Kong Youde was a little restless. His Kongzi Camp was now stationed in the T-shaped fort, and a group of new soldiers had recently been added. This month, the veterans took the new soldiers out to see blood on hunting trips, which became more frequent than last month.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the T-shaped fort, the number of safari teams sent out from the T-shaped fort would never exceed 500 people at any time. These safari teams were sent out in staggered ways, and then came back at staggered intervals on designated dates.
In this case, teams will go out every day and teams will come back every day.
Today, a safari team that was due to return before sunset has disappeared.
His first reaction was that these guys had lost track of time and had lost track of time. After all, it was more than enough to slaughter a Ming army of more than a hundred people in fully armed villages with only a few dozen young men.
The women in the village, whether alive or dead, were of no value to these safari teams, so those women often became the objects for the soldiers to vent their desires.
And spending too much time on women may even cause damage. After such an incident happened, Kong Youde's Kong Ziying strictly ordered his soldiers that if anyone dared to commit suicide because of his greed for the taste of women,
If you resist military orders and affect your actions, the military merits of those who go out will be greatly reduced or deducted from top to bottom.
Such punitive measures are much more effective than beating with a military stick.
He shook his head, thinking that this kind of thing could not happen. He would not come back even after the time to return to camp. He probably encountered Tatar soldiers and horses, and they wasted time.
He is waiting.
But a whole night passed, and a new team was getting ready to go out for hunting, but those who were supposed to come back never came back.
Kong Youde decisively stopped the team that was preparing to go out for hunting, and sent several scout teams in the direction of the missing team. At the same time, he began to raise the alert of the T-shaped fort to guard against a sudden attack by the Tartars.
The Tartar cavalry came and went quickly. If they really wanted to attack, it would be easy to travel a hundred miles in a night.
In the evening, the scout team sent out came back and brought him bad news. After carefully listening to the scout's report, he hesitated and decisively sent the news to the main castle.
And he raised the alert level to the highest level and did not dare to slack off at all.
The T-shaped castle was more than ten miles away from the main castle. What he didn't expect was that less than two hours after the news was sent out, Jiang Wan and his personal guards all appeared at the T-shaped castle.
"Commander, why did you come here in person?"
Kong Youde was a little frightened. After all, it was the first time this year that more than a hundred people had been lost in battle at one time. It happened to him in the Kongzi camp. Kong Youde was definitely not something to be proud of.
"Isn't there anyone alive?" Jiang Wan's expression was not so good. She walked into the meeting hall of the T-shaped fort and sat on the chair in the middle without hesitation.
"There is no one alive!" Kong Youde lowered his head: "It's the same as what was said in the news from my subordinates, everyone is dead, the corpses are piled together, and all the heads have been cut off!"
"Li Yongfang did it?"
Jiang Wan frowned: "The closest one in your direction is Li Yongfang's Malanyu. The place where this safari team happened is nearly forty miles away from Malanyu. Li Yongfang is now so rampant.
Has it reached the point?"
"I'm not sure!" Kong Youde shook his head: "The scouts reported that the bodies of many dead brothers had traces of being hit by firecrackers, not just one or two, but many, and arrows and knife wounds.
, but not much!”
"All signs prove that these brothers under my command were ambushed by the enemy and were hit by fire cannons, which led to the destruction of the entire army!"
"How far is the place of the accident from T-shaped Fort!?" Jiang Wan asked: "If the calculation is correct, it should be about the same distance to Malanyu. In other words, the accident happened between our two families?"
Kong Youde nodded: "Don't worry, Commander, no matter where these enemies with firearms are from, my subordinates will definitely find them and avenge our brothers!"
"I won't leave tonight!" Jiang Wan nodded: "At dawn tomorrow, let the scouts who discovered the accident place take me there. If I don't look at the scene and see what happened, I will always feel a little uneasy!
"
"Commander, let me go!" Kong Youde said hurriedly: "Commander can just sit in T-shaped fort. If the commander wants to know, just tell his subordinates to go and do it. There is no need to take the risk of encountering the enemy. If the Tatar army
If Zi's gun team is still ambushing you, then you will be fooled by them!"
"You can't tell what's going on!"
Jiang Wan looked at him and shook his head.
In Jiang Wan's heart, Kong Youde really couldn't see anything. If this hunting team was defeated by a large group of Tartar cavalry and the whole army was destroyed, Jiang Wan would only make all the ministries be more vigilant.
, remain on guard and will not come over immediately in person.
However, if this safari team of more than a hundred people was shot to death by Tatar firearms, it would be a big trouble for Jiang Wan.
Jiang Wan's foundation is to use firearms as the main damage output. This is an advantage he has always maintained. Whether it is developing and producing new muskets at almost no cost, or supporting Tang Ruowang's research and manufacturing of cannons, he has never frowned. Even though
Even now, he continues to invest in developing cannons with greater power and longer range.
He knew that when facing the Tartars, courage alone was not enough. If even the strong city walls could not stop the enemy's cavalry, then the best solution would be to use the muskets and cannons in hand to eliminate the enemies outside the city walls.
Good idea.
The appearance of a Tartar cannon team, coupled with the fact that the Tartars had already used cannons in batches in the Battle of Daling River, will infinitely increase the advantage between him and the enemy that was not particularly big in the first place.
Shrunk a lot.
If he doesn't pay attention to it, it may even offset the advantages he has.
And if that's the case, only God knows what chance Jiang Wan's army has of winning against an army that values firearms and is good at cavalry.
Under such circumstances, why didn't he come and observe the battlefield personally?
He needs to determine the size of the opponent's fire cannon team, the range and power of the opponent's fire cannons, and even from the bullets on the corpses, he can find out what tactics the opponent is using, whether they are gathering together to fire a volley, or shooting in batches.
Ladder shot?
Or just randomly fire when you see the target.
In short, he believed that his observation of these details was more professional than anyone in Dongjiang Town. In order to be more accurate, he even brought along several Western instructors from the Nanhai Camp.
And all of this is definitely not something that Kong Youde can do with a group of soldiers who may have never even touched a firecracker.