Xiao Xuan was obedient and silent for a moment, and also thought a little in his heart. Sun Chengzong said that the four thousand Liaodong army field battles are only equivalent to two hundred armor and six hundred Jiannu? Is this still a theory of attacking and defending each other? Seven-to-one combat power comparison? This number is a bit surprising, and it does not echo the views of some Internet post bars and forums in later generations. You must know that the rebuilt Liaodong Army should never be the kind of parallel goods of the inland guards, with a salary of more than 5 million taels a year plus many rewards from the palace and the treasury over the years, at this time, the Guanning Army, which had not suffered a major injury after the battle of Dongyu and Songjin, should not be too bad in combat effectiveness.

"I'm still a little unconvinced. If 600 Jiannu and 200 armor can be equivalent to our army's 4,500 cavalry and artillery battalions, then 60,000 Jiannu and 20,000 armor are not equivalent to 450,000 elite soldiers of our army? Don't tell me that there is no vacancy in the provincial and town battalions and guard armies in the interior, and the combat effectiveness is at the same level as the Liaodong battalions maintained by more than 5 million taels of Liaoxiang? I said hello like this: If our army goes on another expedition to Jiannu, and the average level of a chariot battalion of the Liaodong battalions encounters the three assistant leaders and three medium cattle led by the first general of Jiannu, how will it be defeated? Or how can Houjin defeat our army in this situation? In the Battle of the Hunhe River that year, didn't it mean that a total of more than 10,000 men and horses of our army's two battalions killed and injured thousands of Jiannu, so that the main force of the Eight Banners of more than 200 Niu Lu suffered heavy casualties? Oh, the terrain is assumed to be the Pingchuan hills not far from the river in Liaodong rather than the mountains, and as long as our army occupies the fields of Liaodong, the strength of the Jin army will soon degrade. and not more than four hundred miles from the shore or from the point of stockpiling of grain and grass on the shore and the retreat routes... ”

Hearing Xiao Xuan ask like this, Sun Chengzong's heart was also somewhat relieved. Because Sun Chengzong rarely sees a superior person who cares so much about tactical details, it is often empty talk.

"Back to the saints, although the Jiannu are not all cavalry, but since the expedition to the Mongolian steppe the year before last and Lin Dan Khan fled west, there is no shortage of horses. Although most of the foot soldiers are not cavalry, they can have horses in all their hands in critical situations, and the horses often move and fight outside the pass, and their riding and shooting are beyond our reach. ”

Hearing the word riding and shooting, Xiao Xuan's heart couldn't help but look down at Sun Chengzong a few times. I have heard more than once on the Internet that Houjin's advantage is not the riding and archery that later generations proclaimed, but the heavy stepper shield Yunyun. If you only rely on cavalry shooting, how can you contend with your own large number of firearms and gunners and car battalions under cover? Even if it's one-on-one, isn't one against seven nonsense?

"I heard that Elder Sun Ge has talked with many veterans, can you talk more in detail and tell me everything you know... Xiao Xuan asked seriously on the surface.

Sun Chengzong said at this time: "Many people in the DPRK said that Dongyu's strength was not to shoot on horseback, but to shoot Yunyun in hand-to-hand combat or dismounting. Not really. If the Dongyu only attacked our army's car battalion with foot combat and foot shooting, one victory and one victory would already be the limit, and it would not be feasible to win one and two. The battalions of our army in Liaodong relied on chariots, shields, firearms, and wild waves to fight the eastern captives, and two or three times the strength of the troops was not afraid of the eastern captives. However, having cavalry or cavalry that can flank within a moment, this makes our army have to cover our flanks with a hollow four-sided camp in order to guard against this when we are in the camp, and there are horse teams behind our army that do not count the combat strength, and the eastern captives can use double the strength of my troops, so that I need three times as many troops to deal with it. Not to mention, in this case, Dongyu can also concentrate the car shield and attack wherever he wants. Jiannu shield chariots, heavy armor elites, and infantry archery have an advantage over our army, to a large extent, based on mounted archery. ”

"Then three times our army can safely compete with the opponent with a four-sided chariot formation, even if they have the advantage of riding and shooting, why does Sun Ge Lao say that seven times has a chance of winning each other?"

"Triple can defend against the enemy, which is needed to defend against the enemy when the enemy intends to attack us in a short time. If the Donglu does not plan to attack our car formation, but just waits for an opportunity to contain our army, then the Donglu only needs to compete with the strength of our army's elite cavalry. Therefore, one Niu Lu can be used to contain our army's elite cavalry, and another Niu Lu can wait for an opportunity to threaten the grain road behind our army. If our army is not trapped to death, in this case it is necessary to divide the troops to deal with the convenience of Jiannu because of the superiority in cavalry and horsepower on the battlefield within a few hundred miles... ”

Hearing such an answer, Xiao Xuan understood a little. Probably the same meaning as Rome and Parthia, or is it somewhat similar to the anti-encirclement and suppression in the Soviet era? Although Jiannu was not a nomadic army, in the case of relying heavily on chariot formations and firearms, the mobility of the main force of the Ming army was actually weaker than that of the Later Jin.

"I heard that when the Song army clashed with the northern enemy, although it was also more defeated and less victorious, there was no such a huge disparity in strength, and I heard that the Song army did not play the car formation, at most it was squatting down in the front row and standing spears, and there were always people standing to meet the enemy.

Sun Chengzong was worried that the king, who had just ascended the throne, was too whimsical, so he had to seek truth from the facts, and he humbly admitted: "The Holy Lord's forgiveness is straightforward... My Ming army is far inferior to the former Song Dynasty... ”

Xiao Xuan couldn't help but be stunned at this time, this was similar to the sentence in "Kangxi Dynasty", "Zhu Yuanzhang, have you seen it?" My Daqing is far better than Daming" is really half a catty, if some Internet fans Song Hei hears it, he has to jump his feet.

"During the Southern Song Dynasty, seventy percent of the armies on the front line wore heavy armor, which was better than Jiannu. When the Salhu army was defeated, more than 100,000 people of our army were wiped out, and tens of thousands of armors were destroyed, including some armor that was not ironclad, less than 10,000 pieces. The worst bow of the main force of the two Song Dynasty is only six buckets, and the war bow of seven buckets and eight buckets and even the strong crossbow of two or three stones are more common. Nowadays, a small number of imitation god arm crossbows in our army are not trained by the soldiers, at most only one hundred and fifty catties, which is converted into about one stone and six buckets in the Song Dynasty. Archers, even in the era of Emperor Taizu, were no more than four to seven bows. Emperor Taizu's spear skills were also left by the Song Lianghuai Township soldiers who secretly insisted on practicing martial arts in the Yuan Dynasty. Without enough heavy armor and few sophisticated archers and riders, if we do not rely on the chariot formation, our army should not be said to be against Jiannu. Even for the Mongolian tribes, maybe there will be the defeat of Xu Da and others when Emperor Taizu was in the past... ”

"Alright, alright! I am generally clear, I have understood the difference between the former Song Dynasty and our dynasty, in fact, now my worry is: Lin Dan Khan and others fled westward, will Jiannu take a detour"

30 battalions and 18 infantry, less than three dings to draw a scale. Based on the calculation of the number of Eight Banners and Niulu, Houjin dispatched 7,500 guards and 7,500 camp soldiers this time, that is, 15,000 armored soldiers and 4,500 infantry. Coupled with 3,000 Mongolian soldiers in the left and right battalions, 500 guns and gunners of the Han army, and 15,000 soldiers equivalent to the number of armor, the whole army of the Eight Banners should be about 38,000, including 20,003 soldiers and 15,000 auxiliary soldiers