Yue'er tilted her head and looked at Zheng Yunming's specious truths, as if she was looking at the storyteller in Lin'an Mansion who was talking about immortals and monsters.

Wang Deng, who had just gotten rid of the crowd, walked over sweating profusely and reported: "The generals have been assembled in the camp and are waiting for your orders. ”

In front of the big tent of the Chinese army, there were the bodies of He Dajie, the deputy general of the right-wing battalion, and seven fallen officers.

Ge Huai and the other four generals, as well as Qin Wu, lined up in a neat queue with the surviving officers, waiting for the arrival of the main general.

Zheng Yunming walked quickly to the front, straightened his clothes, and bowed down to the bodies of the fallen generals three times.

"Life, whatever my generation wants, righteousness, also what I want." Zheng Yunming said solemnly towards the living: "But the gentleman is in danger, and he knows which is more important!" Everyone will say that they will sacrifice their lives for righteousness, but how many people can really put it into practice? ”

"But today, the bloody boy here did it!"

"People will die eventually, but it must be meaningful to die. The comrades lying here today died for the emperor's service, for the fathers and elders of Shashi, and for the entire robe of the earth dragon, I envy them a little, because they really died well! ”

"Although their names may not be left in the history books of the country, as long as the Tulong Army exists for one day, their names will be remembered forever!" Zheng Yunming said to Zhu Sheng: "Brother Zhu Sheng, now I don't have a staff under my account, and the history of our army will be written down by you first, and then sorted out in detail after it is recruited and written in the future." ”

"That's not all!" Wang Deng, behind Zheng Yunming, added loudly: "The fathers and elders of Shatou City also decided to collectively donate money to carve a stone tablet at the entrance of the market, and engrave the names of all the sacrificed soldiers and their deeds on it. In this way, everyone who enters Shatou City, whether it is a traveler, a common person or a businessman, can see what the soldiers of the Tulong Army have done and what sacrifices they have made on this land! ”

This was undoubtedly a heavy honor, and Zheng Yunming found that everyone's eyes were shining with hope.

This is exactly what he wants to see, if there is no hope in the eyes of the soldiers in the First World War, even if it is a fluke victory, the victory will not last.

"After that, I will report to the envoys, and enshrine the tablets of all the sacrificed soldiers to the ancestral hall in their hometown, so that the hometown fathers and elders will remember from generation to generation that their children sacrificed their lives for the country and sacrificed their lives for the emperor, which will become the eternal glory of the clan township!" Zheng Yunming touched his chest with his hand, pointed to the sky and said: "The sky is above, if Zheng Yunming has a day when his life will end in the future, I hope to add a point of glory to the Zheng ancestral hall in this way!" ”

"Come up and take a look at your comrades! Their heroic souls will forever shine on the latecomers of the Earth Dragon Army! ”

After a solemn and short memorial ceremony, all the generals gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army, where their chief had another thing to say.

"You are all senior commanders of your army." Zheng Yunming's voice returned from full of passion to calm as usual: "For you, these sacrifices must be more meaningful. ”

"How did He Dajie die?" Zheng Yunming asked: "I only glanced at the Tatar who killed him from a distance on the gatehouse, does anyone know his identity?" ”

"Interrogation of the captives knows." Hu Yanyu arched his hand and replied: "It seems to be the concubine of the Great Khan of Mongolia, whose name is Zazar Buhua, and the captive confesses that the concubine has always been known for its courage in the northern army, and is known as the god of whipping arrows. ”

"Is the god hand of whip arrows" Zheng Yunming commanded: "Write it down, and if you meet this person's banner in the future, no matter how far or near you are, as long as you get it, reward him with a bed crossbow first, so that he knows what he is afraid of, and he can't use whip arrows so proudly." ”

Zhu Sheng nodded yes, and Zheng Yunming then asked, "How did the team officers die?" ”

Wang Deng took a step forward and said: "After the check, four people were killed and injured by the bows and arrows of the Mongolian army under the city, two of them were killed in hand-to-hand combat with the Dengcheng army, and one person stood next to General Zhu who was put in the spot, and as a result, General Zhu exploded and himself died." ”

"General Bamboo exploded? Is it the cause of manufacturing defects? Zheng Yunming frowned.

"No, it's because the battle is too intense, and those firearms men repeatedly refilled a bamboo general, and the charge exceeded four or five catties, and the bamboo general exploded because of the overfilling."

Zheng Yunming nodded: "In the future, if you build a walled city, first repair the horse card battle shed, as you can see today, the power of General Zhu is enough to make the enemy dare not easily approach the city wall, and the Mongolian bows and arrows are really powerful, and you need to arrange more horse cards to defend." ”

"Hand-to-hand combat wins, relying on most of the strength of firearms, the next time the enemy is familiar with General Zhu, there will be no more casualties, I am not familiar with close-range combat, wait and study in detail a way to fight in a team on the city wall, don't fight like headless flies like today."

"Firearms are not skilled enough! In the future, the use of firearms will become more and more important, and it will also increasingly control the situation on the battlefield. Zheng Yunming said sharply: "No matter how hard you practice, you must practice the performance of firearms to be foolproof!" ”

All the generals claimed to be.

"Next, let's talk about what mistakes we made in the middle of this battle, and what mistakes the enemy made."

When everyone heard this, no one dared to speak easily, accusing the boss of his mistakes, which is not a safe choice in any era and in any situation.

Wang Deng said indifferently: "With all due respect, after thinking about it carefully, I felt that in this offensive and defensive battle, whether it was the attacking side or the defending side, the command was actually still amateurish. ”

"Tell me more." Zheng Yunming pointed to the topographic map of Shatou City behind him.

"First of all, our adversary, King Tath. The infantry formation that broke through Lee's command earlier fought beautifully. However, after defeating the enemy outside the city, it was a mistake not to arm around Shatou City. It should be noted that the opponent's passage in and out cannot be completely blocked, and the enemy may rush out from both sides at any time to attack and harass the troops who have ascended the city. ”

"Maybe the enemy deliberately arranged it this way in order to fish out our army for annihilation in the field?"

"That can't be explained by the fact that he doesn't attack from three sides while attacking the city." Wang Deng pointed to the northern wall of Shatou City. "When the second time I landed in the city, the Tartars almost broke the city, and the important reason for its failure was that the reinforcements from the west gate and the east gate of our army arrived in time to flank the few black troops who landed in the city.

"If you have more preparations, you will divide your strength," Peng Man said, "Concentrating all your strength and attacking a corner of it is the best strategy to attack the city." ”

"Of course, this is true for dealing with big cities, but in the face of a grass-made stockade with only 3,000 defenders, as an army with absolute superiority, it is natural to adopt the tactics of comprehensive encirclement, because you have an advantage in every direction, and you can use numbers to suppress the opponent."

Peng Man arched his hand to Zheng Yunming and asked, "What does the chief manager think?" ”

Zheng Yunming lowered his head and groaned for a while, and said, "I think that in fact, the Tartars are not seriously prepared to conquer this big village. ”

Ge Huai nodded and said, "If they come up with the methods and tenacity of attacking the city in the north, even if Shatou City is guarded by 3,000 soldiers of the Tulong Army, it will never be possible to survive ten days." ”

"When the Tatars invade a country at the beginning, they first pull out important passes on the border, then penetrate deep into the hinterland, killing and plundering people, looting villages, destroying your farmland and bazaars, but they do not attack cities easily. This is because of the old law of the Xiongnu Turks. However, from the perspective of the grassland, this trick is very effective against the sedentary peoples. ”

Zheng Yunming recalled the moving battles between the Central Plains and Mobei in history, and his thoughts gradually became clear in his mind: "Destroy the countryside first, but not attack the city." Because when they first entered the territory of the enemy's country, the geography was not yet recognized, and the equipment was not repaired, and the opponent was well fed and defended with a strong city, which was of course not easy to attack. ”

"Therefore, first destroy the enemy's crops, take away the peasants, destroy the fields and villages, and then fully understand the terrain of the enemy's country, and then use the financial resources provided by these captives to make siege equipment, and wait for the other side to have neither food nor troops to recruit, and only a lonely city remains, and then begin to surround it on all sides and attack a corner of it with mortal force."

The situation is as Zheng Yunming said, the Mongols moved south this time, except for the capture of Zaoyang, which took some twists and turns. After the passage was opened, there was no army under the city of Xiangyang, nor did he deliberately capture any city, he said that he would surrender, and if he could not surrender, he would make a tentative attack, and if he could break the city, he would occupy the city and sweep away the inhabitants of the city. If they can't break the city, they will go around the city and carry out sweeping massacres on the land of Jinghu, destroying all farms, fields, and houses.

This is to bleed and cut off food for the defenders of Jinghu, and in this way, year after year, the economy of Jinghu will completely collapse in a few years, and the defenders will not be able to obtain enough reserve replenishment, and the nine counties of Jingxiang will automatically fall into the pockets of the Mongols like ripe melons and fruits.

"These haven't become a reality yet," Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said, "There is still time, as long as everyone has one mind, they can do what I say." The Mongols' calculations would not have succeeded so easily. ”

He raised his chin and motioned to Wang Deng: "You haven't talked about my shortcomings yet. ”

"There are three main shortcomings for you." Wang Deng said loudly: "First, when the two sides called for battle, their language was vulgar and lacked courtesy. ”

"Let's not mention this yet." Zheng Yunming said with a straight face: "It's hard for me to change it, let's talk about the point." ”

Wang Deng laughed for a moment, and immediately said in a serious tone: "When the enemy climbed the city wall, he did not mobilize the Beiwei army in time to block the reinforcements, resulting in the black army successfully landing the city and almost occupying the city wall. ”

"Hmm," Zheng Yunming replied, "What else?" ”

"We have not achieved the flexible allocation of troops, saying that we are defending on all sides, but we are spreading the strength on all sides," Wang Deng said: "The soldiers are not expensive, the opponent fights with a punch, but we only use a little thumb to face the battle, how can we win?" ”

"Of course, the other side only sent two or three thousand siege troops as a test, but in fact, most of the time we only engaged the enemy with three or four hundred people. Zhu Sheng and Qin Wu were in a state of idleness for a long time, and Peng Man's five hundred people had no chance to play from beginning to end! If it weren't for the initiative of the Beiwei army to reinforce and the spontaneous action of the generals of each team, wouldn't we have been breached by 2,000 men instead of 3,000 defending the city? ”

"So from the point of view of the art of war, this is essentially a clumsy game between a novice sieger and a defender."