Chapter 143: Defending against the Barbarians
Su Zedong felt that many of the later generations he lived in were well-dressed beasts, but they were actually a group of cultured barbarians, while the ancient Mongolian cavalry and archers were purely uneducated and unqualified beastmen. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
If they don't have force and strength, they can't stand on the grassland or in the world, and horseback riding and archery are their means of survival, and they are still in a primitive society, uncivilized......
Although Su Zedong thinks so, the Mongols are more extreme, and according to the development of historical trends, it is difficult for them to gain a foothold in the social jungle like this;
But if they put their uncivilized state on the battlefield of cold weapons, then this will inevitably be a compliment to them, and it must be a nightmare for their opponents!
I have to say that as long as they have the heart to fight a good battle, prepare with their hearts, the Mongols still have dominance on the battlefield, and do not hold the technology tree of later generations, after these two large-scale battles, the number of casualties will definitely not be controlled within the hundreds.
The casualties of the soldiers guarding the first line were not heavy, but the problems exposed by the modified weapons such as firearms and crossbows they used were more serious.
After Liu Zhenming's inspection, he found that the efficiency of half-cooked steel is still relatively low when it is practical.
Especially when firearms, bows, and crossbows were used against straggler, fast-moving, point-shaped, and bulk-packed formations such as the Mongol cavalry;
When training the use of firearms, the new and old members of the Ghost Soldiers are trained to pursue the maximum hit rate when dealing with fast-moving enemies, which means that the speed and frequency of shooting should be fast, which requires the quality of the equipment used.
Holding the three-eyed firearm that burned out due to the fast firing rate, Liu Zhenming squeezed out an awkward smile on his face, looked at Su Zedong, who was walking towards him after greeting the soldiers, and said: "This thing is really useless, it will become scrap metal after two hits!" ā
"This thing is still used to make bricks to smash people, and it's still more suitable for group fights, hey! This is used to fight wars, to fight the Mongols, it is still far-fetched. ā
Su Zedong hung an awkward smile on his face in response to the scene, patted Liu Zhenming's shoulder, and said in a comforting tone: "It is the first step to success to become a brick product. ā
Between the words, Su Zedong took the brick in Liu Zhenming's hand, weighed it a few times in his hand, and then threw it on the ground, and then said: "As long as we live long enough, we can make real firearms, defend against any foreign enemy, and establish a civilized country......"
Su Zedong is not a person who likes to talk empty words, but the saying "the ass decides the head" is not coarse, as the general manager of a company and the head of an organization, you should have a bold vision for the future development of the company or organization!
An organization and a company must have senior leaders, such as Su Zedong and Liu Zhenming, who need to have their ideas for the future of the company and the organization;
Middle-level leaders, such as Cheng Zeheng, Zhang Dexing, Zheng Defeng and Zhao Youqian, must have ideas and countermeasures for the ideas of their upper leaders, and do a good job of connecting the upper and lower levels;
As a grassroots leader or the people, a grassroots leader like Wu Yiyi must follow the ideas of the senior leaders and the ideas of the middle-level leaders and have their own practices, and they cannot be confined to the form, nor can they be trapped by the restrictions of the goals and the times;
Therefore, in this part of the practice, Su Zedong still does not have a satisfactory attitude towards the ideas and commands of grassroots cadres and middle-level leaders.
Liu Zhenming is more open-minded, and he knows very well that climbing the science and technology tree at the end of the Yuan Dynasty can achieve a worse or worse effect than he expected, and it is reasonable that the current results can be slightly dull, but they can not be mediocre, and they still need to be strengthened.
The construction of the fortifications, though it now seems and in these days of actual combat, is indeed impregnable, capable of "overcoming obstacles" to hold the Mongols ten miles away from the moat.
But as the creator of this project, Liu Zhenming knows that the fortifications here are far from being as perfect as they seem, and they are foolproof!
Of course, the current fortifications are defending against the Mongol vanguard troops, and the Mongol vanguard troops are mainly cavalry, supplemented by infantry, and there are very few firearms and large-scale engineering equipment, so it seems that such tenacity is a matter of course.
But as the war progressed, and the Mongol army became more and more massed in the future, and their siege engines, heavy weapons, and more soldiers were put into the battlefield, the fortifications outside the moat seemed like ants, and they were crushed at will.
Until then, all Liu Zhenming has to do and can do is to repair and improve the existing facilities;
Then, he consulted with the generals of Lu Zhen's troops, who were in charge of and commanded the defense of Gaoyou City, and promptly determined the retreat plan with the least casualties, as well as the next step to strengthen the battle plan and plan to deal with the large-scale harassment of the Mongol cavalry and infantry.
This first facility to strengthen and improve the existing defense project, Liu Zhenming can take his "little ghost team", that is, more than 20 students of the first phase of the craftsman apprentice class, as well as a dozen craftsmen in Gaoyou City, to complete it under the care of the ghost soldiers of Juyi Hall;
As for the next step of the work with the leading general of Lu Zhen's troops guarding inside and outside the moat, Liu Zhenming needed to discuss with Su Zedong and let him discuss with Lu Zhen and Zhang Shicheng and get their permission before proceeding.
The second task is to report layer by layer, and then arrange it step by step to each member of the ghost soldier team guarding inside and outside the moat, as well as the soldiers guarding the city of Lu Zhen's elite troops;
The time required for this implementation can be imagined during the complicated procedures, and if there is any change, such as wrong information, the Mongols have deceived and their army has reached the moat of Gaoyou City;
Or during the battle, due to the negligence of the defenders of the city, one or two or a large group of Mongolian cavalry, archers or infantry grabbed the feet of the horses, and after a large-scale attack, they directly broke the fortifications and leveled the pillboxes......
There is no way to predict these things, and even if the world is from the soul of the next generation, Su Zedong, Liu Zhenming and others can only do to prevent problems before they happen, and use the time they have gained to make up for the things that may occur.
Su Zedong, Liu Zhenming and others are using all their time and energy to prepare for the fortifications outside the moat of Gaoyou City, in order to have more time to wait for reinforcements and wait for the improvement of all the defense facilities in Gaoyou City;
And there are people who have higher positions than them, have more rights than them, and can accomplish more, but they refuse to take all the responsibilities and obligations they need to bear!
But if they don't take the initiative to take it, Su Zedong and everyone up and down the Dongzhen company are still worried that they will spoil the big things because of their involvement, but they, the interests in power, are just unwilling to help, even if they have to do things for the enemy!
This is not the sorrow of Zhang Shicheng, the king of Cheng, nor is it the sorrow of an era or the sorrow of a nation......
Wu Shicheng, under the instigation of Zhou Yan, Tan Zhen, Liu Ming and others, still gave orders to his subordinates that everyone heard among them, and the official level can really crush people to death, and get on this thief ship, where is there any reason to get off the ship easily......
Su Zedong and Liu Zhenming did not expect that the Dongzhen Company's construction, a fortification outside the moat directly opposite Gaoyou City, could not only block the attack of the Mongolian vanguard troops, but also indirectly block Xiang Feng and his Xiang family's way to make a windfall;
At the same time, it also delayed the fact that Wu Shicheng, Lin Yimu and other cadres started treason and collaboration with the enemy, thus committing the great crime of rebellion that has been infamous for thousands of years!
However, it is impossible for either side to know whether the path they will take in the future will be glory or failure, whether the name will remain in the world or whether they will be cast into silver nuggets by their bodies and kneeling under the green hills, but they are both aware of the consequences of what they are doing.
All of this happened in the midst of a dark fate, chaotic, and then the layers of fog were cleared and cleared......
On the third day of the Mongol attack, when the cavalry, infantry, and archers of the Mongol vanguard once again came into direct contact with the fortifications that had been built after climbing the "Tech Tree";
Their arrogance, ferocity, and frenzied clamour, which they had formed because they believed to be the descendants of Genghis Khan, seemed pale and powerless at this moment, completely different from the usual battlefields.
In front of the reinforced iron fence, under the confrontation with the elite soldiers of Lu Zhen's troops who defended the city and the well-trained members of the ghost soldiers holding long weapons such as spears and halberds that had been burned:
When the Mongol army rushed over, the momentum of its shouting and shouting instantly turned into a wail after the chest and belly were pierced by spears and arrows, and such a scene suddenly became miserable, but not tragic.
Even they themselves knew that they were fighting a war without any justice to speak of, and that the armies and weapons they were fighting against were unbreakable by the tactics, tactics, martial arts, and archery skills they had trained in peacetime.
So, all the sacrifices they made for this were meaningless!
The spears and halberds and other long weapons held by the soldiers defending the city outside the iron fence were burned by the fire, which was a new measure to strengthen the fortifications after Liu Zhenming accepted Zhang Dexing's proposal.