Where it is advantageous, it is disadvantageous.

There is the sea behind him, there are rivers on both sides, there are many villages and towns along the way, and the enemy's actions cannot be concealed, and it is much more difficult for the Yunti Pass side to rush into a surprise attack.

This place is the Yancheng area in later generations, and also belongs to the Jiangsu region, Jiangsu originally belonged to the pure plain province, the province's altitude below 50 meters accounted for more than ninety percent, only less than four percent of the landform belongs to the hilly area, only Haizhou, Huai'an, Nanjing and a few other places have mountains, and the rest of the county does not have a hill The situation is also extremely common.

Yancheng is a plain in the plain, with an altitude of more than 10 meters, and there is not a single mountain in the whole territory, not even a slightly higher hill.

Such a place looks unsheltered at a glance, and it would be a joke to try to use ambush to deal with the enemy.

It is possible to hide a small number of soldiers and horses in the reeds by the river, or on the side of the river embankment, but he himself abandons the array and rushes to the enemy position with a small and scattered army, which is like a moth to a fire, even if everyone on the side of the ladder pass is one as ten, such an ambush and surprise attack is also a joke, only people who do not know soldiers will make such an assumption.

Of course, the generals here cannot be said to be experienced in a hundred battles, but under the teaching of Min Yuanqi who opened a small stove every day, he has already entered the door of military science, and he has also continued to learn experience in the battle with small-scale bandits, gradually get started, grow, and become experienced military attaches with different characteristics according to the level of talent.

"My lord, Tucheng, the city of a thousand households, is only more than ten miles away from our hundred households, and in the battle formation of 10,000 people, it is enough to cover and become our flank." Guo Shangyi waited for many generals to finish speaking, then Huo Ran got up, hugged his fists and said: "These cities can be the right wing of our army, and they will be garrisoned in batches by a small number of flag troops and a large number of guards. On the right side of my hundred households are the 400th and 700th households, which stretch for more than ten miles, and there are ditches and woodland shrubs on the periphery of here, and then cooperate with the long fence outside the gate of each hundred households, garrisoned by guards and a small number of flag troops, which can be the left wing of our army. The two wings are firmly defended, and the banners are widely set up to make the soldiers wave their flags and shout to strengthen their momentum, thinking that the enemy attacks any wing, and the main force of our army can flank behind it. If the two wings are ignored, then only tend to me to stick tightly on the side of the river, our army is arrayed on the riverside, the right hand has the river as a screen, the enemy cavalry can not be deployed, the left side is the wooden fence, arrow towers, houses, construction sites, the enemy cavalry can not be deployed, the enemy cavalry or if forced to attack, can only be forced from the riverside and the irrigated fields, then it will not be able to give full play to the advantages of its cavalry, our army with heavy troops to hit its main infantry, after breaking the formation, the right detour, annihilation of its cavalry, then can fight and win a complete victory! ”

Guo Shangyi has always been regarded by Min Yuanqi as the most talented and general's subordinate.

At this moment, this person, who has always been valued, is also bursting out with dazzling brilliance.

The rest of Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin, Yang Zhijin, Gao Cuncheng and others have their own advantages and strengths, and some are tactical talents, such as Xie Xiang and Shen Liang, who are persistent and persistent, move forward bravely, urge their subordinates to encourage morale, maintain the army's morale, keep the battle formation sharp, find the enemy's flaws on the battlefield, and lead the troops to attack, which is the strength of tactical generals.

What is good at strategy is that it can keenly perceive what is beneficial to one's side in the general trend, and can peel off the cocoon, take advantage of the advantages, and discard the disadvantages.

If the strategic talent and tactical talent are integrated, it is quite a strong and anti-heaven character, and the ten philosophers of the Wumiao in the Tang Dynasty are generally such anti-heaven geniuses.

In this dynasty, Xu Da is good at strategy, Chang Yuchun is talented in tactics, and the two generals who are endowed against the sky are advancing all the way to the capital, and God blesses China at that time.

As for Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, and Lan Yu under the two, they are all quite good in strategy and tactics, but they have their own strengths, and it is difficult to say that they are all-rounders.

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, strategy and tactics, including military training, and weapons are all genius-level figures, but Qi Jiguang is the only one.

Min Yuanqian looked at Guo Shangyi with great appreciation, and said, "What Shangyi said is exactly what I thought. The location is not only the natural terrain, but also can be modified by manpower. Our army not only has geographical advantages, but also people! The surrounding people and military households, there is no need to say much about what the guest soldiers think, if there is no army to guard, the people and military households can only let their fish and meat, or scatter and flee. Today, we are guarding here, and of course the people and military households will fully support us and make full use of this manpower, which is the people. Although the enemy has more than 10,000 troops, it is not only facing our battalion of soldiers, but also a battalion of guards and tens of thousands of military households and civilians who can be mobilized and utilized. Liu Zeqing to my Huai'an house, did not resist an enemy, looted innumerable, I don't know how many good people have been killed, the people do not regard them as officers and soldiers, but regard them as first-class thieves, the people's heart is the heart of heaven, this battle seems to be outnumbered by the enemy, but the time, the place, the people, are all in my hands, how can our army be invincible? Pass my general order, my whole battalion of soldiers immediately prepare for war, and at the same time mobilize all available civilian forces, build a long fence, repair the arrow tower, mobilize all the guards and more than fifteen, fifty or less prime-aged military households, as a reserve guard, military households, there are many inheritance weapons, so that everyone is prepared for war, in this short period of time, there is no need to practice martial arts, more recognition of the flag, more practice of the law of guarding, in the decisive battle, can help our army! ”

Min Yuanqi said, pulled out the saber on his waist, and the blade of Xueliang was upright, and Min Yuanqi said angrily: "In this battle, our army will win!" ”

"Victory!"

All the military attaches present roared together.

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Han Sen sat on the side of the ship with a blank expression, and in front of him was the Hundred Chief Military Attache who was in charge of this operation.

A total of three boats were dispatched on this trip, and more than 110 officers and men sat on the three boats respectively, each holding the weapon in his hand, wearing armor and helmets, and each of them sat cross-legged.

Originally, there was no need to mobilize so many boats, these ships were all big ships, each ship was about 234 meters long and nearly 4 meters wide, each ship had more than 10 cabins, more than 100 soldiers, and one ship was enough.

Such a large ship can carry 600 stone of grain at a time, and the amount of grain transported each time it sets off to the north is twice the required amount.

Because of the long transportation time, a large number of manpower must be mobilized to pull the fiber during the dry period of the canal, and after each boat pulls through the dry river, everyone works together to pull the next one.

Every time the fiber is pulled, it is extremely painful and long, and every army will be torn apart and miserable.

Because of this, the cost of transportation is also very large, and the cost of transporting 600 stone of grain to Tongzhou is several months and at least three times the consumption.

Of course, this is extremely uneconomical, because the canal is blocked in the Yuan Dynasty is used by shipping, to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty when shipping is also a normal thing, in the later generations of Nanjing and Shandong and other places have unearthed a number of early Ming Dynasty ships, most of them are about 1,000 to 400 materials of sea ships, in order to supply military supplies to the north.

Even when the Ming army conquered Liaodong, it also used waterways such as the Yalu River to continuously transport personnel and military supplies, which provided great help for the army's conquest and city building.

The Ming army continued to go north into the outer northeast region, it was the use of rivers such as the Heilongjiang River and the Nenjiang River, the main force of the Ming army marched along the river, until it reached the extreme north, built temples in the local area, carved stone commemoration, and along the river Dafeng guards, those barbarian tribes were included in the Ming Dynasty's guards, at least in the early Ming Dynasty Hongwu to Yongle years, the Ming Dynasty not only divided hundreds of guards in Nuer Gandusi, and there were garrisons in several important places, saying that they had mastered a large territory in the far north. It is not a pure place of fetters as later generations accused, and it is considered a map to open up the territory within the territory.

Because of the conservatism of the Ming Taizu and the weakness of the national strength at the beginning of the country, the later Ming Dynasty gradually conservative and closed, the Hongwu period set the national policy of closing the sea, and the large-scale treasure fleet in the Yongle period has nothing to do with reality, neither the intention of changing to the sea, nor the motivation to carry out foreign trade, the treasure ships have gone to sea many times in order to promote the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty, so that overseas barbarians come to pay tribute, and meet the psychology of the Yongle Emperor's great achievements.

Some descendants have chiseled and chiseled, saying that the treasure ship brought back a large amount of gold and silver, which is also nonsense.

The gold and silver accumulated in the early Ming Dynasty for decades, more than half of which were lost at the end of Yongle, were all because the treasure ships went to sea to give a large amount of gold and silver to the foreign Yi, and what they got was just a little special product on the tribute, plus the cost of building the treasure ship was extremely high, and the consumption was extremely high, plus the Yongle Emperor's northern expedition to Mongolia, the southern expedition to Annam, the construction of the Great Bao'en Temple, the Wudang Palace, and the repair of Beijing City and the Forbidden City.

Hongwu's national strength accumulated for more than 30 years was almost exhausted in the Yongle years, and the so-called Yongle prosperity was formed by consuming the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. Even so, Emperor Yongle's fleet of treasure ships was meaningless, neither establishing trade channels, nor converting them into seas, nor did he have the will and intention to open up colonies overseas.

Such a pure loss-making business, coupled with its great achievements in a variety of squandering and consuming national power of the big projects and military operations, in its hands, the Ming Dynasty lost Duoyan Sanwei, as well as a number of important strongholds on the Daning Dusi and the grassland, the Ming Taizu's early layout of the defense line against Mongolia became full of holes, and its many northern expeditions often led hundreds of thousands of people to march on the grassland, consuming a lot of national strength, but the results were not satisfactory.

Overall, this is a rather failed emperor, the so-called Yongle Emperor, but that's it.

As far as the cao in front of Han Sen and the others are sitting, they are still engraved with the words made in the fifth year of Hongwu, these cao boats have been used since the Hongwu period, but the treasure ships in the Yongle period have long disappeared.

This time to go to sea, the task is twofold.

One is to lead this 100 total troops to Qinshan Island to wipe out the remnants of pirates.

In recent months, the Yunti Pass has frequently sent troops, and the bandits with more than 50 people within a radius of 200 miles have almost been swept away.

The coastal area of Yancheng is sparsely populated, and it was originally the best place for bandits to gather, so in addition to large bandits, there are also many small bandits.

Yancheng is a remote place, and there are not many garrisons, except for the absence of a large number of rogues, the local security can be imagined.

The purpose of sending troops to Yuntiguan is to temper the actual combat experience of the soldiers and soldiers, to see the blood of the recruits, and to increase the experience of battlefield command for veterans and middle- and lower-level military attachés.

Second, it is naturally to show the existence and let the gentry and local people in Yancheng know the existence of this battalion, which is also the request of Zhou Lianggong of Huaiyang Road.

Huaiyang Dao had no soldiers under his command, and after he asked for the position of guerrilla and garrison for Min Yuanqi, it was unlikely that the imperial court would set up another battalion for Zhou Lianggong.

Min Yuanqi and his subordinates naturally became Zhou Lianggong's biggest reliance.