In the official system in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the ordinary governor was only the right deputy capital of the imperial history concurrently, and the governor was usually only the right deputy of the imperial history, and the grade was only the fourth grade.

It can be seen from his official rank that if he goes to the southern provinces, it will be enough to suppress a group of governors and governors below, because the governors' own officials are only the third grade, and the governor's own officials are only about the fourth grade.

The grade of the political envoys in the provinces is higher, it is from the second grade, and it looks better than the governor and governor, but the things in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty cannot be regarded like this, the grade is sometimes useless, the important thing is to send, otherwise, you look at those cabinet bigwigs, the grade of the university scholar is only five grades, do you dare to say that these cabinet bigwigs can't control a group of first-grade and second-grade bigwigs below?

Not to mention that the gold content of foreign officials is incomparable with that of Beijing officials, and the governor of a place where the official only has the right of the fourth rank can beat the political envoy from the second grade, let alone him, the supervisor of the second grade.

In the Ming Dynasty, the superintendent was almost already the largest local feudal minister, even in the Beijing Division, at this time, Zhang Yue's status was only slightly worse than that of the various ministers.

He was going to the Heavenly Prison to see people, and the people below would naturally not be so indifferent to stop him, so he soon met a group of Guizhou criminal officials who were escorted to Jingshi.

Most of them were local officials who had fled, such as the prefect, the prefect, the Tongzhi and the like, and Zhang Yue asked them one by one, mainly because he personally heard them say about the puppet Tang thief army, no matter how big or small.

However, these officials' understanding of the puppet Tang thief army is only hearsay, and they all have sharp firearms and the like, but these are all things that everyone knows, if Zhang Yue asks them about the detailed establishment of the puppet Tang thief army, tactics and the like, they just don't know anything.

With a slightly disappointed look, Zhang Yue saw Song Zhiwen!

However, Song Zhiwen brought him a little surprise, because Zhang Yue found that this Song Zhiwen's understanding of the puppet Tang thief army far exceeded that of others.

Speaking of the puppet Tang thief army, it is the head of the road, and what he said is not only limited to the sharp weapons of the puppet Tang thief, this Song Zhiwen also said others.

I only heard Song Zhiwen say: "The firearms of the puppet Tang thief army are sharp, everyone knows it, some time ago, Song also felt that the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were sharp, and relied on sharp firearms to defeat our officers and soldiers repeatedly, but after arriving in Beijing, I thought about the tactics of the puppet Tang thief army in the past, but found that although the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were sharp, their hand-to-hand combat ability was stronger!" ”

Hearing Song Zhiwen say this, Zhang Yue suddenly became interested, and even showed a look of surprise, the hand-to-hand combat ability of the pseudo-Tang thief army is very strong? Even stronger than their firearms?

It was the first time he had heard such a statement, and he had never seen it in various concerts before.

Immediately, he asked: "The hand-to-hand combat ability of the puppet Tang thief army is stronger than their firearms?" ”

Song Zhiwen nodded slightly and said: "At the beginning, Song led the army and the thief army to fight on both sides of the Lanjiang River several times, and the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thieves at that time were not weak, but whether it was their heavy artillery or that kind of musket, in fact, as long as our army was fully prepared, it could still rush over, after all, as long as our officers and soldiers rushed fast enough, their muskets would not be able to fight a few rounds, but ......"

Speaking of this, Song Zhiwen paused, then stood up, and said with his hands behind his back: "But every time my officers and soldiers break through their guns and intercept and kill in front of their formation, they are all defeated!" ”

"These thieves tend to fire muskets when our troops rush to more than ten paces away from them, and then throw flower bombs, and then their musketeers and spearmen will charge, at this time, our officers and soldiers are often unable to bear it and cause collapse!"

"In addition, not every time there is a battle, the puppet Tang thief army has muskets and flowering bullets to help, according to Song's knowledge, there are not many firearms in the puppet Tang thief army, and most of the thieves are still equipped with spears and swords and shields!"

"A lot of the time, it's actually hand-to-hand fighting!"

"I didn't understand it at the time, but now Song has figured it out, the phalanx of these pseudo-Tang thief army is strange, and their phalanx is completely set up for hand-to-hand combat, not to say that it is set up to exert the power of firearms, if you don't believe it, Inspector Zhang, look!"

After that, Song Zhiwen took out a stack of paper from the bedside, and a lot of patterns were drawn on this paper, and if you look closely, you will find that these are all tactical phalanxes!

At this time, Song Zhiwen pointed to the phalanx on the paper and said: "This is the most commonly used phalanx of the pseudo-Tang thief army, whether it is offensive or defensive, most of them use this formation!" ”

Although the painting is a little sloppy, if there are people from the Tang Army here, then they will recognize it at a glance, isn't this their battalion-level line phalanx.

"Most of the phalanxes of the thieves were an army of five hundred, and the thieves called themselves battalions, and in this battalion half musketeers and half spearmen, of which the spearmen were in the center and the musketeers were divided into two wings!

When the thieves were arranged, they were mostly arranged in three or more of these battalions, assembled into an army, and these battalions fought in cooperation with each other, enough to cover the entire front.

If our soldiers do not rush up, these thieves will bombard with thousands of pounds of heavy artillery, we can only be beaten passively, if they rush up, rush to about 100 steps, the thief's bowl cannon will be shelled, and the thief's bowl cannon is quite lethal, at this time if our army stops, it will continue to be shelled by the puppet Tang thief army, and the casualties will be extremely heavy, so whether it is Song at that time or the generals who fought with the puppet Tang thief army later, most of them will let the troops continue to rush up.

And after entering about eighty steps, the muskets of the puppet Tang thief army will fire, usually hundreds of guns fired together, well, now I heard that there are more muskets of the puppet Tang thief army, and I am afraid that there are more muskets that shoot.

At this distance, our archers were not able to inflict any casualties on the thieves, so we had to keep going.

Only when you enter about fifty or sixty paces can our archers open their arrows, but the archers of the thief army can also shoot arrows.

And I don't know if Master Zhang knows that in the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, there are many armored soldiers, and it is often difficult for our army's archers to cause too many casualties to the armored soldiers of the thief army at such a long distance, but the thief's musket is very powerful, at this distance, even if the soldiers wearing double thick armor are hit by the thief's musket, they will not be spared.

If you keep going, the thieves will throw flowering bombs and make a final salvo!

By this time, most of the ranks of our army were already scattered or even routed.

At this time, the thief army will take the initiative to charge, their muskets are equipped with knives in front of them, although they are shorter, but they are also comparable to spears, and the sword and shield soldiers of our officers and soldiers will suffer too much loss when fighting with them!

Moreover, there are many armored soldiers in the thief army, and once they rush up, they are often dozens or even hundreds of armored soldiers rushing into our army's array, and it will be a massacre at that time! ”

Song Zhiwen said while pointing to the drawings, and Zhang Yue on the side was more frightened the more he listened!

In the past few days, it was the first time he knew how the puppet Tang thief army had won so many officers and soldiers.

In the battle reports of the people below, they only said that they fought desperately, and that the pseudo-Tang thieves had sharp weapons, but how the pseudo-Tang thieves won the officers and soldiers basically didn't know.

Zhang Yue took over Song Zhiwen's drawings at this time, and read them several times, his brows furrowed!

Although he Zhang Yue is a civil official, but he is a civilian official who knows the soldiers, when he used to serve in the south, but he served as the governor of Yunyang, Jiangxi, and Liangguang, and he suppressed many rebels and thieves.

If he didn't know the soldiers, Emperor Zhengde would not personally order him to supervise the four provinces.

So just looking at the drawings and listening to Song Zhiwen's story, he could imagine how the officers and soldiers were defeated in the hands of the puppet Tang thief army.

If you don't rush over, you will be beaten passively, but if you take the initiative to fight over, you will also be killed, because the distance of this charge must start at least two hundred steps or even farther away, and you can stop on the way, and the road will continue to be shelled by the pseudo-Tang thief army, which is extremely huge for the morale and physical consumption of the soldiers.

By the time they almost rushed to the front of the puppet Tang thief army, they had suffered a lot of casualties, not to mention, and their morale had basically fallen to the bottom, and the formation was all scattered.

At this time, how can you be undefeated by the flowering bullets, salvos and hand-to-hand charges of the pseudo-Tang thief army?

It is no wonder that every time the officers and soldiers are defeated, it is a big defeat of the collapse of the whole army, and if you fight the puppet Tang thief army like this, once you are defeated, it will be a big defeat of the whole army!

After a while, Zhang Yue raised his head again and asked, "The thief's firearms and hand-to-hand combat are far beyond ordinary thieves, I wonder if Lord Song has a way to restrain this thief army?" ”

After hearing this, Song Zhiwen pondered for a while and said: "If you want to defeat the thief army, the best way is naturally to have stronger firearms than them, and your hand-to-hand combat ability is stronger than them!" ”

At this time, Zhang Yue said: "I'm afraid it's a little difficult, there is news from Guangxi, saying that the thousand-pound heavy artillery of the pseudo-Tang thief army has reached more than 100, and there are hundreds of bowl-mouth cannons with a size of hundreds of catties, this artillery will be incomparable for a while, and we don't have this musket here, as for hand-to-hand combat, you also know the hand-to-hand combat ability of those guards!" ”

Song Zhiwen said: "Our officers and soldiers have to fight with the puppet Tang thief army in the field, unless there are more than ten times the strength, it is difficult to continue.

I heard that the puppet Tang thief army has gone south to Liuzhou, if there is no accident in the next step, it will definitely be along the Xijiang River east into Wuzhou and even Guangdong, as long as the royal division of our court is in Wuzhou along the Xijiang River, it is enough to curb the eastward advance of the puppet Tang thief army, as long as the eastward advance of the puppet Tang thief army is blocked, so that there is time to raise a large army to train troops and build artillery, and leave it to the puppet Tang thief army in one fell swoop in the future! ”

"Defend the city?" After Zhang Yue heard this, he showed a trace of hesitation!