When the large-scale and brutal strategic Armageddon of the Acropolis came to an end, most of the soldiers of the Tang New Army, who had fought hard and pursued the Ming army for a whole day, began to gather and prepare to rest.

However, there is only a part of the rest, the forward troops led by Hao Bonian, and the cavalry troops are still continuing to pursue the Ming army, according to the latest information, the forward troops led by Hao Bonian himself have gone north for more than ten miles.

In the Tonggu Acropolis, it has now become a sea of Tang New Army, crowded with more than 4,000 Tang New Army, and there are a large number of Tang New Army surrounded by outside the city, and there are many Ming army prisoners who are drawn as prisons in the middle.

In a former Ming military officer's office on the Tonggu Acropolis, Li Xuan was listening to Zeng Ziwen and a group of officers after the war.

According to rough statistics, as of an hour ago, our army killed and seriously injured more than 3,000 puppet Ming thieves in this battle, captured 5,600 people, and the remaining Ming army part of the retreat in several ways. At present, the Chinese army has also sent a number of small-scale troops to search, clear and capture these fleeing Ming troops! ”

"There is no doubt that this is a great victory, an unprecedented victory!" Zeng Ziwen was not ashamed at all when he said this, because for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, this was an unprecedented victory.

"It is worth mentioning that in this battle, our army defeated most of the enemy's cavalry, killed and wounded more than 400 enemy cavalry, captured more than 300 people, and captured more than 1,300 horses of various kinds, of which about 400 horses can be used as horses, with this batch of horses, we can greatly improve our army's logistics and transportation capabilities and cavalry strength!"

At present, the demand for horses in the new army of the Tang Dynasty is very huge, officers need horses to ride, heralds need horses to ride, artillery units need a large number of horses to transport artillery and ammunition, not to mention cavalry troops, they need a large number of high-quality horses for riding.

Even if it is a logistics baggage force, the demand for horses is huge!

With the addition of this batch of horses, the demand for horses in the new army of Datang can be greatly alleviated.

Maybe in the near future, there will be hundreds of more cavalry in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and if Cao Mingda, the commander of the cavalry battalion, is here, he will definitely be smiling.

Zeng Ziwen's words continued: "More than 40 large and small bowls of mouth cannons were captured, and three artillery pieces ranging from 300 catties were captured, but according to the feedback of the artillery unit, these three 300 catties of artillery were old and unbearable, and the quality of the barrels was worrisome. ”

"Although some of the bowl-mouth guns also have the problem of too small caliber and poor quality, after selection, about twenty bowl-mouth guns can still be selected to equip the troops!"

Compared with the Ming army, the artillery unit of the Datang New Army is too strong, equipped with 800 jin and 500 jin heavy artillery, and is ready to be equipped with 800 kg heavy artillery in batches in the future, and it is not normal for the 300 jin artillery captured from the Ming army.

However, those bowl-mouth cannons are used to fire shotshots anyway, and the quality requirements for the artillery are not too high, and the gap between the infantry units and the 150-pound battalion guns is huge, so if there are bowl-mouth cannons as a supplement, it can be used as a transition.

Zeng Ziwen took a thick pile of reports and continued: "In the process of cleaning the battlefield, 250 pieces of various types of iron armor, leather armor, and 1,000 cotton armors were captured, although some of them were damaged, but they can all be repaired, and after repair, these iron armors can effectively increase the combat effectiveness of our army's heavy armor infantry, and the colleagues of the captured cotton armor ordnance department after inspection, they believe that after these cotton armors have been modified, they should be able to be modified into cotton iron armor like the previous cotton armor, and then equip our army." ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly after hearing this, and said it bitterly, the new army of the Tang Dynasty lacked everything, horses, guns, even cold weapons and soldiers, and even food and clothing, there was nothing that was not lacking.

So when cleaning the battlefield, it's like a devil entering the village, you want anything, even if it's a broken weapon, you will pick it up, why do you pick it up, it's naturally melted and used to create new weapons!

This iron is a strategic material that the Tang Dynasty focuses on collecting!

Armor, a very tactical and even strategic value of equipment, can not be let go, not to mention the iron armor, the construction of the iron armor is quite time-consuming, the Tang New Army made not many iron armor, or even very few, most of them are repaired and captured from the Ming Army's armor.

In fact, it takes a lot of time to make cotton armor, and the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty has not made many cotton armors so far, and they are all converted into cotton iron armor from the cotton armor captured from the Ming army.

Therefore, capturing the armor of the Ming army is an important way to expand the heavy infantry of the Tang New Army.

This also includes bows, the manufacture of military strong bows is more time-consuming than armor and artillery, so most of the bows and arrows used by the Datang New Army are also from capture, this time they also captured a number of Ming bows, these bows and arrows needless to say, will be together with those Ming archers who surrendered to the Ming Army, to form a new archer unit of the Datang New Army.

It's also interesting to say, most of the archers and cavalry in the new army of the Tang Dynasty were actually prisoners of the Ming army!

In addition to the more important horses, armor, bows, and artillery, cold weapons such as swords and spears are also key recovery objects, because the cold weapons of the Tang New Army are actually the same system as the cold weapons of the Ming Army, and as long as the quality is not too poor, they can basically be used directly.

However, these Ming troops are all Ming troops in the inland areas, they have been peaceful for a long time, their combat readiness is lax, and most of the weapons used are dilapidated, especially swords and spears, many of which are rusty, and many of the captured cold weapons are unusable and need to be recast.

After Zeng Ziwen told all the results of the battle, everyone present was happy, and this capture can greatly alleviate the current shortage of various strategic materials in the Datang New Army.

Especially after capturing a large number of horses, it can greatly improve the mobile combat capability of the Datang New Army, which is quite important.

After talking about the results, Zeng Ziwen also took out another report, and after opening the report with dry handwriting, Zeng Ziwen's expression became heavy.

When the people next to him saw him like this, and then looked at the word battle damage at the beginning of the report in his hand, they could guess why Zeng Ziwen looked serious.

After Zeng Ziwen opened this report, his expression was slightly heavy and he said slowly: "Our army has achieved great results in this battle, but our soldiers have also paid the price of blood!"

According to the incomplete statistics submitted by the various departments, the casualties of all units of our army are relatively large! ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and then looked around at the crowd, at this time, even Li Xuan, who was sitting in the position of the top dragon chair, had a color on his expression, to show respect for the dead and wounded soldiers.

Zeng Ziwen took a deep breath and said: "The list of officers killed in our army in this battle is as follows:

Major Liu Longquan, deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Captain Xu Gou, captain of the 3rd team of the 1st Infantry Battalion, 2nd Lieutenant Song Xu, the first platoon leader of the 3rd team, 2nd Lieutenant Wang Erwa, deputy platoon leader, 2nd Lieutenant Wei Erniu, the 3rd platoon leader, and 2nd Lieutenant Xu Yang, the deputy platoon commander of the 4th platoon......

Lieutenant Shao Hong, deputy captain of the second team of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, and Second Lieutenant Lu An, the first platoon leader of the 3rd team.

Captain Wang Dayi, the second team officer of the 3rd Infantry Battalion......

As the names were reported according to the number of the troops, the atmosphere in the hall became heavier and heavier, and finally everyone's breathing couldn't help but become heavy, and many people clenched their fists!

Especially when Zeng Ziwen said some familiar names, there would always be people who involuntarily took a deep breath, clenched their fists or looked gloomy, because some of the people in this batch of dead lists were not only their subordinates, but also their brothers and nephews.

When Zeng Ziwen talked about Zeng Zike, the captain of the fifth team of the 8th Infantry Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, his own tone couldn't help but pause, because this Zeng Zike was his cousin.

The Zeng family is now forced to fully lean towards the Tang Dynasty, as a family of generals, most of the children of the family are basically in the army, and now it is no exception, in addition to Zeng Ziwen's younger brother Zeng Zisong, there are more than ten cousins and cousins serving in the army, and most of them are concentrated in the Third Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Infantry Regiment.

This Zeng Ziwen died as a cousin, but when Zeng Ziwen said that Second Lieutenant Huang Yaoshan, the deputy platoon commander of the Third Artillery Brigade of the Artillery Battalion, was killed, Huang Xueren almost choked on his feet, because the name Zeng Ziwen said was his biological son.

Huang Xueren only has two sons in total, the two sons are all serving in the army without exception, the eldest son is the captain of the fourth team in the first infantry battalion, and he is also from the Guards, when it comes to the future, he is actually brighter than him.

And his youngest son, who is still relatively young, is only sixteen years old this year, although he has already joined the Datang New Army last year, but he has always studied in the martial arts academy, and then entered the imperial academy to study and become a student of the artillery department.

Originally, according to Huang Xueren's plan, he planned to let his young son continue to study for a period of time, and then he would officially enter the army, but during this time, the Tang New Army expanded the army, and there was a shortage of personnel, especially officers who had studied systematically, so his young son initially finished his studies last month, and then entered the artillery battalion under Xie Ziwei to become a deputy platoon commander.

But there will be thought that this has just entered the army and officially served, that is, he died in battle, how can this make Huang Xueren not heartbroken.

War, it's always so cruel!