"Ah, you are Fan Butang's subordinate. Sun Yuan was slightly surprised.

"Exactly, Tang Wenxing used to be just an idler in Nanjing City, barely living in the shadow of his ancestors. This time to exterminate the thieves...... I don't think I can go on like this anymore, and people will do something to be considered not to come to this world in vain......"

Tang Wenxing remembered his life experience, and his voice was low. Seeing Sun Yuan's encouraging gaze, he raised his spirits, and told himself how he went to work under Fan Jingwen, how he was rescued by his own soldiers in the war, and then came to the city of Sizhou, and finally when he said that he was pretending to be a Jinyi guard, he couldn't help but blush.

Fortunately, his head was already covered with gauze, but he was not afraid of being seen by Sun Yuan

。

"Flutter!" Sun Yuan couldn't help laughing: "Hehe, it turns out that Brother Tang, you are a descendant of the Duke of Xinguo, and after being loyal, it is no wonder that you have such a mind to give it, and you actually came up with the trick of pretending to be a Jinyi guard to save your life." ”

Tang Wenxing: "Let the general laugh." ”

Sun Yuan shook his head: "As a noble son, you also know how to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and know how to adapt to changes, which makes Sun Yuan admire." It is pointless to die in the city for no reason, it is better to leave a useful body to serve the country and the nation. ”

Tang Wenxing couldn't help but ask: "General Sun, can this Sizhou City be defended?" ”

Sun Yuan paused: "It's enough, the Tianxiong army needs to pursue the thieves from all walks of life, and I don't know when we will be able to reach Sizhou." You also saw it when attacking the city before, there were only a few thousand local guards in the city, and they also scored four gates, and now, Zhizhou has levied people to defend the city. Maybe...... In less than two or three days, the city will be breached by thieves. ”

"General, why didn't you bring the Ningxiang Army over?"

Sun Yuan sighed: "Brother Tang, to tell you the truth, in the last Chuzhou battle, my Ningxiang army lost three to forty percent of its troops, and many of them were foot soldiers, so it was too late to rush to Sizhou." ”

Tang Wenxing was shocked in his heart: "Three to four percent ......" He is also a person who is a little cheered up, after entering the old camp of Fan Jingwen of the Nanjing Army, he is also very concerned about the battle array, and wants to follow the ancestors to win peerless feats on the horse. Therefore, there is still basic military common sense. Not to mention the casualties of an army, even if it loses a single man or horse, it will have already collapsed.

The Ningxiang Army suffered huge losses this time, and it is estimated that it will not have much combat effectiveness, and it will take at least a year to recover. Therefore, it is impossible for them to come over to guard Sizhou. Sun Yuan was right just now, the Ningxiang army is all infantry, and if you want to rush to Sizhou, it will take at least five or six days.

However, could it be that he watched the thief army break through Sizhou, tear a gap in the encirclement of the imperial court, and walk away?

Tang Wenxing: "General Sun, what can I do?" ”

Sun Yuan: "Recuperate, rest assured, you can always come up with a way." The city of Sizhou must be defended, otherwise, what is the significance of the victory in the Battle of Chuzhou? When this battle is over, I will send you back to Nanjing. ”

"Thank you, General Sun." After talking for a long time, Tang Wenxing couldn't support it for a long time, and when Sun Yuan left, he tilted his head and fell asleep

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The night was already very late, and the lights were still on in Sun Yuan's library.

He sat upright at his desk and wrote hard: "In the first battle of Chuzhou, our army had gains and losses, although the losses were quite large, but problems were discovered......

In the past, although Sun Yuan was a traverser, he was still a layman in the military. After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, all the military knowledge he received actually came from Fei Hong, an old border army officer. However, Lao Fei was only a middle- and lower-level officer before, and the military of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to inheritance, and the method of leading troops to train soldiers to fight was an unpassed secret of the military family, and he could not reach a higher level.

Therefore, what Sun Yuan gained from him was also very limited. Besides, the Ming Dynasty army is not ordinarily rotten, even if he is allowed to learn the family heirloom military studies of the Ming army to ten percent, what can he do? The army at the end of the Ming Dynasty couldn't even gnaw at the peasant army, let alone an even more vicious enemy in the northeast.

Because of this, Sun Yuan simply abandoned the set of the ancients, and as for the effect of .cc [marshmallow], it still needs to be explored. After all, what Sun Yuan learned was just the accumulation of the previous mixed military history forum, and it was inevitably just talk on paper.

Sun Yuan still has a very clear understanding of himself. What he lacks now is combat experience, and in the two vicious battles that have just passed, although they have achieved brilliant results, the Ningxiang army has also paid a great price. Three to forty percent of the casualties would be considered a wound to the bones of any army of the same era. They were still trained in the Ningxiang Army, and the dead and wounded were all newly joined captive spearmen, so there was not much loss in strength.

In private, Sun Yuan maliciously felt that it was a good thing for the spearmen to die. This group of newly recruited prisoners of the Ningxiang Army has only been trained for half a month, and they have not even been initially integrated into the system of the Ningxiang Army. This time when we went to the battlefield, and after such a heavy casualty ratio test, after another year of training, we will inevitably become a brave division. To put it mildly, these spearmen were born with bloodthirsty genes, which were not possessed by musketeer veterans.

The reason why the Ningxiang Army achieved such huge results in the two battles of Qingliuguan and Chuzhou relied on the army's iron-clad record. But in terms of the manager's decision-making and strategy, it was actually a very failure. Especially at the moment when the old camp of the Nanjing Army collapsed, Sun Yuan was also a little panicked, and what he wanted was to escape from the whirlpool of human flesh with his subordinates as soon as possible and save his life.

Later, there was really no escape, and he was left behind by the army, and he had no choice but to resist

。

To put it bluntly, that battle was a victory for the entire Ningxiang Army training system, but Sun Yuan had no penny to do so.

Looking back, if he sat in Lu Xiangsheng's position, he simply didn't have the ability to sort out the collapsed army in a short period of time and put it into a counterattack. But from this point of view, Lu Xiangsheng's military talent made Sun Yuan admire it to the point of throwing himself to the ground, and he was secretly ashamed.

However, this did not make Sun Yuan lose his fighting spirit. If you don't understand military affairs or strategy, you just need to learn. If there is no teacher, then it is better to learn war from war.

You must know that he is from a prestigious university, and his quality is higher than that of the Red Army generals in the thirties of the twentieth century. The ancestors of that generation also changed from an ordinary farmer to thousands of miles, experienced a hundred battles, and became a shining star. As long as you are not afraid of battle, and be good at summing up experience.

The generals of that generation would hold a review meeting after each war to discuss the gains and losses. According to modern people, it is brainstorming.

Sun Yuan felt that this method was very good, the officers of the Ningxiang Army were all low-level officers of the border army, and their culture and combat quality were very poor. The problem is that with Sun Yuan's current popularity, it is impossible to attract talent. I had no choice but to cultivate it myself.

In the past few days, because the army has been busy, and the troops also need to rest and recuperate after the bloody battle, this review meeting has not been held.

Sun Yuan went from Chuzhou to Sizhou, pondering the gains and losses of these two battles along the way, and he already had a draft. After repelling the attack of the thief army during the day today, Gao Yingxiang seems to have lost his fighting spirit, and from the afternoon to now, he has not sent a single soldier to attack the city. Sun Yuan got this free time, so he simply sharpened the ink and recorded his thoughts on paper.

After the writing is completed, when the war subsides, and after returning to Ningxiang, the officers above the general flag in the army will be recruited to study intensively.

After a pause, Sun Yuan first mentioned the musketeers: "The key to the musketeers' tactics is strict discipline and reloading speed. Then, reload as fast as you can. ”

It is said that this method of warfare can be regarded as having a certain degree of advanced nature and is the direction of development of future warfare. However, I have two points that I have not thought through: First, with the firepower projection ability of the flintlock pistol, it is not possible to completely block the attacking enemy in front of the formation, especially when encountering a cavalry charge, after a round of shooting, the enemy has already rushed into our army's formation. Next, what awaits our soldiers will be a one-sided massacre. I didn't think about this point, and I even took it for granted. ”

Thinking of this, Sun Yuan sighed slightly in his heart, and secretly rejoiced

。 Fortunately, he discovered the major flaws of this tactic from the time of the first battle of Qingliuguan, so he drove the ducks to the shelves and quickly became a spearman in ten days. In this way, he barely resisted Li Zicheng's cavalry charge with a forest of spears in the Battle of Chuzhou. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Of course, the consequence of the hasty advance was that the spearmen were almost half eaten by men, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

After returning to Ningxiang, he had to draw the best from the captive homeless people to replenish the military camp.

In this Chuzhou battle, the spearmen rushed into battle after only half a month of training, so they suffered huge losses. Fortunately, after this battle, there will be no war in the south in a few years, and the troops can be trained calmly. In fact, it only takes half a year for the spearmen to be trained, and when the time comes, even if they are pulled into the battlefield, they will not be so embarrassed as this time.

Thinking of this, Sun Yuan continued to write: "Second, when musketeers are training, the key is the speed of ammunition loading, which is much slower than that of archers, and it is extremely difficult to form an army. It also consumes a lot of gunpowder and money on a daily basis, which is very expensive. Unlike spearmen, who only need to train in a simple queue and give them a spear. This cheap type of troops is the direction of the future development of our Ningxiang Army. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the chaotic times have come, and there have been many disasters in the north, and there are people everywhere, and there is a shortage of everything, but there is no shortage of manpower. A piece of bread can buy a big girl, as long as you have food on hand, climb up and shout, and the spearmen will have as many as they want.

After writing this simple summary, Sun Yuan's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something. And on the paper it was written: "Actually, our army is still short of artillery. In the future, when the army grows, it will definitely attack the fortified task again, without artillery, relying on ants to attack the city, my Ningxiang army can not afford to consume. Moreover, the battle array is only on the line, and the spear musket phalanx is still not worth mentioning if it is not protected by artillery. ”

During the Chuzhou War, Sun Yuan's cross-era spear musket phalanx was still beaten so badly by Li Zicheng. The peasant army is already rotten enough, and it is still so difficult to deal with them, if you encounter the Tunguska savages, I am afraid that you may not be able to bear it.

At that time, if there were a few bronze cannons with broken wheels in the formation, Li Zicheng's cavalry was afraid that they would have collapsed long ago, and it would be their turn to turn around in front of my Ningxiang army formation?

However, Sun Yuan's current idea of army building is based on training a cheap light infantry that can be replenished in an endless stream with modern discipline, and there is no requirement for the quality of soldiers.

But artillery is a real technical branch, but not everyone can do it.

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