Just after Xiao Xuan detained Wang Wei and the others, something that Xiao Xuan didn't expect still happened.

After all, Xiao Xuan didn't expect that when the Son of Heaven personally led the men and horses to come, some people in Jizhen who came had the courage to clamor for the army to mutiny at this time, and the five or six thousand selected troops among the garrisons of the various garrisons who stayed not far away saw that the chief officer and the chief general had not returned for a long time, and they actually personally led the team to besiege it in the early morning of the next day under the clamor of some people. even played the slogan of exterminating the traitors who pretended to be the Son of Heaven.

What made Xiao Xuan happy after all was that he had always had a habit of being defensive since he crossed over, especially when the thousands of troops were not far from his team, it was impossible to be unguarded. When the sky was bright, it was when the entire army had adjusted its state after the rotation and recovered from the previous terrifying battle, and the self-defense counterattack had already begun almost without Xiao Xuan's special order.

When they had confronted hundreds of elite and powerful enemies outside the Guanguan before, the armor that was impervious to the wind and rain and few firearms could threaten made many young officers and soldiers begin to have a trace of doubt about the firearms that had performed their military exploits. I even feel that I need to focus on heavy bullets to effectively kill the opponent. Of course, Xiao Xuan didn't believe that these people had armor to protect themselves, but he had to be just in case.

Therefore, when the first round of firing was launched, most of the more than 80 light guns that had not been damaged were loaded with heavy bullets of the crossbow level muzzle velocity, and although more than 2,000 six or seven heavy bullets knocked down forty or fifty of them, they only made the opponents who surrounded them pause and somewhat flinched.

But it was precisely at this time that the young officers and men in charge of the artillery of each team took the opportunity to change to light shotguns that mainly dealt with the unarmoured. When the opponent was agitated again and opened fire again from a short distance, the cannon that fired the light shotgun and hundreds of archers fired fiercely. More than 10,000 light shotguns, mainly light shotguns, and thousands of highly poisonous arrows fired one after another, caused more than 1,000 enemy soldiers who were not very well protected to fall to the ground in a very short period of time, even some elites in armor, and many people fell down the hillside and rolled down soon after poisoning the arrows.

This fierce blow completely routed the Jizhen rebels, who were already not very strong and lacked effective officers to organize and supervise the battle. Xiao Xuan had no intention of letting these people disperse or let the tiger return to the mountain, and quickly ordered hundreds of archers to launch a counterattack with the elite as the core, until these people took the initiative to disarm and surrender, and there was no need to kill them all.

However, Xiao Xuan still overestimated people's ability to react on the spot when they lost the battle. Although the number of troops who put in a counterattack to prevent accidents was not too many, just a few hundred teenagers who were good at archery, it was still easy to occupy an absolute advantage in the face of more than 4,000 people who had completely lost their courage, and completely surrounded at least three-quarters of them. By the time the rebels realized that they should give up their resistance or flee and surrender, nearly 2,000 more had died under poisoned arrows.

The devastating battle lasted less than half an hour before it ended, with about 3,000 of the more than 5,000 rebels killed, more than 1,000 fled, and about 1,000 captured. This is still the result of Xiao Xuan's relatively conservative use of troops. Less than ten of the teenagers died at the beginning from the strong bows and arrows fired by a handful of soldiers, and even by the many firearms men who fired from a distance. This exhilarating battle also dispelled the depression brought about by the previous confrontation between many young officers and soldiers and the fierce enemy outside the Guan.

Of course, Xiao Xuan knew that if these thousands of people were not too underestimated enemies, but if they opened the car shield formation and then confronted themselves like they did when they clashed with opponents outside the Guan, they would never win so easily, but this also illustrated a fact: In the field of wave warfare, the team he is leading now may be far away from the elite outside the Guan, but if it is placed in the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is definitely an elite that can act as the main force, and it is not afraid of ambushes in many cases.

Recalling the previous battle with the elite outside the Guanwai also made Xiao Xuan's mind a lot clearer. At least now, it's definitely not the time for a showdown without scruples, and you can do whatever you want.

It's just the rebellion in Jizhen that made Xiao Xuan even more determined to purge the border troops in this area.

Unlike many people in this era, Xiao Xuan, who understands the history of the Ming Dynasty, has much lower psychological expectations for side events than many people. What happened to Jiannu's entry into the Kou? The field battle is not as good as the other party, this is simply an unavoidable thing, and even half of the wall that is beaten under the military pressure of the other side falls is a natural thing.

After these two battles, which were not too long, Xiao Xuan believed: If it were not for the improvement of the advantage of having the potential of troops and the strength of the army in the era of firearms, at least the firearms attrition war would have great disadvantages to the side with fewer people, and the emergence of firearms defense tactics made many traditional siege methods useless, with the huge gap between the training level and combat will of the Ming army and the Manchu army, I am afraid that the time of the Apocalypse would have been the "Beacon Yangzhou Road" and it would not have been the turn of the Battle of Songjin and Li Zicheng's conquest of Beijing.

For the time being: Xiao Xuan believes that it may be inevitable that Jiannu will join the Kou, but it may not be so easy to repeat Jingkang's old story before Kong Youde's change.

Learning from the previous successful experience, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, this time Xiao Xuan did not plan to take the "regular channel." Instead, he directly led the pro-army to the border pass, personally conveyed the will to dismantle and reduce the battalion guards, and according to Xiao Xuan's eyes, "the soldiers who are bound to be vulnerable in front of Jiannu" are not of much value, the soldiers on paper are more than 100,000 people, and the actual number of 50,000 or 60,000 battalions in Jizhen is reduced to only 20,000 people, at least more than 3,000 military horses that seem to be decent, and even more than 50 pieces of decent artillery and related ammunition in the entire five battalions, and more than 200,000 taels of silver and silver taels obtained by officers in various places, and even more than 700 pieces of them look relatively decent. The armor with rescue value and hundreds of vehicles with various use value were all lost in his hands.

It was not until Wang Zaijin, who was far away in the border pass of Liaodi, and many military officials led by Sun Chengzong, who had made a special trip from Gaoyang County, rushed to Jizhen in person that the purge of the border army came to an end.

"Your Majesty! Now is the time of internal and external troubles, and when we are employing people, we hope that we will not expand our influence to shake the morale of the military. ”

Hearing Wang Zaijin say this, Xiao Xuan didn't have much patience: "Don't do it anymore, you Liaodong Economic Strategy." Maybe you colluded with Jiannu to rebel, so follow me and go back to the edict with these people! ”

"This..." Wang Zaijin couldn't have imagined that he would encounter such a simple and crude on-site method.

In this regard, Xiao Xuan no longer shy away from saying anything: "Actually, I didn't want to do this, but since some people plan to break ground on Tai Sui's head and I don't want to build a big prison, I'm afraid that some people will become more and more rampant in the future." Regardless of this, this patrol also allowed me to see what kind of wreckage the border army raised by the annual salary and military salary is! Do you still want to occupy the people's fat and ointment? It's better to let me master these resources to better defend the border and even Kyushu! ”

Although Sun Chengzong also rushed over, he didn't say anything more after learning something about the battle situation of the guards led by Xiao Xuan. This also made Xiao Xuan feel a little comforted. At least this person who has left a name in history, the three views and the ass are not too crooked.