In addition to the further improved firing pistol, there was also a lighter front-loading cannon developed after borrowing from the English snake cannon to replace the bulky Luzon cannon and Franc cannon. Flash Dance

As mentioned earlier, the first person in the world to use the three-stage strike tactic in actual combat was Mu Ying of the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless latecomers, but the best one must be Napoleon, in addition to this, this genius military strategist is also good at using artillery. The Battle of Toulon not only achieved Napoleon's position in the French army, but also determined the absolute core position of artillery in the army battlefield.

After the end of the Napoleonic era, French hegemony began to be challenged by Prussia, and in the famous Battle of Franco-Prussia, the newly rising Second German Reich fully used breech-loading rifled guns with a range of 3,500 meters, and shells were more lethal flowering shells. After this battle, Prussia became the hegemon of the European continent, the traditional front-loading cannon officially withdrew from the human war, and the rear-loading artillery and the recoiled artillery became the development direction of weapons. To this day, this technology is still commonly used by the world's major military powers, and the electromagnetic guns under development have not yet been put into actual combat, so I will not repeat them here.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to open up the situation on the battlefield with absolute strength, but he underestimated the will of the South Vietnamese monkey soldiers to resist, and even though the Ming army had a one-sided advantage in firearms, it was still difficult to fight for Lang Son. In order to blow up Yuan Chonghuan's artillery position, the Dancing Monkey Soldiers repeatedly sent death squads to lurk within 500 meters, using human bombs to continuously consume the Ming army's artillerymen.

After Yuan Chonghuan realized this problem, he immediately organized artillery to carry out two salvos, accurately hitting the enemy's hidden battle formation, several monkey generals were killed on the spot, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but the monkey soldiers who lost their command were very tenacious and still kept running forward with explosives.

In the face of the desperate resistance of the Zheng clan in South Vietnam, Zhu Youxiao seemed to understand the truth that "the way to conquer the country is to attack the heart and attack the city to the bottom", which is why the arrogant empire that never sets and the United States will not easily annex the land of neighboring countries.

To the north of Lang Son is a mountainous area with mountains and dense jungles, and to the south is a plain with rice fields and water networks, and Thang Long is only more than 260 li according to this, which is very similar to the Shanhaiguan Pass of the Ming Dynasty in terms of strategic location. However, at this time, the Zheng clan blocked the Ming Dynasty in the north, and the south had to defend the Ruan clan in the Zhengjiang River, and the deployment of the entire country's troops was dumbbell-shaped.

Just when the Ming army was forming a decisive battle against the Zheng clan in South Vietnam, there were major differences within the imperial court, and the first assistant of the cabinet, Han Xi, the secretary of the ministry, and Sun Chengzong, the secretary of the Taishi and the military department, all believed that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was too large, and the new policy and military and educational reforms were in progress, and all efforts should be put into internal management. 35xs In response to the invasion and harassment of South Vietnam and Quang Nam, they suggested that a small punishment should be sufficient, and that the Annan policy of "not rejecting Li and Mo should be adhered to" formulated by Wan Li. In order to persuade Zhu Youxiao, Sun Chengzong also cited the example of Chengzu Zhu Di's two crusades against South Vietnam, believing that South Vietnam was a quagmire of war, and once it fell into it, it would drag down the finances of the Ming Dynasty, which was heavily indebted.

These two people are Zhu Youxiao's right-hand men in the court, and many important decisions come from their wisdom

"The two Aiqing are literal and martial, and they are really my ministers, and I will think carefully about your opinions. I heard that Han Aiqing can familiarize himself with "The Art of War", I don't know how many words there are in this masterpiece? ”

"The Art of War" is the pinnacle of Chinese war history, and it is a classic that has been admired and studied by military strategists, politicians and even businessmen throughout the ages. As the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, Han Xi has read a lot of books since he was a child, and he naturally recited it like a stream, and he replied without thinking

"If you return to the saint, this art of war was written by Sun Wu, a general of Wu who was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and whose ancestral home was Le'an of Qi State, and it is divided into thirteen articles, with a total of 6,075 words."

Zhu Youxiao secretly liked that Han Xi was so knowledgeable, and what made him even happier was that the two had fallen into a logical trap of presupposition fallacy. In fact, the ancient Chinese military strategists such as the Milky Way and the stars are numerous, in addition to the "Art of War", there are also "Sun Bin Art of War", "Taigong Liutao", "Wu Zi", "Sima Law", "Wei Xuanzi" and other masterpieces, in addition to the Ming Dynasty's famous anti-Japanese general Qi Jiguang also wrote "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training", which are all classics summed up in combination with actual combat experience.

After Han Xi finished speaking, he didn't know what the plan was, and he was thinking hard about some details of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" with Sun Chengzong, and Zhu Youxiao continued to ask when he saw this

"Mr. Sun Wu can condense the strategy of using soldiers into 6,075 words, which can be described as a thousand words and good words. Sun Wu is the military saint of the Chinese nation, and Taishi is the military god of the Ming Dynasty, which sentence do you think is the most quintessential in this art of war? ”

Now I can ask Sun Chengzong, to say that he knows that he knows that he will not be defeated in a hundred battles, it is too general; To say that the soldiers of the people are not wars is not in line with the emperor's current strategy.

Zhu Youxiao saw that he was in deep thought, and said with a smile

"I am not as good as Sun Aiqing in leading troops to fight, and I am not as good as Han Aiqing in governing the country, but when it comes to major policies, I still have some experience. In my opinion, this masterpiece can be summed up in only eleven words, and everything else is embellished. ”

Zhu Youxiao said very modestly in the first half of the sentence, so Han Yi and Zhu Kuiyuan didn't think he was a little arrogant, first politely said a few words, and then asked humbly

"The saint is extremely enlightened, and please give guidance to the ministers."

Zhu Youxiao didn't go around in circles with them, and went straight to the point

"In my opinion, it is the eleven words of 'the one who wins because of the change of the enemy is called God'. Since ancient times, there is no first, no second, there can only be one side as the winner on the battlefield, I hope that this winner is my Ming Dynasty. When the strategy for hegemony in the oceans was determined, I listed South Vietnam as the second target of conquest, and sent envoys and Jinyi Wei to collect information on Cao Binh Mo Chao, Tuyen Quang Truong Vu Duc Kong, South Vietnamese Trung Clan, Quang Nam Nguyen Clan, Champa Thanh, Chin La, Fu Nam, and Siam.

Just when our dynasty was conquering the Wa Kingdom, the Trần and Nguyễn fought in Phu Xuan for more than four months, and both sides invested ships, elephants, artillery, etc., and finally the Truong Yen of South Vietnam was defeated, and Nguyen Phuc Nguyen of Quang Nam divided one side according to the battle for the river. In this way, the problem of South Vietnam's joint resistance to the Ming Dynasty, which I was most worried about, no longer exists, and the quagmire of war that the two Aiqing feared cannot happen. ”

In fact, with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it was not at all effortless to flatten the Indochina Peninsula, and it took such great pains to make peace with Siam and lead the four-nation alliance to form an alliance in Cam Ranh Bay because Zhu Youxiao learned the lessons of the Lang Son Battle and decided to create a momentum of people's hearts and minds to turn their backs and achieve the best goal of surrendering the army without a fight. After all, the Japanese and South Vietnam are just appetizers, and in the future, the Ming army will have to go out of the Strait of Malacca and the Caucasus, where Chinese men write legends.