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Chapter 232 Mountains and rivers inside and outside (1)

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Yellow dust rose on the ancient road, and Zhang Ning and more than a dozen others embarked on the way back to Gaodu.

The dry fields on the roadside are barren, and there are only sparse weeds in the paddy fields. Due to the wars caused by several consecutive months, many lands in Chenzhou have missed the farming season. It can be imagined what kind of situation an ordinary farmer would face if he had no harvest in a year. This year's famine is expected.

A song suddenly came from the desolate wilderness. Zhang Ning heard it clearly. It was a tune called "Hillside Sheep". The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road.Looking at the Western Capital, I was hesitant and sad that the Qin and Han dynasties had been made of earth.When prosperity comes, the people suffer; when death comes, the people suffer...

He was so sad that he turned to see who was singing, but the war horses were speeding, and the grass, trees, soil and rocks on the road were like fast-forward video images, which was not very real.And the song gradually disappeared in the hurry.

In addition to being melancholy, he inadvertently remembered the last time he met Bai Fengjiao and asked her why she did this. She seemed to have something to say, but she couldn't say it.

Zhang Ning occasionally couldn't help but wonder, what would she say at that time?

...No matter melancholy or nostalgia, I can't stop the war.As soon as Zhang Ning returned to Gaodu, he immediately began to prepare for the war.Because Zhu Yong's main force has arrived at Longtou Temple.

Longtou Temple is between Chenzhou and Gaodu, and is located in the upper reaches of the Yuan River and the south bank compared to Gaodu County.

Zhu Yong could use the Yuan River to transport food, grass and supplies along the river, and then the cavalry and army attacked Gaodu City with light equipment. If he was in a hurry, he could reach Gaodu City in one day.

Zhang Ning was completely sure that Zhu Yong's troops would definitely deal with the Zhuque army first when he was stuck in the middle; otherwise he would not have given up on the good situation in Luxi and drove the army to Yongding Acropolis.

In the end, the Miao people played a very limited role in hindrance. They could not escape this battle with the official army, and they had to rely on themselves in the end. Fortunately, the Miao people finally did not deal with Zhang Ning in reverse.

All members of the Senate Department and adviser Zhou Mengxiong, as well as generals of the army, Wei Bin, the left silence chief, Yao Erlang, and the eight brigade officials all went to the county government to discuss matters.

Zhang Ning looked through the newly drawn mountain and river situation charts of Gaodu County and Chenzhou. The location of the Zhuque Army is located, the three counties including Yongdingwei and Cili in the north, the main force of Chenzhou and Zhu Yongjun in the west, and the Changde Prefecture in the east...

And the southeast was blank and it was not drawn, but he knew that the blank that he had not yet touched was the real important city of Huguang, Changsha.

It is meaningless to run again. The Suzaku Army has no long-term territory. The longer the time is, the greater the strength gap will be.

What should come will come sooner or later.

As the chief of the Senate, Xu Guangcai was illuminating the things that came out from all over the place and was thinking to the people present: Our army had the fifth brigade of the left mail and the third brigade of the right mail. The number of soldiers was about 1,200, more than 400 horses, iron armor, long and short weapons, bows, crossbows and arrows... There were also firearms, more than 480 muskets and 11 cannons.Zhu Yongjun from Longtou Temple claims to be 10,000, but according to the investigation, the actual number is about 6,000, including a large number of cavalry.At the speed of the marching of the official army from Yongding Guard, there should be no cannons, and the firearms are mainly equipped with "sharp guns" and "hand guns"; there are many iron armor equipment, and infantry and cavalry are mainly made of spears and crossbows, as well as waist knives, rattan cards, hook and sickle guns, horse-knife, halberds, halberds, halberds, halberds and other weapons...

It is similar to what Lao Xu said. Zhang Ning has actually learned a lot about the official army through many battles with the official army and his long-term inquiries about Zhu Yongjun.

The combat methods of the guards in Huguang are still mainly mediocre; the Ming army's main long-range weapons are not crossbows, but bows, but because the mainland has neglected training in recent years, there are not many soldiers who can actually use bows and arrows well.

As for the sharp guns in the firearm, they are filled with gunpowder and arrows in the tubular weapon...

The airtightness can be imagined, and the range and power are not difficult to judge; the pistol is a tubular firearm that can be used by individual soldiers, and belongs to the category of fire door guns; in short, the firearms used by the Ming army and the heavy-duty comb-rope guns made by Zhang Ning are not the same as those used by Zhang Ning.

Therefore, from a comprehensive view, the ratio of the number of people is five to one, but the combat effectiveness gap is far less than five to one; however, Zhu Yong's army still has great advantages.

After Old Xu finished speaking, Zhou Mengxiong stood up calmly, took out a volume of documents from his sleeve, bowed to Zhang Ning, and waited for Xu Wenjun next to him to come down to receive the documents.

Zhou Mengxiong said: I have drawn up a way to fight these days, just a suggestion.

Zhang Ning said while looking: General Zhou can speak out in front of you, so that everyone can think about it.

Although Zhou Mengxiong's facial features are upright, he has a beard and a waist. It's just that time has smoothed out the toughness of the generals on his body, and he has become more sophisticated.

This person was sent by Emperor Jianwen, but Zhang Ning often allowed him to participate in military aircraft, because they were all secrets of fighting with the official army, so he could not reveal the military aircraft to Zhu Yong.

In the current situation, only in Gaodu County, waiting for the official army to attack... the only way to be limited is to be able to offer your noble a brilliant plan. There are only four words to make a move: fight behind the city.Zhou Mengxiong talked happily, and the method of leveraging his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses should be considered.The biggest advantage of the official army is the number of people and the second is the cavalry.Zhu Yong is five times more than me. If he spreads in an open land, he will inevitably be easily surrounded by the flanks and traps me in fatigue. Therefore, he proposed the method of forming a formation behind the city, forming a formation in the west city, back against the city wall, and left wing against the river. In this way, only the front and right wings can be confronted. Although Zhu Yong is five times more than me, he has not formed a situation of attacking with more attacks and less sieges in tactical terms...

Let’s talk about cavalry, since the Battle of Nanjing, Zhu Di has been fond of cavalry, and his generals also believe in the method of using cavalry to break the formation. Although the water network intersects in the southwest are complicated, the court still believes that deploying cavalry can form a combat advantage over the few people in the southwest who lack horses, so we can seize more than 400 war horses after only attacking a few small counties. From this, it is judged that the number of cavalry in Zhu Yong’s army will never be small.Zhu Yong, the son of Zhu Neng, is likely to adhere to his father's combat methods and rely on the cavalry to quickly detour from the side and rear wing to attack the formation; therefore, I suggest that the military formation should be flat square formation. Reducing depth will inevitably increase the frontal pressure, but it can reduce the strike surface of the flank and reduce the threat of the flank.

Seeing Zhang Ning nodding humbly, Zhou Mengxiong paused and said, "The strengths of the official army are not the intention of a strong enemy to be ambitious." The military strategy says that knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Only by understanding the enemy's cruelty can you defeat the enemy.Looking at the strength of our army, we are not about the level of martial arts and training (the army that has been formed for only a few months, no matter how much training it is, it is not much stronger than the military soldiers in the garrison), but about two places: First, bravery. Compared with the constant escape of the military soldiers in the garrison, almost no one in our army escaped. Most of the soldiers who came out of the old Jianwen ministers have the idea of ​​death. They know their shame and then be brave. Those who dare to attack with less and do not fear strong enemies must be brave to fight.Second, weapons, after watching for many days, although the muskets are slowly fired, the three-wheeled attack method can make up for the shortcomings. The muskets have sharp armor-breaking length, and within 80 steps, they will definitely defeat the crossbow; in addition, the main weapon of melee combat, our army is more than two feet longer than the official army, and they should have certain advantages when they meet the enemy head-on.

At this time, Zhang Ning spoke: Those eleven cannons can be mounted on the city. The mortar cannon is not very effective in attacking the formation. Not to mention the accuracy is too low, even if the stone bullet weighing dozens of pounds hit the enemy camp, it will not kill a few people. The Weapon Bureau has developed explosive bombs suitable for mortar cannons, using the stone to empty the medicine and reed tubes as a letter, but the power of the black gunpowder explosion is also very limited.However, it should be useful to use it to combat the morale of the enemy in faraway places.

Zhang Ning did not immediately obey Zhou Mengxiong's strategy, but he was very convinced of Zhou Mengxiong's strategy. It was really difficult to make up for it. It was still necessary to conquer the city and form a formation to fight to the death.

A while ago, I tried to use strategies to attract Miao people to join the group, but what was the result?

Now Zhang Ning is increasingly convinced that the truth is that he is hard.