Chapter 135 Upgrading the Art of War, Three Purples!
Author: Fat Bird Goes First
Chapter 135 Upgrading the Art of War, Three Purples!
The Art of War skill finally reached Level 5. He saw three purple lights flashing in front of his eyes. Su Ze was overjoyed. His luck was back?
The three passive skills are:
[Purple Passive - Han Xin points troops: When leading troops to fight, military skills +2, charm +5. 】
[Purple Passive - Xiao He Zuozan: When coordinating logistics, military skills +2, charm +3, intelligence +2. 】
[Purple Passive—Zhang Liang’s Strategy: When formulating strategic plans, military skills +2, intelligence +5.]
Su Ze was stunned at this moment. These three skills were so good that he couldn't choose between them.
These three skills are respectively front-line command operations, logistics supply and strategy formulation, and also correspond to the three directions of military generals.
Su Ze felt very distressed no matter which one he gave up, but it was a pity that he could only choose one now.
Su Ze thought for a long time and ruled out the first one.
It is enough to lead the troops in battle personally, and now having Lin Mojun under his command is enough.
What Su Ze struggled with was the second and third passive.
Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. Among the three founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty, Xiao He was ranked first in credit by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, but no one disagreed. The reason is that Xiao He alone instigated the logistics work of the Han Dynasty during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, and never made any mistakes.
, food can be delivered to the army at any time.
Logistics work is a very complex and professional job, but Su Ze quickly decided to give up this passive position.
The reason is also very simple. An important change in modern military is the institutionalization and specialization of logistics.
If one person cannot complete complex logistics supplies, then the work should be split up and a professional staff organization should be formed to do it.
The third skill is what Su Ze needs most!
A hundred generals are easy to get, but a handsome man is hard to find!
Strategist is the most scarce profession in ancient and modern times at home and abroad!
Su Ze decisively chose the third passive skill. Su Ze looked at the remaining free attribute points and added this attribute point to strength.
The reason is also very simple. When using the "Blacksmith" skill of the liver, Su Ze's strength was low, which delayed the efficiency of the liver skill.
For now, the top priority is to quickly upgrade the blacksmith skill to Lv5 before you can start trying to make firearms.
However, Su Ze still has no idea whether Level 5 can make a gun. You must know that the difficulty of making a gun barrel is not low. If it is not made well, the barrel will explode.
In comparison, the difficulty of casting artillery is lower, but casting artillery requires a large amount of metal materials, which requires not only casting skills, but also smelting skills.
There are still too few talents under his command. Whether it is making guns or cannons, it requires repeated trials. I don’t know where there are talents in the Ming Dynasty who can cast cannons and make guns.
After adding attribute points, the panel becomes:
Su Ze, male, 25 years old.
Intelligence: 10 (a little less last time)
Strength:10
Agility:4
Charisma:6
Feeling the strength in his muscles, Su Ze felt that he could rush to the blacksmith shop and swing the hammer a hundred times!
The next day, it was the day to go to the city to study at the end of the month. When Su Ze was preparing to ride into the city, Lin Liangjun suddenly rushed into the family temple and said to Su Ze: "Brother A Ze! My brother asked me to tell you not to enter.
The city is in trouble! The mine thieves are causing trouble and have cut off the road into the city!"
Su Ze tightened the reins. He thought of the mines in the upper reaches of Jianxi River and asked, "The mine pirates are causing trouble? Are they the ones in the upper reaches of Jianxi River?"
Lin Liangjun said: "Go to Baihu Station quickly, my brother is calling you to come over to discuss something!"
Su Ze followed Lin Liangjun to the Hundred Households Office, only to see that Lin Mojun had summoned his subordinate Xiaoqi and was discussing matters in the Hundred Households Office.
Lin Mojun was sitting at the top. Su Ze passed over the many flags and sat directly beside her. The flag that was reporting immediately saluted Su Ze and said:
"Hundred households, Mr. Su, this is not the first day that this group of mining bandits has caused trouble. The leader of the mining bandits, Deng Dai, is known as the seventh descendant of Deng Mao. He gathered a group of refugees and started mining privately in the mountains."
It turns out they were miners, not miners revolting.
At first, Su Ze thought it was the miners in the government-run mines upstream who were rebelling, but he didn't expect it to be mine pirates.
How could I have forgotten the mining bandits, a rebel group with Ming characteristics?
Fujian also has a long tradition of rebellion. Among them, the largest rebellion in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the uprising of Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi, originated from mining pirates.
There were still some silver mines in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanxi for a generation. The court prohibited people from going into the mountains to mine privately. However, some refugees who could not survive would hide in the mountains and mine privately, forming a group of mining pirates.
Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi started their rebellion in the ninth year of Zhengtong. It took the Ming court six full years to put down the rebellion. Deng Maoqi was from Sha County, Yanping Prefecture. It is no wonder that Deng Dai, who rebelled today, is known as the Queen of Deng Maoqi.
people.
After Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi were put down, the Ming court still could not prevent the refugees who could not live to hide in the mountains and become mining pirates. At this time, the prefectures and counties also pretended that these mining pirates did not exist. Anyway, as long as they did not
Just go down the mountain and rebel.
Su Ze asked: "Why is Deng Dai rebelling now?"
Xiao Qi, who was investigating, said: "Mr. Su, the mine supervisor, Eunuch Hu, was forcing the miners too hard. The miners in the official pits really couldn't survive and went up the mountain. Eunuch Hu sent troops to the mountain to arrest people. This is why Deng Dai started to rebel."
Su Ze could only lament that there is nothing new under the sun. No matter how many failed examples the predecessors have made, future generations will never learn any lessons.
"So what's the current situation of mining theft?"
"I heard that the government sent Yanping Guards out of the city to suppress them. I don't know if the government troops have arrived."
Lin Baihu said: "We, Changning Guard, are sea guards. It is not our duty to suppress the local area. As long as these mining thieves do not attack Changning Guard, we should not act rashly."
Then Lin Baihu said to Su Ze: "The road is impassable. Mr. Su should not enter the city until the officers and soldiers drive away the mining thieves."
Su Ze could only nod. Unexpectedly, Nanping would be in chaos before the Japanese pirates arrived.
But things in this world will always develop in the worst direction.
Commander Yu of the Yanping Guards was very reluctant, but the guarding eunuch Hu was trapped in an official pit by mining thieves. If the miner's rebellion was not resolved and the news spread, both the prefect and Commander Yu would be in trouble.
In the end, Commander Yu had no choice but to send three of his subordinates, Chen Xiong, as the general banner to lead troops out of the city to quell the rebellion.
The road was cut off, and Su Ze could only wait for news about the army's suppression of the rebellion, but he was not idle either. He led a group of military remnants aboard the New World and dismantled the four Franco cannons in the gun room.
"Slow down! Turn left!"
The little carrot head found it interesting. He watched Su Ze directing the soldiers to lower the Franco machine gun from the ship with a sling. Su Ze used the wood in the dock to build a wooden gun carriage and installed the Franco machine gun on the gun carriage.
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"Brother Aze, isn't this just a cannon? Our Changning Guard has also had one. Is it really that powerful?"
Su Ze remembered that Changningwei also had an abandoned cannon foundry. He smiled and said, "We'll find out if it's powerful or not. We'll try it right away!"
Captain Alfonso and the gunners on the New World watched as Su Ze dismantled the Franco cannon. The old captain had long given up resistance.
However, Suze not only wanted his cannon, but also his gunner. Captain Alfonso always had an awkward feeling. Why was this plot so similar to the scene where his estranged wife and the old Wang next door teamed up to ask for his property?
The gunners on the New World were also one of the few Portuguese on the ship. These days, gunners are definitely a high-tech branch of the military. If it is a warship, the person responsible for operating the gun must be an officer.
Everyone in Changning Guard, including Lin Baihu and his grandfather, followed Su Ze to the temporary artillery field outside Changning Guard.
After fixing the gun carriage, Su Ze asked the Franco machine gunner to load the gunpowder shells, then put the sub-cylinder into the mother cylinder, and ordered the gunner to light the fuse.
Su Ze hid far behind. The artillery job these days is a high-risk profession. More gunners died from the explosion of their own cannons than from the enemy's fire.
After a loud noise, the cannonball flew out from the muzzle. The solid iron ball bounced on the ground a few times. I don't know whether it was luck or accurate aim. The beating iron ball accurately landed on the abandoned wooden house, blowing the wooden house.
A wall collapsed.
Everyone present was silent. Lin Mojun said after a long time: "With such a magical weapon, it is no wonder that my father was defeated at the hands of the Japanese pirates."
Everyone in the Changning Guard was a little scared. If the New World hadn't run aground on the shore, these four cannons alone would have been enough to defeat the Changning Guard's ship.
Unlike the shock of everyone in the Changning Guard, Su Ze was disappointed with the power of the Folan cannon.
That’s it? That’s it?
It’s no wonder that the Ming court quickly gave up on the Folan cannon after acquiring the red cannon. By the Chongzhen period, the Ming court basically cast red Yi cannons.
The power of the Folan cannon is really average. Such shells can only be used to kill densely packed people or wooden ships. They are definitely not suitable for attacking cities.
Su Ze called the gunner over and said to him in Portuguese:
"If you write a training manual for gunner firing, you can live on the shore like Captain Alfonso."
The Portuguese gunner had long been fed up with the dirty and messy environment on the island, and he immediately happily agreed.
Lin Mojun said to Su Ze in a low tone: "With such magical weapons, what's the point of training soldiers?"
Su Ze saw Lin Mojun looking lonely, and it was obvious that the power of the cannon made him doubt his life.
Su Ze said: "It's still early for artillery to eliminate infantry!"
Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and heard Su Ze say:
"Artillery costs a lot of money. A cannonball contains gunpowder. Every time the cannon is fired, it costs nearly one tael of silver. The sound of the cannon is worth ten thousand taels of gold. It's no joke."
Lin Mojun took a breath. A well-trained soldier could only cost up to two taels of silver a month. These two shells were equivalent to raising a soldier for a month.
Su Ze added: "In addition, cannons also have a lifespan. No matter how well maintained a cannon is, there will be a risk of the barrel exploding over time."
"In addition to being costly, the artillery is heavy and difficult to move. If someone rushes to the front of the formation, the artillerymen will become prisoners."
"In addition, there are ways to deal with artillery."
Lin Mojun immediately asked: "What's the countermeasure?"
Su Ze said: "Spread out the front and don't gather soldiers together. The power of the artillery shells will naturally decrease."
Lin Mojun said: "How can we defend against the enemy without forming a formation?"
Su Ze said: "Of course we need to strengthen training. Only when the quality of individual soldiers improves can we fight against the enemy without forming a formation."
For the rest, Su Ze did not say that skirmishing tactics also depend on the advancement of weapons. Only when the next generation of bolt-action rifles is developed will skirmishing tactics be able to exert its power.
However, after entering the age of artillery, infantry commanders are also improving tactics, using dispersed soldiers to reduce artillery damage, and using fortifications to resist artillery bombing. These all appear naturally.
Artillery and infantry are like a pair of mortal enemies who love and kill each other. They constantly develop tactics to restrain each other and work together to advance together.
After comforting Lin Mojun, Xiaoqi, who was responsible for inquiring about the news, hurried to the artillery field before pushing the Folang cannon back to Changning Guard.
"The Yanping Guards were defeated? Three hundred households were wiped out?"
Su Ze and Lin Mojun both took a breath. No matter how much Yanpingwei pulls his crotch, he won't be able to defeat the mining robbers, right?
Even if we can't defeat them, they won't be completely wiped out, right?
Su Ze quickly asked: "What happened?"
Xiaoqi, who was inquiring about the news, said: "Among Deng Dai's mine pirates were a group of elites armed with Japanese knives. When Yanping guard Chen Baihu led his troops to the mine, these elite soldiers broke through the formation. Chen Baihu was killed on the spot.
After being hacked to death, Deng Dai led the ambush troops to fight out, and the entire Yanping Guard army was wiped out!"
Su Ze and Lin Mojun couldn't help but be shocked, now the situation in Nanping County was getting worse.
News of Yanping Wei's defeat reached Nanping County, and the atmosphere in the entire county became even more tense.
In the prefect's yamen, the prefect was pacing back and forth, and the three hundred households who went to rescue the mine supervisor were wiped out. Now it was more difficult to put down Deng Dai's gang of mining thieves.
The government office and the staff discussed for a long time, but could not come up with any useful plan.
The prefect was anxious to get angry, but there was no other way.
He returned to the back house and found that his daughter Fang Ruolan had prepared a table of food and was waiting for him.
Magistrate Fang felt warm in his heart, and Fang Ruolan immediately brought the rice bowl and said:
"Dad, you'd better eat first."
Magistrate Fang hurriedly finished eating, and Fang Ruolan served herbal tea again. After drinking the herbal tea, Magistrate Fang couldn't help but said:
"This Yanpingwei is such a waste! Three hundred people couldn't defeat the mining bandits! They actually let the situation deteriorate to such an extent!"
Naturally, the Yanping Guards suffered such a huge loss and could not hide it from their superiors. Now that the guarding eunuch could not be rescued and so many troops were lost, the key is that Deng Dai has made a name for himself, and the bandits nearby will definitely join him. If he continues to be a powerful man,
There will never be peace in Yanping Mansion.
Fang Ruolan said: "Dad, my daughter has long said that the Yanping Guards, except for the Jin Xu, have long been defeated. Last time the Japanese invaders attacked the city, no one in the Yanping Guards dared to go out to fight. You still have to send them to quell the rebellion."
"Then who should we send?"
Fang Ruolan said: "Changning Guard, it was Changning Guard who defeated the Black Mountain Bandits last time. So the Black Mountain Bandits' heads are still hanging on the city wall?"
"But Changning Guard Guihaidao Yamen and Beiwa are in charge of the general manager."
"Dad, if there are Japanese knives among the mining pirates, there must be Japanese pirates mixed in with them. It is also the responsibility of Changning Guards to prepare for Japanese pirates. Dad can use this to mobilize troops first and then explain to the superiors."
"That's true! I'll write the article right now!"
Fang Ruolan added: "Please ask Changning Guard to send troops, and dad must make some promise. Otherwise, if they don't do their best, the situation will be out of control."
Magistrate Fang stroked his beard and said, "What do you think your daughter wants to promise?"
Fang Ruolan smiled: "My daughter thinks this reward should not come from the government office, what does dad think?"
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