"Your Majesty, Governor Chen has a flying pigeon to send an urgent ......report," a guard hurriedly came in and announced.

"Whisper, Your Majesty has just fallen asleep!" Li Sanniang shushed. Since yesterday when he arrived at Shuizhai, the little emperor did not rest for a moment, so he understood the situation, deployed troops, and formulated a battle plan. After the battle began in the early morning, he kept an eye on the development of the battle, and only after receiving that the guard battalion had rescued the trapped assault detachment, did he sit on the chair and fall asleep, but it was less than half an hour before another urgent report arrived.

"But ......" The guard hesitated, he knew the emperor's temper, and had already ordered that the emergency military report should be delivered in time at any time.

"Everything is borne by the palace, Your Majesty is too tired!" Li Sanniang took the letter box and said softly, but her tone was unquestionable.

"Yes!" The guard stood up and saluted and stepped back. In fact, among the emperor's many concubines, perhaps because they were born in the military at the same time, the guards were the most respectful and close to the concubines, and they were also treated with military courtesy. After all, it is a great thing for a woman to lead a brigade of soldiers to fight on the battlefield, not to mention that she often leads the army in person in wartime and charges in front of the battle, and has repeatedly made war exploits, but she doesn't care about her slang status.

"How did this happen again?" Holding the letterbox, Li Sanniang was a little hesitant, she had been in the army for many years and knew the consequences of privately opening secret letters, but flying pigeon biography is often an emergency method that will only be used for urgent matters, and if it is not dismantled, the consequences of delaying the military situation will be more serious. She thought for a moment but opened the letterbox, and after reading it, she was shocked and couldn't help muttering.

"What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, the concubine checked the emergency report without authorization, please surrender the crime!" Li Sanniang didn't expect the little emperor to wake up when he heard his whispering, and hurriedly saluted.

"There is an excuse for the situation, and the next is not an example. What was said? Zhao Yu stood up and rubbed his eyes and waved his hand, not too harsh.

Chen Dushuai urgently reported that the four members of the assault team who crossed the river had fallen into Guabu Town, and according to the analysis, they had decided to bring them back regardless of life or death, and the first squadron of the guard battalion had set off for Guabu Town. However, the enemy's Duge Wanhu Mansion in Liuhe and the Qianhu Office in Changlu Town had already sent reinforcements to approach Guabu Town, so he decided to transfer the second regiment of the reserve to all land to block the enemy's reinforcements, and ordered the second and third regiments on standby to prepare to cross the river. The 1st Division was ordered to requisition civilian boats, and Chen Bing prepared to cross the river on the bank of the river. Li Sanniang breathed a sigh of relief and said briefly.

"Hmph, I want to cover it!" Zhao Yu snorted coldly when he heard this, "Back to the book, I know!" ”

"Your Majesty, is the previous sentence written as it is?" The participant who was preparing the record asked cautiously.

"Well, not a word!" Zhao Yu nodded.

"Yes, I know it!" Joining the army was a little confused, and these two sentences could be said to be inconsistent, so I repeated them again and confirmed them again.

"Yes, you will know what it means when you see it!" Zhao Yu looked at the confused way of joining the army.

"Yes!" The army hurriedly wrote it down, so he hurriedly sealed it and sent a herald to the other side of the river.

"Your Majesty......" Seeing that there was no one else around at this moment, Li Sanniang was also puzzled by the emperor's inexplicable reply, and wanted to ask but stopped talking.

"Hehe, it doesn't hurt to say it to you." Zhao Yu looked at his cautious appearance and smiled, "I am warning him to resolutely complete the task and not give up halfway. ”

"Your Majesty, the concubine didn't see the meaning of Chen Dushuai's hesitation!" Li Sanniang was still a mush, she had just seen it, and she didn't find anything strange, but the little emperor concluded that he had the intention of retreating, and thought about it.

"There's nothing wrong with its deployment, but you can see that the guard battalion has already gone to Kuabu Town before it is deployed. This shows that even if Chen Fenglin had no intention of backing down, there were disputes between them, and the guard battalion would want to complete the task alone knowing that enemy reinforcements were coming. Then he hurriedly reported it to me, indicating that he had no determination to continue fighting, and I replied to him not to leave anything to chance! Zhao Yu explained.

"Your Majesty, if the concubine is in front of the command, you will hesitate, and you feel that it is not appropriate to fight again!" Li Sanniang thought about it.

"Oh, why?" Zhao Yu looked at Li Sanniang and said.

"Your Majesty, the concubines thought that the enemy's mobilization force at this time was one 10,000 households and two thousand households, and if they poured out, they could reach 20,000 people. However, only two regiments of our army have landed across the river, and their strength is three times inferior to that of the enemy, and they are still fighting against the water. Moreover, the flat terrain in the north of the river is conducive to cavalry combat, so it is difficult for our army to form a strict formation in the case of lack of troops, and it may be difficult to block the impact of the enemy's cavalry brigade! Li Sanniang said.

She knew that when infantry and cavalry fought, the military formation needed to be lined horizontally to expand their engagement area, so that they could give full play to the combat effectiveness of their weapons. Because if you are in the platoon, the soldiers in the back row can't beat people, they can't beat people, and no matter how many people there are, it means that they don't exist, and when the front row dies, the back row will have no morale for a long time. However, when arranging the formation horizontally, it should also be in a certain depth, so as not to be broken by the enemy's single blow. However, in the case of inferior troops and lack of artillery support, it is difficult for a thin horizontal line to block the cavalry onslaught.

"You don't have to be sneaky, you can come over and discuss it together!" Zhao Yu saw that the staff in the hall saw him arguing with Li Sanniang, and wanted to hear it but didn't dare to step forward, but he hid behind the screen and eavesdropped, and greeted them with a smile.

"Hehe, I have thanked Your Majesty and Concubine Niangniang!" Hearing the emperor's call, the staff in the hall all gathered and thanked him with a smile.

"Don't be formal, just sit down and listen, and have any opinions!" Zhao Yu waved his hand and asked them to sit down around the table.

"Your Majesty has said that there is no need to be formal, so there is no need to be restrained. His Majesty was the same back then, and he often sat on the steps at the entrance of the mansion to discuss with everyone! An old official in the staff laughed.

"Hehe, Lao Li still remembers the events of that year! But you were in charge of the house back then, why did you get mixed up with the military headquarters as an errand today? Zhao Yu saw that he was indeed an acquaintance, pointed at him and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty still remembers Xiao Lao'er, I am also a blessing to Your Majesty, we have repeatedly expanded our efforts in the past ten years, and Xiao Lao'er has also risen with the tide. At first, he was in charge of the food of a battalion, then a regiment and a division. After arriving in Jiankang, Chen Dushuai saw that Xiao Lao'er was old and knew a few words, so he asked Xiao Lao'er to join the army in the military department and take care of trivial matters such as money and food. Li Gui said with a smile.

"Blessed are you in charge of the money and food of an army, and I can rest assured! Back then, we ate old rice allocated by the imperial court, and the amount was insufficient, and it was all because of your careful calculations that everyone could eat their stomachs! Zhao Hao sighed and said, "Anyway, whether you are a husband today, or you are in charge of the money and food of the army to join the army, today you will definitely make the best stewed pork, I haven't eaten it for many years, and I have asked the imperial chef in the palace to do it, but I can't eat the taste of the year, it's really fragrant!" ”

"Okay, since Your Majesty loves to eat, the little old man is happy to serve!" Li Gui sat down and said with a smile.

"Then there will be Lao Li joining the army, Your Majesty hasn't had a good meal for a few days!" Li Sanniang also returned the salute.

"Niangniang doesn't have to be polite, it is a blessing to be able to serve His Majesty!" Li Gui hurriedly returned the salute again.

"You're welcome, I'll eat Lao Litou's specialty dishes at night, everyone will satisfy their hunger, this meal is a thank you for your hard work for days!" After some jokes, the atmosphere eased down, and Zhao Yu returned to the truth and preached, "Just now, Concubine Shu said that the cavalry is the most threatening thing against the infantry army, and the impact is strong, this statement cannot be wrong, but I dare not agree. ”

"I think that in a practical sense, the appearance of chariots and cavalry changed the rhythm of warfare, and the most important thing was not the ability of cavalry and chariots to charge, but their mobility. For war, it is not difficult to calculate the range and attack method of the opponent, but it becomes extremely difficult to calculate the attack time, and that is because the opponent moves faster. Among them, the cavalry is the fastest, which often makes the opponent unprepared, and it is difficult to determine where the point of its attack is! ”

"Your Majesty, won't we be able to block the onslaught of the cavalry by arranging spears and shields in front of the queue? In the past, if we used this to fight against enemy horses, we often won as well! At this time, one of the staff members spoke.

"Okay, good question!" Zhao Yu praised first, "There are many successful examples of this, but using spears and big shields to resist enemy cavalry is actually a dangerous move." Everyone is a marching man, and when you know that the spear is in front, you can only arrange two rows at most, and if there is one more row, the spear will have no place to stretch, but can only be raised, and it will be the same as nothing. And the premise is that the first row of the phalanx is pikemen, then the pikemen in the second row can stick out their spears from the gap between the two people in the first row, and if there is another row from behind, there will be no place to stretch out, because the front is the back of the soldiers in the first row. ”

"And if the first row is a shield soldier, then the pikemen can only have one row, that is, the second row, and the spear sticks out of the gap in the shield. However, if there are shield soldiers in front, then this formation is not really used against cavalry, but against infantry. Because the huge shield will seriously obscure the view of the soldiers behind. In addition, the shield alone cannot stop the war horse from colliding, even the kind of large shield with brackets that is specially used to deal with cavalry, will be rushed in by the horse into the gap between the two shields. If you don't believe me, you can try it for yourselves. ”

"A simple large formation is enough to deal with the infantry, but it is not suitable to resist the cavalry. Because it is scary to look at only from the front, if it is surrounded by cavalry, it is defenseless. Some would say that infantry can also be trained to change formations at any time, and thus change the direction of the spear. But everyone who has trained in the army knows that a small phalanx is okay, and a large phalanx composed of tens of thousands of people can't change the formation at any time anyway. Zhao Hao smiled and said.

"And even if you can change formation, the cavalry is afraid that they don't care about going around you a few more times, and it will take a few hours to tire the horse, but if you are tired, I think an hour is enough. Even if the enemy cavalry charged from the front, the phalanx was very easy to break, the first row of cavalry only needed to cut diagonally to the farthest spear, and then in turn to remove the layers of spears behind it, so that no spear remained in the frontal direction, and then the second row of cavalry could successfully rush into the formation and slaughter. ”

"Your Majesty, is it impossible for the cavalry to defeat?" Another staff member asked.

"Where in the world are there absolute things." Zhao Hao waved his hand and said, "I just said that the advantage of cavalry lies in its mobility, and its greatest ability lies in its rapid movement and non-stop attack. And one of the most important advantages is that they can seize the initiative and can storm a certain point on the entire battlefield. This often allowed them to break through and tear through the defenses built by the infantry, while the infantry elsewhere was caught in an awkward and reinforcement dilemma. and disrupt the deployment of the other side, so that the infantry is in a dilemma, but it can calmly encircle and divide, making the cavalry seem invincible. ”

"Therefore, if you want to defeat cavalry, the most important thing is to limit its mobility. In the field, the infantry can quickly build barricades and horseback and other fortifications that effectively prevent impact; With the city to defend it, you can block the cavalry with the help of the tall and strong city wall, and there is no way for the war horse to smash the city wall; In addition, strategically, we can choose a narrow mountainous area that is not conducive to the movement of the cavalry, and a water network is criss-crossed. ”

"Even if the plains are not everywhere, by judging the movements of the enemy's army, we can choose areas that are not conducive to cavalry mobility or valleys, mountain valleys, etc., and preset ambushes to annihilate them, rather than using a battle formation to fight the enemy in a fixed way. Even if you have to fight with the enemy, you can also use the cooperation of multiple arms to fight, at that time to win the cavalry is not simply only infantry, the two wings will often arrange cavalry chaos enemy cavalry offensive deployment, that is, often said 'the front is virtual, the two wings are real', and the strong bow and crossbow and the firearms we are equipped with can give great casualties to the enemy cavalry, so that its mobility is lost. ”

"Your Majesty's intention is that in wartime, we should adapt measures to local conditions, adapt measures to the conditions of the time, and choose the battlefield and tactics that are most conducive to developing our own strengths, so as to achieve the effect of making use of our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses." A staff member chimed in.

"Yes, that's exactly the case, only by promoting one's own strengths and attacking the enemy's shortcomings can we achieve victory, rather than stereotypical imitation, in short, how to fight how to come, don't be too stubborn!" Zhao Yu patted the case.

"Oh, there are paddy fields along the north coast of the river, and this is the season of irrigation and rice planting, and the enemy cavalry cannot come and go freely, so they can only choose the main road. As long as our troops block the main road, it will be difficult for the enemy cavalry to give full play to their mobility advantages, and they will not be able to attack and harass everywhere. If we enter the paddy fields, the sluggish enemy cavalry will be our target! The staff member said suddenly.

"Yes, as long as we control the key points in this battle, we can control the development of the war." Zhao Yu nodded.

"Your Majesty, but at present, there is a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and our army, if the enemy launches an attack regardless of casualties, I am afraid that it will also break through the defense line!" Li Sanniang said.

"Not necessarily, sometimes the outcome of a battle is not determined by the number of troops!" Zhao Hao smiled and said......