Zhang Shundao: "It is the soldiers recruited and raised by the generals themselves, just like the generals themselves." ”

Yang He was even more surprised when he heard this: "The generals recruit and raise soldiers by themselves? Isn't that a personal soldier for a general? How could the imperial court allow such a thing to happen? ”

Zhang Shun said indignantly: "What strange things are there in our Daming?" Even people who don't understand bullshit can lead troops to fight, so what is it for generals to recruit some private soldiers? To tell the truth, the combat effectiveness of these family soldiers is indeed very high, and they dare to fight to the death, if there are no family soldiers, the generals will not be able to fight at all. ”

Listening to Zhang Shun's tone, Yang He sighed, he is also a soldier, but his salary is less than half of others, and anyone will feel unfair, and he is naturally unwilling to fight to the death on the battlefield.

After thinking about it, Yang He then asked: "Brother Zhang, you said that you often owe military salaries, don't those family soldiers owe military salaries?" ”

Zhang Shun smiled: "How can that be? Even if the imperial court does not pay military salaries, those generals will pay them military salaries on time, otherwise how can the soldiers of the family be willing to die? ”

Yang He nodded slightly.

Looking at Zhang Shun, Yang He said again: "By the way, you just said that you killed the enemy for meritorious service in exchange for a reward, and the imperial court even owed military salaries, I'm afraid this reward is even more difficult to distribute, right?" ”

Zhang Shun smiled: "You are wrong, as long as you verify the head, the reward will not be in arrears, you think, everyone is not willing to fight to the death, if even the reward is in arrears, no one is willing to fight to the death." Although those people in the court are stupid, they still understand such a simple truth. ”

Yang He stroked his palms and laughed: "What I said is that if you don't even understand this little truth, then it's not stupid, it's just stupid and not as good as a pig." ”

After a pause, Yang He continued: "Since the reward can be cashed, it will be easy to do, no matter how high the salary is, it is not as much as the reward, I have decided, I will be a soldier under the eldest brother, and today we can eat meat together, which means that we have fate, and we will eat meat together in the future." ”

Zhang Shun shook his head: "Big brother, it's not as easy as you think, although your martial arts are high, but when you get to the battlefield, your personal martial arts actually don't play a role.

Big brother, you just laughed at us for being deserters, in fact, we were not the first to escape, there are many people who are more greedy for life and afraid of death than us, when the enemy has not rushed over, some people are afraid of the enemy and flee for their lives, causing the formation to collapse, we don't escape, there is only a dead end. ”

Yang He frowned when he heard this: "If there is a collapse in one place, will it collapse in the whole line?" ”

Zhang Shun smiled bitterly: "It seems that the eldest brother has never seen how to fight on the battlefield. ”

Sighing lightly, Zhang Shun continued: "Fighting a war is by no means as simple as people imagine, it is not possible to win by relying on a large number of soldiers, and it is not that the whole army can defeat the enemy with a single charge under the order of the general.

Big brother, you know that our enemy is Jianlu, most of the Jianju are cavalry, and we are mostly infantry, and the infantry can only defend when fighting with cavalry, and rashly launching an attack is tantamount to seeking a dead end.

In the case of defense, it is necessary to form an army formation, and in front of the army formation is erected to resist the cavalry charge, followed by the firecrackers, and after the firecrackers are the shieldmen, who protect the firecrackers from the enemy's bows and arrows, and the shieldmen are followed by pikemen, and after the pikemen are archers. The various arms cooperated to contain the cavalry of the captives.

Generally speaking, such a formation should not suffer losses when fighting head-on, but in fact, our army has repeatedly suffered defeats. ”

Yang Heqi said: "Why is this? ”

Zhang Shun smiled bitterly: "Because Jianyu didn't directly launch a charge at all, they bullied our military formation and didn't dare to move lightly, and after rushing over, they just opened their bows and arrows to shoot the soldiers in front of our army, and then circled back from both sides, and so on." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Shun put down the wolf's legs, made an inverted posture with his hands, and then slowly separated his hands forward.

Yang He saw it, groaned slightly, and suddenly suddenly realized: "That is to say, when Jianyu was fighting, it seemed to charge, but in fact, it was only suppressed with bows and arrows, causing damage to our army." ”

Zhang Shun nodded: "That's it, although our army has shield protection, it is impossible to have no gaps at all, as long as there are gaps, people will be injured, and as people are injured, the gaps will get bigger and bigger, and then there will be more and more casualties."

At this time, once someone makes a move, the formation will easily collapse, and the Jianyu will only launch a real charge after seeing the collapse of our army's formation. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Shun sighed softly and looked into the distance, as if recalling the war he had experienced before.

After a while, Zhang Shun continued: "Big brother, you can never think of what it was like when Jianyu charged, seeing the enemy slowly advancing in a neat formation, and then the speed became faster and faster, closer and closer, it felt like a mountain pressing over." The first time I saw that scene, I felt like my heart was going to jump out, and I couldn't move my hands or feet.

I saw with my own eyes that our soldiers were shot by rows of bows and arrows, that our soldiers were pierced by enemy spears, that our soldiers were knocked down by enemy horses and died tragically under the hooves of horses. ”

Listening to Zhang Shun's deep voice, Yang He nodded silently.

Shaking his head, Zhang Shun retracted his gaze, looked at Yang He and said with a wry smile: "Big brother, the weapons equipped by Jianyu are mainly bows and arrows, spears and sabers. In fact, the Jianyu basically did not use a knife when charging in formation, because the length of the saber was not as long as the spear, and it was easy to be assassinated by the spearmen, and the slashing would also affect the direction and speed of the horse.

You must know that when the cavalry launches a charge, it is actually to use the speed of the horses to crush the enemy, the front row just passes, the second row comes again, and it is endless, if the first row of cavalry loses speed, it will affect the cavalry charge in the back row, and if it is knocked off the horse, it will be trampled to death by the horses behind.

Therefore, when the Jianyu charged, he would constantly use his bow and arrow to shoot at a distance, and when he rushed close, he would use his spear to charge. If you feel that the speed of the horse is slowing down, it will immediately move to the sides so as not to interfere with the cavalry charge behind you.

Big brother, under such repeated impact from row after row, if there is no solid formation, it will be absolutely impossible to resist, and personal martial arts are not worth mentioning at that time. ”

Yang He nodded lightly, and suddenly smiled bitterly in his heart, he had seen the scene of large-scale cavalry battles in movies and TV before, a group of people riding horses and rushing towards the enemy army like a swarm, the scene was called chaos, just like a group of people disrupting a fight.

After listening to what Zhang Shun said at this time, Yang He knew that in the face of a heavily defended military formation, rushing over like that would only have one result, that is, a complete defeat.

The real cavalry battle should never be like that, but as Zhang Shun said, it is orderly and gradually encroaching, like peeling onions, peeling off the infantry's defenses layer by layer, and then launching a charge at the end to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, Yang He had a question in his heart, he only said that he wanted to be a soldier, why did this Zhang Shun tell him this? If a timid person hears these words, how can he still be willing to serve as a soldier? Doesn't he want to be a soldier himself?

After thinking for a while, Yang He suddenly understood what Zhang Shun meant.

Zhang Shun didn't want to be a soldier under him, which could be heard from the big brother he just said, Zhang Shun called his eldest brother is not the kind of title between brothers, but contains fear or a little respect, just like a gangster calling ** boss. If Zhang Shun had agreed to serve as a soldier under him, he would never have called himself in such a tone and by such a title.

And the reason why Zhang Shun didn't want to be a soldier under him was because Zhang Shun had been captured by himself just now, and if he was a soldier under him, how could he dare to care about himself in the future? I changed positions with Zhang Shun, and I probably didn't want to have such a number one person under him.

It's just that Zhang Shun didn't dare to refuse openly, so he said these words to himself, hoping that he could dispel the idea of becoming a soldier.

Raising his eyes and looking at Zhang Shun, Yang He said in his heart: I didn't expect this person to have a lot of eyes, but unfortunately these words are useless at all, he has no way out now, only to become a soldier, and Lai has to rely on him. But how should this be said?

After pondering for a while, Yang He said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, according to what you say, isn't personal martial arts useless on the battlefield. ”

Zhang Shun was stunned, and then smiled: "Of course it is useful, no matter how powerful the cavalry charge is, it will always be exhausted, and without speed, the cavalry will lose its advantage. However, without absolute certainty, Jianyu generally does not launch a charge. ”

"Only then will personal martial prowess come into play? That's still not very useful, is it? Because according to what you said, Jianyu will not launch a charge until the end, and as long as he launches a charge, it will definitely lay the victory in one fell swoop, and will never give people a chance to fight each other in a short manner. Yang He said.

Zhang Shun smiled bitterly: "There is another situation, that is, cavalry hedging, that also depends on the individual's martial arts, you are better than the other party, you can kill the other party first, and you can avoid the other party's collision." If you can kill several people in a row, you may pass through the enemy line, and then turn around and kill back, and the enemy will not be able to stop you. ”

Yang He smiled: "I'll just say, how can personal martial arts be useless?" ”

Sighing softly, Yang He continued: "Brother Zhang, although I don't know how to fight, I can also see that you can fight, but you are only a captain, with only twenty soldiers in your hands, and your boss is really blind if he doesn't reuse you." ”

Zhang Shun shook his head and smiled: "What do I know?" It's just that I've fought a few battles, and after a lot of fighting, I naturally understand what it's all about. There are more people like me in the army, how can the bosses all be promoted and reused? ”

Yang He smiled: "If there are too many battles, there will be wars?" It's too easy to fight. Kindness...... Brother Zhang, have you ever thought that if you are not reused by your boss, it may be that you have not made meritorious contributions, so you have not been discovered by your boss, if you make a few more meritorious contributions, your boss will find out that you are a talent, and he will promote and reuse you. At that time, you have more soldiers in your hands, and you will be useful. ”

Zhang Shun smiled bitterly: "Meritorious promotion? How easy it is to say that! Big brother, don't you know, in the past few years, our Ming army has not fought a decent victory in Liaodong, and it has not beheaded a few. If you ask me to make meritorious service, what will I do for meritorious service? ”