family. Just kidding!
At this time, Old Man Xie could basically imagine himself being caught by officers and soldiers, and then being killed as a rebel.
No matter whether you surrender or not, it will be death in the end!
Leader Li and Old Man Xie sighed, but the ordinary bandits and the old and weak who were captured had a much easier time.