Xu Ping stared at Yue Mu for a moment, and said coldly: "I don't know much about Yue Mu, so I decided to hand over the disposal to someone who knows him better, Yu Yiguan, he is yours." ”

Hearing this, Yu Shenhe took a step forward, stared at Yue Mu coldly for a moment, and then loudly announced that he didn't know much about Yue Mu's past merits and conduct, so he would delegate the disposal to the officers of Yue Mu's team.

Almost without thinking, the team officer further delegated the disposition to the team, the officer who had just testified in front of Xu Ping. The squad officer took a deep breath when he heard this, and was about to announce his disposition, but he heard the squad officer next to him snort lowly. The squad officer raised his eyebrows, only to see his immediate boss frowning at him, and winking.

The officer was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, he hurriedly swallowed what he was going to say back into his stomach, and reported to Xu Pinglizheng, who was in the middle: "My lord, I request that the disposal power be delegated to Sergeant Qin, he is the person who knows Yue Mu best. ”

Xu Ping smiled slightly, and then gestured to the guards around him with his eyes, and immediately someone walked over to ask Qin Dedong, who was lying on the side, at this time, his back was burning like a burning pain, and he grinned and gasped. After hearing the question, Qin Dedong was just about to speak, when a cold wind blew, and suddenly his back was like he had been whipped a few times, and the pain was so painful that Qin Dedong almost didn't catch his breath, and tears came out all of a sudden, and he almost fainted again.

"...... this guy" Qin Dedong barely suppressed the pain and shouted angrily: "Twenty whips!" ”

The guards turned their heads to look at Xu Ping, and when they saw the supreme commander nodding, they immediately shouted loudly and ordered Yue Mu to be dragged down for execution.

When he was pulled down between the two pillars and took off his shirt and tied it up, one of the soldiers in charge of the execution handed Yue Mu a wooden stick for him to bite, just now Yue Mu saw that Qin Dedong was biting this thing, and the soldier whispered to Yue Mu: "Brother, hurry up." ”

"I'm not afraid, come on." Yue Mu felt ashamed and wanted to be a hero.

The soldier directly stuffed the wooden stick into Yue Mu's mouth: "If my brother still wants to live, bite it hard." ”

At this time, Yue Mu had been tied tightly, and several soldiers retreated behind Yue Mu, and the soldiers in charge of the execution carried a long cowhide whip. With a wave of his arm, he pulled it out into a large circle and whipped it heavily on Yue Mu's back, and as the whip came into contact with the soldier's bare back, the skin suddenly opened and flesh bloomed, and the whip slipped through and dragged out a deep blood channel......

After only two lashes, Yue Mu was already so painful that he didn't have any thoughts, he used all his strength to bite the wooden stick in his mouth, if this stick was not made of cork and there was a cloth wrapped around it, he would definitely bite off all his teeth on it.

Whip after whip, the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion were silently watching, and after fifteen whips, Yue Mu's head hung down, his tense body was loosened, and the wooden stick in his mouth fell to the ground. Xu Ping motioned for a military doctor to come forward to check, and the military doctor reported that Yue Mu had fainted, and the danger of continuing the execution in this situation would be greatly increased.

The military doctor who was ordered to wake up Yue Mu found a basin of cold water, and then used a towel dipped in cold water and applied it to Yue Mu's forehead, temples, and cheeks. The soldier gradually woke up from his coma after receiving the stimulus, and before he realized where he was, the man was already moaning.

The military doctor gently patted Yue Mu's cheek while talking to him non-stop until the soldier was fully conscious.

"And five more whips, brother, hold on." Seeing that Yue Mu had completely regained consciousness, the military doctor asked him to continue to work hard to tense his back and concentrate on persevering through this level, while stuffing the wooden stick wrapped with strips of cloth into Yue Mu's mouth, who was already speechless. Seeing that Yue Mu's eyes became focused, and the wooden stick in his mouth was also bitten hard, the military doctor pushed a step away and signaled to the executioner that he could continue.

When Yue Mu was untied from the two pillars, he couldn't walk like Qin Dedong, but he was still panting, and when Xu Ping announced that he and Qin Dedong were sent back to the barracks to recuperate, many people in the ranks of the guards camp on both sides let out soft cheers. After returning to the camp, Qin Dedong lay on the bed and moaned quietly, his back was still burning like a fire, while Yue Mu struggled to come over to express his gratitude, and before he could speak, Qin Dedong scolded: "You guy, get away from me, sooner or later you will be killed!" ”

……

At this time, Xu Ping summoned all the officers of the Guards Battalion to give a lecture:

"Do I stand before you today and give orders to your brethren because I am of noblest birth and wiser and more capable than you? No, no, it's just because I'm lucky, I'm better than all the brothers in Henan who were reincarnated in Zhili, and then I have a series of good luck, and today I am sitting in the position of this leader. All the officers and men of the Guards Battalion are all brothers of my Xu someone, and they are all miserable people who cannot survive and have to rebel, and although everyone says that they will put their lives in my hands, I am still ashamed if I want to take the lives of my brothers with my own hands.

In this battle, many disobedient soldiers were killed on the spot, I think this thing was done very right, if we don't kill them, our army may be defeated, more brothers will die, in order for more brothers to live, we have to cry to our brothers. But when we are not on the battlefield, if there is no urgent demand, then we must think about whether we must rely on the death penalty to achieve the results we want.

Huang Hou, the army was known for its mild military law, and all torture punishments, such as disembowelment, deboning, and liver extraction, were abolished, and at most beheading and hanging; Almost all the original crimes of killing the head in the army, such as being late, making noise, and disrespectful, were changed by Huang Hou to flogging, and almost all criminal laws that would cause permanent disability, such as cutting off ears, inserting arrows, gouging out eyes, etc., were changed by Huang Hou to hard labor; These changes not only did not damage Huang Hou's majesty, but made him heartily loved by the soldiers. Huang Hou has a military position personally granted by the Son of Heaven, and he obtained the power of life and death from the imperial court, and my rights are voluntarily handed over to me by the brothers of the guard battalion. So I have to be more cautious and think more twice.

I hope you will encourage me. ”

"Yes, my lord." There was a chorus of response.

Xu Ping nodded and continued: "Today we defeated the Xuanfeng Battalion, which is one of the three famous strong battalions under Huang Hou, but you must not think that the other battalions are not to worry, the battalions under Huang Hou are only stronger and not weak. There are still three battalions of the new army in the Beijing division that have not yet been dispatched, and there are still four battalions of the new army in Shandong that have beaten the Dongjiang army to the point that it is breathless. Our victory will inevitably shock Huang Hou and reduce the pressure on our allies in Shandong, but the next time we will face a more cautious new army, a more powerful new army. ”

After the victory, Xu Ping saw only joy on the faces of the officers below, all kinds of joy that could not be concealed. Now they are gradually replaced by solemn and solemn expressions.

"More difficult battles await us, and we should never again think of encountering a single battalion of the new army, let alone think that the new army will not quickly learn the lessons of defeat and make rapid improvements. But we still have to defeat them, even if Huang Hou comes in person, even if the new army goes straight to Henan. We also have to defeat them, because otherwise we will have no way to live, and the people of Henan will not have a way to live. And we will definitely be able to do it, because we don't want to die, we are more united than the new army, we have to do better than the new army, and if the new army comes to Henan a hundred times, we will defeat them a hundred times. The officers of the Guards Battalion had their chests straight, and Xu Ping shouted to them, "All of you work hard. ”

……

On the evening of the 10th, when the battle was over, the staff officers of the Guards Battalion began to sum up the lessons of the battle. Eight hundred men were killed on the spot in the head-to-head battle of the Elector Battalion that day, and several hundred others died in pursuit. The head-to-head battle inflicted very few serious casualties on the Elector Battalion, less than two hundred.

The Guards Battalion, whether killed or seriously wounded, was the result of head-on combat, and the Staff found a very interesting situation, that is, the Guards Battalion was almost 1 to 1 in terms of casualties and serious wounds, rather than the terrible 4 or 5 to 1 in the Selector Battalion.

Moreover, the seriously wounded of the Elector Battalion died quickly, and even those with wounded limbs died in large numbers, so that in the end there was an astonishing number of 1,400 killed. Only one-fifth of the wounded in the Guards battalion died, more than sixty percent of the wounded could be expected to recover completely, and the rest could be saved by amputation - although these soldiers were disabled, they still had a large number of posts in the rear, and they could serve as local supervisors in Kaifeng Province and help train local militias.

The staff found that the main reason for this difference was the armor, because the guards battalion was not equipped with any armor, so the soldiers hit by the flintlock pistol were mostly a clean penetrating wound, as long as they did not hit the vital point, it was easy to treat, even if they were shot in the torso, as long as they did not hurt the internal organs, they could stop bleeding and save lives; Those soldiers whose limbs were hit, as long as they did not hurt their bones and blood vessels, if the wounds were cleaned well, they could hope to recover their health in a short time, and they did not even have to amputate their limbs.

But the Selector Battalion is completely different, when a soldier is shot, the projectile deforms on the armor, not a ball but into a variety of irregular shapes, which will cause a much more terrible wound to the soldier, and many Selector Battalion soldiers die on the spot because of this large wound. This bullet is difficult to clear, the wound is difficult to treat, and there is also the problem of iron armor - the attack of the bow and crossbow, even if it is not bounced off by the plate armor, will run out of energy in the process of tearing the plate armor.

However, with a bow and crossbow with only one or two hundred joules, a lead bullet with a muzzle kinetic energy of up to 1,000 joules will shatter the point of focus when it hits the plate armor, and a large amount of metal debris will be shot into the human body along with the deformed lead bullet. Many soldiers who did not die on the spot also suffered severe infections from large amounts of armor debris, and were helpless once they were shot in the torso.

Xu Ping once again summoned all the officers of the Guards Battalion, including Hei Baoyi, read out to them the report of the staff team, and asked each officer to see with his own eyes the terrifying gaps in the iron armor: the inverted and inverted cracked armor, and the sharp edges were like daggers stuck into the human body that was supposed to protect. The edges of these deformed metals were covered in shocking blood, and it didn't take much thought to guess what terrible damage the armor had done to their owners.

"Cloth clothes are the best clothing for flintlock pistols." Xu Ping concluded: "Because of the obstruction of the armor, the reloading speed of the Selective Battalion is about one-third to one-half slower than ours, and on average, we don't have to fire three rounds in a salvo before they can fight back two rounds. ”

"Cloth clothes," Xu Ping held up a small round rag to show his officers, this small piece of cloth was taken out from the waist of a soldier of the Guards Battalion, because it was not injured to the point, so the military doctor estimated that the wounded soldier would soon be able to heal and return to the team: "It must have been hit by a flintlock pistol, it will tear off such a small piece without shattering, the military doctor can easily take it out, and the soldier will not die of inflammation after cleaning the wound, the Xuanfeng battalion uses iron armor, but we can imagine that even wearing leather armor will have the same trouble, Strong armor can cause a lot of debris. Moreover, the cloth clothes, after the military doctor takes them out, can be easily compared with the damage on the clothes, if it coincides, it means that there is no leakage in the body, and the armor is simply unable to verify whether the debris has been taken out. ”

"Our army must not be equipped with any armor." The officers of the Guards Battalion quickly reached a consensus, but there was one more question: "What about the armor given to the two General Lee?" ”

"We need to inform them immediately and tell them what we have found." Xu Ping replied without thinking.

"But my lord," Zhou Dongtian asked, "If we inform the whole army of our discovery, then the new army will know that they will no longer use iron armor." ”

This investigation of the Xuanfeng Battalion was carried out without Zhang Biao, and the captured armor and the fallen soldiers of the New Army were not shown to the staff officers of the Xuanfeng Battalion.

"I'm the general of the camp, not the owner of the Guards Battalion." Xu Ping insisted on his opinion: "Report to the whole army." ”

"Yes, my lord."

Sun Kewang's urgent report came, and as Xu Ping expected, Jia Minghe killed the blocking army and got in touch with the Bianjun army that broke through. The Ming army then covered a large amount of grain and grass into Kaifeng, and now the official road to the east of Kaifeng has been unimpeded, and the grain and reinforcements of the imperial court can arrive in Kaifeng in an endless stream.

Xu Ping was not in a hurry in this regard, he replied to Sun Kewang to calm down a little, and on the other hand, he identified the prisoners of the Feng Battalion, and singled out the gunners, veterinarians and craftsmen belonging to the baggage team to be placed separately. Previously, Xu Ping asked the Xuanfeng battalion to descend to treat the wounded by themselves, so the Ming army doctors were still in the camp on the first day, and when the matter was over, they would also be transferred out of the camp.

Xu Ping did not receive another reply from Sun Kewang, and on the 12th, Sun Kewang personally came to see Xu Ping in Xian County, and after rushing into Xu Ping's tent, Sun Kewang's first words were: "Brother Xu, I want a gun." ”

With a long sigh, Xu Ping put down the Guo Weaving suggestion that he was examining, raised his head and asked, "Does Brother Sun only need a gun?" ”

"Of course not, I still want people, twenty fruit chiefs, eighty veterans."

"Before the new army came to Henan, I trained 200 fruit growers, and I lost more than 20% in two battles, but I was asked to take a small half." Xu Ping put together the report on the reform of the establishment of the fruit organization submitted by the staff team, and it was imperative to reform the basic establishment of the guard battalion and even all the new-style battalions of the battalion: "I have already given 100 people to the West Battalion, why does Brother Sun still come to ask for it?" ”

"Those were taken away by my fourth brother, and he didn't give me a single person, and the soldiers you trained were brought to the county with a word......" Sun Kewang sat down in Xu Ping's tent and said confidently: "I think about it, I also want to form a battalion, I can't bring all the soldiers to you, so I suffer too much, I did all the hard work and tiring work, but no one paid attention to me when I was fighting." ”

Knowing that he couldn't be spared, Xu Ping sighed: "At least Brother Sun can wait until I recover Lanyang before taking people, right?" ”

"Of course you can, how can I be meaner than Li Guo and them?"

……

The original intention of a small squad of the Guards Battalion was to adapt to the high rate of fire of the flintlock guns: three rows of rounds or salvos, each platoon did not have to disrupt the formation, and one fruit of twenty people could give full play to the horizontal firepower.

However, the results of the actual battle in Qixian County were not good, and the ability to control the consequences of the war was seriously insufficient, and after the morale began to decline, it was completely impossible to restore order by relying on the fruit growth alone. Later, all the squad officers also left the command post to participate in the control of the troops, but even so, there was still a considerable degree of chaos in the team, and it was not until Xu Ping sent all the teaching teams to supervise the battle that it improved slightly.

"Even if there are ten people in one fruit, they can't control it." Staff officer Hu Chen was ordered to study the operational process of the Xuanfeng Battalion, and he wanted Xu Ping to report: "As the casualties continue to increase, the Xuanfeng Battalion is also in great disorder. The new army, like our army, was armed with flintlock pistols; Still like our army, the consequences of the first round of shooting are long, and there is no time to shoot, and all the energy is spent on supervising the battle, so that the soldiers can keep shooting. ”

"Maybe in the future, as the soldiers have been on the battlefield for a long time, they will not need to be supervised by Guo Chang, but now it is definitely not possible. Moreover, there will be a large number of new battalions formed in the camp, and there are not so many experienced soldiers, and there may not be a chance for these battalions to be trained through actual combat to the point that the soldiers do not need to be supervised. Xu Ping made the first decision: "There is no need to equip flintlock pistols with the consequence of the chief, and each of them will be issued with a spear to supervise the battle." ”

"But even if the chief does not participate in the war, he can't control the nineteen subordinates, if the squad officer can't command the three fruit battles at his post and has to run to maintain order, then our army can't do it on the battlefield."

"yes." Xu Ping asked the staff officers: "Do you think one person can control how many?" ”

"Four, or five," Hu Chen replied immediately, "My lord, it is best not to have more than six people in one fruit. ”

"It's absolutely not going to work." Without waiting for Xu Ping to speak, Zhou Dongtian retorted: "First: With such a small fruit, the generals in charge of the team will be in a hurry; Second: Whether it is our army or the Xuanfeng battalion, once the fruit chief dies, the whole fruit will be in chaos, and now if the fruit is gone, there are still one or two senior soldiers with prestige in the fruit who can maintain it, if such a small fruit is used, the fruit chief dies and the other fruit chiefs have no time and are not interested in care, even the soldiers may not listen; Thirdly, there are so many fruits that we don't have. ”

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