Ma Mingtu was stunned when he heard this, in his opinion, the tirade just now, righteous and awe-inspiring, and there are interests and demagoguery, Wang Huan should have listened to the enthusiasm and immediately sent out the troops, but he didn't expect this Hou Ye, who looked too young to speak, to be so steady, and his words didn't match, so he wanted to send off the guests directly.

"This, Master Hou, there is an edict here in the imperial court, urging all soldiers and horses to gallop to help Shanxi......" Ma Mingtu also wanted to do his best and carry it out of the Southern Ming court.

Wang Huan glanced at him coldly, turned around and ignored him, and sat back in his chair.

Ma Wannian stepped forward, with a smile on his face, grabbed Ma Mingtu's arm like a chicken, and said, "Father-in-law Ma is going here." While dragging him out of the house, Ma Mingtu didn't finish speaking, and his arm hurt, "Wow! He was dragged out of the door.

Without the eunuchs, the hall fell silent.

Wang Huan frowned and looked at everyone, with a serious expression, took out the painting in his hand and looked at it again, threw it on the table casually, and said: "Do you think that we are now strong and invincible, so we can take advantage of the chaos in Shanxi, and the Tartars will be restrained by Jiang Xuan, strike while the iron is hot, go out of Tongguan to recover Shanxi, and lay the foundation for the future recovery of the northern land?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and they could see from each other's eyes that they all meant the same thing.

Li Tingyu didn't speak, but at this moment he touched his beard and said to Wang Huan: "We all listen to the adults, and the adults say that if we go, we will copy the guys, **** mother's; The adults said that we couldn't go, so we trained the soldiers and horses with peace of mind and waited for the order. ”

Li Dingguo immediately echoed: "General Li is right, Ma Mingtu came here with a purpose, of course he hopes that we can immediately relieve the siege of Shanxi, but Shanxi is now full of troops, once the past is like a dragon into the tiger's den, it will not be Wu Sangui and his ilk, but the elite of the Eight Banners of Dongyu, without full preparation, rashly sending troops has little chance of winning." ”

The words of the two were tacit as if they had discussed in advance, which emphasized Wang Huan's authority, and explained Ma Mingtu's careful thinking, and pressed down the passion in the hearts of the generals in a few words.

Wang Huan was not surprised, Li Dingguo's reaction was extremely fast, his IQ was extremely high, of course, he could skillfully say the risk of entering Shanxi, so he said: "The two of you are reasonable, everyone, the Tartar soldiers should not be taken lightly, when the two major battles of Salhu and Songshan, I made the best of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the whole country gathered in Liaodong, but returned defeated, my mother's white pole soldiers also folded on the edge of the Hunhe River, its situation is miserable, I can't bear to repeat, we must face the main force of the Eastern Captives, we must be fully prepared, the battle must be won, the attack must be overcome, otherwise in case of defeat and retreat, That is, it will be a thousand miles, not to mention that the hard-fought Shaanxi will not be able to be saved, and the entire northwest will be lost, so we can only retreat to our hometown in Sichuan and guard the Sword Pavilion to support it. ”

Everyone's faces turned pale, and just now they were brought into Top Gun by Ma Mingtu to recover the rivers and mountains, forgetting to think about the consequences if they failed, and thinking about it carefully, it would be too terrible.

Li Tingyu thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "What the Lord said is to analyze the tactics of the Eastern Capture, and come up with a reliable countermeasure for the future against the enemy, but is this the case? ”

Wang Huan nodded: "Yes, that's what it means, we were all Han and Mongol before, and the Jurchen Eight Banners soldiers basically didn't fight in the field head-on, either like the Sword Pavilion, we held on to the pass, or blocked the Tartars in the city like attacking Xi'an, did they fight differently, why did the court officials and soldiers defeat them before?" Everybody's talking about it. ”

Speaking of this, everyone present focused on Li Tingyu and Li Dingguo, and when it came to fighting with the Jurchen Eight Banners, they had the most right to speak.

As a veteran of the Sichuan army, Li Tingyu has traveled all over most of China, and has fought nearly 100 battles with the Qing army, large and small, and he should be the first to speak.

"Speaking of the Tartars' field capabilities, they are indeed very ruthless." Li Tingyu's eyes deepened, as if he had returned to the battlefield full of flames: "In Liaodong, Shandong, Henan, until the final retreat to Jiangnan, I fought with the Tartars more than 100 times, and almost lost every time. It's a shame to say that there is no victory! ”

"The Mongols fought wars, they liked to ride on horseback, they came and went like the wind, they had few foot soldiers, they were not good at firearms, as long as the geography was right, ordinary spear formations could be restrained. The Han army is divided into two kinds, one is the original Ming official army that surrendered to the past, and the other is the eight banners of the Han army. The former followed the tactics of the Ming army, like to use firearms, fight for a while when fighting, the latter is basically the learning of the Eight Banners of the battle method, every battle is divided into front and rear battle formations, the dead are in front, the sharp soldiers are behind, and the cavalry is secondary, once our military formation is loosened, immediately full force impact, tearing the mouth alive, until the defeat. ”

"And the Jurchen Eight Banners are even stronger, the battalion of dead soldiers are all savage Jurchen origins, wearing heavy armor in battle, not afraid of death, and hiding behind the shield car, the bullets and arrows cannot be stopped, often in the smoke of the bird's attack like a demon out of the smoke, holding a sharp blade to slash and kill, directly breaking our front army; The sharp barracks that followed followed then attacked our Chinese army, and the cavalry on both sides covered and killed. ”

"However, although the Jurchens are strong, it is not difficult to crack this set of tactics, as long as the soldiers dare to fight, have the courage to meet the attack in the face of hand-to-hand combat, and do not retreat in the fight to the death, the tip of the needle is hard against Mai Mang, no matter whether he is in the battalion of the dead soldier or the sharp battalion, he cannot take half a step; As for the cavalry, they were also helpless against the infantry phalanx. ”

"But my Ming officers and soldiers, all of them are weak, Hugh said that the sharp barracks, just the impact of the dead battalion can crush the whole formation, often after the bird is fired, can not stop the enemy army will fall apart, see the blood like a woman frightened, where there is the slightest blood. The generals are even more unbearable, they will flee first when they are defeated, even if the soldiers have the intention to kill the enemy, but the main general will run first and the army's heart will collapse, who will fight to kill the enemy? Therefore, the battle was crushed, and the rout was dispersed, and there was a confrontation between the two armies, and the Tartar soldiers only beat the drum and blow the trumpet, and our people began to flee, and it was a shame to say it! ”

When he said a paragraph, he spat angrily, and when he finished speaking, the saliva on the ground made the green brick floor around him wet, like a rain.

Meng Zhiyu and Ma Xintian, who were standing beside him, quietly stood a few steps away.

Wang Huan pretended not to see it, and said to Li Dingguo: "Dingguo also clashed with the Tartars many times back then, so you can talk about it." ”

Li Dingguo said: "After the Qing army fought, because of the relationship between the people of the Eight Banners, the Jurchen banner soldiers were no longer used as the main force as in Liaodong, but drove the Han people to surrender to the front, and the Eight Banners Han Army was behind, and the Mongolian Eight Banners were later, and the Jurchen Eight Banners, as the existence of the supervising team, were firmly at the end, so that the loss of the Tartars' own people could be minimized, and those who rushed to the front were mostly soldiers. ”

"In the field battle of the Tartars, the shield cart will inevitably open the way, and the shield cart is made of solid wood, wrapped in cowhide, and cold water is poured on it, and water and fire will not invade. The battalion of the dead soldiers who rushed to the battle hid behind the shield cart, the bow and arrow of the bird command could not be broken, the Qing army could boldly approach us, and then close to the hand-to-hand combat, this kind of fight was the most tragic, and the battalion of the dead soldiers was thick and fast, and was not afraid of death, and often could break our strong formation, killing the bloody road, at this time, as long as the army's heart moved slightly, it would be full of rout. ”

Speaking of which, everyone present understood that the field battle method of the Jurchen Eight Banners was similar to that of Wu Sangui and his ilk, all of them were infantry soldiers rushing into battle, and the cavalry on both wings were encircled, and finally won or lost in one fell swoop with the powerful Chinese army's sharp soldiers.

This set of tactics is decent, there is nothing surprising, the strength is strong in the quality of the army, the great ingenuity, the excellent personal martial arts skills of the Jurchen soldiers, this set of tactics to the fullest, coupled with the weak response of the Ming army, the Qing army's combat power to the sky.

Ma Xintian made a bold face and said in a rare speech: "In this way, our thunderbolts and exterminating bombs are the natural enemies of the Tartars. Their most threatening cavalry and heavily armored infantry may be able to break through the Bird Commander's shots while they are reloaded, but they will never be able to escape the thunderbolts and exterminators! ”

Everyone nodded, their faces were happy, and the poker face was right, and the thunder could even blow up the city walls, not to mention the shield car. As for the cavalry, in the face of the nimble exterminating shells, they could only avoid it from a distance.

The hall was excited again, and everyone felt that this time the victory was in hand.

But Wang Huan immediately poured a basin of cold water, extinguishing everyone's enthusiasm and making their smiles freeze on their faces.

"What if the Tartars hit us with a red-clad cannon?" Wang Huan said slowly: "The red-clothed cannon has a range of five miles with one shot, how far can our thunder shoot?" Their Fran cannons are farther than the thunderbolt, just now Ma Gonggong said, the Qing army artillery camp is overwhelming, even the Datong city wall has been blasted open, it is conceivable that the number of cannons is not a few, we have artillery, they also have artillery, both sides of the battle, we can not take advantage. ”

He squeezed the painting on the table in his hand again, squeezed it very tightly, and said hatefully: "There is no army without artillery, we must also have artillery, and it is a long-range cannon, which can be farther than the thunder in the sky, so as to be safe." ”

(End of chapter)