"That's why we need to abandon all other plans and focus only on Mengyangcheng's defensive plan." Jiang Yuyan replied, "You need to put all your energy into the defense of Beicheng. ”

Auma heard Jiang Yu's words, and his expression began to become serious, and this seriousness also revealed a trace of difficulty: "But we may not be able to defeat the Luchuan army." ”

As a person with a high status in the army of Mang Castle, and deeply trusted by Jiang Yuma, Auma has access to a lot of information, in addition to ordinary information, Jiang Yugang will also communicate some of his own judgments with Aouma, and this allows Auma to learn more information that ordinary soldiers can't reach.

Jiang Yufu shook his head: "We can't defend Mengyang City in front of the Luchuan army, but we can defend to a certain extent, drag the offensive of the Luchuan army, and wait for reinforcements." ”

"Reinforcements?" Aouma's eyes lit up, this was the most mentioned thing in the exchange and discussion between Jiang Yugang and these senior officers.

Reinforcements are the key to the battle of Mengyangcheng, if it is an ordinary level of reinforcements, it is not very difficult to obtain the defense of Mengyangcheng, and it can even be said that the main force of the Chinese army of the Ming army has always supported Mengyangcheng on a small scale and participated in some small and medium-sized battles.

Regardless of the effect of these supports, the support from the main forces of the Ming army has always been there for Meng Yangcheng.

But now the pressure on Mengyangcheng is not that the previous scale of reinforcements can reduce or change the situation, but the need for large-scale reinforcements, which will completely change the form of Mengyangcheng, but at the same time, it will also change the battle situation of the main force of the Ming army in Jiangtou City, so reinforcements are a kind of thing that Mengyangcheng can't ask for.

In order to obtain reinforcements, Mang Castle has made great efforts, but the final reinforcements are still in the front line of a tense crisis, no one has the certainty of getting reinforcements, after all, if you want to resist the large-scale counteroffensive of the Luchuan army from near Mengyang City, it really takes too much support investment, if the main force of the Ming army wants to provide reinforcements, it may bring about a change in the overall strategic layout, and it is difficult for all commanders to assume the responsibility of this military strategy, and the only possibility is on Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji.

And all of Jiang Yu's bets also came to Wang Ji in the end. In the face of Luchuan's troops this time, it was almost a desperate gamble to break the constraints of time and space, and gathered all the strength of the entire Mengyang region, and the strength of the Ming army in Mengyang City was really not enough to be the enemy.

To a certain extent, from the endgame of the Battle of Luchuan on the world line before Jiang Yugang crossed to the Mengyang City that Jiang Yugang crossed over, the Battle of Luchuan seemed to follow a fixed script and went to the same ending.

Although Jiang Yugang saved the Ming army in Manggu Mountain and filled the loopholes in Mengyangcheng's defense, the Luchuan forces still showed terrible organization and assembly capabilities, and finally formed the current situation of Mengyangcheng.

In this situation, Jiang Yugang and Auma and other senior officers discussed many plans, many of which were filed if the reinforcements could not arrive in time, but among all the records, there was still a highest-level plan that could effectively stop the Luchuan army.

That is, considering the highest-level reinforcements, although the probability is low, there is a real possibility. In order to maximize this possibility, Jiang Yugang tried his best to develop the construction of the intelligence agency of Mang Castle to a fairly complete and mature point.

With more than 300 people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most developed intelligence agency in the entire Luchuan region. And in order to maintain such an intelligence agency, Jiang Yugang has put in great efforts.

In fact, the intelligence agency of Mang Castle can also be said to live up to expectations, bringing valuable intelligence information, which is used as important information to prove the military situation of Meng Yangcheng, but whether it can wait for reinforcements or not, we still need to wait for the last news.

And in the process of waiting for the final news, it can be said that the Mang Castle side is not going well at all, because the level of the Mang Castle is too low, in the final analysis, it is just a hundred households, and many of the residents of the Mang Castle do not have a serious Ming army identity, and it is doubtful whether it can be regarded as a friendly force.

In many places, even the defense line of the Ming army, the members of Mang Ancient Castle had to act carefully, deliberately hiding their identities as ordinary people in Luchuan. The army of Mang Castle is all dependent on Bai Qianfan's protection, and without Bai Qianfan's permission, the army of Mang Castle cannot even enter Mengyang City to garrison.

Therefore, in the end, the most critical part of asking for help, the communication with the Ming army camp in Mansi Village, must rely on the senior officers of Meng Yangcheng to establish communication with the Ming army camp, to put it simply, it is handed over to Bai Qianfan to be responsible.

However, Bai Qianfan's people had a problem at this most critical step, and their request for help failed, and they were not able to get support from the Ming army camp in Mansi Village.

And there was not much time left, and for the sake of the final news, Jiang Yugang decided to use the excellent intelligence officers he had trained, or the scouts of the fifteenth century AD, to make a last stand.

All of them are anxiously waiting for the final information, which is the port that changes everything.

Although the arrival of the final intelligence was not as formal and conclusive as Jiang Yugang imagined, and it could not make him truly optimistic, it was still important intelligence information after all, and after thinking about it, he also decided to believe in this intelligence, trust the intelligence personnel he had cultivated, and believe in his own choices and judgments.

So he further introduced the specific content of the information to Aouma: "According to the intelligence, we will get more than 10,000 reinforcements, of which the cavalry may be about 2,000 people, all of them are the elite from the Jingyuan Bo battalion, there is no full number of people, as long as this support army arrives in Mengyang City, we can turn the situation in Mengyang City." ”

"More than 10,000 people!" Aouma's eyes widened, it was too much for him.

In fact, as long as you are a clear-eyed person and have seen the situation on the Luchuan battlefield, you can know the ratio of the Ming army's strength and battle losses when facing the Luchuan army. Whether it is the Luchuan people, or the Ming Dynasty, or later generations, they often exaggerate the number of the Ming army, so that it causes a result: in the war, the number of the Ming army is often in an advantageous position.

This is actually unreasonable, no matter from the perspective of organization and training, or armament, the Ming army is on the dominant side, and in many wars, the Ming army, which has an advantage in various places, cannot gain much advantage over the enemy.

And this phenomenon often makes people who see these results have a reverie that they should not have, why did the Ming army, which had an advantage everywhere, not be able to achieve absolute superiority in the war, or even fall into a disadvantage? And these reveries often develop into the biggest malicious speculation about the Ming army and even the Ming Dynasty, like this is an era of poverty and weakness, all the glory is intertwined with absurd farce, and the elite talents in it are just mediocre talents in vain.

If you think about it calmly, this kind of thinking is irrational, has no exact basis, and even goes against logic. The Ming Dynasty was undoubtedly the most powerful country on the Eastern Continent in the early and middle periods, and its advantage over all other powers was not only in numbers, but in the whole more reasonable mechanism, which was the advantage of the system.

Jiang Yuyan does not think that the Ming Dynasty has been in a benign process of development, after all, all affairs cannot exist in the void, and must be developed according to the conditions of reality, and many people in that era are unable to realize the importance of scientific and technological development, so that the development of science and technology to the liberation of productive forces, the Ming Dynasty actually did generally.

From the military aspect that Jiang Yufu is interested in, we can see the general practical impact of this kind of work, that is, the army's weapons and equipment. In his view, the side that has mastered superior equipment occupies an absolute advantage in a war, and if the other side wants to compete for this advantage, it will inevitably have to pay a greater price.

In the Ariake generation, the level of weapons and equipment is actually gradually falling behind. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops were able to achieve a 100% infantry deployment rate, no matter how they were actually used, but they could achieve a firearm per person.

In other words, even if there is no situation where everyone uses firearms in battle, they have the equipment to support all long-range firearms combat; However, with the development of time, the rate of firearms in the army is getting lower and lower, and the initial decline in the rate of arming may be in consideration of the actual requirements after the establishment of the country, all walks of life need to develop, and the military is not the most important issue, and what follows is the rationality of the army's reduction and establishment.

At this time, those redundant armaments were disarmed and returned to the field like redundant soldiers, and the era of muskets and the original firearms may indeed not need such a high rate of firearms and need some cold weapons as a supplement, at this time, the rate of firearms decreased for the first time, and about one-third of the infantry were no longer equipped with firearms.

With the further development of the times, in the era of Xuanzong, the strategy of the Ming Dynasty began to shrink inward and began to become extremely conservative. Objectively speaking, this conservative development has accumulated a lot of strength for the internal Ming Dynasty, alleviated the contradictions, and may have really made internal efforts for the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, but at the same time, it should be recognized that this conservative strategy has also brought negative effects that cannot be ignored.

The most prominent point is the rapid decline of the Ming Dynasty's external influence, a large number of surrounding forces began to develop again, and the form of confrontation against the Ming Dynasty faintly appeared, and the conservative strategy also led to a more fatal point, that is, the decline of the Ming army's external strength.

With the abandonment of foreign territories, the reduction of strategic position, and the gradual weakening of border defense forces, the military strength of the entire Ming Dynasty also weakened that could not be ignored, and almost in the era of Xuanzong, it directly completed a comprehensive decline from external prestige to strength.

After giving up its interests abroad, the Ming army no longer has the strength to take back its interests abroad, and in a word, it is called sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat, and the Ming army that has lost its strength not only has no strength to retrieve its interests abroad, but even the strength to protect its original interests has also declined.

It cannot be said that the changes in the Tumubao in the later Yingzong era had nothing to do with Xuanzong's strategic choice, but it may only be said that Yingzong was not eloquent enough to correct the negative impact of the strategy in the Xuanzong era, but instead completely showed all the flaws and weaknesses to the world in an unexpected way.

And put on the specific strength front of the Ming army, it is reflected in two aspects: first: the abolition of the military organization, Zhu Yuanzhang is the most proud, and it may be that the most powerful guard system in the world at that time began to collapse, and there is a serious mismatch between the nominal number of troops and the actual number.