Chapter 70 The Real Manchu Eight Banners
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On the high platform of the school grounds, seeing that Zhu Youjian was interested in Hou Jin, Man Gui also gave a gift, and then said with a serious expression:
"Jianlu is a major concern for my Ming Dynasty!"
"Tell me more." Yang Lian, who had been unfavorable with Qi Jin, also became interested and urged Man Gui, and Man Gui nodded and then explained:
"The Jianlu is different from the Beilu. They have cultivated land, mines, military weapons stations, and are very familiar with large-scale combat."
"No one knows how many soldiers under the old slaves are, but when they attacked Liaochen, most of the time, the number of people was about 70,000, including 60,000 Jurchens and 10,000 Han people."
"Although they don't have firearms, their archery skills are vicious."
"The price of the flag has not participated in the battle with Jianlu, but it can be seen from some small battles that they are very elite and far superior to the Beilu."
"Be more specific." Qi Jin also frowned and urged. From Man Gui's mouth, he seemed to hear a more real Jianlu.
"Yes!" Seeing that everyone was so interested, Man Gui also said in detail:
"The rebels are good at finding all terrain and wind directions that are beneficial to them. They often charge down from high places in field battles, and at the same time fire cone-headed armor-breaking arrows along the wind to exert the maximum power of the bow and arrow."
"Their playing style is completely imitating and learning the way Li's Liaodong Iron Cavalry played back then."
"Before the war started, the archery rain was intensively arched to hit the morale of the opponent, and then the dead soldiers wearing triple armor were covered with shield chariots to resist the artillery."
"When the shield chariot is less than thirty steps away from our army, the dead soldiers will charge together in order to destroy our army's formation at one time."
"Their cavalry and horses are also used to assaulting sideways when the battle situation begins, cutting the opponent's formation, dividing the enemy, and preparing for the infantry and horses behind them."
"Because the Liao soldiers were cowardly and the lack of noise for many years, the morale of the Liao soldiers and horses was not high."
"The rebel soldiers under Lao Nu saw this, so every battle would shock the Liao soldiers in the pass with the momentum of the barbarians outside the pass, and among them were the white-armored Bayala in three-fold armor."
"This group of white-armored Bayalas are all sharpshooters. They like to hide among the chaos, use hard bows to sneak attack and kill our Ming generals, and strive to defeat the momentum of our army."
"Their archery skills are vicious, and basically every arrow is aimed at the cheek. General Du Song died of such a sneak attack."
"So, when dealing with our army, the rebels often first attack with shield chariots. After the shield chariots resist our army's artillery, they will charge and tear open the frontal formation of our army, and then use cavalry to attack the two wings."
"As long as our army is slightly chaotic, Baijia Bayala, who is hidden in the chaos, will shoot and kill our generals, causing our army to lose the order of unity and become in chaos shortly after the war begins."
"Once such an effect is achieved, the morale of the Liao Town soldiers will fall to the bottom, and then the defeat will begin to appear."
"As long as the defeated soldiers appear, the rebels will start to kill the defeated soldiers and rob the baggage from behind."
"This is the Jianlu rebels that the price is under the quotation..."
"Where is their formation?" As a general, Qi Jin cared more about Jianlu's offensive formation.
Small troops or large troops, no matter what kind of troops it is, as long as the formation is set, it will basically not change. The same is true for Jianlu, so Qi Jin asked urgently.
Man Gui faced the inquiry, thought about it and replied:
"Their offensive formation is actually the formation of the Jurchens hunting between the Black Mountain and White Water. It is divided into five small teams. The top team is pressing against the dead soldiers. The second team and the third team attack from left to right, attacking the two wings of the prey."
"Once the two wings are torn apart, the fourth and fifth teams will march from the back side to form a pocket-like siege."
"At this time, as long as the defeated army appears, they will inevitably flee to the rear of the vacant ones, and Jianlu can start strangling."
"However, our army often does not suffer a major defeat in field conflicts with dozens or hundreds of people. Instead, it can fight back and forth with Jianlu's troops."
"I once heard from the guerrillas in Liao Town that once they develop into battles of thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands, our army will often become disarray and then begin to be defeated."
Speaking of this, Man Gui couldn't help but sigh, and Qi Jin also frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.
As for Yang Lian, he looked displeased and believed that it must be because the general was greedy for life and fear of death.
Compared to them, Zhu Youjian understood the reason why Mangui said very well.
This reason is because the Ming Dynasty was in a public security battle with the Mongols for a long time, and the scale of the battle remained at about thousands of people on both sides, which led to the Ming army's unfamiliarity with the war of the corps.
In the battles of ten thousand people and tens of thousands of people, the Ming army would always lose a lot.
There are also many examples of Ming army defeating the Qing army in field battles in the late Ming Dynasty.
For example, on the day Nurhaci attacked Qinghe Station, He Shixian, the gang general who rushed to Qinghe, beheaded 151 Zhenzhang.
When Nurhaci attacked Tieling, Li Rubai's younger brother Li Ruzhen even took He Shixian and others to help Tieling, beheading the real enemy's level 176.
From this we can see that the Ming army cannot fight, but without exception, they are all small-scale conflicts.
In other words, as long as the Ming Dynasty sets up a battle with tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, they will undoubtedly lose.
This strange thing shows that the Ming army's organizational level has weakened to an outrageous level, and shows that the Ming army is almost unaware of how to command a large formation of 80,000 people.
From strategy to logistics, to the control and dispatch of the entire battle, it was a mess. Only a thousand people could not even be considered a small-scale battle and could only be called "battle". The Ming army could win.
There is a saying that goes, "There are too many people and chaos, and the dragons are too many drought." In the end, this strange thing happened to the Ming army.
Once this scheduling ability is gone, the Ming Dynasty's war potential will not be able to be realized at all, and it will eventually become a tactic like the Liao incident in history.
Bury 100,000 in, fill another one, pour another one, pour another one, fill another one...
Can't the Ming army fight? Not necessarily, but the Ming army has no reliable command system and organizational capabilities, and the ability to "stop 100,000 soldiers and run rampant in the desert" has disappeared.
In the final analysis, it was the older generation of generals who could command tens of thousands of people to fight and died in battle, while the new generation of generals did not grow up, resulting in the corruption of the Liao incident.
There is no famous general who can command the battles of the large army, no matter how many elite soldiers Zhu Youjian trained, he could only die in Liaodong.
But only famous generals are not enough, because in history, there were many generals who could command large legions to fight in the late Ming Dynasty.
Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are the best among them. Among the remaining generals, there is no chance to perform, but those who dare to lead thousands of troops to collide with tens of thousands of elite soldiers were Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Bianjiao and others.
But like the Battle of Songjin commanded by Hong Chengchou, even with brave generals such as Wu Sangui, Cao Bianjiao, and Yang Guozhu, they still failed because of the slutty operations of Zhu teammates such as Wang Pu.
Therefore, if you want famous generals, you must also train and strengthen the army, and put all the famous generals and strong troops together, the Ming Dynasty had the possibility of large-scale corps fighting.
But what is awkward at the moment is that none of the above-mentioned people grew up.
At present, no one of the people Zhu Youjian can use is capable of commanding large corps operations, which is embarrassing...
"You can't rely on me to get on my own..."
Zhu Youjian suddenly felt guilty. After all, he was at most a squad leader in his previous life. Not to mention the large corps, even the first level of the platoon had nothing to do with him.
But after thinking about it, he really has no one to use it.
He could only sigh in his heart:
Chapter completed!