During the meal, Cao Yue also told Huang Degong and others about some of his arrangements.

Cao Yue's current tactics are actually the way of defense, waiting for Jiannu to attack, and taking the initiative to attack is not like this.

Jiannu's cavalry is suitable for active attack, and the Ming army, which is equipped with a large number of firearms, will kill the enemy more according to the position defense when the opponent is not equipped with these powerful weapons.

Cao Yue knew that the Ming army he led could adopt the strategy of a war of attrition and slowly deplete with Jiannu. But it is impossible for Jiannu to adopt the same method, after all, in terms of logistics and military supply, Jiannu is far from being comparable with the Ming army.

The Ming army led by him relied on the prosperous south, the boats on the canal and the chariots and horses on the shore, which could continuously transport food and various military resources. The number of cavalry in the Ming army is not very large, accounting for only one-third of all men and horses, that is, about 40,000 war horses. War horses consume a lot of forage every day, and the supply required at this point is much less than that of Jiannu.

Jiannu has at least hundreds of thousands of war horses, and the forage they need is an astronomical amount.

As hot weapons such as firearms slowly replace cold weapons such as bows and arrows, knives and guns, the role of war horses will gradually decrease, and at least the era of dominating the battlefield will be gone forever. Before the advent of large-scale mechanization, horses were still quite useful, but they were mainly used for transportation. At this point, Cao Yue thought farther than anyone else, so he didn't particularly care about the expansion of cavalry and the cultivation of war horses.

He is vigorously developing industry, hoping to lead the industrial revolution in the East, and have the opportunity to develop new gadgets such as steam engines, and when trains and automobiles appear in this land, the role of war horses will be further reduced.

Cao Yue's main focus on logistics now is food and ammunition, which can ensure that he does not have anything to worry about.

No matter how powerful Jiannu's cavalry shooting is, no matter how fierce the battle is, he doesn't even have a chance to show his strength in front of the guns. As long as there is enough ammunition, the soldiers do not have to worry about eating. Cao Yue believed that this battle was easy to fight.

Throughout the afternoon, Jiannu did not attack again, but Cao Yue knew that Dolgon would not give up easily, admit defeat and retreat, this careerist who actually held the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after suffering several failed attacks, must be thinking of a way to break the firearms of the Ming army.

What kind of strategy would Dorgon adopt? Cao Yue is also seriously pondering.

The trick of sneak attack at night, Dolgon will definitely take it, and Cao Yue has already taken countermeasures to this. There is also the use of rainy weather to launch attacks when firearms are fired. Cao Yue also expected this, and took into account the influence of the weather when making firearms. While it is impossible to completely eliminate the effects of weather, they can be greatly reduced.

There are also Jiannu who took advantage of the strength of the army and adopted the tactics of exhausting the troops to consume the ammunition of the Ming army, so that the Ming soldiers did not have a chance to rest. Cao Yue has taken these into account and has a countermeasure.

What Cao Yue was most afraid of was the carelessness of the soldiers, who relaxed their vigilance because of successive victories, giving Jiannu an opportunity to take advantage of.

In order to avoid such a situation from happening. He strictly ordered all departments not to slack off, and to maintain the highest vigilance day and night. The arrangement of the sentry posts must be reasonable and scientific. The light and dark sentinels are so dense that not even a single mouse can run in.

There are a lot of traps to set up in front of the main position, so that Jiannu has no chance to take advantage of it. The officers and men of the special guard battalion who were directly attached to the operation of the army were also all dispatched to make trouble for Jiannu. Some places with dangerous terrain. There are also such sharp soldiers buried, and as soon as the situation is discovered, it will be immediately warned. Most of them were only armed with bows, arrows, swords and guns, and sometimes they had the advantage of numbers, but they couldn't help the Ming soldiers with powerful weapons such as muskets and explosives.

Cao Yue thought of this. Jiannu also adopted it.

On the first night of the war, Jiannu really attacked at night. But they didn't expect that the Ming army had already responded to this, and as usual, it was an artillery bombardment. The artillery fire ignited in some places, and the bright light from the explosion of the artillery illuminated the ranks of the Jiannu attack. Although there was a cover of darkness, Jiannu's actions were more or less exposed in front of the eyes of the Ming soldiers. There was not much light on the position of the Ming army, and it was difficult for Jiannu to figure out the strength and firepower configuration of the Ming army at night, and it was still them who suffered in the end.

However, the next day, Jiannu adopted another strategy that Cao Yue had never thought of.

Jiannu also tore off the mask of Manchu and Han affinity, and used the large number of Han people they captured as human shields and bet them at the front of the attacking team, hoping to retaliate and make the defending Ming soldiers at a loss.

Escorting the Han people to charge, if the Ming soldiers continued to shoot with muskets and artillery, the people would also be killed.

Seeing this situation from the telescope, Cao Yue couldn't help but feel angry, and the other generals who watched the battle were the same. Huang Degong scolded Jiannu for being despicable and inhumane, but they didn't dare to make a decision easily, and they all waited for Cao Yue to make a decision.

After Cao Yue looked at the binoculars for a while, he immediately made a decision, raised the angle of fire, aimed the cannon at the Jiannu in the back, and let go of the people in front and those Jiannu who escorted the people. When the artillery was firing, try to encourage the people to flee and get out of the control of Jiannu.

Although such arrangements were made, Cao Yue knew that it would be difficult for these people to escape from the battlefield and ascend to heaven. Even if the guns of the Ming soldiers did not shoot them, the Jiannu who followed behind would kill them. In any case, he would not let Jiannu rush to the front of the position, so that the lives of the soldiers of the Guards would be threatened, and eventually lead to the defeat of the war.

Although the lives of thousands of people are precious, compared with the victory of the war and the lives of tens of thousands of Ming soldiers, the weight is much lighter.

Cao Yue asked the soldiers not to shoot the people directly as much as possible, hoping that they would not put pressure and psychological burden on the soldiers.

Soon, hundreds of various artillery pieces shelled Jiannu's attack queue at different firing angles and firing distances, and all kinds of shells such as solid shells and flowering shells, carrying clouds of black smoke, flew towards Jiannu's charging queue. And the soldiers of the musket battalion in the trenches were also in place, ready to meet the Jiannu who rushed to the front of the position.

There is only one chance for the "Hellfire" to be carried out, and when the enemy and our armies are facing each other, it is very difficult to have the opportunity to plant such a large amount of explosives again, and it is impossible for the artillery to wipe out all the Jiannu, and a large number of Jiannu will definitely rush to the front of the position. To exterminate these Jiannu, it is necessary to rely on the muskets in the hands of the soldiers.

The continuous bombardment of artillery shrouded the entire battlefield in black smoke. Many of the people who were held hostage by Jiannu took this opportunity to break away from Jiannu's control and find a way to escape from the battlefield. But there are still many people who can't think of escaping, and continue to be escorted forward by Jiannu.

Soon, these people, who were lucky enough not to be hit by the artillery, came into the range of the muskets. (To be continued.) )