The next day, the Qing army who had crossed Yulangxi surrounded Yushan County.

The wounded Ming army in the city is now full of injured Ming army. The spear stabbing, waist knife, short dagger, and scratches are just like that. However, in yesterday's battle, the Ming army was unable to achieve the predetermined strategic goal, and it was the first time that the loss of troops was almost equal to the Qing army, especially when the Qing army's siege had already been achieved, the morale of the Ming army in the city was inevitably subjected to some fluctuations.

"I really didn't expect that I didn't win."

"Yes, Brother Lu, the Tartars were defeated so badly last year, who knew that it was like this just a year ago."

The two people who spoke, one was Lu Yurui and the other was Li Jin, both of whom were Jiangxi rebels brought by Zhang Zisheng.

Originally, although they were in Jiangxi, there were only 100 soldiers, including Ding Zhuang and 20 soldiers, it did not prevent them from having the position of general officer. However, after entering the Ming army in Zhejiang, the fifty generals of Zhang Zisheng, who were 10,000 men, women, young and young, were immediately stripped down by Chen Wen. There was no way, the Ming army in Zhejiang had tens of thousands of soldiers alone, and there were only a few generals. Such abuses as the Jiangxi Rebel Army could not be tolerated by Chen Wen.

Now, Li Jin and Lu Yurui, one in the first game in Yushan Camp and the other in the fourth game in Yushan Camp, are both in charge of the captains of a team, which is exactly in line with the number of Ding Zhuang under their original command.

"No matter how you look at the Tartars outside the city, there are tens of thousands of troops. It's not easy for the Duke to come to help."

Lu Yurui's pessimism was constantly immersed in Li Jin, which made him begin to feel pessimistic about the prospects. But the next second, he only heard him say: "It's not easy, the Duke of the State will come to save us. We are now the King of Zhejiang, and there are also Marquis and Marquis Li in the city."

"I will definitely come to save you. What I am afraid of is that if you come and you can't help you, what should we do?"

Hearing this, Li Jin couldn't help but not wrinkle, and then asked in a low voice: "Brother Lu, don't you want to surrender to the Tartars."

"drop?"

Unexpectedly, when he heard Li Jin's questioning, Lu Yurui said helplessly: "You are the captain, I am the captain. Even so, do you think the captain of the firearms in your team will listen to us? We are all like this, around the marquis, the military supervisor, the military judge, the staff officer, the military chief officer, and the military chief officer, all kinds of people. I can take a few soldiers away. Even if you don't have soldiers in your hands, you have to ask for you even if you want to surrender to the Tartars."

The system of the Ming army in Zhejiang has begun to take shape. The battalion officer, military supervisor, and staff officer formed a three-way command system. The military supervisor, military judge, military supervisor and staff officer are all performing their own duties, each with its own departments and superiors, and are not an absolute subordinate of the battalion officer.

In this way, the financial power is not in hand, the military law is not in hand, the ideology in the army has no right to intervene, and the families and land of the soldiers are even managed by the garrison. They can only command the battle, and their military power will naturally be greatly reduced. If they want to do something like rebellion, they are afraid that they can't even raise much soldiers.

"You shouldn't even think about this!"

Li Jin shouted loudly, and Lu Yurui quickly looked around, and realized that there was no one around him to breathe a sigh of relief. He turned his head to Li Jin and said, "You are a little bit loud, don't I just talk about it. The Marquis will not surrender to the Tartars, nor will the Duke. We will naturally have to fight to the end. If you are so loud, you don't know what I am going to do."

"Hey, now, we have no chance to rely on the Duke."

"Indeed, I just hope that the tutor's ability will turn the tide."

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Yushan County was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It was because Japanese pirates rampant along the coast of Fujian at that time. The Ming court recruited a group of Guangdong soldiers, but in the end, they mutinyed due to meager rewards on the way and plundered Yushan, and then they made a move to build a city.

It was built in the spring of the 41st year of Jiajing and completed the following year, and the construction has increased. To this day, the city wall is 4,200 steps long, about seven miles long, the wall base is 1,8 feet wide, and the top is 1,2 feet wide, and it can be connected to four horses; the wall is 1,6 feet high, and the women's wall is 4,4 feet high. The city wall has six gates: "Moisturize" in the east, "Integrity" in the west, "Wen Guang" in the south, "Cai Mi" in the north, "Si Min", "Si Lin" in the small east gate, and "Apricot Flowers" in the small west gate. The city gate panel is even covered with iron sheets to strengthen its defense capabilities.

However, when the city wall was first built, the construction period was short, and the "carving period was completed quickly". The poor quality of the project showed that it was a tofu project that was eager for quick success and instant benefits. By the second year of Yongli, the women's walls collapsed and the city walls were mostly damaged. Therefore, Hong Chengchou gave up here last year and retreated to build a bastion in Guangxin Prefecture City for the purpose of sticking to it.

After the Ming army recovered Yushan, it originally planned to build a bastion outside the city to achieve mutual support. However, as the expansion progressed, the Yushan bastion plan was abolished, and the city defense was restored and necessary reinforcement was carried out. That's all. I thought it was just in case, but who knew that if this was actually hit, it caused the three battalions including Yiwu to sit in the sad city.

After receiving Li Ruixin's report, Chen Wen brought the information to the Staff Office of the Army overnight, and carried out the staff operations at the same time together with the previous intelligence summary.

"According to information, Yongfeng County has fallen, the Yang brothers are dead, and the Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi sent troops. And the one who encountered our army in Yulangxi was the army of Bai Guangen, the admiral of Jingbiaoqian Town..."

Due to the existence of Hong Chengchou's blockade order and the border relocation order, it became increasingly difficult to transmit intelligence, especially in Nanchang, which was trained by Biaowu Towns. The Nanchang shogunate's anti-espionage efforts were also very strong, and it was difficult to collect intelligence. Before this, the information that could be collected was nothing more than the Qing army customized a large number of bird guns and spears, and a large number of green camp soldiers were dispatched from the north to move south, forming Jingwu Towns.

Among the five admirals, Li Benshen and Hu Maozhen were Gao Jie's subordinates, Zhang Yong was the general of Gansu, Liu Fangming was the general of Ningxia, Bai Guangen was the first bandit, and before he was the official. These five people seemed to have little contact, but their hometowns were either Shaanxi or Ningxia. In the late Ming Dynasty, they were either Shaanxi bandits or Qin troops, and they could be said to be the most warlike generals in the northern green camp today.

If we add the "Shan Shaanxi Xuandaguan Liaokan War Generals" under the command of these seven generals, which were selected by Hong Chengchou's letter, it can be said that it represents the highest level of combat effectiveness of the Qing Dynasty Green Camp.

"The Grand Marshal, the Tartars' infantry battle formation, seems to be imitating our spear formation."

imitate?

When Chen Wen just got the news that when the Qing army was building bird guns and spears in large quantities, he felt something was wrong. There was no reason, only long soldiers, no short soldiers, which was not in line with the usual tactics of the Qing army. If it was just to avoid showing its timidity in front of the Ming army's long spear formation and the mandarin duck formation, then it would lose its own strengths.

At first, Chen Wen felt so, but now he thinks about it, it’s not the case at all!

"I remember Li Ruixin said that the Tartars' battle formation was moving extremely slowly, but did you have this sentence?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Zhang Gongyan, the staff officer of the Army's Staff Office, glanced at the urgent document and immediately replied: "There is indeed such a sentence."

"I remember Li Ruixin mentioned that after the two armies contacted, the bird gunners of the Tartars would abandon their guns and draw their swords, squat down and come over to fight. Is this what?"

"There is indeed such a sentence."

"I remember, Li Ruixin said, "I'm going to find out clearly, and the ratio of bird gunners and spearmen in the Tartars is about half and half?"

“It’s true.”

Slow action, rat fight, one to one musket and spear...

The more Chen Wen thought about it, the more familiar he felt. It seemed that there was such a fragment in his mind. In the fragment, an army organized in this way fought on a strange land.

After thinking about it, it was not until a long time before he realized that he had played with this thing before, but it was not for his own army to train, but for helping a friendly army improve its combat effectiveness!

"It's not imitating us, it's the Spanish phalanx!"

When he was in Tiantai Mountain, Chen Wen helped Yu Guowang to compile the Spanish phalanx, but what he taught Yu Guowang was that the version of the Swiss halberd had just been removed, because the cavalry of the surrounding Qing army had an overwhelming advantage over the Yu Guowang's troops. Without a shield, riding and shooting would cause great trouble to the already fragile hand-to-hand infantry of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain.

But now, the Qing army has only spearmen and bird gunners. If we count the one-to-one ratio, it can only be the way the Spanish phalanx develops to the ultimate stage. At least in his impression, only the Spanish phalanx and Qi Jiguang have one-to-one firearms and hand-to-hand combat troops in the infantry battalion in the north. There is no impression on others.

"Spanish phalanx?"

Many staff officers have never heard of the name of this formation, but not everyone is like this. Zhang Gongyan is an exception - he not only heard of it, but even witnessed in Guilin how the Portuguese mercenaries from Macau crushed the Qing army!

"What should I do?"

The Qing army was so powerful that it seemed that no one in the world could stop the Qing army's military. However, in that battle, the scene of the Qing army being beaten by the Portuguese mercenaries almost every night. Therefore, Zhang Gongyan, who was originally far away from Western learning, chose to turn to him and try his best to lobby officials of the Yongli court.

This impression was too profound. Although the series of tactical innovations of the Ming army in Zhejiang in recent years have made him see hope, the awe of the power of the Western Thai Formation has not completely dissipated. So when I heard that the Qing army had changed the Spanish Formation, I couldn't help but feel anxious.

"Bochu..."

The position was marked on the map according to the report so that the offensive and defensive situation was clearer. The staff officer saw that Zhang Gongyan, who performed far better than his peers in the defense battle of Jinhua, looked different because of this sentence, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"You don't know the power of that formation!"

Zhang Gongyan had seen this with his own eyes. Chen Wen was very clear about this matter. The task of the staff in the Ming army in Zhejiang was to deduce it based on scientific methods, check for the loss of the commander and provide advice. Since that is the case...

"Staff Officer Zhang, tell them what you saw on the head of Guilin City back then."

"Master, it's now!"

"speak!"

"Abide by the orders of humble duties."

The commander's will cannot be violated. Since Chen Wen asked him to say it, he thought it would be aimless. Seeing this, Zhang Gongyan took a deep breath and then said to everyone around him: "It was the first year of Yongli, and I was working in the curtain of Qu Wenzhong. At that time, the Tatar army headed south and headed straight for Guilin. Wenzhong vowed to guard Guilin to the death, and we were also determined to die. It was just as the Tatars were about to arrive, the admiral of the Warriors' camp..."

The eunuch Pang Tianshou in the Southern Ming Dynasty was the contact person between the Ming court and Macau. He brought this Portuguese mercenary to Macau. There is even a saying that Pang Tianshou had also worshipped the priest Qu Shawei as his teacher.

Pang Tianshou led his troops to defend the city, first defending the city, repelling the Qing army's attack with firearms, and then leaving the city to fight in the field, defeating the Qing army in one battle. As Zhang Gongyan's memory was told, everyone present soon had a deeper understanding.

The impact of that war was not only the more Confucian scholar who promoted Western learning, but also led to the Yongli court's palaces, except for the emperor, who entered the Catholic Church, including the Prince Zhu Ciheng of the Yongli Emperor, who had Constantine's name. In other words, if Zhu Youlang died, the emperor who ascended the throne would be a Catholic emperor...

Hearing this, Chen Wen couldn't help but shake his head. It was not just that in history. After being baptized, the Emperor Yongli sent someone to submit letters to the Holy See through Macau's relations, hoping that the Holy See would organize an army to assist him in the fight against the Qing Dynasty. However, this "crusade" in the 17th century did not take place. The Holy See was delayed for ten years before sending messengers, saying that they could not help. When the messengers rushed back to China, Yongli had been strangled to death by Wu Sangui.

Zhang Gongyan didn't remember it for a while, and was still ashamed to speak out. Chen Wen was not clear about these, but when he saw the staff members showing more or less a bit of solemnity, he knew that his goal had been achieved.

"Start now, we will review the battle against Yulangxi."

Hearing Chen Wen's order, everyone quickly calmed down and reviewed the specific arrangements and results of the enemy and us on the map and sand table based on Li Ruixin's report.

"This is the north bank of Yulangxi where the four camps were arranged in front, back, left and right sides of the Tatar Jingbiaoqian Town, and this is the south of Bingxi Town where our army was arranged in Yiwu camp and Yushan camp..."

The terrain and formation are not complicated, which is obvious.

At the beginning of the battle, Li Ruixin took advantage of the Qing army's disadvantage that it was unable to replace more powerful firearms in the past six months. Relying on the range advantage of the Lumi gun against bird guns, as well as the technical advantages of fixed charge packages, granulated gunpowder, etc., he took some advantage at the beginning of the battle, causing a certain amount of damage to the Qing army.

However, once we enter the hand-to-hand combat stage, in the long spear formation, the long card players will be ineffective in facing an attack of too many numbers and frequency. When facing a mouse battle, the long card players will appear too bulky and suffer a lot of losses. On the side of the Yuanyang Formation, the wolf wielders and the long card players can only resist the Qing army's thrusts, which are very passive. If it were not for the long and short soldiers of the Yuanyang Formation, they could still crush those armorless and shieldless guest appearances in the mouse battle, and they would probably end up worse than the long spear formation.

In short, before the battle, the Ming army took a great advantage. The Qing army's long-range weapons caused almost no damage to the Ming army. However, when entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, the Ming army, which has always been famous for this, suffered a loss. In the end, the killing of both sides was basically equal. The Qing army turned into the defensive, and the Ming army was unable to fight again. They each withdrew their troops and could not decide the outcome.

Through reviewing the map and sand table, Chen Wen and his staff members saw the situation of the battle more intuitively. In the subsequent deduction, the staff members expressed their opinions, only Chen Wen sat by the side without saying a word.

After a long time, everyone still did not come up with a practical and effective way to break the enemy, especially now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, it is indeed a big problem to rely on more than 10,000 soldiers to defeat two or three times their own army on the battlefield, and to show that the Qing army was not inferior to the Ming army's ability in hand-to-hand combat.

It is impossible not to save it. Hong Chengchou and Chen Wen were tacit in understanding each other. Therefore, the next day, the army set off to Changshan County as planned, intending to think carefully about what to do on the road.

After riding his horse out of Quzhou Prefecture, the Ming army in the brigade was already on the road. They lined up in neat rows and walked towards the floating bridge in the distance. Looking at the soldiers carrying various weapons on their shoulders rolling west with full enthusiasm, Chen Wen had seen this scene countless times, but this time it made him think of something in a trance.
Chapter completed!