In the temporary tent, the dim light of the oil lamp was not enough for Li Xuan to see everyone's subtle expressions clearly, but Li Xuan could still see that Fang Dongquan and the others were a little excited.
How can this not be exciting? In the past two days, the Ming army has been chasing them like dogs. However, in order not to be caught up by the main force of the Ming army, they did not dare to make any counterattack. They could only run and run all the way, almost vomiting.
Alright!
Now that they finally ran back to the mountains, the Ming army boldly continued to catch up, and there were only more than a hundred forwards who came. Should I come to their door to give them a meal to relieve their anger?
"There are only about a hundred of them, so there is no need to go to too much trouble. I will lead some people to touch them and kill them tonight. I will definitely kill them all!"
Butcher Chen was as confident as ever, and he didn't even have to write a draft when he boasted.
After Li Xuan heard what he said, he pretended not to hear him and attacked him at night. If he didn't get lost along the way in the mountains at night, it wouldn't be considered a mistake.
Due to the poor living standards these days, people generally lack the ability to absorb vitamin A due to the general lack of fatty foods, resulting in people generally suffering from night blindness, and this disease is more serious among the poor who have worse living standards, such as
The bandits in Huangzhu Mountain and the military households of the Ming Army.
If these people wanted to walk at night, it would be almost impossible without a torch.
In most eras, ordinary soldiers were at the bottom of society. The lack of fatty foods made ancient soldiers commonly suffer from night blindness.
In addition to night blindness, ancient armies generally lacked good organization and more important means of communication!
Especially the means of communication. There was no radio at night, and the flags used for command during the day could not be seen clearly. Communication could only rely on the running messengers to pass on word of mouth.
These three main reasons directly led to the fact that night battles rarely occurred in ancient times and even in modern times, let alone night attacks.
Unless necessary, ancient generals would never engage in field battles or even just travel at night. As for night raids without torches, if there were 10,000 generals who did this, then one
He is a famous general who will go down in history, and the remaining 9999 are all idiots!
Looking through the history books, there are actually many examples of night raids throughout the ages, and most of each night raid case will be written up in a big book, as if the dead parents have been resurrected. Why?
It is because of the difficulty of attacking at night. It is difficult to succeed just once out of hundreds of thousands of battles. Naturally, it needs to be boasted.
Li Suxue's capture of Caizhou on the snowy night was blown away for more than a thousand years!
If a night attack was really so easy, people would have thrown Li Su into a corner long ago.
Throughout the ages, there have been many civil servants and generals who wanted to imitate Li Su, but all of them have become idiots. Not to mention, last year Su Jiakang led his army to attack the Tang Dynasty at night is the best example. His three hundred young men were
That night, it was a disaster to fall behind half of the group!
Only a small group of the most elite soldiers can engage in night battles or even night raids, and they must be coupled with a group of extremely outstanding officers and a peerless general. Only then can miracles be possible.
And can these bandits in Huangzhu Mountain create such a miracle?
Even if you think about it with your toes, it’s impossible!
Although these soldiers in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had been training for several months, some of them even trained for a full year, Li Xuan also guaranteed a relatively generous food supply for them on weekdays.
But this "rich" is used to compare with those who don't even have enough to eat, that is, three meals a day, most of which are whole grains.
It is not easy to be able to eat three meals a day. You also expect to have meat every day and fried food every three days.
In this regard, Li Xuan could only say, you really think too much. His Tang Dynasty can feed such a large group of people. It would be great if they have whole grains to eat every day!
I still want to eat meat and sesame eggs, even though I am an emperor, I can’t afford them!
In the Tang Dynasty, except for Princess Huichen who could eat meat every day, no one else, not even Li Xuan, had such treatment!
The physical fitness of the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was at best better than that of ordinary young men, and better than those of the serf soldiers of the Ming Army, but it is better not to compare them with the soldiers of later and modern times.
In addition to the average quality of the soldiers themselves, the officers in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were also unable to undertake overly complex battle commands.
In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, all the high-ranking generals, namely Fang Dongquan and others, were all bandit leaders. Even Wang Shanxu, who Li Xuan valued more, was an illiterate bandit, but he was more clever and studious.
Li Xuan's real former officers were the dozen or so junior officers of the former Guards. Now these people are personally taught by Li Xuan. Most of them currently serve as corps commanders and deputy captains. If you want to wait for them
It takes time to grow up.
In other words, today's Datang New Army cannot support a night battle regardless of the quality of its soldiers or officers.
So when Butcher Chen said he wanted to attack at night, Li Xuan didn't even consider it and Quan pretended he didn't hear it.
But what Wang Shanxu said is more reliable: "Tomorrow we can set up a small ambush on the road, let the musketeers fire a few lines of fire at them, and then leave!"
Even if you have to ambush, you still need to avoid hand-to-hand combat because it is too easy to get entangled. However, if you use a musketeer team, you can avoid this trouble.
The musketeers could fire several rounds of fire at them from about a hundred meters away. There was no need to pursue a large killing effect. It was enough to frighten them, lest the Ming army behind them pursue them too closely.
Qian Mengjiu said: "It's okay to use the musketeers, but it's better to let the cavalry raid the formation to avoid any trouble!"
Later, Fang Dongquan and Cai Erhu also nodded in unison, indicating that they could let the Musketeers set up a small ambush tomorrow.
As for how to fight specifically, that is another matter.
Today's military meeting did not last long. They went back after about half an hour. After the military meeting ended, Li Xuan did not sigh at the dark night sky, but quickly fell into a deep sleep.
After running away continuously for the past few days, Li Xuan himself was exhausted, and he fell asleep quickly as soon as he lay down.
Early the next morning, Li Xuan got up, washed himself with Xia Ma's help, and then put on his military uniform embroidered with dragon patterns.
This is a military uniform specially designed by Li Xuan for himself. The style is somewhat similar to the uniforms worn by generals in various countries in the early 20th century. However, the top is made of double-row copper buttons and the lower body is slightly slim-fitting trousers. The overall dress is navy blue with cuffs.
The sides of the trousers are embroidered with a rather unique golden dragon pattern. They are paired with long leather boots and a sword made of fine steel hangs from the waist.
Just wearing this outfit, people who didn't know better would have thought they saw some warlord from the early Republic of China traveling through time!