"You will eventually be convicted."

"The lower official is aware of his guilt."

"I don't want to see you two again today, so get out!"

Zheng Chenggong was furious, and Chen Kai and Shi Lang had to leave the study. They looked at each other again, glared at each other, and then left.

However, at this moment, his head was still held high like a fighting cock. When he returned to the room reserved for him in the cabin, Chen Kai closed the door and immediately became depressed.

"I overestimated myself and underestimated Shi Lang too much."

The core point of the dispute between Chen Kai and Shi Lang lies in the differences in tactics and principles. Needless to say, Chen Kai wants to rely on the Spanish phalanx to modernize Zheng Chenggong's army. This process will be very long.

But Chen Kai firmly believed that the modern army could definitely crush the feudal army, because there were too many such examples in history.

However, Shi Lang's emphasis on personal bravery had already been accepted by civilian officials in the late Ming Dynasty, and military generals had generally accepted it for too many years. The same is true for the Eight Banners Army, the strongest soldier on the East Asian continent today, and the Eight Banners Army is also trained in battle formations.

Being strict and having a stronger ability to endure casualties will show the superiority of its tactics.

In fact, since the Eight Banners Army entered the customs, they have been immersed in the colorful world inside the customs. Their fighting spirit has been declining, and their combat effectiveness has been constantly weakening. Even during the San Francisco Rebellion decades later, they had been reduced to relying on the Green Camp to serve as the main force.

Main force and core.

Nowadays, it has only been four years since entering the customs, and the decline in its combat effectiveness has just begun, needless to say. But it is still a strong evidence for Shi Lang's rhetoric, not to mention that between the Spanish phalanx and traditional tactics, Zheng Chenggong is naturally more

Being familiar with the latter, since he could not let this army become Chen Kai's experimental field and be ready to bear the consequences of the failure of the experiment at any time, he would have failed as long as Chen Kai did not convince Zheng Chenggong in the first place.

"Those who can leave their names in history are indeed not easy to deal with. This time I was too confident, thinking that who would compete with the Spanish phalanx as soon as they came out, but now I know that is not the case at all."

As expected by Chen Kai, two days later, Zheng Chenggong's newly promulgated military training methods included many methods borrowed from Shi Lang. Not only the training of individual soldiers' bravery, but also the methods of building oars, flags, and separation of formations.

Among them, Chen Kai only received a word of comfort, nothing more.

Originally, when Shi Lang first arrived, his troops were very large, which aroused Zheng Chenggong's vigilance, which led to a tacit understanding between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong. However, when the newly attached army was divided, Chen Kai prematurely recruited thousands of people.

The brothers did reduce the proportion of Shi Jiajun in Zheng Chenggong's troops, but as Shi Lang's threat to Zheng Chenggong decreased, he gained Zheng Chenggong's trust more quickly.

"Damn it, I used too much force this time, but I shot myself in the foot."

Chen Kai knew very well that the Spanish phalanx was no longer feasible for Zheng Chenggong. Even if there were tactics that Zheng Chenggong could accept, he would never take the risk of changing the order day and night to readjust it. This time, he did lose.

From top to bottom, even the next phase of the Ordnance Bureau's production tasks was appropriately adjusted under Zheng Chenggong's "suggestions".

The production of waist knives and shields needs to be increased, as well as javelins. The army has returned to the original feudal army model. Chen Kai's first military modernization reform failed, but for him, this is still just

A beginning.

According to his understanding, Qi Jiguang is very good at using rattan players. It can even be said that an all-round military strategist like Qi Jiguang is extremely rare. And Zheng Chenggong is another person who is good at using rattan players after Qi Jiguang.

, since the shield formation compiled by Zheng Chenggong was first formed in the fifth year of Yongli Dynasty, the local green battalions of the Qing army basically came to kill this army whenever they encountered it. From then on, whenever Zheng Chenggong had large-scale military operations, the Qing army had to mobilize

The provinces can supervise, appease and improve the bids, and even the Eight Banners Army can deal with it.

Chen Kai asked himself, he also knew very little about the details of Zheng Chenggong's rattan card tactics. If he exerted influence rashly and indiscriminately, if Zheng Chenggong's ideas were led astray, it would be superfluous. Originally, he didn't go too far because of this.

After exerting influence, looking back now, at least some things are still progressing according to the original historical process, which may be a good thing.

"This time, the biggest problem is to compete with an authoritative expert in an unauthoritative field. This is really to use one's own shortcomings to attack the other's strengths. There is still an opportunity, waiting, Shi Lang,

I will never underestimate my enemy like this next time."

Chen Kai returned to Nan'ao Island, where he spent his second New Year since he came to this era. Since the output of longer waist knives and guns is much lower, production tasks will inevitably increase, but the annual leave and ten-day leave system, Chen Kai still

There was no change, even if Shi Lang said strange things in Chaozhou City, he remained the same.

The first month passed like this. When February came, Zheng Chenggong suddenly ordered Zhang Li, a local tycoon in Dahaopu, Chaoyang County, to pay taxes according to regulations. After being refused, he sent a large army to attack Dahaopu.

Dahaopu is located on Dahao Island to the east of Chaoyang County. The local tycoon Zhang Li has three villages: Dahao, Qinglin and Xiamei. They rely on themselves and do not follow the territory. They intercept the sea and plunder every year. Last year, Zheng Hongkui captured Jieyang.

Conflicts also broke out during the process of conquering the county seat. It can be said that Zheng Chenggong's use of troops was a long-planned strategy.

Zheng Chenggong descended from the capital of Chaozhou, passed through Chenghai County, and arrived at Haozhai on the sea. Faced with the persuasion to surrender, Zhang Li refused to surrender, so Zheng Chenggong stationed troops to wait and see, and soon found out the reality of Zhang Li's troops.

"There are three villages in Dahao, Qinglin and Xiamei. Each village has a thousand people. They are horns with each other, and the gun roads are connected. Where they are attacked by the enemy, they must set up ground hooks and trenches. They must be captured by strategy to avoid hurting our soldiers."

As Zheng Chenggong said, the three villages are the horns of each other. If one of them is attacked, the other two will naturally mobilize troops to contain it. What's more, Zhang Li has already laid a trap in the direction of the attack. He can rank among the seven bandits of Chaohai.

, it is indeed not a fluke.

"I heard that Zhang Li is guarding Qinglin Village. If I want to capture him alive, I must attack Dahao first. If Qinglin and Xiamei Villages are not attacked by our army, then Zhang Li will definitely do his best to save him to avoid taking advantage of him.

If the momentum is broken, then it will be the best opportunity for our army to win!"

Early the next morning, Zheng Chenggong sent an order to launch an artillery bombardment of Hao Village. Suddenly, artillery stones fell like rain. The huge advantage of the Ming army's firearms in the range made the defenders of the village completely passive and vulnerable to attack. At the same time as the shelling, the Ming army

With such loud noises, the beacon tower at Dahaozhai soon started to billow with smoke, flying straight into the sky.

The three villages are like horns to each other, so they naturally have to rescue each other in order to maximize their defensive effectiveness. After Zhang Li heard the alarm, he hurriedly led his men out of Qinglin Village and walked quickly. Unexpectedly, just halfway through,

Zhongchong Town and Youchong Town, which had been prepared for a long time, rushed out in large numbers. Zhang Li hurriedly fought and returned in defeat. At the same time, the reinforcements dispatched by Xiamei Village were also ambushed and defeated by those who were assisting You Town and Zuochong Town.

And escape.

The two reinforcements had been defeated, so Zheng Chenggong did not hesitate to send out Youxianfeng Town and Rongqi Town to attack Dahao and Xiamei. The two strongholds were defeated, and the army turned to attack Qinglin. Zhang Li saw that the situation was not strong, and he called for surrender from the city.

Zheng Chenggong ordered Chen Bin to summon him and allow him to be punished.
Chapter completed!