Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 70 The Real Manchu Eight Banners

"Yes!"

On the high platform of the school field, seeing that Zhu Youjian was interested in Hou Jin, Man Gui also returned the gift, and then said with a serious expression:

"Jianlu is a serious problem for my confidant!"

"Speak in detail." Yang Lian, who had always been at odds with Qi Jin, also became interested and urged Man Gui, who nodded, and then explained:
"Jian captives are different from northern captives in that they have arable land, mines, and arsenals, and are very familiar with large-scale operations."

"No one knows the exact number of soldiers under Laonu's command, but when they harassed Liaoshen, most of the time the number was around [-], including [-] Jurchens and [-] Han Chinese."

"Although they don't have firearms, their arrows are vicious."

"Biao Xia has not participated in the battle with Jianlu, but from some small battles, it can be seen that they are very elite and far better than 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 rebel soldiers and horses are good at finding all the terrain and wind direction that are beneficial to them. They often charge down from high places in field battles, and at the same time shoot cone-headed armor-piercing arrows along the wind direction, in order to maximize the power of bows and arrows."

"Their style of play is completely imitating the style of Li's Liaodong iron cavalry."

"Before the start of the battle, attack the morale of the opponent with a dense infantry arrow rain, and then the dead soldiers in triple armor use shield vehicles to cover and resist the artillery."

"When the shield chariot is less than [-] steps away from our army, the dead soldiers will charge together in order to smash our army formation at once."

"Their cavalry and horses are also used to attacking from the side at the beginning of the battle, cutting the opponent's formation, dividing the enemy, and preparing for the advance of the infantry and horses behind."

"Due to the timidity of the Liao soldiers and the lack of payment for many years, the morale of the soldiers and horses in Liao Town is not high."

"The rebel soldiers and horses under the old slave saw this, so in every battle, they must frighten the Liao soldiers inside the pass with the aura of the barbarians outside the pass, and among them is the white armor Bayala who wears triple armor."

"The group of Baijiaba Yala are all sharp shooters. They like to hide among the chaos most. They use hard bows to shoot and kill my Ming generals in a sneak attack, trying to break down the momentum of our army."

"Their arrows are vicious, and basically every arrow is aimed at the cheek. Jun Jun died under such a sneak attack."

"Therefore, when dealing with our army, the rebels will often use shield vehicles to attack first, and then after the shield vehicles resist our army's artillery, the dead soldiers charge to tear apart the frontal formation of our army, and then use cavalry to attack the two wings."

"As long as our army's position is a little chaotic, Baijiaba Yala, who is hidden in the chaotic army, will shoot and kill our generals, causing our army to lose its unified command, and it will be in chaos shortly after the battle begins."

"Once such an effect is achieved, the morale of the soldiers and horses in Liao Town will drop to the bottom, and then the troops will start to collapse."

"As long as the rout appears, the rebel soldiers and horses will start to kill the rout from behind and snatch the supplies."

"This is the Jianlu rebels experienced by Biao Xia..."

"Where's their formation?" As a general, Qi Jin was more concerned about Jianlu's offensive formation.

Whether it is a small army or a large army, no matter what it is, as long as the formation is set, it will basically not change, and the same is true for Jianlu, so Qi Jin asked urgently.

Facing the inquiry, Man Gui thought for a while and replied:
"Their offensive formation is actually the formation of the Jurchens hunting between the white mountains and the black waters. They are divided into five small teams. The first team is pressed by dead soldiers, and the second and third teams attack from the left and right, attacking the two wings of the prey."

"Once the two wings are torn apart, the four and five teams will advance from the side and rear, forming a pocket siege."

"At this time, as long as there is a rout of the army, they must flee to the vacant rear, and the Jianlu can start strangling."

"However, our army often does not suffer major defeats in field conflicts with dozens or hundreds of people. Instead, it can fight back and forth with Jianlu's troops."

"Biaoxia once heard from the guerrillas in Liaozhen that once it has grown to thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, our army will often lose its position and start to be defeated."

Speaking of this, Man Gui couldn't help sighing, and Qi Jin frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.

As for Yang Lian, he looked unhappy, thinking that it must be because of the general's greed for life and fear of death.

Compared with them, Zhu Youjian understood the reason Man Gui said very well.

The reason for this is that the Ming Dynasty has been in a security war with the Mongols for a long time, and the scale of the battle has been maintained at about a thousand people on both sides, which has led to the Ming army's unfamiliarity with Corps operations.

In battles between tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of people, the Ming army will always lose badly.

There are also many examples of the Ming army defeating the Qing army in field battles in the books at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, on the day Nurhachi attacked Qinghe Institute, He Shixian, the general who rushed to aid Qinghe, beheaded [-] real captives.

When Nurhachi attacked Tieling, Li Ruzhen, Li Rubai's younger brother, rushed to help Tieling with He Shixian and others, beheading [-] real captives.

It can be seen from this that the Ming army is not incapable of fighting, but without exception, they are all small-scale conflicts.

That is to say, as long as the Ming Dynasty puts on a formation and gathers tens of thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people to fight, it will undoubtedly lose.

This kind of weird thing shows that the organization of the Ming army has weakened to a heinous level, and it shows that the Ming army almost doesn't know how to command a large battle of [-] people.

From strategy to logistics, and then to the control and scheduling of the entire battle, it is a mess. Only when thousands of people are not even counted as small-scale battles, but can only be called "battles", can the Ming army win.

There is a saying that "there are too many people and there is chaos, and there are too many dragons and drought", this kind of weird thing happened to the Ming army in the end.

Without this ability to dispatch, the war potential of the Ming Dynasty would not be fully utilized, and it would eventually become a refueling tactic like the Liao incident in history.

Bury [-], fill another [-] new, bury again, fill again...

Can the Ming army not fight?Not necessarily, but the Ming army did not have a reliable command system and organizational ability, and the ability to "send a hundred thousand soldiers to run rampant in Shuomo" disappeared.

In the final analysis, the generals of the older generation who could command tens of thousands of people died of illness and died in battle one after another, while the new generation of generals did not grow up, which led to the collapse of the Liao Dynasty.

Without a famous general who can command a large army to fight, no matter how many elites Zhu Youjian trains, the only way to die in Liaodong is.

But only famous generals are not enough, because there are many generals who can command large armies in the late Ming Dynasty in history.

Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are the best among them. Among the remaining generals, there is no chance to display them, but there are Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Bianjiao and others who dare to lead thousands of troops to collide with tens of thousands of elites.

But like the Songjin battle commanded by Hong Chengchou, even with brave generals such as Wu Sangui, Cao Bianjiao, and Yang Guozhu, they still failed because of the coquettish operations of Wang Pu and other pig teammates.

Therefore, if you want famous generals, you must also train a strong army, and if you put all famous generals and strong troops together, it is possible for the Ming Dynasty to fight with a large army.

But what is embarrassing right now is that none of the above-mentioned people has grown up.

Among the people Zhu Youjian can use right now, none of them are capable of commanding a large army to fight, which is very embarrassing...

"I can't do it 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 big army, even the first rank had nothing to do with him.

But after thinking about it, he really has no one to use.

In this regard, he can only sigh in his heart:

"Forget it, treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor..."

(End of this chapter)