After a while, Sun Chengzong came back to his senses, and he was originally in good spirits, but he actually looked a little sluggish. It can be seen from this that this incident has hit him a bit hard.

In fact, to put it mildly, as a veteran minister who has led troops for many years, the strategy he has worked hard to come up with is naturally well thought out. There are still a few points in his strategy that are not written. If the Emperor agrees with this strategy, he will add to it.

Originally, when he was thinking about reinforcements, he didn't think about fighting Jianyu. His strategy was to build chariots, and with the reinforcements of the chariot battalion, he could fight with Jianyu in the field.

Also, every time a city is built, it will advance to Liaodong, and the land obtained by the Ming Dynasty will be one more point. Then the Liao people were recruited to reclaim the tuntian, so that the grain problem could be solved or partially solved.

If this strategy looks like this, it is perfect. At least Sun Chengzong was very satisfied before facing the saint.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's sentence of besieging but not attacking vetoed this strategy. It is undeniable that at present, the Ming army is not yet able to compete with Jianguo in the field battle. And if you rely on the car battalion, it is a bit similar to defending the city, let the Jianyu attack.

But Jianyu is stupid! As the emperor said, cut off the road, people will not attack the car camp you have set up, and they will wait for your car camp to attack when the car camp is marching again, and the car camp will be the weakest defense at that time, and it can hardly be relied on.

If the chariot battalion advances in the form of camp, the speed is slower than that of a snail, and it can only move forward little by little, and before it reaches the ground, it is estimated that the food and grass brought by the army will be exhausted, not to mention that the prisoners will not be stupid enough to look still, at least they can be exhausted by harassing at night, digging holes in the roads, etc., and they will be defeated if they do not fight.

In the final analysis, without the ability to fight in the real field with Jianyu, any other strategy is an empty word.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is useless, please choose another meritocracy!" Sun Chengzong bowed deeply, and his voice was much quieter.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he knew that what he had just said was a bit of a blow. smiled and comforted: "Sun Qing, now that I am in Liao affairs, is there anyone more familiar with it than Qing?" Just now we are just discussing, if there is a problem to solve the problem, how can we retreat because of the difficulty? ”

Sun Chengzong was taught such a lesson by the young man at this time, and the stubbornness in his bones suddenly came out again, and he couldn't help blushing at his words just now, and hurriedly lowered his head to cover up his gaffe, and at the same time replied: "Your Majesty, the key now is to have a strong army that can fight with Jianyu in the real field!" If there is, the ministers should take the city as the defense strategy! The forts built on the front line are self-serving as military reserves for the purpose of strengthening the army's attack. The purpose of the strategy is completely different!"

There was a "pop" sound, and I saw Emperor Chongzhen clapping his hands violently, and said excitedly: "Look, Sun Qing, isn't this very good!" Qing said the key at once, worthy of my big pillar stone! Now, there is only one strong army missing, so you can train a strong army! ”

Sun Chengzong also thought of training a strong army. But he is the governor of Jiliao, commanding the Guanning army, and he must always guard against Jianjiao, and how can he have the energy to train a strong army. If you wait for the strong army to be trained, then it will be the Year of the Monkey again? After all, to form a strong army that can really fight with Jianyu Field all the time, it is by no means something that can be done with a mouthful of words like talking about it.

Anything that involves fundamental changes, whether it is training and strengthening the army or not, is by no means an easy task. Even if it was the Qi family army in the Jiajing period, if someone thought that Qi Jiguang alone could be trained, it was just the idea of a hairy guy who had never been in the world!

At this time, Sun Chengzong, when he heard Emperor Chongzhen say this, his heart moved, and when he remembered his previous will, he understood a lot, and immediately bowed and said: "What Your Majesty said just now means that the income from the seizure of the Jin merchants was used to train the new army into a strong army?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded after hearing this, and then shook his head and said: "No, that money, I mainly use it to improve the national economy and people's livelihood, and I can only use part of it for the formation and training of the new army." In order to save time and money, I have previously decreed the formation of a new army, which must be the elite of each army!"

Thinking of the previous will, it is true that only the imperial court can do this, which can be regarded as gathering the power of the whole country to build a new army. However, Sun Chengzong's face was serious, and he said seriously: "Your Majesty, it is not necessary to strengthen the army for the sake of transferring the elite of each army. I hope Your Majesty will consider this carefully!"

"Of course, I'm not that naïve!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and replied with the same seriousness: "The reason why I did this is because of the military common sense of the soldiers, and the combat skills can save time and energy, and spend more effort on military discipline and the training of generals. For this reason, I decided to set up a martial arts hall to train generals and reform the military system to motivate soldiers......"

Listening to the young emperor talking endlessly about the new army's thinking, Sun Chengzong couldn't help but be surprised. There were many mentions in it, which made him refreshed and surprised.

At this moment, Sun Chengzong looked at Emperor Chongzhen on the throne, his age and experience had been automatically ignored in his eyes, and he was only shocked in his heart, this is afraid that he is a genius, right?

“…… It's just a pity that the imperial court has no money, or I will directly form a firearms unit. But the creation of sophisticated firearms, the firearms training of soldiers, the consumption of pills and firearms are too great, and the current firearms are not advanced enough to crush cold weapons, and more materials cannot be carried in marching operations, even if there are flintlock guns, they cannot be affected by the weather, so they can only be slowly figured out!"

Sun Chengzong has a lot to say about this. For large-scale operations, the logistics brought about by the firearms army is a very serious problem. For the time being, the firearms army is actually good at defending rather than offensive.

The flintlock pistol, he also knew. However, he did not think that the flintlock pistol could be equipped with the army, because the firing part was very difficult to make, and the slightest mistake would have a high rate of dumb fire, which would be fatal on the battlefield. Therefore, although there are flintlock pistols today, they are still just the playthings of the rich. If Sun Chengzong had to choose for himself, he would rather choose an arquebus.

However, he does not deny that it is an inevitable trend for firearms to replace cold weapons in the future, otherwise Daming would not have been engaged in firearms, after all, there are countless benefits there.

Emperor Chongzhen had a clear understanding of firearms, which made Sun Chengzong admire in his heart. To deal with Jianyu, it is necessary to combine cold and hot as His Majesty said, and gradually and slowly transform into firearms.

In his speech on military affairs, Sun Chengzong's age and experience are still very qualified, and he immediately put forward several suggestions. The two monarchs and ministers discussed the matter of the new army until dark.