"No, the key is what to do with these Korean sticks?" Lu Xiangtong was puzzled.
Xu Yingwei answered Fei's question: "Brother, our sage master once said: If you don't have long-term plans, you will have worries. As soldiers in charge of the military department, we must take precautions and make preparations as early as possible."
"What are you preparing for?" Lu Xiangtong was still confused, "Brother Youzhen, can you stop playing riddles all the time?"
Xu Yingwei said helplessly: "As far as the current situation is concerned, the strategy between Ming Dynasty and Jiannu has changed from offensive to defensive. In the past, Jiannu attacked Ming for defense, but Ming attacked and Jiannu defended."
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"That's true." Lu Xiangtong agreed. "Sending troops to Dagukou and occupying Gaizhou and even Shenyang are not strategic attacks. Jiannu is already exhausted."
"This is true strategically, but not tactically."
After a short pause, Xu Yingwei said in a more serious tone: "From a tactical level, in fact, the Jiannu attack is still on the offensive, while our Ming Dynasty still focuses on defense. For example, isn't it right now that the Jiannu attack and our army defend?"
"Well..." After hearing this, Lu Xiangtong understood what Xu Yingwei meant.
"So what you're saying is that one day we will also switch to offense tactically?"
"Yes." Xu Yingwei said, "When the Ming Dynasty is fully armed, sooner or later the Holy Emperor will launch a large army to march north to the capital. By then, the Ming Dynasty will not only be proactive in attacking at the strategic level, but also at the tactical level."
After a pause, Xu Yingwei continued: "However, active attack at the tactical level comes with a heavy price. We can get confirmation of this from Jian Nu."
From Xuzhou to Shanyang, from Dagukou to Gaizhouwei, Jiannu launched attacks from the tactical level again and again, and the price paid was staggering, and the casualties of the Ming army as the defender were much smaller than those of Jiannu.
many.
On the other hand, when the Ming army turned to tactical attacks, they would inevitably pay heavy casualties.
Didn’t this small-scale counterattack just now cost nearly an entire new army?
"So, you want to use the Korean stick as cannon fodder?" Lu Xiangtong said thoughtfully.
The word "cannon fodder" was first spoken by Chongzhen, and was originally used to describe newcomers who had just entered the battlefield.
In front of Lu Xiangtong, Xu Yingwei did not hesitate at all: "The Holy Father said that population is the most precious resource, and young adults are the essence of population resources. Therefore, if our Ming soldiers can sacrifice as little as possible, we should sacrifice as little as possible."
This kind of hard work that leads to death is still left to the North Korean servant army.
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Xia Wanchun's thoughts were exactly the same as Xu Yingwei's.
However, Xia Wanchun didn't think as far as Xu Yingwei. He just thought of transferring the Korean rebels to Gaizhou Guards, and then using these Korean rebels to consume the slaves and reduce the pressure on Gaizhou's defense.
"Prince Ding, our soldiers are currently fighting with Jiannu in Gaizhou Guard."
Xia Wanchun said: "Why don't we transfer these 30,000 Korean rebels to Gaizhou and let them participate in the fight against the slave establishment? This will also give them a chance to atone for their crimes, won't it?"
Zhu Cijiong had already understood the implication of Xia Wanchun's words.
Just drag these 30,000 North Korean rebels to Gaizhou to serve as cannon fodder.
But Zhu Cijiong's ambitions didn't stop there. Punishing the rebels was far from enough.
"The 30,000 North Korean rebels are easy to deal with, but what about the remaining 30,000 North Korean troops?" Zhu Cijiong said, "And what about the 3,000 private soldiers of Gu Renge? Should we just let it go? When the rebellion first started, they also Involved."
Xia Wanchun chuckled lightly and advised: "Prince Ding, the attack area should not be too large, otherwise they will be forced into a panic and may launch a second rebellion."
"Just right." Zhu Cijiong said, "Let's deal with it together."
Zhu Cijiong really has such confidence and does not take the North Korean Five Guards seriously at all.
In fact, the Five Guards of North Korea's Jingying Camp were modeled after the Ming Dynasty Guards. They were all soldiers and peasants. They worked as farmers at home during the day, and went to Seoul as a garrison when they were on duty. When there was a war, they went to work on their own. They went into battle with dry food and weapons, so their training level was very poor, and their weapons and equipment were also so poor that they couldn't be seen.
During the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, half of the Japanese army easily defeated the five guards of the North Korean Jingying camp.
In this rebellion, although the number of rebels once reached as many as 60,000, the siege of Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Ming army barracks ended in failure, and thousands of people were killed by the Ming army, which shows the difference in combat effectiveness.
So Zhu Cijiong really wasn't worried at all about the North Korean army launching a second rebellion.
"Prince Ding, if you can avoid taking action, you should try not to take action." Xia Wanchun advised, "How about another way of saying this?"
After all, he was a scholar who received court training at a young age. He could use his brain faster than ordinary people, and Zhu Cijiong was not as good as him.
After a pause, Xia Wanchun continued: "Why not directly reform the North Korean military system, and then use military training as an excuse to pull all the North Korean troops to Gaizhou Guard?"
"Renovating the North Korean military system?" Zhu Cijiong said happily, "This is a good idea."
Xia Wanchun pondered for a moment and then said: "How about setting up another training prison?"
"Sure, then set up a training supervisor." Zhu Cijiong said, "Cancel the five guards of the Beijing camp."
It has to be said that Zhu Cijiong, the prince of the suzerain country, is indeed a bit overbearing and not at all benevolent by a big country. The five guards of the North Korea's Beijing camp were abolished with just one sentence, and all training and training supervisors were set up. The whole thing was just a supreme emperor.
That night, Zhu Cijiong found Li Li and his son and talked about the reform of the military system.
Li Jie actually had the idea of reforming the military system for a long time, but unfortunately he was not in good health and had no energy to do it.
However, when the authority to reform the general system was handed over to Zhu Cijiong, Li Jie was not very willing. Even if Zhu Cijiong was the prince of the suzerain country, he would not agree. But being unwilling is one thing, and whether he dares to refuse is another matter.
In a word, without the protection of the Ming army, the lives of both father and son may not have been saved.
Whichever is the lesser of two evils, saving one's life and the throne is more important, forget about military power.
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Let’s talk about Gaizhou Guard later.
Xu Yingwei's words became a prophecy.
Last night, Xu Yingwei told Lu Xiangtong that he planned to recruit Korean servants to Gaizhou Guards to serve as cannon fodder in possible future tactical attacks, just to prepare for a rainy day.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But I didn’t expect that the tactical attack would come so quickly.
After just one night, the Ming army was forced to switch to a tactical offensive.
At dawn the next day, Xu Yingwei got up early and was having breakfast when Xu Wuniu suddenly walked in quickly.
"Master Geijian, Jiang Qi is here." Xu Wuniu reported, "It is said that the enemy situation outside the city has changed. Jiang Geijian asks you and Master Lu to come over quickly."
"Jiang Qi?" Xu Yingwei's expression condensed.
Jiang Qi is the captain of Jiang Tianyi's soldiers. Is something serious going on?
Xu Yingwei finished his breakfast in a few seconds and met Lu Xiangtong when he walked out of the gate.
At that moment, the two people met together and left Gaizhou City from the north gate, hurriedly arriving at the gun platform position.
"Brother Youzhen, Brother Tongren." Jiang Tian had been waiting all morning. When he saw the two of them, he immediately bowed and took them to the forefront of the lookout.
At this time, the sky was already bright and the light was excellent.
At first glance, Xu Yingwei and Lu Xiangtong's expressions immediately changed.
"A thief!" Lu Xiangtong swore directly, "What's going on?"
Xu Yingwei was also surprised: "Did Jiannu actually imitate us and start building a gun platform?"
That's right, in the open space outside the Ming army's musketry, a blank area 800 to 1,000 steps away, Jiannu actually built a circle of dozens of musketry, and most of them were repaired overnight.
The slope protection, trenches and even the protective walls are all in good condition.
At this moment, Jiannu's coat of arms was tamping the slope protection with a ramming tool.
From far away, you can hear the loud sound of tamping tools hitting the ground.
In the winter, Jiannu's coated back and chest were covered with a layer of oily sweat.
Jiang Tianyi said with some self-blame: "This is all my fault. I actually heard the noise last night. I thought it was the slaves who were secretly digging tunnels again, so I just sent people to monitor the direction of the tunnels, but I didn't expect that the slaves were building a gun tower.
, If I had known this, I should have decisively sent troops to stop them last night."
"Brother Wenshi, you don't have to blame yourself, I can't blame you."
Xu Yingwei said: "Even if we knew that Jiannu was building a gun platform, it would be difficult to stop him."
"It can still be stopped, and a proactive counterattack can stop Jiannu." Lu Xiangtong said, "But in this case, our army will take the initiative to attack, and Jiannu will become the defender. In addition, Jiannu will also
It is operating at night, and our army's artillery cannot play a big role, so our army's casualties will be greatly increased."
After speaking, Lu Xiangtong looked back at Xu Yingwei.
Brother Zhen, you have such a crow's mouth, it is too effective.
I just talked about tactical attack last night, but it turned out that I was about to attack.
Jiang Tianyi asked: "Otherwise, how many rows of artillery cannons should the artillery battalion fire first?"
"It's of no use." Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "Jiannu has already repaired the slope protection of the gun platform. The shells from the artillery camp can't hit the platform inside the gun platform at all, so they can't hit Jiannu."
Jiang Tianyi asked again: "Would you like to try to attack?"
"If we can seize the Jiannu Gun Tower, we can dismantle it."
"You can try." Xu Yingwei agreed to launch an attack.
Moreover, Xu Yingwei also wanted to see the Ming army's attack capabilities.
Sooner or later, the Ming army will also face a tough battle.
So, why not take advantage of now to test the quality of the Ming army?
After a brief discussion, the three people selected one of the gun platforms to launch a test attack.
The reason why I chose this gun platform is because the left side of this gun platform is close to the sea, so when attacking, you don't have to worry about side attacks from the sea, but you only need to be careful of the front gun platform and the Jiannu of the gun platform on the right.
Firepower.
In the end, this critical task fell on Mr. Laodong.
At this time, Mr. Laodong had more than 250 officers and soldiers left after experiencing several battles.
At this time, Xu Yingwei, the concurrent commander-in-chief, naturally would not personally lead General Laodong in the battle, so the task fell on Xu Yinglong without hesitation.
Xu Yinglong summoned more than two hundred officers and soldiers together and shouted for a while in his hometown dialect. The bloody spirit of more than two hundred of the Xu family's descendants in Laodong was immediately aroused, and then more than two hundred people came with bayonets ready.
The flintlock guns roared and rushed into the surrounding trench outside the gun platform defense line, and the attack began.
