Duanwangfu.

Liu Jiangbai's ass was not yet hot, and the sudden arrival of the news made him and Duan Wangju both look surprised.

"What! Ningjun is practicing by the river? ”

Liu Jiangbai's face was full of incredulity, he came back from Lin Muna just now, but he didn't expect this kid to make such a big move.

Duan Wang was a little shocked at first, but when he came back to his senses, he was overjoyed, and said: "Liufu Yin, Lin Shi is really a strange person, I didn't expect to be able to create a Ning army under such a difficult situation, today you and I will go to see how it is?" “

"It's okay, we ignored Lin Mu during this time." Liu Jiang's white eyes showed a contemplative look, "The Jin soldiers will attack at any time, whether the troops of Jiangning Mansion will be used is still unknown, if Lin Mu's Ning army can take on a big responsibility, there is one more hope of holding Jiangning." “

After speaking, he got up and went to Yanziji in Jiangning Mansion under the escort of the guards.

At the same time, Lin Muzheng commanded the 8,000 Ning Army to carry out joint exercises near Yanziji, and the reason why he chose this place is because many of the battles against Jiangning City in contemporary history took place in Yanziji.

The reason is also very simple, the army attacking Jiangning often follows the canal to the city of Jiangning, which means that it has to come from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the upper reaches to reach Jiangning City.

In his opinion, the conceited Jin people will also choose this route, and once this happens, the pier of Yanziji will inevitably become the first point captured by the Jin people.

Because only by taking this place, they can establish a camp, continuously transport supplies and soldiers, and at the same time achieve the goal of besieging Jiangning, after all, Yanziji is just north of Zhongshan, only more than ten miles away from Jiangning.

In addition to this, the terrain near Yanziji is complex, and outside of Zhongshan Mountain due north, there are some small, fragmented hills that cut off the flat plain terrain and form narrow passages.

These passages were very suitable for the Ning army to concentrate superior forces to annihilate the enemy, and if the terrain of the Great Plains was expanded, it would be unfavorable to the sparsely numbered Ning army.

"Teacher, why can't Ning Jun's array be understood?" Liu Rumian has been following Lin Mu's side, and on the wide road, the soldiers of the Ning Army are marching in a neat longitudinal queue, and in front of the queue are groups of three or five stragglers, and the artillerymen are partly in front of the column, and partly on both sides of the column.

"It's called column tactics." Lin Mu's eyes did not leave the Ning army column.

Before the eighteenth century, the line-up tactic was the first tactical method of warfare.

However, in the eighteenth century, this tactic gradually became ineffective, first during the American Revolutionary War, when the American army defeated the well-formed Red Shirts with a straggler group of three or five individual soldiers, and later this tactic was further developed, and the American army often led the enemy army into difficult terrain such as manors, farms, and forests to fight.

On this terrain, the nimble skirmishers use obstacles to resist the enemy's dense fire, and because of the agility of the skirmishers, they are able to strike the enemy, while line tactics simply cannot maintain fire in difficult terrain.

During the Napoleonic period, column tactics were more and more refined, using skirmish lines to block the enemy's attacks and cover the main force to deploy, followed by two lines of infantry, each consisting of dense battalion columns.

During the battle, the column sent stragglers forward, and formed a skirmish line with stragglers to cover the main force and artillery to occupy positions.

This tactic of combining stragglers and columns is very flexible, and it is not only suitable for maneuvering in complex terrain, but also can concentrate superior forces to surprise a little.

The tactics of the Jin people were basically learned from the Hua Dynasty, basically staying in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, because of the use of arquebuses and the three-stage shooting of horizontal teams, so the large horizontal teams on the battlefield were also the norm.

It was precisely because of this that he decided to use column tactics, but because of the flexibility of the column, it was easy for the column to change its formation, and the Ning army could also change the hollow phalanx at any time when the column was marching, and the large horizontal team could restrain the cavalry and maintain strong firepower.

After some explanation, Liu Rumian listened to the clouds and fog, and finally found that he was not the material for the war and resolutely shut up and watched the drill.

On the training ground, as Lu Zhen and Lin Rui created various enemy situations, the soldiers of the Ning Army constantly changed their formations under the command of the generals.

They suddenly dispersed into groups of five stragglers to shoot at the enemy, suddenly like birds gathered into large columns to charge forward, into a hollow phalanx when a cavalry attack was assumed, into a large horizontal column when dense firepower was needed, and in front of Lin Mu the reserve rushed into the battlefield to fill the torn defense line when it needed support.

"Lord Captain, His Royal Highness King Duan and Lord Liu have arrived."

When the drill was in full swing, the soldiers in charge of the perimeter guard came to report.

Lin Mu nodded, let Lu Zhen and Lin Rui continue, and he walked towards the positions of Duan Wang and Liu Jiangbai.

"Your Highness, Lord Liu." Lin Mu made a move.

"No courtesy."

Duan Wang's expression was excited, his eyes could not move on the training ground, and Ning Jun's musket with bayonets and field artillery pulled by donkeys attracted his attention.

Liu Jiangbai could see Ning Jun's movements from a distance all the way, and he exclaimed: "Lin Mu, this official really underestimates you, this Ning Army's firearms are excellent, and the neatness of the army's appearance is far above the Northern Army, but from the perspective of momentum, this Ning Army is a tiger and wolf division, how did you do it?"

"It's just enough for the army." Lin Mu only said half of what he said, the status of the soldiers of the Chinese Dynasty was low, and the generals in the army could only start from ordinary soldiers if they wanted to make oil and water, so they ate empty salaries, arrears of military salaries and other things were commonplace, as the so-called money and food were still insufficient, how could soldiers have combat effectiveness.

Duan Wang and Liu Jiangbai's faces turned dark when they heard this, but Lin Mu's words were not polite at all, pointing directly to the shortcomings in the current Hua Dynasty army.

It seemed that he didn't want to mention this topic, Duan Wang turned his mouth and said: "Today's view, the Ning army can be of great use, Lin Shi said, let the Ning army enter the city today, if the defenders of Jiangning City are unusable, you can only count on the Ning army." ”

"Your Royal Highness, it's not that the lower officials are disrespectful, Ning Jun is a fierce tiger, and if you are imprisoned in a cage, you can't show your ferocious nature.

Duan Wang frowned, "Lin Shi said, it's not that this king looks down on you, even if the eight thousand Ning army is one enemy and ten, I'm afraid that the field battle is not the opponent of the Jin soldiers, not to mention that after the northern army that surrendered the Jin soldiers, the number of troops in the Jin country now has 150,000 in the south." ”

"If this is the case, then you can't trap Jiangning, let me ask, the Jin people are trapped in Jiangning with 150,000 soldiers, and when the reinforcements arrive, will His Highness be able to stop it?"

Duan Wang was silent.

As Lin Mu said, if Jiangning can't shrink, the Jin soldiers will drain the water around Jiangning, and then continue to send reinforcements to consume Jiangning's troops, and sooner or later Jiangning will also break the city.

"Jiangning City is the shield of the enemy, and the Ning army is the spear that kills the enemy, only with a shield and a spear can they complement each other, and kill a glimmer of life, I hope Your Highness will think twice."

Lin Mu's tone was resolute, Duan Wang was a typical scholar born in the environment of the Chinese Dynasty, and he basically didn't know how to be a soldier and fight, and he would only push himself into the fire pit if he was dispatched.

So no matter what, he wouldn't stuff Ning Jun into the city, this is looking for death.