Zhang Lixin didn't seem to care much about this kind of thing, and admitted bluntly: "Yes, at the beginning, I was worried that too many people would escape or be difficult to supervise, so I didn't fight at night. Now it seems that this worry is unfounded, and if we had chosen to take the initiative at night, we might have achieved a better result... ”

It seemed to be encouraged: Zhang Wen continued: "On the battlefield, with the current configuration and equipment of our army, if it is only an opponent with active combat spirit and level like the Zhongshun battalion, ten times the number of horse teams should not be the opponent of our army. But I think there are still big hidden dangers, if someone in the future to put even a layer of leather armor or even several layers of cloth on the cavalry, then our tactics of sticking naked protection to increase the killing area will be very problematic. Our artillery shotguns are too single. Moreover, actual combat has proved that if we encounter an opponent with a clear superiority in strength, we also need a weapon or artillery ammunition that can effectively suppress the enemy's artillery positions or trebuchets two or three hundred steps away. This time, the losses of our troops were in many cases caused by the inability to threaten the opponent's projection equipment from a long distance, and they had to attack head-on. The principle in the future should be this: during the day, try not to take the initiative to engage an opponent with a clear superiority in forces, and if the opponent is prepared. In the case of confrontations, projectile weapons are used as much as possible, and our main way of taking the initiative is to focus on night melee at night. ”

"I'm also worried that a slightly scheming opponent will learn our tricks again this time. What if the other side also prepared a number of catapults to throw the marsole, and had far more troops available and far better equipment than us? I have a feeling that the way out should still be on artillery, and not on catapults thrown by manpower... ”

In this way, under the leadership of Zhang Wen, many other people also expressed a lot of opinions: for example, the performance gap between the stone and wood cannon and the improved iron cannon is too obvious. If there is time, it should be mainly based on copper and iron cannons, after all, the main limitation is manpower and so on.

When he shifted his position at night and rested in another hidden position near Shengxian Village, Wang Wei came to the bunker where Zhang Lixin, who was compiling the schedule for the rest period, and said with some concern: "I think this Zhang Wen is not simple. If nothing else, this person does not speak and understand like those of us who are from poor backgrounds. ”

"Do you suspect that he is a spy of the imperial court? Do you think the creeps fighting us in the battle formation will be told who and who can't fight? Zhang Lixin actually has some appreciation for a person like Zhang Wen who is not only brave but also has some brains.

"I mean: such a person must not be allowed to shake the authority of the general in charge of affairs... Even we should not do it ... Wang Wei said solemnly.

After careful weighing and thinking, Zhang Lixin is indeed reflecting on whether he has gone too far. After all, the current situation is that he can directly be responsible for some of the details of these people, even if the core part of the entire team is expanded to five or six hundred people in the future, it is not a problem, and some situations are still not suitable for copying.

"I understand, but in the future, if you are entrusted with a certain important task for someone with outstanding performance like Zhang Wen, you should not feel that there is anything wrong, right? In this world, relying on just a few of us, in fact, it is obviously not enough... ”

"Of course I understand this...

Zhang Lixin actually does not have unconditional trust in Zhang Wen, after all, there is always such a sentence, there must be a demon when things are abnormal. Judging from some of the thoughts and cognitions and words in the hazy speech of Zhang Wen's previous speech, Zhang Lixin still suspected that Zhang Wen's identity was somewhat special.

Changing shifts at midnight to rest, it seemed that when it was Zhang Wen's turn to be on duty for the recruit team, Zhang Wen was lightly taken by Zhang Lixin alone.

"What's the matter with the General?"

"There's nothing too important about military affairs, but it's not negligible. I want you to open up to me as if I was a confidant and talk about my past experiences. Some people don't think you look like a poor person. ”

"Why?" Zhang Wen's consciousness seems to have aggravated some of the speculations in Zhang Lixin's mind.

Zhang Lixin said: "Because I feel that you seem to have too much hatred and worries in your heart. And the lower class of ordinary poor people have been calm about the sinister and even bullying life since childhood. This is not the case even if the parents are in distress, displaced for a long time, and oppressed. Only those who were once impoverished because of some change can see in such people the shadow of a great calamity. Because I've been among the lower marginals before, I know a thing or two about it

After being silent for a moment, Zhang Wencai solemnly returned, "That's right, my father once inherited an ancestral business, although it can't be said to be rich, rich, rich and rich, and a solid family without the worries of poverty." These are not the most important things, the important thing is that the parents' minds and care for the subordinates are by no means comparable to ordinary parents in the world. For as long as I can remember, they have always answered my questions and never treated me differently as a child, which has given me an impression of many things about this at a very young age... ”

Zhang Wen didn't seem to mind talking about some things in the past, but Zhang Lixin didn't choose to ask in the end. Because you don't need to ask about it, you can roughly guess one or two, just from Zhang Wen's dark skin and ordinary lower-class hands when he first came to the team: it must have been a few years ago that the family encountered an accident, so it became a lower-class.

It's just that after thinking for a while, Zhang Lixin still asked: "In this way, you should remember who the enemy is, right?" ”

Zhang Wen doesn't seem to take his past as seriously as Zhang Lixin imagined: "My enemy is dead, and I was buried by me when I was ten years old. Later, many people who offended me were killed by me, but I didn't want to be like them. There are many, many people in the world who are like me or even not as lucky as me, and there are too many grievances, and countless people's grievances and grievances have not yet been avenged... ”

Hearing Zhang Wen's words, Zhang Lixin's heart relaxed slightly, but he still felt that there would be any hidden dangers in the future for people with such thoughts and character? It's just obvious that Zhang Wen's consciousness is still needed by the team, so it is inconvenient for Zhang Lixin to say anything more at this time.

Up to now, the team has actually reached a bottleneck period and a period of transition in a certain sense: from the use of very simple and captured and transformed equipment, to the development of a combat system that is truly suitable for itself and strives for meticulous work; In terms of the development of soft power, it is clear that literacy itself has become a threshold. Therefore, soon after the end of this battle, Zhang Lixin began to organize manpower to devote himself to a new round of combat preparations of a different nature.