After three days of hard thinking, Shi Dayong's confidence was revived again. This time he no longer put his hope of defeating the Eight Banners in Manchuria in "introducing" weapons from later generations, but decided to fight strong against strong and poison against poison.
, use cold weapons against cold weapons.
Who the hell said that if the time traveler wants to defeat the opponent, he must use his golden finger and use the tactic of lining up and shooting with firearms? Could it be that without firearms, we Han people cannot defeat those barbarians!
If that is the case, how can we explain the Han cavalry marching across Mobei? How can we explain the Tang Dynasty's power in the Western Regions? How can we explain the Yuejia army's battle with Tiefu Tu? How can we explain the blue jade fishing sea that wiped out the Northern Yuan Dynasty!
Weapons alone are unacceptable![
A great man once said: It is always people, not weapons, that determine victory.
Once it comes, make peace with it. Cold weapons can also create history and change history!
What our ancestors could do, our descendants cannot do!
Understanding something is both simple and difficult. Shi Dayong's understanding is the realization after failure, and it is also Nai's realization.
If he had refined steel and transformed firecrackers into "guns", he would never have understood the true meaning of the Han people's ability to last for thousands of years.
We can survive and we can be strong because we always believe that we can never be truly conquered! As long as we still have blood, everything we lose will eventually be gained again!
When we set a goal, we will work hard for it until death!
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After facing the reality, Shi Dayong began to re-examine his own troops. He wanted to know his strengths and weaknesses.
The three hundred cavalry were assigned to him by Qiu Hejia from Zu Dashou. They were led by a general named Jiang Wanli. This man was a Han native of Liaodong, but he was not from Zu Dashou's lineage. He was a late military commander.
According to the strategy, the young division Man Gui's men surrendered their troops at Gaotaibao after the battle of Guangning.
During the Jisi Incident, Man Gui was killed in battle at Yongding Gate in Beijing, and his generals Hei Yunlong and Ma Dengyun were captured alive. Jiang Wanli was a Qianzong under Hei Yunlong.
Because the commander Mangui died in the battle and the commander Hei Yunlong was captured, Jiang Wanli and other Manchu and Guangxi troops were forcibly recruited by Zu Dashou. Because Zu Dashou followed Yuan Chonghuan's wishes and was at odds with Manchu and Gui, Jiang Wanli and other Manchu generals were not allowed to fight in Liaodong.
Although he was re-employed, he was ostracized by the generals of Liaoxi at every turn. For two years, he was still used as a general manager.
Therefore, for Jiang Wanli, it is much better to assign Shi Dayong's subordinates than to stay under Zu Dashou. He knows that Shi Dayong is a direct general brought by Governor Qiu Hejia from the pass, and Governor Qiu has a secret relationship with Zu Dashou and others.
There had been dissatisfaction for a long time, so it was inevitable to support the new army to compete with Zu Dashou.
After all, the Ming Dynasty was aristocratic and military, and no matter how tyrannical Zu Dashou was, he was only a military general, but Qiu Hejia was a high official of the imperial court who patrolled Liaodong on behalf of the emperor. Compared with the two, the latter had some advantages.
Besides, under Zu Dashou, he was suppressed and depressed, but it was different under Governor Qiu. Governor Qiu was the main attacker, and it was only because he could command the ancestral troops that he could free his hands. However, once Qiu Hejia
With the direct lineage forming strength, the situation in Liaodong will be greatly improved, and he will also rise with the tide.
The precedent of Shi Dayong is vividly before his eyes. Just because he was brought by Governor Qiu from the pass, he jumped from Qianzong to the garrison in just a few months. Now the opportunity has fallen to him. As long as he performs well, he will be promoted.
It's a matter of time.
Jiang Wanli believed that he would definitely be promoted, because the three hundred cavalry under his command were the elite left by General Mangui. When Commander Yuan was there, they were stronger than the Liaodong soldiers led by Zu Dashou. It was only because the commander died in battle that he declined. Come down, but as long as there is a chance to fight, you can definitely gain fame again.
Jiang Wanli sneered at the Liaoxi generals composed of Zu Dashou and his group of nephews and cronies. "They are short-sighted and only want to protect themselves" was his evaluation of Zu Dashou. He was eager to attack and take revenge, rather than avoid war and save things. The so-called strength means watching helplessly as Jian Nu becomes more and more powerful!
Shenyang, Hetuala and even further north are the final destinations of our Ming army![
We are the army of the Ming Dynasty, we are the army of the Han people, and we fight to the death against all barbaric enemies!
There can only be two outcomes in the battle - either the enemy steps on our corpses, or we move forward on the enemy's corpses!
Shi Dayong didn't know what Jiang Wanli was thinking, but he knew that these three hundred cavalry were much stronger than his 600 Changping soldiers.
The 600 Changping soldiers were recruited by Shi Dayong in the second year of Chongzhen when he was promoted to Qianzong. Ma Shilong ordered him to recruit them by himself in Changping. Except for more than 100 veterans, most of them were recruits with little actual combat experience. However, Jiang Wanli's 300 cavalry were full of soldiers. The men and horses left by Gui had competed with the old slave Nurhaci's cavalry back then, and later fought against the main force of the Eight Banners led by Huang Taiji under the walls of Beijing. They were considered veterans of many battles.
Which one is weak and which one is strong can be known at a glance.
Shi Dayong admitted that his direct line of 600 soldiers was not as good as Jiang Wanli's 300 cavalry. Even if his subordinates had 1,600 soldiers, he did not think they could compete with these 300 cavalry.
However, no matter how strong the cavalry is, there are only 300 cavalry, which will not be of great use. The Eight Banners and Mongolian cavalry under Huang Taiji number 100,000.
Therefore, he decided to build his 600 Changping soldiers into a strong army that could not be defeated in the face of 300 cavalry.
To this end, he first went to Jinzhou to meet with Governor Qiu Hejia in person, and asked Governor Qiu to give him priority in giving him a batch of cotton armor and special defensive cards for bows and arrows.
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As the governor of Liaodong, it was not difficult for Qiu Hejia to allocate a batch of cotton armor and play cards for his subordinates. There were only 600 people anyway, so these things would not be conspicuous wherever they were placed.
After getting the cotton armor and playing cards as he wished, Shi Dayong immediately distributed it. Jiang Wanli's three hundred cavalry needed these. They had some chain armor themselves, and those without chain armor also had cotton armor. They needed these infantry. Cotton armor.
The appearance of cotton armor is relatively thick cotton cloth. Wet the cotton and beat it repeatedly into cotton sheets. Multiple cotton sheets are made into cotton cloth. Inside the two layers of cotton cloth inside and outside, there are square metal sheets about seven centimeters in size that are connected one by one without leakage. There is a little gap, and the outside is fixed with copper nails, which also has a good effect of keeping out the cold in the cold Northeast region.
In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the infantry of the Ming army were equipped with armor instead of this kind of cotton armor. Because of the widespread use of firecrackers, each army had less and less armor equipment, so more of this kind of cotton armor was equipped. And now While the armies in Liaodong and Jiubian can equip the cotton armor, other places do not even have the equipment.
The shields of the Ming army are divided into three types: one is the hand card, the second is the swallow-tail card, and the third is the playing card.
The hand card is made of poplar or light wood, five feet seven inches long and one foot wide. It is mainly used to block the opponent's weapons when fighting on the battlefield.
The swallow-tail card is made of wood. It is about the same length as the hand card, but less than a foot wide. It is wider at the top and narrower at the bottom. It is also used for self-protection in close combat.
The playing card is specially made of poplar wood, five feet long, one foot and five inches wide, and twice as thick as the hand card and the swallow-tail card. The difference from the former is that the playing card is specially used in the array to withstand enemy bows and arrows.
Therefore, it is called playing cards.
Shi Dayong never expected that his hundreds of troops would be able to fight the Eight Banners soldiers in close combat. That would definitely be a disaster. His purpose in asking Qiu Hejia to play cards was only to enable the soldiers to withstand the Eight Banners soldiers' bows and arrows.
Let them fight the golden soldiers with their hand cards and swallow tail cards.
Given the strength here, passive defense is an option.
Shi Dayong did not dare to think about attacking until he could build an army that could defend itself undefeated.[