The British army's Hale rockets came out late, and the British army was not able to install this kind of rocket artillery on a large scale when Li Xian and the British army were fighting to the death, until after the armistice between the two sides, Li Xian knew the progress of the British army in this area from other channels, and then made some improvements to form the current new rocket artillery.

This new type of rocket artillery has many advantages over Congreve rocket artillery, such as a higher hit rate, easier operation, and easier to move and build firing positions, and has been greatly welcomed by field troops as soon as it was launched.

However, in general, there is no obvious generation difference between the new rocket artillery and the original Congreve rocket artillery, and the performance difference is limited.

Today's achievements are more due to the substantial increase in the production capacity of the Huaxia Army's military industry, which can produce a large number of qualified rocket artillery shells and maintain a large amount of consumption of the army.

In today's operation, the Huaxia Army dispatched 150 rocket artillery pieces, and according to the calculation that each gun fired an average of 60 to 70 shells, at least more than 10,000 rocket artillery pieces were fired.

When fighting against the British army, the Huaxia army fired two or three thousand shells a day was a great battle, that is, when the British army was lured to the Sanyuanguan ambush, it fired less than 5,000 shells, and this kind of consumption made it difficult for the factory to bear, and the inventory was almost exhausted, and it took several months before it had the ability to continue the war.

In comparison, nearly 10,000 rounds of rocket artillery were fired today, and the burden on the Huaxia Army was much smaller, and there were still tens of thousands of artillery shells in hand, which hardly affected the sustained combat capability, and if necessary, more artillery shells could soon be produced from the rear to replenish it.

The production cost of rocket artillery is three taels of silver, which means that today's battle will only consume 30,000 taels of silver of the Huaxia Army, and it can be fully afforded.

According to Li Xian, things that can be solved with money are never a big problem.

Today's battle is considered a successful end, Yang Fang's troops retreated in defeat and left the territory of Bao'an, and the large amount of grain, grass and materials accumulated were cheaper for the Huaxia army.

When the Huaxia army took advantage of the situation to occupy Bao'an County, they gathered all kinds of materials left by Yang Fang's troops and counted them, obtained 250,000 taels of grain, more than 200,000 taels of gold, silver and jewelry, and a large number of ships, horses, gunpowder, and firearms.

It's just that Li Xian couldn't be happy when he looked at these captured lists, but it was the army that came out of the moth.

It turned out that in this battle, the first one to fight was the five thousand soldiers and horses of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and the second wave was the five thousand soldiers of the Sanyuan Temple, and then they went together to pursue Yang Fang's defeated soldiers.

Li Xian's request was originally to chase down the defeated soldiers, and the more prisoners the better, but he didn't expect that the commander of the Sanyuanguan army chased half of them and captured a large amount of supplies from Yang Fang's troops, he was a little satisfied, and felt that the harvest was enough, so he was unwilling to work hard to continue the pursuit, so he stayed in place to collect all kinds of materials.

The 5,000 men of the Mixed Yuan Sect continued to pursue according to the order, but without the cooperation of friendly troops, they did not dare to pursue too far, so that there were not enough prisoners caught, and Yang Fang's troops with more than 10,000 soldiers ran out of Bao'an County.

This is not enough, Li Xian asked the commander of the Sanyuanguan to hand over all the captured materials, and after the command composed of the high-level members of the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuanguan high-level coordinated, they were distributed to the army as appropriate.

The feudal army has always belonged to whoever captures the materials, but neither the British army nor the Chinese army advocates this practice, insisting that all materials be handed over to the public, and then distributed by the command as appropriate.

Even if most of the captured materials sometimes have to be redistributed to the front-line officers and soldiers, this order of payment first and then distribution must not change, and this is a real matter of principle.

In the past, the troops were captured, and all the materials were handed over below, and then distributed or rewarded by the command, and nothing happened, but I didn't expect the army commander of the Sanyuanguan to be reluctant to do this, and actually said who captured it, and said that the mixed Yuanzong wanted to take advantage of the Sanyuanguan.

Li Xian was furious at that time, and called Yuan Fang, an elder sent by Sanyuanguan to be in charge of military discipline, and reprimanded him in person.

Yuan Fang still knew the overall situation, knew that this matter must not be ambiguous, and immediately used his own prestige to subdue the commander of the Sanyuanguan and forced him to hand over all the materials before the matter was resolved.

It's just that in this way, the eyes of the officers of the first line of the Mixed Yuan Sect looked at the officers of the Sanyuan Sect immediately, and they were a little more angry, and the warriors and officers of the Sanyuan Guan Department also felt that they had suffered a loss, and there was an obvious crack in the relationship between the two sides, which had always been friendly and cooperative.

Li Xian didn't want to mess with this matter, so he decided to hold a meeting of senior officers in the evening and take it out to talk about it.

It's just that when it was time for the meeting, the senior officers on both sides had arrived, but Zhou Dayun, the commander of the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Sanyuanguan, was late and left everyone aside.

Li Xian's face suddenly turned pale, and the top and bottom of the Sanyuan Temple, including Yuan Fang, were a little uneasy.

"Since Zhou Dayun can't come, let's have a meeting first. Today's battle is good, especially the casualties are not large, what do you have to learn, let's talk about it. Li Xian didn't want to be angry with everyone for Zhou Daming's alone, so he eased his face and said to the generals.

As soon as the daytime battles were mentioned, the officers all became frowning and laughed when they discussed the triumph of the day.

When it comes to the reason for the victory, some say that the weapons are good, some say that the Qing army does not know how to fight, some say that Li Xian commands well, and so on.

Li Xian smiled, took out a notebook to write down the officers' more incisive opinions, and often said some of his own opinions to inspire others' ideas.

"Everyone fought well in today's battle, giving full play to our artillery superiority, and did not give the Qing army a chance to turn the tables from beginning to end.

However, if I want to say anything, the most meaningful thing is the battle between Ma Jinbao and Wall. Li Xian said.

"Lao Ma did a good job, he was very cautious in using his troops, but he took advantage of the shortcomings that Wall was not familiar with the level of our rocket artillery, and a small group of troops approached the rear control field, and immediately blinded the foreign gun team. Yuan Fang, the elder of the Three Yuan Temple, nodded in agreement.

"That's true, I watched in the rear for a long time, and Wall is a qualified officer, and the combat effectiveness of the trained foreign gun team is obviously better than that of ordinary Qing soldiers.

Regarding Wall's failure today, I think there is a very important reason, that is, Wall may be a qualified grassroots officer, but his vision is still very limited, and he has not seen the development trend of the military combat methods of today's powerful countries, or even if he does, he cannot apply it in actual combat.

Wall's understanding of war is still stuck in the era of traditional line-up shooting tactics, but he does not understand that the current situation has long since changed. ”