The main enemy of the Tang Dynasty was the Ming army and other bandit gangs and other armed forces, and these Ming troops and bandits were equipped with a large number of cold weapons, even in the Ming army, cold weapons were the mainstay, and firearms were only a supplement.

In the face of such an enemy, if you have a heavy infantry on your side, you can completely ignore their bows and arrows and other cold weapons, and then tear their light infantry defense line in a head-on duel.

There are also spearmen, if the spearmen, especially the spearmen in the front row, can also be equipped with a certain amount of armor, then it can also effectively improve the protection of the troops.

It's just that although Li Xuan wants to do this, it's a pity that the Tang Dynasty can't produce its own armor on a large scale, whether it is cotton armor or iron armor, these equipment are not so easy to come out, the existing cotton and iron armor in the Tang Dynasty are all modified from the cotton armor captured from the Ming army, and a small number of iron armor such as chain mail can only be captured from the Ming army.

For today's Tang Dynasty, it is much more difficult to build an armor than to build an arquebus, which is not a matter of insufficient technology, but simply a lack of production capacity caused by insufficient manpower and raw materials.

The popularization of armor is more difficult than the popularization of muskets!

When Li Xuan listened to Qian Mengjiu talk about the detailed combat process, he was thinking about how to improve the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

And at this time, Qian Mengjiu also talked about the casualties of the enemy and me!

"In this battle, our army lost one person and wounded three, and the casualties of our army were all caused by the enemy archers, including one wounded by the sword and shield team, one killed and two wounded by the spearmen!" Qian Mengjiu continued at this time: "And the enemy army suffered heavy casualties, eight killed and sixteen lightly wounded!" ”

Qian Mengjiu did not say whether the enemy army had serious wounded, because the seriously wounded were directly counted in the ranks of the dead, and they were seriously wounded on the battlefield in these years, and basically had no chance of survival, especially the enemy who was wounded by the musket team.

If you are hit by a fatal part such as the head or torso with a lead bullet from a musket, needless to say, 100% is a dead word, even if you are hit in a non-fatal part such as a hand or foot, it is difficult to survive, because lead bullet is poisonous, and if you hit the hands and feet, you have to amputate your limb if you want to live, and the medical level is extremely limited in these years, and it is not difficult to survive after amputation.

"Forty or twenty-three prisoners, and the rest of the weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows!" After Qian Mengjiu said that, Fang Dong and the others all smiled.

In this battle, although there was a small accident on the way, he was ambushed by bandits, but he turned the danger into a disaster, and achieved great results, not letting the other party escape a single person, whether it was young or strong, old and weak, all were captured.

Li Xuan also nodded slightly: "Yes, I have more than 400 people in Datang to join, and my foundation is deeper and my strength is more sufficient!" ”

After a brief report, this reception banquet was over, and everyone went back with festive expressions.

However, the Tang monarchs and ministers drank wine and ate meat to celebrate the victory, but the captive Li Zhai Lord and Old Man Xie were worried.

At this time, they and the other main leaders of the captives were locked up in a wooden house, and the master of Li Zhai sat cross-legged directly on the dirt floor in the house, with a gloomy and terrible expression on his face.

Things developed after the surrender and were different from what he expected.

Originally, he thought that after he surrendered, the people of Huangzhushan would attach great importance to him, and in order to win him over, he would definitely offer various prices, such as giving him a general or even a prince.

But he didn't expect that after he was captured, the people of Huangzhushan did attach great importance to him, but this kind of attention was strictly guarded, and there were no expected benefits at all, and even now, he had not been able to talk to a high-level of Huangzhushan.

Did you make the wrong choice in the first place?

Master Li Zhai didn't know that the people of Huangzhushan didn't say that they wouldn't give him official titles, but that Fang Dongquan didn't have this right, so they wouldn't make any promises to him during the day, and only Li Xuan, the emperor, had this right.

And today's time is urgent, Li Xuan naturally won't summon him in the middle of the night, this matter has to wait until tomorrow, of course, how to deal with Li Zhai and them in the end, Li Xuan also has to look at people.

And Old Man Xie also sighed!

His initial plan was to take advantage of the chaos when the two armies were fighting, and then flee with his family in the back.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Zhai and they were defeated so quickly, and they surrendered so simply, and it only took a quarter of an hour before and after, and Li Zhai and they surrendered cleanly.

That's not all, butcher Chen and they were just behind, so when Old Man Xie just found his family and was about to run away with him, he bumped into Butcher Chen and them, and the outcome was undoubted, Old Man Xie's family became prisoners again.

Moreover, although the clothes on this old man Xie were a little tattered, this standard scholar's dress quickly attracted the attention of Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan.

The scholars in the mountains are all very noble, and there are more than 3,000 people before the Tang Dynasty, but there are only four scholars, and this also includes Li Xuan himself.

So when he found out that this hunchbacked old man was still a scholar, he immediately enjoyed the same treatment as Li Zhai and was taken care of alone.

I haven't escaped from this wolf's den yet, but I jumped into the tiger's mouth again, and it's still the big tiger's mouth of Huangzhushan's pseudo-Tang, what can I do?

To this day, even Old Man Xie, who has always maintained the cultivation of a scholar, is now sad.

If it was an ordinary gang that caught him, it would be a big deal, and he would endure the humiliation for a few months, and then wait for an opportunity to escape, but now it is the famous pseudo-Tang thief army in the surrounding prefectures and counties that has caught him!

Now Zhengtai County and several neighboring counties are talking about the Tang Dynasty and changing color, and the officers and soldiers have come to encircle and suppress it several times.

If you don't show your obedience, I'm afraid you'll be killed directly.

But if you make compromises, then the next time the officers and soldiers go into the mountains to encircle and suppress, you and your family's lives will not be saved.

As a scholar, he knew better than the foolish bandits how the imperial court treated these rebels.

Needless to say, it must be encircled and suppressed, and it will be encircled and suppressed until it is successful, don't expect the imperial court to suppress half of it and then stop suppressing it, this kind of thing is impossible.

And the imperial court basically has one attitude towards the rebels, that is, kill!

When the time comes, will it be possible to explain to the officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress that they have still been arrested and have not surrendered to the thieves?

Will they believe? It's stupid to believe it!

If you hadn't been a thief, how would you have survived? Are those pseudo-Tang thieves all very good people, if you don't surrender to the thieves, they can still support your family, just kidding!

At this time, Old Man Xie could basically imagine that he was caught by officers and soldiers, and then slashed as a thief.

Whether this is obedience or not, it will be a dead word in the end!

Master Li Zhai and Old Man Xie sighed, but the ordinary bandits and the old and weak who were captured were much better.