"The gang is the official representative of the thirteen families, and they should be able to make some decisions on behalf of the family."

Wang Qinian replied:

"Another group of young people who are not very obedient in the five clans, led by a young man named Zuo Helin, they can only represent themselves."

After reading Zuo Helin's letter, Xu Shiyang put the paper away, raised his head and began to think about something carefully.

After a while, he asked Wang Qinian: "This Zuo Helin, in the letter, said that he has 600 private soldiers, all of whom are good at shooting a hard bow with one stone and shooting arrows left and right immediately, is this true?" ”

"It's true."

Wang Qinian, who often deals with Shanxi Shihou for business reasons, replied.

"He also said that he went out to fight at the age of 16 and has participated in hundreds of battles in the past ten years, and most of them have been won, is it true?"

"It's true, this guy is famous." Wang Qinian said: "Actually, before His Royal Highness the Prince, the Han people who were most valued by the Mughal people were this Zuo Helin. ”

"A tactical genius?"

The question was not answered, because Wang was not sure what the criteria for a so-called tactical genius were.

In his opinion, the biggest tactical genius now is the young man in front of him who is only two years older than Zuo Helin.

Xu Shiyang is truly victorious in a hundred battles, no matter how strong the enemy is, whether it is a battle of more than 100 people or a battle with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops on both sides, he has never lost a single battle!

Xu Shiyang himself may not think so, but in Wang Qinian's opinion, the title of "the world's first general" given to him by outsiders is really well deserved.

"I'd better meet him."

Xu Shiyang continued:

"He said he was here to help in the war, and it didn't seem good for me, the commander-in-chief, not to see him."

……

The official representative of the Shanshan Shihou family was received by the King of Qi, and Xu Shiyang summoned Zuo Helin alone at his residence (he had a small courtyard in Quancheng and did not live in the gradually forming Meiquan Palace).

In Xu Shiyang's eyes, this is a dark-skinned young man, and from this point of view, he is indeed a warmonger who often travels to war.

The body is slightly lower than Xu Shiyang, but he is also a tall man in this era, with a very strong body and a bee waist and ape back, which is the body type of a kung fu master in the traditional concept.

If you talk about what a master tactician in the era of cold weapons should look like, the one in front of him is almost qualified.

In Zuo Helin's eyes, Xu Shiyang is a tall giant (he is one meter eight five tall, which is indeed too tall in this era), because there is no lack of nutrition and exercise (Xu Shiyang often learns kung fu with several masters, such as Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and others, plus extremely good physical fitness, now he can even single out Li Kui), the whole person looks very strong, giving people an inexplicable sense of oppression.

'This is the legendary number one general in the world?' Zuo Helin was a little surprised and thought: "Why do you look like a reckless man like me?" ’

"The prime minister (he is now the prime minister, so he calls himself) heard Wang Qinian say, you once helped the Mughal people fight the party, and you also helped the party people beat Pars?"

There was not much politeness, and not long after the two met, Xu Shiyang went straight to the topic:

"Now that you've seen it all, and you're curious, what do you think of these troops?"

A true master of tactics can quickly see where the strengths and weaknesses of the armies of both the enemy and ours are, and since Zuo Helin is well-informed, then he should be able to see the characteristics of the armies of various countries.

This question is actually also an assessment, Xu Shiyang wants to see if this person has real talent.

"Returning to Xu Shuai, there are many Mughal people, and Zamuhe's subordinates claim to control 300,000 strings, but in fact, there are 150,000 or 60,000 people who can go into battle. He had no less than half a million horses and a million cattle in his hands, so almost everyone was a cavalryman, and in my opinion, this was the greatest advantage. ”

"It's just that the Mughal people are very short of iron, and their equipment is much weaker, except for the fifty thousand people led by Zamuhe, it is good that the other tribesmen can have two adults equipped with leather armor."

"The equipment of the party members is actually much stronger than that of the Muguls, their iron armor is of good quality, and there is a thing called a whirlwind cannon, which is mounted on a camel and has good power."

Zuo Helin glanced at Xu Shiyang:

"Of course, not as strong as your cannon."

"In addition, the Xia army has a lot of strength - it is claimed to be 200,000 troops, but in fact, the real soldiers are only 60,000 or 70,000."

"As for Pars, I don't know much about it, except that I learned from the captives that this is a powerful country farther west than the Western Regions, and the captives say that they have a population of 10 million, a few millions, and can send an army of 500 or 600,000 people."

"I haven't seen it in Xia, I don't know if it's true or not, I have seen it in Xia in the Western Regions at most 80,000 people at a time, and Gaochang, Uighurs, and Dangxiang people went up together to barely stop them, so they lost Shule."

"Shule lost?" Xu Shiyang asked, "Doesn't that mean that the Pars people already have a foothold in the Western Regions?" ”

"Yes, it does." Zuo Helin said: "The ironclad cavalry of the Pars people is very powerful, with armor and a lot of people, if it weren't for the party members, those poor ghosts in the Western Regions would have been finished." ”

"Oh, Pars has a lot of armored cavalry." Xu Shiyang nodded, indicating that he understood.

In fact, he had heard a little from Darke about Pars, who, according to the Pales nobleman, consisted of the king's kingdom army, the nobles' armies, and the local army.

The royal army was all cavalry, and the equipment of the noble army varied greatly according to the status and economic situation of the nobles to which it belonged, but in general the infantry accounted for the majority, and the local army was all infantry.

Exactly how many troops these troops are, Darke is very alert, and there has been no clear number.

It's just that if the figure of a total strength of 500,000 is true, then Xu Shiyang estimates that there will be about 100,000 cavalry among them - this Pars's national strength is really quite terrifying, and it is no wonder that the party members and the countries of the Western Regions are fighting so sadly.

"What is your impression of the Jurchen Tartars?" Xu Shiyang continued to ask.

If there is an element of collecting intelligence in the previous question, this question is purely a school examination, after all, Xu Shiyang has fought with the Jurchens much more times than Zuo Helin.

"In the past, there were a lot of iron armor, and the shield chariot covered the approach of the heavy infantry with heavy arrows, and the cavalry pursued after being defeated. This is the traditional tactic of the Jurchens, it looks a bit rigid but it is actually very useful, at least the Mugultures can't fight head-on, they can only be harassed by rangers. ”

In the past, the Zhou army also had no way to use this tactic - of course, at that time, the Jurchen Tartars did not use this tactic, and the Zhou army still couldn't defeat it.

"Now, they have added cannons and firearms behind the shield array, and if they hit hard head-on, the Mughal will collapse after a few rounds."

"In my opinion, the problem for the Jurchens now is that they have too few troops."

"Last year, Zamuhe led the troops to attack Liaoyang, and participated in the next, counting the Han soldiers, the total strength of the Jurchens was less than 40,000, although the combat strength was stronger than that of the Mughurs, but they could only retreat near Liaoshen first, and then attack the decisive battle after determining the direction of the Mongol attack."