Soon, the troops of the Xuanfeng battalion began to clean up the battlefield under the supervision of the breaking army, and Zhang Biao also organized people to cut down wood to prepare for the coffin. In this battle, 400 people of the Guards Battalion were killed, and the number of wounded was slightly higher than the number of those killed, and Xu Ping estimated that more than half of them could return to the battlefield. 1,300 people were killed in the Elective Battalion, and 1,600 were captured.

"Black brother." After Xu Ping saw Hei Baoyi, he remembered what he often said about the armor - the damaged armor captured in the last battle of Lanyang is not much usable now, this is of course because Xu Ping lacks craftsmen and is unwilling to invest too many resources in repairing the armor, but also because the plate armor used by the new army is too difficult to repair, although it is extremely difficult to be seriously damaged, but once it is violently destroyed and caused serious damage, there is almost only one way to return to the furnace: "The armor that your armored battalion needs is available." ”

This time, because many soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion surrendered, Xu Ping got a large number of intact armor, and he planned to give this batch of materials to Hei Baoyi, who had been eager to have them, and was complained by Hei Baoyi because Xu Ping refused to invest manpower and material resources to repair the armor.

"Can my battalion be built?" Kurohoichi, who was still the commander of the 2nd Infantry Wing, always looked forward to the day when his battalion would go into battle.

"Not now, but soon." The victory in this battle means that Xu Ping will firmly grasp the strategic initiative in the Henan battlefield within a few months, and he estimates that the Chizhuo battalion has not yet received a supplement -- it is impossible for the new army to move so quickly, and after the Xuanfeng battalion is eliminated, Jia Minghe, who only has one battalion left in his hands, is already weak and has no possibility of attacking: "In the short term, the officers and men will definitely not dare to come out to fight with us in the field, and we must seize the time to establish a new battalion." Xu Ping smiled slightly: "While Li Dingguo and they haven't come yet, Brother Hei will pull the armor away first." ”

"Let's leave it to them," To Xu Ping's surprise, Hei Baoyi, who had always coveted the armor of the new army, actually rejected this proposal: "In front of the flintlock pistol, the armor is useless at all. ”

"Oh?" Xu Ping smiled and asked, "Then do you still plan to call your battalion an armored battalion?" Armored battalions not equipped with armor. ”

Hei Baoyi was silent for a moment and nodded: "Even if there is no armor, the armored battalion is still a good name." ”

"In that case, let's call it this." Xu Ping has already given the West Battalion two wing numbers, so that the armored battalion will be the third new battalion of the Chuang Army: "Brother Hei's armored battalion will be under the jurisdiction of the third teaching team, the third staff team, the third artillery team, and the third engineer team...... The 5th and 6th Infantry Wings, the 5th Infantry Wing is under the 17th to 20th Infantry Teams, and the 6th Infantry Wing is under the 21st to 24th Infantry Teams......"

Xu Ping and Hei Baoyi walked side by side to the gate of the county, today they don't have to sleep in the camp tent in the field, Hei Baoyi asked, "When can I form my battalion?" Can I take the 2nd Infantry Wing with me? ”

"The second infantry wing can't be given to you," Xu Ping shook his head and said: "Although General Jia only has one Shanlan battalion left in his hands, the new army is still a powerful army that must not be underestimated, and any move to underestimate the strength of the Shanlan battalion will lead to unpredictable consequences, the guards battalion must remain a whole, and the first and second infantry wings can only be concentrated, not dispersed." ”

Recently, Hei Baoyi has become more and more dislike arguing with Xu Ping, or interrupting him, when Xu Ping spoke today, Hei Baoyi just listened quietly, and only after Xu Ping finished speaking, he asked: "I understand what Brother Xu means, but what I ask is, when we have a relatively long period of time to repair, can we give me the second infantry wing, I have been taking them for a long time, if I give this wing, I will soon be able to pull up the armored battalion." ”

"Nope." Xu Ping shook his head again: "The second infantry wing cannot be transferred from the guards battalion, and the black brother can select twenty officers, non-commissioned officers, and eighty veterans from the guards battalion to form a teaching team of the armored battalion." But you have to re-recruit the soldiers yourself, and I can't give you the equipment for the time being, so I'll talk about it later. ”

"Why?" Hei Baoyi has been with Xu Ping, a new army officer, for a long time, and often listens to them tell stories about the new army: "Huang Hou's training secret, isn't there one that lets veterans lead recruits? ”

"Huang Hou has the time, equipment and talent for him to squander, and we don't. The Guards Battalion lost half of its combat effectiveness at once, and the personnel had to reacquaint themselves with it for several months, during which they could only intensify their training and not be able to fight. Xu Ping's attitude is very firm, the combat effectiveness of the Guards Battalion must be ensured, and the elite troops must also be concentrated: "There are still a large number of Ming troops around Kaifeng Mansion, such as Guidefu, there are tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of Bianjun, and attacking them does not require the transfer of half of the Guards Battalion soldiers and equipment." The militia regiments in those counties we have broken have been training for a long time, and you can recruit new recruits from them, and by fighting these Ming troops, you will gradually adapt to the battlefield, and the training team of the armored battalion will pass on our experience to them. I will assign tasks to the armored battalion according to their combat strength, and the main force like the Guards battalion, I will stay at hand and be ready to meet the new army. ”

"What about those Forces nouvelles POWs?"

"I know what the black brother is thinking, but I'm not going to embarrass them." Xu Ping has no intention of recruiting these soldiers: "The sappers and artillery are all painstakingly trained by the new army training team, I am not a fool and will not let them go, if they are willing to stay and help me train the soldiers, it is the best, but they are unwilling to help me, I would rather let them go to Sun Kewang to farm there than let them go back, but the general infantry, there is no need to keep them, and we are not unable to use Huang Hou's training methods." ”

"In addition to a hundred teaching teams, I need some officers." The 2nd Infantry Wing commanded by Hei Baoyi was under the command of the 5th to 8th Infantry Brigades: "I want to take away the officers, team deputies, and generals, I remember you said that Huang Hou has always sent a large number of elite officers to the new battalion. ”

"Brother Hei, if we are also like Huang Hou when he was in Liaodong, we have a safe island that cannot be attacked, instead of in a place of four wars like Henan; If we also want Huang Hou to be like him, there are endless resources of the Ming Dynasty behind him: military salaries, steel, grain, gunpowder, craftsmen...... Then I can give it to you too, but now we must always be ready for battle. Hei Baoyi's request was also rejected by Xu Ping mercilessly: "In this way, I'll give Brother Hei a hundred more veterans, Brother Hei can also pick two team officers to go, and the rest must stay in the guard camp." ”

At this moment, Li Dingguo and Li Guo came side by side, and after seeing Xu Ping, Li Guo first congratulated him, and then changed the conversation: "Brother Li told me just now, Brother Xu, you plan to abandon Kaifeng, I think we might as well set off immediately, maybe we can block the new army." ”

"The combat strength of the new army should not be underestimated...... Seeing that Li Dingguo's face also had a somewhat eager expression, Xu Ping had to start all over again, this time the Guards Battalion also had nearly 1,000 casualties and attrition, although all of Xu Ping's men were trained in shooting, but it always took a few days for the reserve soldiers to adapt to the weapon, and many of the fruits needed to be repaired, and these soldiers also needed some adaptation period after reaching the new unit: "...... Since ancient times, I don't know how many defeats have begun, but they all started after small victories. Although we may not seem to have suffered much loss today, the extent of our losses must have been much greater than that, and victory has always concealed many problems, which could lead to our defeat in haste of battle. ”

Before Xu Ping had made up his mind to give up the blockade of Kaifeng, and had already determined that this loss was within the acceptable range of the camp, at present, the morale of the soldiers of the army was high because of the victory, and the morale of the generals of the army was high because of the victory, but the physical strength of the rapid march and the decline in combat power caused by the damage of the unit, these problems will not disappear because of the high morale and fighting spirit. Now the fruits of victory are about to arrive, Xu Ping is not willing to risk fighting again, he had a plan before the war, after the end of the battle, the participating troops will repair on the spot, even if the loss is not large, they will never rush back to Kaifeng to try to block the relief of the Shanlan camp. "In this battle, the selection battalion was too late to destroy the weapons because of the rout, we have captured a lot, as long as we rectify a little, we will have 3,000 guns and 14 artillery pieces, and we will firmly control the battle situation in Kaifeng Province; And now, if we march hastily to attack the Shanlan camp, we will have to use more than two thousand guns to deal with an entire battalion and twenty-four cannons of General Jia. ”

Speaking of the materials captured by the Guards Battalion, since his subordinates were not interested, Xu Ping planned to give these equipment to Li Guo in one go: "Thanks to Brother Li this time, I have captured more than 1,000 pieces of intact armor, and nearly 1,000 sets of damaged ones, so give them all to Brother Li." ”

Unexpectedly, Li Guo also shook his head when he heard this: "Brother Xu, I don't want armor, I want a gun, not a spear, it's a musket." ”

Xu Ping was a little surprised, because Li Guo was also at risk of fighting the Chu army, and the armor was very useful to him.

But Li Guo was unmoved, and resolutely said that he did not want armor, only muskets. Xu Ping had no choice but to agree: "Six hundred guns have been seized, and half of them will be given to Brother Li." ”

"How did you get six hundred?" Li Guo showed a suspicious look on his face, he knew that there were at least a thousand guns in the Xuanfeng Battalion, and it was likely to be more, even if he ran a few people, it was impossible to take away hundreds of guns.

"yes, and four hundred more are damaged." Xu Ping explained.

In addition to accidental damage during training, guns will be damaged in large quantities during combat, in addition to being damaged by bumps, there are also a very small number of unfortunate ones that will be damaged by the opponent's projectiles, but the main damage is improper use. In the battle of Lanyang, Xu Ping found that a large number of guns were damaged by repeated reloading, and soldiers would be extremely nervous and reload first and then reload, and then reload after firing without realizing the problem, this situation occurred in both armies, and the largest gun was found to be filled with twelve bullets.

This reloading is the most common and most difficult damage to repair, requiring a craftsman to remove the projectiles stuffed in the barrel one by one with specialized tools. After the Battle of Lanyang, four hundred guns were found that had been damaged in this way, including the captured guns, and Xu Ping had only repaired more than 100 of them before coming to the county. Just now, the staff team members just like Xu Ping reported that hundreds of guns had the same problem, and the rifle workshop established by Sun Kewang has not produced a single qualified gun so far, and the only role is to repair the broken guns.

Of course, Xu Ping's preference for his lineage is still a little watery in his words to Li Guo. Of the 1,000 guns seized this time, there were definitely more than 600 good guns, and the damage figure Xu Ping mentioned actually included the damaged weapons of the Guards Battalion. However, Xu Ping had replaced the captured good guns with the bad guns on the two wings of the Guards Battalion, and the number of captured guns had thus become 600 good guns and nearly 400 bad guns.

After listening to Xu Ping explain how a bad gun is difficult to repair, Li Guo still doesn't give up: "I want a bad gun too, and I can fix it." ”

Seeing that Li Guo was pressing step by step, Li Dingguo hurriedly interjected: "General, don't forget, before you send out the army, you promised to give me half of the captured guns." ”

"Okay, okay." Xu Ping spread his hands and said helplessly: "Six hundred good guns, half of each of you, leave the bad guns to me." ”

"I still need cannons." Li Guo talked about the 12 cannons captured this time, and today the Xuanfeng battalion did not get a chance to destroy the cannons, and for the first time, the rebels captured such heavy weapons from the new army.

"Well, I want it too." Li Dingguo didn't wait for Xu Ping to open his mouth and preemptively put forward a plan: "That's it, twelve cannons, let's have four each." ”

Xu Ping's face became a little ugly, Xiying and Li Guo had never trained gunners, and Xu Ping had started training the gunners of the Guards Battalion very early, and now there were several mature artillery groups, but there were no suitable field guns except for the two in Xuzhou. Now Xu Ping felt in his heart that these cannons could play a greater role in the Guards Battalion, but he couldn't say this kind of thing directly; But it was too compromised Xu Ping and unwilling, both the Guards Battalion and the armored battalion that was about to be formed needed artillery, and the Guards Battalion contributed the most in this battle and suffered the most losses, if the spoils were divided equally, I am afraid that the subordinates would also be dissatisfied.

In the arduous bargaining process, Xu Ping insisted on his bottom line: give them two cannons for one person.

"Okay." Li Guo looked very aggrieved: "Since this is the case, then our family will suffer a little loss, and give us all those armors." ”

- It turns out that he still wants it.

Xu Ping let out a long breath and hurriedly agreed: "Okay." ”

"I still want people, and I want to build a battalion like the Guards Battalion." Li Guo pointed to Li Dingguo beside him: "I asked Brother Li, general, you owe me a teaching team of 100 people, it should be 20 fruit chiefs and 80 veterans, right?" I'm not borrowing either. ”

Xu Ping stood for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

"Well, according to Brother Li, this battalion should be the fifth and sixth infantry wings."

"No way!" Hei Bao jumped out and interjected, "This is already mine." ”

After asking the reason, Li Guo smiled magnanimously: "Since this is the case, I won't fight with the black brothers, and continue to line up, it should be seventh and eighth, right?" ”

"Yes." Xu Ping asked worriedly, "Does Brother Li have any other requirements?" ”

Li Guo thought about it, and finally shook his head and said, "It seems that there is no more." ”

A big stone in Xu Ping's heart fell to the ground, and he said with a smile: "Brother Li doesn't have to be in a hurry, if you think about it in the future, it doesn't matter." ”

"Hmm." Li Guo responded.

At this time, Li Dingguo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke again: "Brother Xu, I just remembered something again, I am going to form my staff team, it is the second staff team, right, I want ten people." ”

"I only have a total of fifty people, and twenty-five of them will be delegated to be the chief ......," Xu Ping opened his mouth to refuse.

"Then there are twenty-five, and I only need ten." Li Dingguo grabbed Bai and said: "You are the general who broke into the camp, not the owner of the guard battalion!" ”

"What do you mean by a staff officer?" Li Guofa asked, "I've never heard of it." ”

"I also just learned about the military system set by Huang Hou," Li Dingguo didn't look at Xu Ping, who was pale, and turned his head to Li Guo with a spring breeze: "I have some experience in this, just talk to Brother Li." ”

……

Yu Shenhe, the wing officer of the First Infantry Wing, reported a case to Xu Ping: it was about the senior sergeant Qin Dedong and his subordinate Yue Mu. According to the report of the squad officers to which they belonged, Yue Mu shook the morale of the army on the battlefield, while Qin Dedong flagrantly disobeyed the military order. The reason why Yu Shenhe reported this case to Xu Ping was also because he felt very embarrassed: not long after the establishment of the Guards Battalion, Yue Mu was not the only one who performed badly in this operation, and the righteous Qin Dedong was secretly sympathized with by many officers and soldiers, so Yu Shenhe considered it again and again, and finally did not order the two to be dealt with by military law, but asked for instructions.

Qin Dedong had been continuing to fight since then, so Yu Shenhe suggested that Xu Ping give him amnesty, but Yue Mu couldn't, and he was still in a coma at the end of the battle, without any reason to exonerate.

"How is this situation?" Xu Ping asked.

"Not a few."

Both Yu Shenhe and Hei Baoyi reported similar problems in both wings, and of course few of them were as serious as Yue Mu—if they really disobeyed to such an extent, they would generally be executed on the spot by the officers of the overseer.

"You're right, this soldier shouldn't have been put to death."

Xu Ping's words made Yu Shenhe a little surprised: "My lord, military law is military law, and Yue Muji is close to the battle and escaped." ”

"He was close rather than fleeing," Xu Ping retorted: "This battle is unprecedented, haven't we made a mistake?" How can a soldier be harshly criticized? He had never been in his training. ”

"Qin Dedong's matter is easy to handle, and the military law can be extrajudicial to this situation......

"Are you talking about the New Army Military Law Regulations?" Xu Ping interrupted Yu Shenhe's statement.

Yu Shenhe was stunned: "My lord, isn't our regulations like this?" ”

"Our military law regulations are almost copying the new army."

"Then you can't pardon him, otherwise everyone will think that military law can be amended."

"Of course, military law can be modified! Military law is to better boost morale, so that soldiers can fight better, and carry out orders more firmly, arbitrary modification of military law will run counter to this purpose, so it cannot be easily changed, but if we are convinced that there is a problem with military law, then it should be changed, and military law is established for the purpose of governing the army, not military law for the sake of military law. Yue Mu was a very good soldier, I knew that he was a kind and brave man, and I asked myself that the mistakes I made in this battle were much greater than his, such as the question of twenty people in one fruit...... Oh, I'm going to talk about it, I'll talk about this later. Xu Ping explained to his henchmen: "Putting aside the reason, the execution of Yue Mu will also make those soldiers with similar behaviors feel sad about the death of rabbits and foxes - the law is not human, I don't agree with the set of Zhendong Hou." ”

"But if it's not handled well, soldiers may develop contempt for military law."

"Yes, so I'll personally preside over this court-martial." Xu Ping said.

Seeing that the chief had made up his mind, Yu Shenhe asked, "My lord, do you need to make any preparations?" For example, let Qin Dedong's general always say something good for the two of them. ”

"Then there is no need, although I have the intention to let the two of them live, but I don't want anyone outside this tent to know. As you said, Brother Yu, I fear that the soldiers will have contempt for military law because of this. Xu Ping thought for a while, revised his plan slightly, and said to Yu Shenhe: "They are from the Third Infantry Team, right?" Go get the officer, I have a few words to say to him. As for the squad officer, there is no need for him to know in advance, he can say whatever he wants, otherwise the soldiers will see it, and they must not let them feel that the court-martialed trial is like child's play. ”

After the team officer was found, Xu Ping explained a few words, and at the same time ordered him not to leak these contents.

……

Xu Ping, who personally presided over the trial, looked at Qin Dedong who was standing in front of him with a dejected face, and Yue Mu, who was beside the latter, desperately defended the chief, trying his best to claim that one person was responsible for doing things and was willing to bear any punishment under military law.

In front of everyone, the squad officer repeated aloud to Xu Ping what he had seen and heard on the battlefield—a harsh testimony that would kill both of them.

After the officer finished his report, he took a step back and waited for Xu Ping's verdict. Xu Ping groaned and said, "According to my military regulations, Sergeant Qin should be hanged and hung at the camp gate, and Yue Mu should be beheaded for public display. ”

Qin Dedong's face turned pale, and Yue Mu beside him immediately begged bitterly, hoping that Xu Ping would spare Qin Dedong's life—he had no hope for his fate.

"But—"

When Xu Ping spit out these two words, he heard a loud sound from the onlookers. Xu Ping said loudly: "Sergeant Qin did not run away, but continued to fight bravely under the command of Shangfeng, if I hanged Sergeant Qin today, it would be equivalent to encouraging the soldiers to flee tomorrow, although I was very reluctant, but I had to give mercy extralegally." ”

Xu Ping stiffened his face and ordered: "Whip Sergeant Qin ten times." ”

When the guards with big shoulders and round waists heard this, they immediately stripped off Qin Dedong's shirt, tied him to a wooden stake, and whipped him ten times in front of everyone. After the execution, Qin Dedong had passed out in pain, and the guards doused him with water to wake him up and dragged him back to Xu Ping.

"After a while, let the military doctor apply medicine to Sergeant Qin to heal his wounds, and all his exploits in this battle will be nullified."

After Xu Ping finished his verdict against Qin Dedong, he set his sights on Yue Mu again. There was sympathy in the eyes of many of the soldiers who looked at him, most of whom had also fallen to the ground on the battlefield, but their faults were not serious enough to be held accountable afterwards.

There were no two changes yesterday, and today's more thousand words are part of the compensation.

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