Chapter 85 sighed with admiration

This battle, from the sun just showing the horizon, to the sun three strokes.

Fu Youde, escorted by hundreds of soldiers, commanded this operation. At this time, I just felt very powerless.

First of all, this war can no longer be fought.

There is no need to listen to any fierce battles for days and nights, from day to night. It was modern times, and as long as there were bullets, it could keep fighting. Hand-to-hand combat is hard. Even if you recharge your energy and fight for an hour, you will be exhausted.

Fu Youde can naturally feel it.

The soldiers are not as brave as before.

It's just that Fu Youde knows that their side can't do it, and the other side may not be able to hold on. That's why Fu Youde gritted his teeth and insisted.

Secondly, Fu Youde didn't want to fight, the loss was so great that Fu Youde only gritted his teeth in distress. In less than an hour, Fu Youde had already heard the news of the death of countless subordinates.

Just as many of the soldiers under Fu Youde's command have ten years of military experience, qualified generals in the era of cold weapons are never cultivated, but fought. Experienced, that is, it is irreproducible.

In this short period of time, so many generals who died of Fu Youde could not be replenished for a long time.

If you continue to fight, the gains outweigh the losses.

Not only did the Southern Army lose more than it gained, but it also outweighed the losses for Fu Youde's faction.

It's just that Fu Youde can't figure it out at all.

Why? Why hasn't the other side always collapsed until now?

Even, Fu Youde heard the sound of explosions from time to time.

Ye Shen's department is a pure firearms army, and because of this, these people lack everything in their hands, and it is impossible to lack gunpowder. At this moment, Fu Youde's department also forced them to the extreme. Many people lit gunpowder and rushed to the opposite side.

One for several.

Even if Fu Youde's department is a veteran of murder, he is terrified in the face of such a situation.

didn't know that Fu Youde was distressed.

Ye Shen was even more distressed.

It's much more distressing than Fu Youde.

At this moment, Ye Shen's eyes were split.

A punch slammed into the carriage, and blood flowed immediately.

What Ye Shen really felt sorry for was those grassroots officers.

Is it easy for Ye Shen to find someone who is proficient in mathematics and is willing to be a soldier? It's not easy at all, Zhang Ming can quickly go from a white body to a thousand households, which can show how much Ye Shen lacks such a person.

And Ye Shen looked around, most of such officers were from Liaodong.

Without him, when He Xi was operating in Liaodong, he promoted education and sandwiched private goods, and that was the earliest, and now there are already some talents.

He Xi did not intend to put these people in the army, but he was not surprised that these people were in the army, and even expected that without him, the biggest beneficiary of He Xi's change was the person who learned He Xi's theory.

And people who are proficient in mathematics.

To be an official in Nanjing, you need to be proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, but to be an official in Beijing, mathematics is a must. Not to mention anything else, if you can't even read the report, what can you do?

Therefore, for the change of law, the strongest support in the world is Liaodong.

And many people from Liaodong were slaves of the Mongols back then, that is, because they learned He Xi's theory, they have today's opportunity, not only in the army, but also in the political circles, and in the business circles, a huge Liaodong group is being formed.

These people are the beneficiaries of the new law, not only in their hometowns.

Therefore, they have the determination to fight the Southern Army to the end. Of course, Ye Shen's department is He Xi's descendant, and it is also the seed of He Xi's military reform, and He Xi gives preferential treatment in all aspects, because it needs a bowl of water to be level, and it can't be too much.

However, the treatment of Ye Shen's department is the highest in the whole army, second only to the emperor's personal guards.

In this case, it can naturally inspire them to dare to die.

This battle also crippled the backbone of Ye Shen's department.

Ye Shen pondered for a while, and his chest rose and fell

Ding, like a bellows, gritted his teeth for a long time and said, "Withdraw." Let them get a message behind the formation, and if the enemy wants to chase them, they will open fire directly, regardless of whether they are friends or enemies."

Ye Shen also had no choice.

He didn't retreat before, not only did he not retreat, but he also reinforced the men and horses at hand, not because he didn't want to retreat, but because he couldn't retreat, when the people and horses on both sides were fighting together, how could he retreat, and he would move his whole body. In the event of a retreat, it is very likely to cause a total collapse.

This battle was fought like this, Ye Shen felt that he had been defeated. But it's better to lose the battle than to be wiped out.

Gritting his teeth, there is still a turnaround. But retreat, there is a high probability that the whole army will be annihilated.

It's just that now, Ye Shen has no choice.

I can't hold it down there. Only by finding a way to gather it over, suppress the formation with firearms, and separate the two sides, even if there are a large number of indiscriminate shots, Ye Shen has no choice. As much as you can preserve, you can prepreserve.

It's just that a situation that Ye Shen never expected happened.

That is, Ye Shen's side withdrew the team, and the southern army did not pursue.

At the moment both sides are exhausted. It's just a breath of air. Don't dare to leak. Now the southern army watched the northern army retreat, and there was no order, but spontaneously. Because they can't move either.

Seeing this, Fu Youde sighed and said, "Retreat."

Fu Youde originally wanted to defeat Ye Shen in one fell swoop, but in today's battle, this idea has gone bankrupt.

One thing that made Fu Youde even more sad was the bankruptcy of the combat idea.

Yes, when the Northern Army was equipped with firearms on a large scale, Fu Youde also studied the development of firearms, felt the changes in firearms, and Fu Youde also had his own ideas in tactics. It can also be regarded as path dependence, Fu Youde has commanded cold weapons combat all his life. Firearms have always been auxiliary.

In this case, it is very difficult for Fu Youde to change his thinking. More importantly, in terms of firearms tactics, the Northern Army had a first-mover advantage. In this case, if you don't find another way, just catch up with the northern army, and for a long time, they will fall behind.

Of course, there is another reason that is difficult to explain.

Who is Fu Youde? The Duke of the Ming Dynasty, a famous general in the world. And what is it that adheres to the new tactics of firearms? It is He Xi, He Xi's military prestige is far from being comparable to Fu Youde, and Fu Youde does not want to live under He Xi, and follows He Xi.

Fu Youde wanted to come up with a new tactic.

On the one hand, it is strong, and many people take it for granted that the other side is weak, and the long-range killing of the firearm is very powerful, but Fu Youde saw the firecracker, so it was a firearm with a bayonet, and he still felt that after the firearm was added to the bayonet, it was still not as effective as a knife and a gun.

Fu Youde's idea was to enter hand-to-hand combat with the army of pure firearms as much as possible.

In today's war, this tactical idea is embodied. In a word, the bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a hero.

It's just that this battle made Fu Youde completely unbelievable.

Yes, he admits that hand-to-hand combat with firearms is problematic. But the problem is not so big as to be fatally flawed.

The personnel of Fu Youde's department are less than Ye Shen. Today, in terms of casualties, it is also Ye Shen's department that has suffered greater casualties, from this point of view, Fu Youde is the winner, but Fu Youde is not so stupid.

The army led by Fu Youde, all the troops in Nanjing belong to the elite. Fu Youde didn't think that in hand-to-hand combat, who could beat him. He even threw his own soldiers into it. The other party ate it.

Even played a counterattack that Fu Youde was surprised by.

That is a counter-charge with gunpowder.

In this case, no matter how Lu Bu is among your people and Red Rabbit is among your horses, you will become scum.

Now Fu Youde has paid the price, although he has not yet asked to point it out, but Fu Youde knows that his army is greatly damaged, and without a few months of rest, he will not be able to recover his combat effectiveness, and even if he recovers his combat effectiveness, it may not be able to compare with the previous heyday.

After all, many generals can't be added casually.

But his strategic goal was not achieved at all, and in the face of the strong wall of Ye Shen's department, which was greatly injured, it was more than that

The exhausted soldiers had no desire to attack, and even Fu Youde had no desire to attack, saying that they were afraid, which was a bit excessive. It's just that Fu Youde knows that there is no way to achieve anything.

Why let the soldiers be killed and wounded in vain.

It's almost a lost.

Fu Youde is not a person who has not lost a battle. But this defeat made Fu Youde unable to find a way forward, which is the most important thing.