With the current ability, how can you defend Mengyang City?

Around this purpose, Jiang Yugang organized all the high-ranking military officers, and the heads of each academy, and held a meeting in the lobby of the College of Cardinals.

At the garrison of the Luchuan Army, the vague information that the Secret Academy barely obtained by relying on a few rare relatives became the focus of reference at this time.

The first important piece of information came from the headquarters of the Holy Lower Hall of the Secret Academy, where they found the inhabitants of an agricultural group in Manggu Castle, whose brother-in-law had been forcibly recruited by the Luchuan Army and was now following a large man in the Luchuan Army with several thousand men.

Through this person's brother-in-law, it was obtained that the combat route of this big-headed man was the main attack direction from Namangzhai to Biluzhai, and from the description of this tactic, Jiang Yugang and other senior officers analyzed that the main offensive route of the Luchuan Army was from Namangzhai to Biluzhai.

The logical rationality of this line of thinking lies in the fact that in this direction, Mengyangcheng does not have an organized line of defense, and the only defense is the city wall of Mengyangcheng, which can be said to be the weakest place in Mengyangcheng's defense.

The second important piece of information came from a small leader of the Luchuan Army stationed in Longdong Village, kidnapped by the Indoji Branch. When this man got up at night, he was captured by the secret army of the Indoki branch who had been here for a long time.

The Indoji branch would come up with this method to obtain information, but it was really forced by Jiang Yugang's order, and every day at night, he desperately lurked in the Longdong Village, where the defense organization was a little sparse, trying to catch a lone useful person, and in the end, it paid off.

The little leader knew only one thing, but it was quite valuable, that is, in the early morning of June 22, he led his men to the town of Peace.

This news is small and small, but big is also big. If this operation is only regarded as a meaningless troop transfer operation, then it is naturally just a small operation involving only more than 100 people.

However, there may be an important news hidden behind this incident: June 22, or around this day, is likely to be the time when the Luchuan soldiers actually left the army.

The Secret Institute and the Divine Hunting Institute obtained some more vague information through other means, and coincidentally, many military movements also pointed to the same date: June 22, June 22.

There are too many coincidences, then it is not a coincidence, Jiang Yugang can conclude that this day is the date of departure decided by the Luchuan Army, and now there are three days left before this day.

As for the reason for the vagueness of the intelligence, this is inseparable from the inefficiency of information transmission in ancient times, in order to ensure a certain degree of secrecy, only the absolute core main force has specific and detailed intelligence information, and Mang Gubao has not been able to obtain the information of the core main force of the Luchuan Army.

The information coming from the various branches of the army is itself vague and incomplete, and what they need is a simple command order in itself, rather than a detailed tactical explanation. At the end of the day, the vast majority of troops have only two ends, cannon fodder or rout, and until then, their task is to assist the attack.

This is the limit of the ancient organizational and management ability, in fact, after hundreds of years of development to the modern period, this situation has not been well improved, and basically a small number of core main forces to affect the battle situation to the greatest extent.

In addition to the period of the Luchuan Army's expedition, the Secret Academy and the Divine Hunting Academy also summarized several key offensive directions:

First of all, the main direction of attack, Namang direction, attack Bilu Village, stationed here is all the troops of Pingyi Guard, behind Bi Lu Village is Mengyang City, the main force of Mengyang City garrison, the main force of Qu Jingwei is stationed here.

The second is the direction of attack of two branches: Yewei Village and Heping Town, attacking the largest defense line outside Mengyang City - Nanma Town, where all the troops of Yuezhou Wei and Lu Liangwei are stationed, and the intensity of the battle should not be inferior to Biluzhai.

Finally, there is a relatively obscure direction of attack in the description: from Namangzhai south to Mengyang West Mountain, this route is directly opposite the direction of the abandoned Mangyun Village, east of Mangyun Village, is Manggu Castle, northeast is the south gate of Mengyang City.

Jiang Yuyan also had a headache about the offensive strategy of this line, and with the information he had obtained, he really couldn't determine whether the Luchuan army wanted to encircle Mengyang City from this line, or planned to directly attack Mang Castle.

From a strategic point of view, it is naturally more reasonable to attack Mengyang City, after all, it is not easy to capture Mang Castle, but it is meaningless after it is captured - Mang Castle built in the deep mountains cannot control any line of communication.

The only meaning of taking Mang Castle is to threaten the south gate of Mengyang City, so why put the cart before the horse, wouldn't it be more threatening to directly go to the south gate of Mengyang City.

And if you are worried that the power of Mang Castle will affect Luchuan's attack on Mang Castle, then if you can take out the military strength to attack the mountain fortress, you can even more so to deal with the military strength of the Mang Castle that is killed from the mountain fortress.

In general, from the perspective of "rationality", the Luchuan army should not choose to attack Mang Castle. But the biggest problem with this kind of analysis is that it only stays at the level of "analysis", without any strong enough intelligence to support it, and to put it bluntly, it is just talk on paper.

In the event of a miscalculation, all the troops will be transferred to Mengyang City to assist in the defense, and the empty city of Manggu Castle that has been developed for more than half a year is very likely to be destroyed, not to mention a large number of craftsmen, farmers, hunters, women, children, old and young and other affairs personnel who do not participate in the war.

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"We can't transfer all our troops to Mengyang City, if the Luchuan army really comes to attack Manggu Castle, then our family will be finished." Jiang Yu gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Hundred households," once, in addition to Jiang Yugang, the only two small banners Li Xian, is now already an apostle of the Divine Hunting Academy, a figure second only to Jiang Yugang in the army, as the head of the first regiment of Mang Castle, the weight of his words is the heaviest, and the title of Jiang Yugang is also used in the previous "Hundred Households", not after the completion of Mang Castle, Jiang Yugang's prestige has increased greatly.

"Put a thousand firearms, I'm worried that they won't be enough, and if I leave some in Mang Castle, how can I resist the attack of tens of thousands of people?" Li Xian was a little anxious, in his opinion, this was a big battle of life and death, and the whole army should take over the defense of Mengyang City, and use advanced firearms to fight a big battle with the Luchuan army.

According to intelligence information, Mang Gubao judged that the Luchuan army was likely to send more than 10,000 troops in the direction of the main attack from Namangzhai to Biluzhai.

"I have studied the walls of Mengyang City, the width of the battlefield is limited, even if they come with 10,000 people, they can't open such a long front, we have the ability to block it." Jiang Yu shook his head.

"This," although he participated in literacy education and made up a lot of knowledge, Li Xian still didn't understand many of the terms that Jiang Yu came from when he opened his mouth, and he was stunned for a moment and asked: "In terms of mind, in terms of judgment, I am inferior to you, since you said that we have the ability to block, how many people do we need?" ”

"In my opinion, six hundred." Jiang Yuyan reluctantly gave a number, in fact, he didn't have a full judgment: "We still have Qu Jingwei's soldiers to help defend, we don't need too many people, and since we want to keep people in Mang Castle, let's keep more, and the remaining half is good." ”

Li Xian's eyes widened, he couldn't speak for a while, he couldn't understand Jiang Yu's arrangement at this time, in his opinion, leaving half of the people behind, wouldn't he give up half of the chances of winning?

The other person on the side vaguely understood Jiang Yu's arrangement at this time, that is, Chen Ziyu, the former prime minister of the Ministry of Intelligence and the current envoy of the Shenjia Academy.

Chen Ziyu asked: "One hundred households, six hundred people left, it should be to observe the attack of Luchuan and then make a judgment, on the one hand, it can deal with the situation of the Luchuan army attacking Manggu Castle, increase the chance of defending Mang Castle, and if the Luchuan army goes to besiege the south gate of Mengyang City as everyone thinks, they can attack them from behind the Luchuan army." ”

"That's right, since there are people left to guard the Mang Castle, it is necessary to ensure that the garrison strength of the Mang Castle is sufficient, otherwise if you keep people and can't hold it, wouldn't it become a joke," Jiang Yu nodded: "As for the sneak attack on the rear of the Luchuan Army, it is also a natural means to take according to the battle situation." ”

The regimental superintendent, Wang Zhen, and Jiang Yugang became the first general flag selected by the hundred households, and when they heard Jiang Yugang's arrangement, their eyes also lit up: "We have used this method many times." ”

"It's counter-encirclement, when the enemy's defense is the most vulnerable, not when they are defeated, but when they attack in one direction, we encircle and attack them from the other direction," Jiang Yuyan explained this tactic: "The enemy thinks that he is the one who surrounds others, but the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind, and they are actually just prey to be hunted." ”

In fact, the anti-encirclement strategy adopted by the Mang Gubao army has a characteristic, that is, it is often at a disadvantage before the counter-encirclement is carried out, and even if it is used for counter-encirclement, the strength of the enemy is also at a disadvantage.

However, each anti-encirclement strategy can be implemented to the end, mainly relying on two points:

First, both tactics and training are more mature and tough, which mainly depends on stricter military discipline, training, and the professionalism of the Ming army, forming a better military style.

Second, the Mang Castle army has more sophisticated equipment, two production departments, providing advanced firearms, as well as unified spears and long knives, from the support of Mengyangcheng, but also let the Mang Castle achieve the goal of fully equipped with armor, compared to the equipment is uneven, the use of firearms is rare, and the technology is poor Luchuan Army, has an absolute equipment advantage.

And now that the bird gun has begun to be installed, perhaps this kind of equipment advantage can be more apparent, but because there is no actual combat, Jiang Yugang can't say how effective it will actually be.

In addition, Jiang Yuxuan, through the trade from the Ava merchants through the Yuan Court, and the support of Bai Qianfan, selected the excellent Dian horses to temporarily train a group of fifty heavy armored cavalry, all of which chose the most burly and powerful soldiers to join, using huge long knives.

This kind of cavalry used for charging can play a miraculous effect on the Luchuan army, which is relatively backward in firearms, in the battle of gentle terrain, and it is difficult for the Luchuan army to cause damage to this kind of heavy cavalry, while the heavy cavalry can effectively impact the position of the Luchuan army.

Unfortunately, there are also three huge constraints to this cavalry development:

First, there are very few suitable battlefields, except for Mengyang City, the largest city in Luchuan, there are few suitable terrain for it;

Second, there are very few suitable war horses, although Jiang Yuyan himself can ride horses, but he is not to the point where he has the ability to choose war horses, or Bai Qianfan borrowed an old horse of his own to him, so he reluctantly selected a batch of war horses, and the number of Yunnan horses raised by Mengyang City and Mang Gubao is also very small, and there are no suitable horse farms in the areas they control;