In the eyes of outsiders, this suddenly appeared Tang Dynasty is very absurd child's play, and in the absurd child's play, there is mystery!

They all know Li Xuan, because Li Xuan has participated in the imperial examination, Su Jiakang has already sent this person's information to Song Zhiwen, and Song Zhiwen also recorded Li Xuan's information.

But according to this Li Xuan's superficial information, they still can't understand how such a helpless scholar who can't see any potential can establish a pseudo-Tang Dynasty!

And although the puppet Tang Dynasty is called the emperor, its system is different from that of the Ming Dynasty and even many dynasties in ancient times, such as this nine departments, they just don't understand.

In addition, the establishment and number of the Datang New Army are not secrets, needless to say, the Ming Army who has dealt with the Datang New Army, even some ordinary people in Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion also know that the Datang New Army is based on 'platoons, teams, battalions, and regiments'.

Song Zhiwen said in great detail in intelligence that there were about 100 people in a team of the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, the leader was called the captain, and several teams were a battalion, and the leader was called the battalion commander, and the number of thieves in a battalion ranged from two or three hundred to four or five hundred.

Of course, even Song Zhiwen can't completely figure out the detailed establishment of the Datang New Army, at least he doesn't know the regimental-level establishment of the Datang New Army, because if the Datang New Army establishes a regiment-level establishment, Song Zhiwen has already become a prisoner and was escorted to Beijing.

Therefore, the information dictated by Song Zhiwen is actually not detailed, and there are even many errors and omissions, but even so, this is the only comprehensive and detailed information that the Ming Dynasty can get.

However, such an important piece of information dictated by Song Zhiwen was not valued by the officials of the Ming Dynasty, especially the middle-level officials, or in other words, the focus of their attention was not on the various weapons or military systems of the puppet Tang thief army, but on how many people there were in the puppet Tang thief army.

Even pay attention to how many concubines Li Xuan has, why Liu Bagou is a scholar but he is a person who regards himself as a Taoist, more people than he pays attention to the establishment of the new army of the Tang Dynasty and weapons.

In the final analysis, the current Tang Dynasty still belongs to the category of jumping clowns in the hearts of many officials of the Ming Dynasty, who just regard many things about the pseudo-Tang thief army as gossip anecdotes, and do not spend time and energy to specialize in the real core issues.

Qiu Yu is okay, he has at least read this information in detail, especially the military content on the intelligence.

The Ming army attacking the city in front of him had already begun to retreat, but Qiu Yu was still immersed in shock and couldn't extricate himself, until the others next to him reminded him, he reacted, and then ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

He didn't blame the collapse of the front-line troops, nor did he shout and shout about killing the deserters, because even if it was two or three hundred meters away, he felt the power of the flowering bullets of the pseudo-Tang thief army just now.

Such a sharp weapon, invincible!

Since the troops have already retreated, the next thing to do is to gather the defeated troops, lest these defeated troops be completely dispersed, and even shake the morale of the whole army.

At the same time, you have to find a way to resist the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army!

The puppet Tang thief army not only has artillery and handguns, but also this kind of flowering bomb, which is invincible, and must come up with corresponding counterbalances, otherwise, if you continue to attack, you will be sent to death.

At this time, Qiu Yu didn't know that the Tang New Army in the Tonggu Acropolis actually had no grenades, and there were more than fifty grenades on their hands, which had already been thrown out at one time, and if they wanted to throw them again, they would be gone.

In fact, it's not just grenades, the ammunition of the Fifth Infantry Battalion under Wang Chaofeng's artillery and muskets is also used.

His troops had been fighting with the Ming army for three days, and because they were at a disadvantage in strength, they relied more on firepower when defending, and the consumption of ammunition was more.

Based on the experience gained from previous operations, the troops generally do not carry too much ammunition.

After all, at this time, a soldier will not fire more than ten rounds of ammunition on average in a regular large-scale decisive battle in the field, so theoretically speaking, it is enough for a soldier to carry ten rounds of ammunition.

But the theoretical situation is only a theoretical situation, because it will always only exist in the theory, and in actual combat, there are few generals who will let soldiers go to the battlefield with only ten bullets, even if they know that they will not need so much.

When Wang Chaofeng's Fifth Infantry Battalion came from Tongguwei, each soldier carried at least fifty rounds of ammunition on average on his body, originally he thought that these bullets were enough, but what he didn't expect was that these bullets were quickly consumed in the frequent and fierce defensive battles in the past few days.

So much so that there is a dangerous situation of depletion of ammunition!

Ammunition is running out, this is the biggest problem Wang Chaofeng is facing, and even at this time, he has secretly sworn in his heart that he will lead the army to fight alone in the future, and he must bring all the ammunition he can bring.

A soldier should have to bring at least a hundred rounds of ammunition and a few hundred shells, otherwise, he would not have lasted long in the fierce battle like today.

Fortunately, after the Ming army was hit by the grenade, it was already a temporary rout, and Wang Chaofeng hoped that before the Ming army launched the next large-scale attack, reinforcements from the regimental headquarters would arrive.

If the regimental reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, then his 5th Infantry Battalion could only be turned into a pure cold weapon unit and fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

In fact, the other two infantry battalions of the Second Infantry Regiment are now about fifteen miles behind the Tongguwei.

This distance, for the marching speed of these regular infantry battalions, is actually a matter of half a day, but it is already evening, and they will not continue to march after camping here, after all, the night march is too dangerous, and it is easy for the enemy to not come over, and they are scattered in the night.

It is not impossible for an army to march at night, break into pieces as it walks, and completely break up.

A few miles to the right of the 2nd Infantry Regiment was the 1st Infantry Corps.

Further behind, there was the 4th Infantry Regiment and a large number of baggage troops, as well as civilian men who were temporarily recruited for logistics and transportation tasks.

However, unlike the Ming army, which likes to send people to the battlefield, the Datang New Army has never had the tradition of catching up with young people or people to fight on the battlefield, and is generally responsible for logistics and transportation in the rear.

This is not to say that the generals of the Datang New Army cherish the lives of the people and are unwilling to use the people as cannon fodder, but because the combat mode of the Datang New Army is not the same as that of ordinary armies, and the people who have not received basic training will not be able to support the main force in the fight at all, on the contrary, it will be in the way.

In fact, those regular army soldiers who have been trained for as little as a month or as much as two or three months are themselves cannon fodder, and there is no need to let ordinary people be cannon fodder.

The reason why the musketeers shined and replaced all cold weapons in the infantry was because of several characteristics: easy to train, low cost, and barely passable in combat.

Taken together, these words can actually be said to be something like this: this is a good cheap cannon fodder class!

The spearman is actually a cheap cannon fodder soldier, and it is actually easier to train than the musketeer, but the heavy armor spearman among them is relatively valuable, after all, to wear armor to fight, the physical requirements of the soldier are relatively high, and ordinary soldiers really can't become heavy armor spearmen.

Many branches of the Datang New Army, especially the two core arms, are originally cannon fodder arms, so naturally there is no need to send untrained civilians to the battlefield, and when calculating the troops, they will not include the civilians in the rear or anything.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty calculates the strength of the troops, only counts the soldiers wearing military uniforms, and the people who are forcibly conscripted will not be counted, but the Ming army, like many traditional ancient armies, likes to exaggerate the number of troops, such as Zhu Zhihai, the regular army of the Ming army he assembled, including the Ming army led by himself and the Ming army that went south from northern Guizhou, the regular army strength is more than 20,000, and it will not exceed 30,000.

If you add Qingzhuang and Minfu, there are almost 50,000 people, and then exaggerate on this basis, claiming that an army of 100,000 is easy.

Otherwise, where do you think that in so many wars in ancient times, hundreds of thousands and millions of armies came from?

From this point, the Datang New Army and the Ming Army are still not the same.

However, although it will not send the people to the battlefield, the new army of the Tang Dynasty is still the same as the Ming army, and will temporarily forcibly recruit a large number of people.

From this point of view, in fact, there is no difference between the Datang New Army and the Ming Army, they are both the same bad.

Hao Bonian did not advance with his first corps at this time, but advanced with the Fourth Infantry Regiment, artillery units, and a large number of baggage troops in the rear.

The operations of the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment are actually in charge of Li Chunjing, the deputy commander in chief, at present!

However, the distance between these parts is not far, only a few kilometers before and after, when a big war really breaks out, it can quickly converge together, and it is Hao Bonian who commands the army to fight at that time.

That night, Li Chunjing took several major generals to join Hao Bonian on horseback to discuss the follow-up strategy.

Li Chunjing asked whether the Fifth Infantry Battalion on the side of the Tonggu Acropolis was fighting very hard and was short of ammunition, so he should consider transferring another infantry battalion to reinforce it.

"The fifth battalion is still fighting hard now, and Wang Chaofeng also has the ability, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and under the shortage of ammunition, the fifth battalion is afraid that it will not last long, and under the hard fighting, the casualties of the troops will not be relatively large!"

But as soon as this proposal was put forward, it was vetoed by Hao Bonian without hesitation!

Hao Bonian said: "The fifth battalion has dragged the enemy's forward in the Tonggu Acropolis for three days, leaving us enough time to maneuver, and has completed its task, and then the fifth battalion can be withdrawn, there is no need to spend it in the Tonggu Acropolis and the Ming army!" ”

After that, he looked around at the many officers present and continued in a slow tone: "Our army doesn't have to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place in this battle, we are even planning to give up Liping Mansion City, what is a mere copper drum acropolis, our only task and goal is to defeat or even completely annihilate the main force of the Ming army on the North Road in the next ten days!" ”

In fact, Hao Bonian had already sent heralds to ride fast horses and give the order to retreat to Wang Chaofeng of the Fifth Infantry Battalion!

So early the next morning, the Ming army outside the Tonggu Acropolis found that the pseudo-Tang thief army in the Tonggu Acropolis had retreated.

Facing the already empty Acropolis of Bronze Drums, the Ming army outside the city shouted:

"The thieves have been defeated!"

"Rush, go into the city!"

"Kill him without leaving a piece of armor!"

Rushed to the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum without stopping!

The sheer size of its momentum is extremely shocking, and if anyone sees this scene, they will definitely be scared!

Daming Wangshi, magnificent!