Chapter 165: Strong and Brave Bandits
Never underestimate the will to survive of these bandits in the mountains, let alone the tremendous energy they burst out in the face of a desperate situation.
If you can't beat it, you can run, this is a skill that all the bandits in the mountains must master, and it is also the reason that they are regarded as being able to survive in the mountains, whether it is the bandits of Huangzhushan or other gangs, they are extremely good at escaping from the battle, and they are running very fast.
Often the enemy is helpless, and can only look at their backs and sigh.
What will they do if they are really unlucky and can't run away when they are surrounded? Will they wait for death in despair? Or will they fight bravely until the last moment?
Never!
Strong and brave bandits would never do that, they would never, ever wait to die or fight to the last moment.
They will be brave and proud - surrender!
Like the gentlemen on the battlefields of Europe, they will lay down their last weapons, walk up to the enemy with their heads held high, and proudly say that I will surrender!
And the victorious bandits are also very gentlemanly, and they will accept the surrender of the enemy regardless of their previous suspicions, and give them the treatment they deserve: put away their weapons, trap their hands, and rush to their lair like pigs!
In the not-too-distant future, these defeated and surrendered bandits will become new members of the winning bandit gang!
This is the survival of the mountain bandits, full of human wisdom and perseverance!
In order to survive in the mountains, they can pay all the price they can!
Running away and surrendering is a piece of!
Li Zhai raised the small white flag on the tip of the knife, and the next thing was no longer too many words, these bandits under the leadership of Li Zhai Lord, obediently and orderly completed the surrender, in the whole process, all the bandits, including Li Zhai, did not carry out any actual resistance.
The Chen butcher in the back was not idle, although they did not rush over to participate in the battle in the end, but the Chen butcher had already led twenty people to control the old and weak women and children of the bandits in the rear.
By the afternoon, the victorious Huangzhushan bandits were escorting more than 400 captives to Huangzhushan and rushing back.
This time, the speed of going back was much faster than when they came, and because of their proximity to Huangzhu Mountain, Fang Dongquan was also quite familiar with the road, even if it was nightfall, they continued to hurry.
Hundreds of meters long marched along the winding mountain road with torches, like a fiery dragon circling in the night.
When they returned to Huangzhu Mountain, it was already midnight, but in the middle of the night, it was bright up and down Huangzhu Mountain, Li Xuan and Liu Bagou had already learned the news of the front line from the mouth of the messenger as early as the evening, and learned that the front line army had won a great victory, and almost none of the bandits escaped, and all of them were captured.
In order to welcome the return of the army, Liu Bagou and they began to prepare with people in the evening, first preparing food to reward the army that had been fighting outside for several days.
In addition, it is necessary to prepare a place to house those more than 400 captives!
Although these bandits are still captives, when they return to Huangzhushan, these people will become the subjects of the Tang Dynasty.
It's quite important to settle them in, and then integrate them and start production.
After all, this is more than 400 people, their addition will make the total population of Huangzhushan exceed 4,000, for the weak Tang Dynasty, population is the foundation of the country, more than 400 people, it is enough for Li Xuan to arrange it personally.
Of course, not everyone will be treated as a child of the Tang Dynasty for the first time, and several of the more important leaders in this gang of bandits need to be treated differently.
For example, the owner of Li Zhai, and the old man Xie who wanted to escape with his family in the chaos, but was caught by Butcher Chen before escaping a hundred meters, this hunchbacked old man was like ashes when he was caught, and even desperate to kill himself by grabbing a knife, but when Butcher Chen still put the knife in front of him, he lost the courage to carry the knife and kill himself.
However, this night, Li Xuan and the others were obviously not in the mood to deal with the people of Li Zhai and Old Man Xie, and his focus was on those ordinary prisoners and the soldiers who had just returned from victory.
When Fang Dongquan and them were picking up the wind and dust, Qian Mengjiu, the soldiers who went out on behalf of the supervising army, reported the details of the battle to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan listened very carefully during the battle, and from the detailed battle experience he heard, Li Xuan found that the intelligence and reconnaissance ability of the Datang New Army was still too poor, and the enemy sneaked to the flank direction and failed to find it, which made Li Xuan feel that it was necessary to establish a special scout force in the later stage.
In addition, the only team that was ambushed at the beginning of the battle and was able to effectively and quickly change formations was the first musketeers, which also proved one thing, that is, in terms of battlefield discipline and formation training, the musketeers of the first musketeers team had far surpassed the other teams.
In addition, the spearmen operating in the brigade were too bloated, and the spearmen of the three teams acting together were simply not flexible enough to deal with unexpected situations.
In the later stage of training, it is necessary to strengthen the individual combat capability of the spearmen of each brigade, and the spearmen of the three teams should not only be able to cooperate together to form a decisive battle in the Chinese army, but also be able to flexibly and maneuver to fight alone.
In addition, in this battle, the heavy armor sword and shield team in the new army also played an extremely important role!
If the bandit division that sneaked up from the flank was defeated by the first musket team, then the main force of more than 100 bandits led by Li Zhai Master himself was defeated by the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers led by Cai Erhu!
Because before the main force of the Chinese army led by Fang Dongquan, that is, the more than 100 spearmen, rushed up, Cai Erhu had already led the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers to break up the enemy's formation, which in turn caused the collapse of the enemy's main force and forced the owner of Li Zhai to surrender.
In other words, in this battle, the Tang Dynasty King Division seemed to have invested more than 300 people, but only the first musket team and the sixth sword and shield team actually participated in the battle, at most counting some archers, although the others were also on the battlefield, but they did not actually fight with the enemy.
The importance of musketeers does not need to be mentioned, this belongs to a new class of troops in this eastern country, relying on the arquebus that Li Xuan made up, its combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the Western musketeers of the same era, and even because of the appearance of crosshairs, sleeve bayonets, and paper shell fixed ammunition, this arquebus made by Li Xuan has directly crossed the early and middle stages of the arquebus, and directly entered the most mature era of the arquebus.
This battle not only once again proved that musketeers are very important, but even a strategic weapon that can determine the outcome of the battlefield in the future, this battle also made Li Xuan see the importance of heavy infantry!
To be more precise, it made Li Xuan see the importance of armor!