013 Gains and losses

Hong Tiancheng pulled out the personal information panel and began to check the harvest and remaining troops this time.

After the battle, the seriously wounded who cannot be saved are treated as casualties by the ruthless system of total warfare, and the lightly wounded continue to fulfill the soldier's obligations until the day they die.

Therefore, there are only records of the living and the 'dead' in the personal panel of the Total War system.

In this battle, the new recruits of the Taiping Army used the first-mover advantage to suppress the white mob armed forces opposite, and the whole process was almost one-sided, but because the equipment and weapons of the new recruits of the Taiping Army, as well as their combat capabilities, were not much different from the militias who had just picked up arms, under the death-defying counterattack of the white mob forces, they still lost more than 10 people, and only 33 new recruits of the Taiping Army and 2 experienced Taiping soldiers were left to maintain their combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, Hong Tiancheng's defeated opponent this time, the strength on the surface is no worse than his own, because the opponent has three cavalry, in the pre-war evaluation of the all-out war system, the overall combat effectiveness is even higher than that of the Taiping soldiers, of course, the calculation method of the all-out war system cannot be added to the evaluation of people's hearts, and the default is that the initial morale value of the soldiers on both sides is the same.

Therefore, the pre-war assessment of the Total War System is meaningless for the actual war, but this assessment determines the 'promotion experience' gained by the new recruits of the Taiping Army after the overall victory.

After defeating the white mob that was no smaller than himself, the remaining 33 Taiping Army recruits all reached the critical point of promotion, and they only needed to spend Sins to complete the promotion!

The additional sin value of the first victory in the skirmish battle and the heads of nearly 60 white armed mobs harvested by the soldiers under his command gave Hong Tiancheng 106 sin points.

The soldier's income from killing people caused an alarm bell in Hong Tiancheng's heart, this kind of pure battle, even if it is won, the reward value is far less than the harvest of occupying or looting villages and towns, and the number of people killed in battle is far more than dealing with a group of civilians!

Of course, such a large battle loss will decrease with the increase in the level of the Taiping soldiers under his command, but Hong Tiancheng still feels that the benefits of the sin value far outweigh the losses.

"It seems that in the future, we should try our best to avoid this kind of small-scale battles that do not have much gain and benefit, and it is true that fighting a war still has the greatest gain from dealing with a weak enemy......

However, the loss of this real battle is not in vain, and it also gains personal reputation, even after winning a battle against a group of ordinary mob forces, you can gain 1 personal reputation. ”

In addition to the benefits of sin value, Hong Tiancheng's personal reputation has changed from 0 to 1, which is also a small relief, but he remembers that after his personal reputation reaches 10, there will be more advanced troops in the class exchange mall!

Suddenly harvesting so many crime points, Hong Tiancheng decisively postponed the interrogation of the prisoners, and first let 33 Taiping soldiers enter the village in batches, leaving the vision of the two white prisoners of war, and promoted to the experienced Taiping soldiers, consuming a total of 66 crime points.

The remaining 40 sin points became 40 new soldiers of the Taiping Army, and the strength of Hong Tiancheng's troops not only greatly improved in quality, but also jumped to 73 in quantity!

As for the two white prisoners of war who suddenly saw that their enemies were 40 more young and strong, the stunned and incomprehensible in their eyes were not taken to heart by Hong Tiancheng.

It's just that the Taiping soldiers under his command can only speak Chinese characters, and the inconvenience of the local white language makes Hong Tiancheng a little helpless, and even the 'trivial matter' of interrogating prisoners needs him to handle it himself.

Hong Tiancheng also asked if the Total War System could honor his subordinates with special talents, and the Total War System told Hong Tiancheng that he needed to capture at least one capital-level city in order to exchange for all kinds of special talents......

Not to mention a capital-level city with perfect fortifications, Hong Tiancheng may not be able to break through even a town now!

The social status of the 'bandits' displayed in the profile panel has already told Hong Tiancheng that he is now only capable of harassing and robbing ordinary people and villages......

Hong Tiancheng sat on a wooden chair brought by the Taiping sergeants, fiddling with lead bullets and gunpowder seized from white arquebusiers and comparing the muzzle of his own flintlock handcuffs.

The lead bullet used in these arquebuses is obviously larger than that used in flintlock pistols, and it cannot be used directly, and the amount of gunpowder that has been prepared may also be different, after all, arquebuses are not as airtight as flintlock pistols.

Moreover, the amount of medicine dispensed for long-shot muskets and short-shot muskets was also different.

Fortunately, the ignition point of lead bullet is very low, and the plasticity is extremely strong, and any person can put it on the fire to heat and melt it, as long as there is a mold or simply use a tool such as pliers to pinch it into a circle of appropriate size.

As for the method of dripping and cooling the lead from the height, which was widely spread in later generations, it was a large-scale manufacturing method used by factories and handicraft workshops, and individual lead bullets could not be dripped from the high without the equipment......

The amount of gunpowder can be measured by a few experiments with flintlock handcuffs, and it is not a difficult task, as long as there is lead metal and black powder, anyone who is familiar with firearms can make ammunition on their own, which is one of the reasons why muskets were widely spread before the industrial revolution began.

Whether a weapon is good to use depends not on its performance data, but on its simplicity and practicality, the invention time of the front-loading rifled gun is not much later than the flintlock gun, but it was not until 200 years after the invention that it was improved in a large number of army, but the range and accuracy are far inferior to the front-loading rifled gun of the flintlock pistol, which has been rampant all over the world for more than 200 years!

This is the experience that Europeans have exchanged for blood, any weapon that can stand tall in frequent wars has its uniqueness and the advantage of crushing other weapons, there may be mentally handicapped idiots among human individuals, but a country, an army cannot be all brain-deficient, those military enthusiasts who criticize the various defects of the flintlock pistol, have you ever thought about the blood and tears of those countries that have been beaten down by the flintlock pistol for more than 200 years?

It can be said that in the history of the firearms army, there is no firearm like the flintlock pistol, which has been frequently used in war as the world's mainstream weapon for more than 200 years!

"My lord, the prisoner has been brought."

The two white captives were escorted to Hong Tiancheng with their arms tied behind their backs, and the experienced Taiping soldiers behind him skillfully knocked down the two white captives with the back of their knives, forcing them to kneel before Hong Tiancheng.

Hong Tiancheng glanced at the white captive kneeling on the ground: "Tell me what you know." ”