The whole meeting was fruitless. After the others dispersed, Xue Yongli stayed alone. He said to Wu Shigong: "Uncle, I'm a little sorry for refuting your face." But the younger ones still have to think about the brothers who came with them, they all have families. ”

"It doesn't matter." Wu Shigong made a gesture to reassure Xue Yongli. He's not a man without energy. He waited for Xue Yongli to continue.

"Uncle, in fact, your idea is very good, line up the team and strike the enemy with firearms. But to put it mildly, this kind of idea has a bit of a taste of paper. Even if it's small, there are several ways to break your formation, uncle. ”

"Oh?" Xue Yongli's words aroused Wu Shigong's interest, "Then you can talk about it, how to break it?" ”

"Suppose the small ones come to break the formation. If there is enough time and manpower, the small one only needs to surround the thousand-man musket queue, dig trenches, build earthen walls, and surround them to the death. In order to break through, the thousand-person firearm queue must be attacked. At that time, the offense and defense were reversed, and even if the thousand-person firearm queue broke through the encirclement, the loss would be extremely large, and at most half of the people would escape. ”

"If you want to fight quickly, the small one only needs five hundred horses, and it is one hundred and fifty paces away from the fire gun queue, and it is far beyond the range of the fire gun. For the small ones, just divide the horse team into three or four teams. One team restrained the harassment, and the rest dismounted to rest, feed the horses, and accumulate horsepower. Take turns, and then wait. ”

"One hour is not enough, just two hours. Two hours is not enough, just wait three hours. When the firecracker queue was too tired to stand it, or wanted to retreat. As soon as the formation loosened, the small one immediately gathered all the horses, formed a formation, and launched an attack. ”

"A distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and a horse can rush in less than ten breaths. No matter how powerful my uncle's firearm is, he can defeat more than a hundred horses at most. After the horse team rushed into the fire formation, just kicking the horses' hooves could kick the more than 1,000 people to death. ”

Listening to Xue Yongli's words, Wu Shigong pondered for a while. Then he said to Xue Yongli: "Xiexie, you, what you said makes sense." Uncle, I am indeed a layman in the war, and I will rely on you to help me more in the future. If you have any ideas, you should tell me in time, don't hide them, for fear that I will be angry. Uncle, I'm not a small person. What to do now, let me think again. ”

So, Xue Yongli saluted and retired. Wu Shigong found that he was a little shaken by Xue Yongli's words. Is there really something wrong with your own thinking?

Wu Shigong didn't know, the direction of his ideas was not wrong, but it was too advanced. The method he wanted to equip all the firearms and form a formation was not realistic under the current circumstances. It is the famous Spanish phalanx, which is used with hot and cold weapons. However, in the face of a decisive onslaught of massive cavalry, the Spanish phalanx would still suffer huge losses. The wear and tear of the cavalry impact effect waited until the heavy use of machine guns.

After Xue Yongli retired, Wu Shigong thought quietly alone. He carefully recalled everything he knew about military affairs before the crossing. Thinking about it, he thought of the ghost Qin Bai who caused him to cross over.

Although Qin Bai did not graduate from the military academy, in his chat with Wu Shigong, he occasionally talked about some military knowledge.

Qin Bai talked about two points that had the deepest impact on Wu Shigong.

One point is about strategy and tactics. Qin Bai said to Wu Shigong at that time: "I talk to you about strategy and tactics, it's too complicated, and you don't understand it. You just have to remember two rules: one rule is that every war needs to have a clear strategic goal in advance; Another rule is that there can only be one strategic goal at a time, and if there are two or more of them, it will often happen that the bear pulls the corn, and Zuihou does not get any results. ”

Qin Bai then made an analogy to Wu Shigong: "For example, you bring a hundred people and grab an apple with a hundred opponents. Then you have to know in advance that your main purpose is to grab the apple? Or do you want to knock all the opponent's 100 people down? Of course, in reality, beating down all 100 of your opponents basically means that you have grabbed the apple. However, in war, this is not necessarily the case. ”

Then, Qin Bai gave Wu Shigong a real-life example: "Look at the Battle of Midway." When the Japanese fleet set out, it was not even decided that the purpose of this campaign was to capture Midway. Or to destroy the US aircraft carrier fleet? As a result, there was a 'reloading incident' in Zuihou, which led to a great defeat for the Japanese fleet. This is the consequence of not following the two rules mentioned above. ”

(There were many other reasons for Japan's defeat at the Battle of Midway, but the author believes that the confusion in the strategic thinking of the Japanese fleet was the main reason for the defeat.) This can be argued. ）

Another point that Qin Bai emphasized was the issue of discipline in the army. He said this to Wu Shigong: "In fact, in reality, not to say that a soldier travels to ancient times, even a famous general travels to ancient times, it may not be able to forge a winning army. ”

"On the contrary, if there is a modern one, any regular army that travels to ancient times, as long as they receive half a year of cold weapon training, they will sweep through any ancient army of the same number. Including Genghis Khan's Iron Cavalry and Yue's Army. weishenme？ The main thing is the discipline of the modern army. ”

"The discipline of the modern army is simply outrageous. The behavior of any soldier must be in accordance with the regulations, including the eating and sleeping of the soldier. Not only that, but in fact, everyone in modern times must be disciplined as soon as they go to school from an early age. For each primary school student, the sweeping is managed by the labor commissioner; The homework is under the management of the study committee; It's that you pull your pigtails at the same table, and the squad leader will take care of it (about this, the author is worried about it). Therefore, in modern times, everyone is actually trained as a soldier from an early age. ”

"But what about weishenme? Because in the army, each soldier does not need to have his own mind, and when they are combined, they condense into a terrible war machine. How could such a war machine be able to compete with the armies of largely undisciplined peasants and herders in ancient times? ”

Wu Shigong pondered Qin Bai's words repeatedly, and his thoughts began to become clear. First of all, you need to have a strategic goal. But what is your current strategic goal? It's very simple, in the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, save your life.

So, what do you do? And it is clear. It was after arriving at Senhe that he trained the army, built a strong fortress, and built his Senhe into a fortress. And in the defense of the fortress, isn't the power of the firearm just able to be brought into play?

In addition, isn't platoon training the discipline of training soldiers? Therefore, the training of firearms and queues should not only not be abandoned, but should be emphasized.

Thinking about all this, Wu Shigong found Xue Yongli again for an exchange. Wu Shigong talked to Xue Yongli about his idea of building a thousand households into a fortress, and Xue Yongli welcomed it with both hands.

Then, Wu Shigong proposed to let Xue Yongli be in charge of all the horse teams he brought to Guide, and let him be in charge of the training of the horse team. Because, in the previous conversation with Xue Yongli, Wu Shigong had already seen that Xue Yongli had a lot of experience in the use of the horse team. This kind of thing is better left to experts.

In addition, Wu Shigong also proposed to Xue Yongli that he would participate in the training of the horse team together. In this troubled world, it is always haode to have more self-defense skills.

Regarding Wu Shigong's arrangement, Xue Yongli agreed to it in one bite.

Wu Shigong also proposed to Xue Yongli that after returning to Guide, if additional recruits were recruited in Qianhusuo, the training of those recruits would be in accordance with Wu Shigong's training methods. Wu Shigong will also personally lead them in training.

Xue Yongli thought about it for a while and agreed. Anyway, it's not someone who brought it from the capital, how my uncle likes to practice, then how to practice well. Anyway, in Guide, there is almost no possibility of war.

Zuihou, Wu Shigong proposed to Xue Yongli that no matter who it is, it is necessary to master the shooting jishu of the fire gun solidly.

Xue Yongli still agreed. Master more military jishu, that is always haode.

Judging from the ending, Wu Shigong basically achieved his goal this time.

In the capital, Emperor Chongzhen finally approved Xue Lian's resignation. Among the nobles, he chose a person with the strongest literati atmosphere, a good tutor, and basically no contact with Wei Zhongxian, as Xue Lian's successor. That noble is Wu Shigong's father-Gongshun Hou Wu Weizhong!?

If the current Wu Shigong knew this situation, he would definitely look up to the sky and sigh: "Feng Shui takes turns!" ”