Chapter 431: What is a fighting general

Everyone woke up from his laughter and looked up, and sure enough, they saw that small snowflakes began to float in the sky, not big, not tight, scattered, fluttering, so that everyone was quiet!

"It seems that you really have to start early", Lu Wang looked at the rapidly melting snowflakes in his hands and said gently, this first snow in 1641 made him suddenly realize that this is a Xiaoice period, in the later season, only places like Heilongjiang may have snow, and in this place in Henan, it is possible not to see even a single snow hair in the whole winter, but now the snow begins to fall in mid-November, if once the snow closes the mountain, the battle will be even more difficult! Hey, the Ming Dynasty can't afford to hurt it!

"Young master, there seems to be a fight in the north!" At this moment, a member of the personal guard came over with a walkie-talkie in his hand, "The brother in charge of monitoring in the city said that the thief army is provoking, and Uncle Huang is ready to fight!" ”

"Oh?" Lu Wang was stunned for a moment, and smiled wryly, "What is Li Zicheng trying to do, looking for trouble endlessly!" Let's go, go up and have a look! ”

A big tent was set up on the north gate of Nancheng, and there was an aerial reconnaissance room set up by the Military Discipline Department, which was almost 24 hours a day in the northwest of Nanyang City to monitor the thieves' every move, and at this moment, the bigwigs in the tent gathered together to look at a big display screen in front of them, and held their breath one by one!

"Fighting general" Lu Wang looked at the surveillance screen and laughed, his heart was full of anticipation, this is the first time he has seen a single challenge since he crossed, in the past, watching movies and watching TV, the two armies often put on a posture first, the enemy and I first greeted each other's elders a few words, and then disagreed with each other and went heads-up, and then the enemy and I fought hundreds of rounds to kill who was under the horse, and then who was not convinced, and then was knocked out again, and then was KO and then ...... Defeated without a fight!

There are still question marks in Rwan's mind about these things. Because after all, I haven't seen the real scene, but I feel crying and laughing at the descriptions of some novels, such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are many descriptions: I only see one general. White helmet and white armor Su Luo robe, a white dragon horse in the crotch, a bright silver spear in the palm, majestic, brave champion of the three armies. Rush to the front of the battle and stab the gun, and before three combinations, the enemy will be stabbed under the horse............

Don't you think it's! Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the battle is not different". It means that the costume of the general's battle must not be unconventional. Pay attention to disguise so that you don't become the first target of the other party. "Huainanzi" cloud: "The general does not dare to ride a white horse, and he is afraid that it is easy to recognize." "That's the truth. If the young general above is really white-clothed and white-armored. Plus a silver gun and a white horse, unless it's a snowy day, and the whole world is covered in silver makeup like him. Most of them haven't waited for this handsome young player to arrive in front of the formation. It was shot into a stack of arrows by the opponent's crossbowmen.??

As for this kind of pre-array unconventional style to find death, it is certain that there is no such thing, but is there such a thing as heads-up, there really is, but it is not called heads-up and fighting! The meaning of the fighting generals before the battle! In the "Essentials of Military Planning", it is said that "the two formations are standing, and each will fight, which is called a challenge." This is the definition of a battle general.

And the most important point is that the front-to-head fighter, heads-up often relies on a blow. One hit. There are few fights as described in the romance, you come and go. Killing him for dozens of rounds, or even hundreds of rounds, is pure. The fights mentioned in the canon rarely exceed three rounds. This is like a martial arts master's move, in Jin Yong's novel, Huashan's sword can be compared for a few days and nights. In Gu Long's works, there are often one or two moves between masters. If there really is a martial arts world in the world, Gu Long's description may be closer to reality. The fighting in the era of cold weapons is easily reminiscent of a fighting method in ancient Europe, where both sides of the fight hold long wooden weapons, ride horses and charge each other quickly, and the two horses interact with each other, and if they shoot suddenly, one of them will be shot down. The one with the most strength and the best one is often the winner. The battle formations in ancient China may be similar. Cheng Biting Jin's first three moves are rare opponents in the world, but he has become a funny star in storytelling and opera. In history, if Cheng Yanjin really had a powerful three-plate axe (in fact, people used a lance), then he must have been a formidable enemy of 10,000 people.

It's just that there are many scenes of generals fighting alone in various barnyard histories, novels, and notes, but there are few records in the official history. Wild history anecdotes are not to be believed. Even in the era of cold weapons, victory or defeat on the battlefield mainly depends on the combat effectiveness of the army and the command ability of the generals, rather than on the "courage of the commanders". "The Art of War" says that a general must possess five basic qualities: wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage, and strictness, among which there are no indicators such as "great strength" and "ability to fight". Bai Qi may not be strong in martial arts, and he can also "exhaust the 400,000 Zhao army". Han Xin was cowardly in private fights and was willing to suffer the humiliation of his crotch, but in the future, he helped Liu Bang to conquer the world of the Han family. As for Wei Qing, Zhou Yu, and Li Jing, they are not brave and ruthless people, but they do not live up to the reputation of ancient famous generals.

Because of this, this kind of soldier-to-soldier and general-to-general capture and killing on the battlefield is not a very common and representative war behavior, but a battlefield behavior that is marginalized in war. Ancient China produced many famous generals and soldiers, and the ancestors developed remarkable military achievements over thousands of years, and among these achievements, there are very few outstanding generals. Therefore, there are relatively few relevant historical accounts.

Although there are few detailed descriptions of the battle arrays in the past dynasties, in the Qing Dynasty, there were good deeds that did special research. As we all know, in the Qing Dynasty, there were very few people in thought, art, and literature, and the quality and quantity were far inferior to those of the previous dynasties. But there is no shortage of experts in the Qing Dynasty. Especially in the field of historiography, there have been some very good scholars. To put it in today's nonsensical terms, the Qing Dynasty produced some historical "paparazzi" masters, who specialized in inducting, summarizing, classifying, doubting the ancients, and examining differences, and then compiled them into notes. These materials are vast, lacking in depth, but not lacking in accuracy. In some notebook documents, there are also wonderful records of those marginalized battle generals.

Judging from those records, the Qin and Han dynasties, which were at the highest level of military warfare in ancient China, were the least likely to be single-handed, because large-scale battles occurred more often during the Qin and Han dynasties, and the larger the scale of the war, the more strategic and tactical and group combat methods became the primary factors of victory, and the role of individual force decreased.

On the contrary, during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the proportion of generals in battle formations was the highest, and during this period, chaotic battles, melee battles, and unprepared battles occurred quite frequently, so the personal force of the main generals would play a greater role. Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty said that in the previous wars, it was often "to defeat no skills with few skills", referring to this period. It can be seen that during this period, although there were many fierce generals who could fight in close combat, there were not many famous generals who could go down in history. The Tang Dynasty had the strengths of two aspects, including fierce generals such as Qin Shubao, Wei Chi Jingde, and Xue Rengui, and on the other hand, the level of military command and war was also very high. The Song Dynasty had no shortage of capable fighters, but the strategic and tactical level of its armies was always weaker than that of the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. As for the Ming Dynasty, although there were generals with big swords like Liu Qi, in the face of the sophisticated cavalry and archery skills of the Eight Banners Army, they were still defeated and died on the battlefield of Sarhu.

Of course, it is the Ming Dynasty now, so let's talk about the Ming Dynasty, according to Lu Wang's previous understanding of the Ming Dynasty, the most popular heads-up at the end of the Ming Dynasty is none other than Huang Degong, and there is a history to study "Liu Xuan Cong Talk" records, Huang Degong, the prince of Jingguo in the Southern Ming Dynasty, fought against Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army in his early years. Huang Degong's general Lin Baoguo was booby-trapped by Zhang Xianzhong's general Zhao Hu, Huang Degong was furious, went straight into the opponent's formation, and beheaded Zhao Hu under the horse. There is a young fierce general in the rebel army who is called an invincible general, and he arrived on horseback and wanted to take Huang Degong, but he was captured by Huang Degong and returned on a sideways horse. It can be seen that Huang Chuangzi's name is not for nothing, and there are countless records about him in other wild histories!

And now Lu Wangcai doesn't care about the official history, there is a real battle live broadcast in front of him, and his boss Huang Degong is very likely to go into battle in person. What a thing to look forward to, so without saying a word, he immediately took out a bag of melon seeds and knocked it up, this is the plan to watch a good show.

Huang Degong's head is a little heavy today, not because he is sick but because of serious lack of sleep, last night Zhao Mingyang assisted Li Qingshan to fight the Dushan bombing, but he was on the front line and the same as the thief army in the mountain pass camp, because he was worried that the thief soldiers would send reinforcements when they saw that Dushan had changed, or they were annoyed and angry by Zhao Mingyang's air raid, and they also came to attack the camp at night in the middle of the night, anyway, they couldn't sleep until five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was bright before they gradually fell asleep!

But the eyelids didn't close for long before they were woken up by their own soldiers, saying that the enemy had moved, so they had to hurriedly get up and run to the sentry tower to watch for a while, and sure enough, a group of thieves came out of the camp and saw more than 20,000 people rushing over!

Without saying a word, Huang Degong immediately dispatched troops to prepare for the battle, and it was just past nine o'clock in the morning, and it was also the time when Lao Biao was eating in the camp of the medical team in the city!

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Note: This chapter quotes a lot from Baidu Encyclopedia! (To be continued......)