I want to be emperor

Chapter 93: Going North and Reclamation Camp
On the night when Ding Po Tian was packed, Luo Zhixue ordered the whole army to eat extra meals, not only white rice and steamed buns, but also meat.

This meat is no longer the usual broth that each person can only share a small bowl, one or two slices of meat as thin as cicada's wings, but the fatty meat that each person can share several pieces.

Just like the extra meal they had after conquering Songjiazhuang, let the soldiers have a full meal.

After all, this is a victory and a lot of money has been captured at the same time, so the necessary rewards are necessary.

This time they went north not only to annihilate 2000 members of the Dingpotian Institute, but also to prevent the thieves from the Ministry from continuing to harm Lushan County, and to avoid making the already extremely fragile living environment in the local area even worse.

At the same time, after annihilating the rogues of this department, it also laid a certain base for continuing to go north to wipe out the main rogues of Chuang Potian's department.

In addition to these strategic factors, Luo Zhixue and the others gained a lot from annihilating the Ding Po Tian Division.

The battle was fought very easily, and the thieves under the top of the sky were defeated very quickly, because the casualties on both sides were actually not large.

There were no more than a dozen casualties in the Baoxiang camp, of which four were killed and eight were injured, most of whom were killed by the opponent's archers at the beginning of the battle.

Correspondingly, Baoxiangying successively killed and wounded more than [-] people from the other side.

Among the more than 2000 enemy troops, except for more than 300 casualties, only about 300 people fled, and the remaining more than 1000 people were basically taken as prisoners of war, including [-] soldiers among the bandits.

The two hundred soldiers who belonged to the bandit camp had never fought against the Baoxiang camp from the beginning to the end. The main reason was that they were all infantry, and the Baoxiang camp sent out cavalry at the beginning. The two sides had no contact in the early stage. , and after the frontal battlefield was decided, Luo Zhixue personally led a large group of infantry and artillery to press up.

This group of thieves saw that the general situation was over, and more importantly, they also discovered that Ting Potian had led his own soldiers to escape, and left them on the battlefield as scapegoats. …

As a result, the leaders of the bandit camp immediately surrendered after discussing it.

It was useless not to surrender. At that time, the Baoxiang Battalion had already pulled up the artillery. If they continued to resist, they would basically be unilaterally massacred by the artillery troops of the Baoxiang Battalion.

However, even though the two hundred bandit soldiers never had a formal battle with the Baoxiang Battalion, Luo Zhixue still attached great importance to the two hundred soldiers.

Just looking at the formation and equipment of the soldiers in this camp before, it can be seen that the two hundred soldiers are basically the core backbone combat force of this bandit. If they can also be annexed and digested, then keep Two hundred more veterans with rich combat experience can be added to the township camp.

So as soon as these people surrendered, Luo Zhixue sent people to recruit these soldiers. If these people are willing to continue to serve in the army and pass the assessment, they can become members of the rural protection battalion. Afterwards, they will go through about a month The retraining of veterans on the left and right is mainly for formation training and discipline training. After training, they will be directly assigned to various combat units to serve as soldiers.

As for keeping the establishment, it is impossible. The Rural Protection Camp recruited prisoners of war and never allowed them to keep the original establishment, which would break up the arrangement.

In addition to these soldiers, Luo Zhixue also recruited ordinary prisoners of war, and the number of recruits is expected to be around 200.

The threshold for recruiting ordinary thieves is actually similar to that of ordinary recruits. First of all, the recruits must be voluntary.

If the other party is voluntary, they must pass physical fitness and discipline assessments. After passing, they will undergo recruit training for about three months like ordinary recruits. After the training, they will be assigned to various units like ordinary recruits.

Except for the [-] soldiers and the [-] ordinary recruits who will go through the retraining of veterans and recruits after training, they will join the rural protection battalion. The remaining people are divided into two types. , This kind of person will be sent to a prisoner of war camp for high-intensity labor.

And some people who wanted to join the army, but failed to meet the requirements, and finally failed to join the rural protection camp, were assigned to the reclamation camp for regular reclamation.

This reclamation camp was still at the time of the Songshan Battle.

At that time, too many officers, soldiers and young adults were captured, and a small part of them passed the assessment and joined the rural protection camp; some diehards were imprisoned in prisoner-of-war camps; It was incorporated into the newly established reclamation camp.

This kind of reclamation camp adopts militarized management for reclamation, and appropriate military training will also be carried out during the slack season. The purpose of Luo Zhixue's establishment of this kind of reclamation camp is, on the one hand, to allow them to cultivate and farm to support themselves, and on the other hand, to protect the countryside The battalion harvests more food, and finally hopes to establish a secondary military force.

After all, these reclamation camps are all composed of young and strong, and they will also conduct certain military training during the slack season. When necessary, they can also be used as auxiliary forces such as suppressing places and transporting logistics.

After several large-scale captures of the enemy, the Baoxiang Battalion now has detailed regulations for the arrangement and use of each prisoner of war. There are different arrangements for different prisoners of war. .

In this battle, the Baoxiangying not only obtained a group of soldiers and a large number of labor force, but also seized a lot of materials.

Among them are more than 100 mules and horses, but there are not many war horses available for cavalry, only a few dozen or so, and the rest are ordinary draft animals that are used by horses, mules, donkeys, etc. .

In fact, these mules and horses were not brought by Ding Potian to the south at the beginning. In fact, when they went south from Ruzhou City, there were not so many mules and horses at all. These mules and horses were all directly snatched along the way.

Apart from mules and horses, there is vital food.

Ting Potian and the others rushed all the way south, and the food they grabbed was not small. According to the food standard of the Baoxiangying, it was enough to feed 1000 people for about half a month.

This amount cannot be compared with the seizures in Songjiazhuang, but it is not too small. After all, not all enemies are grain merchants like Songjiazhuang, hoarding a large amount of grain.

Apart from food and mules and horses, the rest worth mentioning is a batch of cold weapons.

Including bows and arrows, knives, spears, armor, etc., but the total number is not many, because many young and strong men in this group of thieves were temporarily coerced by force. These people still use hoes, sharpened wooden There is no stick, not even an iron knife.

The total number of real weapons is only a thousand pieces. Among them, there are only more than 300 spears, which are the main weapons of the infantry. Some of them are garbage made by thieves or ordinary villagers. About sixty spears barely meet the standards used by Baoxiangying.

The rest of the weapons are similar, there are not many in total, and even fewer meet the standards used by the Baoxiangying.

Generally speaking, based on the current size of Baoxiangying and its own ordnance manufacturing capacity and reserve quantity, the ordnance in this exchange of fire can basically be ignored.

And the small quantity of captured ordnance and the poor quality can also be seen, why the combat effectiveness of these thieves is so low.

Many of these thieves don't even have iron knives or iron spears, so what is their combat effectiveness?

And this kind of thieves also gave Luo Zhixue and others more confidence to fight against Chuang Potian and his group.

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Early the next morning, the Baoxiang Camp went north again, preparing to intercept Chuang Potian's troops.

According to the usual practice, Wang Xiazi led the cavalry to go first, and Luo Zhixue personally led the infantry, artillery, and luggage to follow.

But when Blind Wang led the cavalry to go north first, they soon realized that something was wrong. They found that Chuang Potian and his group did not head towards Lushan County, but changed their way and went straight to Songjiazhuang. The distance is only more than ten miles.

When Luo Zhixue learned that Chuang Potian's troops had turned to his side, Chuang Potian also learned from the sentry that a group of more than a hundred elite cavalry had been found ahead.

"Is this the officer cavalry that I mentioned earlier? Damn it, why is this officer cavalry appearing here?"

"These people have appeared here. Could it be that my nephew has died?"

"My nephew brings two thousand people, it's impossible that he can't last a day."

When Ding Potian met Wang Xiazi's cavalry yesterday, he had already dispatched messengers to report back to Chuang Potian on flying horses, and asked Chuang Potian to lead the main force south to rescue.

Chuang Potian learned from the messenger that his nephew was entangled by a group of more than a hundred cavalry of unknown origin, most likely officers and soldiers.

Worried about his nephew's safety, he led his army to the south that day, preparing to rescue his nephew Ding Po Tian's troops. Because of the emergency, Chuang Po Tian didn't bring the young and strong cannon fodder he had temporarily packed, but only brought two thousand The bandits went south.

These two thousand bandit soldiers are the old troops he led the army to the east, and they have basically been bandits for more than three months.

Everyone has knives, spears and other weapons. Although the quality is not good, most of them are some tattered iron knives and spears, but they are still much better than those temporarily trapped young and strong.

Many of them still have mules and horses for riding, and if necessary, they can mobilize 200 people to act as cavalry. Naturally, their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with regular cavalry, but at least they are much stronger than pure infantry.

According to Chuang Potian's vision, as long as his nephew can persist for two days, he can lead two thousand elites to kill them. Even if the officers and soldiers cannot be completely defeated by then, they should be able to guarantee a non-losing situation.

Later, when his other [-] bandit soldiers arrived, he could rely on his strength to fight back.

But he didn't expect that after his nephew only sent two batches of messenger orders in the early stage, no messenger came back later.

This made Chuang Potian conclude that his nephew should have been surrounded by the enemy, and he could no longer send out sentries to contact his side.

However, what he didn't even think of was that only in the second day, his sentry told himself that he found a cavalry of hundreds of people ahead.

And it was a cavalryman in a gray uniform.

　I didn't have time to update the code word yesterday, sorry.

　　There will be three shifts today as compensation.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)