After listening to Sun Fumin's words, all the officers fell silent. The deputy division commander pondered for a while and said, "What the division commander said is a problem for all of us. All along, our Guards were invincible in the face of the enemy, and the whole army had a contempt for the enemy. In particular, we have never suffered defeat against the Mongol cavalry, so that everyone does not think of the cavalry in their hearts, and they do not think that this Cossack cavalry is much stronger than the Mongol cavalry. ”

The commander of the first brigade also said: "I suggest that our army be stationed here first and adjust its mentality. His Majesty the Emperor said that pride is a necessary mentality in war, but pride can only be contempt for the enemy, believing that the Ming army must be invincible, and in specific battles, we must be humble and proud after destroying all the enemies. We have all forgotten the conditions of pride, and only pride remains, so this incident has given us a wake-up call, let's study the military quotations of His Majesty the Emperor, and draw nourishment from His Majesty's quotations, so that our Guards can be invincible. ”

The so-called military quotations of His Majesty the Emperor were formed with the tacit consent of Sun Chuanting, by Zhang Zongling, Xue Boling, Sun Fumin and other fanatical admirers of His Majesty the Emperor to excerpt some of the emperor's aphorisms during the lecture in the martial arts hall, which basically encapsulated Zhu Youxiao's main military views. Sun Chuanting personally sorted out a small quotation, which was called "Military Quotations of the Emperor of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse".

Sun Fumin nodded, and the first brigade commander opened the "Military Quotations of the Emperor of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse" and read: "Prudence and cowardice are not synonymous, just as bravery is not the same as recklessness." This quote is just applicable to the current situation of our Guards, our winning streak has made us forget our prudence, and we feel that prudence and cowardice mean the same thing, if we can set up the artillery before the Cossacks go into battle, and follow the formation of the artillery team followed by the musket team, in fact, the Cossacks will not be able to inflict such heavy casualties on us. ”

Sun Fumin said: "I am the recorder of this quotation, but I have completely forgotten the true meaning of His Majesty's quotation, deputy division commander, you temporarily take my position, I will reflect for a period of time before speaking." The military judge reported the details of the battle to General Zhang, and I think this should be useful for the arrogance of the entire Guards. ”

When everyone saw that Sun Fumin insisted, they didn't say more. So the deputy division commander became the acting division commander, Sun Fumin temporarily became the division staff officer, and the entire division was stationed in the fortress and began to rectify the atmosphere, focusing on studying the "Military Quotations of the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty". Sun Fumin discussed with the staff officers of the division headquarters how to deal with the Cossack cavalry.

The details of the battle of the acting division commander and the general judge, as well as the letter written by himself and Sun Fumin, were handed over to the messenger, and asked him to report to Zhang Zongling quickly, and when the messenger arrived in Beihai, he knew that the current general had been replaced by Cao Wenzhao. Cao Wenzhao read the letters from Sun Fumin, acting division commander and military judge, and then said to Zhang Zongling: "When I was lecturing in Wutang, I was most optimistic about you and Sun Zhongneng, Man Gui was most optimistic about Xue Boling and Du Guangting, Zhou Yuji was optimistic about Dai Bingyang and Zhang Xinchen, Lu Qin was optimistic about Wang Zuomin and Wei Junru, and Bachelor Lu was optimistic about Qiu Yu'an and Dai Chunfeng. Now it seems that I have the best vision. ”

Zhang Zongling said: "Brother Sun is a great talent, he has always been deeply loved by Zongling, he is so introspective, he is really a model for Zongling. ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "The arrogance in my Ming army, the last time the emperor summoned him, he said that when the situation is not good, we can fight to the death, but after defeating Jiannu, I feel that we are already the first in the world, and we don't look at others properly." The emperor said that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world, and they will only wake up after planting a big heel. Sun Zhongneng is good, and the little heel woke up. Spread the weight of their defeats, and tell them to the soldiers, that they know that we are not yet invincible, and that we celebrate before we defeat the enemy, and perhaps the enemy will last to celebrate. ”

Zhang Zongling took the order and left, Cao Wenzhao wrote another letter, and then attached Sun Fumin's letter to the back and sent someone to the capital.

After Zhu Youxiao received his recital, he carefully read it and came to the General Staff Headquarters. Facing Lu Xiangsheng, Xiong Tingbi and the others who greeted them, he returned a military salute and said, "What we are worried about, Sun Fumin has already encountered first. ”

Everyone came to the map room, and under Lu Xiangsheng's signal, a staff officer picked up a pole and pointed to the map and said: "Now that General Cao has arrived in Beihai, according to the previous arrangement, Division Commander Sun Fumin should search along the Ob River, and Division Commander Xue Boling should search along the Yenisei River." ”

A clerk took out a map newly drawn by Cao Wenzhao and gave it to the staff officer, who took out a ruler and began to calculate, and then marked some place names on the map.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Sun Fumin suffered a small loss in Tomsk, it is not a loss, but a battle that could have been won at a relatively small cost cost him more than 200 lives and many serious injuries. So he repented, demoted himself to his post, and now concentrated on thinking about how to deal with the Cossack cavalry. ”

After Lu Xiangsheng and Xiong Tingbi read the battle report of the Battle of Tomke, Xiong Tingbi said: "The loss of this defeat is not large, but the most important thing is to expose the extremely serious sentiment of underestimating the enemy within our army, which is the biggest problem. His Majesty said that if there is any problem, it is better to expose it early than later, and this matter is actually a good thing in the minister's opinion. ”

Zhu Youxiao snorted: "Every soldier of my Ming Dynasty must die as he deserves." This defeat, although Sun Fumin cannot be punished for this, but this matter must be publicized, Cao Wenzhao's meaning is also like this, let everyone know that I am not invincible in the world now, and no matter when, I can't think that I am invincible in the world. ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said: "When it comes to soldiers, the most taboo is to be complacent. Although our firecrackers are more lethal than bows and arrows, and the distance is farther than bows and arrows, their biggest shortcoming is that they are slow to reload. Fighting with Jiannu, Jiannu is basically an infantry battle, so we can completely suppress them. In the battle against the Mongols and the Tile Thorns, the minister had always worried that there would be problems in dealing with the cavalry, but he did not want to, but he was safe, and we have always had an overwhelming advantage. After the fact, the minister and Xiong Shi discussed together, the reason why it went so smoothly was that when we fought the Mongols, our local forces were far more than the enemy's, so that the advantage of their cavalry speed could not be brought into play, and the reason for the spurs was that we were afraid of our firearms because we had lost the Mongol tribes in a row, so this problem was not exposed. ”