The colonel in the Datang New Army is a middle-level and high-ranking officer, and in the Datang New Army, he generally holds the position of battalion commander, or deputy regiment commander, regiment commander, deputy brigade commander, brigade chief of staff and other positions.

It is rare that there will be a chance to fight in person, as long as it is not a large-scale rout, then the officers who are injured or killed in battle are basically hit by enemy bows and arrows and cannonballs.

It is a small probability event when the character is unlucky!

However, in a battle with a big victory and a special victory, it is the first time that someone like Cai Erhu has been cut with a knife!

So when Cai Erhu heard that he was one of the two injured school officers, it was normal for him to look embarrassed!

This time, whether it was an officer or an ordinary soldier, the casualties were more than those of the Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis a few days ago, mainly because the Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis was a very pure regular field decisive battle, and this kind of battle was what the Datang New Army was best at, and it was naturally handy to fight, and the casualties were relatively few.

The Battle of Lipingfu City, whether it was an interception operation on the first day or a siege battle on the second day, was fought relatively hard.

On the first day of the interception operation, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, which had only 2,000 men on its own, delayed the 30,000-strong Ming army for several hours.

Although several battles with the Ming army at that time were successive battles, they also paid relatively large casualties, only the third infantry regiment was a unit, more than 600 people were killed and wounded, and before the war, the third infantry regiment was only more than 2,500 people, and the casualty rate reached 24 percent!

This casualty ratio is extremely large even for the Third Infantry Regiment, the main infantry regiment in the Tang New Army.

This is also the reason why in the subsequent siege campaign, the 3rd Infantry Regiment did not participate in the main battle, but acted as a strategic reserve, because the casualties were too heavy to bear the storm.

In addition, the three temporary assault battalions also suffered heavy casualties, and the assault force of more than 1,600 people suffered more than 400 casualties, and the casualty ratio exceeded 25 percent!

This is also a huge casualty put proportion!

At that time, if the first brigade had not quickly joined the battle in Dengcheng, I am afraid that the three assault battalions would have completely collapsed if they continued to fight, and then they would have been completely annihilated by the Ming army.

The casualties of the other main forces were relatively small, and the overall casualties of the First Brigade were not large, only two or three hundred, but the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment, two Ming troops, were used as cannon fodder units in the early stage, and the casualties were relatively large.

All of them add up, and the Datang New Army has killed more than 800 people and wounded more than 2,000 people, which is a huge number of casualties for the Datang New Army, which has a total strength of only more than 16,000 people.

Fortunately, although the casualties were relatively large, the losses on the equipment were not large, especially the guns that were difficult to replenish!

Because a soldier is killed or wounded, it does not mean that his guns are lost, and when the battlefield is cleaned up after the war, these equipment will be recycled and reused.

Especially the musket, because it is a smoothbore gun, you don't have to worry about the rifling running out, as long as it is not an explosive breech, you can basically continue to use it!

In total, the loss of muskets did not exceed 100, and many of them were still bayonet breaks, especially the bayonet holder, which was easier to bend and break when the musketeer launched a bayonet hand-to-hand charge, after all, the metallurgical level of this era was like that, and it could not be expected that these small but extremely powerful bayonet mounts could not be used all the time.

The bayonet holder is broken, just replace it with a one, for this kind of easily damaged accessories, each unit in the Datang New Army will carry many spare parts to replace.

There is no loss of artillery, and these bronze cannons weighing hundreds of pounds, unless they are blown up by an operation error, otherwise it is really difficult to use them badly.

The loss of armor, swords, spears, etc. in cold weapons is relatively large, and in the fierce battle, it is very common for a soldier's saber to be notched or even broken, and the same is true for spears.

It is also common for armor to break after a fierce battle.

Most of the damaged swords and spears can't be repaired, and they basically have to be replaced directly with new ones, while the armor can be repaired and repaired, and it can continue to be used after a little repair.

If it is said that relying solely on the Tang Dynasty's own weapon production and repair capabilities, it is extremely difficult to replenish the shortage of cold weapons after the war.

But the cold weapons used by the Datang New Army have never relied on their own production, but on capture!

The Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis and the Battle of Liping Fucheng, in these two battles, the Tang New Army defeated the Ming army with a total of more than 50,000 people and captured a large number of cold weapons.

After all, no one would be stupid enough to run away in dozens of pounds of armor!

Compared with the cold weapons of the Datang New Army and the cold weapons they captured, it is not worth mentioning at all!

These captured cold weapons can not only be selected from the best quality to replace the main force of the Datang New Army, but also can be assigned to the garrison in large quantities.

The Privy Council Ordnance Department has not even been formed, but it is already being organized, and all kinds of cold weapons and equipment required for the new wave of Ming troops to surrender have been prepared in advance.

After the great victory in the Battle of Lipingfucheng, nearly 20,000 prisoners were captured, and these captives naturally could not be let go, nor could they be sent back to Xingquanfu to be used as coolies, most of them would become members of the Tang New Army, whether voluntarily or forced.

These new Ming army soldiers who joined the new army of the Tang Dynasty were also treated differently!

Soldiers with special skills, such as archers, cavalrymen, gunners, and skilled heavy-armored sword and shield bearers, will generally persuade them to take the initiative to surrender, because if they take the initiative to surrender and pass the basic qualities, they will have the opportunity to replenish into the regular army!

If you are not willing to take the initiative to surrender, or your physical fitness is slightly worse, then you will be arranged to enter the garrison camp!

Similarly, those who are unwilling to take the initiative to surrender, the Datang New Army will also use knives and guns to force them to join the Datang New Army!

The usual way is like this, pointing a bayonet at you: Are you willing to join my glorious and great Tang New Army and work for Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages!

Willing?

Good! Fabulous! From now on, you will be our glorious and great soldier of the Tang New Army!

What the? Don't want to? Are you sure you didn't say the wrong thing in a moment?

At this time, the bayonet stepped forward and pressed it against the chest of this Ming soldier, and then he would ask again: "You really don't want to?" ”

At this time, most of the Ming army captives will be very happy to change their answers, so as to become the glorious and great soldiers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but there are also a very small number of stubborn soldiers who are unwilling to die for the Tang Dynasty!

A small number of people in this part will be regarded as the chicken that kills the chicken and makes an example of the monkey!

However, not all those who refused to join the army will be killed, in fact, only a few will be killed, and those who do not want to join the army will continue to be tied up and sent back to the rear as coolies, and they will work day and night in the workshops of the Ministry of Works, day after day!

And there is a lack of food and clothing, so he died quietly while doing it!

The work of recruiting soldiers from the captives is still in charge of Bai Yunqi, he is already familiar with this kind of thing, and the prisoners captured by the Datang New Army before are basically recruited by him, and the recruitment and surrender work is excellent and effective.

Thanks to Bai Yunqi's efforts, among the nearly 20,000 captives, a total of 16,000 people expressed their intention to join the Datang New Army on the spot!

Among them, more than 1,000 people who have special skills and are willing to take the initiative to surrender to sincerity, and have relatively good quality, have been supplemented into the regular army units!

The regular army of the five infantry regiments of the Datang New Army was already dissatisfied, and in addition, the two consecutive major battles also suffered more casualties, and now with such a group of people to replenish, it can also restore more combat effectiveness to the five main infantry regiments.

Because of such a group of Ming army soldiers who used cold weapons to replenish their troops, the soldiers who came from the new barracks could be directly replenished to the musket teams!

However, these Ming army soldiers who were supplemented to the regular army still need to enter the new barracks for short-term training, and when they enter the new barracks, they are not trained in tactical skills, but mainly for them to be disciplined and adapted, so as not to bring their habits in the previous Ming army to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

This will not only affect the atmosphere of the regular army of the Datang New Army, but crucially, it will harm themselves.

The regular army discipline in the new army of the Tang Dynasty is extremely strict, and these Ming army soldiers will violate military discipline if they are not careful, and they will be beheaded casually!

Wouldn't this be a great death!

Most of the remaining Ming troops will be concentrated into the garrison force, some of which will be supplemented into the three existing garrison infantry regiments with relatively large losses, and the rest will be organized into a new garrison infantry regiment.

In view of the fact that the number of garrison troops in the Datang New Army has far exceeded that of the regular army, and in terms of establishment and combat methods, it is not suitable to follow the number and establishment of the main infantry regiment, it is necessary to establish a new number system and establishment for these garrison troops!

In addition, the title of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is also not suitable for the general name of the existing troops, the name of the new army at that time was because the Tang Dynasty also had a standing army, a guard army, etc., and the new army was only one of these three armies.

Later, after the Standing Army and the Guards Army were abolished, the Datang New Army became the only one!

After some simple consideration, Li Xuan officially issued a holy decree, officially revoking the title of the Datang New Army, officially preparing for the establishment of the 'Datang Army', and at the same time preparing for the establishment of the 'Datang Navy'.

Of course, the Datang Navy is just an empty shelf, and there are only a few officers in the Privy Council with more than 100 people, mainly some small boats on the rivers.

But although there is only an empty shelf, in any case, the navy of the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as officially erecting a shelf, and when it comes to the establishment of the Datang Navy in the future, it will be today!