Chapter 159 Croton makes another meritorious service For using laxatives to make the enemy lose their combat effectiveness, everyone didn't think this trick was despicable, on the contrary, Datang had used this trick to kill a lot of enemies over the years.
One of the most famous examples is Li Zhen's use of croton powder to exterminate Jieli Khan's battle, when Jieli Khan was defeated by Li Jing's army, but at the beginning of the escape, there were actually tens of thousands of people under his hands, if you want to eliminate them hard, not only will it take time and effort, but also lose a lot of money, which is not what Li Zhen wants to see.
So after predicting the form of the war, he sent people to buy a large number of crotons in Shu in advance, and almost bought out the crotons in Shu that year, which led to the soaring price of croton that year, and almost made the Tang version of 'bean you play'.
After buying all the croton, grinding it into powder, calculating the route and rest time of Jieli's escape in advance, and then intercepting the river and sprinkling the croton powder into the river......
In the end, all the headquarters of Jieli in this battle were captured, Xue Rengui's army had almost no losses, the Tang army won a complete victory, Xue Rengui also became famous in that battle, and became an upstart in the Tang army, of course, there were enemies who secretly gave him a nickname - General Croton, this nickname was praised for a long time, until Xue Rengui's talent was completely displayed later, and the victories were more and more, and the prestige gradually spread, which made everyone gradually look away from this nickname.
Later, laxatives became the secret weapon of the underground front, and even Li Zhen specially researched the extract of croton-croton, the power of this kind of thing is even more terrifying, a drop of crotonin can make hundreds of people lose their combat effectiveness.
Especially in this kind of annihilation war, just a small bottle of crotonin was used, which made thousands of people in the entire manor unable to stand up.
Before the start of the war, spies often put laxatives into the enemy's water source in advance, even if they were discovered, they would only lose a little laxative, but if they succeeded, the harvest would be great - for example, this time, there was an undercover agent mixed crotonin into the water source of the manor in advance, and Ma Rufei only needed to come in to pick up the corpse, which greatly saved time and reduced losses.
"My heavenly ......"
After Ma Rufei came in, he was shocked by the spectacular scene in front of him, he knew that laxatives were a weapon in the dark war of the Tang Dynasty, and they were often used to be invincible, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, this time it was an eye-opening - hundreds of people were piled up together, the yellow-brown liquid flowed sideways, and the stench filled the entire space, everyone was lying on the ground in a mess, and some people had ** on their faces but had no strength to avoid wiping it......
It's not too spicy to the eyes.
There are even people who can't stand the smell and equip the gas mask, at this moment Ma Rufei is extremely sober, fortunately they are equipped with a gas mask and a chemical suit, otherwise this job will not be able to do it at all - originally they equipped this gas mask and chemical protective suit purely to prevent the poison gas and other range of lethal weapons in the manor's organs, but now it seems that the poisonous gas has not encountered a single one, and the stench has been sucked all over the mouth.
"What are you still looking at?
Let's get to work. ” Looking at the soldiers of the First Division with different expressions, the brows under the mask of the spider mask man slowly furrowed, and he couldn't help reminding, but he sighed in his heart: The quality of this Foreign Legion is not good, it can't be compared with the Junior Army at all, fortunately, they are just cannon fodder troops, but they can't ask too much.
If Ma Rufei was told about his performance, so that the Spider Masked Man despised the soldiers of his Third Army, I can't tell what he thought.
However, the spider mask man did underestimate the Foreign Legion, and even misunderstood Li Zhen's meaning, Li Zhenke never used the Foreign Legion as cannon fodder troops, in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty is the Tang Army, at most it is divided into different branches of the military according to its functions, in his eyes, there have never been two categories of regular army and cannon fodder, some are the army of the Tang Dynasty - there may be an army whose combat effectiveness is indeed not strong, but that is only relative to the elite within the Tang Dynasty, even if it is these not very strong armies, They are also the elite of the elite abroad, and there is no ambiguity in the war, and if they are paired with a clever commander, their combat effectiveness may not be much worse than that of the elite.
The Foreign Legion is trained by Li Zhen according to the model of the Boy Army, except for the difference between the thermal weapons and the training base, the rest are the same as the Boy Army, in terms of military quality, it is actually similar to the Boy Army, but this time after all, it is their first time to conduct actual combat, and they have no combat experience before this, which is why they have today's ugliness.
In fact, as a group of recruits, the performance of these teenagers is qualified enough, but the record of the Boys' Army over the years is really amazing and invincible, which gives the Spider Mask Man the illusion that the Foreign Legion is inferior to the Boys' Army.
What the spider mask is difficult to know is that the performance of the youth army may not be much better than that of these teenagers when they are recruits - the first phase of the 30,000 youth army with Li Zhen conquered the South Seas, and the first time he fought with the Linyi jumping camp, the performance was also very unbearable, even if Li Zhen had made various preparations before, but after the first killing, the youth army still vomited his imagination, which made Li Zhen angry.
The same is true of the second phase of the Youth Army, when they completed their training, they were taken to Lingnan by Li Zhen, and there was an accident on the way that caused the ship to be insufficient, Li Zhen had to temporarily park a large number of materials in Hangzhou Port, and sent a thousand armor battalions to take care of it, but because of the lack of combat experience, the enemy put laxatives in the food, and the combat effectiveness was not one in ten (this is also retribution), if Li Zhen didn't feel that something was wrong halfway and sent reinforcements, I was afraid that not only the materials would be lost, but the Qianjia battalion would probably be destroyed, but even so, The Qianjia battalion also suffered heavy losses.
Li Zhen was furious, if it weren't for Xue Rengui's military exploits over the years in exchange, he would have killed Luo Lin at that time, and even Xue Rengui's military exploits did not keep the identity of the commander of Luo Lin's Qianjia Battalion, but was thrown by Li Zhen into the Listening Wind mercenaries, and it took a few years to climb back up, and successfully took over the stick of Ben Yin and Creevey, becoming the second generation of the Listening Wind mercenaries.
If he hadn't made that mistake at the beginning, with his ability, he would have become a real general by this time, instead of just an unorganized mercenary leader like he is now.
Therefore, recruits are like this, no matter how well-trained, there will be all kinds of mistakes in the first actual combat, and there is no fear of mistakes, as long as they are summarized and corrected afterwards, then the recruits can quickly become a qualified veteran and give full play to their strength.