After dark, Liu Jun received a post-war statistical report.

In this offensive and defensive battle, the Nine-headed Bird Regiment killed 1,358 bandits, of which about 200 died of their wounds after the battle, and a total of 1,677 were captured and surrendered. A total of three thousand and thirty-five men were killed and captured.

Ma Shouying's brother Ma Shoucheng and his son Jin Ma Chao were both killed, and dozens of other bandit leaders were killed or captured, and the results were abundant.

The captured booty was also extremely rich, including 25 captive cannons, 37 tiger squat cannons, as well as 317 war horses, more than 500 sets of bows and arrows, more than 1,000 waist knives and spears, and a number of armor.

After achieving such a big gain, the nine-headed bird only killed more than 20 people in this battle, and dozens of wounded. In the end, it is estimated that more than 30 people will be reduced. Although this loss was very small compared to the thousands of thieves captured, Liu Jun, who was holding the report, still felt a heartache. Finally, 600 people were trained, and more than 30 people were reduced in two days. It is equivalent to one-twentieth of the reduction of the whole regiment.

In addition, the consumption of armaments in this battle was also huge, especially the gunpowder reserves, which accounted for two-thirds of the consumption, and the other scrapped hundreds of guns. The arrows are basically shot almost and need to be replenished. Fortunately, a lot of arrows were seized from the thieves, and many of the arrows shot out can still be recycled.

"The loss of regular players is replenished by selecting from among the reserves. The vacancy of the reserve players will be selected from the best performers in the defense, but there is one rule that the selected young men must be voluntarily recruited and cannot be forced. After thinking about it, Liu Jun finally said, "In addition to making up the original amount, let's recruit another 400 people from the young and strong, now that the construction site in the castle is almost completed, many homeless people who work are almost nothing, just recruit a group of people." ”

Several Bai Zonghe Qi were surprised, "Expand the enrollment again?" ”

Liu Jun nodded, after this battle, he understood the fact that there were still too few nine-headed birds. Just a few hundred people, even if they only lose twenty or thirty at a time, it is a great loss for the nine-headed bird. Moreover, this battle is still a defensive battle, taking advantage of the geographical advantage.

War cannot be all defensive warfare, Liu Jun must prepare early.

He was going to expand the number of people to 1,000 first, and then gradually expand later.

"After being recruited, they will first be trained as reservists, and according to the treatment of reservists, all recruits will be uniformly designated as privates." Liu Jun's plan is to upgrade the current five divisions and one flag into two bureaus. Each bureau has a division of three infantry artillery cavalry, and the flag of the Chinese army is upgraded to the division of the Chinese army, so that when it comes, the whole regiment has two bureaus and seven divisions. The infantry and artillery cavalry will be expanded, and the pro-soldier team and the night team will also be upgraded to flags.

However, for the time being, it will not be directly expanded in this way, and the newly recruited soldiers will be organized into reserve members first, and then expanded when the training is almost complete, and these team members will be added.

Liu Jun believes that the victory of the nine-headed bird will definitely make the recruitment work very smooth.

At this time, a pro-soldier outside made a loud report.

"What's the matter?"

"Report to your lordship, someone outside claims to be Zhao Bingxian's family, saying that there is an urgent letter to be handed over to your lordship." The pro-soldier replied.

Liu Jun frowned when he heard this, and said Zhao Cheng's family?

"Ask him to come in."

Zhao Cheng's family brought bad news. It turned out that this time it was not only the Tiger Head Fort that was attacked by bandits, just when Ma Shoucheng led more than 3,000 bandits to attack the Tiger Head Fort, there were also several battalions of bandits and bandits who launched an attack on the southern foot of Dabie Mountain at the same time.

Among them, it was Ma Shoucheng's first battalion that attacked Macheng County, and in addition, to the west of Macheng, there was also a battalion of men and horses attacking Huang'an County, and the northern borders of Luotian County, Qishui County, and Huangmei County to the south of Macheng were also attacked by the Huizuo Fifth Battalion almost at the same time.

Liu Jun and other members of the Nine-headed Bird team have been slandering the Baoshengbao Township Regiment that has not come to help, and they were in the Qishui area at that time, and after the thieves came, they immediately gathered with the guards of Qizhou Wei and the county regiments and the people began to fight with the thieves, and the two sides fought several small-scale battles, and now they are deadlocked. In the north, Huangzhou Wei and some of the Xiangyong and Huang'an regiments of Baoshengbao fought against the thieves in Huang'an.

Compared to the nine-headed bird that defeated and almost wiped out one of the bandits who came to attack with the strength of a regiment, it was a little difficult to fight in other places. Because of the main elite of the Baoshengbao Township Regiment in Qizhou, they barely withstood the attack of the thieves, but in Huang'an County, north of Macheng, they had already lost the peripheral pass inspection division.

In fact, the Zhuguan Pass in the north of Macheng County also lost several of them, but the battle of Hutou Fort was too unexpected for the thieves.

When Liu Jun's messenger returned to report the victory, the officers and soldiers in both places were shocked.

Zhao Cheng, who was anxious, first couldn't believe it when he heard the news, and then he was surprised. As a soldier in charge of the military of the entire Qihuang Eight Counties in Eastern Hubei Province, tens of thousands of thieves from the Fifth Battalion of Huizuo invaded at the same time, which really made him embarrassed. And he also received information that the thieves still have signs of continuing to increase their troops.

Zhao Cheng, who had barely supported himself, sent several letters to Jiangxia City asking for help a day after hearing the news, but there were no reinforcements at all for a while. Without reinforcements, with those regimental training and township courage in his hands now, he will not be able to hold on at all.

At this time, Zhao Cheng was really surprised and delighted to receive that Liu Jun led the nine-headed bird to annihilate a battalion of thousands of thieves, and even this battalion was led by Lao Huihui's own brother.

Zhao Cheng immediately wrote a handwritten letter and handed it to his family, asking him to bring the letter to Hutouguan to see Liu Jun.

Liu Jun took the letter and opened it.

After reading the letter, Liu Jun was silent.

Zhao Chengcheng asked Liu Jun to lead his troops to Huang'an for reinforcements, after all, the soldiers and horses in Qizhou were stronger, but the situation in Huang'an was not optimistic, according to the letter of help received by Zhao Cheng, I heard that the thieves had broken through the pass on the periphery of Huang'an, and had surrounded Huang'an County. If there are no more reinforcements to rush to the rescue, I am afraid that Huang'an County will be broken.

Liu Jun's Tiger Head Fort is only a hundred miles away from Huang'an, and it is now the closest force near Huang'an.

Huang An.

It is located in the northwest end of Huangzhou Mansion in Huguang, in the 42nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was separated from Macheng, Huanggang and Huangpi counties to form Huang'an County. It is named after the meaning of local tranquility and the safety of the people.

This county, which has been established for less than a hundred years, has four gates closed, and there is a camp outside the four gates of the city, and countless flags flutter in the camp. The entire Huang'an City was surrounded by thousands of bandits.

In the county seat, in the hall of the county government, several officials dressed in animals sat together, sighing for a long time, and they were not even in the mood to drink the iced sour plum in front of them.

Huang Anzhi shook the folding fan, but the silk custom-made official robe was still soaked with sweat.

"Zhu Qianhu, the thieves are besieging the city, is it going to be an ant siege next?"

Huangzhou Wei Qianhu Zhu Pet kept turning the wrench in his hand and didn't say a word. He really had nothing to say about this Huang Anzhi County, and secretly said in his heart that he was unlucky. The last time he went to Macheng to suppress bandits, he got a lot of benefits, but when he gave an offering to Commander Wei, he gave less money, and as a result, he was hated. Later, Zhao Cheng, the military commander, asked Huangzhou Wei to organize a patrol of soldiers and horses to prevent thieves, but the commander sent him by name. And then he still prefers to die, he just led the troops into Huang'an, and as a result, a large number of bandits came over.

He didn't even have a chance to escape, and the thieves directly surrounded Huang Ancheng.

Zhu Pet turned his head to look at the man on the lower side of Zhixian, "Liu Tuanlian, what do you think?" ”

That Liu Tuanlian is the general manager of Huang'an County's regimental training, and it turned out to be the main book of Huang'an County, and he was born as a person. Previously, the imperial court ordered all localities to organize regimental exercises, and abolished the post of chief secretary of the county and set up the general training officer. Master Liu was laid off, but he immediately spent a lot of money to operate, and then changed from the master book to the general manager, and the grade was upgraded by one level, becoming from the eighth grade.

However, although he has the same surname as the other Lian Zong that Zhu Pet knows, his skills are very different. Liu Jun, the general manager of Macheng Lian, is young and promising, and he dares to take the initiative to encircle and suppress the bandits with the hundred township braves. And this Liu Lian spent money to find this training general position, but he didn't even have a usable soldier under his command.

The so-called Huang'an 500 Lian Yong are all farmers from various townships, who only gather and practice for one day every five and ten every month, and then disband. Even if you assemble and practice, it's just a matter of standing in a line and reporting the number by name. At this time, the thieves came to surround it, and the county seat was surrounded, and Liu Lian's five hundred Lian Yong didn't even have time to summon it, and now they are all still in the villages in the countryside outside the city.

At this time, in Huang'an County, only Zhu Pet's 200 subordinates were called soldiers. Fifty of the families of the First World War, and one hundred and fifty of the soldiers who were summoned from the Thousand Houses when they came.

In addition to him, the two hundred people are barely clothed, armor and banners, and it looks like there are only a few hundred families left in the city who have been temporarily summoned from various shops, and there are also thousands of young people.

But these people don't even have waist knives, bows and arrows, what's the use of holding sticks?

Zhu Pet guessed that the thieves outside might not know that the city was actually strong outside, and although there were a lot of flags planted at the head of the city, there were few soldiers. Otherwise, the thieves would directly come to attack the city, and maybe the county seat of Huang'an would have been taken a long time ago.

Liu Lian always twisted his beard and said, "We have to send someone out to move the rescue soldiers." ”

Zhu Chong's heart moved, and he took the initiative to say, "What Liu Lian said is right, but we can't defend this city at all." You know, looking at the banner outside, the besieging of the city is the banner cultivated by the troubled king Lin in the fifth camp of the left side, this is the old thief among the thieves, one of the thirteen families in Xingyang, and the same name as Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao. ”

"Tonight, I will lead my troops to break out of the city to move rescue troops."

"But there are still rescuers, and even if there are, it is difficult to save the fire from far away." The county magistrate looked worried.

Zhu Pet said, "I know that there are rescue soldiers in a place, and they are not far from here, and the most important thing is that this army is strong and extremely capable of fighting." If we can invite them to come, the siege of Huang'an can be solved, and at least it can help us guard until more reinforcements arrive. ”

"Which army is Zhu Qianhu talking about, is it really so powerful?" Liu Lian said suspiciously.

"Of course, that army and horses are also a team training, and its training is always a young hero, and it is always the family that practices with it." Zhu Pet said with a smile.

"Team practice?" The excitement of President Liu Lian and the magistrate immediately disappeared. What is the use of group training, they don't believe that group training can solve the siege of Huang'an at all. Then he began to be a little suspicious, could it be that Zhu Pet wanted to take the opportunity to escape alone?

"You listen to me, that regiment training is not simple, that Lian is even more powerful, it is Macheng Liu Jun Liu Jiye, last time I had the honor to cooperate with that Liu Lian to suppress bandits, his nine-headed bird regiment is strong in combat, and it is not even under the main barracks of Baosheng Fort. You know the main barracks of Fort Baosheng, right? ”

"Won't it?" Of course, Zhixian and Liu Lian knew that the Baoshengbao Township Regiment was in the barracks.

"Of course, I wouldn't lie to you. If you can break through and invite Liu Lian to lead the nine-headed bird to come, Huang An can be guaranteed. ”

The eyes of the magistrate and Liu Lian collided together, the two of them were old partners, eye contact, and immediately understood their respective thoughts, and they must not let Zhu Pet run away with the only two hundred soldiers and horses in the county. As for what Zhu Pet said, the young and heroic Macheng Lian Liu Jun, and his extremely powerful nine-headed bird group training, they didn't believe it at all. Group exercises, and then blow to the sky, it is also a group exercise, and Huang Ancheng has not held a group exercise. Zhu Pet definitely wanted to take the opportunity to run away, so he must not agree.

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