The new barracks also had a noticeable difference from the rest of the Don Army: they had three meals a day!

At noon, Li Jing and his entourage, who had just had breakfast, also experienced the food of the New Army. Together with the officers of the command, they are the craft of the cooking class, with a standard of four dishes and one soup.

A few delicious dishes, a group of generals who ate them were addicted. The same ingredients, but the chef of the new military camp can make it so delicious, it's really damn there.

After the meal, they visited the routine training of the new army. Of the three battalions of the new army, only the training battalion is combat soldiers, and the other two battalions belong to the logistics branch, so the training tasks are relatively small. What they visited was the stabbing training in the training camp.

After watching it for a while, Li Jing raised his doubts: "Threesomes? This kind of stabbing does seem to be more powerful than fighting alone, and the weapon they use is the musket that His Majesty is talking about? ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

"Well, yes, the old man is looking forward to the performance of the new army on the battlefield more and more!"

There was no rash offer to experience the musket, after all, the emperor's will to him made it very clear that this experimental weapon was still in the stage of secrecy before it was installed. If you really open your mouth, people will refuse to be sure, not only will they not satisfy their curiosity, but they will hurt their face. There is an even more layer, which goes back to the ears of His Majesty, who knows what will happen.

In order to silence the mouths of the accompanying generals, Li Jing had to end the visit in a hurry and led the team to other camps for inspection. The so-called is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods. This inspection and comparison immediately revealed the difference.

"Look at this morale, one by one I can't sleep in bed. Look at the sentry again, the way it looks like it hasn't woken up...... Look at this camp, human dung and horse urine, everywhere, it's still under the ban...... Alas, the old man now understands why His Majesty is bent on training this new army. Although the cost is greater, once such elite soldiers become an army, their combat power is afraid to exceed that of the government soldiers...... This battle, I'm afraid it's the old man's curtain call......"

In order to make the combat effectiveness of the new army more clear, Li Jing then issued a reconnaissance order to the new military camp. He wanted to test whether the new armies were just what they looked like or if they were as powerful as they seemed.

Xiao Kai received the order and did not object. A task assignment meeting was held at the headquarters, and a battalion reconnaissance company was directly dispatched.

In order to observe the combat effectiveness of the New Army at close range and to prevent unnecessary battle losses from the New Army, Li Jing's Central Army Tent dispatched several scout squads in the name of coordination, and the main task of these squads was to protect the reconnaissance company of the New Army.

However, what made Li Jing very embarrassed was that several of his elite scouts lost their traces of each other after they left the camp ten miles with the New Army reconnaissance company. It's not that I can't keep up, it's that I can't find traces at all! There are more than 100 people, as if they have disappeared out of thin air!

Rushing on skis on the snow, now all the Tang Army scouts have mastered this skill, it is nothing more than a fast or slow. But those guys seem to be deliberately trying to show their hands to these veterans, Huan Shi, who was still jumping like grasshoppers a moment ago, disappeared in the blink of an eye!

This hand alone made the army scout, who was originally a little resentful, eat hard. Fortunately, the people didn't go too far, and when it came to the routine connection at night, they still sent back the news according to the rules.

At this time, the scout in charge of the joint found out that these grandsons didn't know when, and they actually turned into a white robe. Snow-white hats, masks, and even windproof goggles, under that kind of all-round protection, even if the whole person rolls in the snow and sleeps, he can't stand the cold. No wonder they are so arrogant!

On the third day of reconnaissance, there was somewhere fifty miles north of Dingxiang City.

Song Ermao, the commander of the reconnaissance company, handed the binoculars in his hand to the friendly scouts and whispered: "There are a total of two hundred and thirty people in this horse team, judging from the materials they carried, these guys should have robbed a small tribe and are on their way back to their lair." These guys should know a lot about this area, I mean, let's grab a few tongues and come back and ask! ”

The scout veteran was very enthusiastic about the telescope, but he still endured the greed in his heart, and reluctantly handed it back to him: "These guys are veterans at first glance, they should be horse bandits." Even if there is snow, it will inevitably be alarmed, and if you really want to face it head-on, we don't have an advantage...... How sure is Company Commander Song? ”

"Eighty percent!"

"Eighty percent? So what else to say, it! ”

"That's okay, just trouble the old brother, you give your brother a fight!"

Song Ermao stretched out his right hand and waved it lightly in the air a few times, and the scout veteran and his group of brothers quickly spotted several arms nearby that were responding at the same time.

As the order was given, a few minutes later, more than a hundred scouts quietly surrounded the group of horse bandits.

Bang! A crisp gunshot came from Li Ermao's hand, and the leader of the horse bandits on the opposite side fell in response.

With this gunshot, dense gunshots like beans rang out all around at the same time. In just a few breaths, half of the bandits were down. Several teams of five quickly approached, and while firing their guns to knock down the horse bandits who were trying to escape, they shouted loudly to persuade them to surrender.

"Kneel and don't kill!"

"Those who descend will not die!"

The battle lasted less than ten minutes before it was over, and before the bandits even came to their senses, most of them had been wiped out, and the remaining dozens of people obediently knelt by the fire and did not dare to raise their heads.

This thunderbolt-like artifact is really terrifying! Not only is it accurate, but it is also fast, the key is that the winner will die! Those who were lucky enough to be hit in the limbs also directly lost their combat effectiveness, lying on the ground and crying for their fathers and mothers.

Song Ermao saw that the overall situation had been decided, and retreated to the scout veteran's side: "Brother, this group of captives will trouble you to take them back and ask the marshal for questioning." Let's search fifteen miles further on......"

When the scouts escorted the captives and booty back to Dingxiang, Li Jing and the high-ranking generals were a little suspicious.

What's that? In less than a quarter of an hour, more than 200 horse bandits were wiped out with zero casualties? Or did you kill more than half of them, capture the others alive, and didn't run away with one of them?

Is that kind of musket really that terrible? More lethal and more accurate than a crossbow, and it can also fire in bursts?

The scouts were also afraid that the old generals would not be believed, so they brought back the captives who were still alive and let the veterans examine their injuries to confirm what they had seen. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, to be honest, he wouldn't have believed it if others had told him that. It's just too exaggerated, if there really is such a terrible weapon, doesn't it mean that in the future battle, there is no need to carry a knife and cut people at all?

Li Jing checked the injuries of those horse bandits, and finally confirmed that the lethality of muskets was indeed many times stronger than that of bows and arrows. It seems that what His Majesty said is true, and the future war will indeed undergo great changes.

I thought I had overestimated these boys, but now it seems that I still don't know enough. They are far more terrible than you think!