I want to be emperor

Chapter 181 The world is tough
On the night of June [-]rd in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Yuzhou City.

At this time, thousands of soldiers of the rural protection army poured into the city of Yuzhou, and shaved-headed soldiers of the rural protection army 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 subordinates that the officers and soldiers outside the city have retreated!
It's not just as simple as losing, but also the kind of fiasco.

According to the news circulating in the city, during the daytime, the bandit army and the officers and soldiers fought in the eastern suburbs outside the city. As a result, the officers and soldiers were defeated.

The army of more than [-] people was wiped out in an instant.

"The officers and soldiers retreated. Now, we people in Yuzhou have suffered a complete disaster!"

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

At this time, the butler walked in lightly: "Master, the Wang family next door has already sent someone to the state government office. Some of the younger ones saw that the Wang family brought three large boxes and said they went to pay taxes."

After hearing this, Li Deyun chuckled: "Hehe, looting is looting, and it's called taxation. A group of thieves are worthy of taxation. It's ridiculous."

The housekeeper said: "Master, what should we do then? In the afternoon, those thieves came to the door and told us to pay the taxes. If we don't pay, I'm afraid there will be disasters from the army!"

"In the evening, the Zhao family on the front street directly refused to pay the tax. I heard that the house was ransacked."

Hearing this, Li Deyun's thick eyebrows twitched, and after a few seconds he sighed and said: "What else can I do, just hand it over as the security thief said, it's all about spending money to eliminate the disaster."

"When the officers and soldiers return to Yuzhou one day, those security guards will look good!"

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 Yuzhou Yamen, Luo Zhixue was listening to the post-war report of today's battle.

Xu Zhixian took the initial summary of the battle reports: "In today's battle, our army wiped out a total of more than 300 enemy troops, excluding the wounded, captured or surrendered [-] people, and captured nearly [-] civilians."

"Preliminary estimates show that the enemy army Zuo Liangyu led more than [-] remnants to flee to Ye County, and thousands more fled without knowing where they ended up!"

"Among them, the enemy's 260 fine cavalry lost more than a hundred, and dozens of others fled. The remaining [-] cavalry all surrendered to our army!"

Hearing this, Luo Zhixue glanced at Blind Wang next to 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 general's command!"

It's not that he, blind king, saved money. This time, it was not easy to force the opponent's more than 260 fine cavalry to surrender. It was even more difficult than capturing thousands of infantry prisoners on the frontal battlefield.

After all, he is a cavalry, so he can ride his horse and run away if the situation is not good. It is easy to defeat the opponent, or even annihilate the opponent, but it is not easy to make the enemy cavalry who fled all the way surrender.

During the daytime, blind Wang led the cavalry to chase after him. It was also lucky that the remnants of the enemy cavalry were so panicked that they got into a valley like a dead-end terrain...

Then he was blocked by the soldiers led by blind Wang!

At that time, Blind Wang saw that the enemy had nowhere to go, so he was not in a hurry to kill them directly, but instead sent people up to try to recruit them.

Such a talk really made him talk!

In the end, the 260 elite cavalry directly surrendered to the rural protection army!
There will be 260 elite cavalry joining in the follow-up. After a selection, in addition to filling the vacancies lost in the cavalry brigade, it will also allow them to train two more cavalry posts.

This wave can make a lot of money!
After all, the tactical role of these 260 fine cavalry is much more useful than that of thousands of infantrymen.

Especially for the rural protection army!

The Township Protection Army is not short of infantry, especially the traditional mixed brigades that were reorganized from the surrender troops, and now there are a total of five.

As for the new infantry brigade recruited by the Township Protection Army itself, three infantry brigades have already formed the army, and two infantry brigades are in the process of formation and training. This adds up to five infantry brigades.

With so many troops, the total strength of the rural protection army has actually reached more than 2 people, but among the more than 2 people, there are only a pitiful seven or eight hundred cavalry.

Most of them are still half-baked, such as the cavalry posts belonging to the five mixed brigades, all half-baked mounted infantry.

For these half-baked cavalry, the generals of the Township Protection Army are often directly used as scouts and messengers, and they are never expected to charge.

The cavalry who can really ride and shoot, and can charge horses are actually only the first cavalry post, the second cavalry post, and the seventh cavalry post.

Poor three hundred rides.

Among the two ten thousand rural protection troops, there were only three hundred elite cavalry. This ratio was abnormal no matter how you looked at it, and it also seriously affected the various operations of the rural protection troops.

In the previous battle of Yuzhou, even if there were a few hundred more cavalry, it would be impossible for Zuo Liangyu to escape with more than 4000 remnants.

For these 260 dedicated elite riders, Luo Zhixue offered a relatively generous salary with a stroke of his pen.

According to the principle of voluntariness, the treatment of those who voluntarily continue to serve in the army refers to the treatment of the cavalry of the Township Protection Army.

In addition, real positions are also awarded to middle and low-level officers.

In addition, Song Sanzhou, a guerrilla who led the surrender, was not given a false position as a military adviser, but a real position, preparing to let him serve as the No. 11 cavalry sentry chief.

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

This kind of treatment can only appear in the extremely scarce elite cavalry, and Luo Zhixue would not be so easy to talk about in another unit.

Thousands of soldiers from the Ming army surrendered today, including more than 200 elite cavalry, so Luo Zhixue was in a good mood.

And the following own loss report, although it somewhat dilutes this joy, it is harmless.

Because the casualties of the rural protection army are very limited today!

Xu Zhixian said: "Our army fought today. A total of 83 people were killed and 160 people were lightly or severely wounded. The main casualties were on the side of the [-]th Mixed Brigade. There were more casualties."

"In addition, the First Infantry Brigade also suffered about [-] casualties, the Cavalry Brigade suffered about [-] casualties, and the rest of the troops also suffered slight losses."

Luo Zhixue is completely acceptable to this number of casualties. The ratio of casualties between the two sides is about [-]:[-]. There is nothing to be dissatisfied with. What's more, the number of casualties is relatively large. It is the Fourth Mixed Brigade that accounts for half of the army's casualties This non-main force.

It's not that Luo Zhixue is biased, but that the Fourth Mixed Brigade is really not the main force in the battle sequence of the Township Protection Army.

This is just a downright traditional mixed brigade, and its importance is far inferior to the main infantry brigades such as the [-]st Infantry Brigade. This kind of brigade has hundreds of casualties and Luo Zhixue will not even blink.

When the [-]th Mixed Brigade attacked Yuzhou before, there were hundreds of casualties. Luo Zhixue still strictly ordered An Yongming to take Yuzhou City.

In war, it's normal to have losses. When it's really necessary, even if it's the main force of the [-]st Infantry Brigade, Luo Zhixue is willing to fill in, and he won't even frown!
In the past, the rural protection army was still small, and Luo Zhixue would often lament the casualties of his own soldiers, but gradually, he basically didn't have any special feelings about the casualties of the soldiers.

The only thing that needs to be considered is whether more casualties will affect the follow-up tactical execution and even strategic planning of the Rural Protection Army.

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

Perhaps it was Ernst Young and Fei Bingqing's strong ability to lead troops. The [-]th Mixed Brigade has always suffered high casualties, but it has always maintained a state of combat effectiveness.

When the Ministry fought in Yuzhou City before, when it attacked Yuzhou City, hundreds of people were killed and injured successively. If it hadn’t been replenished and surrendered one after another, when the Fourth Mixed Brigade took Yuzhou City, it is estimated that there would be no 2000 people. .

During the follow-up defense of Yuzhou City, the Fourth Mixed Brigade directly recruited and replenished troops from Yuzhou City's surrendered troops, and managed to restore the strength of about 2000 to [-] troops. As a result, hundreds of people were killed and injured after consecutive days of defensive operations.

Before and after this, the casualties reached more than 1000 people, and the fourth mixed brigade was full of more than 2000 people.

Compared with the already rotated half of the troops.

However, when going out of the city to fight today, the 500th Mixed Brigade cooperated with the [-]st Infantry Brigade with about [-] remnants. Although the combat effectiveness was a little weaker, they fought tenaciously and finally successfully completed the tactical mission.

This made Luo Zhixue quite gratified. At the beginning, Er Yongduo and Fei Bingqing were chosen to manage the fourth mixed brigade, and they finally chose the right person.

In this way, the fourth mixed brigade only needs to add hundreds of surrendered troops on the spot in the follow-up, and it can recover its combat effectiveness without a few days of rest.

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After Xu Zhixian introduced the casualties of the enemy and us, he briefly introduced the seizure and loss of materials, but Luo Zhixue didn't pay much attention to this aspect, that is, he heard about the guns seized earlier.

"We seized more than 300 artillery pieces of various types, including twelve general cannons and Frang machine guns ranging from 24 to [-] jin, and various general cannons and Flang machine guns ranging from [-] to [-] jin. There are [-] guns, and the rest are attacking army guns under [-] jin, tiger squatting guns, bowl mouth guns, etc."

"About half of them meet the standards used by our military."
Luo Zhixue didn't pay much attention to this, whether it was the artillery or the captured blunderbuss, they were of little use to be honest.

Especially in terms of artillery, these light artillery are used as infantry fire support if they are exhausted.

But it is far from being able to use the [-]-jin long gun made by the Township Protection Army.

Therefore, except for a small part of these captured guns to be supplemented to the 11th Mixed Brigade, the rest will be used as equipment for the new No.12 Mixed Brigade and No.[-] Mixed Brigade.

In the Battle of Yuzhou City, the rural protection 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 ended that day, Luo Zhixue ordered to establish the No.11 Mixed Brigade and No.12 Mixed Brigade based on the troop drop and equipment here.

In the future, the two mixed brigades will be reorganized here first, and then stay here to garrison or transfer to other places according to the situation.

The reorganization of these two mixed brigades also means that the rural protection army has initially resolved the threat from the north. As long as the follow-up rural protection army builds up the Luyang Pass and Yuzhou defense lines in the north, then the main force of the follow-up can safely go south and go straight to the Jianghan Plain !
Compared with fighting for life and death in the Central Plains and the Ming army, and competing for the hinterland of the Central Plains, Luo Zhixue hopes to go south, seize the Jianghan Plain, and control the entire northern Chu!

(End of this chapter)