His losses in this battle were indeed quite large, and it was necessary for the superior to compensate him. With Cheng Hongbin here, he didn't have to worry about adding too little.
Otherwise, don’t blame him for turning against them!
After a few simple words, Lin Ziran continued to clean up the battlefield with his men.
Lin Ziran had to recover the weapons lost to both the enemy and us on the battlefield and capture the fleeing horses of Guang'an cavalry. These were all good things.
Needless to mention war horses, Nanzhou horses are the most top-notch war horses in Daheng. During this war period, every Nanzhou war horse is the most precious material.
The revolver of the Guang'an cavalry is also a good thing. Everyone knows that revolver has huge advantages in close combat, but why are there only cavalry equipment but infantry not equipped?
The reason is very simple, expensive and the usage restrictions are relatively simple.
A six-round smoothbore pistol produced by Fuyuan Ordnance Factory uses fire hats, paper shell fixed-loading bullets, and manual rotors, with a factory price of 40 Hengyuan.
Almost twice as much as Fuyuan Musket!
In addition to being expensive, smoothbore pistols still have short range and extremely low accuracy, and can only be used as close-range weapons.
Infantry fighting at close range, they will use bayonets directly!
Bayonet charge is still the most important and effective tactic for infantry in this era.
However, after today's battle, Lin Ziran felt that bayonet tactics are not applicable in all situations. At least when facing the impact of cavalry, the bayonet tactics have no effect when the troops rely on the carriage to conduct defensive operations.
In this combat environment, revolver has huge room for play!
If there were enough revolvers in his troops today, then today's battle would be a completely different result.
Unfortunately, there is no if in reality!
Even in the future, he will not allow the infantry troops to equip revolvers on a large scale.
With that money, he might as well purchase more muskets and organize more troops.
However, the Guang'an cavalry has left many pulley pistols. Naturally, this kind of good thing cannot be let go, just to restore blood to itself, who has suffered huge losses.
So he personally led the troops to clean the battlefield, and he could ignore the others, but the war horses and revolvers must be snatched back first.
Hongbin didn't shoot him.
It's not that he is not interested in the spoils in front of him.
For example, those revolvers are also excellent in equipping gunners. As for those war horses, officers under his command can also ride them. If they really can't buy these spoils, they can give their own artillery brothers a bonus, add a meal, etc.
But he didn't want to snatch Lin Ziran!
He knew that Lin Ziran was the leader of a militia and needed these things to maintain the strength of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion. He was fighting to protect the baggage team just now, and he had to give these spoils to Lin Ziran for reason.
Moreover, Cheng Hongbin was not sure. If he had fought with Lin Ziran for the spoils, he would know what Lin Ziran could do.
So the next scene made Lin Ziran feel much better!
First of all, there are more than 40 war horses in Nanzhou that were found. These are all the best Nanzhou horses. The contemporary Daheng Dynasty and even look at the world can be regarded as extremely excellent riding horses.
He is handsome and generally has a shoulder height of more than 1.5 meters, excellent explosive power, good gravity, and although his endurance is not very good, he is also of medium level. Although feeding is more difficult than Shayangma, it is not too extreme.
These combined make Nanzhou horses an extremely excellent horse for riding. Whether it is a breastplate cavalry or a light cavalry, they use this kind of war horse in large quantities.
Unfortunately, during the war, these excellent war horses were controlled by the powerful vassal states in various places. Although there were also people among the people, the number was very small, and Lin Ziran could not obtain them through ordinary procurement channels.
With these more than forty Nanzhou war horses, the cavalry company of Qingshan Patrol Battalion can be expanded to a scale of 100 cavalry, which will have a great effect on improving the comprehensive combat effectiveness of Qingshan Patrol Battalion.
Even if the cavalry company of Qingshan Patrol Battalion still does not have the combat ability to launch a frontal charge in a dense formation, it can still be done as a reconnaissance cavalry, harassing the enemy's weak points and attacking the enemy by mobile.
In addition to the Nanzhou war horses, there are also many other spoils, such as the cavalry used by cavalry, which is the cavalry version of the Fuyuan musket. The biggest difference between the infantry version is that the barrel is relatively short.
However, among these weapons, Lin Ziran paid the most attention to it was the capture of nearly two hundred revolver pistols.
This thing is a good thing!
At that time, Lin Ziran will give the cavalry two such revolvers one by one, which will be enough to greatly increase the strength of the cavalry company.
As for equipment for infantry, he considered it, but in the end he gave up.
The main problem is that it is cost-effective. He cannot purchase pistols on a large scale to equip infantry. This is not worth the loss. As for the seized points, after equipping the cavalry troops, the remaining few will be distributed to the officers.
After cleaning the battlefield, especially after collecting all the spoils, the Seventh Infantry Regiment also arrived.
There was nothing to say about what happened next. The Seventh Infantry Regiment took over the task of continuing to escort the Sixth Artillery Regiment, while Lin Ziran returned south with Qingshan Patrol Camp.
This journey was much easier, without the burden of heavy artillery and supplies. Qingshan Patrol Battalion marched lightly and returned to Qingshan Town the next day.
After returning to Qingshan Town, Lin Ziran instructed Luo Mazi and others to carry out the aftermath, such as the treatment of the wounded, and to pay pensions to the families of the dead.
There are also reissues of the promised three-month salary, etc.
Lin Ziran said to Luo Mazi in this way: "The aftermath must be completed as soon as possible, and we must never make trouble. We are all our soldiers in Qingshan, and we cannot be disheartened!"
Luo Mazi is also a smart person. He knows why Lin Ziran did this.
Because although the pension is quite expensive, it is for the soldiers who are still alive, so that the soldiers who are still alive have no worries.
To put it bluntly, it is to win people's hearts!
In order to carry out the aftermath, Lin Ziran even transferred the operating funds from Qingshan Petroleum Company, and even the scheduled procurement of weapons were suspended.
At this time, money doesn’t matter, what matters is people’s hearts and morale.
While paying for the aftermath, Lin Ziran did not forget to reach out to his head. He wrote a letter similar to a battle report to the Third Division headquarters, briefly talking about the battle process, but more importantly, it was about losses and difficulties.
Lin Ziran said in the letter that after this battle, the patrol battalion suffered huge losses, so that every family in Qingshan Town had white banners and everyone wailed, and said that the firearms and ammunition were greatly damaged and they were unable to fight again.