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 are changed, then the change of troops becomes natural!

In today's Ming Army and the early Datang New Army, the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers whose status is quite important are in the current Datang New Army, but their development has come to an end!

It's not that the Chen butchers are not brave enough, it's not that the combat ability of the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers is not strong enough, but the particularity of the troops has limited their further development, and their tactical positioning in the field has been replaced by musketeers and spearmen.

This situation was even more so after Li Xuan decided to equip some of the spearmen in the front row with armor!

Heavily armored spearmen in armor far outperformed armor-clad sword and shield soldiers in field charges.

At the same time, there is also the problem of training costs, the training of spearmen is simpler, so it is easier to become an army!

As for the sword and shield soldiers, if they want to use the long knives and shields in their hands well, they have to practice for many years.

Butcher Chen, these sword and shield soldiers were a little worried about their future status, and these things were naturally not in Li Xuan's consideration.

In fact, if he knew Butcher Chen's worries, he would tell Butcher Chen directly: Change careers as soon as possible!

Not to mention the future, even now there are only two main types of troops in the Datang New Army, one is musketeers, the other is spearmen, and the sword and shield soldiers and archers have been reduced to auxiliary combat forces.

After a while, after he got some flintlock pistols, Lao Tzu completely threw away all the spearmen, and the infantry only used musketeers.

It's a pity that Butcher Chen didn't ask, so naturally he didn't know Li Xuan's plans for the future Datang New Army!

Now Butcher Chen can only continue to struggle!

After cleaning up the battlefield, Zeng Ziwen found Li Xuan and briefly reported the results, in this battle, the casualties of the new army of the Tang Dynasty were almost negligible, because they relied on long-range firepower to defeat the Ming army, and only a few unlucky people were shot by the arrows of the Ming army in this battle, resulting in one death and three injuries.

However, their results were huge, almost completely annihilating the vanguard of more than 150 people of the Ming army, of which 100 people were captured by prisoners alone, and about 50 people were killed and wounded, and the Ming soldiers who really escaped were less than single digits.

It was not hard to be unhappy, these few Ming soldiers who managed to escape did not include Wen Dashan, who was the first to escape, and he was quite unlucky to become one of the Ming prisoners.

It's not that he escaped slower than his comrades, but that at that time, more than 1,000 people from the Datang New Army had already surrounded them, and it was almost impossible for them to break out of the encirclement.

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Datang New Army caught up, he lay down quite decisively and shouted: "The little one is willing to surrender!" ”

This saved his life!

When his hands were tied and he was walking in line with the other captured brothers, although Wen Dashan lowered his head and pretended to be docile, he was not beaten by the guards of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the side who thought he was dishonest.

However, he has been secretly aiming at the pseudo-Tang thieves next to him.

The most watched are the few pseudo-Tang thieves who are guarding them, and the reason why they see more is because these pseudo-Tang thieves are the firecrackers who make many adults tremble.

They wore shirts and trousers, which were no different from ordinary peasants, but they had several cloth bags tied around their waists, and they didn't know what they were holding inside.

There is also a knife with a strange style hanging on his waist, this knife is only a foot long, not like a waist knife or like a head knife, very strange.

But these are all normal, and the real attraction is the fire gun they are carrying!

The guns of the puppet Tang thief army are sharp, this is already in Zhengtai County, and even in Fucheng, many people know it, and everyone also knows that the guns of the puppet Tang thief army are thin and long, which is completely different from those guns in the Ming army.

Of course, what impressed them even more was that the lead bullets shot out by the guns of these pseudo-Tang thieves were far and ruthless, even if they were wearing armor, they were all a dozen holes.

Now looking at these firecrackers that have been talked about by many people at such a close distance, Wen Dashan is very curious, and he really wants to take this firecracker in his hand to take a closer look, and finally hit such a shot with his own hands.

Wen Dashan, who had this idea, didn't say that he wanted to spy on the military secrets of the firearms, he was just curious, a soldier's curiosity about good weapons!

Even at this time, he began to fantasize that if he also had such a firearm, he would still be powerful on the battlefield!

Wen Dashan was curious about the guns of the Tang New Army, this is not an isolated phenomenon, but a general phenomenon, many prisoners of the Ming army, especially those low-level officers such as the general flag and the small flag, are more curious about those firearms.

The highest-ranking Ming army officer among these captives, a deputy Qianhu, even said to a pseudo-Tang thief soldier who was guarding him: "Little brother, can you show me your firecracker, come, you can take this silver to drink!" ”

Perhaps in order to relieve the soldier's worries, he also took the initiative to say, "If you don't worry." Take down this medicine and the knife, and I'll just look at this firecracker!" ”

Unexpectedly, the soldier of the pseudo-Tang Thief Army showed a look of contempt and said: "Look at what, you can also see this gun, stand back, otherwise I will be unwelcome!" ”

despised this deputy Qianhu on his face, and the little soldier was still complaining in his heart: "I don't have any eyesight, I didn't see Lao Tzu's platoon commander watching behind Lao Tzu, you hand over the silver to Lao Tzu now, that's harming Lao Tzu, if you don't do it well, you will have to eat a military stick!"

If you want to give money, you have to give it when no one is watching! ”

The various actions of the Ming army captives naturally fell into the eyes of Bai Yunqi who was behind, and he said while looking at it: "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 a bumper harvest this time, our brothers are tired and tired, you are good, you didn't do anything, you picked up more than 100 people for nothing!" ”

Bai Yunqi smiled: "What do you mean and you haven't done anything, without our baggage battalion to transport food, weapons and ammunition to you, let alone fighting, it's good if you don't starve to death!" ”

"And for the sake of your infantry battalion, all of them are from good families, and my baggage battalion is now about to become a prisoner camp, and you don't know the quality of these Ming army prisoners, before they have been transformed, they are all useless!"

Huang Xueren continued to smile: "But when it comes to this transformation, I don't accept anyone else, just obey you Brother Bai, no one can deal with those Ming army prisoners, and as soon as you get out, all of them obediently surrendered, this skill, no one in our Tang Dynasty can match!" ”

Bai Yunqi arched his hand at this time and bowed to the west: "This is all the credit of the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, Bai Mou is just a start!" ”

Hearing Bai Yunqi say this, a trace of disdain flashed in Huang Xueren's eyes!