In this field battle, Xu Shiyang's Wubao militia killed 13 people, almost equivalent to 10% of the attacking troops, and another 9 people were injured.

Among those who died in battle, 2 were Xu Shiyang's own soldiers, one of whom was beheaded by the Jurchen Mouke who came out last, and the other was shot in the chest by a heavy arrow from a Tartar during the charge.

Xu Shiyang couldn't help but scolded secretly: "These dog tartars, archery is really accurate!" ”

In the case of a close-range raid, the Tartars only had time to shoot one or twenty arrows, but according to specific statistics, there were 7 Tunding who died in this wave of attacks, accounting for more than half of the total number of casualties.

If it weren't for Xu Shiyang's decisive entry into close combat after a round of shooting, if he had believed too much in the power of firearms and shot at the Tartars in the wilderness, the winner and loser this time would definitely be reversed.

Xu Shiyang sat on the pile of cloth and secretly summed up the battle that had just ended:

'Firearms are indeed very useful, the musket is not as weak as I imagined in my previous life, and the power and accuracy within 30 meters are not inferior to the heavy crossbow, but you can't expect ordinary tunding to accurately complete the whole process of loading, ignition and shooting on the battlefield, and the distance between the fire rope and gunpowder is too close, and it is too easy for novices to use it, and it is funny if you accidentally light yourself. ’

Firearms are definitely the direction of the development of future wars, but now this thing can only be regarded as a newborn baby at most, if it weren't for Xu Shiyang's lack of sufficient strong bows and crossbows and qualified archers, he would not be equipped with this Rausch musket at all.

Fortunately, the first actual combat performance of the primary firearm was acceptable, at least so that the children on whom Xu Shiyang had high hopes had a means to effectively kill and injure the enemy.

That's enough.

"And that wooden cannon, the effect of shooting at close range is quite powerful, according to this standard, build a few more, and you can use this thing to top before the real field cannon appears!" ’

The sound and light effect of the wooden cannon is outstanding, it is close, and the killing effect of 3 catties of gravel on the unarmored enemy is also good, and the only cannon in the battle is very lucky to knock down a full 10 enemies, although most of them did not die immediately, but they all lost their combat effectiveness, and they were mended one by one after the battle, which was very easy.

Of course, the shortcomings are also very obvious - Xu Shiyang did not dare to use it to launch a solid projectile, let alone a second shot with the same gun.

The pine cannon used was immediately thrown aside after the first round of shooting, and Xu Shiyang did not intend to recover it after the battle, but ordered someone to dismantle the iron hoop and take it away, and the wooden cannon body was burned as firewood on the spot for .......

Fortunately, there is a wide range of materials for this thing, and the production process is extremely simple.

If you can hit 3 enemies per cannon and hit the morale of the enemy, it will already exceed expectations.

'In the next operation, we must build a few more guns, which is the most effective firepower supplement at this stage for the Tunpu, which lacks long-range attack means. ’

Xu Shiyang leaned on the pile of cloth like this, thinking about it all night, and when the sky was bright, the heart he had been holding in his throat was finally really relaxed.

After everyone has eaten and drunk and rested, even if they are attacked by a new enemy, they will not be helpless.

"Immediately pull out the camp and return to the fort!"

Xu Shiyang ordered loudly, and the high-spirited militiamen shouted together in response to him.

'Discipline is the biggest problem, and now this team is a standard rabble, not to mention a modern army or even a modern army, not even a feudal army, and it is not much better than banditry and outcasts! ’

Xu Shiyang thought sadly:

'There is still a long way to go, everything must be reformed!' ’

But it can't be achieved overnight, the environment and foundation don't allow it, it must come little by little.

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There were no twists and turns on the way back, because when the Tartars came, even the bandits and robbers did not dare to go down the mountain casually, so naturally no one peeked into Xu Shiyang's dock fort at this time.

The team slowly passed through the gate of the Xujia 15th Tun Wall amid the onlookers and cheers of the people who stayed behind in the fort.

The Xu family, as a local wealthy family in Juzhou, now has 15 dock forts, the name is Xu Jiayi to Fifteen Tun, the last of which belonged to Xu Shiyang's father, and was given to him as a gift 10 months ago, becoming Xu Shiyang's personal property.

It's a standard dock fort, or to put it in more colloquial terms—Tuweizi.

The rammed earth wall is up to 1 meter wide and more than 5 meters high, and the militia can stand directly on top of the wall to defend it.

At the four corners of the wall were equally rammed earth towers, with narrow windows at the top and bottom, which could be attacked with bows and arrows or spears.

All the villagers under Xu Shiyang lived in the wall, and all the most important buildings in the fifteenth tun of the Xu family, the residence of Xu Shiyang, the lord of the castle, various warehouses, workshops, and two wells were also inside the wall.

If there are bandits attacking the fort, the militia only needs to close the gate and block a few big stones, and they can hold out for a long time, and it is not impossible to knock out a few big teeth of the thieves.

Now in this year, there are still some normal popularity, and I'm afraid there are only these Tuweizi who have the ability to protect themselves.

"Go back to your own house, and arrange the newcomers in the threshing floor, let them live in the tents of the tartars first, and the women in the land temple first, in short, live first."

After entering the fort, Xu Shiyang completely relaxed, and he lazily ordered:

"All the tartars that were caught were tied to the trees and left to dry. All seized, find Old Man Hu and Mr. Gongsun to register in the warehouse, who dares to steal Lao Tzu and cut him! ”

He had just gone through a real battle yesterday and had not slept all night, and now he was so sleepy that he could only sleep for a while before dealing with the follow-up.

When Xu Shiyang took over the fifteenth tun of the Xu family, there were 115 households in this tunpu, not counting Xu Shiyang himself, there were a total of 171 people in Tunding and 55 people in Banding.

In addition, there were 122 women, 85 boys, girls and children, and 12 elderly people.

There are 445 people in total.

In Jiangbei at this time, the prevailing rule was that men reached adulthood at the age of 18 and until the age of 50, they had to pay their food on time and perform all kinds of labor for the armor.

Men between the ages of 14 and 17, and between the ages of 50 and 55, were considered half a ding, and could theoretically pay only half of the grain to the lord of the castle, and were exempted from several of the heaviest forms of servitude.

Of course, that is the concept that only has the Tunpu that can still get by, and now most of the Tunpu simply cancel the concept of half ding, and treat all active men as Dingkou, the same tax and food, and the same heavy labor.

The Xu family didn't want to squeeze the people of the castle too much, so they have been vigorously reining in small groups of displaced people, these groups of people wandering in groups on the land of the Central Plains are numerous, in order to survive, they sometimes attack the dock fort, and even it is not uncommon for them to eat Yizi.

The resilience of the displaced people who have survived to the present is not strong, but at least it is not weak, and it is a very good population growth point.

The large group of homeless people is a dangerous beast, but the smaller group has become fat in the eyes of the owners of Wubao Fort, Xu Shiyang has participated in several actions against the homeless people in his family, and during this time, he has divided more than 100 Dingkou and more than 100 other people.

Excluding the dead burgers during this time, before last night, there were a total of 630 people in Xujia's fifteenth tun, of which 300 were Dingkou and Banding, who were the main laborers.

In terms of population, this is a very ordinary northern dock fort, relatively neither strong nor weak.

However, counting the population taken back from the Tartars last night, the number of people in the fifteenth tun of the Xu family has exceeded 1,000, and the number of Dingkou and half ding is about 500, which is already a strong village.

If it comes to combat effectiveness, I'm afraid that he can beat two others with one fort.

That's the first step. ’

Before falling asleep, Xu Shiyang thought in a daze:

Thankfully, I didn't back down. ’