Because the enemy's strength was limited, He Feihu only dispatched three firearm phalanxes with a total of 1,500 people into Zhou's military camp to participate in the battle.
And these three firearm phalanxes did successfully complete their tasks.
After the matchlock fire, the Zhou rebels collapsed completely.
Originally, some enemies tried to counterattack, but after being fired upon by matchlock guns, they saw the Ming army's formation as if they were seeing demons. They shouted in fear and fled in all directions.
The Shenji Battalion cavalry took this opportunity to flex their muscles and pursued the Zhou rebels with all their strength, causing them heavy losses.
After half an hour, the battle was over.
The Shenji Battalion won a complete victory with very few casualties. Only one cavalryman accidentally fell to death. Then dozens of people were sprained, injured, and bruised. Then there were no casualties. All the casualties were from the Zhou rebels. .
There were mountains of corpses and rivers of blood in the entire Zhou family's military stronghold. After the war, statistics showed that more than a thousand of the Zhou family's rebels were killed on the spot, and all the others were captured, and no one escaped. .
The body of Zhou Wu, the head of the Zhou family, was found among the ruins. It is speculated that he should have been on a high platform overlooking the Ming army's military formation and conducting tactical command, but he was hit by a flying artillery shell on the high platform. He fell straight to the ground, broke his neck and died.
This battle gained more than a thousand men for the Ming army, as well as their families and the entire Zhou clan.
He Feihu asked for nothing, left everything to Su Haisheng, and then asked for another battle.
"His Majesty sent us here so that we can accumulate enough combat experience. One battle is not enough. I think we need more battles to train soldiers."
He Feihu was relatively satisfied with the results of the first battle of the Shenji Battalion, but not completely satisfied. He felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in the cooperation between the various units of the Shenji Battalion.
Su Haisheng glanced at He Feihu and nodded in agreement. After He Feihu led the army to rest, he immediately wrote to Su Yonglin and asked Su Yonglin to either directly incorporate the Shenji Battalion into the Qilu Corps or to allocate a batch to him. equipment.
It's just a battle, and he already loves this way of fighting.
He felt that this new type of weapon could be used on the battlefield when going south to destroy the Song Dynasty in the future. If equipped with enough firearms, he felt that it would not be a problem at all for the fortresses built by the Song army in dangerous places!
He needs firearms, a lot of firearms, lots and lots of them.
He also wants to train the Qilu Corps' own Shenji Battalion.
And he boldly proposed the idea of "reforming the Ming Dynasty's army as a whole using the Shenji Battalion as a model and transforming its combat operations", hoping that Su Yonglin could consider his suggestion.
He Feihu didn't know how much his performance shocked and inspired Su Haisheng. He just needed more battles to hone the cooperation between the various arms of the Shenji Battalion.
So in the next month, he fought in Yuanzhou, Jingzhou, and Pingliangfu. He fought three times in a row, won complete victories three times, and destroyed large landlords' military strongholds three times. He contributed to the entire revolutionary movement and made great contributions. .
By mid-October of the fourth year of Hongwu, He Feihu had led the Shenji Battalion to seven battles and seven victories. The name of the Shenji Battalion was widely circulated within the Qilu Corps and was widely known.
Almost everyone in the military knew how sharp and good at fighting the Shenji Battalion from the capital was. The enemies they killed died in miserably and suffered heavy casualties. After the first battle, they were completely defeated and the captured rebels were killed. The army was extremely afraid of them, thinking that they were heavenly soldiers and generals sent down from heaven to punish them.
Otherwise, how could he use such a sharp thunder spell?
They do not regard this new type of firearm as a firearm, and they may not think that firearms are so powerful at all, but that is the fact.
After this series of battles, artillery and muskets finally gained a firm foothold in the Ming army and were widely recognized by the military.
The firearms force has made its debut in the entire Ming army's combat system, and Su Yonglin's high investment regardless of the cost has finally paid off.
For all this, Su Yonglin is quite happy.
Of course, in addition to the Shenji Camp showing off its might, there was another thing that made him feel quite happy.
Xiao Cui is here.
The men he had chosen to be icons for the Renaissance women's work arrived in Zhongdu.
In late May of the fourth year of Hongwu, Xiao Cui came to Zhongdu under the arrangement of Jiao Jun, director of the Tai'an Renaissance Association branch.
After all, she was only sixteen years old, and Jiao Jun was worried about her going north alone, so he specially arranged for Xiao Cui to go north with a team going to Zhongdu to escort the tax collection, so as not to let her have any accidents.
So Xiao Cui was able to follow the team escorting the tax revenue northward in mid-May.
On the way, Xiao Cui ate and lived with them, and experienced the Daming Station system that she had never experienced before, as well as the free station meals improved by Su Yonglin.
It had to be said that in her opinion, the food at the inn was better than the food in the factory canteen.
It’s not that there is any difference in ingredients, the ingredients feel similar, they all have vegetables and meat, and the staple food is pancakes or wheat rice.
What is different from the factory is that in the factory one person holds a rice bowl and prepares food. After eating, he adds more food until he is full.
The male workers who do manual labor in the factory eat from sea bowls. Some of them are so big that they can eat three whole bowls in one meal. They look like starving ghosts reincarnated, which is scary to look at.
In this inn, depending on how many people there are, a table is served with two dishes and one soup or three dishes and one soup. The highest configuration is four dishes and one soup.
The portion is large, definitely enough for a table of seven or eight people.
There is no difference in the ingredients, everything is available, and there is nothing special. It just tastes good, tastes delicious, and tastes particularly delicious.
The teenage girl is just growing up, and she is also a model worker in the factory. Naturally, her appetite is not low, and she can eat as well as a group of older men when eating together.
After a while, Xiao Cui ate three large pancakes with the vegetables, smacking his lips, feeling that he could continue to eat another round.
The members of the tax escort team were all serious tax collectors of the Ming Dynasty. They were affiliated to the newly established Central Administration of Taxation of the Ming Dynasty. They had a well-established system. Many of them were former elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who had transferred to other jobs. They were strong and had a large appetite. One could compete with two. One can eat.
They were quite interested when they saw that Xiao Cui, a little girl with a small body, could eat so much.
"Is it delicious?"
"tasty!"
"It wasn't like this before. It was so unpalatable. Later, His Majesty the Emperor issued an order that all the cooks who cooked for the inns should go to the army to study. They would not come back until they could satisfy the army. That's how it tastes delicious today. It’s not easy.”
"Is there still something like this?"
Xiao Cui originally had a cheerful temperament and had many good friends in the factory. She was a socially awesome person and had no stage fright when talking to these strong men. She soon started chatting with them.
"Girl, you don't have a good figure, but you have a big appetite. What are you doing?"
Qiao Youliang, the deputy captain of the escort team, asked Xiao Cui with a smile.
Xiao Cui puffed up her cheeks and finally swallowed the food in her mouth. She was not timid and responded: "Workers from the textile factory in Laiwu County."
"Oh, workers, workers, no wonder you have a big appetite."
Qiao Youliang smiled and nodded. Seeing her young age, he had the idea of teasing her, so he smiled and said: "It's understandable that a male worker can eat, but you, a girl, can eat so much, isn't it good? Keep eating like this , are you really okay?"
It was okay not to say this, but once he said it, he stirred up a hornet's nest. Xiao Cui got angry on the spot as soon as he jumped out of the fire pit.
She immediately put her chopsticks on the bowl, her almond-shaped eyes widening.
"What's wrong with being able to eat? No? I do no less work than male workers! I am a female textile general praised by the director of the state revival association, and the squadron leader of the production squadron! I have also been a production pacesetter for three consecutive years!"
"Yo, I'm not very young, but I have quite a temper."
Qiao Youliang didn't take it seriously and continued to joke: "Listen to what you said, you are very powerful. If you are so powerful, aren't you afraid that I won't be able to find a husband to marry you in the future?"
Xiao Cui slapped the table and stood up, staring at Qiao Youliang with his hands on his hips.
"No, no! I rely on my own ability to earn a living, and don't rely on anyone else! I will work for the factory until I am old, and the factory will raise me until I am old! If I don't marry, I won't marry, and the factory can still watch me starve. Is it possible to die?"
Xiao Cui's tough statement immediately shocked everyone's eyes.
The seven strong men at the table were also frightened by her, and they couldn't say a word.
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