235 A lesson must be learned
I only heard Zhang Yifan say to Zhu Di: "The Goryeo stick still recognizes the Mongolian Tatar as the master, and even killed my Ming envoy, this account, I have always remembered it!" ”
When Zhu Di heard this, he suddenly became more interested, and immediately asked, "So what?" What are your thoughts? ”
Ma Yun on the side listened to the conversation between the two of them and felt that something was wrong. Listening to this meaning, could it be that His Royal Highness King Yan and the big horse are going to make trouble in Dali?
Sure enough, I heard Zhang Yifan answer Zhu Di and said: "If the Goryeo sticks really dare to send troops, even if they don't really want to help the Mongolian Tartars, but want to make a profit, then they can't bear it, and they must be taught a lesson." Otherwise, if you don't eat a lesson, you will disgust us in the future! ”
"Yes, there must be a lesson!" When Zhu Di heard this, he was immediately happy, and immediately echoed and asked, "The problem is that Naha has not destroyed these Tartars, how can we teach a lesson?" ”
Zhang Yifan listened, and said with a smile: "That's not easy!" If Goryeo really sends troops over, it is estimated that it will not be a weak soldier, so it must have the ability to benefit from the fisherman, right? In this way, the troops in their hinterland are definitely not strong. If you want me to say, land with sailors, attack their capital directly, and see if you can catch the king of Goryeo! ”
As soon as he heard that he was attacking the capital of Goryeo and capturing the king of Goryeo, Zhu Di immediately became visibly excited, and immediately asked: "This method, do you confirm that it is feasible?" ”
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Zhang Yifan to answer, he asked himself and answered: "It seems that it is really possible, I have a sailor in my hand, and I can bypass the army on the border of Goryeo and only take the capital of Goryeo!" ”
"That's right, there is just a Imjin River in the capital of Goryeo, and it is easy to attack the capital of Goryeo by sailing through the sea." Zhang Yifan listened to it and immediately affirmed.
Now the capital of Goryeo is in Kaesong, which is the 38th parallel in the later generations. Zhang Yifan knows this.
Zhu Di listened, clapped his palms excitedly and said, "Okay, then it's settled, and we'll discuss the details." ”
Ma Yun on the side was a little dumbfounded when he heard it, His Royal Highness King Yan and the big horse are too bold, right? Are you going to attack the capital of Goryeo?
Thinking of the seriousness of the problem, he hurriedly persuaded: "Your Highness, Da Concubine, this matter is related to the relationship between the countries of Goryeo and our Ming Dynasty, should I ask Your Majesty?" And Goryeo is a big country after all, and they are going to attack the capital of Goryeo, what if their army of King Qin arrives and there is an accident? ”
When Zhu Di heard this, his face immediately changed, and he said solemnly: "My father asked Gu to guard the north, and if Goryeo dares to send troops at the request of the Mongol Tatars, this is the scope of Gu's duties." The so-called opportunity must not be lost and never come again, if you want to tell my father and the emperor to decide, you will miss the opportunity. This matter is self-contained! ”
When Zhang Yifan heard this, he also agreed: "The combat effectiveness of the Goryeo stick, didn't you say that Li Chenggui is still powerful?" As long as he sent Liaodong, then there would be no powerful people in their capital. Besides, we also have new muskets and artillery, just enough to give Goryeo sticks a taste of power. Even if we can't defeat it, there are too many troops of King Qinwang of Goryeo, and we can still withdraw from the waterway. Is it possible that the sailors of the Goryeo stick can still stop the Ming warship equipped with bombardment cannons? ”
When he thought of Li Chenggui's incident just now, he had already thought about it. In the past year, the Japanese invaders landed in Goryeo, burned, killed and looted, and turned the world upside down, and finally transferred Li Chenggui to the past, which was considered to have quelled the Japanese rebellion.
You must know that these Japanese are not the regular army of the Japanese state, so it can be seen that Goryeo, a country that will die in a few years, really has no background. As Zhang Yifan, who knows all this, naturally he will not take the Goryeo stick in his eyes.
However, for people who don't know history, such as Jack Ma, they are still very worried.
After all, Goryeo has existed for so many years, and it can be regarded as a big country, not just a tribal form like the Jurchens. Just sending sailors to bring down the capital of Goryeo is really a bit unimaginable.
Therefore, although he listened to the words of Zhu Di and Zhang Yifan, he still advised: "Your Highness, big horse, please think twice, kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, and go deep with a lone army, it is really too risky!" ”
Zhang Yifan couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this.
It stands to reason that in the era of cold weapons warfare in ancient times, Ma Yun's idea was indeed correct.
It is basically impossible to defeat a country with less and destroy a country with a small number of troops.
However, if it is the era of hot weapons, it is completely different.
Why were Western colonizers able to force one place after another to become their colonies with such a small number of men? It is a hot weapon battle, which can break the perception of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 yourself.
If the hot weapon army uses it well, it is not impossible to defeat the cold weapon army without damage.
Of course, the ultimate deciding factor is people. Gunpowder is not good, firearms are easy to explode, and the soldiers are not trained, and they will be beaten against a group of well-trained cold-weapon troops. The best example is the late Ming Dynasty army against the Liaodong Jianyu, at least in the early days, and later the Jianyu also learned to use firearms, that is, evolution.
In this plane, flintlock pistols and god guns, or bombardment cannons, etc., are hundreds of years ahead of the whole world, and at this time, the Ming army, whether it is a general or a soldier, can fight.
Zhang Yifan couldn't think of any reason not to teach Gaoli a lesson under such conditions!
However, at this time, when he saw that Ma Yun, who was most familiar with Liao affairs, still repeatedly opposed the attack on the capital of Goryeo by surprise soldiers, he knew that other generals of this era would not agree. Zhu Di, the sixth child, is full of enthusiasm, and he wants to make a great contribution to prove himself.
Thinking so, he said to Zhu Di: "In that case, how about you show the new musket and the god speed artillery to General Ma?" ”
Is Zhu Di stupid?
He's certainly not stupid!
Hearing Zhang Yifan's words, he immediately understood what Zhang Yifan meant, so he immediately nodded and said: "Okay, most of the new muskets and god-speed artillery are still unknown in the army. Now this battle of Liaodong must be used, just to make everyone familiar with it. ”
Ma Yun was a little surprised when he heard it, the big horse and His Royal Highness King Yan took a new musket and a god-speed cannon, what the hell is this, is it very powerful?
Because the production capacity of the Ming Dynasty was weak, the limited bombardment artillery was deployed in the most important places, such as the line of the Great Wall, mainly in the Guannei.
That is, last year, a war of annihilation was fought, which made the situation in Guannai improve at once, and began to counterattack Liaodong.
It is estimated that soon, the bombardment artillery will be deployed to the front line of Liaodong. But at least for now, there isn't.
Therefore, Ma Yunbing has never seen the bombardment artillery, but he must have heard of it.
Therefore, he asked curiously: "Your Highness, big horse, is it a new type of artillery as powerful as the Bombardment Cannon?" ”
Zhu Di listened, laughed and said: "It's different, but it's absolutely amazing, you will know it when you look back." ”
One of his confidence in shouting and shouting to kill the enemy is these firearms invented by his brother-in-law!
Otherwise, he would have shouted so much when his brain was kicked by a donkey, and he would not have become the Emperor of Yongle. Military talent, absolutely there.
As soon as he said it, Zhu Di immediately passed down the military order, and the whole army assembled to practice the power of the new musket and the god speed cannon.
Because of the restrictions of the terrain, the 50,000-strong army could not be lined up in order, and in the end, some troops could only be attended by officers at all levels. That's it, it's still flat ground, and the mountains are full of people.
Everyone is curious, His Royal Highness King Yan said that he wanted to demonstrate the new musket and artillery, looking at this posture, it seems to be very powerful, I don't know how powerful it is?
It's basically impossible to imagine how powerful something you haven't seen before. Generally speaking, there will be limited associations based on what is available. Especially in this kind of knowledge dissemination is limited, and it is even more unimaginable that there is no such thing as the Internet to share brain holes.
Generally speaking, they imagined what the new type of firearms would look like based on the existing assault rifles in the army!
Soon, the new firearms battalion was released.
Zhu Di, as in history, organized the new muskets and artillery into a battalion, just as he organized one of the Beijing battalions into the Shenji battalion in the original history.
This is different from that of the West. It seems that on the Western side, it was not until the Napoleonic era that it was known that the centralized use of artillery was more powerful and advantageous.
Some of the 50,000 generals of the Ming Army actually knew the power of new firearms in Beiping, but there were many more generals, such as Ma Yun, who had never seen it.
Regardless of whether they have seen it or not, at this time, the generals of the Ming army all followed behind Zhu Di, waiting with great interest for the demonstration of new firearms.
The shooting range was at the foot of the mountain, and the guns and artillery were fired in the face of the mountain forest.
Under the accompaniment of the sea breeze, the sound of "...... beeh" sounded continuously.
One of the advantages of the sea breeze is that the smoke from the flintlock gun could not cover the soldiers who fired the gun, and it was blown away as soon as possible.
The soldiers of the three-stage shooting are already well-trained soldiers. The first platoon fired and then retreated to the last to begin loading, the second platoon followed the shots, and the third platoon was in preparation. In this way, it is almost non-stop shooting.
The shooting of each soldier was much faster than that of Xu Da at the beginning.
This scene shocked Ma Yun and others.
Looking at the movement of the leaves in the mountains and forests in the distance being shot by lead bullets, I imagined in my mind that if this scene was on the battlefield, the infantry army on the opposite side would not be able to rush at all!
The most important thing is that in the face of such continuous musket shooting, the morale of the opposite side is bound to collapse!
Before they could recover from the shock, it was the turn of the Divine Artillery to come out.
Zhu Di wanted his subordinates to understand the power of these cannons, which was even more shocking, so he sent five godspeed cannons and let them finish the six sub-guns equipped with each godspeed cannon in one go.
High-speed loading and continuous bombardment directly made Ma Yun and other generals who had never seen new artillery have a bit of a broken worldview.
Cannons can also be so fast? Is this still a cannon!
At this moment, they really understood why these cannons were called Godspeed Cannons!
Compared with the musket artillery at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the musket artillery in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was at least two hundred years old! They were so shocked, at least in the eyes of Zhang Yifan, who was watching, it was not strange at all!
When the exercise of the god cannon was over, Zhu Di disbanded the army, and he took many generals back to the Chinese military tent.
Good fellows, almost all the soldiers of the Ming army flocked to the shooting range at the foot of the mountain, rushing to see the ravaged bushes and leaves, etc.
Everyone is talking about it, and the excitement can be said to be directly full of morale.
On the general's side, it's actually pretty much the same. They can better reflect how many victories and military exploits they will make if the Ming army, or their subordinate armies, is equipped with these new muskets and artillery!
Therefore, as soon as Zhu Di's butt fell on the chair, these generals came out one by one and clenched their fists and said to Zhu Di.
"Your Highness, once the war starts, the last general is willing to be the vanguard, as long as His Highness equips the last general with some new muskets and artillery!"
"Your Highness, as long as there are those new muskets and artillery, the last general will definitely kill the Tartars crying and calling their mothers!"
"Your Highness, the last general ......"
“……”
Among these people, Ma Yun said the most surprising: "Your Highness, the last general will ask for a lesson in Goryeo...... Stick! ”
He had been advising Zhu Di and Zhang Yifan to be cautious when fighting Goryeo. As a result, after looking at the new muskets and artillery, I wanted this credit.
Think about it, since there is a certainty of victory, how can the credit of fighting the Liaodong Tartars be greater than the capture of the capital of a country? If one is not careful, and catches the king of Goryeo again, then he will be able to surpass many colleagues at once, and the title is estimated to be certain!
Being a soldier and fighting for so long, longing for a knighthood, that is the most basic impulse!
For this reason, he even changed the name of Goryeo to Goryeo stick. Because he heard that His Royal Highness King Yan and Da Concubine's title to Goryeo was derogatory. If you do what you like, you may be able to increase a little bit of certainty in asking for battle.
Not to mention, hearing that Ma Yun also called out the name of the Goryeo stick, Zhu Di couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhang Yifan who was standing on his side.
But in the end, Zhu Di didn't agree to anyone. It's just that these generals said that they will definitely be equipped with new firearms in the future.
In any case, after a public demonstration of the new firearms, the morale of the military officers has improved significantly.
Subsequently, on the side of Juehua Island, they were still waiting for news.
On Xu Da's side, Zhu Di also sent a message back, preparing to implement the second set of combat plans to turn fiction into reality, but did not disclose the sneak attack on the capital of Goryeo.
Xu Da also quickly replied and agreed to the second plan. They also sent new firearms that had already been built.
As a result, the Ming army on Juehua Island began to fight.