Chapter 494 Five Array Diagram

After Hu Yande entered the room, he handed me a war report: "Your Majesty, the battle report sent by General Lu Wende, the envoy of the Xiangyang Military Region, from the waterway, please take a look at it." ”

I was very sensitive to the recent battle report, so I hurriedly opened it and said while reading it: "Ali Hague has suffered a big loss this time, and the casualties of his troops are about 10,000 people, but there are also many wounded in our army, more than 4,200 people, but fortunately, there are not many soldiers killed in battle. By the way, Gongsun Xiaochen told Lu Xiufu and asked him to inform Lu Wende that the seriously wounded in Xiangfan and Xiangfan cities could be sent to the field hospital in Songhepo for treatment if they needed it. It's a pity that the artillery of our army was destroyed by the return artillery of the Yuan army, one for four, which is not cost-effective. Xiangyang City was also attacked? It seems that today's Yuan army is an all-out attack, and there is also a big battle on the Han River, but the entire battle of Xiangfan is the most today, and the casualties of the Yuan army reached more than 30,000 in one day. Haha, not bad. ”

Gongsun Xiaochen said: "30,000 people are two percent of the middle route army of the Yuan army." ”

"Well, this time the Yuan army should have been hurt by firearms. By the way, Ling'er, if you were the commander of the Yuan Army, what would you do? ”

Fang Ling replied without hesitation: "This is not simple, there are two paths to choose from. ”

"Yes," I said with interest, "which two?" ”

"One is to fight against the water, if I am a Shu, I will concentrate all my forces, even if there are more sacrifices, it is not a pity, we must forcibly defeat the camp of Bush Beach and destroy the opponent's Royal Forest Army, and the second is to withdraw to the north and use the advantage of the city wall to fight against our army's firearms."

I thought for a moment and said, "Well, that makes sense. ”

I am quite satisfied with today's results, and within one day, the Yuan army paid the price of more than 30,000 casualties in Guanzitan and Fancheng alone.

Lying on the marching bed, I was quite excited, and for a moment, I could not sleep.

It was late at night, and Ah Shu and Boyan in the Lumen Mountain camp also did not sleep, and the two of them were talking at night and discussing countermeasures.

"Boyan, I have been in the army for more than ten years, and I have fought dozens of battles, and I have never felt helpless like today, the benefits of firearms in the South Korea are indeed difficult to deal with, and I even have the urge to have firearms."

Bo Yan said with a heavy face: "Dashuai, I feel the same way." I have a vague feeling that sooner or later, firearms will inevitably replace the current swords, guns and halberds. ”

Ah Shu nodded: "This possibility does exist, I have mentioned in the small work of the Southern Dynasty army that it only takes one to three months to train a musketeer, and the archers of our army are all trained from a young age, the difference is too big, besides, muskets and fire bullets can be attacked from a distance, and they can be attacked at close range, and their power is far above that of archers, one day, if the Southern Dynasty army is all equipped with firearms, our army will be in danger." ”

Boyan agreed: "Well, Dashuai, according to Boyan's wishes, play the emperor as soon as possible, and ask the emperor to give an order, let our army get a few muskets and a few fire bombs in the Southern Dynasty, and then gather the strength of craftsmen from all over the country to develop firearms." ”

"Okay." Ah Shu thought for a while and said, "Boyan, the artillery of the Southern Dynasty has been bombarding my Lumen Mountain camp for several days, I estimate that in two or three days at most, the fortress will be blasted out of the gap, and at that time, the officers and men of our army will inevitably be exposed to the range of its artillery, how do you think our army should deal with this?" ”

Boyan said: "Marshal, I think that the best strategy is to concentrate forces, do not hesitate to consume manpower, and attack Guanzitan with all our might, and strive to defeat the Imperial Forest Army of the Southern Dynasty, although there are also musketeers in Fancheng, but the number is not large, as long as we defeat the Royal Forest Army at any cost, there will be a turnaround." ”

"What about the next step?"

Boyan said after a while: "Withdraw the army." ”

Ah Shu was silent for a moment and said: "Whether it is the best policy or the next policy, it is a major decision, and it needs to be reported to the emperor, from Xiangyang to Dadu, even if it takes five or six days to go back and forth by fast horse, I will immediately play the emperor, but I am afraid that the camp of our army will not be able to hold it for so long." ”

"Shuai, don't worry too much about this." Boyan smiled confidently, "Dashuai, Boyan has learned the art of Qimen Dunjia from his master, and this batch of cowardly Xue troops I brought has just practiced, and the terrain at the southern foot of Lumen Mountain is open, and there are many rocks in front of my military camp, if you don't stop working day and night, it is estimated that it will take two days for me to place a five-array diagram outside the camp, borrowing the spirit of heaven and earth to block the Southern Dynasty army." Before I came in, I went up to watch the sky, and there would be heavy rain tomorrow, and the firearms of the Southern Dynasty would probably not be usable, so I bought another day. ”

"Okay, it seems that Changshengtian has not abandoned my Dayuan." Ah Shu was a little relieved, "What are the five array diagrams?" Boyan, is there a difference between it and the Eight Formations of Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms? ”

"Dashuai, whether it is the five arrays I am talking about or the eight arrays created by the predecessors of Zhuge in the Shu Han Dynasty, they are all derived from the method of Qiujing passed down by Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of the Han people thousands of years ago. The Tiger Wing Array and the Snake Pan Array are less powerful than the Eight Formations, but on the day the formation of the formation, they can also do the wind and sand, cover the sky and the sun, and fill the smoke, so as to stop the Southern Dynasty army. ”

Ah Shu finally showed a smile and said: "Okay, just do it, as long as this formation persists for five days, the emperor will have an order." ”

According to the plan, in the early morning of the next day, the artillery battalion again launched an artillery bombardment of the Lumenshan Yuan army camp, and about two quarters of an hour later, Crete ordered to stop firing, and the artillery battalion, under the protection of the army, withdrew to the Guanzitan camp.

At this time, when I looked at the Yuan army camp, I saw that most of the earthen walls in front had collapsed, and many places even revealed large gaps. "Brother, in two or three days at most, our artifact will be able to blow up the Mongol fortress." On the way back, Fang Ling said happily.

"Well, without the cover of the fortress, let's see what else that Ashu can use to resist our artillery."

Jiang Wanzai followed: "Your Majesty, the benefits of firearms are beyond the imagination of the old minister, such a war is completely different from the past, and it is basically a one-sided situation. ”

I laughed and said, "Of course, this is a contest between the advanced and the backward, I once read a story about a cavalry army of tens of thousands of people fighting a musket team of less than a thousand people, and the cavalry army was defeated and fled, and only two musketeers were killed or wounded. ”

Fang Ling said: "No, there is such a mysterious thing?" ”

"Hehe, once the rate of fire of the musket reaches the rate of one breath or one shot, it can be done naturally."

"One breath and one shot, can it still be fired in a row? Is it the same as an archer's arrows? Yuan Jian asked in surprise.

"Yes, sir, the most clever archer can shoot nine arrows in an instant, and the number of shots of muskets can even be hundreds, thousands, this is the benefit of technology." Speaking of which, my mind went back to the afterlife.

"It's unimaginable." Yuan Jian sighed, "At that time, even if the martial arts are high, they will not be the enemy of the musketeers." ”

"Sir, this is the inevitable law of historical development, and in the future, martial arts will only become one of the ways for people to strengthen their bodies."

When they returned to the camp, more than 10,000 officers and men of the Sixth Chambers of the Jianghuai Military Region also happened to arrive at Guanzitan under the leadership of General Zhu Huan, the commander of the Chamber.

"General Zhu Huan, hard work." Jiang Wanzai smiled and said, "General Zhu, come and meet the emperor." ”

Zhu Huan, who had never seen me, hurriedly knelt on the ground and said loudly: "The last general, Zhu Huan, will see the emperor." ”

"General Zhu, excuse me."

"Your Majesty."

"General Zhu, please get up. I'm tired all the way, settle down first, and then I'll let Jiang Aiqing assign tasks to your army later. ”

"Yes, the last will obey."

I'm actually a little worried about Fang Ling's words last night, if Ah Shu desperately launches an attack on Bush Beach, will our army be able to stop it? Muskets and grenades can stop the Yuan army for a while, but if Ah Shu uses the lives of the Yuan army soldiers as a price, the result is really difficult to say.

The arrival of the sixth box has reassured me a lot.

In the Guanzitan camp, there are currently the Royal Forest Army, the four armies of the third compartment of the Lin'an Military Region, the reorganization of the sixth compartment, the Broken Army, the Zhongshun Army, etc., together there are more than 40,000 people, plus the two compartments led by Xia Gui in the northeast of the camp, together, the total strength is close to 70,000, even if there is no firearms, if it is just a simple defense, it can completely fight with the Yuan army.

Gongsun Xiaochen, who watched the celestial phenomena every night, and the three officials who accompanied the Qin Tianjian unanimously judged that the next day would be mainly rainy. Sure enough, it began to rain heavily in the early hours of the morning, intermittently until noon, and in the afternoon, another shower.

The rain was not conducive to the firing of firearms, but the Yuan army did not attack. From the end of breakfast, scouts kept coming back that the Mongols were collecting stones in large quantities, but I didn't pay much attention to this, but I just thought they were collecting stone shells for the catapults. Taking advantage of this opportunity, under the command of Jiang Wanzai, Xie Daolin, and other generals, the officers and men added another protective layer to the guardrail at the front of the camp, which could prevent the archers from firing and form a three-dimensional shooting net.

It wasn't until the night that the rain stopped completely.

It's a rainy day, especially outside of the city.

I walked outside the tent, greedily breathing in the air that had not been polluted in any way, mixed with the fragrance of the earth and the fragrance of the grass and trees in the mountains, and immediately made people feel refreshed, the fresh air once inhaled, immediately refreshing, in the hot summer, there is this environment, compared to the so-called natural oxygen bar in later generations.