In such a situation, there are still obvious weaknesses in the team of Sijifa, which can also be called "hidden dangers". Because it's not something practical, or a problem that can be found on the surface.

The closer you get to the original battles, the smaller the gap between them will be. In fact, this principle is a kind of total saturation at a low stage, and when the value of the quantity of all parties is very low, it may belong to a state where it is difficult to have an obvious increase in value or quantity, that is, all parties are in an initial state, so that the gap between them is very small.

This is, of course, a more abstract way of saying it, but in a practical example, the bow and arrow are used on one side and the fire gun on the other; Or one side uses a more primitive firearm with a large number of knives and spears, and the other side uses a more advanced firearm with spears, knives and cannons, and there is not much difference between the two sides.

In terms of the tactics of the Ming army and the Luchuan army, the two sides were mainly based on the battle between the infantry, and there was no big difference. The Ming army in Mengyang City may have thousands of cavalry, but compared to the total number of soldiers in the two rooms, it is definitely not much.

The Luchuan army may be even less, compared to the number of about 40,000 soldiers, the number of cavalry may be less than 1,000, and this proportion is even more disparity. As a result, the two sides are actually quite close in terms of tactics and strategies, and they are also tactical arrangements with infantry.

Summing up the above conditions, it can be seen that although there is a gap between the Ming army and the Luchuan army, the gap is not obvious, or in other words, there is no crushing gap, and there is no absolute advantage that can ignore the manpower gap between the two sides.

If the Ming army wants to find its own advantages over Luchuan, it must not rely on its own tactical experience and military training, as well as the limited equipment generation difference relative to the Luchuan army, because these advantages are not big enough to really change the situation.

And to find this advantage enough to change the situation, only to find a point that has a big enough impact, or is lethal enough, Jiang Yugang believes that this point lies in the composition of the lineup of the Luchuan Army, a large number of soldiers from different sources are mixed together, their backgrounds are different, their training experience is different, and their combat experience is also different, and the final result is that if these soldiers encounter unexpected difficulties, then they may be chaotic on the battlefield because of this kind of chaos that is difficult to quickly solve in organizational relationships.

Confusion, in the actual performance of the war, is likely to be a rout, some people are the first to lose the will to fight, no longer follow orders, and flee alone, and this will bring more people to rout and confusion, and the final result is the collapse of the entire army.

That is, starting from a point, it can diverge to the rout of the entire team, and this point will become a breakthrough point for the team, a point that the Ming army needs to grasp, and the Luchuan army is difficult to guard against.

Because of his organizational ability, he integrated soldiers from different forces in the Mengyang area, and under his command, he unified the orders, and finally gathered a huge and large army, but the hidden danger was hidden in this army organization itself.

The numerical superiority, and the pressure of the disparity in numbers, were inevitably accompanied by a large number of hidden breakthroughs, either warriors from different organizational sources, or simply peasants who had just been recruited from a certain village and had never fought in a war.

In the face of a major war of that level, people who lack tactical training will have a high rout rate, and it is very likely that there will be a rout when the proportion of casualties is still low.

In this situation of mixed personnel and uneven quality of the Sijifa troops, Jiang Yugang's biggest goal was to hope that the defense of Mengyangcheng could bring about the rout of his attacking troops, so as to gain the advantage of holding on and holding out until the arrival of reinforcements.

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Jiang Yugang looked at the Ming soldiers on the upper floor of the north city, in fact, they were not so much Ming soldiers as soldiers of Mang Ancient Castle. A large reason why these soldiers were able to come to the north tower of Mengyang City to guard was because the officer they followed, Jiang Yugang, was trusted by Bai Qianfan, the garrison of Mengyang.

They were not all soldiers of the Ming army to participate in the garrison of Mengyang City, but closer to the soldiers of the Ming army who participated in the war as the personal soldiers of Jiang Yugang, who had no records of the Ming army, and this was because in the orthodox years, the guard system had gradually collapsed.

From the beginning of the establishment of the dynasty, the Ming Dynasty used the guard system, to achieve quite good results, the army itself to undertake the supply of logistics materials and the arrangement of war, to a large extent to reduce the country's logistics burden on the army, to achieve a larger scale of troops, to be able to carry out a number of large-scale wars at the same time, and to ensure the stability of the entire dynasty.

But there is naturally no ideal thing in the world, and some accidents will inevitably happen. Although the guard system played a significant role in the early Ming Dynasty, it maintained the needs of large-scale wars, ensured sufficient combat numbers, and achieved brilliant results, and this army once became one of the greatest troops in the world at that time.

And things have changed badly, the army itself to bear the logistics supply will generally occur in two directions and the corresponding ending, one direction of the end is to the situation of warlord separation, just like the Tang Dynasty in the past, this situation is the lack of reasonable design in the system management, so that too much resources flow to the actual managers of the armies of all parties, so that the military power of the border parties to become bigger, become the actual princes of one side.

Another outcome is like the Ming Dynasty, a reasonable and effective management system design, so that the Ming Dynasty realized the management and control of the army from top to bottom, and the basic resources are in the hands of the upper generals, and although all the middle-level officers who are actually controlled in the local area are hereditary, and do not try to challenge the supervision ability at the bottom, but all the upper generals are not hereditary, but always in the transfer of the Ming court, busy with the border affairs and wars of all parties.

Officers who are really at the grassroots level and can have a certain amount of local influence have extremely limited resources at their disposal, and in fact they are not enough to support their own troops, and they still need the army from above to support them.

These hereditary officers each seek benefits for their own power, but this interest is extremely limited, a guard, because of the Ming Dynasty's administrative, military, and supervision separation of institutional arrangements, can control very little, basically unable to form effective interests, to develop their own personal power.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty did not have the power of local officers, and there were warlords and other parties, but the interests that were excessively restricted, and at the same time, the treatment of border guards in various places became worse and worse, and the situation became more and more embarrassing.

Perhaps from the perspective of interest design, the guard system can effectively maintain the military strength of the Ming Dynasty, but the degree of this maintenance is still too idealistic, stripping a large number of interests of officers to ensure the control of the Ming court over the officers At the same time, this stripping of interests has caused the sinking of the interest stripping system, and finally all the soldiers have shared the stripping of interests, so that the treatment of soldiers has seriously declined.

As a soldier, you have to fight for the country and sacrifice for the country, if you can't guarantee the treatment of soldiers, you will only get two results, a large reduction in the number of soldiers, that is, the emergence of deserters, and the decline in the military quality of the existing soldiers.

This kind of problem has appeared in the early years of orthodoxy, at this time after the conservative era of Ming Renzong and Ming Xuanzong, the Ming Dynasty is no longer the era of Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu who went out to fight everywhere and dominated the world, and the more conservative strategy and the special treatment of the army produced by Ming Xuanzong because of the contradictions between him and his uncle, so that these soldiers on the one hand with the continuous decline of the status of the army, their own status and treatment have also declined seriously.

In addition, the military side is not only a decline in status because of strategic conservatism, but also a marginalization due to the fact that it is no longer strategically needed. This kind of marginalization is more terrible than the decline in treatment, and Ming Xuanzong chose to directly give up the control of a large number of distant territories, so that a large number of soldiers are no longer in demand.

It is not the decline in treatment, but the appearance of treatment that does not match it at all, in this case, the guard system not only brings the embarrassment of the life of the guards soldiers, the unbearable treatment, and even the gradual loss of living space.

Therefore, in the early years of the orthodoxy of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, according to the records in the "Shuidong Diary, Volume 22, and the Number of Guards and Banner Soldiers", the number of deserters in the guard post actually reached more than 1.6 million, and in many places, the guard system was difficult to maintain, so the conscription system had to be adopted.

Jiang Yugang's soldiers in the Manggu Castle are expected to join the Ming army as soldiers recruited under the conscription system, but there is still a big problem here, that is, Jiang Yugang's officer rank is too low.

As a hundred households in the guard, he is not qualified to command as a general of thousands of soldiers recruited, and even if the official position is higher, it is very likely that it will not be enough, because the number of soldiers is too large, not only does there not have a suitable official position and establishment to arrange, but there is also no matching food and salary supply.

The reason why Meng Yangcheng can provide Jiang Yugang's Mang Castle with sufficient food and salary is because of the Battle of Luchuan, the Ming Court's original investment was very large, and Bai Qianfan was incorruptible, and in the case of serious casualties among the soldiers, he put all the available food and salary into the soldiers who were fighting, and once the war was over, there was no place to find enough resources to support Jiang Yugang's Mang Castle army.

Whether it is from the establishment of the army or the supply of materials, Jiang Yugang's Mang Castle is difficult to maintain after the war, unless there is a turning point, that is, Jiang Yugang can make enough contributions and successfully promote to thousands of households or even higher official positions, and at the same time, in the Battle of Luchuan, the Ming Dynasty has won enough results, and there is space to establish a thousand households or guards in Luchuan, so as to be able to keep Jiang Yugang's Mang Castle, and Jiang Yugang himself can continue to manage and control Mang Castle.

And the current battle is a battle that must not be lost. And to win this battle, on the one hand, Jiang Yugang was able to accumulate enough military merits, and on the other hand, the Ming Dynasty was able to successfully stabilize the rear of the war, continue the protracted war of attrition in the direction of Jiangtou City, and steadily expand the advantage.

In other words, as long as he succeeds in defending Jiangtou City, then it is very likely that Jiang Yugang's efforts since crossing to Luchuan will not be in vain, and he will be able to maintain his power and develop his ambitions in more places.