Ni Yuanlu couldn't help laughing when he heard this, he lay down and laughed and said: "My lady is so smart, it turned out that she ...... after listening to the story of the Eight Sledgehammers making trouble in Zhuxian Town" Speaking of this, he suddenly sat up and said, "What did you say?" Sledgehammer? You have made meritorious service and say, "What reward do you want?" ”

Wang said: "The day before yesterday, I went to the street with Yahuan to see a piece of jewelry so beautiful, Xianggong, do you think it's ......?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "That's not good, I spend money to wear it on my head for others to see, and a fool can do that." ”

Wang said: "Then buy some good food and go home for a big meal?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "No matter how good you eat, you have to pull it out, it's not real at all." ”

Wang said, "Then what are you talking about?" ”

Ni Yuanlu pressed Wang down on the couch and said, "It is most practical for us to have a son." ”

Wang said, "You stinky thing has been making me happy, you ...... You let go, you haven't washed your feet yet. ”

A few days later, Tianqi heard that Sun Chengzong sent someone to report that several people in the Military Affairs Institute had come up with some ways to take the initiative, so he took the time to come to the Military Affairs Yuan to see, because he did not inform him how long he would come, so there was no one in the courtyard, and he heard a few people making a loud noise in the military staff office not far after entering, until he heard that the Apocalypse was coming, he stopped and bowed and saluted. Apocalypse walked directly into the military staff and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Zhang Weiying said: "Your Majesty, several young people are practicing the battle of Salhu. ”

Apocalypse asked, "How did you rehearse?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are rehearsed like this, each of them takes turns to be the slave chief Nurhachi and the Jinglu Yang Hao, and each has a plan written on paper for the people next to him to decide the victory. ”

Apocalypse said, "This is interesting, what conclusion did you draw in the end?" ”

Chen Qiyu said: "The conclusion is that the Ming army is no match for the Jurchens in terms of individual force, and if a thousand Ming troops and a thousand Jurchens can reach a draw, our army will win." ”

Tianqi asked: "Where do you think Yang Ho was defeated at that time?" ”

Chen Qiyu said: "After the defeat of Yang Hao, he did not pay attention to the enemy, and scattered his forces to attack from all sides, in a vain attempt to win a battle. If the individual force of the soldiers on both sides is about the same, you can still do this, first entangle the enemy and then divide the attack. The problem was that the combat strength of the Ming army was too poor, and a small number of people could not entangle the enemy at all, but were quickly defeated, which was the consequence of being broken by the enemy. ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "Why is the Jurchen's combat power higher than that of my Ming soldiers?" ”

Zhang Xiangan said: "Because of the horse." ”

At this time, two people came from behind in unison: "Yes, it's a horse." ”

When everyone looked at it, it turned out that it was Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin who came over while talking, and everyone approached and bowed together. Tianqi said: "Originally, I was going to go to the Government Council for a while, but I didn't want to alarm everyone, I just wanted to hear what a few of them thought, since they are all here, we will sit down and talk about it." ”

Soon the internal guard prepared the chairs, and after everyone sat down, Tianqi asked, "Where are the Jurchens stronger than us?" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, the greatest strength of the Jurchens is the familiarity between people and horses, the soldiers on the Jurchen horses can easily command the horses to go forward or stop or left or right to a certain accurate place, while the vast majority of soldiers in our army cannot do this, the two fight like a martial artist who can easily move and move and fight with a drunk man with floating feet, this is the gap is still a gap that is difficult to overcome for a while." ”

Apocalypse said, "What solutions have we come up with for the strengths of the Jurchens? ”

Sun Chengzong said: "The four young men have been practicing various combat examples every day for the past few days, and they have all found something, let them say it themselves." ”

Ni Yuanlu first said: "Your Majesty, the minister's idea is that the Jurchens are very familiar with horses, and it is self-inflicted humiliation for us to compare the skills on horseback with them, and we should give up comparing skills and strength." ”

Apocalypse said, "What is the method of comparing strength? ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "Our soldiers are not as calm as the Jurchens on horses, and when fighting with knives, they will miss a thousand miles because of their unstable bodies. As the saying goes, 'one force will drop ten times', if you don't use a knife to use a hammer, then blocking attacks can be combined into a move, no matter how he attacks, even people with knives can hammer off the horse. ”

Sun Chengzong said: "The minister also thinks that Ni Yuanlu's idea is good, Yue Fei's son Yue Yun took the double hammer in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is said that he weighed as much as a stone of rice with a hammer, and the Jin soldiers were invincible when they met him." ”

Apocalypse thought for a moment and said, "Replace the complex knife technique with a simple blow, this idea is good, you can write it down and wait for practice." ”

At this time, Sun Chuanting said: "Your Majesty, the ministers also have a method, which is to imitate the method of Geng Jiesi Khan, using light horses with only bows and knives to overcome heavy horses. ”

Apocalypse asked, "How can a light rider be a heavy rider?" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "It is to use groups of light cavalry to attack and harass the enemy, shoot arrows from a distance but do not engage head-on, and the enemy's heavy cavalry cannot catch up with the light cavalry." ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said: "It's right not to go head-to-head, but it is necessary to discuss the continuous attack on the enemy, although the light cavalry runs fast, but if it is surrounded, there is only a dead end, so it is better to write it down first and practice it slowly." ”

Chen Qiyu said: "Your Majesty, the minister's idea is to use the car battalion, and now the training of the car battalion is used to protect the musketeers, and the minister thinks that the musket is powerful but slow to fire, so it is better not to replace it with a giant crossbow and a throwing gun. ”

Apocalypse said, "Why do you think so? ”

Chen Qiyu said: "The Jurchens mostly wear thick armor, bows and arrows, and musket bullets are too far to penetrate, and it is very dangerous to get closer. The battalion can protect the soldiers gathered in the large workshop, using a giant crossbow at a long distance and a throwing gun when it is closer, which is faster than the firing speed of a musket and is not afraid of rainy days. ”

Apocalypse asked, "Don't you use it just because the musket is slow to fire?" ”

Chen Qiyu said: "Another disadvantage of the musket is that it is easy to explode, and it cannot hit the enemy but injure its own soldiers. ”

Apocalypse said, "Okay, record it too." ”

At this time, Zhang Xiangan said: "Your Majesty, the minister's idea is to change the target of the enemy's attack. ”

Apocalypse said, "Oh, come and listen. ”

Zhang Xiangan said: "All along, our army has been thinking about occupying some place, and the minister thinks that there is something wrong with this idea. The place is dead, even if it is occupied and cannot be defended, it is not interesting, it should mainly rob people and kill people. ”

Tianqi said: "Every time the Jurchens come, they rob our people and plunder our property, and use their own way to govern their own bodies, which is interesting. ”

Zhang Xiangan said: "Just now, Sun Chuanting, Lord Sun said that the emperor thought that there was a problem with the use of light cavalry to constantly attack the enemy, and the minister wanted the light cavalry not to kill the enemy, but to rob the herdsmen and farmers of the Jurchens. ”

Wang Zaijin said at this time: "Lord Xiao Zhang, many of the herdsmen and farmers in the Jurchens are my people of the Ming Dynasty, and they have been taken captive and plundered in the past, and we have not protected them but want to kill them, how can you bear it?" ”

Zhang Xiangan said: "Lord Wang, the lower officials are just an idea, please forgive me for the inconsiderate places." ”

Wang Zaijin said angrily: "It's not right to have such an idea! ”

Apocalypse said: "Since it is an idea, record it, and there is no need to discuss it." ”

At this time, Ni Yuanlu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, at the beginning, Lord Chen Qiyu Chen said that the musket is easy to explode, and the minister is thinking about whether the power of the exploding chamber is great?" Can you make some muskets that have a certain amount of bore? ”

Apocalypse was startled and asked, "What did you think of?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "If the musket that does not explode can only injure one enemy, if the power of the bore can injure several enemies, you can ignite the fuse and throw the gun to the enemy to blow up the enemy." ”

Hearing Ni Yuanlu say this, everyone looked at him, and Tianqi said: "From tomorrow onwards, you will be in charge of this thing, you are now the seventh grade, and you will be promoted from the third grade to the fifth grade, and then you will be rewarded with three thousand taels of silver, but you must pay attention to confidentiality, and no one is allowed to mention it in front of your family." ”

Everyone bowed together and said, "The ministers obey the order." ”

A few days later, in the afternoon, Wang Zaijin, the Minister of Military Aircraft, was squinting in a sedan chair on the way home, when suddenly the sedan chair stopped, and Wang Zaijin asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The soldier next to the sedan chair said, "My lord, there is a young woman kneeling in front of the sedan chair to see you." ”

Wang Zaijin said angrily: "Bastard, will anyone want to see me?" Besides, it's a young woman, what if you let your lady know? ”

The soldier said, "My lord, after she said that it was your old friend, there is still a token for you." ”

Wang Zaijin said: "What token? Let's take a look first. ”