Chapter 28 presets the battlefield

He Xi seemed to think of something, and said, "What do you mean?"

Ye Shen said: "The meaning of the last general, Old Marquis Tang, will not have too deep knowledge of firearms, as long as he is dragged into the preset battlefield, it will be easy to break."

He Xi listened to it and felt that it made sense.

Firearms are very important, but firearms are in a favored and unfavored position here among the generals of the Ming Dynasty, and the favor is that firearms are indeed powerful and should be used when fighting, but most generals will not use firearms themselves.

There is no other reason, the quality of the firearm is questionable, and it is easy to blow up. One accidentally blew himself up. But it's not good.

The general's use of firearms is limited to what he is told how to use them and how they can be used. There is nothing else.

But because of the arrival of He Xi, the development of Daming firearms technology is actually very rapid, and the flintlock pistol is already very mature. It's just that there are not many requirements for flintlock pistols in the army. Without him, firearms were used instead of bows and arrows in the army. With such a positioning, flintlock pistols are redundant.

First, flintlock pistols are more expensive than arquebuses, and they are difficult to process. Second, how many generals in the army came from spears and bows, and looked down on firearms soldiers, if firearms were introduced on a large scale, what would happen to these generals?

Tang Shengzong is actually a representative of this kind of general.

They are not necessarily ignoring the development of firearms, they simply do not need them. After all, the weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty are at the point of excess force for any country on the earth. Why bother reforming and changing your job.

So firearms are not popularized on a large scale at all.

And Tang Shengzong is still different from other generals, that is, Tang Shengzong has been idle all these years, and he has no chance to contact the latest firearms, in fact, the latest firearms, He Xi has not kept it secret, and it can't be kept secret. As long as the comparison has something to do with ordnance, several national governments want to know, and it is difficult not to know. It's another thing to pay attention to it or not. To know must be to know.

And Tang Shengzong before that. I really don't know.

In fact, the generals of the Ming Dynasty are not so complacent, and there are many generals who have seen the rapid progress of firearms, and they have also studied firearms. And the characteristics that Ye Shen just talked about are the characteristics of studying firearms and getting started with firearms in person.

Often in contact with firearms, the skin is different from other people's skin in some places.

Ye Shen's judgment, even if there is a mistake, is not a big mistake.

He Xi said, "Then this battle will be handed over to you."

Ye Shen raised his eyebrows, and became excited for no reason. Ye Shen is such a person, for him, there is nothing that excites him more than war. This is also the reason why he has always been willing to be under He Xi, in the event of a war, he is really willing to give him full power.

is also Ye Shen's qualifications, so there are not many opportunities to lead the whole army.

Ye Shen said, "Please sit down and watch me be a thief."

Before Ye Shen broke the thief, he had to lose the last game first.

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This is a real defeat.

Ye Shen didn't dare to play any tricks in front of Tang Shengzong. After all, Tang Shengzong had too much combat experience. The slightest inappropriateness on the battlefield will make Tang Shengzong find out that it is inappropriate. So, Ye Shen bluffed and put on a situation where the whole army was holding on along the river. Secretly retreated, preparing a preset battlefield.

And Tang Shengzong didn't notice it. But Tang Shengzong came here to make meritorious contributions, so that everyone in the world knew that he was a Tang person, and he was not here to grind foreign workers, so he showed confrontation, and came to a Ming Xiu plank road to secretly Chen Cang, fifteen miles downstream, armed swim crossing, directly to the back of the defending army, front and back, the coastal army suddenly collapsed.

Tang Shengzong went ashore and interrogated the prisoners.

Immediately knew that He Xi was not an opponent and was ready to withdraw before the battle.

Tang Shengzong's repeated questioning, cross-questioning, and confessions were not much different.

After all, in this matter, Ye Shen had concealed the truth from these troops, so it was strange that Tang Shengzong could ask something.

Sure enough, Tang Shengzong had no doubts.

There is no other reason, which is in line with Tang Shengzong's judgment of He Xi.

He Xi is just unfamiliar with the military, but he is not an idiot. He Xi is self-aware, knowing that he can't beat him, and it is reasonable to find a way to protect the army and retreat. Not to mention, the means of withdrawing troops before the battle and hiding from the world and the sea were also used well, if it wasn't for him calling, he really didn't see anything abnormal.

Since Tang Shengzong believed the words of these captives.

Then what Tang Shengzong wants to do is very simple. Take advantage of his illness and ask for his life. So Tang Shengzong raised thousands of cavalry and chased after him directly.

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On both sides of the official road from Jinan to Dezhou, a lot of ravines have been dug densely. The ditch was covered with thatch, and it was impossible to see it from a distance. And inside the trenches, all musketeers.

One by one, they are preparing to shoot.

There are preparations that are casting bullets. There are those who are taking the musket apart and wiping the parts.

This was the first pure musket army of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also practiced by Ye Shen with the support of He Xi, and He Xi told Ye Shen a lot of ideas about firearms, but they were just ideas. And Ye Shen began to shoot firearms according to He Xi's idea.

It's just that among the musket tactics designed by Ye Shen, there are various tactics, but there is no queue to shoot.

He Xi also asked Ye Shen this question, and Ye Shen felt that this was something that a fool would do. If you have to fight in the field, you have to get on the shield car, but you can't do it, kick them in the ass with cavalry, divide the troops to pinn them down, dig trenches, there is no option to line up and shoot.

No matter how bad it is, bombarded with shelling.

There is also a rook formation, all kinds of chariots can be used as defensive weapons, slowly advancing to the front line, and then it is not too late to duel with the white blade.

The formation is invincible, this is something that the Liao cavalry knows about the Great Song infantry formation, that is, in the face of the Song army's infantry formation that has been lined up, the cavalry never attacks directly, because it will definitely be defeated. But this did not prevent the Liao cavalry from suppressing the Song army in many cases.

After all, there are too many ways to fight, and if you have to line up to be shot, you don't know what to do.

Of course, maybe one day there will be special restrictions on the battlefield, so we will fight like this. For example, the Tang army fought a stone castle and killed tens of thousands of people in battle, which was piled up with human lives, after all, there was no other way, geographical restrictions, and it could only be hard.

Ye Shen can also be regarded as He Xi's most important hole card, and he can be said to be the first firearms war expert in the Ming Dynasty.

He Xi put forward the idea of firearms and created various new firearms, while Ye Shen was responsible for finding ways to apply these firearms and form regulations. In the entire Ming Dynasty, and even in the whole world, no one is more familiar with firearms tactics than He Xi.

It's just that He Xi still has some worries.

He Xi said, "Are you sure, Tang Shengzong will definitely take this path."

Ye Shen said: "This is the only official road, I have made a lot of arrangements in the front, so that the back knows that we are retreating along the official road. Before coming here, Tang Shengzong would also encounter an ambush. At this point, I won't have any other thoughts."

When He Xi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He didn't know what to say about Ye Shen.

It's okay to say that Ye Shen is hard-hearted, and it's good to say that Ye Shenci is not in charge of the army. In short, although He Xi felt that what Ye Shen did couldn't be wrong, he still felt uncomfortable. In order to get this chance of ambush, Ye Shen gave Tang Shengzong at least two victories.

He Xi estimated that at least about 2,000 Beijing Jingying died in these two defeats.

What's even more terrifying is that they don't even know why they die in the end.

Ye Shen never told his true purpose below.

And Ye Shen was very calm from beginning to end, it seemed that in order for him to achieve his strategic goal, no matter how many people died, he would not blink an eye, but now Ye Shen can dig trenches with the soldiers, and even condolences one by one, as if he is one with every soldier, as if he is a brother, and the same as those dead soldiers.

In He Xi's view, it is simply schizophrenia, on the one hand, it can be done in the heart and lungs, and it is not fake at all. And when it comes to the use of soldiers, it seems that these people are only used as a number. He didn't even lift his eyelids.

No matter how much he died, it didn't affect him.

It was at this time, in the distance

Suddenly a tree fell. He Xi suddenly became energetic, he knew that this was a signal that had been arranged a long time ago, and the enemy had arrived.

Tang Shengzong was about to enter the preset battlefield with a large group of cavalry.