"Your Excellency, your army is powerful, and their cannons and muskets are even more powerful...... I think they are very similar to my soldiers, not that they look alike, but that they are ......" Less than a minute after the truce, the captain approached Hong Tao again, and continued to pat himself with a smile on his face, and at the same time expressed his feelings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's like a way of fighting, right?" Hong Tao didn't wait for him to say anything, and simply said it for him.

"Yes, yes, almost identical, you trained them yourself, right? I heard that the training syllabus of the Imperial Army was also drawn up by you. "This little captain is not only broken-mouthed, but also a gossip man who inquires, knows a little about everything, but doesn't know much about anything.

"Have you ever heard of an Imperial Army officer named Swan?" The enemy retreated, and it is estimated that he will not be able to organize a second attack for a while and a half, and Hong Tao is also idle, so he simply talks to him more. By chatting, you can also relieve the tension in your heart.

"Swan! The son of the Governor of the Port of Malacca? He seems to have been shipwrecked more than ten years ago...... I have seen a statue of him in the Imperial Military Cemetery. "The little captain really knows a lot of things, and even Swan, who has disappeared for more than ten years, has an impression.

"Yes, it's him, he was the first training officer of the Imperial Army, which means that the first batch of Imperial Army officers were trained by him. And these armies of mine are also trained by him, you are all a master, you should be considered a brother. Hong Tao told the little captain what he might not have known yet.

“…… Could it be that Instructor Swann didn't die, but went to the East with you? The little captain's mind spun quickly, and he was stunned for only a few seconds before he came to the correct judgment.

"Don't call it Oriental, how ugly it sounds, Orient should refer to the Japanese, that broken island is still worth my occupation? You don't have to ask where I've been, all I can tell you is that Swann is now king. In his kingdom, there are still hundreds of thousands of such soldiers, if I am not afraid that I will bring them all back and scare my son, that is, your emperor, I still use you to help me? See, follow me to do it, and in the end you will either be promoted or rich, or at least get a governor to have fun. How about it, have you considered my proposal just now? Decide early, make a profit early. Hong Tao once again heard someone call himself from the East, and he was very helpless, trying to clarify for himself. At the same time, he didn't forget to dig up his son's subordinates, and he really fought hard for the sake of Da Song, and threw this old face away without a trace.

"Huh? What do you propose? The little captain's eyes were wide at Hong Tao's words, the amount of information was too large, Rao is his brain is quite bright, and he can't figure out so many clues for a while.

"It's just for you to go back and resign, and come to the Great Song Dynasty to follow my proposal to eat and drink spicy food! What's the matter, I talk like a fart, right? "Digging into the corner of other people's walls, Hong Tao is still anxious, he is really invincible in the world.

"Resign...... But my home is still in Mayi Harbour, and my son has just started kindergarten, is it appropriate to quit now? The little captain was discussing the rationality on his lips, but he was a little tempted in his heart. In the system of the Golden River Empire, people with the ability can indeed rise step by step, but the speed is too slow, because there are rules everywhere, and if you don't do some earth-shattering feats, it is really impossible to make a big breakthrough in the short term.

But the Great Song Dynasty is different, it is equivalent to the founding of the country just now, and the situation is similar to that when the Jinhe Empire was founded, and the people who are in power in the Jinhe Empire now are not the little children who ran behind Emperor Hong's ass at the beginning of the founding of the country. If you follow this old emperor and run away, maybe you can really become a character in a few years, it is possible to be a military or a political official, and even being a minister or something is not a dream.

"I have four children in the Empire, but I don't say I'm leaving. A manly man, career is the first. And I didn't say that you should abandon your wife and children, you first go to the Great Song Dynasty to work for a year to try the environment, and it will be regarded as an expedition. If this place suits you, you can take your wife and children over, and Da Song is not without a school, do you think that the school I run will be inferior to the Imperial University? As soon as he heard the tone of the little captain, Hong Tao felt that there was a way, and quickly sketched his future again, which was reasonable and well-founded.

"You...... Do you think it is appropriate for me to continue to be an officer in Da Song, or to be a manager in a factory or something? Not only do I know statistics, but in fact, I studied staff officers at the Imperial Military Academy, and I originally wanted to go to the army staff, but unfortunately I didn't go to the battlefield at that time, and people didn't accept people with no combat experience, so I went to the shipyard. The little captain began to follow Hong Tao's train of thought, trying to prove his ability.

"Didn't I just say that you can't show your talents in the army, and the most suitable position for you is politics. If you want to be a magistrate, train for a few years, and make achievements, maybe you will be the parent official of the pastoral side, such as the mayor or something, what do you say? Hong Tao smiled kindly, patted the little captain's arm, and drew the last piece of the puzzle for him, so the future of the little captain was formed.

"Mayor! Can I be mayor? Hey, hey, hey...... I ......" The little captain was very surprised and excited when he heard the future that Hong Tao had planned for him, and it was a very honorable thing to get the praise of the old emperor. Although he had never worked with the old emperor, he had heard many rumors about the old emperor since he was a child, and almost every one of them made him think about it.

"Enemy attack! Beware of concealment! Woo...... Woo...... Knock knock knock...... ......"Just as Hong Tao was about to accept the little captain's surrender, a terrible shout on the bank of the river wiped out all his previous efforts, followed by the sound of air being rubbed, and then the movement of heavy objects falling to the ground and falling into the water.

"him! It's trebuchet! Lookout, find out where it is for me and let the mortar take it out! "Hong Tao is angry, it's so hateful, either throw it early, or throw it later, why don't you throw it at this time, isn't this a heart and make trouble with yourself! No, it must not be endured, it must be a tooth for a tooth!

This time, it was not only trebuchets but also cavalry. Seeing that the infantry could not break through the defensive line, the other side simply moved the cavalry out. According to the combat concept at this time, the most effective type of troops to break through the enemy's defense line is cavalry. As for where these northern wealthy clans got so many war horses, the answer is very simple, it must have something to do with the Mongols. When the Mongols retreated, it is estimated that these wealthy clans were not idle, and they received all the Han troops that the Mongols had no time to take away, and there was naturally no shortage of cavalry.

The Imperial Army and the Marines dealt with cavalry in the same way as they did against infantry, using cannons at long distances, guns at medium distances, and nothing at close range, because they could not let the cavalry rush to close range. Hong Tao also did not expect that these wealthy clans would have cavalry and trebuchets in their hands, but fortunately, the number of cavalry was not too large, and the organization was not very tight, and they only charged from one direction on the west side of the riverbank, and finally did not break through the defense line of the riverbank.

But trebuchets are a bit annoying, there are not many of them, but it is difficult to find them in the dark night when the torches are everywhere, and they can only estimate the flight trajectory according to the landing point of the stones, and then use incendiary bombs to find the way, and destroy them after shining on the target. This work cost the Marines a lot of incendiary bombs, but it also had an unexpected effect, not only knocking out seven or eight trebuchets, burning many people, but also forcing the enemy's line to retreat a few hundred meters. No one wants to be on the side of this kind of ghostly fire, and even if there is an order, these half-army and half-civilian troops cannot sustain it.

Morale, fighting in the period of cold weapons, discipline, morale, and weather are more important than equipment, formation, and individual ability. Obviously, the discipline of the army of these wealthy clans is very average, and the weather can't help them much, as soon as the two axes come up, not only did they fail, but they also suffered a lot of casualties, and the morale of the originally bullied more and less was immediately low. As soon as morale weakened, the rest of the problems came, and for a long time the shore fell into relative calm, except for the mortars firing an incendiary bomb into the darker areas every once in a while, and the snipers of the Imperial Army and Marines occasionally firing a shot at those who dared to go within three hundred meters, there was no major movement on either side. (To be continued.) )