Great Ming Dynasty Wen Chao Gong

Chapter 57 How infantry restrains cavalry
  "Xiaosheng Lu Zhang has met the two generals." Lu Zhang said.

"Zhang Shidu is really busy with official duties and needs his staff to support his official duties. Are we two too bothersome?" Li Rumei said.

"Anywhere, by chatting with the two generals, Zhang can gain a lot of knowledge, so as not to write books behind closed doors and make people laugh." Zhang Xiao said.

"What book is Zhang Shidu writing now? There are days when I don't see Zhang Shidu's new works." Li Rubai asked.

"I can't help it, I'm really busy with official duties. But I'm really planning to write two books these days." Zhang Xiao said.

"Which two books?" Li Rubai became interested.

"It's "The Complete Biography of Yue" and "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties". Mr. Lu, could you please give the two generals the manuscripts of "The Complete Biography of Yue" and "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties". But these two books are just getting started. "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" also wrote the first few chapters, and "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" also wrote the story summary and chapter names. The two soldiers have been on the battlefield for many years, and they also helped to see if writing the story this way would work," Zhang Xiao said.

The two took the manuscript and read it intently. After reading the manuscript in their hands, the two exchanged the manuscript and continued reading.

After a long time, Li Rubai looked up from the book: "There should be many readers of these two books. Everyone is familiar with the story of Yue Wumu, and everyone has heard more or less the story of Tang Taizong. The stories are all familiar. It’s a wonderful story that will be watched by many people.”

"Listening to these words, why do you feel that General Zizhen is not satisfied with these two books?" Zhang Xiao said.

"That's not to say, the first few chapters of "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan" still seem interesting. It's just that when I was a kid, Li Rubai, I heard too many stories about Yue Wumu, but now I don't think so. I’m excited. And since I was a child, I followed my father to defeat Wang Gao and other Jurchen tribes. I really feel that the Jurchens are nothing more than this. I actually enjoyed watching the Mongolia in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". In "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", the story between the Sui and Tang Dynasties, I have heard it too many times. Of course, this is just my personal taste. As far as books are concerned, if this book is written, there will be many people who will read it, and there should be no worries about selling it," said Li Rubai.

"Thank you for your comment, General." Zhang Xiao said politely.

"Let me tell you something, I have also read the story framework of "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties". It seems that the chapters of this book are gone when the Xuanwu Gate Incident occurs. Is this the end, or are new chapters going to be continued?" Li Rumei asked.

"I want to list new chapters. It turns out that the framework of this book is to be written to the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Later I felt that the time span was too big, so I cut it off first. But I haven't figured out what to write later. Which one to use? I didn’t think about the ending of the matter,” Zhang Xiao said.

"Zhang Shidu, could you please ask me what the deleted chapters of "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" were originally supposed to be about?" Li Rumei asked.

"Originally, the story behind it was about Wu Zetian, and also about Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei." Zhang Xiao said. "My personal suggestion is that after the Xuanwumen Incident, we should tell the story of the Southern and Northern Wars during the Zhenguan years, the surrender of the Turkic Khans, the Western Expedition to destroy the Gaochang Kingdom, and the Eastern Expedition to the defeat of Goryeo. These are all good stories. Final words , that is the painting of the Twenty-Four Heroes in Lingyan Pavilion in the 17th year of Zhenguan. It is complete here, don’t write any more." Li Rumei said.

"Yes, after that, there was the rebellion of Hou Junji, and then there was the rebellion of Prince Li Chengqian. In the Gaozong period, there was another fight between the emperor and Changsun Wuji." Zhang Xiao said with emotion.

"Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty is still fine. If only..." Li Rubai seemed to have realized something and swallowed the words silently.

"What does General Ziqing think of this "The Complete Biography of Yue Shuo"?" Zhang Xiao pretended not to hear Li Rubai's words and asked Li Rumei.

"The story is a good one, but I feel that it could be more concise at the beginning. When we talk about Yue Pengju's youth, we just need to highlight the story of how Yue Pengju studied martial arts and how his mother-in-law got tattoos. Later, we can mainly tell the story of Yue Pengju's battles on the battlefield. Especially Yue Pengju and Jin. I hope Zhang Shidu will write the story of the Wushu duel well and carefully. Yue Pengju can use the infantry as the main force, so he can defeat the iron pagodas and kidnapping horses of the Jin people who dominate the world. Yue Shuai and the Yue family army are really too powerful. Too brave." Li Rumei said.

"Yes, those who can defeat the cavalry with infantry will be remembered for future generations. Just like when Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty conquered Nanyan, he used chariots as a formation and defeated the main force of the Murong family's cavalry in one fell swoop. That was also a famous battle example. "Zhang Xiao said.

"By the way, Zhang Shidu, you know a lot about foreign affairs. Are there any examples of battles in foreign countries where infantry defeated cavalry? If our Liaodong cavalry really wants to encounter Japanese troops in the future, we should know more about some battles." Li Rubai ask.

"There are all these war cases, but the more famous one is the Battle of Agincourt fought by the two Western countries, Britain and France..." Zhang Xiao briefly talked about the background of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, and then mentioned Agincourt. The process of the Battle of Kincourt is also told.

"...It stands to reason that at that time, the Western barbarians still paid attention to some etiquette in fighting. Generally, they would not kill the enemy nobles who captured them, but would just keep them in jail until they could receive the ransom. However, at that time, the British king also had few soldiers and lacked food and clothing. Although After winning a battle by chance, I thought it would be better to evacuate first, but it was not easy to bring so many prisoners, so I ignored everyone's objections and basically killed all the captured French knights." Zhang Xiao wrote about the Battle of Agincourt. That's the end of the story.

"France shouldn't lose this battle. According to what you said, Mr. Zhang, the British were already short of food and clothing, and there was an outbreak of plague. As the British king went on an expedition across the sea, there probably wouldn't be any reinforcements. I'm anxious. That's the British. Why should the French be anxious? They can completely trap the British army and harass them every day. The British king is guaranteed to lose worse than Ma Su who lost the street pavilion. The result is good. After losing this battle, his family Thousands of knights were captured and killed, making the King of England famous in vain." Li Rumei said with emotion.

"Does France also pay attention to beheadings and rewards for meritorious service? Otherwise, what are these French nobles so anxious about? They rush into the muddy ground without even drying it and abandon the military formation. Then they don't deserve to lose. Let me tell you, this It doesn’t count the infantry defeating the cavalry. These cavalry are looking for death. There are thousands of cavalry, and there are many heavy cavalry in them. It’s just wasted. If you give it to me, then I can make great military achievements. , became the new number one general of Jiubian." Li Rubai also said with emotion.

"Second brother, so what if I give you six thousand heavy cavalry? Can you wipe out the Tuman Khan?" Li Rumei really couldn't stand this boastful second brother and retorted.

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with you. Listening to what you said, Zhang Shidu, the British army was able to win, and the thousands of long archers also contributed a lot. Although they couldn't directly kill too many French knights, it was also like this Several rounds of arrows completely destroyed the already chaotic French military formation." Li Rubai analyzed.

(End of this chapter)