Chapter 144: Take a nap and take the credit
Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty a year ago, and automatically entered a state of war with the Ming army, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army has always been life-and-death.
But this situation has changed in today's Longhua Town, the Ming army and the Tang army get along well, looking like brothers and friends.
The Ming army in the town also took the initiative to take on the responsibility of the porter, snatched the Huangzhushan bandits who entered the town, and helped pick the endless things into the Tang army camp tent.
In the end, this time the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi obtained a lot, including more than 800 taels of silver, more than 30 taels of gold, a number of pigs, cattle and donkeys, a group of chickens and ducks, a basket of eggs and duck eggs, and a bunch of fruits and vegetables.
However, the more important seizures were not the gold, silver, and food mentioned above, but all kinds of weapons and more than a dozen horses.
There are all kinds of standard waist knives, spears, and shields, which are even enough for the current Tang Dynasty to complete the costume change, so that these bandits can be transformed into a Ming Weapon Army!
Among them, the more important ones are more than ten pairs of armor, these armors are enough to increase the number of heavy armor sword shield or spearmen of the Tang Dynasty King Division by more than ten people, don't underestimate the increase of these more than ten people, you must know that there were only more than 20 armored bandits in the Tang Dynasty before.
And these more than 20 armored bandits have played a major role in the history of many conquests of the Tang Dynasty, even if the limelight of the guards of the Tang Dynasty has completely overshadowed the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, but the importance of armor is still very important, and even it cannot be replaced in a short time.
In addition to the armor, the more important thing left is the more than a dozen horses, although these horses look relatively thin and short, and they are not real war horses at all, but they can still be used to barely ride.
When Li Xuan saw these horses, his first reaction was to build a cavalry, even if it was a cavalry with only a dozen people.
The importance of cavalry is needless to say, before the advent of tanks, whether it is an ancient army or a modern army, cavalry has always been one of the most important types of troops in the battlefield.
In a mature modern army, cavalry is an indispensable type of troops, and in the French army in the Napoleonic era, the ratio of infantry to cavalry exceeded five to one.
Some countries with a higher number of horses have an even higher proportion of cavalry.
Although their Tang Dynasty is weak, with no more than five hundred soldiers, they have no conditions to engage in large-scale cavalry, but it should not be a problem to get a cavalry force of more than ten people, and Li Xuan did not expect the cavalry to be able to impact the enemy formation or something, as long as they can conduct reconnaissance and do a good job of scouting.
Therefore, Li Xuan stopped Fang Dongquan and other high-ranking officers from trying to divide these horses on the spot, but directly ordered to select more than a dozen people from the whole army who could ride horses, preferably those who could shoot arrows on horseback.
The result was that Li Xuan was very depressed, there were many people who could barely ride a horse, but none of them were proficient in equestrianism, all of them were limited to being able to ride a horse, but if the horse ran faster, they might be turned upside down, and as for those who could bend the bow and shoot arrows on horseback, they couldn't find it.
In desperation, I could only choose more than a dozen people who were proficient in equestrianism, and at the same time were clever enough to learn, and I didn't expect them to ride and shoot, but I just wanted them to be able to ride a horse and run faster, so that they could be used to spy on enemy intelligence and send a letter to deliver orders.
As for the real cavalry, let's talk about it later!
In addition to the above-mentioned seizures, there was also an unexpected bonus, they found a lot of black powder lead bullets from the warehouses of the Ming army, these black powder were obviously prepared by the Ming army to use their original guns, and now they are cheaper than the guards.
As for the gunpowder and lead bullet used by the Guards, they were all purchased secretly from outside the mountains, and the number was very small, that is, the musketeers in the Guards only had more than 20 guns in total, which was not a large amount.
Now that so many batches have been captured, it is enough for the more than 20 guns of the Guards to hit the barrel and explode the barrel, and it is estimated that they will not be used up.
The seizure from Longhua Town made all the bandits in Huangzhushan very excited, and it can be said that everyone is satisfied!
The people in Huangzhushan are happy, and the Ming army in Longhua Town is also happy, at least they don't have to worry about the puppet Tang thief army attacking the city, as for the many materials that were robbed, anyway, they are not the private property of those county brave soldiers, either the gold and silver in the big families, or the ordnance in the official warehouse, if they are robbed, they will be robbed, and they will be robbed, and it will be their business!
In the afternoon, the well-fed and well-fed Tang Dynasty royal division was rewarded, it was the puppet Ming army that had come out of the mountain, and it was expected to arrive tomorrow!
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi did not continue to stay outside Longhua Town, and left in the afternoon with a large number of seized things and more than 20 craftsmen.
And before leaving, they also did one thing, that is, they burned the grain in the granary of the Ming army in the city.
Looking at the pseudo-Tang thief army that gradually disappeared into the distance, many Ming soldiers and young men in the city were relieved, they were scared half to death in the past half of the day, and many people thought that they would not live tomorrow.
If the puppet Tang thief army killed today is finally gone, their lives can be regarded as saved.
Immediately, when the only small flag left in Longhua Town saw that the pseudo-Tang thief army had gone away, and it seemed that he didn't plan to return, he immediately showed a haha laugh, and then said with a righteous face: "The pseudo-Tang thief army is not more than Er'er!" ”
Immediately, he turned to the dozens of counties below and said: "Today, we fought fiercely with the puppet Tang thief army for half a day, firmly blocked the puppet Tang thief army outside the city, and ensured the safety of thousands of people in the town!" ”
As soon as he said this, the county warriors and young men below still didn't react, they felt strange, how could this little flag master talk about panic for no reason, they hadn't fought with the pseudo-Tang thief army at all, okay!
But several clever people were hurriedly born at this time and responded: "Yes, we have all made great achievements today, we have defended Longhua Town, and we will not be rewarded with a big prize when we turn back!" ”
There are a few clever people who reminded them, although the rest of the people were still a little confused, but soon there were people around them who reminded them that this battle must be said to be a success, and they can't say that they wanted to escape but were stopped by the puppet Tang thief army, and finally the puppet Tang thief army swaggered and sent people to loot and burn down the granary.
What's even worse is that in this process, they, the county braves, also acted as pawns, if they let the superiors know, they would have to shed their skin if they didn't die.
Immediately, one by one, they insisted that they had blocked the pseudo-Tang thief army from the city!
As for the puppet Tang thieves who entered the city to loot, who said that they were the puppet Tang thieves, it was obviously a small handful of green-skinned hooligans who took the opportunity to make trouble in the city.
As for the ordnance and gold and silver that disappeared, this army is in chaos, who knows where the ordnance and gold and silver have gone, maybe they have grown wings and flown away.
It is easier to explain that the grain and grass are burned: accidents, it is normal to lose a fire in a hurry!
In short, they will not admit that it was the pseudo-Tang thief army that stopped them from leaving, forced them to defend the city, and also brought the people of the pseudo-Tang thief army into the city to loot and burn grain!
Seeing that the county warriors and young men under him were so conscious, the little flag headed by him nodded with a smile and satisfaction, these are all good soldiers!
If the truth of the matter is not revealed, he is a person who takes the county to defend Longhua Town and is fierce at the most critical juncture.
Now that he is the only officer in Longhua Town, what a lot of credit he has to make, and there is probably hope for an official promotion to the third level.
I drank too much last night, and I went to a widow's house to toss for a night, and when I woke up, I found that my colleagues had almost run, and then when I wanted to run, I was already blocked in the city by the puppet Tang thief army, and finally I had no choice but to obediently obey the orders of the puppet Tang thief army outside, and lead people to continue to 'stick' Longhua Town.
But I didn't expect that these pseudo-Tang thief armies really didn't attack the city, but just robbed a batch of things and left, so they were a blessing in disguise!
Thinking like this, he just laughed, no way, who made God destined to make him promoted and rich, and he could get a great merit for defending the city by sleeping!
However, when the puppet Tang thief army entered the city to loot and burn grain, in addition to them, there were still many people who saw it, in order to prevent these people from saying it, he had to find a way to round it, for example, let the people under his hands disguise themselves as green-skinned hooligans who took the opportunity to make trouble and wander around the street a few times, and by the way, grab something to treat themselves.
Anyway, the puppet Tang thief army has no military uniform, and the dress is actually no different from ordinary people, who dares to insist that these people are pseudo-Tang thief army?
You said that they are the puppet Tang thief army, and I also said that you are a pseudo-Tang spy of the puppet Tang Dynasty, come on, arrest this bold puppet Tang detective, and hit a hundred dozen boards first, if they still insist that the person they see is the puppet Tang thief army, they don't have to continue to talk nonsense with him, and they will be cut directly.
How the Ming army in Longhua Town arranged the aftermath was naturally not what the Tang Dynasty Wangshi and Junchen cared about, Li Xuan only cared about Longhua Town, which was still in the hands of the Ming army, and the military food and ordnance in Longhua Town were all burned, and it was estimated that it would be difficult for the Ming army to maintain a large-scale operation into the mountains in the future, so that they could safely return to the mountains with these captures.
After leaving Longhua Town, Butcher Chen said that they would go outside the county to hang around, but Li Xuan felt that it was better to take a look at the situation first, to see if the Ming army had all gone out of the mountain, if all of them had gone out of the mountain, then there was no need to go outside the county to stimulate the Ming army, so as to avoid overstimulating the Ming army and jumping over the wall.
Li Xuan guessed that after the military rations in Longhua Town were burned out, the Ming army should not be able to continue large-scale operations, and should be able to stop for at least a few months.
So, the Tang Dynasty King Shi wandered around the countryside, and while looking at the beautiful scenery of the rivers and mountains, he casually grabbed a few votes, after all, the predecessor of the Tang Dynasty King was a bandit, and if they didn't rob it this time, Fang Dong and they all felt uncomfortable.
When Li Xuan led a group of bandits to plague the countryside, Su Jiakang also rushed back to Longhua Town with a large number of Ming troops, looking at the armory and grain depot that were burned to ashes, he immediately jumped like thunder!