Chapter Twenty-Nine: Tang Shengzong's Fear

"Woo ------" Tang Shengzong suddenly stopped his horse and looked at everything in front of him.

This is a plain with an unobstructed view, and of course, this plain is still different from the great plain of Henan in later generations. There are two differences, even if it is a plain area, in fact, the terrain is undulating. The reason why later generations could not see it was because in the sixties and seventies, there were a large number of farmland water conservancy projects. One of them is to level the land.

As a result, there is a vast plain with no undulations at all.

In addition, although the northern part of Shandong is also a plain area, there are still some ups and downs due to the river topography and other reasons.

Of course, this kind of ups and downs can't completely obscure the view. Tang Shengzong's gaze swept and he could see miles away. In his opinion, there is no possibility of hiding a large group of people at all. He looked at the road again.

It seems that because of the traces of a large group of men and horses, the dirt road, which was not very strong, was trampled into potholes.

But other than that, Tang Shengzong didn't find any problems.

It's just that Tang Shengzong still has a sense of danger.

This is many years of experience on the battlefield.

Tang Shengzong asked himself, and said secretly, "What went wrong?"

Tang Shengzong thought about it repeatedly, since he was in the suburbs of Yu County, he had won successive battles and captured many people. At least two or three guards were destroyed, and many generals and soldiers of the Beijing camp were captured, and the two sides were in a civil war, and the relationship between the Ming army was intertwined. Tang Shengzong effortlessly rebelled against several officers.

Tang Shengzong also understands the inside story of the Northern Army.

There were no problems with these two battles.

It's normal.

"Is it because it's too normal?" Tang Shengzong's eyes narrowed slightly. Secretly said in my heart.

On the battlefield, if everything happens according to your own wishes, there are only two possibilities, one is that the other party is too vegetable. Another possibility is that you have been tricked. Tang Shengzong secretly said in his heart, "Which one?"

As far as Tang Shengzong's mind is concerned, he thinks it is the first one.

"Master Hou, what's wrong?" The lieutenant general next to him stepped forward and said.

Tang Shengzong's face was impassive, and he said, "It's okay, it's just that I'm old and have been resting at home for a long time. I can't bear the hardships of the battlefield. See the smile."

The lieutenant general immediately said, "Master Hou, just sit in the rear army, I am willing to be the vanguard and capture the traitors."

Tang Shengzong said, "Then there will be labor."

Although Tang Shengzong felt that the other party was the most likely to be too vegetable, but be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years, the older the so-called rivers and lakes, the less courageous he is. Tang Shengzong understands one thing too well, on the battlefield, be careful 10,000 times, nothing may happen, but if you are careless once, you may lose your life.

Although Tang Shengzong felt that this ethereal feeling was not enough to use as an argument for his decision, he still made a small adjustment. Although Tang Shengzong desperately wanted to fight a battle, make meritorious contributions, and announce his return to the whole world. But after all, he is an old fighter, and as soon as he goes to the battlefield, he instinctively discards superfluous thoughts.

The lieutenant didn't know that his boss was in this mind.

Without hesitation, he took the cavalry of his headquarters and walked in front instead of Tang Shengzong's department. Between the two teams, they are separated by a mile or two.

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All this naturally fell into Ye Shen's eyes, Ye Shen bit a piece of grass and swallowed it in one bite. The grass roots, which were originally sweet, have long been bitten off, and there is only jerky grass juice behind them, which is difficult to swallow.

Ye Shen said, "Order, prepare."

Ye Shen thought a lot, such as letting go of the front team and attacking the back team.

But Ye Shen still gave up.

Without him, I don't dare.

Ye Shen is very confident in his own hiding, but who is that, Tang Shengzong, although he is not a first-rate general among the founding generals, but he is also wise and brave, and he has also sat on the pass and defended it, retreating ten times the enemy, and has also divided his troops in battle.

He really didn't dare to say whether his little tricks would appear in the hands of connoisseurs.

Tens of thousands of people

Life, Ye Shen is still cowardly in the end.

With Ye Shen's order, the soldiers sitting in the trenches suddenly lifted the camouflage made of dead branches and rotten leaves on the top of their heads, and countless people showed their heads and took out the firecrackers in their hands. Almost at the same time, Ye Shen took the whistle in his mouth.

A shrill whistle.

Loud in the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom." It was the mines that had been planted on the official road that were sounded.

There was a crackling sound, and it was the fire gun.

In the trenches, groups of three occupy a firing position. Take turns firing and maintain the output of fire.

In an instant, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air. Tang Shengzong's front team had already been submerged.

Tang Shengzong was stunned on the spot. In an instant, cold sweat was dripping. The underwear was already soaking wet.

Tang Shengzong couldn't believe everything in front of him.

He didn't have to wait for the smoke in front of him to dissipate before he could make a judgment, the front team was two thousand people. The most courageous cavalry in the Shandong army was gone.

In the blink of an eye, it was gone.

This was a very big blow to Tang Shengzong. For a moment, Tang Shengzong felt that he would not be able to fight. He had fought all his life and had never seen such a situation.

On the battlefield, trench rejection is not uncommon and even common. But no one ever dug a trench to hide the ambush.

Why?

Because of the cold weapon duel, pay attention to the condescending situation. In a word, gravitational potential energy.

When the two are fighting, it is easier to hit the low place from a high place, if it is in a cold weapon state, someone is in the trench, someone is above the trench, who has the advantage, it is self-evident. Hide in a trench and ambush.

Too close and you'll be discovered. It's too far. Loss of suddenness. It's better to hide in the woods.

And even when attacking, you have to climb out of the trench, which also requires physical strength.

On the battlefield, the physical reserves of the soldiers are as important as the reserves of gasoline in mechanized warfare. Every general has to calculate his wallet and arrange it carefully, how can it be possible for the soldiers to waste more physical strength before the battle.

Therefore, the fact that Ye Shen was not hidden was not because Tang Shengzong was not careful. But the logic of the battlefield is here, in the case of a cold weapon duel, hidden in the trench, once discovered, it is almost the same as looking for death.

But with the advent of firearms, the logic of the battlefield has changed.

That is the importance of physical strength, giving way to gunpowder, firepower.

In the era of cold weapons, it was possible to use a completely contrary way of using soldiers.

Tang Shengzong's previous experience was completely useless, and there were even places to mislead him.

The loss of thousands of people, in fact, Tang Shengzong didn't take it to heart, almost all the famous generals probably love soldiers like sons, use soldiers like mud, before going to the battlefield, everything is good, once they are on the battlefield, they don't care about this.

What he cared about, all his combat concepts completely collapsed.

Unable to explain what was in front of him, he smelled gunpowder from afar, and he himself had seen all kinds of firearms of the Ming Dynasty, but he never knew that firearms could still be used like this?

"My lord, what are we going to do?" Tang Shengzong's surroundings all looked at Tang Shengzong anxiously.

Tang Shengzong closed his eyes, suddenly opened them, and said, "Withdraw."

Immediately, Tang Shengzong didn't explain, turned around and left.

Although Tang Shengzong didn't know what was going on in front of him, he knew very well that he was in the current situation.

The army is not the same as the army.

Tang Shengzong temporarily went to Shandong to take over the army, and among these people, although there was his old department, it was many years ago. People change. Tang Shengzong did not have complete control over these old departments, not to mention that a considerable part of these armies had nothing to do with Tang Shengzong, and listening to Tang Shengzong's orders was just an order from the imperial court.

With this kind of army, Tang Shengzong's ability to control is actually not high. The ability to withstand casualties is not too high.

Moreover, the cavalry has always maintained the status of the first-class main force in the Ming army. Compared to the Beijing camp and the border army, the mountain

The combat effectiveness of the eastern, Henan and other abdominal guards is not good, and even Zhu Yuanzhang has already issued an order to let the abdominal guards be divided into three points and seven points.

In this case, the morale of the army can be guaranteed by the cavalry and a small number of soldiers. These are the backbones, and the rest of the armies are nothing more than logistics personnel, or make up the numbers. In modern times it should be called reservists. Of course. After all, this is the Hongwu period, these soldiers who don't fight much also maintain a certain intensity of military training, and they also have combat effectiveness.