Chapter 171: The Black Hand Behind Zhu Jiu

In fact, killing the wounded on the battlefield and lowering the morale of the army is a very common thing in this era, but after all, Li Xian is from the past of modern society, and he can't do such a thing, and letting his subordinates cultivate such a ruthless character may not be a good thing for future development. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Xiaoming went up with two classes of people and came back with a bunch of cold weapons and gunpowder weapons.

The people who encouraged Zhu Jiu to send troops were all over the world, and sent Zhu Jiu a lot of firearms, and the team he sent over was naturally equipped with a lot of firearms, so that the more than 500 people who came this time were equipped with more than 300 firearms, which was rare in the entire Qing Dynasty.

There were at least seventy or eighty muskets that Wang Xiaoming retrieved, and Li Xian carefully observed these weapons, only to feel that many of them were home-made muskets such as carrying guns, but there were also many Western firearms that looked good, and their appearance was not bad.

However, after Li Xian took a closer look at those Western firearms, he couldn't help but scold: "Damn, Martin's appearance, these people are really stupid and stupid as always." ”

It turned out that among the 70 or 80 muskets, there were only about 60 Western firearms, of which only 20 were still functional, and the remaining two-thirds were seriously worn out of the barrels, and they had almost no actual combat value, but the surface was polished.

Li Xian was familiar with several daring arms dealers in Guangzhou, and could even recognize whether the camouflage technique was from Martin or Grumman.

All in all, in short, after reading this, Li Xian had a deeper understanding of the equipment level on Zhu Jiu's side.

There may be a little more than two hundred muskets on the other side, but if they are all in this proportion, there will be more than forty guns to use, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

These usable muskets are just ordinary front-loading smoothbore guns, Li Xian also found two rifled guns, but the barrels are badly worn, and Li Xian suspects that the person on the other side may not know the difference between rifled guns and smoothbore guns, and they don't know how to adjust the caliber of bullets at all, and use both guns together.

"Wasted two good guns. Li Xian sighed, threw the two guns aside, and joined the other guns.

Rifled guns have always been in high demand, and Martin and Grumman are in short supply of them, sometimes even with money.

However, firearms have always been strictly prohibited on the Qing side, and these things seem to be similar to garbage by Li Xian, but they must be strictly prohibited by the imperial court.

Li Xian already vaguely knew who the person behind Zhu Jiu was, it must be some imperial court officials from Guangzhou, who used the appearance of handing in Zhu Jiu by martial arts families such as the Fuwei Dart Bureau, but he was extremely lacking in professional knowledge, and he didn't understand the difference between a good gun and an inferior gun at all.

Li Xian knew better in his heart that this Zhu Jiu might just be a little minion looking for him on the other side, and when he eliminated the Mixed Yuan Temple, the person on the other side would probably take action against Zhu Jiu, and after killing him and his men, he would take the firearm back as it was.

It's a pity that this bit of cognition is useless at all, even if you tell Zhu Jiu, it is estimated that the other party will not believe it.

"Host, breakfast is ready, it's all hot and ready to eat. Chen Youfu came with a few workshop workers, carrying a steaming meal, including hot soup.

"Let the brethren take turns coming down to eat, and I will eat last. Li Xian smiled and said, "It's hard to take care of things." ”

"What do I have, it's just to make a difference, or the owner and the brothers in the guard work hard. Chen Youfu immediately smiled like a flower.

The men of the escort had all eaten dry food before, and they had made some bottoms, but they were all young people, and when they were the most physically exhausted in a battle, they all cheered when they saw a hot meal coming, and according to the instructions of the squad leaders, they retreated in batches to eat.

Li Xian, as a commander, wants to set an example for everyone, so naturally he comes down to eat at the end, which is actually not very important, but the real strong army grows up from these details.

Li Xian took a bite of food, but sighed, and talked to Zhao Hujiang and Wang Xiaoming and the others beside him.

"Actually, we made a lot of tactical mistakes in this battle, no less than Zhu Jiu on the other side.

Originally, when those corpse soldiers with high martial arts came over, they all shot in unison, and there was no sense of hierarchy, so that those corpse soldiers rushed into the trench without paying enough price, which was the first mistake.

The grenade did not work well, neither against the corpse soldiers nor ordinary pirates, and it did not work as well as it should, which was the second mistake.

In addition, the strong team did not fully consider the distance factor, and only organized air rifles, air pistols and revolvers into one team.

As a result, the air rifle can barely come in handy, but the one with the pistol is useless, and in several battles, because the pistol shooting distance is too short, it cannot reach the enemy, so you can only watch the people next to you fight.

This could have been well avoided if the person with the pistol had been issued a smoothbore, and this was the third mistake.

In addition, our trenches were dug with some problems, and we only thought about how to better kill the enemy.

If we dig two trenches on both flanks, we will have more angles to fire when the enemy attacks, which is the fourth mistake that we never thought about before.

The last point is that the medical treatment on our side is extremely rudimentary, there is a lack of real surgeons, and the preparation of medicines is also insufficient, which is also a problem that needs to be solved. ”

"However, we still fought very well in this battle, and when the enemy attacked in the next two times, we won almost zero casualties. Wang Xiaoming heard Li Xian talk about his own mistakes, but he was a little unconvinced and retorted.

"We did play well, but that's just because the enemy is weak enough doesn't mean we don't have something to improve.

After the end of this war, we have to make a good summary and talk about how we can fight better and reduce casualties next time we encounter this situation. Li Xian didn't get angry when he saw someone fighting, he just smiled and said.

"And, there are some things that we can improve on now.

After eating for a while, the classes on both flanks dug trenches with iron pickaxes, and dug two trenches that stretched out in front of the meandering on the basis of the present to see if they could be used this time. ”

"Yes, listen to the company commander. The squad leaders who gathered around to listen immediately nodded and said.

There were only more than 100 people in the escort team and the Mixed Yuan Sect together, and Li Xian proclaimed himself the company commander, and did not use other more attractive titles, so the people in the escort team called him the chief or company commander.

Compared with the harmonious situation on the side of the Mixed Yuan Temple, Zhu Jiu's side was bleak, the losses of these two times were too great, and everyone could see that there was actually almost no loss on the side of the Mixed Yuan Temple, and the morale fell to the freezing point for a while.