Chapter 90: But the sacrificial hole should have time for new methods of warfare with unripe firearms
Hearing Sanniang talk about sacrificing holes, Kong Duanyou's heart was slightly angry, since the opening of Shandong Road, there have been sacrifices to holes every year for several years, although this female Xuanfu envoy did not personally participate in the sacrifice of holes, but every year the sacrifice holes have sent high-ranking officials and generals to participate, and the sacrificial items are extremely rich. In the first year of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Uncle Zhang went to the night, and Lu Junyi went to the next few years.
And this sacrificial hole is derived from the Spring and Autumn Period, and since the Han Gaozu Liu Bang sacrificed to Kong, the Son of Heaven in all dynasties has sacrificed Kong, and the folk Confucian Mansion presides over the sacrifice of Confucius every year, and the specifications and courtesies are also increasing with the title of Confucius Sage. When he arrived in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Song was even more courteous to Confucius and Confucius. But for thousands of years, there have been no women to participate in the sacrifice of holes, just because the sacrifice is an important thing, in the ancient patriarchal times, women were considered unclean because of the menstrual affairs, so since the Han and Tang dynasties, there have not been women to participate in the sacrifice of holes. Even Empress Wu Zetian only crowned the saint of Kong, but did not personally participate in the sacrifice of Kong.
After the opening of the town on Shandong Road, the Xuanfu envoy of the feudal town was a woman, which made the Confucian Mansion feel sad for a while. Fortunately, the female Xuanfu envoy only sent her high-ranking officials and generals to participate in the annual sacrifice on her behalf, so as to avoid this conflict between reality and tradition. didn't expect that Sanniang would suddenly mention it now.
Kong Duanyou was stunned for a while, and after a moment of silence, he said carefully: "I feel the kindness of the Xuanfu Envoy, and the important ministers of the town guard mansion participate in the sacrifice of Kong every year. It's just that there have always been no women to participate in the sacrifice of Confucius, and the presiding over it are all men, which is very inconvenient, and above the sacrificial Confucius, the etiquette is quite complicated. ”
Hearing Kong Duanyou's refusal, Sanniang didn't care, and said with a slight smile: "I have opened the town of Shandong for several years, and I often regret that I can't worship Kong in person. Now that the military and political affairs on the Shandong Road are in order, I also have the kung fu to participate in them, and I am not afraid of the red tape. As for the fact that women cannot participate in the sacrificial hole, I think it is biased here. According to ancient legends, our human race was created by Nuwa Niangniang, and Nuwa Niangniang was a woman. And every man is born of a woman, so why can't a woman participate in the sacrifice of holes? Moreover, in the Spring and Autumn Period, after the death of Sage Kong, didn't his wife and daughter also participate in the sacrifice? Besides, I am the lord of the feudal town of the imperial court, the Xuanfu envoy of the town guarding one side, and I have the official position and the emperor's order, and the identity of a woman is only a trivial matter. ”
Kong Duanyou was irrefutable after hearing this, and he didn't dare to say anything more, so he had to be silent, Sanniang continued with a smile: "Everyone doesn't need to worry, this trip is personally involved, and the courtesy specifications will be higher, and this Xuanfu envoy will also make sacrifices in person to show respect for the saints." I think that Sage Kong had a teaching and no kind of words before his death, presumably he has a spirit in the sky, and he doesn't care about the identity of a woman, otherwise it will seem that Sage Kong is too petty, do you say yes? ”
Kong Duanyou was frozen by Sanniang's words, Sanniang's official position and power were placed there, and Sanniang promised to increase the courtesy specifications of the sacrifice Kong, which was also a special honor for the Confucian Mansion. ”
Sanniang's sacrifice to Confucius is not necessary to participate, for the Confucian saint, she has no good feelings but no bad feelings, but she needs the support of Confucian Confucianism for her, and whether she can participate in the sacrifice of Confucius can be regarded as a test, Sanniang wants to see if Confucius will set a precedent for her as a woman. If Confucius can agree to this matter, she successfully participates in the sacrifice to Kong, it shows that Confucius has crossed a hurdle for her womanhood, and after she becomes emperor in the future, the resistance brought by Confucian ethics will be much smaller, and if Confucius does not agree to this, Sanniang does not mind tearing her face, first take down Kong Duanyou, and learn from the golden people to find soft bones in Confucius to achieve their goals!
Then Sanniang smiled and persuaded the wine one by one, and after the banquet, please rest for a while, just wait to watch a real military drill in the afternoon. This is also the first exercise close to actual combat, which not only tests the sergeants of the army but also tests the command ability of the commander General Ma.
After a short rest, the actual military drill is about to begin, Sanniang invited everyone to return to the point of the general's platform, only to see that at this time the eighteen camp tents in the teaching field have all been pulled out of the camp, and the two military formations are lined up, with the red and blue colors of the tasseled helmet, the leader of the red side is the leopard head Lin Chong, the general of Shandong Road, and the leader of the blue side is Luan Tingyu, the general of Qingzhou Mansion.
But when he saw that on each side were 1,500 men and horses, including 300 crossbowmen, 200 rattan players, 200 infantry and heavy infantry, 200 firearms men, 200 heavy cavalry, and 300 hussars.
The red side Lin Chong's team set up the five formations that the Song army was accustomed to, that is, the rattan players were in front, the heavy armored infantry army was the middle army, the two wings were cavalry, and the crossbowmen were behind. However, Luan Tingyu put on a moon formation, with crossbowmen on both wings, rattan and heavy armor in the middle, and cavalry behind the formation.
Seeing that the two armies were deployed, Lu Junyi stepped forward to ask for an order, Sanniang gave an order, and the war drums on the left and right sides of the stage were beaten, and the three thousand soldiers in the field and the tens of thousands of soldiers watching from a distance shouted together, cheering for both sides!
The military formations on both sides slowly pressed up, and Lin Chong took the lead in attacking, charging with cavalry on both wings to force Luan Tingyu's two wings, hoping that Luan Tingyu would make a mistake in his busy change of formation in a hurry and expose his flaws. Luan Tingyu saw Lin Chong's cavalry flying out on both wings, and hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen on both wings to cast a rain of arrows to block, and the arrows were all wrapped in lime cloth after the arrows, and they would not hurt people after being hit, but they would leave a white mark on the armor, but the cavalry with a white mark was judged dead or wounded and withdrew from the exercise.
After a rain of arrows, Lin Chong's cavalry on both wings was only more than ten people who withdrew from the exercise, but they had already rushed closer, Luan Tingyu's horn sounded, and sure enough, it began to change formations, the crossbowmen on both wings contracted, and the heavily armored infantry stepped forward to form a rejection formation with the rattan soldiers to block Lin Chong's cavalry. The hussars sent by Lin Chong were not in a hurry, swept in front of the formation, and did not directly clash with the horse rejection formation, but kept harassing the Luan Tingyu army formation, and the infantry army and the bow and crossbow formation behind were steadily following up.
It wasn't until Lin Chong's main formation approached that Luan Tingyu ordered someone to blow the horn, and the hussars of the blue side behind the formation came out of their horses and went to pursue the red hussars. Seeing this, Lin Chong hurriedly erected a red flag and ordered the hussars in front to fight to the death, so the hussars on both sides fought on the horses with wooden weapons with blades.
Seeing this, Lin Chong ordered his hussars to fight and retreat, retreating to the front of the formation, and suddenly the door of the formation opened, and after letting his own cavalry, the crossbowmen and firearms inside suddenly attacked. The thunderbolt thrown by the firearms soldier is modified, like a cannon battle, but after the burst, lime powder will fly out, and those who are contaminated will be judged as casualties.
After being raided by crossbowmen and firearmsmen, there was no one in the blue hussars, and there were still dozens of red hussars left. Luan Tingyu saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered the heavy armored cavalry to attack, and rushed straight to Lin Chong's main formation, but was soon changed by Lin Chong's formation, and was blocked by the infantry armor to arrange a horse rejection formation, Luan Tingyu saw that the situation was not good, so he had to order the whole army to assault, and the Chinese army also pressed up.
Seeing this, all the generals of Liangshan saw that Luan Tingyu's defeat was decided, and Lu Junyi twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Luan Tingyu is not good at using firearms, and it is really still a shortcoming. The generals of Liangshan were silent when they saw it, although at this time there were firearms battalions in the army and horses of the Shandong Road, many old generals of Liangshan were still not used to using firearms. Just because many Liangshan generals are still accustomed to the previous cold weapon warfare method, they cannot flexibly master the use of firearms, and when they conquered Tianhu and later fought with Gao Yu, many of the battles could have been won quickly with firearms, and the Liangshan generals urged the soldiers to come forward to fight hand-to-hand.
In fact, you don't have to blame the Liangshan generals for their conservatism, just because war is not a child's play, before Sanniang was equipped with firearms on a large scale, they were all old tactics of cold weapons to win the battle, and these tactics have been tempered by countless battles, and they have been summed up with the lives of tens of millions of people.
Even in later history, the Western European powers experienced many twists and turns in the face of every military change. From the beginning of the mixed use of hot and cold weapons in the Spanish phalanx, to the mature linear array tactics of musketeers, it has also gone through a long period of time before it has become mature. The abandonment of breech muskets and the switch to breech muskets were also successfully changed after fierce debates and actual combat.
The army and war promote military reform, but the army is also an extremely conservative place, just because of the major military affairs, there are not a few cases of the country losing in World War I, so when new weapons and tactics appear, it is necessary to reverse the old concepts.
Seeing Luan Tingyu's defeat, the generals of Liangshan were inexplicably frightened, when Lin Chong's Chinese army crushed Luan Tingyu's Chinese army under the opening of the firearms, Luan Tingyu's firearms soldiers never played an important role, and were finally broken in by the cavalry and scattered.
Just as the so-called layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway, unlike the generals of Liangshan who were surprised by the horror of the firearms soldiers who changed the situation of the battle, Kong Duanyou and other famous teachers and Confucian squires and rich squires were more shocked by the real heroism of this kind of real military confrontation. Although the knives, guns and firearms have been treated, it is still extremely dangerous to fight in such a real fight, and sure enough, after the first battle, more than a dozen soldiers were injured, and more than a dozen seriously injured were cavalry falling from horses and injured, and more were caused by blunt blows from wooden weapons, and some soldiers were injured by lime eyes. Fortunately, medical wardens such as An Daoquan came forward to treat them immediately, but no one was killed. But Kong Duanyou and others were deeply impressed by the ferocity of the military horses on the Shandong Road, even if they were so martial, they could be so ruthless to their own people, how ferocious this military horse was.