On the night of June 3rd, the eighth year of Chongzhen Period, Yuzhou City.

At this time, thousands of Baoxiang soldiers poured into Yuzhou City, and bald-headed Baoxiang soldiers frequently patrolled the streets holding torches.

In a three-entry house in the city, Li Deyun stood in front of the window and sighed.

He has already learned from his servants that the officers and soldiers outside the city have been defeated!

Not just a simple defeat, but a disastrous defeat.

According to the news circulating in the city, the bandits and the officers and soldiers fought in the eastern suburbs outside the city during the day. As a result, the officers and soldiers were defeated miserably. Zuo Liangyu fled in panic, and He Renlong even surrendered to the bandits on the spot.

The army of more than 30,000 people was instantly wiped out and turned into nothing.

"The officers and soldiers retreated. Now, we Yuzhou people are completely in trouble!"

Li Deyun looked at the night sky outside the window and couldn't help sighing again: "This world is getting more and more difficult!"

At this time, the housekeeper walked in lightly: "Sir, the Wang family next door has sent people to the state government. A young man saw that the Wang family brought three large boxes and said they were going to pay taxes."

Li Deyun laughed after hearing this: "Haha, robbery is robbery, and you still call it tax. It's ridiculous that a group of thieves can talk about tax."

The housekeeper said: "Sir, what should we do? In the afternoon, the security thieves came to the door and asked us to pay taxes. If we don't pay, I'm afraid there will be a military disaster!"

"In the evening, the Zhao family on the street directly refused to pay taxes. I heard that their home was ransacked."

When Li Deyun heard this, his thick eyebrows jumped, and after a few seconds he sighed and said: "What else can I do? Just hand it over as the thief said, and think of it as spending money to eliminate disasters."

"When the officers and soldiers return to Yuzhou one day, there will be those who protect the thieves!"

Not long after, a group of people from the Li family went out carrying several boxes of gold and silver, and went straight to the Yuzhou Yamen to pay taxes.

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At the same time, in the Yuzhou Yamen, Luo Zhixue was listening to the post-war report on today's battle.

Xu Zhixian took the preliminary summary of the battle report: "In today's battle, our army annihilated a total of more than 1,600 enemy troops, not counting the wounded, captured or surrendered 6,300 people, and captured nearly 10,000 civilians."

"Preliminary estimates indicate that the enemy Zuo Liangyu's troops fled to Ye County with more than 4,000 remnants, and thousands more fled with no trace of their destination!"

"Among them, the enemy's 500 elite cavalry were lost, and more than 100 were lost. Dozens more fled, and the remaining 260 cavalry all surrendered to our army!"

Hearing this, Luo Zhixue glanced at Blind Wang beside him, nodded and said: "This time the cavalry brigade did a good job!"

Blind Wang immediately stood up with a smile on his face and said: "It's all thanks to the great general's command!"

If it weren't for his blind savings, it would not be easy to force the opponent's more than 260 elite cavalry to surrender this time. It would be even harder than capturing thousands of infantry prisoners on the frontal battlefield.

After all, they are cavalry, and they can ride their horses and run away when an opportunity arises. It is easy to defeat the opponent, or even to annihilate the opponent, but it is not easy to make the enemy cavalry who have fled all the way surrender.

During the day, Wang Xiazi led the cavalry in a fierce pursuit. It was also lucky that the enemy's cavalry remnants panicked and got into a dead-end terrain like a valley...

Then he was blocked by Wang Xiazi and his troops!

At that time, Wang Xiazi saw that the enemy was cornered, so he did not rush to kill them directly. Instead, he sent people to try to recruit them.

Such a discussion really made him successful!

In the end, these two hundred and sixty elite cavalry surrendered directly to the Baoxiang Army!

Later, these two hundred and sixty elite cavalry were added. After some selection, in addition to filling the gaps left by the cavalry brigade's battle losses, it also allowed them to train two more cavalry posts.

This wave can make a lot of money!

After all, the tactical effect of these two hundred and sixty elite cavalry is much more useful than that of thousands of infantry troops.

Especially for the Baoxiang Army!

The Baoxiang Army is not short of infantry, especially the traditional mixed brigades reorganized from the lowering troops, which now have five in total.

As for the new infantry brigades recruited and trained by the Baoxiang Army themselves, three infantry brigades have been formed, and two more infantry brigades are being trained, which adds up to five infantry brigades.

The total strength of the rural protection army with so many troops has actually reached more than 20,000 people, but among the more than 20,000 people, there are only a pitiful 700 or 800 cavalry.

Most of them are still half-baked, such as the cavalry sentries in the five mixed brigades, and all half-baked mounted infantry.

For these half-hearted cavalry, the generals of the Baoxiang Army often used them directly as reconnaissance cavalry and messengers, and did not expect them to go into battle and charge.

The only cavalry that can truly ride, shoot, and charge are the First Cavalry Post, the Second Cavalry Post, and the Seventh Cavalry Post.

Just a pitiful three hundred horses.

There are only 300 fine cavalry among the two tens of thousands of troops protecting the countryside. This ratio is abnormal in any way, and it also seriously affects the various operations of the army to protect the countryside.

In the previous Battle of Yuzhou, even if there were only a few hundred more cavalry, it would be impossible for Zuo Liangyu to escape with more than 4,000 remaining soldiers.

For the two hundred and sixty surrendered knights, Luo Zhixue also offered relatively generous benefits with a stroke of his pen.

In accordance with the principle of voluntariness, the treatment for those who voluntarily continue to join the army will be based on the treatment of the Baoxiang Army cavalry.

And also grant practical duties to middle and low-level officers.

In addition, Song Sanzhou, the guerrilla leader who surrendered, will not be given a false position as a military advisor, but will be given a real position, preparing to let him serve as the commander of the 11th Cavalry Sentry.

The status of the cavalry of the Baoxiang Army has always been relatively high, and the status of the cavalry sentry commander is no less than that of the infantry battalion commander.

This kind of treatment is only possible among the extremely rare elite cavalry. Luo Zhixue would not be so easy to talk to in another unit.

Today, thousands of Ming soldiers surrendered, including more than two hundred elite cavalry, so Luo Zhixue was in a good mood.

The subsequent report of our own losses somewhat diluted this joy, but it was innocuous.

Because the casualties of the Baoxiang Army today are very limited!

Xu Zhixian said: "Today our army fought, a total of 83 people were killed in each unit, and 160 were lightly or seriously wounded. The main casualties were from the 4th Mixed Brigade. Today they once withstood the light artillery fire from the enemy's left wing.

Denial resulted in more than a hundred casualties."

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"In addition, the First Infantry Brigade also suffered about 60 casualties, the Cavalry Brigade suffered about 30 casualties, and the other units also suffered slight losses."

Luo Zhixue is completely acceptable to this casualty figure. The ratio of casualties on both sides is about one to twenty. What is there to be dissatisfied with? What's more, the casualty figure is relatively large. The fourth mixed brigade accounted for half of the army's casualties.

This kind of non-main force.

It's not that Luo Zhixue is partial, but that the Fourth Mixed Brigade is really not a main force in the battle order of the Baoxiang Army.

This is just a traditional mixed brigade that has dropped troops. Its importance is far less than that of the main infantry brigades such as the 1st Infantry Brigade. This kind of unit has hundreds of casualties and Luo Zhixue would not even blink an eyebrow.

When the Fourth Mixed Brigade attacked Yuzhou before, it suffered hundreds of casualties, but Luo Zhixue still strictly ordered An Yongming to capture Yuzhou City.

In a war, it is normal to suffer losses. When really necessary, Luo Zhixue would be willing to fill in even a main force such as the 1st Infantry Brigade without even frowning!

In the past, when the Baoxiang Army was still small, Luo Zhixue would often lament the casualties of his own soldiers, but gradually, he would not have any special feelings about the casualties of his soldiers.

The only thing that needs to be considered is whether excessive casualties will affect the subsequent tactical execution and even strategic planning of the Baoxiang Army.

As for the Fourth Mixed Brigade, even though the casualties were slightly higher after repeated hard battles, Luo Zhixue is still very confident!

Perhaps because An Yongduo and Fei Bingqing are strong in leading troops, the Fourth Mixed Brigade has always suffered high casualties, but it has always maintained combat effectiveness.

When the unit fought in Yuzhou City before, it suffered hundreds of casualties when attacking Yuzhou City. If it had not been for the continuous replenishment of surrendered troops, when the Fourth Mixed Brigade captured Yuzhou City, it was estimated that there were not even 2,000 people.

What?

During the follow-up defense of Yuzhou City, the Fourth Mixed Brigade directly recruited and replenished troops from Yuzhou City's surrendered troops, and finally restored a strength of about 2,200 troops. As a result, several hundred more were killed and injured after many days of continuous defensive operations.

The number of casualties before and after this time reached more than 1,000, and the full strength of the Fourth Mixed Brigade was only more than 2,000.

Compared to half of the troops have already been rotated.

However, when they went out to fight today, the 4th Mixed Brigade cooperated with the 1st Infantry Brigade with only about 1,500 remaining soldiers. Although the combat effectiveness was inferior, they fought tenaciously and successfully completed the tactical mission.<

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This makes Luo Zhixue quite gratified. When he chose An Yongduo and Fei Bingqing to partner up to take charge of the fourth mixed brigade, he finally chose the right person.

In this way, the fourth mixed brigade only needs to add hundreds of troops on the spot, and it can regain its combat effectiveness within a few days of rest.

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After Xu Zhixian introduced the enemy and our casualties, he briefly introduced the seizures and losses of materials, but Luo Zhixue didn't pay much attention to this aspect, that is, he only listened to the previous seizures of guns and artillery.

"We have seized more than 300 artillery pieces of various types, including 12 general cannons ranging from 200 to 300 kilograms, and 12 Franco machine guns, and various general cannons ranging from 100 kilograms to 200 kilograms.

There are twenty-four of them, and the rest are all attack cannons weighing less than 100 kilograms, tiger crouching cannons, bowl-mouth cannons, etc."

"About half of them meet the standards for use by our army."

Luo Zhixue didn't pay much attention to this. Whether it was these artillery pieces or the captured muskets, they were of little use.

Especially in terms of artillery, these light artillery can only be used as infantry fire support, which is the same concept as the two-hundred-pound short robes made by the Baoxiang Army.

But it is far from being able to use the 600-pound long artillery made by the Baoxiang Army.

Therefore, apart from a small part of these captured guns being replenished to the 4th Mixed Brigade, the rest will be used as equipment for the new 11th Mixed Brigade and 12th Mixed Brigade.

In the Battle of Yuzhou City, the Baoxiang Army captured thousands of people and seized so many weapons and equipment. According to the old rules, it was natural to reorganize the traditional mixed brigade on the spot.

Therefore, after the battle report meeting that day, Luo Zhixue took it as an order to drop troops here and establish the 11th Mixed Brigade and the 12th Mixed Brigade based on equipment.

In the future, these two mixed brigades will be reorganized here first, and will stay here for garrison or be transferred to other places depending on the situation.

The reorganization of these two mixed brigades also means that the Baoxiang Army has initially solved the threat from the north. The follow-up Baoxiang Army only needs to build up the Luyang Pass and Yuzhou defense lines in the north, and then the main force can safely move south and attack the Jianghan Plain.

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