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The next day, the Qing army that crossed Yulang Creek besieged Yushan County.

The wounded and sick house in the city is now full of wounded Ming soldiers. The stab wounds of spears, the slashes and cuts of waist knives and daggers, and so on. It's just that in yesterday's battle, the Ming army failed to achieve the predetermined strategic goals, and it was the first time that the losses were almost equal to the Qing army, especially when the Qing army besieged the city, and the Ming army's morale in the city was inevitably slightly fluctuating.

"I really didn't expect that I didn't win."

"Yes, Brother Lu, the Tartars were defeated so badly last year, who knows that only a year has passed."

The two people who spoke, one was called Lu Yurui and the other was Li Jin, both of whom were Jiangxi volunteers brought by Zhang Zisheng.

Originally, although they were in charge of more than 100 men, women, and children in Jiangxi, and there were only 10 or 20 Ding Zhuang and soldiers, it did not prevent them from having a position as a chief military officer. However, after entering the Ming Army in Zhejiang, the more than 50 general soldiers of Zhang Zisheng's department, who had more than 10,000 men, women, and children, were immediately picked up by Chen Wen. There is no way, the Zhejiang Ming Army has tens of thousands of soldiers alone, and the total number of soldiers is only a few people, and the phenomenon of abusive officials in the Jiangxi Righteous Army naturally cannot be tolerated by Chen Wen.

Now, Li Jin and Lu Yurui, one in the first game of the Yushan Camp and the other in the fourth game of the Yushan Camp, are both captains of a team, which is also in line with the number of Ding Zhuang under their original command.

"There are tens of thousands of troops in the Tartars outside the city, and the prince is coming to help, but I'm afraid it's not easy."

Lu Yurui's pessimism is impregnating Li Jin all the time, making him also begin to be pessimistic about the future. But in the next second, I only heard him say: "It's not easy, Guogong will also come to save us, we are also the king of Zhejiang now, and there are Hou Ye and Li Hou Ye in the city." ”

"Salvation will definitely come, what I'm afraid of is that if we come and can't break the siege, then what should we do."

Hearing this, Li Jin couldn't help frowning, and then asked in a low voice, "Brother Lu, don't you want to lower the Tartars." ”

"Drop?"

Unexpectedly, hearing Li Jin's questioning, Lu Yurui said helplessly: "You are a captain, I am a captain, even if this is the case, do you think the firearms captain in your team and my team will listen to us?" We are all like this, Hou Ye's side, prison officers, military judges, staff officers, quartermasters, all kinds of soldiers, can take a few soldiers, if you don't have soldiers in your hands, even if you want to surrender the Tartars, you have to ask for you. ”

The structure of the Ming Army in Zhejiang has begun to take shape, with battalion officers, supervising officers, and staff officers forming a three-tier command system, while supervising officers, military judges, quartermasters, and staff officers perform their own duties, each has its own department and superior, and is not an absolute subordinate of the battalion officer.

In this way, the financial power is not in hand, the power to enforce military law is not in hand, the ideology in the army has no right to interfere, and the families and land of the soldiers are under the management of the guard. can only command battles, and its military power will naturally be greatly reduced, and if you want to do something like rebellion, I am afraid that you will not even be able to pull many soldiers.

"You shouldn't even think about it!"

Li Jin shouted, Lu Yurui hurriedly looked around, confirmed that there was no one around and breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said to Li Jin: "You are quieter, why don't I just talk about it." Hou Ye will not descend the tartars, and neither will the Guogong, we naturally have to fight to the end, you are so loud, I don't know what do you think Lao Tzu is going to do. ”

"Hey, now, it's no fun to rely on us, we can only count on Guogong."

"Indeed, I only hope that the national government will be able to turn the tide."

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Yushan County, was founded in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, because at that time the Japanese invaders ravaged the coastal areas of Fujian, the Ming court recruited a group of Guangdong soldiers, but on the road because of the meager reward and mutiny, plundered Yushan, only to have the move to build the city.

It was built in the spring of the 41st year of Jiajing, completed in the next year, and was built after accumulation. So far, the city wall is 4,200 steps long, about seven miles, the base of the wall is one zhang eight feet wide, the top is one zhang and two feet wide, and the horses can be passed; The wall is six feet high, and the female wall is four feet high. There are six gates in the city wall: "Runze" in the east, "Lianshan" in the west, "Wenguang" in the south, "Picking millet" in the north, "Rulin" in the small east gate, and "Apricot Blossom" in the small west gate. The gates were covered with iron sheets to strengthen their defenses.

However, when the city wall was first built, the construction period was short, and it was required to be completed quickly, and the quality of the project was poor. In the second year of Yongli, the female wall collapsed, and the city wall was damaged, so Hong Chengchou would give up here last year and retreat to build a fortress in Guangxin Mansion City for the purpose of fortification.

After the Ming army recovered Yushan, it was originally planned to build a fortress outside the city to achieve the effect of each other's horns, but with the expansion of the plan, the Yushan fortress plan was abolished, but the city defense was repaired, and the necessary reinforcement was carried out, nothing more. I thought it was just just in case, but who knew that this would really be bumped into, but it caused Yiwu and other three battalions to sit in the city.

After Chen Wen received Li Ruixin's urgent report, he took this information to the general staff department of the army overnight, and together with the previous intelligence summary, he carried out staff operations at the same time.

"According to the intelligence: Yongfeng County has fallen, the Yang brothers are dead, and it is Liu Guangbi, the governor of Jiangxi, who sent troops. And what met our army in Yulang Creek was the troops of Bai Guangen, the commander of Jingbiaoqian Town......"

Due to the existence of Hong Chengchou's blockade order and relocation order, the transmission of intelligence became more and more difficult, especially in Nanchang, which had been trained by the five towns of Biao, and the Nanchang shogunate's counter-espionage efforts were also very strong, and it was difficult to collect intelligence. Prior to this, the intelligence that could be collected was nothing more than that the Qing army ordered a large number of bird guns and spears, and sent a large number of green battalion soldiers from the north to the south to form the five towns of Jingbiao.

Among the five town governors, Li Benshen and Hu Maozhen were Gao Jie's subordinates, Daniel Zhang was previously the chief soldier of Gansu, Liu Fangming was the chief soldier of Ningxia, and Bai Guangen was originally a liukou and previously a subordinate officer. These five people don't seem to have much connection, but they are either Shaanxi or Ningxia in their hometowns. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was either the Shaanxi Liukou or the Qin army, which can be said to be the most warlike generals in the northern green camp today.

If we add the Liaodong military generals Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie, as well as the "Shanshan Xuandaguan Liaokan War Generals" drawn by these seven generals according to Hong Chengchou's letter, it can be said that they represent the highest level of combat effectiveness of the Manchu Green Battalion.

"Marshal, the Tartars' infantry battle formation seems to be imitating our spear formation."

Imitate?

As soon as he got the news that the Qing army was building bird guns and spears in large quantities, Chen Wen already felt that something was not right. There is no other reason, only long soldiers, no short soldiers, which is not in line with the Qing army's habitual tactics, if it is just to not show cowardice in front of the Ming army's spear array and mandarin duck array, then it is to lose its own strengths.

At first, Chen Wen also thought so, but now that he thinks about it, it is not like this at all!

"I remember, Li Ruixin said that the battle formation of the Tartars moves extremely slowly, can you say this?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Zhang Gongyan, a staff officer of the General Staff Department of the Army, glanced at the emergency report and immediately replied: "There is indeed such a sentence." ”

"I remember that Li Ruixin mentioned that after the two armies came into contact, the Tartar bird would abandon the gun and draw the knife, squat down and come over to fight, can you say this?"

"Yes."

"I remember, Li Ruixin said that the ratio of the Tartar's bird gunners to spearmen is about half and half?"

"That's true."

Slow action, rat fighting, one-to-one fiery spear ......

The more Chen Wen thought about it, the more familiar he felt, as if he really had such a fragment in his mind, in which an army was formed like this fighting in a strange land.

After thinking about it for a long time, he realized that he had played this thing before, but it was not for his own army training, but to help a friendly army improve its combat effectiveness!

"It's not imitating us, it's the Spanish phalanx!"

When he was in Tiantai Mountain, Chen Wen once helped Yu Guowang to train the Spanish phalanx, but what he taught Yu Guowang was the version that had just removed the Swiss halberd, because the surrounding Qing army, its cavalry had an overwhelming advantage over Yu Guowang's troops, and if there was no shield, cavalry would cause great trouble to the already fragile hand-to-hand infantry of the Ming army on Tiantai Mountain.

But now, the Qing army only has spearmen and bird guns, and if you calculate the ratio of one to one, then it can only be what the Spanish phalanx looked like when it developed to the ultimate stage. At least in his impression, only the Spanish phalanx and Qi Jiguang's infantry battalion in the north had a one-to-one ratio of firearms and hand-to-hand combat, and the others really had no impression.

"Spanish phalanx?"

Many staff officers have never heard of the name of this formation, but not everyone is like this, Zhang Gongyan is an exception - he has not only heard of it, but even seen with his own eyes how those Portuguese mercenaries from Macao crushed the Qing army in Guilin!

"This, how good is this!"

At that time, the momentum of the Qing army was so fierce that it seemed that no one in the world could stop the Qing army's soldiers. But in that battle, first defending the city, and then going out of the city to fight, the scene of the Qing army being beaten by that Portuguese mercenary almost came to his mind every night. As a result, Zhang Gongyan, who was originally respectful of Western learning, chose to turn to his eyes and tried his best to lobby the officials of the Yongli Imperial Court.

This impression is too deep, although in Zhejiang in recent years, a series of tactical innovations of the Zhejiang Ming army made him see hope, but that sense of awe of the power of the western Thai formation has not completely dissipated, so that when I heard that the Qing army had retrained the Spanish phalanx, I couldn't help but feel anxious.

"Bo Chu ......"

The location was marked on the map according to the report, so that it was easier to see the offensive and defensive situation at that time more clearly, and the staff officer couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Zhang Gongyan, who performed far better than his peers in the defense of Jinhua, because of such a sentence.

"You don't know the power of that formation!"

Zhang Gongyan has seen it with his own eyes, and Chen Wen knows this very well that the task of the staff officers of the Ming Army in Zhejiang is to deduce according to scientific methods, check and fill in the gaps in the commander-in-chief, and make suggestions. Case......

"Staff Officer Zhang, tell them what you saw in Guilin City back then."

"Dashuai, it's time now!"

"Speak!"

"Obedience."

The will of the coach cannot be violated, and since Chen Wen asked him to say it, it is not without a purpose. Seeing this, Zhang Gongyan took a deep breath, and then said to the people around him: "It was the first year of Yongli, and I was working in Qu Wenzhong's public tent. At that time, the Tartar army went south and went straight to Guilin. Wen Zhong swore to defend Guilin to the death, and we were also determined to die, and it was Pang ...... who was about to arrive at the Tartar Commander Warrior Battalion."

Pang Tianshou, the great eunuch of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was the liaison between the Ming court and Macao, and this Portuguese mercenary was brought by him to Macao, and it is even said that Pang Tianshou also worshipped the priest Qu Shawei as a teacher.

From Pang Tianshou to lead troops to assist in the defense, first to defend the city, to repel the attack of the Qing army with firearms, and then out of the city field battle, the Qing army was defeated in a battle, with Zhang Gongyan's memory to tell, soon the people present had a deeper understanding.

The impact of that war not only added him to a Confucian scholar who preached Western learning, but also led to the fact that all the courts of the Yongli court except for the emperor entered Catholicism, including Zhu Ciheng, the crown prince of the Yongli Emperor, who had the Christian name of Constantine. In other words, if Zhu Youlang died, the Son of Heaven would be a Catholic emperor......

Hearing this, Chen Wen couldn't help but shake his head, there is more than this in history. After being baptized, the Emperor of Yongli also sent a letter to the Holy See through his connections in Macao, hoping that the Holy See would organize a large army to assist him in fighting the Manchus. However, this "crusade" in the seventeenth century did not take place, and the Holy See hesitated for ten years before sending a messenger to express that he could not help, and when the messenger rushed back to China, Yongli had been strangled to death by Wu Sangui.

Whether Zhang Gongyan didn't think about it for a while, or was ashamed to say it, Chen Wen didn't know this, but seeing that the staff officers were more or less dignified, he knew that his goal had been achieved.

"From now on, let's review the battle of Yulangxi."

Hearing Chen Wen's order, everyone hurriedly gathered their minds and reviewed the specific arrangements and results of the battle on the map and sand table according to Li Ruixin's report.

"This is the north bank of Yulang Creek where the four battalions of the front and back of the Tartar Jingbiaoqian Town are arranged, and here is the south ...... of Bingxi Town, where the Yiwu Battalion and the Yushan Battalion of our army are arrayed."

The terrain and formation are not complicated, it can be said that it is obvious.

At the beginning of the battle, Li Ruixin took advantage of the disadvantage that the Qing army could not be equipped with more powerful firearms in this half year, and relied on the range advantage of the Lumi gun against the bird gun, as well as the technical advantages of the fixed charge package and granular gunpowder, and took advantage of it at the beginning of the battle, causing a certain amount of damage to the Qing army.

However, once it enters the stage of hand-to-hand combat, in the spear formation, the long card player is unable to face too many and frequent attacks, and the long card is too cumbersome in the face of the mouse battle, and suffers a lot of losses; On the side of the Mandarin Duck Array, the wolf players and long card players can only resist the spurs of the Qing army, which is very passive, if it is not for the long and short soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Formation, they can also play a role in crushing those cameo short knife hands without armor and shields in the mouse battle, and it is estimated that the end is worse than the spear formation.

All in all, before the engagement, the Ming army took a great advantage, and the long-range weapons of the Qing army almost did not cause any damage to the Ming army, but when it entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the Ming army in Zhejiang, which had always been famous for this, suffered a loss. In the end, the casualties of the two sides were basically equal, the Qing army turned to the defensive, and the Ming army was unable to fight again.

Through the review on the map and the sand table, Chen Wen and his staff officers saw the situation of the battle more intuitively. In the next deduction, the staff officers expressed their opinions, but Chen Wen sat on the side and said nothing.

After a long time, everyone still did not come up with a practical and effective way to break the enemy, especially now that it is clear that the enemy is strong and I am weak, how to rely on these more than 10,000 soldiers to defeat an army two or three times their own on the battlefield, and the Qing army, which is not inferior to the ability of the Ming army in hand-to-hand combat, is indeed a big problem.

If you don't save it, it's impossible, this truth Hong Chengchou and Chen Wen tacitly know each other. Therefore, on the second day, the army set off for Changshan County as originally planned, intending to think carefully about what to do on the way.

Riding out of the capital city of Quzhou, the Ming army of the brigade was already on the way, they lined up in a neat queue, and walked towards the pontoon bridge in the distance in unison. Looking at the soldiers who were carrying all kinds of weapons on their shoulders and rolling westward with full enthusiasm, Chen Wen had seen this meeting I don't know how many times, but this time it made him think of something in a trance.

"The way of using soldiers is nothing more than to make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and avoid the real and make it virtual. I see, that's what happened. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.