In a row of low resting rooms in the back garden, Zhang Zhaohua looked at the person in front of him who had stood motionless for half an hour with satisfaction, and finally showed compassion: "Okay, take a break, let's sit down!"

Sixty-four flower-like palace people, who were baked by the heat in the room, stood for a long time, none of them did not sweat, but they did not turn their heads and ears, and after wiping their sweat, they sat quietly and neatly on the rows of pestles, staring at Zhang Zhaohua in unison, waiting for her to speak.

Zhang Zhaohua looked at them, the oldest is twenty-four, he has served in the palace for seven years, the youngest is only twelve years old, he has just been selected, and he is wearing the same white and green military uniform, this military uniform is still designed by Zhang Zhaohua himself, wearing warm and not bloated - everyone's eyes at this time seem to be no longer the original casual and chuckling appearance, as if there is an iron spirit, infused with it.

"How many words did you learn today?" asked Zhang Zhaohua.

"Five!" the voice was so crisp and loud that the sparrows that were secretly napping under the eaves flew away.

Zhang Zhaohua nodded with satisfaction, when she was training the women's army, she paid the most attention to cultural education, and the requirement was to know three to five words a day, and after a month, each soldier should know about 100 words, and after half a year, she must understand the secret report, send the secret report, and pass the secret report. After a year, you must be able to read, and you must slowly add all the Four Books and Five Classics and even the Art of War.

This is a pioneering achievement, and in this era, teaching soldiers to read and write is definitely a pioneering initiative, and no one has even done it since ancient times. In this era, it is the generals who pay attention to "wisdom and foolishness", and it is the generals who have the culture to lead the army, and the soldiers and the people do not need culture, they are only driven.

There is no political education, there is no cultural education, there is no cohesion among the officers and men, and the quality cannot be improved; just like cattle and sheep, they will fight wherever they want, and if they win the war, they will not know why they will die; this is something that Zhang Zhaohua cannot tolerate; this is a team that completely belongs to him, and Zhang Zhaohua must let each of them have independent thinking and at the same time know how to cooperate.

In addition, Zhang Zhaohua also gave them military courses every few days to guide them in how to fight. Zhang Zhaohua can't do advanced military theories, but she knows some basic principles of combat, basic and universal tactics, and she still knows a little.

"Let's talk about tactics today," Zhang Zhaohua said eloquently: "Tactics are combat methods that reflect the laws of battle. Since it is said to be a law, then it is something that many people have summed up on the basis of experience and has traces to follow, and there are general laws, but different historical stages, different wars, and different countries and nations have their own special laws for tactics; and the application of tactics is also different in different regions, different war stages, and different scales of battles. Therefore, when we really go to the battlefield, it is of great significance to flexibly apply and change tactics according to the timing, location, and troop conditions to win the battle. ”

"Although the tactics change randomly and adapt to the conditions of the time," Zhang Zhaohua said, "but there are several common principles, that is, a clear purpose, emphasizing attack, concentrating troops, striving for the initiative, taking the enemy by surprise, and closely cooperating." ”

"Let's take the Battle of Zhending as an example," Zhang Zhaohua held a lime pen to draw the Hutuo River and Zhending City on the wooden board, and said: "Geng Bingwen was stationed in the northwest of Zhending, and transferred the troops on the south bank of the Hutuo River to join the division, which reflected Geng Bingwen's cautious side as a veteran and defender. ”

"But in the same way," Zhang Zhaohua said, "his army is in one place, and the goal is very clear, and His Royal Highness King Yan only captured one person, so he knew the situation." ”

"Before the attack is really decided," Zhang Zhaohua continued: "Some subordinates said that the southern army has a large number of troops, and they should first capture Xinle, Xinle is a large city and easy to defend, and can confront the southern army." However, His Royal Highness King Yan believes that there are many enemies, but they have just been stationed in Zhending, the orders are different, and they have not yet stabilized, and if our army takes advantage of the victory to launch an attack, it will be able to win the battle. ”

"This is the essence of taking the initiative and taking the initiative by surprise," Zhang Zhaohua drew an arrow in the southwest direction of Zhending and pointed to Zhending, and said: "The southern army didn't expect King Yan to dare to attack, and when they found out, their morale was gone." ”

"If you directly attack the camp of the Southern Army from the front," Zhang Zhaohua said: "You can only break the formation of the Southern Army, and when the Southern Army reacts, it is impossible to say whether this battle will be won or lost." Therefore, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng attacked the enemy camp in front, while King Yan led a team of cavalry to kill from behind the enemy, flanking from front and back, and the enemy army was defeated. This is our tactics in the Zhending War. ”

"What's the problem now," Zhang Zhaohua put down the lime pen and said, "Ask." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and suddenly someone raised their hands, Zhang Zhaohua's own soldiers, naturally everyone's name was called, and said: "Bai Mao, you say." ”

"Niangniang," Bai Mao was very simple: "You said, the way of using soldiers, to attack the crowd with less, to defeat the strong with the weak, surprisingly endless, to win like a god - we guard Beiping City, is it considered to be weak to defeat the strong?"

Everyone laughed and said, "Niangniang, you can give us an analysis and analysis of the Beiping Guard!"

Xiaohong was also bold at this time: "The artillery fire of the southern army is fierce, our army is defending the city, and there are only things like big axes, big hoes, fork rods, sickles, and iron pegs to fight, why can we win?"

Zhang Zhaohua laughed and said, "Just looking at the weapon, how can you do it!"

She was just about to make a detailed analysis of the strategy and tactics of the Beiping Defensive Battle, when she heard a sudden burst of voices outside, and after a while, it turned into a tsunami-like sound, which was like a wave, and after a while, it reached their ears, and it turned out to be "Baigou River Victory! Annihilation of 100,000 enemies!"

Zhang Zhaohua suddenly shouted: "King Yan is blessed with Qitian, Beiping is very lucky, and the world is very lucky!"

She turned her head and said, "Great, we have a new case! Tomorrow night, we will talk about Baigou River! Let's disperse first!"

She hurriedly ran to the middle hall with her skirt in her hand, and saw Xue Lu, who had come to report the news, telling the battle of Baigou River in a colorful voice: "...... We just crossed the river, who expected that Qu Neng's thief had already ambushed the soldiers by the river, rushed up all of a sudden, and rushed away the army array commanded by Fang, we rushed bravely to kill, only to repel Qu Neng, but did not want to be safe and with 3,000 men and horses to respond to the side, we were not on guard at all, and were killed and defeated as soon as they clashed, fortunately, His Royal Highness ascended to command, and ordered General Qiu to rush to the backbone of the Southern Army, and the result was a scuffle together, and the Southern Army this time, it was really brave! His Royal Highness had to personally lead the elite and break into the left of the Southern Army. ”

Xue Lu said dryly, picked up the tea bowl and drank it all in one gulp, but when he saw that the princess and everyone were actually looking at him, it was simply a silent urging - Xue Lu immediately said: "Originally, Zuoye was broken by His Highness, and we followed His Highness and almost rushed to their army, but we saw that the dust behind us was actually Li Jinglong's army that copied our back road!" His Royal Highness asked his own soldiers to intercept Li Jinglong, and he only took seven horsemen to meet the enemy, rushing back and forth to kill, His Highness was brave, and killed several people in a row, and the horses and brothers were also amazing, I saw him poke three people with one shot!"

Hearing that King Yan only led seven people to meet the enemy, Princess Xu's heart tightened, and the handkerchief in her hand was also crumpled into a ball, Zhang Zhaohua saw it clearly, knowing that she was worried about King Yan, and couldn't help but hold her hand.

King Yan's biggest talisman is Emperor Jianwen's inexplicable will to the front-line officers and soldiers, saying "Don't let me have the name of killing my uncle", the generals and sergeants on the front line have heard this will, so they don't dare to hurt King Yan.

Zhang Zhaohua saw that it was not, she felt that this sentence seemed that Jianwen was unwilling to kill King Yan, but in fact, it was not so simple to savor it, the so-called "don't let me have the name of killing my uncle", that is, don't let Zhu Yunwen bear the charge of killing his uncle, that is, if he captures King Yan back, he will definitely not do it if he orders to kill him, but if King Yan dies on the battlefield, then it will not be regarded as his killing, and he will not bear the charge of killing his uncle.

In other words, Jianwen just said in his heart - just kill people on the battlefield, don't bring it back to make me embarrassed!

If Jianwen said this to Wenchen, it is estimated that if he pondered for ten days and eight days, he would understand what he meant, but when he said it to generals like Qu Neng and Ping'an, he really thought that the emperor didn't want King Yan to die, and Ping'an chased and killed King Yan every time, and cut off King Yan's clothes several times, but still didn't hurt King Yan - I don't know if I thought of this edict.

"We ask King Yan to return to the Chinese army," Xue Lu continued: "Your Highness disagrees, saying that he is here, so that he can attract the elite of the Southern Army and make it easier for us to rush and kill." ”

At this point, Zhang Zhaohua could see that King Yan was well versed in the art of war, and he used a small group of elite cavalry to contain a large number of enemy men and horses, so that the generals could fight, resulting in a local trend of controlling the few with more. If the king of Yan and the generals merge, and the officials and troops also join forces to attack them, and the Yan army is small, it will be difficult to win.

"His Royal Highness is surrounded inside, the bows and arrows of the southern army are fired, His Highness is blessed by the gods, and the southern army has not been launched!" Xue Lu's voice was already loud, and the teacups on the table shook twice, he hurriedly stabilized, and then scratched his head embarrassedly, and said: "Your Highness is brave, the war horses he rode were injured one after another, and he changed three horses one after another, and he brought three arrows to shoot them all, so he drew his sword to block it, and the blade of the sword was cut off!"

This battle was fought very hard, and Yan generals Chen Heng and Xu Zhong were injured. Xu Zhong pointed at the arrow, and he didn't have time to pull out the arrow, so he could only draw a knife and cut off this finger, and there was still skin and flesh connected to his hand, and Xu Zhong also dragged them down and threw them away.

Qu Neng swung a knife to kill, and he was about to catch up with King Yan, King Yan pretended to whip in an emergency, as if he was summoning an ambush behind the embankment, Qu Neng suspected that there were ambushes and did not dare to go up the embankment. In fact, King Yan didn't think that he really attracted a team of reinforcements by swinging his whip - so on the battlefield, anything can happen, and many miracles are not man-made, because at the last moment, Gao Xu actually brought a team of soldiers and horses to save him!

King Yan saw that it was Gao Xu coming, both surprised and delighted, he thought that Gao Xu was defeated by the enemy and retreated here, but when he asked, he learned that the soldiers were still fighting in the enemy wing, Gao Xu saw that his side was in danger, and specially rushed to the rescue, Yan Wang was helped on the horse by Gao Xu, and found that his feet could not be kicked into the stirrups.

Gao Xu's assistance made the situation of the Yan army slightly better, because Gao Xu was very brave, and killed 17 people in a row, and the southern army was obsessed with it. This battle was fought from dawn to twilight, Qu Neng led the iron cavalry to launch a fierce attack, and Yue Nethou Yu Tongyuan and Lu Liangwei commanded Teng Ju to lead the crowd to kill one after another. In the face of the fierce offensive of the official army, the Yan army was almost unstoppable, and it was obviously at a disadvantage.

"As a result, a strong wind fell from the sky!" Xue Lu scribbled excitedly: "I saw that the wind was rising, the sky was dark, and the wind broke the big banner of the southern army with a 'rattle'! That big flag was Li Jinglong's five-sided flag, which was as high as one zhang and six feet, and was even bigger than the mouth of the bowl, and it was actually blown off by the wind! This is not heaven's help! Our Royal Highness personally led the horse to ride out behind the enemy, joined forces with the second prince, and killed the enemy by arson, and the smoke rose to the sky, killing the southern army that killed the thief and pulled the bird, and they all fled in defeat!"

"Your Highness," the hall jumped in surprise inside and out: "There is the protection of the gods!"

"Yes, yes," everyone said, "The wind god has appeared!"

Zhang Zhaohua was squeezed into a hurry, only to find that there were already people around him, and countless palace people and eunuchs were crowded into the hall, all listening to Xue Lu's story. Especially the palace people, chattering, all of them were red with excitement.

"The victory of Baigou River is not easy to come by," Princess Xu pointed at them and said: "When the time comes, you will be allowed to go out of the mansion to watch the greeting teacher! In addition, Qu Neng is finally dead, and he can comfort the soldiers who died defending Beiping!"