The development of technology will bring about the development of weapons and equipment, and the development of weapons and equipment will bring about changes in tactics.
When the tactics on the battlefield have changed, then the replacement of arms will become natural!
In today's Ming Army and the early New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers were very important. However, in the current New Army of the Tang Dynasty, their development has come to an end!
It's not that Chen Tufu and others are not brave enough, or that the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are not strong enough in combat, but the particularity of the arms has restricted their further development. Their tactical positioning in the field has been overshadowed by the musketeers and spearmen.
replaced.
This situation became even more true after Li Xuan decided to equip some of the front-row spearmen with armor!
The combat effectiveness of heavily armored spearmen wearing armor far exceeds that of armored sword and shield soldiers in field charges.
At the same time, there is also the issue of training costs. The training of spearmen is simpler, so it is easier to form an army!
As for the sword and shield soldiers, if they want to be able to use the sword and shield in their hands well, they need to practice for many years.
Butcher Chen and the other Sword and Shield Soldiers were a little worried about their future status, so naturally these things were not among Li Xuan's considerations.
In fact, if he was made aware of Butcher Chen's worries, he would tell Butcher Chen directly: Change your career as soon as possible!
Not to mention the future, even now the new army of the Tang Dynasty only has two main arms, one is the musketeers and the other is the spearmen. The sword and shield soldiers and archers have been reduced to auxiliary combat forces.
After waiting for a while, after I got some kind of flintlock musket, I completely threw away the spearmen, and only used musketeers for the infantry.
It's a pity that Butcher Chen didn't ask, so he naturally didn't know Li Xuan's plans for the new army of the Tang Dynasty in the future!
Now Butcher Chen can only continue to struggle!
After cleaning the battlefield, Zeng Ziwen found Li Xuan and briefly reported the results of the battle. The casualties of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty in this battle were almost negligible, because they relied on long-range firepower to defeat the Ming army. Only a few unlucky ones were exposed in this battle.
The army's arrows hit him, killing one and wounding three others.
But their results were huge. They almost wiped out more than 150 Ming army forwards. Among them, they captured 100 people as prisoners, and killed and injured about 50 people. The Ming army who actually escaped
There are less than single digits of soldiers.
Unfortunately, the few Ming soldiers who successfully escaped did not include Wen Dashan, who escaped first. He was quite unlucky to become one of the Ming prisoners.
It wasn't that he escaped slower than his comrades, but that more than a thousand people from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had already surrounded them all, and it was almost impossible for them to break out of the encirclement.
Therefore, when the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty caught up with him, he lay down decisively and shouted: "Young man is willing to surrender!"
This saved my life!
With his hands tied and walking in a line with the other captured brothers, Wen Dashan lowered his head and pretended to be docile, so as to avoid being beaten by the guards of the pseudo-Tang rebel army who thought he was dishonest.
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However, he kept secretly looking at the pseudo-Tang thieves next to him.
What I saw the most were the several pseudo-Tang bandits guarding them. The reason why I watched them so much was because these pseudo-Tang bandits were the musketeers who made many adults tremble with fear.
They wore tops and trousers, which was no different from ordinary farmers, but they had several cloth bags tied around their waists, and they didn't know what was bulging inside.
There is also a strange-style knife hanging on his waist. This knife is only one foot long. It doesn't look like a waist knife or a head-removing knife. It's very weird.
But these are all normal. What really attracts attention is the firecrackers they carry!
Many people in Zhengtai County, and even in Fucheng, knew that the muskets of the Puppet Tang thief army were sharp. Everyone also knew that the muskets of the Puppet Tang thief army were thin and long, unlike those of the Ming army.
Fireguns are completely different.
Of course, what impressed them more deeply was that the lead bullets fired by the muskets of these pseudo-Tang thieves were very far and hard. Even if they were wearing armor, they would still punch a hole every time.
Now looking at these fire blunderbuss that were talked about by many people at such a close distance, Wen Dashan was very curious. He really wanted to take this fire blunderbuss in his hand and take a closer look, and finally shot it with his own hands.
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When Wen Dashan had this idea, he didn't mean to spy on the military secrets of some fire guns. He was just curious, a soldier's curiosity about good weapons!
Even at this time, he began to imagine that if he had such a blazing gun, he would still be very powerful on the battlefield!
Wen Dashan was curious about the firecrackers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. This was not an isolated phenomenon, but a common phenomenon. Many prisoners of the Ming Army, especially those low-level officers such as the general banner and the small flag, were more curious about those firecrackers.
The highest-ranking Ming army officer among these prisoners, a deputy Qianhu, even said to a pseudo-Tang rebel soldier who was guarding him: "Brother, can you show me your firecracker? Come on, this
You can use some money to drink!"
Perhaps in order to avoid the soldier's worries, he also took the initiative and said: "If you are worried, just take down the medicine and the knife, and I will take a look at the blunderbuss!"
Unexpectedly, the soldier of the Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army showed contempt and said: "What are you looking at? You can also look at this gun. Stand back, otherwise I will be rude!"
There was contempt on this Deputy Qianhu's face, but the soldier was still complaining in his heart: "I don't have any eyesight at all. The platoon leader who didn't see me was watching behind me. If you hand me money now, you are harming me."
, one might end up eating a military stick!
If you want to give money, you have to give it when no one is watching!"
The various actions of the prisoners of the Ming army naturally fell into the eyes of Bai Yunqi who was behind him. As he looked at them, he said: "The quality of this batch of prisoners is much better than the previous ones."
Huang Xueren on the side also said: "Brother Bai, you have had a great harvest this time. Our brothers worked tirelessly to fight, but it's better for you that you did nothing and picked up more than a hundred people for nothing!"
Bai Yunqi chuckled: "What do you mean you didn't do anything? Without our supply camp to transport food, weapons and ammunition to you, you wouldn't have to fight a war. It would be great if you didn't starve to death!"
"And because the people in your infantry camp are all from good families, my supply camp is almost turning into a prisoner camp now. It's not like you don't know the quality of these Ming army prisoners. Before they are transformed, they are all useless!"
Huang Xueren continued to laugh: "But when it comes to this transformation, I don't agree with anyone else, but you, Brother Bai, no one can deal with those prisoners of the Ming army, but as soon as you took action, they all surrendered. With this ability, our Datang
No one in the dynasty can match him!"
At this time, Bai Yunqi cupped his hands and bowed to the west: "This is all the work of the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, Bai is just a kicker!"
Hearing Bai Yunqi say this, Huang Xueren's eyes flashed with a hint of contempt! 8)