Chapter 61: The drums are thick

In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Southern Army, the three fronts totaled more than half a million troops, and the number of civilians used exceeded this number.

Ye Shen didn't lose his cool, and he didn't even fight back. Instead, the soldiers and horses deployed in the area south of Hejian Province were withdrawn step by step, and even recovered, and there were some more men and horses. Without him, the local forces that had previously attached themselves to the Northern Army were not forgiven after the withdrawal of the Northern Army.

The reason for this.

On the one hand, from Zhu Yunwen downward, he has not thought carefully about the occupation policy of this generation at all. Because they take it for granted that they are countering rebellion, hanging the people, and have natural justice. Is there still a need for a policy of acceptance?

What to do?

So what to do?

Take a look at the Da Ming Law, which has entries related to rebellion. In Nanjing's view, Zhu Xiongying is a definite rebellion, so the local people who have cooperated with the Northern Army are sure to be rebellious, what else do they want to end well?

Dream on.

On the other hand, soldiers, murder weapons. The saint had to use it as a last resort. This sentence is used to summarize the ancient army, and it also makes a lot of sense.

This sentence is not only about the cruelty of ancient wars, but also about the army itself as a murder weapon.

The understanding of military discipline in ancient times is completely different from the understanding of military discipline in modern times.

In He Xi's opinion, the military discipline of the Northern Army is poor enough. Even under He Xi's rectification, he didn't dare to make a big deal, but he didn't give money when he went out to eat, and he didn't pay for buying things. Verbal molesting of women, such a thing, has always been. But the people of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be very good.

In the eyes of Fu Youde and other generals, as long as they can win the battle, what kind of military discipline do they want.

Especially Fu Youde, he is very honest under Zhu Yuanzhang, but don't forget that he is a veteran who followed Liu Futong's Northern Expedition, who killed Hebei and Shandong into a white land, the Red Turban Army and the Yuan Army, here is not to say that the military discipline of the Red Turban Army is not good, but that most of the military discipline of the Red Turban Army and the military discipline of the Yuan Army are very poor.

Of course, the military discipline of today's Ming army is not as bad as large-scale looting, after all, it is the imperial court. But everyone sends troops and horses to make a profit. After all, there is a war. The salary given to him by the imperial court was enough to support his family. But it's a lot worse. Something extra must be given.

Conquer the city. As usual, let the following catch a penny.

How to fish? The gentry of each city were required to pay for the labor army, and these rebels were liquidated. What is not from the reverse? Only for the sake of the court to endure humiliation?

Shall we run for nothing?

Naturally, there must be people who rebel.

In this way, the people who originally cooperated with the Northern Army in various prefectures and counties naturally knew what would happen to their stay, and they left with their families to follow the Northern Army, so tens of thousands of people fled into the north, and at the same time, there were more than 10,000 strong men who also withdrew to the north.

Tie Hyun was overjoyed by this situation.

He immediately consulted with Ye Shen, selected officers from the army, and organized the more than 10,000 people into two guards, one called Henan Wei and the other Shandong Wei. In the future, if you hit the south, these two guards can be arranged to become local defenders, which is absolutely the most suitable.

Ye Shen had no objection to this.

It's just that Ye Shen also has a problem, he said: "Recently, I have seen the defense line between the river, the combination of the castle and the river, the army is put behind as the general reserve, and there are reinforcements from Beijing, even if the southern army has millions of people, they will also run into blood before this copper wall. I'm not worried about this battle. It's just that I found that there are too few people who can use firearms, and there are all kinds of gunpowder, guns, and artillery in the rear. And the hundreds of households below prefer to rush up with knives. As for the people who will give full play to the advantage of firepower among the thousands of households. Not much. According to me, if there are qualified talents. Why do you need these fortified cities, it is enough to block the southern army, I am afraid this problem will have to be solved."

Tie Hyun scratched his head when he heard this.

The issue of the military is the most sensitive. Therefore, before the war, even He Xi did not dare to perform major surgery on the army. It was just that some preparations were made from other aspects, such as stockpiling some firearms and gunpowder, etc.

But the problem is that He Xi and Ye Shen have already established their advantage over Nanjing this time, that is, firearms.

It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of firearms.

However, there are many aspects of the firearms tactics that are in common with the original tactics of the Ming Dynasty. For example, the three-fold array, which was originally the formation of the bow and crossbow, has always existed from the Song Dynasty, to the Han army of the Yuan Dynasty, to the Ming army, and now it has been modified as a basic formation for organizing attacks with firearms. Although it cannot be said that there are no problems, it is familiar up and down, and it is easy to get started. So it was popularized on a large scale.

Even in terms of firecrackers, it's easy to do. It's more intuitive overall. But artillery is different.

It is true that today's artillery casting has such and such problems, although the problem of exploding the bore is solved, but it is bulky, the firing speed is slow, and the accuracy is poor. There are all such problems.

But even then, it is important to use artillery in numbers, to determine targets, and not to fight indiscriminately.

And in the army, there are a lot of generals who dare to fight and kill, even like Qu Liangcai, and among thousands of troops and horses, there may not be no generals who have the courage to kill generals and capture the flag. It's just that it hasn't been played out in history. After all, in the torrent of history, how many talents have been buried, future generations do not know at all.

The Ming Dynasty inherited the heroic style of the founding of the country, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not purge the army on a large scale. It is also normal for the army to hide dragons and crouching tigers.

But there are very few who are proficient in mathematics, educated, and know how to measure.

For an ordinary soldier. It is not difficult to say that it is not difficult to change from a cold-weapon army to a firearms army, it is nothing more than learning to use firearms, being familiar with firearms and gunpowder, and then practicing skillfully, which is no more difficult than practicing knives and guns.

And for a hundred households, it is necessary to change the way of thinking, and shout brothers from before, kill me. Get used to maintaining formation and let your firepower kill the enemy more than yourself. It's a bit difficult, but it's also too difficult.

But for a thousand households, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the firing range, frequency, artillery firing determination. Look at the map, determine the killing range, etc. It is impossible to be familiar with all aspects without understanding.

Just look at Ye Shen's ambush battle in Yu County, how far away from the road is to dig trenches, which can not only give the enemy the greatest damage, but also not accidentally injure the comrades on the opposite side. This also needs to be calculated.

Ye Shen has not done anything else in the past few months. It is by working this that we have a deep understanding of the pain of the transformation of the army.

It's just that in the face of Ye Shen's problem, Tie Xuan has no choice. Tie Xuan said, "I think the only way is probably to transfer personnel from the Third Colonel of Liaodong and Guozijian to join the army. But now they are all fragrant and sweet, how can they be willing to come to the army. You still play Shousuke, let Shousuke figure it out."

Ye Shen and Tie Xuan didn't take the Southern Army seriously, and were still thinking about the long-term problems in the army, but now there was no one in Beijing who was as calm as the two of them.

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In the Qianqing Palace, a large sand table occupies a considerable number of positions, Zhu Xiongying stands with his chest crossed, Deng Zhen stands on the side, and marks the southern army offensive on the sand table one by one with various colored flags. Zhu Xiongying only felt that it was menacing, he observed intently, and his forehead was slightly sweaty.

Actually, Zhu Xiongying knows a lot of things.

For example, the defense system of the interriver defense line can be regarded as a combination of the old and the new, a combination of land and water. There are new castles, although these castles cannot be compared with Western fortresses, but in the defense of the borrowed system, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the river has both traffic and blocking role.

It is enough so that the enemy cannot easily cross the river.

And hundreds of thousands of troops are waiting in the back, He Xi has already made arrangements, and even has various plans. Even if Fu Youde has any clever plans, he may not be able to capture this place. Without him, hundreds of thousands of troops were crammed into the Hebei battlefield, and with the addition of firearms, the space needed for the battlefield became larger.

Hebei itself has many rivers and lakes. There are also canals. In this case, there is very little room for Fu Youde to maneuver.

In fact, this is another change after the introduction of firearms into the battlefield. In the era of cold weapons, there are confrontations on the battlefield, and the upright division is emphasized, the brave cannot advance, and the cowardly cannot retreat, that is, a very dense formation. It can even be said to be the place where corpses stand.

Dead on the battlefield, the corpse can't fall.