At the same time, in the hall of the Jinghai County Ya.

Hong Chengchou was looking at the list in front of him in a daze.

200 red-coated cannons, more than 6,000 self-made firearms, more than 4,200 Han soldiers of the Eight Banners, more than 2,100 green battalion soldiers, and more than 20,000 catties of gunpowder were lost......

There is a long list of numbers behind, and Hong Chengchou doesn't want to look down anymore.

This loss is true, which makes Hong Chengchou feel shocked, too terrible.

Before last night, Hong Chengchou actually still looked down on Yan Yingyuan.

If it is described in one sentence, there is no hero in the world, so that the shaft becomes famous.

Hong Chengchou is more willing to believe that Yan Yingyuan is lucky and did not meet a real famous general.

Duoduo and Dai Shan are not famous generals at all in Hong Chengchou's opinion, they are just two reckless men, with the same soldiers, Hong Chengchou claims that he can defeat Duoduo and his ilk into an army, let alone Dai Shan.

As for Dolgon, Hong Chengchou only admits his political skill.

In terms of military attainments, Hong Chengchou doesn't think much of Dolgon to be honest.

As far as military affairs are concerned, there is only one person that Hong Chengchou really admires, and that person is Huang Taiji.

Therefore, before the fight, Hong Chengchou was still very confident, and felt that defeating Yan Yingyuan and cutting off the Ming army's grain route was just a piece of cake, and it was not hard at all.

In the final analysis, the Qing army had more than 100,000 troops, and the Ming army had only 10,000 people.

In terms of firepower, the two sides are extremely different, and there is no comparison at all.

However, after a fight last night, Hong Chengchou found out that he was not an opponent at all.

His painstaking solitude, well-designed adjustment of the tiger from the mountain, and the sound of striking the west were seen through at a glance, and it didn't work at all, but he fell into the hub of the plan designed by others to capture the old and indulge in the serial scheme.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh again.

Hong Chengchou can finally understand Zhou Yu's mood in the popular romance of the Three Kingdoms at this time.

If there is a flood, how can it be a Yan? It's not enough to lose to Huang Taiji, but also to lose to Yan Yingyuan?

Hong Chengchou sat there and sighed, and the expression on Hou Fangyu's face was also uncertain.

Hou Fangyu actually wanted to sarcastically say a few words about Hong Chengchou, weren't you quite good at first? What else did Yan Yingyuan's desire to capture play big, but why did he lose in the end?

But seeing Hong Chengchou's long sigh at this time, Hou Fangyu was a little unbearable.

The main thing is that Hou Fangyu is worried that Hong Chengchou will lose confidence, and Hong Chengchou cannot lose confidence.

The master also pointed to Hong Chengchou to cut off the grain route of the Ming army, and he and the entire Hou family of Guide pointed to the Qing Dynasty to win this war of annihilation, and he also wanted Chongzhen to kneel at his feet and beg for mercy!

All of this must be achieved by winning this war of annihilation.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou must not lose confidence, and must cheer up and continue to compete with the Ming army.

At that moment, Hou Fangyu persuaded: "Hong Butang, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, last night was just a small defeat, not enough to worry about, wait for the next time to learn a lesson and win it back." ”

"Not enough?" Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly.

"A total of 500 red-coated cannons, and 200 were lost at one time, which is called insufficient teeth?"

Speaking of these 200 red-clothed cannons, Hong Chengchou was really in pain, and his heart was terrified.

I don't know what kind of anger Dolgon will be when the news of defeat reaches Beijing? Will you blame him?

Hou Fangyu almost choked to death when he heard this, I just want to comfort you, your surname Hong doesn't appreciate it, and you actually squeeze me in turn? Do you still have the face to squeeze me?

Last night's defeat was not my command.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou quickly realized his gaffe.

"Hou joins the army, the headquarters hall is already a little messy, please forgive me."

"Out of the way." Hou Fangyu didn't have any expression on his face, and said, "Hong Butang, the lower officials have a shallow opinion, and it is unknown that they may be able to cut off the grain route of the Ming army. ”

Hong Chengchou immediately humbly asked for advice: "I also ask Hou to join the army and give advice." ”

"I don't dare to teach." Hou Fangyu snorted, "I think so, Yan Yingyuan's hard bone is really not easy to gnaw, so let's just not gnaw him, and pick the soft one first." ”

"It's also wise to avoid reality and attack fiction."

Hong Chengchou did not hesitate to slap Hou Fangyu's sycophants, because he was afraid that Hou Fangyu would force him to continue to beat Chen Guantun and then Yan Yingyuan as a member of the army.

Fighting Chen Guantun again, Hong Chengchou really has no confidence.

He felt that if he fought again, there was a high probability that he would lose.

There were many civilian officials who knew the soldiers at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Hong Chengchou's military attainments were not the top, but this guy had an advantage that no one could match, that is, he was very self-aware.

Hong Chengchou has a clear understanding of his own abilities.

In the Songjin War of that year, Hong Chengchou knew that he couldn't beat it as soon as he had a little contact with the Qing army, because the Ming army was inferior at most levels, the soldiers were not as elite as Jiannu, the generals were not as brave as Jiannu, and the firearms were not as sharp as Jiannu.

The only chance for the Ming Dynasty is to consume the slaves alive.

So after walking to Ningyuan, Hong Chengchou resolutely stopped moving forward.

It is a pity that the political enemy and Chongzhen Fei forced him to send troops to Jinzhou, and also sent a military department Langzhong and a military department chief to Ningyuan to supervise the war with the emperor's dictation.

Hong Chengchou had no choice but to send troops.

In the end, a defeated soldier was captured.

Through last night's battle, Hong Chengchou found that the Qing army really couldn't defeat the Ming army.

Hong Chengchou can't say specifically, where the Qing army is inferior to the Ming army, but his intuition tells him that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is indeed far above the Qing army.

If it was a defensive war, the Qing army could barely fight the Ming army.

But the chances of winning in a field battle are slim, and if the Qing army is allowed to attack the fortified city defended by the Ming army in turn, then even if the Qing army occupies an absolute advantage in strength and firearms, it has no chance of winning, such as last night.

Hong Chengchou's intuition is very accurate, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has indeed far exceeded that of the Qing army, and it has crushed the Qing army from multiple dimensions.

At the firearms level, the firearms of the Ming army have the advantage of standardization, technical performance and logistics support, which are more advanced than the firearms of the Qing army.

However, the ammunition of the Qing army has not been universalized, and the ammunition of each cannon and even each flintlock pistol must be prepared separately, which greatly reduces the error tolerance rate of logistics, and it is easy to have a situation during the battle.

At the institutional level, the Ming army has a large number of grassroots officers who have received modern military academy education and have a deep and advanced understanding of firearms warfare, while the Qing army is still a typical cold-weapon army, and most of the grassroots officers are illiterate and can only carry out the simplest orders, and slightly more complex orders will be blind.

Not to mention the tactical aspect, the Ming army has entered the era of firearms in the real sense, but the Qing army is at best a semi-firearms army, that is, the weapons have been replaced with firearms, but the tactical thinking has not yet completed the military reform, and there is still a long way to go for the use of firearms.

To take the simplest example, the use of landmines.

The Ming army's use of mines has evolved to the level of serial mines, which is almost the level of mine warfare in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and it has become a routine operation to bury mines in the outer trenches when stationed in the field.

However, the Qing army's use of landmines was sparse and old-fashioned.

It is precisely because of this that Chongzhen dared to directly attack Beijing by land.

Because of this confidence, it is not a risk to go overland.

That's why I said that Hong Chengchou is really self-aware.

He was already keenly aware that the Qing army really couldn't defeat the Ming army.

Moreover, he also found that Yan Yingyuan's military attainments were far above him.

It's a bit embarrassing to say, but Hong Chengchou really scared Yan Yingyuan, although the troops in his hands far exceeded Yan Yingyuan, but Yan Yingyuan also had the advantage of defending the city, so he really couldn't fight.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou was particularly afraid that Hou Fangyu would force him to fight.

Now Hou Fangyu took the initiative not to fight Chen Guantun,

Hong Chengchou was naturally overjoyed and patted his ass wildly.

At that moment, Hong Chengchou asked again: "Hou joined the army to say that he attacked the weakness of the Ming army?" ”

"To be more precise, it is to attack the weakness of the Ming army's grain road." Hou Fangyu continued, "The weakness of the Ming army's grain road is the land route from Chenguantun to Dagukou!" ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou's brows immediately frowned again.

"Hou joins the army, you mean, seize the 11 Ming army camps in the middle?"

"No, no, Hong Butang, you misunderstood." Hou Fangyu said again, "It is not easy to capture the 11 camps in the middle, because you have to use red-coated artillery, and even if you capture these 11 camps, it is useless, because the Ming army will definitely mobilize heavy troops to launch a counterattack. ”

"If you don't save it, the camp will inevitably be taken away by the Ming army again."

"If it is saved, the two sides will gradually increase their troops, and eventually it will become a field battle."

After a pause, he said: "And the field battle is what my Qing soldiers try to avoid. ”

"Not to take the barracks?" Hong Chengchou asked again, "Then what do you mean by Hou joining the army?" ”

"Cavalry can be harassed." Hou Fangyu pointed to the sand table in front of him and said, "You can send all the 40,000 Mongolian cavalry of the Eight Banners and divide them into a thousand or even a hundred teams to sweep back and forth between Dagukou and Chen Guantun, so as to prevent the people of the Southern Ming Dynasty from transporting grain and grass between various camps. ”

"I'm afraid this matter is not easy." Hong Chengchou frowned and said, "Eight Banners Mongolia attacked the Ming army's grain transportation team with a thousand people, and the Ming army only needed to send an infantry battalion of more than 1,000 people to escort it. ”

"Then increase the strength of the troops, with 5,000 cavalry as a team!" Hou Fangyu said categorically.

"If the Ming army also increases the escort force, what can be done about it?" Hong Chengchou spread his hands.

Hong Chengchou's worries are reasonable, the Eight Banners Mongolia can certainly send cavalry to attack and harass.

But the Ming army can also send infantry to protect, and the situation will not turn into a field battle again?

(End of chapter)