On the night of the day when I was cleaning up, Luo Zhixue ordered the whole army to have extra meals, not only white rice and steamed buns, but also meat.

This meat is no longer a small bowl of meat soup that can be divided into each person, one or two slices of meat that are as thin as a cicada's wings, but each person can divide into several pieces of fat meat.

Just like the extra meals they had after conquering Songjiazhuang, they gave the soldiers a full meal.

After all, this was a victory and a lot of results were also seized, so the necessary rewards were needed.

This time, they went north to annihilate 2,000 troops from Dingpotian, and prevented the thieves from continuing to harm Lushan County and prevented the local area from becoming more harsh in its already fragile living environment.

At the same time, after annihilated the bandits in this unit, it also laid a certain base for the subsequent continued northward annihilation of the main bandits in Chuangpotian.

In addition to these strategic factors, Luo Zhixue and his team won a lot of gains from annihilation of Dingpotian's troops.

The battle was very easy, and the bandits in Dingpotian's troops were defeated very quickly, because the casualties on both sides were actually not large.

There were only more than ten people killed or injured in Baoxiang Camp, including four and eight injured. They were basically killed by the opponent's archers when they started the battle.

Correspondingly, Baoxiangying killed more than 300 people from the other side.

Among the more than 2,000 enemy troops, except for more than 300 casualties, only about 300 people fled. The remaining more than 1,000 people were basically prisoners of war, including two hundred war soldiers among the bandits.

These two hundred soldiers who belonged to the bandit camp did not fight with Baoxiang Camp from beginning to end, mainly because they were all infantry, and the Baoxiang Camp began to send cavalry. The two sides had no contact in the early stage. After the victory and defeat of the front battlefield was decided, Luo Zhixue personally led a brigade of infantry and artillery to press forward.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, more importantly, they also discovered that Ding Potian had led their personal soldiers to escape, and left them on the battlefield as scapegoats, and wanted them to try their best to delay the pace of Baoxiang Camp...

So, after discussing several leaders of the bandit army's camp, they surrendered directly.

It would be impossible not to surrender. At that time, the Baoxiang Camp had already brought artillery up. If they continued to resist stubbornly, they would basically be unilaterally massacred by the Baoxiang Camp's artillery troops.

However, although these two hundred thief soldiers did not engage in formal battles with Baoxiang Camp from beginning to end, Luo Zhixue still attached great importance to these two hundred war soldiers.

Just looking at the formation of the trap camp and the equipment of the soldiers, we can basically see that these 200 combat soldiers are basically the core backbone of this bandit. If they can be annexed and digested, then there will be two hundred more veterans in the Baoxiang camp with rich combat experience.

So as soon as these people surrendered, Luo Zhixue sent people to recruit these war soldiers. If these people are willing to continue to join the army and pass the assessment, they can become members of the Baoxiang Camp. In the future, they will undergo about a month of training for veterans, mainly for formation training and discipline training. After the training, they will be directly assigned to the various combat troops to serve as war soldiers.

As for the establishment of the organization, it is impossible to stay. Baoxiang camp never lets them retain the original organization, and they will break up the arrangements.

In addition to these soldiers, Luo Zhixue also solicited ordinary prisoners of war, with the estimated number of people being recruited at about 200.

The threshold for soliciting ordinary bandits is actually similar to the usual recruitment of new recruits. First of all, the other party must voluntarily. Baoxiangying never forces young and strong people to join the army, and they all adopt the method of voluntary recruitment.

If the other party is voluntarily, he must pass the physical fitness, discipline and other assessments. After passing, he will conduct a training session for about three months like ordinary recruits. After the training, he will be assigned to each unit like ordinary recruits.

Except for two hundred war soldiers, two hundred ordinary recruits will pass the training of veterans and join the Baoxiang camp after training, the remaining people are divided into two types. One is a stubborn and naughty person who is unwilling to surrender and be a thief. Such people will be sent to the prisoner-of-war camp for high-intensity labor.

Some people who wanted to join the army but failed the conditions and were unable to join the Baoxiang Camp were arranged to carry out regular settlement in the camp.

This camp was still in the Songshan Campaign before.

At that time, too many officers and soldiers and young men were captured, and a small number of them passed the assessment and joined the Baoxiang camp; some of the dead and hard elements were detained in the prisoner-of-war camp; and the remaining part was willing to surrender but the conditions were not qualified and were eventually incorporated into the newly established reclamation camp.

This kind of settlement camp adopts military management for settlement, and will also conduct appropriate military training during slack farming. The purpose of Luo Zhixue's establishment of this kind of settlement camp is to allow them to settle and farm on their own, and on the other hand, it also allows Baoxiangxing to harvest more food. Finally, it also hopes to establish a secondary military force.

After all, these camps are all composed of young and strong, and the slack farming will also conduct certain military training. If necessary, they can also be used as auxiliary forces such as surging local areas, transportation logistics, etc.

After several large-scale capturing of the enemy, Baoxiang Camp now has a detailed constitution for the arrangements and use of various prisoners of war. Different prisoners of war have different arrangements, and they will not be locked into the prisoner of war camp as before.

In this battle, in addition to obtaining a group of soldiers and a large number of labor, the Baoxiang Camp also seized a lot of materials.

Among them are more than 100 mules and horses, but not many war horses can be used by cavalrymen, only a few more than ten, and the rest are some animals that use ordinary horses, mules, donkeys, etc. that pull out carriages.

These mules and horses were actually not the ones who led them to the south at the beginning. In fact, when they headed south from Ruzhou City, there were not so many mules and horses at all. These mules and horses were stolen directly along the way.

Beyond mules and horses, there is a crucial food.

Ding Potian and the others rushed to the south, and they also grabbed a lot of food. According to the food standards of Baoxiangying, it was enough for a thousand people to eat for about half a month.

This amount cannot be compared with the captures in Songjiazhuang, but it is not too small. After all, not all enemies will be grain merchants like Songjiazhuang, and they hoard a large amount of grain.

In addition to food and mules and horses, some of the remaining ones worth mentioning are a batch of cold weapons.

There are all bows and arrows, knives, spears, armor, etc., but the total number is not large, because many young and strong people in this group of thieves were temporarily forcibly carried by them. These people still use hoes, sharpened wooden sticks, and not even iron knives.

The total number of real weapons is only a thousand pieces, of which there are only more than 300 spears, which are the main weapons of infantry, and some are garbage goods made by thieves or ordinary villagers. When the statistics were conducted in the afternoon, only about 60 spears were found, which barely met the standards of Baoxiangying's use.

The remaining other weapons are similar, not many in total, and even fewer ones meet the standards for the use of Baoxiang Camp.

Generally speaking, with the current size of Baoxiangying and its own ordnance manufacturing capabilities and reserves, the ordnances that this time the firefight can basically be ignored.

The small number of weapons seized 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 swords or iron spears, so how can they talk about combat effectiveness?

Such thieves also gave Luo Zhixue and others greater confidence to fight the Chuangpotian group.

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Early the next morning, Baoxiangying went north again, preparing to intercept Chuangpotian's troops.

According to the convention, Wang Xiaozi led the cavalry first, and Luo Zhixue personally led the infantry, artillery, and baggage.

When Wang Xiaozi led the cavalry to the north first, they soon discovered something was wrong. They found that the group of people in Chuangpotian did not go towards Lushan County, but changed their route and headed straight for Songjiazhuang. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only more than ten miles.

Luo Zhixue learned that Chuangpotian's troops were turning toward him, Chuangpotian also learned from the whistle that a cavalry of more than a hundred people was found in front of him.

"Is this the official cavalry mentioned before? Damn, will this officer and cavalry appear here so much?"

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

"My nephew is with two thousand people, and it's impossible for me to hold on for a day."

Yesterday, when Ting Potian just met Wang Xiaozi's cavalry, he had already sent a commander to reward Zhu Potian, asking Zhu Potian to lead the main force to rescue him.

Zhuang Potian learned from the commander that his nephew was entangled by more than a hundred cavalrymen from the unknown origin, and it was very likely that they were officers and soldiers.

Worried about his nephew's safety, he led his army south that day to prepare to rescue his nephew's army. Because the situation was urgent, even though he rushed to Potian, he did not bring the temporary green cannon fodder, but only brought two thousand bandits south.

These two thousand bandit soldiers were the old troops he led the army eastward, and basically spent more than three months with the bandits.

Everyone has weapons such as swords and spears. Although the quality is not very good, most of them are broken iron swords and iron spears, but they are much better than those young and strong who are temporarily wrapped up.

Many of them have mules and horses for riding, and if necessary, they can mobilize one or two hundred people to serve as cavalry. As for combat power, they naturally cannot be compared with regular cavalry, but at least they are much stronger than pure infantry.

According to the idea of ​​Breaking the Sky, as long as his nephew can hold on for two days, he can lead two thousand elite troops to reach it. Even if he cannot completely defeat this officer and soldier, he should be able to ensure a situation of not losing.

Then, when his other 4,000 bandits arrived, they could rely on their superiority to fight back.

But he did not expect that his nephew only sent back two batches of military orders in the early stage, and no military orders came later.

This made Chuan Potian conclude that his nephew should have been surrounded by the enemy and could no longer send a provocate to contact him.

However, what he didn't even think of was that on the next day, his whistle detective told himself that he had found a cavalry of hundreds of people in front of him.

And he was also a cavalry wearing a gray military uniform.
Chapter completed!