Geng Youhua continued to look at it, and when he looked at it, his expression became more and more serious, and even occasionally exclaimed, and in the end, he put down the newspaper in his hand, and then sighed heavily: "Drunk and lying on the battlefield, don't smile, a few people have come to fight in ancient times!" ”

"Zhao Quansong's husband is also a model for my generation!"

This battle report was not too long, and he soon saw the end!

In this battle, more than half of the musket team suffered casualties, but the Ming army they killed and wounded reached more than 200, forcing the Ming army that ambushed them to flee in rout!

After the war, the team of officers and soldiers were all promoted, the casualties of the soldiers received generous pensions, the captain of the team Zhao Quansong, but also because of the danger, decisive and resolute led the troops to charge, the battle of the first soldier and finally seriously wounded, because of his heroic performance in this battle, directly from a lieutenant to a major promotion!

This war report in the Tang Dynasty newspaper is not a false example, but a real one!

The army carefully selected this small battle as the army report in the first issue of the newspaper, and the army believes that this battle can give full play to the army's spirit of fighting bravely, and it also reflects the unparalleled combat strength of the Tang Army!

Facing a tenfold tougher enemy? Is the Datang Army afraid? No, they bravely launched a charge, even if more than half of the dead and wounded, they still stubbornly continued to charge, after the chief officer was seriously wounded, did they retreat? Still not, they are still fighting stubbornly!

Facing a tenfold tougher enemy? Was the Tang Army defeated? No, even though they paid a certain price, they still managed to defeat the strong enemy!

The soldiers after defeating a strong enemy, were they abandoned? No, they got promotions, generous pensions!

This seems to be a somewhat tragic and heroic example, which reflects the strong combat power and spiritual outlook of the Datang Army, and also reflects the Datang Dynasty's generous treatment of meritorious soldiers!

At this time, he could even imagine that on a desolate field, hundreds of Tang soldiers bravely and fearlessly launched a charge towards more than a thousand strong enemies, the sound of guns and shouts were intertwined with each other, and people fell down every moment, blood sprayed in the air, and a pair of beautiful rivers and mountains were transformed in the sunset.

After the war, although dozens of Tang soldiers were scarred, they were still standing, the armor on their bodies had been damaged, their long knives had gaps and cracks, and then these blood-stained armor and long knives looked extremely solemn.

Around them, there were many war dead on both sides, these war dead had different postures, some were lying on the ground, some were kneeling on one knee, but they were still open with their eyes open, glaring angrily, and the steel knife in their hands was still tightly held, as if they were unwilling, he still had to fight!

In the distance, there was a panicked and scattered enemy army, their number was several times more than the surviving Tang Dynasty soldiers, but they abandoned the steel sword and spear, took off their armor, and ran backwards desperately, as if there was a fierce beast chasing behind them, which would devour them at any time.

Of course, Geng Youhua didn't know that the battle example was true, but the detailed details of the battle would not be described, in fact, although the battle was tragic, the battle process was far less romantic than he imagined!

In fact, most of the casualties on both sides were not even caused by hand-to-hand combat, and most of the casualties on both sides were caused by artillery, bullets, and arrows.

In addition, the Tang soldiers who participated in the war, they were not equipped with armor, although they would carry a waist knife, but this waist knife was mainly used by the musketeers for self-defense and other times.

At this time, the bayonets equipped by the musketeers of the Tang Dynasty were said to be knives, but in fact they were a cut iron rod, with only a front stab, but no chopping function.

This is because the steel process of the Tang Dynasty is not enough to pass, and when the bayonet is used, it often bears great impact, so the blade-type bayonet is easy to break because of the strength, and in the end it is simply a sharpened iron rod, which can also reduce the process and reduce the cost of mass production.

However, the function of this spear is too simple, in order to strengthen the self-defense ability of the musketeers and other needs, so the musketeers will also be equipped with a waist knife.

The waist knives for the musketeers, like the waist knives for archers, gunners and other troops, are the most common iron blades, cheap waist knives with blades covered with steel, while the knives equipped with hand-to-hand combat arms such as sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and cavalry are all made of stainless steel, and the difference in quality and price between the two is relatively large.

Although the musketeers have sabers, they will never give up the muskets in their hands and use small waist knives unless they have to!

Therefore, the actual situation at that time was that after the musketeers of the Tang Dynasty were ambushed by the Ming army, they took the initiative to charge, and killed and injured a large number of Ming soldiers by shooting muskets in rotation after entering the 100 meters, and at the same time, the bowl cannons, bows and arrows of the Ming army also gave a lot of damage to the Tang soldiers.

But when the Tang musketeers broke through to thirty meters for a salvo, and launched a bayonet charge after the salvo, the Ming army was completely defeated!

This is normal, in the battle between the Tang army and the Ming army, the Ming army can still hold on in the confrontation and even the confrontation stage, but when the Tang Dynasty Wang Division launches a bayonet charge, they will collapse nine times out of ten.

Therefore, the two sides did not engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat at that time.

But Geng Youhua didn't know, and what he didn't know was that the battle scene he imagined was completely behind the times, and the actual battle was even more brutal than he imagined!

But Geng Youhua didn't know, he could only imagine it by himself, and the imaginary scene made his heart beat faster, and even made him lose his temper and shouted softly: "Husband, when it is so!" ”

At this moment, he even had the absurd idea of applying for the martial arts academy, abandoning his pen and following Rong, and galloping on the battlefield.

But this idea only came out of the moment and was thrown out of his mind, even if his Geng family chose to completely throw himself into the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, but the Geng family has been a scholarly family for hundreds of years, and he Geng Youhua can't lose his value to join the army as a rude martial artist no matter what, even if he wants to be a thief, he should also participate in the imperial examination!

After reading a battle report, Geng Youhua calmed down before continuing to read the other content in the morning newspaper!

There is still a lot of content in this newspaper, but some of them are of interest to Geng Youhua, and some of them are not interested at all, so he is also picky and selective.

When encountering some things related to his own interests, he read more, for example, he listened to the newspaper at the city gate before reading the matter of tax exemption for land reclamation, he just read it several times, the text of the holy decree, the voice of the Ministry of Taxation, and a detailed interpretation of the article, he read it several times, and finally he was sure that this matter of tax exemption was true, and this pseudo-Tang Dynasty also attached great importance to it.

If your own family organizes people to open up the wasteland now, it will have a lot to do.

Their Geng family is a scholarly family, what is a scholarly family? To put it bluntly, he is a landlord!

Although there are shops and other inputs, their Geng family still relies more on the fields that have been accumulated over hundreds of years, so this field is also what he Geng Youhua values the most.

Nowadays, the agricultural tax is not light, and the preferential policy of agricultural tax reduction and exemption in the past eight years can make land reclamation promising.

In addition to this matter, Geng Youhua is also very concerned about another thing, that is, things related to the imperial examination.

The Ministry of Rites announced in the morning newspaper that this year's township examination will be held as usual, but Geng Youhua saw from it that this time the imperial examination, the preferential treatment for the famous scholars of the former Ming Dynasty has dropped a lot, and the last two imperial examinations, the former Ming people can go directly to participate in the examination, but this time, if the former Ming people want to participate in the examination directly, then they must first participate in the test of the Guozi Jian Literature College, although it is stated that the difficulty of the test will not be too high, but this is also a signal.

If it continues like this, I am afraid that Qianming's fame will be completely useless, and maybe next year or the year after, Qianming's fame will not be able to participate in the examination.

This made him quite entangled, whether to go to the township test this autumn or not!

He is a talent in the former Ming Dynasty, according to the rules of Datang last year, he can go directly to participate in the township examination, but this year, he has to pass a pre-examination test to take the exam.

And if I wait until next year, I'm afraid I will have to start directly from the county exam like those children.

In the past month or two, there has been a split in the circle of scholars around him, some people have already gone to participate in the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, while a few people are resolutely opposed and do not take the exam in life or death, but more people are still waiting and watching like themselves.

If the imperial court officials and soldiers can win on the battlefield, then this pseudo-Tang Dynasty will not exist for long, and these wait-and-see scholars will naturally not get on a ship destined to sink at this time.

But if the court officials can't win on the battlefield, on the contrary, if the Tang Dynasty can continue to conquer the city, I'm afraid more and more people will join the Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention others, even if it is himself, isn't he beginning to seriously consider whether it is feasible for him to participate in the imperial examination of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty!

These scholars who maintained a wait-and-see attitude generally accounted for most of the students in the three provinces, and whether these people finally chose to continue to wait and see or participate in the imperial examination and surrender to thieves will depend on the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army, and whoever wins will favor them.

And you can't say they're wall-to-wall grass either!

Now the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is not stable, the time to establish is too short, although the army is strong, but the Ming Dynasty's determination to resist and suppress is also quite large, which also means that this, whether the Tang Dynasty can survive, how long it can survive is a question.

They are all relatives and friends with a large family, and they can't make decisions casually.

Geng Youhua continued to flip through the newspaper, but at this time, he heard several fierce arguments next to him!

"How is it possible, how can the earth beneath our feet be round?"

"Are we living on a sphere? I've never heard a funnier joke in the world! ”

"That is, if we live on a sphere, then how can the person on the other side not fall?"

Hearing their argument, Geng Youhua immediately pricked up his ears, for no other reason, what these people said was really terrifying!